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Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability by Büntgen, Ulf, Urban, Otmar, Krusic, Paul J., Rybníček, Michal, Kolář, Tomáš, Kyncl, Tomáš, Ač, Alexander, Koňasová, Eva, Čáslavský, Josef, Esper, Jan, Wagner, Sebastian, Saurer, Matthias, Tegel, Willy, Dobrovolný, Petr, Cherubini, Paolo, Reinig, Frederick, Trnka, Miroslav

“…Europe’s recent summer droughts have had devastating ecological and economic consequences, but the severity and cause of these extremes remain unclear. Here we…”
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Experimental evidence for a thermal limitation of plant cell wall lignification at the alpine treeline by Büntgen, Ulf

“…In their recent article in Alpine Botany (133:63-67, 2023a), Körner et al. revisit the outcome of an interesting experiment from 2009 (Lenz et al., Plant…”
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The importance of distinguishing climate science from climate activism by Büntgen, Ulf

“…I am concerned by climate scientists becoming climate activists, because scholars should not have a priori interests in the outcome of their studies. Likewise,…”
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Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming by Büntgen, Ulf, Krusic, Paul J., Piermattei, Alma, Coomes, David A., Esper, Jan, Myglan, Vladimir S., Kirdyanov, Alexander V., Camarero, J. Julio, Crivellaro, Alan, Körner, Christian

“…It is generally accepted that animal heartbeat and lifespan are often inversely correlated, however, the relationship between productivity and longevity has…”
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Weakening of annual temperature cycle over the Tibetan Plateau since the 1870s by Duan, Jianping, Esper, Jan, Büntgen, Ulf, Li, Lun, Xoplaki, Elena, Zhang, Huan, Wang, Lily, Fang, Yongjie, Luterbacher, Jürg

“…The annual cycle of extra-tropical surface air temperature is an important component of the Earth’s climate system. Over the past decades, a reduced amplitude…”
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Warming‐induced upward migration of the alpine treeline in the Changbai Mountains, northeast China by Du, Haibo, Liu, Jie, Li, Mai‐He, Büntgen, Ulf, Yang, Yue, Wang, Lei, Wu, Zhengfang, He, Hong S.

“…Treeline responses to environmental changes describe an important phenomenon in global change research. Often conflicting results and generally too short…”
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Tree-ring hydrological research in the Himalaya: State of the art and future directions by Islam, Nazimul, Vennemann, Torsten, Büntgen, Ulf, Cherubini, Paolo, Lane, Stuart N

“…Recent developments in tree-ring research offer great potential for reconstructing past climate changes; determining the frequencies of natural hazards; and…”
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In praise of archives (and an open mind) by Büntgen, Ulf, Esper, Jan, Oppenheimer, Clive

“…A recent study dating Viking presence in America to a precise year was only possible thanks to long-term conservation of archaeological finds. It also arose…”
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Long-term decrease in Asian monsoon rainfall and abrupt climate change events over the past 6,700 years by Yang, Bao, Qin, Chun, Bräuning, Achim, Osborn, Timothy J., Trouet, Valerie, Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier, Esper, Jan, Schneider, Lea, Grießinger, Jussi, Büntgenl, Ulf, Rossi, Sergio, Dong, Guanghui, Yan, Mi, Ning, Liang, Wang, Jianglin, Wang, Xiaofeng, Wang, Suming, Luterbacher, Jürg, Cook, Edward R., Stenseth, Nils Chr

“…Asian summer monsoon (ASM) variability and its long-term ecological and societal impacts extending back to Neolithic times are poorly understood due to a lack…”
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2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility by Büntgen, Ulf, Tegel, Willy, Nicolussi, Kurt, McCormick, Michael, Frank, David, Trouet, Valerie, Kaplan, Jed O., Herzig, Franz, Heussner, Karl-Uwe, Wanner, Heinz, Luterbacher, Jürg, Esper, Jan

“…Climate variations influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental…”
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Climate-driven introduction of the Black Death and successive plague reintroductions into Europe by Schmid, Boris V., Büntgen, Ulf, Easterday, W. Ryan, Ginzler, Christian, Walløe, Lars, Bramanti, Barbara, Stenseth, Nils Chr

