About the Authors

Caroline Leland

cleland@ldeo.columbia.edu

Affiliation Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America

John Hom

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nicholas Skowronski

Affiliation United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

F. Thomas Ledig

† Deceased.

Affiliation Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California, United States of America

Paul J. Krusic

Affiliations Stockholm University, Department of Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, Stockholm, Sweden, Navarino Environmental Observatory, Messinia, Greece

Edward R. Cook

Affiliation Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America

Dario Martin-Benito

Affiliation Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Javier Martin-Fernandez

Affiliation Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America

Neil Pederson

Affiliations Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, New York, United States of America, Harvard University, Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FTL JH NS NP PK EC CL DM JM. Performed the experiments: CL JM PK. Analyzed the data: CL NP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EC. Wrote the paper: CL NP FTL NS JH. Revisions: FTL JH NS NP PK EC CL DM JM.