Publications
in review
Boddy L, Büntgen U, Egli S, Gange A, Heegaard E, Kirk P, Mohammad A (in review) Climate variation effects on fungal distribution and fruiting. Fungal Ecology
Bunde A, Ludescher J, Franzke CLE, Büntgen U (in review) How significant is West Antarctic warming. Nature Geoscience
Büntgen U, Johnson D, Gonzalez-Rouco JF, Luterbacher J, Stenseth NC (in review) Extending ‘Detection & Attribution’ to global change ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Gleeson E, Franke J, Trouet V, Büntgen U, Esper J, Villalba R, Frank D (in review) Hydroclimatic variations in the upper Rio Santa Cruz Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Hydrometeorology
Glur L, Wirth SB, Büntgen U, Gilli A, Haug GH, Schär C, Anselmetti FS (in review) Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years. Nature – Scientific Reports
Konter O, Holzkämper S, Helle G, Büntgen U, Esper J (in review) Climate sensitivity and parameter coherency in annually resolved δ13C and δ18O from Pinus uncinata tree-ring data in the Spanish Pyrenees. Chemical Geology
Tegel W, Seim A, Hakelberg D, Hoffmann S, Panev M, Westphal T, Büntgen U (in review) A recent growth increase of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at its Mediterranean distribution limit contradicts drought stress. European Journal of Forest Research
Schneider L, Esper J, Timonen M, Büntgen U (in review) Detection and evaluation of an early divergence problem in Northern Fennoscandian tree-ring data. Oikos
in revision
Büntgen U, Jenny H, Liebhold, A, Mysterud A, Egli S, Nievergelt D, Stenseth NC, Bollmann K (in revision) European climate variability controls Alpine ibex vitality. Ecology Letters
Büntgen U, Psomas A, Schweingruber FH (in revision) Wood science beyond forests. Journal of Vegetation Science
Büntgen U, Tegel W, Kaplan JO, Schaub M, Hagedorn F, Bürgi M, Brázdil R, Helle G, Career M, Heussner KU, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Kyncl J, Camarero JJ, Tinner W, Esper J, Liebhold A (in review) Placing unprecedented modern European fir growth in a Holocene-long context. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Seim A, Treydte K, Trouet V, Frank D, Fonti P, Tegel W, Panayotov M, Fernandez Donado L, Büntgen U (in revision) Climate sensitivity of Mediterranean pine growth reveals west-east dipole. Journal of Biogeography
in press
Büntgen U (in press) In Memoriam – Klaus Felix Kaiser. TRACE
Büntgen U, Martinez-Peña F, Aldea J, Rigling A, Fischer EM, Camarero JJ, Hayes MJ, Fatton V, Egli S (in press) Causes and consequences of a recent decline in continental Iberian forest growth. Global and Planetary Change
Esper J, Schneider L, Krusic PJ, Luterbacher J, Büntgen U, Timonen M, Sirocko F, Zorita E (in press) European summer temperature response to annually dated volcanic eruptions over the past nine centuries. Bulletin of Volcanology
Hellmann L, Tegel W, Eggertsson O, Schweingruber FH, Blanchette R, Gärtner H, Kirdyanov A, Büntgen U (in press) On the wood anatomical importance in Arctic driftwood research. TRACE
Konter O, Holzkämper S, Helle G, Büntgen U, Esper J (in press) Climate signals in annually resolved δ13C and δ18O tree-ring data from Pinus uncinata in the Spanish Pyrenees. TRACE
Riechelmann D, Schmidhalter M, Büntgen U, Esper J (in press) Extending a high-elevation larch ring width chronology from the Simplon region in the Swiss Alps over the past millennium. TRACE
Schweingruber FH, Büntgen U (in press) An anatomical re-definition of ‘wood’. Dendrochronologia
112 articles published (73 are ISI listed), h-index is 20 and an m-index of 2.57
2013
112(73) Bunde A, Büntgen U, Ludescher J, Luterbacher J, von Storch H (2013) Is there memory in precipitation? Nature Climate Change 3: 174-175
111(72) Büntgen U, Kyncl T, Ginzler C, Jacks DS, Esper J, Tegel W, Heussner KU, Kyncl J (2013) Filling the Eastern European gap in millennium-long temperature reconstructions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 110: 1773-1778
110(71) Büntgen U, Peter M, Kauserud H, Egli S (2013) Unraveling environmental drivers of a recent increase in Swiss fungi fruiting. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.12263
109(70) Egli S, Büntgen U (2013) Périgord-Trüffel bald auch in der Schweiz? Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde 1: 16
108(70) Egli S, Büntgen U (2013) Les truffes du Périgord-bientôt en Suisse? Bulletin Suisse de mycologie 1: 17
107(70) Esper J, Büntgen U, Luterbacher J, Krusic PJ (2013) Testing the hypothesis of globally missing rings in temperature sensitive dendrochronological data. Dendrochronologia doi: org/10.1016/j.dendro.2012.11.002
106(69) Hellmann L, Tegel W, Eggertsson O, Schweingruber FH, Blanchette R, Gärtner H, Kirdyanov A, Büntgen U (2013) Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood. Journal of Geophysical Research – B 118: 68-76 (This paper was highlighted by AGU and reported by Science)
105(68) Kauserud H, Heegaard E, Büntgen U, Halvorsen R, Egli S, Senn-Irlet B, Greilhuber IK, Dämon W, Sparks T, Nordén J, Høiland K, Kirk P, Semenov M, Stenseth NC, Boddy L (2013) Reply to Gange et al.: Climate driven changes in the fungal fruiting season in the UK. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 110: E335
104(67) King G, Fonti P, Nievergelt D, Büntgen U, Frank D (2013) Climatic drivers of hourly to yearly tree radius variations along a 6°C natural warming gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 168: 36-46
103(66) PAGES 2k Consortium (2013) Continental-scale temperature variability over the Common Era. Nature Geoscience 6: 339-346
102(65) Stobbe U, Egli S, Tegel W, Peter M, Sproll L, Büntgen U (2013) Potential and limitations of Burgundy truffle cultivation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 97: 5215–5224
101(64) Stobbe U, Stobbe A, Sproll L, Tegel W, Peter M, Büntgen U, Egli S (2013) New evidence for Burgundy truffle and Norway spruce symbiosis. Mycorrhiza doi: 10.1007/s00572-013-0508-9
2012
100(63) Anchukaitis KJ, Breitenmoser P, Briffa KR, Buchwald A, Büntgen U, Cook ER, D’Arrigo RD, Esper J, Evans MN, Frank D, Grudd H, Gunnarson B, Hughes MK, Kirdyanov AV, Körner C, Krusic PJ, Luckman B, Melvin TM, Salzer MW, Shashkin AV, Timmreck C, Vaganov EA, Wilson RJS (2012) No evidence for misdating of tree-ring chronologies associated with volcanic cooling. Nature Geosciences doi:10.1038/ngeo1645
99(62) Büntgen U, Egli S, Senn-Irlet B (2012) Les changements climatiques prolongent-ils la saison des champignons? La Foret 9: 5
98(62) Büntgen U, Egli S, Camarero JJ, Fischer EM, Stobbe U, Kauserud H, Tegel W, Sproll L, Stenseth NC (2012) Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest. Nature Climate Change 2: 827-829
97(61) Büntgen U, Egli S, Tegel W, Stobbe U, Sproll L, Elburg R, Peter M, Nievergelt D, Cherubini P, Stenseth NC (2012) Illuminating the mysterious world of truffles. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 462-463
