A Combined Tree Ring and Vegetation Model Assessment of European Forest Growth Sensitivity to Interannual Climate Variability

FB acknowledges funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (P300P2_154543) and the EU Horizon-2020 project “BACI” (grant 640176). SK, FJ, RS and DCF are supported by the SNF iTREE sinergia project 136295. FJ, SL, and RS acknowledge support by the Swiss National Science Foundation (#200020_172476), OB acknowledges funding from UEFISCDI project PN-II-ID-PCE-2011-3-07 and VT is supported by the GACR 15-14840S and CIGA 20154316.

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