Shankar Panthi

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Assistant Professor, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden Chinese Acadey of Sciences
Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shankar Panthi


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Ecology, Forestry, Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science
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  • Competition release dominates growth recovery of four subtropical broadleaved tree species following an extreme snow event
    Tong-Liang Xu, Rao-Qiong Yang, Zaw Zaw, Shankar Panthi, Xin-Hua Peng, Ju-Mei Zhang, Pei-Li Fu, Ke-Yan Fang, Ze-Xin Fan
    Forest Ecology and Management, 2026
  • Tree-ring δ18O reveals a consistent decrease in April precipitation in southeastern China since the 1950s and its linkage to global climate phenomena
    Fang Wang, Guoliang Lei, Chotika Muangsong, Binggui Cai, Miaofa Li, Keyan Fang, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Rattanakorn Chatwatthana, Shankar Panthi
    Global and Planetary Change, 2026
  • Climatic influences on annual and intra-annual xylem anatomical traits of four coniferous tree species in the central Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China
    Ju-Mei Zhang, Zaw Zaw, Pei-Li Fu, Shankar Panthi, Jambay Dema, Tong-Liang Xu, Hui Zhang, Achim Bräuning, Ze-Xin Fan
    Dendrochronologia, 2025
  • Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
    Pieter A. Zuidema, Peter Groenendijk, Mizanur Rahman, Valerie Trouet, Abrham Abiyu, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Claudio Roberto Anholetto, José Roberto Vieira Aragão, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Claudia C. Astudillo-Sánchez, Ana Carolina Barbosa, Giovanna Battipaglia, Hans Beeckman, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Nils Bourland, Achim Bräuning, Roel Brienen, Matthew Brookhouse, Supaporn Buajan, Brendan M. Buckley, J. Julio Camarero, Artemio Carrillo-Parra, Gregório Ceccantini, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Rosalinda Cervantes-Martínez, Wirong Chanthorn, Ya-Jun Chen, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Eladio Heriberto Cornejo-Oviedo, Otoniel Cortés-Cortés, Clayane Matos Costa, Camille Couralet, Doris Bianca Crispín-De-La-Cruz, Rosanne D’arrigo, Diego A. David, Maaike De Ridder, Jorge Ignacio Del Valle, Mário Dobner, Jean-Louis Doucet, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist, Karin Esemann-Quadros, Gerardo Esquivel-Arriaga, Ze-Xin Fan, Adeline Fayolle, Tatiele Anete Bergamo Fenilli, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Esther Fichtler, Patrick M. Finnegan, Claudia Fontana, Kainana S. Francisco, Pei-Li Fu, Franklin Galvão, Aster Gebrekirstos, Jorge A. Giraldo, Emanuel Gloor, Milena Godoy-Veiga, Daniela Granato-Souza, Anthony Guerra, Kristof Haneca, Grant Logan Harley, Ingo Heinrich, Gerhard Helle, Bruna Hornink, Wannes Hubau, Janet G. Inga, Mahmuda Islam, Yu-Mei Jiang, Mark Kaib, Zakia Hassan Khamisi, Marcin Koprowski, Eva Layme, A. Joshua Leffler, Gauthier Ligot, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Neil J. Loader, Francisco De Almeida Lobo, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Tomaz Longhi-Santos, Lidio Lopez, María I. López-Hernández, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada, Rubén D. Manzanedo, Amanda K. Marcon, Justin T. Maxwell, Omar N. Mendoza-Villa, Ítallo Romany Nunes Menezes, Mulugeta Mokria, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors, Miyer Moreno, Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro, Cristina Nabais, Anuttara Nathalang, Justine Ngoma, Francisco De Carvalho Nogueira, Juliano Morales Oliveira, Gabriela Morais Olmedo, Daigard Ricardo Ortega-Rodriguez, Carmen Eugenia Rodríguez Ortíz, Mariana Alves Pagotto, Shankar Panthi, Kathelyn Paredes-Villanueva, Gonzalo Pérez-de-Lis, Laura Patricia Ponce Calderón, Leif Armando Portal-Cahuana, Darwin Alexander Pucha-Cofrep, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Paulo Quadri, Jorge Andrés Ramírez, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas, Judith Reyes-Flores, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro, Iain Robertson, Fidel Alejandro Roig, José Guilherme Roquette, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Jochen Schöngart, Marcelo Callegari Scipioni, Paul R. Sheppard, Lucas C.R. Silva, Franziska Slotta, Leroy Soria-Díaz, Luciana K.V.S. Sousa, James H. Speer, Matthew D. Therrell, Ginette Ticse-Otarola, Mario Tomazello-Filho, Max C.A. Torbenson, Pantana Tor-Ngern, Ramzi Touchan, Jan Van den Bulcke, Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem, Adín H. Velázquez-Pérez, Alejandro Venegas-González, Ricardo Villalba, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Mart Vlam, George Vourlitis, Christian Wehenkel, Tommy Wils, Erika S. Zavaleta, Eshetu Asfaw Zewdu, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Flurin Babst
    Science, 2025
    Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evaluate this risk, we assessed drought impacts in 483 tree-ring chronologies from across the tropics and found an overall modest stem growth decline (2.5% with a 95% confidence interval of 2.2 to 2.7%) during the 10% driest years since 1930. Stem growth declines exceeded 10% in 25% of cases and were larger at hotter and drier sites and for gymnosperms compared with angiosperms. Growth declines generally did not outlast drought years and were partially mitigated by growth stimulation in wet years. Thus, pantropical forest carbon sequestration through stem growth has hitherto shown drought resilience that may, however, diminish under future climate change.