96(60) Büntgen U, Frank D, Neuenschwander T, Esper J (2012) Fading temperature sensitivity of Alpine tree growth at its Mediterranean margin and associated effects on large-scale climate reconstructions. Climatic Change 114: 651-666
95(59) Büntgen U, Ginzler C, Esper J, Tegel W, McMichael AJ (2012) Digitizing historical plague. Clinical Infectious Diseases 55: 1586-1588
94(58) Büntgen U, Kaczka RJ, Trnka M, Rigling A (2012) Ensemble estimates reveal a complex hydroclimatic sensitivity of pine growth at Carpathian cliff sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 160: 100-109
93(57) Büntgen U, Kauserud H, Egli S (2012) Linking mushroom productivity and phenology to climate variability. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 14-19
92(56) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Heussner K-U, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Cook ER (2012) Effects of sample size in dendroclimatology. Climate Research 53: 263-269
91(55) Dorado Linan I, Büntgen U, Gonzalez-Rouco F, Zorita E, Montavez JP, Gomez-Navarro JJ, Brunet M, Heinrich I, Helle G, Gutierrez E (2012) Estimating 750 years of temperature variations and uncertainties in the Pyrenees by tree-ring reconstructions and climate simulations. Climate of the Past 8: 919-933
90(54) Esper J, Büntgen U, Timonen M, Frank DC (2012) Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian summer temperatures over the past two millennia. Global and Planetary Change 88-89: 1-9
89(53) Esper J, Frank DC, Timonen M, Zorita E, Wilson RJS, Luterbacher J, Holzkämper S, Nievergelt D, Verstege A, Büntgen U (2012) Orbital forcing of tree-ring data. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1589
88(52) Jover E, Ward A, Büntgen U (2012) Linking long-term temperature variability to population density in Andorra, Central Pyrenees. Population and Environment doi: 10.1007/s11111-012-0181-5
87(51) Kauserud H, Heegaard E, Büntgen U, Halvorsen R, Egli S, Boddy L, Senn-Irlet B, Greilhuber I, Dämon W, Sparks T, Nordén J, Høiland K, Kirk P, Semenov M, Stenseth NC (2012) Warming-induced shift in European mushroom fruiting phenology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 109: 14488-14493
86(50) Luterbacher J, García-Herrera R, Akcer-On S, Allan R, Alvarez-Castro MC, Benito G, Booth J, Büntgen U, Cagatay N, Colombaroli D, Davis B, Esper J, Felis T, Fleitmann D, Frank D, Gallego D, Garcia-Bustamante E, Glaser R, González-Rouco JF, Goosse H, Kiefer T, Macklin MG, Manning S, Montagna P, Newman L, Power MJ, Rath V, Ribera P, Riemann D, Roberts N, Silenzi S, Tinner W, Valero-Garces B, van der Schrier G, Tzedakis C, Vannière B, Vogt S, Wanner H, Werner JP, Willett G, Williams MH, Xoplaki E, Zerefos CS, Zorita E (2012) A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean. In: Lionello P (Ed.), The Climate of the Mediterranean region: From the Past to the Future. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 87-185
85(50) McCormick M, Büntgen U, Cane MA, Cook ER, Harper K, Huybers P, Litt T, Manning SW, Mayewski PA, More AFM, Nicolussi K, Tegel T (2012) Climate change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the past from scientific and historical evidence. Journal of Interdisciplinary History xliii: 2 169-220
84(49) Morellón M, Pérez-Sanz A, Corella JP, Büntgen U, Catalán J, González-Sampériz P, González-Trueba JJ, López-Sáez JA, Moreno A, Pla-Rabes S, Saz-Sánchez MA, Scussolinni P, Serrano E, Steinhilber F, Stefanova V, Vegas-Vilarrúbia T, Valero-Garcés B (2012) A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees. Climate of the Past 8: 683-700
83(48) Seim A, Büntgen U, Fonti P, Haska H, Herzig F, Tegel W, Trouet V, Treydte K (2012) The paleoclimatic potential of a millennium-long tree-ring width chronology from Albania. Climate Research 51: 217-228
82(47) Stobbe U, Büntgen U, Sproll L, Tegel W, Egli S, Fink S (2012) Spatial distribution and ecological variation of re-discovered German truffle habitats. Fungal Ecology 5: 591-599
81 (46) Tegel W, Hakelberg D, Elbrug R, Stäuble H, Büntgen U (2012) Early Neolithic water wells reveal the world’s oldest wood architecture. PLoSONE 7(12): e51374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051374
80 (45) Trachsel M, Kamenik C, Grosjean M, McCarroll D, Moberg A, Brázdil R, Büntgen U, Dobrovolny P, Esper J, Frank DC, Friedrich M, Glaser R, Laroque-Tobler I, Nicolussi K, Riemann D (2012) Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053-1996. Quaternary Science Reviews 46: 66-79
79(44) Treml V, Ponocná T, Büntgen U (2012) Growth trends and temperature responses of treeline Norway spruce in the Czech-Polish Sudetes Mountains. Climate Research 55: 91-103
2011
78(43) Werner Bellwald W, Schmidhalter M, Flückiger-Seiler R, Bellwald I, Rieder C, Freund H, Büntgen U (2011) Holzjahrringe und ihre Aussagekraft. Aufschlussreiche Resultate für die Walliser Bauernhausforschung. In Bauernhäuser der Schweiz, Wallis 3.1
77(43) Büntgen U, Brazdil R, Dobrovolny P, Trnka M, Kyncl T (2011) Five centuries of Southern Moravian drought variations revealed from living and historic trees. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 105: 167-180
76(42) Büntgen U, Brázdil R, Heussner K-U, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Pfister C, Chromá K, Tegel W (2011) Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 3947-3959
75(41) Büntgen U, Raible C, Frank D, Helama S, Cunningham L, Hofer D, Nievergelt D, Verstege A, Stenseth N, Esper J (2011) Causes and consequences of past and projected Scandinavian summer temperatures, 500-2100 AD. PLoS ONE 6(9): e25133. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025133
74(40) Büntgen U, Tegel W (2011) European tree-ring data and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. PAGES 19: 14-15
73(40) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Nicolussi K, McCormick M, Frank D, Trouet V, Kaplan J, Herzig F, Heussner U, Wanner H, Luterbacher J, Esper J (2011) 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility. Science 331: 578-582
72(39) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Egli S, Stobbe U, Sproll L, Stenseth NC (2011) Truffles and climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 150-151
2010
71(38) Affolter P, Büntgen U, Esper J, Rigling A, Weber P, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Inner Alpine conifer response to 20th century drought swings. European Journal of Forest Research 129: 289-298
70(37) Battipaglia G, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Dobrovolny P, Brazdil R, Pfister C, Esper J (2010) Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence. Global and Planetary Change 72: 182-191
69(36) Büntgen U (2010) Book Review: Interannuelle Klima-Wachstums-Beziehung zentraleuropäischer Bäume von 1901 bis 1971. Eine dendroklimatologische Netzwerkanalyse. Erdkunde 64: 389-391
68(35) Büntgen U, Schweingruber F (2010) Environmental change without climate change? New Phytologist 18: 646-651
