With ongoing global warming, increasing water deficits promote physiological stress on forest ecosystems with negative impacts on tree growth, vitality, and survival. How individual tree species will react to increased drought stress is therefore a key research question to address for carbon accounting and the development of climate change mitigation strategies. Recent tree‐ring studies have shown that trees at higher latitude...

Climatically controlled allocation to reproduction is a key mechanism by which climate influences tree growth and may explain lagged correlations between climate and growth. We used continent‐wide datasets of tree‐ring chronologies and annual reproductive effort in Fagus sylvatica from 1901 to 2015 to characterise relationships between climate, reproduction and growth. Results highlight that variable allocation to reproduction...

Common haematological [haematocrit (Hct)], primary (serum cortisol) and secondary (serum glucose and plasma lactate) analytes were utilized to compare blood biochemical status of Gadus morhua captured rapidly by jig with that of G. morhua captured by commercial demersal longline. In general, the physiological status of G. morhua , despite blind hook times, was significantly more disrupted (pronounced haemo‐concentration and si...