Highlights

  • Precipitation the key variable for growth across an 88-day window (spring-summer).
  • Maximum temperature negatively affected trees during a 27-day window in summer.
  • The critical window for precipitation was longer at cooler or wetter sites.
  • Climate effects stronger and the critical window commenced earlier in larger trees. 
 
Serrano-Notivoli, R., J. Jevšenak, E.M. del Castillo, K. Cufar, N. Škrk-Dolar, G. Battipaglia, J.J. Camarero, A.H. Pain, A. Jump, R. Motta, P. Nola, M. Panayotov, I.C. Petritan, A. Popa, I. Popa, C.-C. Roibu, M. Svoboda, C. Zang, T. Zlatanov, A. Balzano, F. Biondi, and 25 other authors 2025, A single-tree approach to determine climate-growth patterns of European beech and their seasonality in the species southern distribution area, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 371: art. 110644 (15 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644
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