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Most rivers in the temperate zone experience flooding due to snowmelt or heavy rainstorms. The lower Danube rivers has caused significant economic damages and in some cases even loss of human life. Understanding the relationship between the occurrence rate of Danube rivers flood events and climate change is crucial for flood risk management in Romania. Here we present a multiproxy and observational data set of floods from the lower Danube Basin Rivers over the last millennium. The results highlight that the lower ...

Timberline and treeline ecosystems are one of the most sensitive to climate warming. The sensitivity and response of treeline vegetation to environmental changes, especially to climate extremes, are increasingly discussed. Since treeline heterogeneity appears from regional to smaller scales the approach must be improved by including time scale from short to long-term. In treeline ecosystems the height growth of tree species in the first decades of life are good indicators of adaptability to climate changes. The he...

At European level it has been underlined the fact that the influence of climate changes on the productivity of the Scots pine will have a significant negative impact, which will lead in turn to important economic losses. According to the IUCN classification, in some vegetation areas from Romania, the Scots pine presents a high vulnerability to climate changes. Taking into account that the analysis of tree rings offers objective information on the way trees react to climate variation at spatial and temporal level, ...