67(34) Büntgen U, Brázdil R, Frank DC, Esper J (2010) Three centuries of Slovakian drought dynamics. Climate Dynamics 35: 315-329
66(33) Büntgen U, Frank D, Trouet V, Esper J (2010) Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density. Trees, Structure and Function 24: 261-273
65(32) Büntgen U, Franke J, Frank D, Wilson R, Gonzales-Rouco F, Esper J (2010) Assessing the spatial signature of European climate reconstructions. Climate Research 41: 125-130
64(31) Büntgen U, Trouet V, Frank D, Leuschner HH, Friedrichs D, Luterbacher J, Esper J (2010) Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1005-1016
63(30) Corona C, Guiot J, Edouard JL, Chalié F, Büntgen U, Nola P, Urbinati C (2010) Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings. Climate of the Past 6: 379-400
62(29) Esper J, Frank D, Battipaglia G, Büntgen U, Holert C, Siegwolf R, Saurer M (2010) Low frequency signals in tree-ring stable isotopes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24: 10.1029/2010GB003772
61(28) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Verstege A, Hantemirov RM, Kirdyanov A (2010) Trends and uncertainties in Siberian indicators of 20th century warming. Global Change Biology 16: 386-398
60(27) Frank DC, Esper J, Raible CC, Büntgen U, Trouet V, Joos F, Stocker B (2010) Ensemble reconstruction constraints of the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate. Nature 463: 527-530
59(26) Fonti P, Moser L, Franzen J, King G, Nievergelt D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Temperature-induced differences in timing of intra-annual growth of subalpine Larix decidua and Picea abies. Geophysical Research Abstracts 12: 2010-6746
58(26) Johnson DM, Büntgen U, Kausrud K, Frank DC, Haynes KJ, Liebhold AM, Esper J, Stenseth NC (2010) Climate change forces elevation shift in outbreak epicenter of larch budmoth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 107: 20576-20581
57(25) Kausrud KL, Begon M, Ben Ari T, Viljugrein H, Esper J, Büntgen U, Leirs H, Junge C, Yang B, Yang M, Xu L, Stenseth NC (2010) Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: paleoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium. BMC Biology 8: 112 doi:10.11861741-7007-8-112
56(24) Moser L, Fonti P, Büntgen U, Franzen J, Esper J, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps. Tree Physiology 30: 225-233
55(23) Seim A, Treydte K, Büntgen U, Esper J, Fonti P, Haska H, Herzig F, Tegel W, Faust D (2010) Exploring the potential of Pinus heldreichii CHRIST for long-term climate reconstruction in Albania. TRACE 8: 75-82
54(23) Tegel W, Vanmoerkerke J, Büntgen U (2010) Updating historical tree-ring records for climate reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1957-1959
53(22) Visser H, Büntgen U, D’Arrigo R, Petersen A (2010) Detecting instabilities in tree-ring proxy calibration. Climate of the Past 6: 225-255
2009
52(21) Babst F, Frank D, Büntgen U, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2009) Effect of sample preparation and scanning resolution on the Blue Reflectance of Picea abies. TRACE 7: 188-195
51(21) Büntgen U (2009) Was uns Jahrringe über die Klimageschichte Nordhessens erzählen – Ergebnisse dendroklimatologischer Untersuchungen. In: von Gilsa FW, Scherb R (eds) Mosaiksteine einer 800jährigen Dorfgeschichte. 568 pp
50(21) Büntgen U, Luterbacher J (2009) Alpine Klimageschichte vom Hohen Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart – Was uns Jahrringe und historische Quellen Erzählen. Blätter aus der Walliser Geschichte XLI. Band 2009: 103-121
49(21) Büntgen U, Frank D, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Esper J (2009) Improving Alpine summer temperature reconstructions by increasing sample size. TRACE 7: 36-43
48(21) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Liebhold A, Johnson D, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Grabner M, Nicolussi K, Levanic T, Esper J (2009) Three centuries of insect outbreaks across the European Alps. New Phytologist 182: 929-941
47(20) Büntgen U, Wilson R, Wilmking M, Niedzwiedz T, Bräuning A (2009) The ‘Divergence Problem’ in tree-ring research. TRACE 7: 212-219
46(20) Corona C, Guiot J, Edouard JL, Chalié F, Büntgen U, Nola P, Urbinati C (2009) Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings. Climate of the Past Discussion 4: 1-80
45(19) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Battipaglia G, Franke J, Trouet V (2009) How to test for divergence in tree-ring timeseries? In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) Millennium Milestone Meeting 3, Proceedings Volume, Mallorca, Spain, 3-5 March 2009: 112-113
44(19) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Kirdyanov A (2009) Influence of pith offset on tree-ring chronology trend. TRACE 7: 205-210
43(19) Frank D, Büntgen U, Esper J (2009) Response to “Late 20th century growth acceleration in greek firs (Abies cephalonica) from Cephalonica Island, Greece: A CO2 fertilization effect? Dendrochronologia 27: 223-227
42(18) Friedrichs D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank D, Neuwirth B, Löffler J (2009) Complex climate controls on 20th century oak growth in Central-West Germany. Tree Physiology 29: 39-51
41(17) Friedrichs D, Trouet V, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Esper J, Neuwirth B, Löffler J (2009) Species-specific climate sensitivity of tree growth in Central-West Germany. Trees, Structure and Function 23: 729-739
40(16) Hoffmann K, Büntgen U, Kyncl T, Brazdil R, Esper J (2009) On the potential of fir ring width data for summer drought reconstruction in southern Moravia, Czech. TRACE 7: 57-63
39(16) Kress A, Saurer M, Büntgen U, Treydte K, Bugmann H, Siegwolf R (2009) Summer temperature dependency of larch budmoth outbreaks revealed by Alpine tree-ring isotope chronologies. Oecologia 160: 353-365
38(15) Kress A, Saurer M, Büntgen U, Treydte K, Esper J, Siegwolf R (2009) High sensitivity of an Alpine larch isotope tree-ring series to temperature, precipitation, sunshine duration and cloudiness. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) Millennium Milestone Meeting 3, Proceedings Volume, Mallorca, Spain, 3-5 March 2009: 68-69
2008
37(15) Büntgen U, Barais Valle K, Frank DC, Bouriaud O, Esper J (2008) Climatic drivers of beech growth in the Vosges and Jura Mts. TRACE 6: 37-44
36(15) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC (2008) How do trees react to climate change? – Results from dendroclimatic research. In: Dujesiefken D, Kockerbeck P (eds) Yearbook of Arboriculture. 12: 26-39
35(15) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Brazdil R, Esper J (2008) Three centuries of Central European drought swings. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 144-145
34(15) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Grudd H, Esper J (2008) Long-term summer temperature variations in the Pyrenees. Climate Dynamics 31: 615-631
33(14) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Wilson R, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Esper J (2008) Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps. Global Change Biology 14: 2443-2453
