Journals
A single-tree approach to determine climate-growth patterns of European beech and their seasonality in the species southern distribution area
2025
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 371: art. 110644 (15 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2025.110644
Serrano-Notivoli, R., J. Jevšenak, E.M. del Castillo, K. Cufar, N. Škrk-Dolar, G. Battipaglia, J.J. Camarero, A.H. Pain, A. Jump, R. Motta, P. Nola, M. Panayotov, I.C. Petritan, A. Popa, I. Popa, C.-C. Roibu, M. Svoboda, C. Zang, T. Zlatanov, A. Balzano, F. Biondi, and 25 other authors
Long-term tree population growth can predict woody encroachment patterns
2025
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) 122(18): art. e2424096122 (9 pp.), doi: 10.1073/pnas.2424096122
Shriver, R.K., E. Pletcher, F. Biondi, A.K. Urza, and P.J. Weisberg
Multi-annual dendroclimatic patterns for the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, southern Nevada, USA
2025
Forests 16(7): art.1142 (13 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f16071142
Biondi, F. and J. Roberts
Identifying drivers of non-stationary climate-growth relationships of European beech
2024
Science of The Total Environment, 937: art. 173321 (14 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173321
Leifsson, C., A. Buras, S. Klesse, C. Baittinger, B. Bat-Enerel, G. Battipaglia, F. Biondi, and 49 other authors
The multiple significant interaction terms in our model elucidate the complexity of European beech's drought sensitivity, which needs to be taken into consideration when assessing this species'...
Longevity estimates of Canary palms and dragon trees via radiocarbon dating: Initial results
2024
Plants 13: art. 45 (12 pp.), doi: 10.3390/plants13010045
Biondi, F., G.M. Santos, P.R. Rodríguez, and P.A. Sosa
No future growth enhancement expected at the northern edge for European beech due to continued water limitation
2024
Global Change Biology 30(10): art. e17546 (16 pp.), doi: 10.1111/gcb.17546
Klesse, S., R.L. Peters, R. Alfaro-Sánchez, V. Badeau, C. Baittinger, G. Battipaglia, D. Bert, F. Biondi, and 63 other authors
Partial asynchrony of coniferous forest carbon sources and sinks at the intra-annual time scale
2024
Nature Communications, Volume 15, Article number: 6169 (2024)
Silvestro, R., M. Mencuccini, R. García-Valdés, S. Antonucci, A. Arzac, F. Biondi, and 67 other authors
Our findings suggest that high-resolution seasonal data of ecosystem carbon fluxes, wood formation and the associated physiological processes may reduce uncertainties in carbon source-sink...
Runoff variability in the Truckee-Carson River basin from tree rings and a water balance model
2024
Earth Interactions 28(1): art. e230018 (19 pp.), doi: 10.1175/EI-D-23-0018.1
Meko, D.M., F. Biondi, A.H. Taylor, I.P. Panyushkina, R.D. Thaxton, A.A. Prusevich, A.I. Shiklomanov, R.B. Lammers, and S. Glidden.
Bell-shaped tree-ring responses to air temperature drive productivity trends in long-lived mountain Mediterranean pines
2023
Science of the Total Environment 890, art. 164103 (11 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164103
Piovesan, G., A. Rita, F. Biondi, M. Baliva, M. Borghetti, M. Brunetti, G. De Vivo, A. Di Filippo, A. Dinella, T. Gentilesca, M. Maugeri, J. Palli, A. Piotti, E. Presutti Saba, F. Ripullone, A. Schettino, and G.G. Vendramin
Dendroanatomy of xylem hydraulics in two pine species: Efficiency prevails on safety for basal area growth in drought-prone conditions
2023
Dendrochronologia 81, art. 126116 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126116
Ziaco, E., X. Liu, and F. Biondi
We investigated the relationships between xylem anatomy, plant hydraulic functioning, and stem growth in bristlecone pine and limber pine...
