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Flurin Babst is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics at the intersection of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences.

The main areas of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these broad fields, Babst's work delves into several subfields, notably:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Ecological Modeling

The central themes of their research encompass:

  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Climate change and permafrost

Babst has contributed to several peer-reviewed publications, including:

  • "An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas," 2022, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • "Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth," 2022, Science
  • "The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming," 2020, Global Ecology and Biogeography

The frequent publication venues for Babst's work include:

  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Global Change Biology
  • Ecography

Frequent collaborators in Babst's research community are:

  • J. Julio Camarero
  • Richard L. Peters
  • Eryuan Liang
  • Georg von Arx
  • Volodymyr Trotsiuk

Best Publications

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

    Dorothe A. Frank;Markus Reichstein;Michael Bahn;Kirsten Thonicke

  • Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth.

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet

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

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet;Kun Tan

  • Differentiating drought legacy effects on vegetation growth over the temperate Northern Hemisphere

    Xiuchen Wu;Hongyan Liu;Xiaoyan Li;Philippe Ciais

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

    Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles;Flurin Babst;Stefan Klesse;Magdalena Nötzli

  • An earlier start of the thermal growing season enhances tree growth in cold humid areas but not in dry areas

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  • Cross-biome synthesis of source versus sink limits to tree growth

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  • Above‐ground woody carbon sequestration measured from tree rings is coherent with net ecosystem productivity at five eddy‐covariance sites

    Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Dario Papale;Bert Gielen

  • Observed forest sensitivity to climate implies large changes in 21st century North American forest growth.

    Noah D. Charney;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Sydne Record

  • When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Paul Bodesheim;Noah Charney;Andrew D. Friend

  • A tree-ring perspective on the terrestrial carbon cycle

    Flurin Babst;M. Ross Alexander;Paul Szejner;Olivier Bouriaud

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability

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  • The 2018 European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests

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  • Climate sensitivity and drought seasonality determine post-drought growth recovery of Quercus petraea and Quercus robur in Europe.

    Arun K. Bose;Daniel Scherrer;J. Julio Camarero;Daniel Ziche

  • Mountain treelines climb slowly despite rapid climate warming

    Xiaoming Lu;Eryuan Liang;Eryuan Liang;Yafeng Wang;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst

  • Recent enhanced high-summer North Atlantic Jet variability emerges from three-century context

    V. Trouet;F. Babst;M. Meko

  • Toward consistent measurements of carbon accumulation: A multi-site assessment of biomass and basal area increment across Europe

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Ross Alexander;Valerie Trouet

  • Continuously missing outer rings in woody plants at their distributional margins

    M. Wilmking;M. Hallinger;R. Van Bogaert;T. Kyncl

  • Continental‐scale tree‐ring‐based projection of Douglas‐fir growth: Testing the limits of space‐for‐time substitution

    Stefan Klesse;Robert Justin DeRose;Robert Justin DeRose;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Bryan A. Black

  • Assessing the response of forest productivity to climate extremes in Switzerland using model─data fusion

    Volodymyr Trotsiuk;Florian Hartig;Maxime Cailleret;Maxime Cailleret;Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst

  • Improved tree-ring archives will support earth-system science.

    Flurin Babst;Benjamin Poulter;Benjamin Poulter;Benjamin Poulter;Paul Bodesheim;Miguel D. Mahecha

  • Coincidences of climate extremes and anomalous vegetation responses: comparing tree ring patterns to simulated productivity

    A. Rammig;M. Wiedermann;Jonathan F. Donges;Jonathan F. Donges;F. Babst

  • 500 years of regional forest growth variability and links to climatic extreme events in Europe

    Flurin Babst;Marco Carrer;Benjamin Poulter;Carlo Urbinati

  • Landsat TM/ETM+ and tree-ring based assessment of spatiotemporal patterns of the autumnal moth (Epirrita autumnata) in northernmost Fennoscandia

    Flurin Babst;Jan Esper;Eberhard Parlow

  • The climatic drivers of primary Picea forest growth along the Carpathian arc are changing under rising temperatures

    Jonathan S. Schurman;Flurin Babst;Jesper Björklund;Jesper Björklund;Miloš Rydval

Frequent Co-Authors

David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Valerie Trouet
Valerie Trouet University of Arizona
Benjamin Poulter
Benjamin Poulter Goddard Space Flight Center
Volodymyr Trotsiuk
Volodymyr Trotsiuk Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Olivier Bouriaud
Olivier Bouriaud Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava
Miguel D. Mahecha
Miguel D. Mahecha Leipzig University
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Eryuan Liang
Eryuan Liang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Steven W. Leavitt
Steven W. Leavitt University of Arizona
Russell K. Monson
Russell K. Monson University of Colorado Boulder

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