32(13) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Wilson R, Esper J (2008) A test for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 132-133
31(13) Esper J, Niederer R, Luterbacher J, Büntgen U, Frank DC (2008) Calibration trails using very long instrumental and proxy data. TRACE 6: 45-50
30(13) Frank D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Battigpaglia G, Carrer M, Nicolussi K, Pichler T, Urbinati, C (2008) Wavelength-dependent combination of tree-ring data from the European Alps. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 138-139
29(13) Frank D, Bouriaud O, Wilson R, Battipaglia G, Büntgen U, Fonti P, Treydte K, Trouet V, Esper J (2008) A challenge for spatially explicit reconstructions: the climate response of trees is a function of climate. TRACE 6: 31-36
28(13) Schaub M, Büntgen U, Kaiser KF, Kromer B, Talamo S, Andersen KK, Rasmussen SO (2008) Lateglacial environmental variability in Swiss tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 29-41
27(12) Schaub M, Kaiser KF, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Kromer B, Talamo S (2008) Environmental change during the Allerød and Younger Dryas reconstructed from Swiss tree-ring data. Boreas 37: 74-86
2007
26(11) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Verstege A, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2007) Climatic response of multiple tree-ring parameters from the Spanish Central Pyrenees. TRACE 5: 60-72
25(11) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Kaczka RJ, Verstege A, Zwijacz-Kozica T, Esper J (2007) Growth/climate response of a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia. Tree Physiology 27: 689-702
24(10) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nicolussi K (2007) Updating the Tyrol tree-ring dataset. TRACE 5: 80-84
23(10) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Liebhold A (2007) 1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 671-679
22(9) Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Verstege A, Luterbacher J, Xoplaki E (2007) Long-term drought severity variations in Morocco. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi, 10.1029/2007GL030844
21(8) Esper J, Frank DC, Wilson RSJ, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2007) Uniform growth trends among central Asian low- and high-elevation juniper tree sites. Trees Structure and Function 21: 141-150
20(7) Frank DC, Büntgen U, Böhm R, Maugeri M, Esper J (2007) Warmer early instrumental measurements
versus colder reconstructed temperatures: Shooting at a moving target. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 3298-3310
19(6) Kaczka RJ, Büntgen U (2007) Spatial autocorrelation and growth/climate response of a high elevation spruce network along the Carpathian arc. TRACE 5: 103-112
18(6) Wilson RJS, D'Arrigo R, Buckley B, Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank D, Luckman B, Payette S, Vose R, Youngblut D (2007) A matter of divergence: Tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree-ring data. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: doi, 10.1029/2006JD008318
2006
17(5) Büntgen U (2006) 1250 Jahre Alpine Klimageschichte. In: Bellwald I (ed) Familienchronik der Gemeinde Kippel und Geschlechter, Geschichte und Siedlugen des Lötschentals. 1085 pp
16(5) Büntgen U (2006) Long-term European climate reconstructions from high-elevation tree-rings. PhD thesis, University Bern 175 pp
15(5) Büntgen U, Bellwald I, Kalbermatten H, Schmidhalter M, Freund H, Frank DC, Bellwald W, Neuwirth B, Nüsser M, Esper J (2006) 700 years of settlement and building history in the Lötschental/Switzerland. Erdkunde 60/2: 96-112
14(4) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Böhm R, Esper J (2006) Effect of uncertainty in instrumental data on reconstructed temperature amplitude in the European Alps. In: Heinrich I (ed) TRACE 4: 38-45
13(4) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2006) Summer temperature variations in the European Alps, AD 755-2004. Journal of Climate 19/2: 5606-5623
12(3) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Schmidhalter M, Neuwirth B, Seifert M, Esper J (2006) Growth/climate response shift in a long subalpine spruce chronology. Trees Structure and Function 20: 99-110
11(2) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Treydte K, Verstege A (2006) Multiple tree-ring parameters from Atlas cedar (Morocco) and their climatic signal. In: Heinrich I (ed) TRACE 4: 46-55
10(2) Raible CC, Casty C, Luterbacher J, Pauling A, Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Roesch AC, Tschuck P, Wild M, Vidale PL, Schär C, Wanner H (2006) Climate variability - observations, reconstructions, and model simulations for the Atlantic-European and Alpine region from 1500-2100 AD. Climatic Change doi: 10.1007/10584-006-9061-2
2005
9(1) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC, Nicolussi K, Schmidhalter M (2005) A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures. Climate Dynamics 25: 141-153
8(0) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC, Nicolussi K, Schmidhalter M, Seifert M (2005) The effect of power transformation on RCS – case study from 3 millennial-length alpine chronologies. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 3: 141-149
7(0) Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2005) Jahrringe - Von den Alpen zur Nordhemisphäre. In: NFS Klima (eds) Boxenstopp. Tagungsband (Bern, May 18, 2005) 47-50
2004
6(0) Büntgen U, Esper J, Schmidhalter M, Frank DC, Treydte K, Neuwirth B, Winiger M (2004) Using recent and historical larch wood to build a 1300-year Valais-chronology. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 85-92
5(0) Esper J, Treydte K, Frank DC, Gärtner H, Büntgen U (2004) Temperaturvariationen und Jahrringe. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 155,6: 213-221
4(0) Frank DC, Esper J, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2004) The first principal component of a high elevation ring-width network from the western and central Alps. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 54-57
3(0) Treydte K, Welscher C, Schleser GH, Helle G, Esper J, Winiger M, Frank DC, Büntgen U (2004) The climatic signal in oxygen isotopes of junipers at the lower timberline in the Karakorum, Pakistan. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 100-106
2003
2(0) Büntgen U (2003) Dendroklimatologische Analysen einer 1000-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Lötschental/Schweiz. Diplomarbeit, Universität Bonn 95pp
1(0) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Esper J (2003) A detailed view on instrumental temperature data from Northern Eurasia. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 1: 28-35
Boddy L, Büntgen U, Egli S, Gange A, Heegaard E, Kirk P, Mohammad A (in review) Climate variation effects on fungal distribution and fruiting. Fungal Ecology