  • Differential climate sensitivity of cell anatomy and species-specific hydraulic safety of two Asian tropical pines in Northern Thailand
    Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Piyarat Songtrirat, Shankar Panthi, Ze-Xin Fan, Pei-Li Fu, Marcin Koprowski, Supaporn Buajan, Rattanakorn Chatwatthana, Uthai Chareonwong, Chotika Muangsong, Binggui Cai
    Global Ecology and Conservation, 2025
  • The importance of tropical tree-ring chronologies for global change research
    Peter Groenendijk, Flurin Babst, Valerie Trouet, Ze-Xin Fan, Daniela Granato-Souza, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Mulugeta Mokria, Shankar Panthi, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Abrham Abiyu, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Claudio Roberto Anholetto Junior, José Roberto Vieira Aragão, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Claudia C. Astudillo-Sánchez, Ana Carolina Barbosa, Nathan de Oliveira Barreto, Giovanna Battipaglia, Hans Beeckman, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Nils Bourland, Achim Bräuning, Roel Brienen, Matthew Brookhouse, Supaporn Buajan, Brendan M. Buckley, J. Julio Camarero, Artemio Carrillo-Parra, Gregório Ceccantini, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Rosalinda Cervantes-Martínez, Wirong Chanthorn, Ya-Jun Chen, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Eladio Heriberto Cornejo-Oviedo, Otoniel Cortés-Cortés, Clayane Matos Costa, Camille Couralet, Doris Bianca Crispin-DelaCruz, Rosanne D'Arrigo, Diego A. David, Maaike De Ridder, Jorge Ignacio Del Valle, Oscar A. Díaz-Carrillo, Mário Dobner Jr, Jean-Louis Doucet, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist, Karin Esemann-Quadros, Gerardo Esquivel-Arriaga, Adeline Fayolle, Tatiele Anete Bergamo Fenilli, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Esther Fichtler, Patrick M. Finnegan, Claudia Fontana, Kainana S. Francisco, Pei-Li Fu, Franklin Galvão, Aster Gebrekirstos, Jorge A. Giraldo, Emanuel Gloor, Milena Godoy-Veiga, Anthony Guerra, Kristof Haneca, Grant Logan Harley, Ingo Heinrich, Gerhard Helle, José Ciro Hernández-Díaz, Bruna Hornink, Wannes Hubau, Janet G. Inga, Mahmuda Islam, Yu-mei Jiang, Mark Kaib, Zakia Hassan Khamisi, Marcin Koprowski, Eva Layme, A. Joshua Leffler, Gauthier Ligot, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Neil J. Loader, Francisco de Almeida Lobo, Tomaz Longhi-Santos, Lidio Lopez, María I. López-Hernández, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada, Rubén D. Manzanedo, Amanda K. Marcon, Justin T. Maxwell, Hooz A. Mendivelso, Omar N. Mendoza-Villa, Ítallo Romany Nunes Menezes, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors, Miyer Moreno, Miguel Angel Muñiz-Castro, Cristina Nabais, Anuttara Nathalang, Justine Ngoma, Francisco de Carvalho Nogueira Jr., Juliano Morales Oliveira, Gabriela Morais Olmedo, Daigard Ricardo Ortega-Rodriguez, Carmen Eugenia Rodríguez Ortíz, Mariana Alves Pagotto, Kathelyn Paredes-Villanueva, Gonzalo Pérez-De-Lis, Laura Patricia Ponce Calderón, Leif Armando Portal-Cahuana, Darwin Alexander Pucha-Cofrep, Paulo Quadri, Mizanur Rahman, Jorge Andrés Ramírez, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas, Judith Reyes-Flores, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro, Iain Robertson, Fidel Alejandro Roig, José Guilherme Roquette, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho, Raúl Sánchez-Salguero, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Jochen Schöngart, Marcelo Callegari Scipioni, Paul R. Sheppard, Lucas C.R. Silva, Franziska Slotta, Leroy Soria-Díaz, Luciana K.V.S. Sousa, James H. Speer, Matthew D. Therrell, Ginette Ticse-Otarola, Mario Tomazello-Filho, Max C.A. Torbenson, Pantana Tor-Ngern, Ramzi Touchan, Jan Van Den Bulcke, Lorenzo Vázquez-Selem, Adín H. Velázquez-Pérez, Alejandro Venegas-González, Ricardo Villalba, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Mart Vlam, George Vourlitis, Christian Wehenkel, Tommy Wils, Erika S. Zavaleta, Eshetu Asfaw Zewdu, Yong-Jiang Zhang, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Pieter A. Zuidema
    Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025
