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Berninger, F., Coll, L., Vanninen, P., Mäkelä, A., Palmroth, S. and Nikinmaa, E. (2005). Effects of tree size and position on pipe model ratios in Scots pine Can. J. For. Res./Rev. can. rech. for. 35(6): 1294-1304. http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/rp/rp2_abst_e?cjfr_x05-055_35_ns_nf

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. 2005. Mid- and late Holocene tree population density changes in northern Fennoscandia derived by new method using megafossil pines and their tree-ring series. Journal of Quaternary Science 20: 1-9.

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Timonen, M., & Eronen, M. 2005: Multicentennial ring-width cronologies of Scots pine along North-South gradient across Finland. Tree- Ring Research, Volume 61 (1): 21-32

Macias, M., Timonen, M., Kirchhefer, A., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M. and Gutierrez, E. 2005. Growth variability of Scots pinealong a West-East Gradient across Northern Fennoscandia: A Dendroclimatic Approach. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 36 : 565-574.

Ogurtsov, M.G., Helama, S., Eronen, M. and Lindholm, M. 2005. Centennial-to-millennial fluctuations in July temperatures in North Finland as recorded by timberline tree rings of Scots pine. Quaternary Research 63: 182-188.

Vanninen, P. and Mäkelä, A. (2005). Carbon budget for Scots pine trees: Effect of size, competition and site fertility on growth allocation and production. Tree Physiology 25:17–30.

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. 2004. Detection of climatic signal in dendrochronological data analysis: a comparison of tree-ring standardization methods. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 79: 239-254.

Ogurtsov, M.G., Jungner, H., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M. and Eronen, M. 2004. Nitrate concentration in Greenland ice: an indicator of changes in fluxes of solar and galactic high-energy particles. Solar Physics 222 (1): 177-190.

Helama, S., Holopainen, J., Timonen, M., Ogurtsov, G., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. and Eronen, M. 2004. Comparison of living-tree and subfossil ring-widths with summer temperatures from 18th, 19th and 20th centuries in Northern Finland. Dendrochronologia 21 (3): 147-154.

Berninger, F., Hari, P., Nikinmaa, E. Lindholm, M., and Meriläinen, J. (2004). Use of modeled photosynthesis and decomposition to describe tree growth at the northern treeline. Tree Physiology 24 (2): 193-204.

Vanninen, P. (2004). Allocation of Above-ground Growth in Pinus sylvestris - Impacts of Tree Size and Competition. Silva Fennica 38:155-166.

Meriläinen, J. and Timonen, M. (2004). Tree-Ring Data Bank of Saima Centre for Environmental Sciences in Savonlinna. [Cotribution to ITRDB] http://www.joensuu.fi/ktl/saima/homepage3/dataa1.htm

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Eronen, M. (2004). Dendrochronologically dated changes in the limit of pine in northenmost Finland during the past 7.5 millenia. Boreas 33: 250-259.

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M., & Eronen, M. Comparison of standardisation methods using ring-widths of forest-limit Scots pine in Northern Finland. Accepted to Theoretical and Applied Climatology.

Ogurtsov, M.G., Jungner, H., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., and Nagovitsyn,  Yu., (2003). On the link between northern Fennoscandial climate and length of the quasi-  eleven-year cycle in galactic cosmic ray flux.  Solar Physics 218 (1-2): 345-357.

Pitkänen, A., Huttunen, P., Jungner, H., Meriläinen, J. and Tolonen, K. (2003). Holocene fire history of middle boreal pine forest sites in eastern Finland. Annales Botanici Fennici 40: 15-33.

Helama, S. and Lindholm, M. (2003): Droughts and rainfall in south-eastern Finland since AD 874, inferred from Scots pine ring-widths. Boreal Environmental Research 8:171-183.

Linderholm, H., Solberg, B. and Lindholm, M. ( 2003). Tree-ring records from central Fennoscandia: The relationship between tree growth and climate along a  westeast transect. The Holocene 13: 889-897.

Eronen, M., Zetterberg, P., Briffa, K., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. and Timonen M. (2002). Part 1: The supra-long Scots pine tree-ring record for northern Finnish Lapland; Chronology construction and initial inferences. The Holocene 12,6: 673-680.

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Timonen, M., Eronen, M. and Meriläinen, J. (2002). Part 2: Interannual-to-centennial variability in summer temperatures in northern Fennoscandia during the last 7500 years extracted from tree-rings of Scots pine. The Holocene 12,6: 681-687.

Ogurtsov, M.G., Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. and Eronen, M. (2002). Evidence of solar variation in the tree-ring based climate reconstruction of northern Fennoscandia.  Solar Physics  205 (2): 403-417

Ogurtsov, M.G. Kocharov, G.E., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., and Nagovitsyn,  Yu., A. (2001). Solar activity and regional climate in northern Fennoscandia. Radiocarbon.43, 144-156.

