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Pretzsch, H. Heym, M., Hilmers, T., Bravo-Orviedo, A., Ahmed, S., Ammer, C., Avdagic, A., Bielak, K., Bravo, R., Brazaitis, G. Fabrika, M., Hurt, V., Kurylyak, V. Loef, M., Pach, M., Ponette, Q., Ruiz-Peinado, R., Stojanovic, D., Svoboda, M., Wolff, B., Zlatanov, T., del Rio, M. (2023): Mortality reduces overyielding in mixed Scots pine and European beech stands along a precipitation gradient in Europe (2.5 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 539. 121008. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121008
Bacescu, N. M., Cadei, A., Moskalik, T., Wisniewski, M., Talbot, B., Grigolato, S. (2022): Efficiency Assessment of Fully Mechanized Harvesting System through the Use of Fleet Management System (0.9 Mb). Sustainability 14, 16751. doi: 10.3390/su142416751
Getino-Alvarez, M., San-Martin, R., Pretzsch, H., Pach, M., Bravo, F., Turrion, M-B. (2023): Assessing soil C stock and C to N ratio of soil organic matter under mixed pine-beech forests at different scales (2.3 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 2023. doi: 10.1007/s10342-023-01578-5
Pretzsch, H., del Rio, M., Grote, R., Klemmt, H. J., Ordonez, C., Bravo Oviedo, F. (2022): Tracing drought effects from the tree to the sand growth in temperate and Mediterranean forests: insights and consequences for forest ecology and management (3.9 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research. doi: 10.1007/s10342-022-01451-x
Olivar, J., Rais, A., Pretzsch, H., Bravo, F. (2022): The impact of climate and adaptative forest management on the intra-annual growth of Pinus halepensis based on long-term dendrometer recordings (1.3 Mb). Forests 13 (6) 935. doi: 10.3390/f13060935
Pretzsch, H. (2022): The emergent past: past natural and human disturbances of trees can reduce their present resistance to drought stress (2.3 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 87-104. doi: 10.1007/s10342-021-01422-8
Pretzsch, H., et. al. (2022): With increasing site quality asymmetric competition and mortality reduces Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) stand structuring across Europe (3.3 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 520, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120365
Aldea, J., Ruiz-Peinado, F., del Rio,. M., Pretzsch, H., Heym, M., Brazaitis, G., Jansons, A., Metslaid, M., Barbeito, I., Bielak, K., Hylen, G., Holm, S.-O., Nothdurft, A., Stiko, R., Löf, M. (2022): Timing and duration of drought modulate tree growth response in pure and mixed stands of Scots pine and Norway spruce (0.8 Mb). Journal of Ecology 11. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.13978
del Rio, M., Pretzsch, H., et al. (2022): Emerging stability of forest productivity by mixing two species buffers temperature destabilizing effects (1.9 Mb). Journal of Applied Ecology 12. doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.14267
Martinez-Rodridgo, R., Gomez, C., Torano-Caicoya, A., Bonhorst, L., Uhl, E., Agueda, B. (2022): Stand Structural Characteristics Derived from Combined TLS and Landsat Data Support Predictions of Mushroom Yields in Mediterranean Forests (3.8 Mb). Remote Sensing 14 (19), 5025. doi: 10.3390/rs14195025
Jarisch, I., Boedeker, K., Bingham, L. R., Friedrich, S., Kindu, M., Knoke, T. (2022): The influence of discounting ecosystem services in robust multi-objective optimization - An application to a forestry-avocado land-use portfolio (1.8 Mb). Forest Policy and Economics 141, 102761. doi: 10.1016/j.forpol.2022.102761
Pretzsch, H., del Rio, M., Arcangeli, C., Bielak, K., Dudzinska, M., Forrester, D.I., Kohnle, U., Ledermann, T., Matthews, R., Nagel, R., Ningre, F., Nord-Larsen, T., Szeligowski, H., Biber, P. (2023): Competition-based mortality and tree losses. An essential component of net primary productivity (8.0 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management . doi 544, 121204 10.1016/j.foreco.2023.121204
Menéndez-Miguélez, M., Ãlvarez-Ãlvarez, P., Pardos, M., Madrigal, G., Ruiz-Peinado, R., Lopez-Senespleda, E., del Rio, M., Calama, R. (2022): Development of tools to estimate the contribution of young sweet chestnut plantations to climate-change mitigation (9 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 5. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2022.120761
Pretzsch, H. (2022): Facilitation and competition reduction in tree species mixtures in Central Europe: Consequences for growth modeling and forest management (6.5 Mb). Ecological Modelling 464, 109812. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2021.109812