“…Significance The second plague pandemic in medieval Europe started with the Black Death epidemic of 1347–1353 and killed millions of people over a time span of…”
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Scale-dependent climatic drivers of human epidemics in ancient China by Tian, Huidong, Yan, Chuan, Xu, Lei, Büntgen, Ulf, Stenseth, Nils C., Zhang, Zhibin

“…A wide range of climate change-induced effects have been implicated in the prevalence of infectious diseases. Disentangling causes and consequences, however,…”
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Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, A.D. 755–2004 by Büntgen, Ulf, Frank, David C., Nievergelt, Daniel, Esper, Jan

“…Annually resolved summer temperatures for the European Alps are described. The reconstruction covers the A.D. 755–2004 period and is based on 180 recent and…”
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Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD by Büntgen, Ulf, Myglan, Vladimir S., Ljungqvist, Fredrik Charpentier, McCormick, Michael, Di Cosmo, Nicola, Sigl, Michael, Jungclaus, Johann, Wagner, Sebastian, Krusic, Paul J., Esper, Jan, Kaplan, Jed O., de Vaan, Michiel A. C., Luterbacher, Jürg, Wacker, Lukas, Tegel, Willy, Kirdyanov, Alexander V.

“…Societal upheaval occurred across Eurasia in the sixth and seventh centuries. Tree-ring reconstructions suggest a period of pronounced cooling during this time…”
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Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate by Stocker, Benjamin, Raible, Christoph C, Büntgen, Ulf, Trouet, Valerie, Joos, Fortunat, Esper, Jan, Frank, David C

“…The processes controlling the carbon flux and carbon storage of the atmosphere, ocean and terrestrial biosphere are temperature sensitive and are likely to…”
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Anthropogenic Aerosols Cause Recent Pronounced Weakening of Asian Summer Monsoon Relative to Last Four Centuries by Liu, Yu, Cai, Wenju, Sun, Changfeng, Song, Huiming, Cobb, Kim M., Li, Jianping, Leavitt, Steven W., Wu, Lixin, Cai, Qiufang, Liu, Ruoshi, Ng, Benjamin, Cherubini, Paolo, Büntgen, Ulf, Song, Yi, Wang, Guojian, Lei, Ying, Yan, Libin, Li, Qiang, Ma, Yongyong, Fang, Congxi, Sun, Junyan, Li, Xuxiang, Chen, Deliang, Linderholm, Hans W.

“…The Asian Summer Monsoon (ASM) affects ecosystems, biodiversity, and food security of billions of people. In recent decades, ASM strength (as represented by…”
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Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium by Esper, Jan, Krusic, Paul J., Ljungqvist, Fredrik C., Luterbacher, Jürg, Carrer, Marco, Cook, Ed, Davi, Nicole K., Hartl-Meier, Claudia, Kirdyanov, Alexander, Konter, Oliver, Myglan, Vladimir, Timonen, Mauri, Treydte, Kerstin, Trouet, Valerie, Villalba, Ricardo, Yang, Bao, Büntgen, Ulf

“…Tree-ring chronologies are widely used to reconstruct high-to low-frequency variations in growing season temperatures over centuries to millennia. The…”
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Dendrochronological evidence for long-distance timber trading in the Roman Empire by Bernabei, Mauro, Bontadi, Jarno, Rea, Rossella, Büntgen, Ulf, Tegel, Willy

“…An important question for our understanding of Roman history is how the Empire's economy was structured, and how long-distance trading within and between its…”
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Revising midlatitude summer temperatures back to A.D. 600 based on a wood density network by Schneider, Lea, Smerdon, Jason E., Büntgen, Ulf, Wilson, Rob J. S., Myglan, Vladimir S., Kirdyanov, Alexander V., Esper, Jan

“…Annually resolved and millennium‐long reconstructions of large‐scale temperature variability are primarily composed of tree ring width (TRW) chronologies…”
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Eastern Mediterranean summer temperatures since 730 CE from Mt. Smolikas tree-ring densities by Esper, Jan, Klippel, Lara, Krusic, Paul J., Konter, Oliver, Raible, Christoph C., Xoplaki, Elena, Luterbacher, Jürg, Büntgen, Ulf

“…The Mediterranean has been identified as particularly vulnerable to climate change, yet a high-resolution temperature reconstruction extending back into the…”
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