Heartwood relationship with stem diameter in Pinus canariensis plantations of Gran Canaria, Spain
2023
Forests 14 (9), art. 1719 (14 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f14091719
Arencibia Aguilar, L.F., P. Rodríguez Rodríguez, and F. Biondi
Maximum tree lifespans derived from public-domain dendrochronological data
2023
iScience 26 (3), art. 106138 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.106138
Biondi, F., D. Meko, and G. Piovesan
Maximum tree lifespans for 157 conifers and 80 angiosperms; 22 conifers exceeded 1,000 years of age, whereas angiosperms peaked around 500 years....
Species sensitivity to hydrologic whiplash in the tree-ring record of the high Sierra Nevada
2023
Environments 10(1), art. 12 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/environments10010012
Winitsky, A.G., D.M. Meko, A.H. Taylor, and F. Biondi
Stomatal regulation and xylem hydraulics of limber pine and Engelmann spruce in Great Basin sky-island ecosystems
2023
Science of the Total Environment 892, art. 164351 (13 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164351
Liu, X., E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi
Comparing canopy conductance and xylem hydraulics of limber pine and Engelmann spruce....
The longevity of fruit trees in Basilicata (southern Italy): Implications for agricultural biodiversity conservation
2023
Land 12(3), art. 550 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/land12030550
Palli, J., M. Baliva, F. Biondi, L. Calcagnile, D. Cerbino, M. D'Elia, R. Muleo, A. Schettino, G. Quarta, N. Sassone, F. Solano, P. Zienna, and G. Piovesan
Some of the oldest scientifically dated fruit trees in the world: olive (680 ± 57 years), mulberry (647 ± 66 years), chestnut (636 ± 66 years), and pear (467 ± 89 years)....
The North American tree-ring fire-scar network
2022
Ecosphere 13(7), art. e4159 (36 pp.). doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4159
Margolis, E.Q., C.H. Guiterman, 53 other authors, F. Biondi, and other 31 authors
Inter-specific transpiration differences between aspen, spruce, and pine in a sky-island ecosystem of the North American Great Basin
2021
Forest Ecology and Management 491, art. 119157 (10 pp.), doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119157
Liu, X. and F. Biondi
On tree longevity
2021
New Phytologist 231: 1318–1337 (Tansley Review), doi: 10.1111/nph.17148
Piovesan, G. and F. Biondi
Identifying old trees helps with managing entire landscapes, and to revisit classic ecological theories. Among the most-downloaded and most-cited New Phytologist articles from 2020 and 2021....
Water-use efficiency of co-occurring sky-island pine species in the North American Great Basin
2021
Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 12, art. 787297 (11 pp.). doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.787297
Liu, X., E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi
Wood anatomy of Douglas-fir in eastern Arizona and its relationship with Pacific Basin climate
2021
Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 12(1812), art. 702442 (14 pp.), doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.702442
Balanzategui, D., H. Nordhauß, I. Heinrich, F. Biondi, N. Miley, A.G. Hurley, and E. Ziaco
From dendrochronology to allometry
2020
Forests 11 (2), art. 146 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f11020146
Biondi, F.
How to use tree rings for much more than climate reconstructions....
Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers
2020
PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences) 117 (34): 20645–20652. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2007058117
Huang, J.-G., Q. Ma, S. Rossi, F. Biondi, and other 47 authors
Post-wildfire regeneration in a sky-island mixed-conifer ecosystem of the North American Great Basin
2020
Forests 11(9), art. 900 (17 pp.), doi: 10.3390/f11090900
Kilpatrick, M. and F. Biondi
Reconstruction of seasonal and water-year precipitation anomalies from tree-ring records of the southwestern United States
2020
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 547, art. 109689 (11 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2020.109689
Ziaco, E., N. Miley, and F. Biondi
Transpiration drivers of high-elevation five-needle pines (Pinus longaeva and P. flexilis) in sky-island ecosystems of the North American Great Basin
2020
Science of the Total Environment, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139861
Liu, X., and F. Biondi.