Giberti, G.S., Wellstein, C., Giovannelli, A., Bielak, K., Uhl, E., Aguirre-Raquira, W., Giammarchi, F., Tonon, G. (2022): Annual Carbon Sequestration Patterns in Trees: A Case Study (6.9 Mb). Forests 13, 582. doi: 10.3390/f13040582
Pretzsch, H., Ahmed, S., Jacobs, M., Schmied, G., Hilmers, T. (2022): Linking crown structure with tree ring pattern: methodological (3.3 Mb). Trees 36, 1349-1367. doi: 10.1007/s00468-022-02297-x
Hilmers, T., Schmied, G., Pretzsch, H. (2022): Legacy effects of past thinnings modulate drought stress reactions at present (3.7 Mb). Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 19. doi: 10.1080/02827581.2022.2096920
Pretzsch, H., Biber, P. (2021): Fertilization modifies forest stand growth but not stand density: consequences for modelling stand dynamics in a changing climate (2.9 Mb). Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 1-14. doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpab036
Uhl, E., Hilmers, T., Pretzsch, H. (2021): From acid rain to low precipitation: the role reversal of Norway Spruce, Silver Fir, and European Beech in a selection mountain forest and its implications for forest management (3.3 Mb). Forests 12, 894, doi: 10-3390/f12070894
Cadei, A., Mologni, O., Marchi, L., Sforzam F., Röser, D., Cavalli, R., Grigolato, S. (2021): Energy efficiency of a hybrid cable yarding system: a case study in the North-Eastern Italian Alps under real working conditions (0.8 Mb). Journal of Agricultural Engineering 52 (3). doi: 10.4081/jae.2021.1185
Pretzsch, H., Rais, A., Malherbe, D., Ruano, A., Lambrechts, H., Uhl, E., du Toit, B. (2021): Structure, growth and growing space efficiency of Pinus radiata (D. Don) trees as affected by their social position (1.6 Mb). Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science, doi: 10.4081/jae.2021.1185
Reischl, A., Uhl, E. (2021): Carbon smart forestry under climate change (3.2 Mb). The project respository journal 10, 96-99
Brzeziecki, B., Drozdowski, S., Bielak, K., Czacharowski, M., Zajączkowski, J., Buraczyk, W., Gawron, L. (2021): A demographic equilibrium approach to stocking control in mixed, multiaged stands in Bielowieża Forest, northeast Poland (10.2 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 481, 118694, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118694
Pretzsch, H., Hilmers, T., Uhl, E., Bielak, K., Bosela, M., del Rio, M., Dobor, L., Forrester, D. I., Nagel, T. A., Pach, M., Avdagić, A., Bellan, M., Binder, F., Bončina, A., Bravo, F., de-Dios-García, F., Dinca, L., Drozdowski, S., Giammarchi, F., Hoehn, M., Ibrahimspahić, A., Jaworski, A., Klopčič, M., Kurylyak, V., Lévesque, M., Lombardi, F., Matović, B., Ordóñez, C., Petráš, R., Rubio-Cuadrado, A., Stojanovic, D., Skrzyszewski, J., Stajić, B., Svoboda, M., Versace, S., Zlatanov, T., Tognetti, R. (2021): European beech stem diameter grows better in mixed than in mono-specific stands at the edge of its distribution in mountain forests (1.4 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 140, 127-145, doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01319-y
Pretzsch, H., Schütze, G. (2021): Tree species mixing can increase stand productivity, density, and growth efficiency and attenuate the tradeoff between density and growth throughout the whole rotation (2.3 Mb). Annals of Botany 128 (6),v 767-786, doi: 10.1093/aob/mcab077

Pardos, M., del Río, M., Pretzsch, H., Jactel, H., Bielak, K., Bravo, F., Brazaitis, G., Defossez, E., Engel, M., Godvod, K., Jacobs, K., Jansone, L., Jansons, A., Morin, X., Nothdurft, A., Oreti, L., Ponette, Q., Pach, M., Riofrío, J., Ruíz-Peinado, R., Tomao, A., Uhl, E., Calama, E. (2021): The greater resilience of mixed forests to drought mainly depends on their composition: Analysis along a climate gradient across Europe (3.2 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 481, 118687, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118687
Pretzsch, H. (2021): The social drift of trees. Consequence for growth trend detection, stand dynamics, and silviculture (1.9 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 140, 703-719, doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01351-y
Vergarechea, M., Calama, R., Pretzsch, H., Alday, J. G., del Rio, M. (2021): Short- and long-term growth response to climate change in mixed and monospecific forests of Pinus pinea and Pinus pinaster (1.4 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 140, 387-402. doi: 10-1007/s10342-020-01336-x
Uzquiano, S., Barbeito, I., San Martín, R., Ehbrecht, M., Seidel, D., Bravo, F. (2021): Quantifying Crown Morphology of Mixed Pine-Oak Forests Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (2.4 Mb). Remote Sensing 13 (23), 4955. doi: 10.3390/rs13234955
