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von Arx G & Dietz H. Annual root rings in perennial forbs: relationships to above-ground growth and environment. in prep.

Stroude R, von Arx G & Karrenberg S. Root trait differentiation in campions (Silene): genetically fixed or environmentally plastic? submitted

Fonti P, Eilmann B, García-González I & von Arx G. Expeditious building of ring-porous earlywood vessel chronologies without loosing signal information. submitted

von Arx G & Dietz H. 2006. Growth rings in the roots of temperate forbs are robust annual markers, Plant Biology 8:224-233

von Arx G, Edwards P.J. & Dietz H. 2006. Evidence for increased longevity and changes in growth patterns in high-altitude populations of three perennial forbs, Ecology 87:665-674

von Arx G & Dietz H. 2005. Automated image analysis of annual rings in the roots of perennial forbs. International Journal of Plant Sciences 166:723-732

Dietz H & von Arx G. 2005. Climatic fluctuation causes large-scale synchronous variation in radial increments of the main roots of northern hemisphere forbs. Ecology 86:327-333

Dietz H, von Arx G & Dietz S. 2004. Growth increment patterns in the roots of two alpine forbs growing in the centre and at the periphery of a snowbank. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 36:591-597

von Arx G, Bosshard A & Dietz H. 2002. Land-use intensity and border structures as determinants of vegetation diversity in an agricultural area. Bulletin of the Geobotanical Institute ETH 68:3-15

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von Arx G & Dietz H. 2002. Development of growth rings in roots of dicotyledonous perennial herbs: experimental analysis of ecological factors. 15th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfOe) – Section Plant Population Biology, Prague (Czech Republic)

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von Arx G. 2007. Measuring of annual rings and intra-annual vessel features
using automated image analysis. 2nd Workshop on Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)

Fonti P & von Arx G. 2007. 15' to build a 150 yrs long earlywood vessels size time-series: how is it possible? 2nd Workshop on Quantitative Wood Anatomy, Birmensdorf (Switzerland)

von Arx G. 2007. ‘Biography’ of perennial forbs: how much is recorded in the roots? 20th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria - Section Plant Population Biology, Basel (Switzerland)

Dietz H & von Arx G. 2004. Growth responses in perennial forbs to alpine environmental gradients and climatic fluctuation: a herb-chronological analysis. 47th IAVS symposium, Kona, (Hawai'i)

von Arx G & Dietz H. 2004. Extracting ecological information from annual rings in the roots of forbs using a ‘Root Chronolizer’: potential and pitfalls. 17th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfOe) – Section Plant Population Biology, Regensburg (Germany)

Dietz H & von Arx G. 2004. Herb-chronology detects unexpected growth patterns in populations of invasive and non-invasive forbs. 17th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfOe) – Section Plant Population Biology, Regensburg (Germany)

von Arx G & Dietz H. 2003. Experimental verification and image analysis of annual growth rings in forbs. 16th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfOe) – Section Plant Population Biology, Copenhagen (Denmark)

Dietz H & von Arx G. 2003. Growth plasticity in response to site heterogeneity and climatic fluctuations: reconstructive analysis in perennial forbs. 16th Annual Conference of the Ecological Society of Germany, Switzerland and Austria (GfOe) – Section Plant Population Biology, Copenhagen (Denmark)

von Arx G & Dietz H. 2002. Experimental verification and image analysis of annual growth rings in forbs. Annual Winter Meeting of the British Ecological Society (BES), York (England)