European heatwave led to stem dehydration but not to consistent growth reductions in forests. Drought and growth indicators in the year 2018 in comparison to the two years before The…

Publication in Ecology Letters A few days determine the growth of temperate trees – In addition to high soil moisture and air humidity, the day length is particularly decisive. The length…

TreeNet Annual Meeting 2021 The TreeNet community met on 18 November 2021 in Ittigen/Bern for its annual meeting. This time, the host was the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN. The…

Near real-time predictions of tree growth and water deficit TreeNet now produces daily nowcasts of tree growth and water deficit in Switzerland. This is most likely the first comprehensive publication…

Publication in Wald & Holz (in German) Nitrogen is a nutrient that would naturally be in short supply in most forests. Today, however, a lot of reactive nitrogen is carried…

New paper out about the TreeNet infrastructure in Frontiers The paper in Frontiers TreeNet – The biological drought and growth indicator network describes the setup of the research and monitoring network…

The rainy period raised the question of what happens to forest trees during this wet summer. TreeNet gave some answers in interviews with Swiss Radio SRF and Tierwelt magazine. o…

The New Phytologist article ‘Why trees grow at night’, based on TreeNet data (2011-2018), has received a lot of attention in the Swiss and German media. Here is a list…

The timing of diel stem growth of mature forest trees is still largely unknown, as empirical data with high temporal resolution have not been available so far. Consequently, the effects…

Radial stem size changes, measured with automated dendrometers at intra-daily resolution, offer great potential to link environmental conditions with tree physiology at the seasonal scale. Such measurements need to be time-aligned, cleaned…