About the Authors

Paolo Cherubini

paolo.cherubini@wsl.ch

Affiliation WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Turi Humbel

Affiliations WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

Hans Beeckman

Affiliation Laboratory for Wood Biology and Xylarium, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium

Holger Gärtner

Affiliation WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

David Mannes

Affiliation PSI Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland

Charlotte Pearson

Affiliations The Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Laboratory for Aegean and Near Eastern Dendrochronology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, Bryant Bannister Tree Ring Building, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Werner Schoch

Affiliation WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

Roberto Tognetti

Affiliation Department of Biosciences and Territory, University of Molise, Pesche, Italy

Simcha Lev-Yadun

Affiliation Department of Biology and Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa, Oranim, Tivon, Israel

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: PC TH WS. Performed the experiments: PC TH WS HB HG CP DM SL-Y. Analyzed the data: PC TH CP DM RT SL-Y. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WS CP DM. Wrote the paper: PC SL-Y TH RT CP.