Fire history of an old-growth ponderosa pine stand in the Sheep Range, Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, USA
2019
Tree-Ring Research 75(2): 127–138. doi: 10.3959/1536-1098-75.2.127
Kilpatrick, M., J. Roberts, and F. Biondi
Growth rate rather than growing season length determines wood biomass in dry environments
2019
Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 271: 46-53. doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.02.031
Ren, P., E. Ziaco, S. Rossi, F. Biondi, P. Prislan, and E. Liang
Hierarchical modeling of space-time dendroclimatic fields: Comparing a frequentist and a Bayesian approach
2019
Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 51(1): 115–127. doi: 10.1080/15230430.2019.1585175
Cameletti, M. and F. Biondi
Identifying the 993-994 CE Miyake event in the oldest dated living tree in Europe
2019
Radiocarbon (in press). doi: 10.1017/RDC.2019.37
Quarta, G., A. Di Filippo, L. Calcagnile, M. D’Elia, F. Biondi, E. Presutti Saba, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and G. Piovesan
Lessons from the wild: Slow but increasing long-term growth allows for maximum longevity in European beech
2019
Ecology 100(9): art. e02737 (4 pp.), doi: 10.1002/ecy.2737
Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, V. Marchiano, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo
Long-term hydroclimatic patterns in the Truckee-Carson Basin of the eastern Sierra Nevada, USA
2019
Water Resources Research 55(7): 5559–5574. doi: 10.1029/2019WR024735
Biondi, F. and D. Meko
Seasonal analysis of the 2011–2017 North American Monsoon near its northwest boundary
2019
Atmosphere 10(7): art. 420 (18 pp.), doi: 10.3390/atmos10070420
Truettner, C., M.D. Dettinger, E. Ziaco, and F. Biondi
Slow growth leads to longevity in temperate hardwoods
2019
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 100(3): art.e01560 (6 pp.), doi: 10.1002/bes2.1560
Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, G. De Vivo, V. Marchiano, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo
Tree growth patterns associated with extreme longevity: Implications for the ecology and conservation of primeval trees in a changing world
2019
Anthropocene 26, art.100199 (14 pp.). doi: 10.1016/j.ancene.2019.100199
Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, A. Dinella, L. Di Fiore, V. Marchiano, E. Presutti Saba, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo
Assessing near surface hydrologic processes and plant response over a 1600 m mountain valley gradient in the Great Basin, NV, U.S.A.
2018
Water 10(4), article 420 (21 pp.), doi:10.3390/w10040420
Devitt, D., B. Bird, B. Lyles, L. Fenstermaker, R. Jasoni, S. Strachan, J. Arnone, F. Biondi, S. Mensing, and L. Saito
Climatically controlled reproduction drives inter-annual growth variability in a temperate tree species
2018
Ecology Letters 21(12): 1833-1844. doi: 10.1111/ele.13158
Hacket-Pain, A.J., D. Ascoli, G. Vacchiano, F. Biondi, L. Cavin, M. Conedera, I. Drobyshev , I. Dorado Liñán, A.D. Friend, M. Grabner, C. Hartl, J. Kreyling, F. Lebourgeois, T. Levanic, A. Menzel, E. van der Maaten, M. van der Maaten-Theunissen, L. Muffler, R. Motta, C.-C. Roibu, I. Popa , T. Scharnweber, R. Weigel, M. Wilmking, and C. Zang
Conifer radial growth response to recent seasonal warming and drought from the southwestern USA
2018
Forest Ecology and Management 418: 55–62. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.044
Truettner, C., W.R.L. Anderegg, F. Biondi, G.W. Koch, K. Ogle, C. Schwalm, M.E. Litvak, J.D. Shaw, and E. Ziaco
Dating old hollow trees by applying a multistep tree-ring and radiocarbon procedure to trunk and exposed roots
2018
MethodsX 5: 495-502. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2018.05.015
Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, M. Baliva, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, and A. Di Filippo
Moisture-driven xylogenesis in Pinus ponderosa from a Mojave Desert mountain reveals high phenological plasticity
2018
Plant, Cell & Environment 41 (4): 823–836. DOI: 10.1111/pce.13152
Ziaco, E., C. Truettner, F. Biondi, and S. Bullock
Stem circadian phenology of four pine species in naturally contrasting climates from sky-island forests of the western USA
2018
Forests 9 (7), art.396 (21 pp.). doi: 10.3390/f9070396
Ziaco, E. and F. Biondi
The oldest dated tree of Europe lives in the wild Pollino massif: Italus, a strip-bark Heldreich's pine
2018
Ecology 99 (7): 1682-1684. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2231
Piovesan, G., F. Biondi, E. Presutti Saba, M. Baliva, L. Calcagnile, G. Quarta, M. D’Elia, G. De Vivo, A. Schettino, and A. Di Filippo
Finding the “oldest tree in the world” is a perfect motivation for doing science because it's closely linked with exploration and discovery, which are the purest scientific motives....