Bunde A, Ludescher J, Franzke CLE, Büntgen U (in review) How significant is West Antarctic warming. Nature Geoscience
Büntgen U, Johnson D, Gonzalez-Rouco JF, Luterbacher J, Stenseth NC (in review) Extending ‘Detection & Attribution’ to global change ecology. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Gleeson E, Franke J, Trouet V, Büntgen U, Esper J, Villalba R, Frank D (in review) Hydroclimatic variations in the upper Rio Santa Cruz Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Hydrometeorology
Glur L, Wirth SB, Büntgen U, Gilli A, Haug GH, Schär C, Anselmetti FS (in review) Frequent floods in the European Alps coincide with cooler periods of the past 2500 years. Nature – Scientific Reports
Konter O, Holzkämper S, Helle G, Büntgen U, Esper J (in review) Climate sensitivity and parameter coherency in annually resolved δ13C and δ18O from Pinus uncinata tree-ring data in the Spanish Pyrenees. Chemical Geology
Tegel W, Seim A, Hakelberg D, Hoffmann S, Panev M, Westphal T, Büntgen U (in review) A recent growth increase of European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) at its Mediterranean distribution limit contradicts drought stress. European Journal of Forest Research
Schneider L, Esper J, Timonen M, Büntgen U (in review) Detection and evaluation of an early divergence problem in Northern Fennoscandian tree-ring data. Oikos
in revision
Büntgen U, Jenny H, Liebhold, A, Mysterud A, Egli S, Nievergelt D, Stenseth NC, Bollmann K (in revision) European climate variability controls Alpine ibex vitality. Ecology Letters
Büntgen U, Psomas A, Schweingruber FH (in revision) Wood science beyond forests. Journal of Vegetation Science
Büntgen U, Tegel W, Kaplan JO, Schaub M, Hagedorn F, Bürgi M, Brázdil R, Helle G, Career M, Heussner KU, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Kyncl J, Camarero JJ, Tinner W, Esper J, Liebhold A (in review) Placing unprecedented modern European fir growth in a Holocene-long context. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Seim A, Treydte K, Trouet V, Frank D, Fonti P, Tegel W, Panayotov M, Fernandez Donado L, Büntgen U (in revision) Climate sensitivity of Mediterranean pine growth reveals west-east dipole. Journal of Biogeography
in press
Büntgen U (in press) In Memoriam – Klaus Felix Kaiser. TRACE
Büntgen U, Martinez-Peña F, Aldea J, Rigling A, Fischer EM, Camarero JJ, Hayes MJ, Fatton V, Egli S (in press) Causes and consequences of a recent decline in continental Iberian forest growth. Global and Planetary Change
Esper J, Schneider L, Krusic PJ, Luterbacher J, Büntgen U, Timonen M, Sirocko F, Zorita E (in press) European summer temperature response to annually dated volcanic eruptions over the past nine centuries. Bulletin of Volcanology
Hellmann L, Tegel W, Eggertsson O, Schweingruber FH, Blanchette R, Gärtner H, Kirdyanov A, Büntgen U (in press) On the wood anatomical importance in Arctic driftwood research. TRACE
Konter O, Holzkämper S, Helle G, Büntgen U, Esper J (in press) Climate signals in annually resolved δ13C and δ18O tree-ring data from Pinus uncinata in the Spanish Pyrenees. TRACE
Riechelmann D, Schmidhalter M, Büntgen U, Esper J (in press) Extending a high-elevation larch ring width chronology from the Simplon region in the Swiss Alps over the past millennium. TRACE
Schweingruber FH, Büntgen U (in press) An anatomical re-definition of ‘wood’. Dendrochronologia
112 articles published (73 are ISI listed), h-index is 20 and an m-index of 2.57
2013
112(73) Bunde A, Büntgen U, Ludescher J, Luterbacher J, von Storch H (2013) Is there memory in precipitation? Nature Climate Change 3: 174-175
111(72) Büntgen U, Kyncl T, Ginzler C, Jacks DS, Esper J, Tegel W, Heussner KU, Kyncl J (2013) Filling the Eastern European gap in millennium-long temperature reconstructions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 110: 1773-1778
110(71) Büntgen U, Peter M, Kauserud H, Egli S (2013) Unraveling environmental drivers of a recent increase in Swiss fungi fruiting. Global Change Biology doi: 10.1111/gcb.12263
109(70) Egli S, Büntgen U (2013) Périgord-Trüffel bald auch in der Schweiz? Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Pilzkunde 1: 16
108(70) Egli S, Büntgen U (2013) Les truffes du Périgord-bientôt en Suisse? Bulletin Suisse de mycologie 1: 17
107(70) Esper J, Büntgen U, Luterbacher J, Krusic PJ (2013) Testing the hypothesis of globally missing rings in temperature sensitive dendrochronological data. Dendrochronologia doi: org/10.1016/j.dendro.2012.11.002
106(69) Hellmann L, Tegel W, Eggertsson O, Schweingruber FH, Blanchette R, Gärtner H, Kirdyanov A, Büntgen U (2013) Tracing the origin of Arctic driftwood. Journal of Geophysical Research – B 118: 68-76 (This paper was highlighted by AGU and reported by Science)
105(68) Kauserud H, Heegaard E, Büntgen U, Halvorsen R, Egli S, Senn-Irlet B, Greilhuber IK, Dämon W, Sparks T, Nordén J, Høiland K, Kirk P, Semenov M, Stenseth NC, Boddy L (2013) Reply to Gange et al.: Climate driven changes in the fungal fruiting season in the UK. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 110: E335
104(67) King G, Fonti P, Nievergelt D, Büntgen U, Frank D (2013) Climatic drivers of hourly to yearly tree radius variations along a 6°C natural warming gradient. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 168: 36-46
103(66) PAGES 2k Consortium (2013) Continental-scale temperature variability over the Common Era. Nature Geoscience 6: 339-346
102(65) Stobbe U, Egli S, Tegel W, Peter M, Sproll L, Büntgen U (2013) Potential and limitations of Burgundy truffle cultivation. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 97: 5215–5224
101(64) Stobbe U, Stobbe A, Sproll L, Tegel W, Peter M, Büntgen U, Egli S (2013) New evidence for Burgundy truffle and Norway spruce symbiosis. Mycorrhiza doi: 10.1007/s00572-013-0508-9
2012
100(63) Anchukaitis KJ, Breitenmoser P, Briffa KR, Buchwald A, Büntgen U, Cook ER, D’Arrigo RD, Esper J, Evans MN, Frank D, Grudd H, Gunnarson B, Hughes MK, Kirdyanov AV, Körner C, Krusic PJ, Luckman B, Melvin TM, Salzer MW, Shashkin AV, Timmreck C, Vaganov EA, Wilson RJS (2012) No evidence for misdating of tree-ring chronologies associated with volcanic cooling. Nature Geosciences doi:10.1038/ngeo1645
99(62) Büntgen U, Egli S, Senn-Irlet B (2012) Les changements climatiques prolongent-ils la saison des champignons? La Foret 9: 5
98(62) Büntgen U, Egli S, Camarero JJ, Fischer EM, Stobbe U, Kauserud H, Tegel W, Sproll L, Stenseth NC (2012) Drought-induced decline in Mediterranean truffle harvest. Nature Climate Change 2: 827-829
97(61) Büntgen U, Egli S, Tegel W, Stobbe U, Sproll L, Elburg R, Peter M, Nievergelt D, Cherubini P, Stenseth NC (2012) Illuminating the mysterious world of truffles. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 462-463
96(60) Büntgen U, Frank D, Neuenschwander T, Esper J (2012) Fading temperature sensitivity of Alpine tree growth at its Mediterranean margin and associated effects on large-scale climate reconstructions. Climatic Change 114: 651-666