Mäkelä, A., Vanninen, P. (2001). Vertical structure of Scots pine crowns in different age and size classes. Trees 15: 385-392 

Raspopov, O., Shumilov, O., Kasatkina, E., Turunen, E., Lindholm, M. and Kolström, T. (2001). The non-linear character of the effect of solar activity on climatic processes. Geomagnetism and Aeronomy V 41 (3): 407-412. 

Lindholm, M., Eggertsson, Ò., Lovelius, N., Raspopov, O., Shumilov, O. and Läänelaid, A. (2001). Growth indices of North European Scots pine record the seasonal North Atlantic Oscillation. Boreal Environment Research 6: 275-284. 

Lindholm, M. and Eronen, M. (2000). A reconstruction of mid-summer temperatures from ring-widths of Scots pine since AD 50 in northern Fennoscandia. Geografiska Annaler 82A: 527-535.

Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J.
, Eronen, M. [2000].  A 1,250-year ring-width chronology of Scots pine for south-eastern Finland, the southern part of the boreal forest belt.  Dendrochronologia 1998-1999, 16-17: 185-192.

Mäkelä, A. and Vanninen P. (2000).  Estimation of fine root mortlity and growth from simple measurements: a method based on system dynamics.
Trees  14: 316-323.

Lindholm, M., Lehtonen, H., Kolström, T. , Meriläinen, J., Eronen, M. and Timonen, M. (2000). Climatic signals extracted from ring-width chronologies of Scots pines from the northern, middle and southern parts of the boreal forest belt in Finland. 
Silva Fennica 34(4):317-330.

Vanninen, P. and  Mäkelä, A. (2000). Needle and stem wood production in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees of different age, size and competitive status.
Tree Physiology 20: 527-533.

Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Timonen, M., Vanninen, P. and Eronen, M. [1999]. Effects of climate on the growth of Scots pine in the Saimaa lake district, south-eastern Finland, in the southern part of the boreal forest belt. Dendrochronologia 1997, 15: 151-168.

Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Timonen, M. and Meriläinen, J. (1999). A ring-width chronology of Scots pine for northern Lapland covering the last two millenia. Annales Botanici Fennici 36: 119-126.

Eronen, M., Lindholm, M., Saastamoinen, S. and Zetterberg, P. (1999). Variable Holocene climate, tree-line dynamics and changes in natural environments in northern Finnish Lapland. Chemosphere, Global Change Science 1: 377-387. 

Vanninen, P. and Mäkelä, A. (1999). Fine root biomass of Scots pine stands differing in age and soil fertility in southern Finland.
Tree Physiology 12: 823-831.

Mäkinen, H. and Vanninen, P. (1999). Effect of sample selection on the climatic signal derived from tree ring series.
Forest Ecology and Management 113: 83-89.

Lindholm, M., Timonen, M. and Meriläinen, J. [1998]. Extracting mid-summer temperatures from ring-width chronologies of living pines at the northern forest limit in Fennoscandia. Dendrochronologia 1996, 14: 99-113. 

Mäkelä, A. and Vanninen, P. (1998). Impacts of size and competition on tree form and distribution of above-ground biomass in Scots pine.
Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28(2): 216-227.

Mäkelä, A., Vanninen, P. and Ikonen, V.-P. (1997). An application of process-based modelling to the development of branchiness in Scots pine.
Silva Fennica 31(3): 369-380.

Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Eronen, M., Zetterberg P. (1996). Summer temperatures reconstructed from tree-rings of pine in northern Lapland. Paläeoklimaforschung-Palaeoclimate Research, 20 (13): 83-92.

Sinkevich, S.M., Lindholm, M. (1996). Short- and Long-term Natural Trends of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.). Radial Growth in North- and Mid-Taiga Forests in Karelia. In: Spiecker et al. (eds.): Growth Trends in European Forests. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 29-40. 

Zetterberg, P., Eronen, M., Lindholm, M. (1996). Construction of a 7500-Year Tree-Ring Record for scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in northern Fennoscandia and its Application to Growth Variation and Paleoclimatic Studies. In: Spiecker et al. (eds.): Growth Trends in European Forests. Springer-Verlag, Berlin: 7-18. 

Vanninen, P., Ylitalo, H., Sievänen, R. and Mäkelä, A.(1996). Effects of age and site quality on the distribution of biomass in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) Trees 10: 231-238.

Zetterberg, P., Eronen, M. & Lindholm, M. (1996). The mid-Holocene climatic change around 3800 B.C.: tree-ring evidence from northern Fennoscandia. Paläeoklimaforschung - Palaeoclimate Research 20: 135-146.

Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J. (1995). Growing season thermal climate reconstructed at six pine stands in northern Lapland. Bull. Geol. Soc. Finland 66, Part 2: 95-106.