    Tropical forests and woodlands are key components of the global carbon and water cycles. Yet, how climate change affects these biogeochemical cycles is poorly understood because of scarce long-term observations of tropical tree growth. The recent rise in tropical tree-ring studies may help to fill this gap, but a large-scale quantitative analysis of their potential in global change research is missing. We compiled a list of all tropical tree species known to form annual tree rings and built a network encompassing 492 tropical ring-width chronologies to evaluate the potential to generate insights on climate sensitivity of woody productivity and to build centuries-long reconstructions of climate variability. We assess chronology quality, length, and climatic representativeness and explore how these change along climatic gradients. Finally, we applied species-distribution modeling to identify regions with potential for tree-ring studies in ecological and climatic studies. The number of tropical chronologies has rapidly increased, with ∼400 added over the past two decades. Yet, tree-ring studies are biased towards high-elevation locations, with gaps in warmer and wetter climates, on the African continent, and for angiosperm species. The longest chronologies with strongest climate signals (i.e., synchronous growth variations among trees) are from cool regions. In wet regions, climate signals and precipitation sensitivity decrease. Most tropical regions harbor 5–15 (and up to 80) species with proven potential to generate chronologies. The potential for long climate reconstructions is particularly high in drier high elevation sites. Our findings support strategies to effectively expand tree-ring research in the tropics, by targeting specific species and regions. Tropical dendrochronology can importantly contribute to global change research by generating historical context of climate extremes, quantifying climate sensitivity of woody productivity and benchmarking vegetation models.
  • Reconstruction of hydroclimate variability in southern Laos from 1885 to 2019 based on Pinus latteri tree-ring data
    Nakhonekham Xaybouangeun, Zaw Zaw, Rao-Qiong Yang, Shankar Panthi, Dao-Xiong Gao, Viengsy Paothor, Ze-Xin Fan
    Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology, 2024
  • Site-specific climate sensitivity of tree-ring width and vessel anatomical features of Juglans regia L. in Bhutan Himalaya
    Jambay Dema, Zaw Zaw, Ze-Xin Fan, Shankar Panthi, Pei-Li Fu
    Global Ecology and Conservation, 2024
    Climate change significantly impacts tree growth in the Himalayas, however, there is little information on how broadleaved tree species in Himalayan regions respond to climate change. Juglans regia L. (Common or Persian walnut) plays a vital economic and ecological role across the Himalayas, but little is known about how environmental changes influence the growth and wood anatomical traits of this species. In this study, we developed chronologies of tree-ring width (TRW) and six quantitative vessel anatomical features of Persian walnut trees from two sites in the Bhutan Himalayas. We evaluated how TRW and vessel anatomical features respond to climatic conditions and extreme climate events for the period 1960 to 2020. We found the climate sensitivity of tree growth differed at the two study sites, with the southwest-facing Dodeyna site (DOD) exhibiting higher moisture sensitivity than the north-facing Chimithangka site (CHI). The climate sensitivity of vessel traits was much stronger than that of tree-ring widths, particularly at the DOD. Hydraulic-efficiency-related vessel traits (Mean vessel area, MVA; theoretical hydraulic conductivity, Kh; and hydraulic diameter, Dh) were positively sensitive to moisture availability, whereas the hydraulic-safety related vessel traits (vessel density, VD; and vessel grouping index, RVGI) were negatively sensitive to moisture availability at the DOD site. We further observed that MVA and Kh were significantly higher during extreme dry events at CHI site but displayed opposite directions at DOD site. Notably higher RVGI at the DOD site during dry years indicated an enhancement of hydraulic safety against drought. These findings highlight that the climate sensitivity of tree-ring width and vessel traits of walnuts were site-specific and mediated by aspects with the drier site (south-facing slope) being more sensitive. Whilst consideration of the aspects and site-specific climate sensitivity of tree species is crucial to developing robust forest conservation strategies at a larger spatial scale in the Himalayan region which is more vulnerable to climate change.