Pretzsch, H. (2021): Trees grow modulated by the ecological memory of their past growth. Consequences for monitoring, modelling, and silvicultural treatment (8.2 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 487, 118982, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.118982
Pretzsch, H. (2021): Genetic diversity reduces competition and increases tree growth on a Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.) provenance mixing experiment (1.7 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 497. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119498
Pretzsch, H. (2021): Mixing degree, stand density, and water supply can increase the overyielding of mixed versus monospecific stand in Central Europe (4.9 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 503. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco2021.119741
Pretzsch, H. (2021): Tree growth as affected by stem and crown structure (1.9 Mb). Trees 35, 947-960, doi: 10.1007/s00468-021-02092-0
Aldea, J., Ruiz-Peinado, R., del Rio, M., Pretzsch, H., Heym, M., Brazaitis, G., Jansons, A., Metslaid, M., Bareito, I., Bielak, K., Granhus, A., Holm, s. O., Nothdurft, A., Stiko, R., Löf, M. (2021): Species stratification and weather conditions drive tree growth in Scots pine and Norway spruce mixed stands along Europe (4.0 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 481, 12 p, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118697
Pretzsch, H. (2020): Density and growth of forest stands revisited. Effect of the temporal scale of observation, site quality, and thinning (1.5 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 460, 15, 117879, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117879
Ruiz-Peinado, R., Pretzsch, H., Löf, M., Heym, M., Bielak, K., Aldea, J., Barbeito, I., Grazaitis, G., Drössler, L., Godvod, K., Granhus, A., Holm, S. O., Jansons, A., Makrickiené, E., E., Metslaid, M., Metslaid, M. S., Nothdurft, A., Otto Juel Reventlow, D., Stiko, R., Stankeviciene, G., del Rio, M. (2020): Mixing effects on Scots pine (Pinus abies (l.) Karst.) productivity along a climatic gradient across Europe (3.0 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 482. doi: 10.1016/foreco.2020.118834
Cadei, A., Mologni, O., Röser, D., Cavalli, R., Grigolato, S. (2020): Forwarder Productivity in Salvage Logging Operations in Difficult Terrain (2.0 Mb). Forests 11/3, 341, doi: 10.3390/f11030341
Pretzsch, H., del Rio, M. (2020): Density regulation of mixed and mono-specific forest stands as a continuum: a new concept based on species-specific coefficients for density equivalence and density modification (1.6 Mb). Forestry 93 (1), 1-15, doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpz069
Cadei, A., Marchi, L., Mologni, O., Cavalli, R., Grigolato, S. (2020): Evaluation of wood chipping efficiency through long-term monitoring (0.6 Mb). Environmental Sciences Proceedings 3(1), 17, doi: 10.3390/iecf2020-08078
Steckel, M., del Río, M., Heym, M., Aldea, J., Bielak, K., Brazaitis, G., Černý, J., Coll, L., Collet, C., Ehbrecht, M., Jansons, A. Nothdurft, A., Pach, M., Pardos, M., Ponette, Q., Reventlow, D. O. J., Sitko, R., Svoboda, M., Vallet, P., Wolff, B., Pretzsch, H. (2020): Species mixing reduces drought susceptibility of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and oak (Quercus robur L., Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) – Site water supply and fertility modify the mixing effect (3.4 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 461, 15, 117908, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117908
Pretzsch, H. (2020): The course of tree growth. Theory and reality (12.7 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 478, 118508, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118508
Mensah, S., Salako, VK., Seifert, T. (2020): Structural complexity and large‐sized trees explain shifting species richness and carbon relationship across vegetation types (1.4 Mb). Functional Ecology 34, 8, 1731-1745. doi: 10.1111/1365-2435.13585

Hilmers, T., Biber, B. Knoke, T., Pretzsch, H. (2020): Assessing transformation scenarios from pure Norway spruce to mixed uneven-aged forests in mountain areas (2.2 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 139/4, 567-584, doi: 10.1007/s10342-020-01270-y
Calama, R., de-Dios-Garcia, J., del Rio, M., Madrigal, G., Gordo, J., Pardos, M. (2020): Mixture mitigates the effects of climate change on the provision of relevant ecosystem services in managed Pinus pinea L. forests. Forest Ecology and Management 481, 118782. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118782