Global patterns of drought recovery
2017
Nature 548, 202–205 (10 August 2017). doi:10.1038/nature23021
Schwalm, C.R., W.R.L. Anderegg, A.M. Michalak, J.B. Fisher, F. Biondi, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, A. Wolf, D.N. Huntzinger, K. Schaefer, R. Cook, Y. Wei, Y. Fang, D. Hayes, M. Huang, A. Jain, and H. Tian
Tree-ring based metrics for assessing old-growth forest naturalness
2017
Journal of Applied Ecology 54 (3): 737–749. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12793
Di Filippo, A., F. Biondi, G. Piovesan, and E. Ziaco
The definition of "old-growth" forest stands needs to be revised and updated in light of modern scientific research results, especially from dendrochronology....
Environmental drivers of cambial phenology in Great Basin bristlecone pine
2016
Tree Physiology 36: 818–831. doi: 10.1093/treephys/tpw006
Ziaco, E., F. Biondi, S. Rossi, and A. Deslauriers
Tree growth, cambial phenology, and wood anatomy of limber pine at a Great Basin (USA) mountain observatory
2016
Trees - Structure and Function 30: 1507–1521. doi: 10.1007/s00468-016-1384-7
Ziaco, E. and F. Biondi.
Wood cellular dendroclimatology: Testing new proxies in Great Basin bristlecone pine
2016
Frontiers in Plant Science - Functional Plant Ecology 7: 1602 (13 pp.), doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.01602
Ziaco, E., F. Biondi, and I. Heinrich
A hydrological record extension model for reconstructing streamflows from tree-ring chronologies
2015
Hydrological Processes 29(4): 544–556. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10160
Salas, J.D., Z. Tarawneh, and F. Biondi
A water-balance approach for reconstructing streamflow using tree-ring proxy records
2015
Journal of Hydrology 529(Part 2): 535–547. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.11.022
Saito, L., F. Biondi, R. Devkota, J. Vittori, and J. Salas
Pervasive drought legacies in forest ecosystems and their implications for carbon cycle models
2015
Science 349 (6247), 528-532. DOI: 10.1126/science.aab1833
Anderegg,W.R.L., C. Schwalm, F. Biondi, J.J. Camarero, G. Koch, M. Litvak, K. Ogle, J.D. Shaw, E. Shevliakova, A.P. Williams, A. Wolf, E. Ziaco, and S. Pacala
Plant-water relationships in the Great Basin Desert of North America derived from Pinus monophylla hourly dendrometer records
2015
International Journal of Biometeorology 59(8): 939-953. doi: 10.1007/s00484-014-0907-4
Biondi, F. and S. Rossi
treeclim: an R package for the numerical calibration of proxy-climate relationships
2015
Ecography 38: 431–436. DOI: 10.1111/ecog.01335
Zang, C., and F. Biondi