95(59) Büntgen U, Ginzler C, Esper J, Tegel W, McMichael AJ (2012) Digitizing historical plague. Clinical Infectious Diseases 55: 1586-1588
94(58) Büntgen U, Kaczka RJ, Trnka M, Rigling A (2012) Ensemble estimates reveal a complex hydroclimatic sensitivity of pine growth at Carpathian cliff sites. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 160: 100-109
93(57) Büntgen U, Kauserud H, Egli S (2012) Linking mushroom productivity and phenology to climate variability. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10: 14-19
92(56) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Heussner K-U, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Cook ER (2012) Effects of sample size in dendroclimatology. Climate Research 53: 263-269
91(55) Dorado Linan I, Büntgen U, Gonzalez-Rouco F, Zorita E, Montavez JP, Gomez-Navarro JJ, Brunet M, Heinrich I, Helle G, Gutierrez E (2012) Estimating 750 years of temperature variations and uncertainties in the Pyrenees by tree-ring reconstructions and climate simulations. Climate of the Past 8: 919-933
90(54) Esper J, Büntgen U, Timonen M, Frank DC (2012) Variability and extremes of northern Scandinavian summer temperatures over the past two millennia. Global and Planetary Change 88-89: 1-9
89(53) Esper J, Frank DC, Timonen M, Zorita E, Wilson RJS, Luterbacher J, Holzkämper S, Nievergelt D, Verstege A, Büntgen U (2012) Orbital forcing of tree-ring data. Nature Climate Change doi: 10.1038/NCLIMATE1589
88(52) Jover E, Ward A, Büntgen U (2012) Linking long-term temperature variability to population density in Andorra, Central Pyrenees. Population and Environment doi: 10.1007/s11111-012-0181-5
87(51) Kauserud H, Heegaard E, Büntgen U, Halvorsen R, Egli S, Boddy L, Senn-Irlet B, Greilhuber I, Dämon W, Sparks T, Nordén J, Høiland K, Kirk P, Semenov M, Stenseth NC (2012) Warming-induced shift in European mushroom fruiting phenology. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 109: 14488-14493
86(50) Luterbacher J, García-Herrera R, Akcer-On S, Allan R, Alvarez-Castro MC, Benito G, Booth J, Büntgen U, Cagatay N, Colombaroli D, Davis B, Esper J, Felis T, Fleitmann D, Frank D, Gallego D, Garcia-Bustamante E, Glaser R, González-Rouco JF, Goosse H, Kiefer T, Macklin MG, Manning S, Montagna P, Newman L, Power MJ, Rath V, Ribera P, Riemann D, Roberts N, Silenzi S, Tinner W, Valero-Garces B, van der Schrier G, Tzedakis C, Vannière B, Vogt S, Wanner H, Werner JP, Willett G, Williams MH, Xoplaki E, Zerefos CS, Zorita E (2012) A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean. In: Lionello P (Ed.), The Climate of the Mediterranean region: From the Past to the Future. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 87-185
85(50) McCormick M, Büntgen U, Cane MA, Cook ER, Harper K, Huybers P, Litt T, Manning SW, Mayewski PA, More AFM, Nicolussi K, Tegel T (2012) Climate change during and after the Roman Empire: Reconstructing the past from scientific and historical evidence. Journal of Interdisciplinary History xliii: 2 169-220
84(49) Morellón M, Pérez-Sanz A, Corella JP, Büntgen U, Catalán J, González-Sampériz P, González-Trueba JJ, López-Sáez JA, Moreno A, Pla-Rabes S, Saz-Sánchez MA, Scussolinni P, Serrano E, Steinhilber F, Stefanova V, Vegas-Vilarrúbia T, Valero-Garcés B (2012) A multi-proxy perspective on millennium-long climate variability in the Southern Pyrenees. Climate of the Past 8: 683-700
83(48) Seim A, Büntgen U, Fonti P, Haska H, Herzig F, Tegel W, Trouet V, Treydte K (2012) The paleoclimatic potential of a millennium-long tree-ring width chronology from Albania. Climate Research 51: 217-228
82(47) Stobbe U, Büntgen U, Sproll L, Tegel W, Egli S, Fink S (2012) Spatial distribution and ecological variation of re-discovered German truffle habitats. Fungal Ecology 5: 591-599
81 (46) Tegel W, Hakelberg D, Elbrug R, Stäuble H, Büntgen U (2012) Early Neolithic water wells reveal the world’s oldest wood architecture. PLoSONE 7(12): e51374. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0051374
80 (45) Trachsel M, Kamenik C, Grosjean M, McCarroll D, Moberg A, Brázdil R, Büntgen U, Dobrovolny P, Esper J, Frank DC, Friedrich M, Glaser R, Laroque-Tobler I, Nicolussi K, Riemann D (2012) Multi-archive summer temperature reconstruction for the European Alps, AD 1053-1996. Quaternary Science Reviews 46: 66-79
79(44) Treml V, Ponocná T, Büntgen U (2012) Growth trends and temperature responses of treeline Norway spruce in the Czech-Polish Sudetes Mountains. Climate Research 55: 91-103
2011
78(43) Werner Bellwald W, Schmidhalter M, Flückiger-Seiler R, Bellwald I, Rieder C, Freund H, Büntgen U (2011) Holzjahrringe und ihre Aussagekraft. Aufschlussreiche Resultate für die Walliser Bauernhausforschung. In Bauernhäuser der Schweiz, Wallis 3.1
77(43) Büntgen U, Brazdil R, Dobrovolny P, Trnka M, Kyncl T (2011) Five centuries of Southern Moravian drought variations revealed from living and historic trees. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 105: 167-180
76(42) Büntgen U, Brázdil R, Heussner K-U, Hofmann J, Kontic R, Kyncl T, Pfister C, Chromá K, Tegel W (2011) Combined dendro-documentary evidence of Central European hydroclimatic springtime extremes over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 30: 3947-3959
75(41) Büntgen U, Raible C, Frank D, Helama S, Cunningham L, Hofer D, Nievergelt D, Verstege A, Stenseth N, Esper J (2011) Causes and consequences of past and projected Scandinavian summer temperatures, 500-2100 AD. PLoS ONE 6(9): e25133. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025133
74(40) Büntgen U, Tegel W (2011) European tree-ring data and the Medieval Climate Anomaly. PAGES 19: 14-15
73(40) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Nicolussi K, McCormick M, Frank D, Trouet V, Kaplan J, Herzig F, Heussner U, Wanner H, Luterbacher J, Esper J (2011) 2500 years of European climate variability and human susceptibility. Science 331: 578-582
72(39) Büntgen U, Tegel W, Egli S, Stobbe U, Sproll L, Stenseth NC (2011) Truffles and climate change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 150-151
2010
71(38) Affolter P, Büntgen U, Esper J, Rigling A, Weber P, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Inner Alpine conifer response to 20th century drought swings. European Journal of Forest Research 129: 289-298
70(37) Battipaglia G, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Dobrovolny P, Brazdil R, Pfister C, Esper J (2010) Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence. Global and Planetary Change 72: 182-191
69(36) Büntgen U (2010) Book Review: Interannuelle Klima-Wachstums-Beziehung zentraleuropäischer Bäume von 1901 bis 1971. Eine dendroklimatologische Netzwerkanalyse. Erdkunde 64: 389-391
68(35) Büntgen U, Schweingruber F (2010) Environmental change without climate change? New Phytologist 18: 646-651
67(34) Büntgen U, Brázdil R, Frank DC, Esper J (2010) Three centuries of Slovakian drought dynamics. Climate Dynamics 35: 315-329
