Key Publications

Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability. Ulf Büntgen, Otmar Urban, Paul J. Krusic, Michal Rybníček, Tomáš Kolář, Tomáš Kyncl, Alexander Ač, Eva Koňasová, Josef Čáslavský, Jan Esper, Sebastian Wagner, Matthias Saurer, Willy Tegel, Petr Dobrovolný, Paolo Cherubini, Frederick Reinig & Miroslav Trnka, 2021. 15 Mar 2021 in Nature Geoscience, doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00698-0

Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history. Büntgen, U., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Churakova, O.V., Gennaretti, F., Crivellaro, A., Hughes, M.K., Kirdyanov, A.V., Klippel, L., Krusic, P.J., Linderholm, H.W., Ljungqvist, F.C., Ludescher, J., McCormick, M., Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Piermattei, A., Oppenheimer, C., Reinig, F., Sigl, M., Vaganov, E.A. and Esper, J., 2020. Dendrochronologia, v. 64, p.125757-. doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125757.

Explaining European fungal fruiting phenology with climate variability. Andrew, C., Heegaard, E., Høiland, K., Senn-Irlet, B., Kuyper, T.W., Krisai-Greilhuber, I., Kirk, P.M., Heilmann-Clausen, J., Gange, A.C., Egli, S., Bässler, C., Büntgen, U., Boddy, L. and Kauserud, H., 2018. Ecology, v. 99, p.1306-1315. doi:10.1002/ecy.2237.

New Tree-Ring Evidence from the Pyrenees Reveals Western Mediterranean Climate Variability since Medieval Times. Büntgen, U., Krusic, P.J., Verstege, A., Sangüesa-Barreda, G., Wagner, S., Camarero, J.J., Ljungqvist, F.C., Zorita, E., Oppenheimer, C., Konter, O., Tegel, W., Gärtner, H., Cherubini, P., Reinig, F. and Esper, J., 2017.Journal of Climate, v. 30, p.5295-5318. doi:10.1175/jcli-d-16-0526.1.