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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Tree growth in sync

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Global synchrony in tree growth shows a recent rapid rise tied to increasing temperature synchrony, which might alter global carbon sink dynamics.

Notably, Manzanedo et al. find that the observed recent increase in tree growth synchrony is best explained by temperature, which shows a recent rapid rise in global synchrony as well. This relationship with temperature is perhaps not surprising because tree ring chronologies in the ITRDB probably more closely track large-scale climate factors than trees in general since trees that are insensitive to climate variables are underrepresented in the database. Nevertheless, trees near ITRDB trees are expected to exhibit similar, if less pronounced, sensitivities to climate variation.

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Fig. 1: Growth synchrony.

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Kueppers, L.M. RETRACTED ARTICLE: Tree growth in sync. Nat Ecol Evol 4, 1578–1579 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-020-01326-7

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