Jan Esper

Research interests

Publications

• Climate-change-driven growth decline of European beech forests

  Communications Biology · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03107-3

• Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability

  Nature Geoscience · 2021 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00698-0

• 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

• Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

  Nature Geoscience · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2652

• Last millennium northern hemisphere summer temperatures from tree rings: Part I: The long term context

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.12.005

• European summer temperatures since Roman times

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

• 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

• The Palaeoanthropocene – The beginnings of anthropogenic environmental change

  Anthropocene · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ancene.2013.11.002

• Continental-scale temperature variability during the past two millennia

  Nature Geoscience · 2013 · https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1797

• Orbital forcing of tree-ring data

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

• 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

• High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

  The Holocene · 2009 · https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683608098952

• 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

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

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

• Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0602447103

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

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

• Temperature and precipitation variability in the European Alps since 1500

  International Journal of Climatology · 2005 · https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.1216

• Extra-tropical Northern Hemisphere land temperature variability over the past 1000 years

  Quaternary Science Reviews · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2004.08.013

• Tests of the RCS Method for Preserving Low-Frequency Variability in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies

  UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) · 2003

• Low-Frequency Signals in Long Tree-Ring Chronologies for Reconstructing Past Temperature Variability

  Science · 2002 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1066208

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