66(33) Büntgen U, Frank D, Trouet V, Esper J (2010) Diverse climate sensitivity of Mediterranean tree-ring width and density. Trees, Structure and Function 24: 261-273
65(32) Büntgen U, Franke J, Frank D, Wilson R, Gonzales-Rouco F, Esper J (2010) Assessing the spatial signature of European climate reconstructions. Climate Research 41: 125-130
64(31) Büntgen U, Trouet V, Frank D, Leuschner HH, Friedrichs D, Luterbacher J, Esper J (2010) Tree-ring indicators of German summer drought over the last millennium. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1005-1016
63(30) Corona C, Guiot J, Edouard JL, Chalié F, Büntgen U, Nola P, Urbinati C (2010) Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings. Climate of the Past 6: 379-400
62(29) Esper J, Frank D, Battipaglia G, Büntgen U, Holert C, Siegwolf R, Saurer M (2010) Low frequency signals in tree-ring stable isotopes. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 24: 10.1029/2010GB003772
61(28) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Verstege A, Hantemirov RM, Kirdyanov A (2010) Trends and uncertainties in Siberian indicators of 20th century warming. Global Change Biology 16: 386-398
60(27) Frank DC, Esper J, Raible CC, Büntgen U, Trouet V, Joos F, Stocker B (2010) Ensemble reconstruction constraints of the global carbon cycle sensitivity to climate. Nature 463: 527-530
59(26) Fonti P, Moser L, Franzen J, King G, Nievergelt D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Temperature-induced differences in timing of intra-annual growth of subalpine Larix decidua and Picea abies. Geophysical Research Abstracts 12: 2010-6746
58(26) Johnson DM, Büntgen U, Kausrud K, Frank DC, Haynes KJ, Liebhold AM, Esper J, Stenseth NC (2010) Climate change forces elevation shift in outbreak epicenter of larch budmoth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, USA 107: 20576-20581
57(25) Kausrud KL, Begon M, Ben Ari T, Viljugrein H, Esper J, Büntgen U, Leirs H, Junge C, Yang B, Yang M, Xu L, Stenseth NC (2010) Modeling the epidemiological history of plague in Central Asia: paleoclimatic forcing on a disease system over the past millennium. BMC Biology 8: 112 doi:10.11861741-7007-8-112
56(24) Moser L, Fonti P, Büntgen U, Franzen J, Esper J, Luterbacher J, Frank D (2010) Timing and duration of European larch growing season along altitudinal gradients in the Swiss Alps. Tree Physiology 30: 225-233
55(23) Seim A, Treydte K, Büntgen U, Esper J, Fonti P, Haska H, Herzig F, Tegel W, Faust D (2010) Exploring the potential of Pinus heldreichii CHRIST for long-term climate reconstruction in Albania. TRACE 8: 75-82
54(23) Tegel W, Vanmoerkerke J, Büntgen U (2010) Updating historical tree-ring records for climate reconstruction. Quaternary Science Reviews 29: 1957-1959
53(22) Visser H, Büntgen U, D’Arrigo R, Petersen A (2010) Detecting instabilities in tree-ring proxy calibration. Climate of the Past 6: 225-255
2009
52(21) Babst F, Frank D, Büntgen U, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2009) Effect of sample preparation and scanning resolution on the Blue Reflectance of Picea abies. TRACE 7: 188-195
51(21) Büntgen U (2009) Was uns Jahrringe über die Klimageschichte Nordhessens erzählen – Ergebnisse dendroklimatologischer Untersuchungen. In: von Gilsa FW, Scherb R (eds) Mosaiksteine einer 800jährigen Dorfgeschichte. 568 pp
50(21) Büntgen U, Luterbacher J (2009) Alpine Klimageschichte vom Hohen Mittelalter bis in die Gegenwart – Was uns Jahrringe und historische Quellen Erzählen. Blätter aus der Walliser Geschichte XLI. Band 2009: 103-121
49(21) Büntgen U, Frank D, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Esper J (2009) Improving Alpine summer temperature reconstructions by increasing sample size. TRACE 7: 36-43
48(21) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Liebhold A, Johnson D, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Grabner M, Nicolussi K, Levanic T, Esper J (2009) Three centuries of insect outbreaks across the European Alps. New Phytologist 182: 929-941
47(20) Büntgen U, Wilson R, Wilmking M, Niedzwiedz T, Bräuning A (2009) The ‘Divergence Problem’ in tree-ring research. TRACE 7: 212-219
46(20) Corona C, Guiot J, Edouard JL, Chalié F, Büntgen U, Nola P, Urbinati C (2009) Millennium-long summer temperature variations in the European Alps as reconstructed from tree rings. Climate of the Past Discussion 4: 1-80
45(19) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Battipaglia G, Franke J, Trouet V (2009) How to test for divergence in tree-ring timeseries? In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) Millennium Milestone Meeting 3, Proceedings Volume, Mallorca, Spain, 3-5 March 2009: 112-113
44(19) Esper J, Frank D, Büntgen U, Kirdyanov A (2009) Influence of pith offset on tree-ring chronology trend. TRACE 7: 205-210
43(19) Frank D, Büntgen U, Esper J (2009) Response to “Late 20th century growth acceleration in greek firs (Abies cephalonica) from Cephalonica Island, Greece: A CO2 fertilization effect? Dendrochronologia 27: 223-227
42(18) Friedrichs D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank D, Neuwirth B, Löffler J (2009) Complex climate controls on 20th century oak growth in Central-West Germany. Tree Physiology 29: 39-51
41(17) Friedrichs D, Trouet V, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Esper J, Neuwirth B, Löffler J (2009) Species-specific climate sensitivity of tree growth in Central-West Germany. Trees, Structure and Function 23: 729-739
40(16) Hoffmann K, Büntgen U, Kyncl T, Brazdil R, Esper J (2009) On the potential of fir ring width data for summer drought reconstruction in southern Moravia, Czech. TRACE 7: 57-63
39(16) Kress A, Saurer M, Büntgen U, Treydte K, Bugmann H, Siegwolf R (2009) Summer temperature dependency of larch budmoth outbreaks revealed by Alpine tree-ring isotope chronologies. Oecologia 160: 353-365
38(15) Kress A, Saurer M, Büntgen U, Treydte K, Esper J, Siegwolf R (2009) High sensitivity of an Alpine larch isotope tree-ring series to temperature, precipitation, sunshine duration and cloudiness. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) Millennium Milestone Meeting 3, Proceedings Volume, Mallorca, Spain, 3-5 March 2009: 68-69
2008
37(15) Büntgen U, Barais Valle K, Frank DC, Bouriaud O, Esper J (2008) Climatic drivers of beech growth in the Vosges and Jura Mts. TRACE 6: 37-44
36(15) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC (2008) How do trees react to climate change? – Results from dendroclimatic research. In: Dujesiefken D, Kockerbeck P (eds) Yearbook of Arboriculture. 12: 26-39
35(15) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Brazdil R, Esper J (2008) Three centuries of Central European drought swings. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 144-145
34(15) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Grudd H, Esper J (2008) Long-term summer temperature variations in the Pyrenees. Climate Dynamics 31: 615-631