Eronen, M., Lindholm, M., Zetterberg, P. (1994). Extracting paleoclimatic information from pine tree-rings in Finland. Paläeoklimaforschung - Palaeoclimate Research 13, 43-50.


Non-reviewed articles

Vanninen, P., Härkönen, S., Enkenberg, J., Mäkelä, A. in press. PuMe – Interactive learning environment employing the PipeQual model to forest growth and wood quality. "Connection between Forest Resources and Wood Quality : Modelling Approaches and Simulation Software", Waiheke Island Resort, New Zealand, November 20-27, 2005.

Ogurtsov, M.O., Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Jungner, H., Helama, S. and Nagovitsyn, Yu. (2004). Evidence from millennial temperature proxies for solar influence on terrestrial climate. Arbeitskreis Geschichte der Geophysik und Kosmische Physik. Meteorological and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics. A book to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Hans Ertel. ISSN: 1615-2824. Wilfried Schröder/Science Edition/Arbk Geschichte Geophysik: 106-120. 

Nevanlinna, H., Kolström, T., Lindholm, M. 
and  Meriläinen, J. (2003). Auringon aktiivisuussyklit, avaruusilmaston ja ilmakehän lämpötilan hitaat muutokset. Geofysiikan päivien (Oulu), 5.2003 esitelmät. List of Publications. http://www.geophysics.helsinki.fi/donadini/publications.htm

Eronen, M., Lindholm, M., Helama, S., Meriläinen, J., and Timonen, M. (2003). Reconstruction of low- and high-frequency summer temperature changes from a tree-ring archive of Fennoscandian forest-limit scots pine. Pages 11: 14-15.

Raspopov, O. M., Kolström, T., Shumilov, O.L., Kirtsideli, I. Ju, Dergachev, V. A., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Eggertsson, O, Kasatkina, E. A., Kuzmin, A. V., Matishev, G. G., and Dzhnyuk 2002: Global Warming and Regional Tree-ring Growth Response in the Kola Peninsula, North-West Russia. The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Research Papers 862: 1-289

Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Helama, S.,(2002). Recent Fennoscandian Pine Records of Temperature, Precipitation and the North Atlantic Oscillation. PAGES News 10 (1):20.

Eronen, M., Lindholm, M., Helama, S., Meriläinen, J., and Timonen, M. (2002). Climate reconstruction from tree rings in northern Finland. “Summary of the strengths and weaknesses of the millennial tree-ring archive of Fennoscandian forest-limit Scots Pine”. In: Ojala, A.E.K. (ed.). First ESF-HOLIVAR workshop. "Combining climate proxies" (Lammi Biological Station, Finland April 17-20th 2002): 39-43.

Turunen, J., Räty, A., Kuznetsov, O., Maksimov, A.,Shevelin, P., Grabovik, S., Tolonen, K., Pitkänen, A., Turunen, C., Meriläinen, J., and Jungner, H.,(2002). Development history of Patvinsuo mire, eastern Finland. Metsähallituksen luonnonsuojelujulkaisuja (A)138:1-72.

Raspopov, O., Shumilov, O., Kasatkina, E., Turunen, E. and Lindholm, M.( 2000). 35-year climatic
Brückner cycle – solar control of climate variability? In: Proceedings of 1st Solar and SpaceWeather Euroconference, “The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate”, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain.
ESA SP-463: 517-520.

Shumilov, O., Raspopov, O., Kasatkina, E., Jacoby, G., Dergachev, V. and Lindholm, M. (2000). Physical interpretation of solar cycle length connection to global surface temperatures. In: Proceedings of 1st Solar and SpaceWeather Euroconference, “The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate”, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Spain. ESA SP-463: 521-524.

Mäkelä A., Mäkinen H., Vanninen P., Hynynen J., Kantola A., ja Mielikäinen K. (2000). Männiköiden tuotoksen ja laadun ennustaminen. Metsäntutkimuslaitoksen Tiedonantoja 794: 1-89.

Kolström, T., Lindholm, M., Viinanen, R. (eds.) (2000). Conifer growth variability during the Holocene in northern Europe. Proceedings of Extraterrestrial meeting in Lund, Sweden 16-19 March, 2000.  University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry.  Research Notes 108: 1-144.

Lindholm, M., Kolström, T., Meriläinen, J. (2000).  Interregional comparison of ring-width chronologies of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) from Finland. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry. Research Notes 108:  43-51.

Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Timonen, M. (2000). Growth variability during the last 7500 years interpreted from the supra-long ring-width chronology of Scots pine from northern Fennoscandia. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry. Research Notes 108: 53-63.

Lindholm, M. (2000). Periodicity in long-term growth variability of pine and external forcing factors in northern Europe. University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry. Research Notes 108: 131-137.

