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Kerstin Treydte is a researcher affiliated with the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research in Switzerland. The work focuses primarily on the intersection of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with notable contributions in subfields such as atmospheric science, global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and plant science.

The main topics of research encompass plant water relations and carbon dynamics, tree-ring climate responses, geology and paleoclimatology research, forest ecology and management, climate variability and models, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, as well as hydrology and sediment transport processes.

Treydte has published extensively in several scientific journals, frequently contributing to:

  • Tree Physiology
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications
  • Radiocarbon

Frequent co-authorships include collaborations with Matthias Saurer, Arthur Geßler, Marco M. Lehmann, Ulf Büntgen, and Patrick Fonti.

Among the more recent publications are:

  • "Recent human-induced atmospheric drying across Europe unprecedented in the last 400 years," 2023, Nature Geoscience
  • "Drought impacts on tree carbon sequestration and water use - evidence from intra-annual tree-ring characteristics," 2022, New Phytologist
  • "Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers," 2021, New Phytologist
  • "Radial and axial water movement in adult trees recorded by stable isotope tracing," 2021, Tree Physiology
  • "No Age Trends in Oak Stable Isotopes," 2020, Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology

These publications typically address aspects related to drought effects on trees, water uptake, carbon sequestration, and atmospheric changes, often employing stable isotope analysis and tree-ring data.

Best Publications

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

    Kerstin S. Treydte;Gerhard H. Schleser;Gerhard Helle;David C. Frank

  • Stable isotopes in tree rings: towards a mechanistic understanding of isotope fractionation and mixing processes from the leaves to the wood.

    Arthur Gessler;Juan Pedro Ferrio;Robert Hommel;Kerstin Treydte

  • Water-use efficiency and transpiration across European forests during the Anthropocene

    D. C. Frank;B. Poulter;M. Saurer;J. Esper

  • Spatial variability and temporal trends in water-use efficiency of European forests

    Matthias Saurer;Renato Spahni;Renato Spahni;David C. Frank;Fortunat Joos;Fortunat Joos

  • Signal strength and climate calibration of a European tree-ring isotope network

    K. Treydte;D. Frank;J. Esper;L. Andreu

  • Seasonal transfer of oxygen isotopes from precipitation and soil to the tree ring: source water versus needle water enrichment.

    Kerstin Treydte;Sonja Boda;Elisabeth Graf Pannatier;Patrick Fonti

  • The climatic significance of δ13C in subalpine spruces (Lötschental, Swiss Alps): A case study with respect to altitude, exposure and soil moisture

    Kerstin Treydte;Gerhard H. Schleser;Fritz H. Schweingruber;Matthias Winiger

  • Impact of climate and CO2 on a millennium-long tree-ring carbon isotope record.

    Kerstin S. Treydte;David C. Frank;Matthias Saurer;Gerhard Helle

  • Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers.

    Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Lukas Bächli;Elham Rouholahnejad Freund;Kerstin Treydte

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • An investigation of the common signal in tree ring stable isotope chronologies at temperate sites

    M. Saurer;P. Cherubini;C. E. Reynolds-Henne;C. E. Reynolds-Henne;K. S. Treydte

  • Ranking of tree-ring based temperature reconstructions of the past millennium

    Jan Esper;Paul J. Krusic;Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist;Jürg Luterbacher

  • Climate signals in tree-ring width, density and δ13C from larches in Eastern Siberia (Russia)

    Alexander V. Kirdyanov;Kerstin S. Treydte;Anatolii Nikolaev;Gerhard Helle

  • Intra-annual dynamics of non-structural carbohydrates in the cambium of mature conifer trees reflects radial growth demands

    Sonia Simard;Alessio Giovannelli;KKerstin Treydte;Maria Laura Traversi

  • Uniform climate sensitivity in tree-ring stable isotopes across species and sites in a mid-latitude temperate forest

    Claudia Hartl-Meier;Christian Zang;Ulf Büntgen;Jan Esper

  • Drought induced tree mortality - a tree-ring isotope based conceptual model to assess mechanisms and predispositions.

    Arthur Gessler;Maxime Cailleret;Jobin Joseph;Leonie Schönbeck

  • Low-frequency noise in δ13C and δ18O tree ring data: A case study of Pinus uncinata in the Spanish Pyrenees

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Giovanna Battipaglia;Ulf Büntgen

  • Uniform growth trends among central Asian low- and high-elevation juniper tree sites

    Jan Esper;David C. Frank;Robert J. S. Wilson;Ulf Büntgen

  • Northern forest tree populations are physiologically maladapted to drought

    Miriam Isaac-Renton;David Montwé;Andreas Hamann;Heinrich Spiecker

  • Improvement of water and light availability after thinning at a xeric site: which matters more? A dual isotope approach

    Arnaud Giuggiola;Arnaud Giuggiola;Jérôme Ogée;Andreas Rigling;Arthur Gessler

  • The oxygen isotope enrichment of leaf‐exported assimilates – does it always reflect lamina leaf water enrichment?

    Arthur Gessler;Arthur Gessler;Elke Brandes;Claudia Keitel;Claudia Keitel;Sonja Boda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Esper
Jan Esper Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Ulf Büntgen
Ulf Büntgen University of Cambridge
Matthias Saurer
Matthias Saurer Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf
Rolf T. W. Siegwolf Paul Scherrer Institute
Gerhard Helle
Gerhard Helle University of Potsdam
Arthur Gessler
Arthur Gessler ETH Zurich
Jan Altman
Jan Altman Czech Academy of Sciences
Markus Leuenberger
Markus Leuenberger University of Bern

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