Scientific Publications

Scientific Publications
Publications

Tree species influence soil carbon quality but not total storage across horizons: European beech on Dystric Cambisol and Norway spruce on Entic Podzol
Patrmanová T, Burešová‐Faitová A, Tejnecký V, Omelka M, Drábek O, Pavlů L, et al. (2026). PLoS One 21(6): e0350656. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0350656

What are the trends in growth, water-use efficiency and mortality in European forests?
Paulina F. Puchi, Mathieu Lévesque, Carlos M. Landivar, Caitlin Lewis, Danielle Creek, Andrei Popa, Marcin Klisz, Jakub Černý, Nikolaos M. Fyllas, Klaudia Ziemblińska, Gerbrand Koren, Daniela Dalmonech, Mariangela N. Fotelli, Nikos Markos, Thomas A. M. Pugh, Yann Salmon, Rossella Guerrieri 2026. 
protocols.iohttps://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.j8nlkz7xxl5r/v1

Chapter 14. Stomatal regulation.
Rocío Alonso, Raquel Ruiz-Checa, Tania Carrasco-Molina, Mana Gharum, Ignacio
YS González-Fernández, D Creek, R Guerrieri (2026). In: Routledge Handbook of Terrestrial Ecohydrology (1st ed.). Wilcox, B.P., Asbjornsen, H., Creed, I.F., Wang, L., & Smettem, K.R. (Eds.) Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003383918

Perspectives: Effect of global change drivers on carbon fluxes and resilience of European forests
Mana Gharun, Charlotte Angove, Mirco Migliavacca, Yu Zhou, Kate Buckeridge, Cristina Branquinho, Alessio Collalti, Line Nybakken, Miglena Zhiyanski, Murat Sarginci, Ismail Koc, Abdullah Huseyin Donmez, Ana López-Ballesteros, Douglas Godbold, Katerina Machacova, Claudia Guidi, Gerbrand Koren, Ivika Ostonen, Marili Sell, Emilia Pers-Kamczyc, Jacek Kamczyc, Toprak Aslan, Catherine Preece, Egor Prikaziuk, Ufuk Özkan, Valentina Vitali, Alena Havrdová, José M. Grünzweig, Enrico Tomelleri, Sami Ullah, Lora Stoeva, Enrica Nestola, Elena Vanguelova, Rossella Guerrieri, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123844

Spatiotemporal Variability of Dendroecological Indicators in Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur L.) Tree-Rings Across Europe in Relation to Species Distribution Models
Andrei Popa, Jernej Jevšenak, Marcin Dyderski, Radosław Puchałka, Allan Buras, Ionel Popa, Martin Wilmking, Aleksandra Kalisty, Catalin-Constantin Roibu, Marcin Jakubowski and more… 
First published: 30 October 2025. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70567

Building synergies among ground-based forest inventorying and monitoring networks to meet scientific, political and societal needs
Rossella Guerrieri, Elena Vanguelova, Silvana Munzi, Mariangela Fotelli, Cristina Branquinho, Marco Ferretti, Mirco Migliavacca, Yann Salmon, Sami Ullah, Rocío Alonso, Jaroslav Ďurkovič, Nikolaos Fyllas, Katerina Machacova, Ivika Ostonen, Dimitrios Sarris, Arne Verstraeten
https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.70002
You can read the press-release here.

Monitoring spatiotemporal changes in global change drivers and their effects on semiarid woodlands and forests – fieldwork protocol.
Cristina Branquinho, Bernardo Rocha, Sami Ullah, Maria Alexandra Oliveira, Elena Vanguelova, Helena C. Serrano, Alice Nunes, Adriana Principe, Pedro Pinho, Silvana Munzi, Juliana Monteiro, Rocío Alonso, Mana Gharun, Rossella Guerrieri
https://open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-270

Temperature-driven shifts in spatiotemporal stability of climate-growth responses of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) from the southern Baltic Sea region.
Marcin Klisz, Radosław Puchałka, Mariusz Gławenda, Marcin Koprowski, Roberts Matisons, Sandra Metslaid, Aleksei Potapov, Tobias Scharnweber, Eric Andreas Thurm, Rita Verbylaite, Adomas Vitas, Martin Wilmking, Jernej Jevšenak (2025). 
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 371: 110628, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110628.

Publications from STSMs

Mondanelli, L. (*), Cherubini, P., Salbitano, F. et al.  (2025). Tree ring width and isotope ratios show that high temperatures exceed pollution effects on urban trees: evidence in Pinus pinea in Firenze and Pisa, Central Italy Environ Sci Pollut Res 32, 26956–26969 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-025-37218-1
(*) Lucia Mondanelli was awarded with a STSM in the second year of the Action, visiting Paolo Cherubini at the WSL (Switzerland).

S. Kostić (*), M. Kebert, S. Orlović, T. Levanič (2026). Nitrogen stable isotope (δ15N), PCBs, PAHs and their nitro derivates (NPAHs) in tree rings as a reliable tool for air pollution reconstruction in urban areas: A study of CO, NO2, PM10, PM2.5, and SO2 concentrations in the air, Environmental Pollution, 390, 127431
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2025.127431.
(*) Sasa Kostić was awarded with a STSM in the first year of the Action to visit Tom Levanič at the Slovenian Forestry Institute (Slovenia)

Silvestro R, Deslauriers A, Prislan P, Rademacher T, Rezaie N(*), Richardson AD, 
Vitasse Y & Rossi S (2025). From Roots to Leaves: Tree Growth Phenology in Forest Ecosystems. Curr. For. Rep. 11, 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40725-025-00245-9
(*) Negar Rezaie was awarded with a STSM in the first year of the Action, visiting Sergio Rossi and Annie Deslauriers a the Université du Québec À Chicoutimi (Canada).
Aslan T(*), Katul GG, & Aurela M (2025). The turbulent pressure spectrum within the roughness sublayer of a subarctic forest canopy.  Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 130, e2024JD042206 https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JD042206
(*) Toprak Aslan was awarded with a STSM in the second year of the Action, visiting Gabriel Katul at the Duke University (USA)