Vanninen, P. 2000. Carbon budget for individual Scots pine trees: effects of size,competition and site fertility on growth allocation In: Federico Magnani (Ed.) EUROSILVA Workshop 'Development and ageing in forest trees', Florence, Italy, 20-24 September, 2000.

Mäkelä, A., Mäkinen, H. and Vanninen, P. (1999) Quality of Scots pine stems under different thinning treatments – an analysis based on resource capture and allocation in individual trees. In: Gerard Nepveu (Ed.): Third Workshop on Connection between silviculture and wood quality through modelling approaches and simulation softwares. Biological Improvement of Wood Properties. La Londe des Maures, France. 5-12 September 1999. IUFRO WP S5.01.04. 

Briffa, K. R., Baillie, M. G. L., Bartholin, T., Bonde, N., Kalela-Brundin, M., Eckstein, D., Eronen, M., Frenzel, B., Friedrich, M., Groves, C., Grudd, H., Hantemirov, R., Hilam, J., Jansma, E., Jones, P. D., Karlén, W., Leuschner, H. H., Lindholm, M., Makowka, I., Naurbaev, M. M., Nogler, P., Osborn, T. J., Riemer, T., Salmon, M., Sander, C., Schweingruber, F. H., Shiatov, S. G., Spain, J., Spurk, M., Timonen, M., Tyers, I., Vaganov, E. A., Wazny, T. & Zetterberg, P. (1999). Analysis of dendrochronological variability and Associated Natural Climates in Eurasia - last 10,000 years (ADVANCE-10K). EC Environment and Climate Project Reports. Pages 7: 6-8.

Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Timonen, M., and Eronen, M.(1998). An over 1000-year ring-width chronology of Scots pine for south-eastern Finland. In: Stravinskiene, V: & Juknys, R. (eds.):  The International Conference "Dendrochronology and Environmental Trends" (EURODENDRO-98) held in Kaunas, Lithuania, 17-21 June 1998: Proceeding : 271-276.

Mäkelä, A., Vanninen, P. and Ikonen, V.-P. (1996) PipeQual - a process-based model of tree form development in different stocking densities. In: Gerard Nepveu (Ed.): Second Workshop on Connection between silviculture and wood quality through modelling approaches and simulation softwares. Biological Improvement of Wood Properties. Kruger National Park, South Africa. 26-31 August 1996. IUFRO WP S5.01.04.

Eronen, M., Lindholm, M., Zetterberg, P. (1996). Pitkäaikaiset ilmastonvaihtelut Lapin mäntykronologioiden mukaan. Folia Forestalia 3: 270-274.

Eronen, M., Zetterberg, P., Lindholm, M. (1996). Evidence on Holocene temperature variations derived from pine tree rings in the subarctic area of Fennoscandia. In: Roos, J. (ed.) the Finnish Research Programme on Climate Change, Final Report. Publications of the Academy of Finland 4 (1996): 13-18.

Eronen, M., Zetterberg, P. and Lindholm, M. (1996). Complementary data from pine tree-rings for historical climatic proxy records in Finland. In: Pedersen, E.S. (ed.): North European climate data in the latter part of the Maunder Minimum period A.D. 1675-1715. Extended abstracts from the Regional North-European sub-group meeting on historical climatology in Stavanger, Norway. - AmS-Varia, 25: 43-46.

Lindholm, M., Eronen, M., Meriläinen, J. and Zetterberg, P. (1995). A tree-ring record of past summer temperatures in northern Finnish Lapland. Fennoscandia Archaeologica Xll: 95-102.

Lindholm, M. (1994). Kesäaikaisten lämpötilojen rekonstruointi männyn vuosilustokalenterin avulla Enontekiön alueella. Acta Univ. Oul. A 251: 46-55.


Submitted articles

Helama, S., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., Timonen, M., & Eronen, M. 2003: Growth dynamics of Scots pine along a north-south gradient through Finland during the last fourteen centuries. Submitted to Tree-Ring Research.

Helama, S., Timonen, M., Lindholm, M., Meriläinen, J., & Eronen, M., 2004: Extraracting the long-term climate fluctuations from tree-ring cronologies and preserving their variability at time scales over the segment lenght. Submitted to International Journal of Climatology.


Doctoral theses

Vanninen, P. (2003). Development of the production and biomass structure of Scots pine: effects of competition, tree age and site fertility. University of Helsinki Department of Forest Ecology Publications 28. (Ph.D.thesis)

Lindholm, M. (1996). Reconstruction of past climate from ring-width chronologies of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) at the northern forest limit in Fennoscandia. Ph.D. thesis. University of Joensuu, Publications in Sciences 40: 1-169.


Others

Vanninen, P., Härkönen, S. (2003). PuMe- metsäopetusohjelma (in Finnish). Teaching program for forestry.


Names written in bold: 
member of team of the Saima Centre