David Frank

Research interests

Publications

• Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2

  New Phytologist · 2020 · 10.1111/nph.16866

• Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO 2

  New Phytologist · 2020 · 10.1111/nph.16866

• Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aat4313

• Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth

  Science Advances · 2019 · 10.1126/sciadv.aat4313

• Last millennium Northern Hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part II, spatially resolved reconstructions

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.02.020

• European summer temperatures since Roman times

  Environmental Research Letters · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024001

• Pattern of xylem phenology in conifers of cold ecosystems at the Northern Hemisphere

  Global Change Biology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.13317

• No growth stimulation of Canada’s boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO 2 fertilization

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610156113

• Old World megadroughts and pluvials during the Common Era

  Science Advances · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500561

• Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

  Nature Climate Change · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2614

• Woody biomass production lags stem-girth increase by over one month in coniferous forests

  Nature Plants · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2015.160

• Effects of climate extremes on the terrestrial carbon cycle: concepts, processes and potential future impacts

  Global Change Biology · 2015 · https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12916

• Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

  Nature · 2014 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13376

• Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 10.1038/nclimate2174

• Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree‐ring structure

  New Phytologist · 2014 · 10.1111/nph.12871

• The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth

  Global Change Biology · 2014 · 10.1111/gcb.12599

• Inter-hemispheric temperature variability over the past millennium

  Nature Climate Change · 2014 · 10.1038/nclimate2174

• Kinetics of tracheid development explain conifer tree‐ring structure

  New Phytologist · 2014 · 10.1111/nph.12871

• The influence of sampling design on tree‐ring‐based quantification of forest growth

  Global Change Biology · 2014 · 10.1111/gcb.12599

• Climate extremes and the carbon cycle

  Nature · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12350

• Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

  Nature Climate Change · 2012 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1589

• Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2012 · 10.1111/geb.12023

• Site- and species-specific responses of forest growth to climate across the European continent

  Global Ecology and Biogeography · 2012 · 10.1111/geb.12023

• 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

  Science · 2011 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1197175

• Ensemble reconstruction constraints on the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate

  Nature · 2010 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature08769

• Persistent Positive North Atlantic Oscillation Mode Dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly

  Science · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1166349

• Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps

  Tree Physiology · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpp108

• Long‐term drought severity variations in Morocco

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl030844

• Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree‐ring isotope network

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2007 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2007gl031106

• 1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects

  Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.0191

• Summer Temperature Variations in the European Alps, a.d. 755–2004

  Journal of Climate · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1175/jcli3917.1

• The twentieth century was the wettest period in northern Pakistan over the past millennium

  Nature · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04743

• Effect of scaling and regression on reconstructed temperature amplitude for the past millennium

  Geophysical Research Letters · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1029/2004gl021236

• A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures

  Climate Dynamics · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-005-0028-1

• Characterization and climate response patterns of a high-elevation, multi-species tree-ring network in the European Alps

  Dendrochronologia · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2005.02.004

Current projects

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