33(14) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Wilson R, Carrer M, Urbinati C, Esper J (2008) Testing for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps. Global Change Biology 14: 2443-2453
32(13) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Wilson R, Esper J (2008) A test for tree-ring divergence in the European Alps. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 132-133
31(13) Esper J, Niederer R, Luterbacher J, Büntgen U, Frank DC (2008) Calibration trails using very long instrumental and proxy data. TRACE 6: 45-50
30(13) Frank D, Büntgen U, Esper J, Battigpaglia G, Carrer M, Nicolussi K, Pichler T, Urbinati, C (2008) Wavelength-dependent combination of tree-ring data from the European Alps. In: Young G, McCarroll D (Eds.) European climate of the past millennium, Proceedings Volume, Calla Millor, Spain, 13-15 March 2008: 138-139
29(13) Frank D, Bouriaud O, Wilson R, Battipaglia G, Büntgen U, Fonti P, Treydte K, Trouet V, Esper J (2008) A challenge for spatially explicit reconstructions: the climate response of trees is a function of climate. TRACE 6: 31-36
28(13) Schaub M, Büntgen U, Kaiser KF, Kromer B, Talamo S, Andersen KK, Rasmussen SO (2008) Lateglacial environmental variability in Swiss tree rings. Quaternary Science Reviews 27: 29-41
27(12) Schaub M, Kaiser KF, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Kromer B, Talamo S (2008) Environmental change during the Allerød and Younger Dryas reconstructed from Swiss tree-ring data. Boreas 37: 74-86
2007
26(11) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Verstege A, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2007) Climatic response of multiple tree-ring parameters from the Spanish Central Pyrenees. TRACE 5: 60-72
25(11) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Kaczka RJ, Verstege A, Zwijacz-Kozica T, Esper J (2007) Growth/climate response of a multi-species tree-ring network in the Western Carpathian Tatra Mountains, Poland and Slovakia. Tree Physiology 27: 689-702
24(10) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nicolussi K (2007) Updating the Tyrol tree-ring dataset. TRACE 5: 80-84
23(10) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Liebhold A (2007) 1200 years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 274: 671-679
22(9) Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Verstege A, Luterbacher J, Xoplaki E (2007) Long-term drought severity variations in Morocco. Geophysical Research Letters 34: doi, 10.1029/2007GL030844
21(8) Esper J, Frank DC, Wilson RSJ, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2007) Uniform growth trends among central Asian low- and high-elevation juniper tree sites. Trees Structure and Function 21: 141-150
20(7) Frank DC, Büntgen U, Böhm R, Maugeri M, Esper J (2007) Warmer early instrumental measurements
versus colder reconstructed temperatures: Shooting at a moving target. Quaternary Science Reviews 26: 3298-3310
19(6) Kaczka RJ, Büntgen U (2007) Spatial autocorrelation and growth/climate response of a high elevation spruce network along the Carpathian arc. TRACE 5: 103-112
18(6) Wilson RJS, D'Arrigo R, Buckley B, Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank D, Luckman B, Payette S, Vose R, Youngblut D (2007) A matter of divergence: Tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree-ring data. Journal of Geophysical Research 112: doi, 10.1029/2006JD008318
2006
17(5) Büntgen U (2006) 1250 Jahre Alpine Klimageschichte. In: Bellwald I (ed) Familienchronik der Gemeinde Kippel und Geschlechter, Geschichte und Siedlugen des Lötschentals. 1085 pp
16(5) Büntgen U (2006) Long-term European climate reconstructions from high-elevation tree-rings. PhD thesis, University Bern 175 pp
15(5) Büntgen U, Bellwald I, Kalbermatten H, Schmidhalter M, Freund H, Frank DC, Bellwald W, Neuwirth B, Nüsser M, Esper J (2006) 700 years of settlement and building history in the Lötschental/Switzerland. Erdkunde 60/2: 96-112
14(4) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Böhm R, Esper J (2006) Effect of uncertainty in instrumental data on reconstructed temperature amplitude in the European Alps. In: Heinrich I (ed) TRACE 4: 38-45
13(4) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Esper J (2006) Summer temperature variations in the European Alps, AD 755-2004. Journal of Climate 19/2: 5606-5623
12(3) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Schmidhalter M, Neuwirth B, Seifert M, Esper J (2006) Growth/climate response shift in a long subalpine spruce chronology. Trees Structure and Function 20: 99-110
11(2) Esper J, Büntgen U, Frank DC, Nievergelt D, Treydte K, Verstege A (2006) Multiple tree-ring parameters from Atlas cedar (Morocco) and their climatic signal. In: Heinrich I (ed) TRACE 4: 46-55
10(2) Raible CC, Casty C, Luterbacher J, Pauling A, Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Roesch AC, Tschuck P, Wild M, Vidale PL, Schär C, Wanner H (2006) Climate variability - observations, reconstructions, and model simulations for the Atlantic-European and Alpine region from 1500-2100 AD. Climatic Change doi: 10.1007/10584-006-9061-2
2005
9(1) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC, Nicolussi K, Schmidhalter M (2005) A 1052-year tree-ring proxy for Alpine summer temperatures. Climate Dynamics 25: 141-153
8(0) Büntgen U, Esper J, Frank DC, Nicolussi K, Schmidhalter M, Seifert M (2005) The effect of power transformation on RCS – case study from 3 millennial-length alpine chronologies. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 3: 141-149
7(0) Esper J, Frank DC, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2005) Jahrringe - Von den Alpen zur Nordhemisphäre. In: NFS Klima (eds) Boxenstopp. Tagungsband (Bern, May 18, 2005) 47-50
2004
6(0) Büntgen U, Esper J, Schmidhalter M, Frank DC, Treydte K, Neuwirth B, Winiger M (2004) Using recent and historical larch wood to build a 1300-year Valais-chronology. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 85-92
5(0) Esper J, Treydte K, Frank DC, Gärtner H, Büntgen U (2004) Temperaturvariationen und Jahrringe. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 155,6: 213-221
4(0) Frank DC, Esper J, Büntgen U, Treydte K (2004) The first principal component of a high elevation ring-width network from the western and central Alps. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 54-57
3(0) Treydte K, Welscher C, Schleser GH, Helle G, Esper J, Winiger M, Frank DC, Büntgen U (2004) The climatic signal in oxygen isotopes of junipers at the lower timberline in the Karakorum, Pakistan. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 2: 100-106
2003
2(0) Büntgen U (2003) Dendroklimatologische Analysen einer 1000-jährigen Lärchenchronologie aus rezenten und verbauten Hölzern für das Lötschental/Schweiz. Diplomarbeit, Universität Bonn 95pp
1(0) Büntgen U, Frank DC, Esper J (2003) A detailed view on instrumental temperature data from Northern Eurasia. In: Gärtner H, Esper J, Schleser G (eds) TRACE 1: 28-35
