Table of Contents

The impact of climatic extremes on forests: An introduction.- Meteorological extremes and their impacts on forests in the czech republic.- Changes in temperature variability in relation to shifts in mean temperatures in the swiss alpine region this century.- Evaluation of the 2xCO2 impact on european climate variability with a variable resolution GCM.- Precipitation and snow cover variability in the french alps.- Influence of forest cover in the eastern united states on regional climate.- Extremes of moisture availability reconstructed from tree rings for recent millennia in the great basin of western north America.- Predictive models of tree-growth: preliminary results in the French Alps.- Documenting the effects of recent climate change at treeline in the canadian rockies.- Annual- versus decadal-scale climatic influences on tree establishment and mortality in northern Patagonia.- High-altitude forest sensitivity to global warming: results from long-term and short-term analyses in the eastern italian alps.- Climate, limiting factors and environmental change in high-altitude forests of Western North America.- Managing swiss forests: when climate intervenes.- Worldwide positions of alpine treelines and their causes.- Vascular plant species richness in relation to altitudinal and slope gradients in mountain landscapes of central norway.- Environmental information from stable isotopes in tree rings of Fagus sylvatica.- Simulated impacts of mean vs. intra-snnual climate changes on forests.- Sensitivity analysis of a forest gap model concerning current and future climate variability.- Simulated effects of bark beetle infestations on stand dynamics in Picea abies stands: coupling a patch model and a stand risk model.- Impacts of climatic variability and extreme on forests: synthesis.

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