Pretzsch, H., Hilmers, T., Biber, P., Avdagić, A., Binder, F., Bončina, A., Bosela, M., Dobor, L., Forrester, D. I., Lévesque, M., Ibrahimspahić, A., Nagel, T. A., del Río, M., Sitkova, Z., Schütze, G., Stajić, B., Stojanović, D., Uhl, E., Zlatanov, T., Tognetti, R. (2020): Evidence of elevation-specific growth changes of spruce, fir, and beech in European mixed mountain forests during the last three centuries (1.4 Mb). Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50/7, 689-703, doi: 10.1139/cjfr-2019-0368
Seifert, E., Seifert, S., Vogt, H., Drew, D., van Aardt, J., Kunneke, A., Seifert, T. (2019): Influence of Drone Altitude, Image Overlap, and Optical Sensor Resolution on Multi-View Reconstruction of Forest Images (0.9 Mb). Remote Sensing 11, 1252, doi: 10.339/rs110152
Hilmers, T., Avdagić, A., Bartkowicz, L., Bielak, K., Binder, F., Bončina, A., Dobor, L., Forrester, D. I., Hobi, M. L., Ibrahimspahić, A., Jaworski, A., Klopčič, M., Matović, B., Nagel, T. A., Petráš, R., del Rio, M., Stajić, B., Uhl, E., Zlatanov, T., Tognetti, R., Pretzsch, H. (2019): The productivity of mixed mountain forests comprised of Fagus sylvatica, Picea abies, and Abies alba across Europe (1.2 Mb). Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research 92/5, 512-522 doi: 10.1093/forestry/cpz035
Pretzsch, H., del Río, M., Biber, P., Arcangeli, C., Bielak, K., Brang, P., Dudzinska, M., Forrester, D. I., Klädtke, J., Kohnle, U., Ledermann, T., Matthews, R., Nagel, J., Nagel, R., Nilsson, U., Ningre, F., Nord-Larsen, T., Wernsdörfer, H., Sycheva, E. (2019): Maintenance of long-term experiments for unique insights into forest growth dynamics and trends: review and perspectives (4.7 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 138/1, 165-185, doi: 10.1007/s10342-018-1151-y
Kotze, J. D. F., Beukes, H., Seifert, T. (2019): Essential environmental variables to include in a stratified sampling design for a national-level invasive alien tree survey (1.2 Mb). iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry 12 (1), 418-426. doi: 10.3832/ifor2767-012
Perkins, D., Uhl, E., Biber, P., du Toit, B., Carraro, C., Rötzer, T., Pretzsch, H. (2018): Impact of Climate Trends and Drought Events on the Growth of Oaks (Quercus robur L. and Quercus petraea (Matt.) Liebl.) within and beyond their Natural Range (11.9 Mb). Forests 9, 108, doi: 10.3390/f9030108
Lundqvist, S.-O., Seifert, S., Grahn, T., Olsson, L., Garcia-Gil, M. R., Karlsson, B., Seifert, T. (2018): Age and weather effects on between and within ring variations of number, width and coarseness of tracheids and radial growth of young Norway spruce (1.7 Mb). European Journal of Forest Research 137, 719-743, doi: 10.1007/s10342-018-1136-x
Condés, S., Sterba, H., Aguirre, A., Bielak, K., Bravo-Oviedo, A., Coll, L., Pach, M., Pretzsch, H., Vallet, P., del Río, M. (2018): Estimation and Uncertainty of the Mixing Effects on Scots Pine—European Beech Productivity from National Forest Inventories Data (3.2 Mb). Forests 9/9, 518, doi: 10.3390/f9090518
Heym, M., Bielak, K., Wellhausen, K., Uhl, E., Biber, P., Perkins, D., Steckel, M., Thurm, E. A., Rais, A., Pretzsch, H. (2018): A New Method to Reconstruct Recent Tree and Stand Attributes of Temporary Research Plots: New Opportunity to Analyse Mixed Forest Stands (3.2 Mb). Conifers, doi: 10.5772/intechopen.79682

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del Río, M., Vergarechea, M., Hilmers, T., Alday, J. G., Avdagić, A., Binderh, F., Bosela, M., Dobor, L., Forrester, D. I., Halilović, V., Ibrahimspahić, A., Klopcic, M., Lévesque, M., Nagel, T. A., Sitkova, Z., Schütze, G., Stajić, B., Stojanović, D., Uhl, E., Zlatanov, T., Tognetti, R., Pretzsch, H. (2021): Effects of elevation-dependent climate warming on intra- and inter-specific growth synchrony in mixed mountain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 479, 118587, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118587
Kotzé, J. D. F., Beukes, H. B., Seifert, T. (2020): Designing an optimal sampling strategy for a national level invasive alien plant assessment: A South African case study. Ecological Indicators 119, 106763, doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106763
Ruano Sastre, A. (2019): Analysis of methodologies to evaluate juvenile wood with regard to wood quality. Dissertation, Universidad de Córdoba, https://helvia.uco.es/bitstream/handle/10396/19031/2019000001974.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Mensah, S., Pienaar, O. L., Kunneke, A., du Toit, B., Seydack, A., Uhl, E., Pretzsch, H., Seifert, T. (2018): Height - Diameter allometry in South Africa's indigenous high forests: Assessing generic models performance and function forms (for download, 3.2 Mb). Forest Ecology and Management 410, 1-11, doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.12.030