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Overview

Fritz H. Schweingruber was affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. Their research spanned various aspects of Earth and Environmental Sciences, with a strong focus on dendrochronology and related fields.

Their scientific work primarily covered the following main fields of study:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Subfields within these disciplines included:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Plant Science
  • Paleontology

Key topics addressed in their research involved:

  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2

They co-authored numerous papers, frequently collaborating with researchers including Tomáš Kolář, Miroslav Trnka, Otmar Urban, Ulf Büntgen, and Irena Sochová.

Their work appeared repeatedly in certain scientific journals and publication venues, such as:

  • Dendrochronologia
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Global Change Biology
  • PLoS ONE
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Among the recent papers they contributed to are:

  • "Recent European drought extremes beyond Common Era background variability", 2021, Nature Geoscience
  • "No Age Trends in Oak Stable Isotopes", 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • "Revealing legacy effects of extreme droughts on tree growth of oaks across the Northern Hemisphere", 2024, The Science of The Total Environment
  • "Major tree species of Central European forests differ in their proportion of positive, negative, and nonstationary growth trends", 2024, Global Change Biology
  • "Impacts of elevated CO2 levels and temperature on photosynthesis and stomatal closure along an altitudinal gradient are counteracted by the rising atmospheric vapor pressure deficit", 2024, The Science of The Total Environment

In addition to journal articles, their published book work includes a title from 2020:

  • Pod ochranou svatého Josefa. Příběh tesařského řemesla v českých zemích., published by Ústav teoretické a aplikované mechaniky AV ČR, v. v. i. eBooks

Best Publications

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

    Jan Esper;Edward R. Cook;Fritz H. Schweingruber

  • Influence of volcanic eruptions on Northern Hemisphere summer temperature over the past 600 years

    Keith R. Briffa;Philip D. Jones;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Timothy J. Osborn

  • Tree Rings: Basics and Applications of Dendrochronology

    Fritz Hans Schweingruber

  • Fennoscandian summers from ad 500: temperature changes on short and long timescales

    Keith Briffa;Philip Jones;T.S. Bartholin;D. Eckstein

  • Reduced sensitivity of recent tree-growth to temperature at high northern latitudes

    Keith Briffa;F.H. Schweingruber;Philip Jones;Timothy Osborn

  • Low-frequency temperature variations from a northern tree-ring density network

    Keith R. Briffa;Timothy J. Osborn;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Ian C. Harris

  • Influence of snowfall and melt timing on tree growth in subarctic Eurasia

    E. A. Vaganov;M. K. Hughes;A. V. Kirdyanov;F. H. Schweingruber

  • Tree Rings and Environment: Dendroecology

    Rudolf Schmid;Fritz Hans Schweingruber

  • A 1,400-year tree-ring record of summer temperatures in Fennoscandia

    K. R. Briffa;T. S. Bartholin;D. Eckstein;P. D. Jones

  • Identification, presentation and interpretation of event years and pointer years in dendrochronology.

    F. H. Schweingruber;D. Eckstein;F. Serre-Bachet;O. U. Bräker

  • Anatomy of European woods.

    F. H. Schweingruber

  • Carbon isotope discrimination indicates improving water-use efficiency of trees in northern Eurasia over the last 100 years

    Matthias Saurer;Rolf T. W. Siegwolf;Fritz H. Schweingruber

  • Tree rings and environment dendroecology

    Fritz Hans Schweingruber

  • Large-scale temperature inferences from tree rings: a review

    K.R. Briffa;T.J. Osborn;F.H. Schweingruber

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

    Jan Esper;Edward R. Cook;Paul J. Krusic;Kenneth Peters

  • Tree-ring width and density data around the Northern Hemisphere: Part 1, local and regional climate signals

    Keith R. Briffa;Timothy J. Osborn;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Philip D. Jones

  • Wood Structure and Environment

    Fritz Hans Schweingruber

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  • Unusual twentieth-century summer warmth in a 1,000-year temperature record from Siberia

    Keith R. Briffa;Philip D. Jones;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Stepan G. Shiyatov

  • The importance of early summer temperature and date of snow melt for tree growth in the Siberian Subarctic

    Alexander Kirdyanov;Malcolm Hughes;Eugene Vaganov;Fritz Schweingruber

  • Tree-ring variables as proxy-climate indicators: Problems with low-frequency signals

    Keith R Briffa;Philip D Jones;Fritz H Schweingruber;Wibjörn Karlén

  • Trees tell of past climates: But are they speaking less clearly today?

    K. R. Briffa;F. H Schweingruber;P. D. Jones;T. J. Osborn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Jiří Doležal
Jiří Doležal Czech Academy of Sciences
Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ernst-Detlef Schulze
Ernst-Detlef Schulze Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Keith R. Briffa
Keith R. Briffa University of East Anglia
Eugene A. Vaganov
Eugene A. Vaganov Siberian Federal University
Philip Jones
Philip Jones University of East Anglia
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Jan Altman
Jan Altman Czech Academy of Sciences

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