  • Demographic and net primary productivity dynamics of primary and secondary tropical forests in Southwest China under a changing climate
    Sai Tun Tun Oo, Shankar Panthi, Ze‐Xin Fan, Xiao‐Yang Song, Huanyuan Zhang‐Zheng, Zaw Zaw, Hua‐Zheng Lu, Hui Chen, Yun Deng, Rong Zhao, Hua Lin, Pei‐Li Fu
    Integrative Conservation, 2024
    Tropical forests are major carbon sinks on the Earth's land surface. However, our understanding of how the demographic rate and carbon sink capacities of tropical forests respond to climate change remains limited. In this study, we investigated the impacts of environmental drivers on forest growth, mortality, recruitment, and stem net primary productivity (NPPstem) over 16 years at five tropical forest plots in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China. These plots are along a successional gradient spanning three tropical secondary forests (tropical secondary forest‐1 [TSF‐1], tropical secondary forest‐2 [TSF‐2], and tropical secondary forest‐3 [TSF‐3]) and two primary forests (tropical rainforest [TRF] and tropical karst forest [TKF]). Our results showed that early successional secondary forests (TSF‐2 and TSF‐3) had higher diameter growth rates and relative mortality rates. An extreme drought event during 2009–2010 reduced the growth rate, relative recruitment rate, and NPPstem for most plots while increasing mortality in early successional forest plots. We observed significant negative effects of maximum temperature (Tmax) on NPPstem and diameter growth rate across all plots. Additionally, we found that precipitation had significant positive effects on diameter growth rate across all plots. Furthermore, tree mortality increased with rising Tmax, whereas precipitation significantly enhanced tree recruitment. Our findings highlight the vulnerability of tree growth, mortality, recruitment, and productivity in tropical forests to extreme drought events in Southwest China. Continued climate warming and more frequent droughts will induce higher mortality rates and impede growth, thus reducing the carbon sink capacity of tropical forests, especially in early successional stage tropical secondary forests.
  • Growth-climate relationships of four tree species in the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests in Southwest China
    Tong-Liang Xu, Rao-Qiong Yang, Zaw Zaw, Pei-Li Fu, Shankar Panthi, Achim Bräuning, Ze-Xin Fan
    Dendrochronologia, 2024
    Subtropical forests are an important carbon sink, yet our understanding on tree growth response to inter-annual climate variability remains limited. This study investigated the growth-climate relationships of four evergreen broad-leaved tree species ( Stewartia pteropetiolata W. C. Cheng, Schima noronhae Reinw. ex Bl. Bijdr, Machilus gamblei King ex J. D. Hooker, and Machilus yunnanensis Lec) in the subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests (EBFs) in the Ailao Mountains of Yunnan province, southwest China. We constructed tree ring-width residual chronologies for each species and correlated them with daily and monthly climate data. Ring-width chronologies of S. pteropetiolata and S. noronhae were positively correlated with precipitation, relative humidity , and self-calibrated Palmer drought index (scPDSI) during autumn of the previous year and spring-to-early summer of the current year, indicating that these two Theaceae species were sensitive to moisture availability. Tree radial growth of two Machilus species was primarily limited by excessive precipitation and dense cloud cover during the rainy season in this middle montane cloud forest. Moving correlations between climate variables and radial growth of all species were temporally unstable, with a weakening response to climate variability in recent decades. We highlight the dendroclimatic potential of evergreen broad-leaved tree species in moist subtropical forests. The findings offer a pertinent perspective, emphasizing the necessity of separately considering distinct ecological indicators for trees in order to obtain a comprehensive understanding of climate-growth responses within highly diverse subtropical forests.
  • A 225-year pine (Pinus latteri) tree-ring record of pre-monsoon relative humidity variation in Nan province of northern Thailand and the linkage with large-scale ocean-atmospheric circulations
    Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Chotika Muangsong, Shankar Panthi, Supaporn Buajan, Binggui Cai, Patticha Kulsuwan, Prat Kongsombat
    Global and Planetary Change, 2023
  • Warming induced tree-growth decline of Toona ciliata in (sub-) tropical southwestern China
    Bimal Sharma, Ze-Xin Fan, Shankar Panthi, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Pei-Li Fu, Zaw Zaw
    Dendrochronologia, 2022
  • Growth-climate sensitivity of two pine species shows species-specific changes along temperature and moisture gradients in southwest China
    Rao-Qiong Yang, Pei-Li Fu, Ze-Xin Fan, Shankar Panthi, Jie Gao, Ying Niu, Zong-Shan Li, Achim Bräuning
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2022
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
    Pieter A. Zuidema, Flurin Babst, Peter Groenendijk, Valerie Trouet, Abrham Abiyu, Rodolfo Acuña-Soto, Eduardo Adenesky-Filho, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, José Roberto Vieira Aragão, Gabriel Assis-Pereira, Xue Bai, Ana Carolina Barbosa, Giovanna Battipaglia, Hans Beeckman, Paulo Cesar Botosso, Tim Bradley, Achim Bräuning, Roel Brienen, Brendan M. Buckley, J. Julio Camarero, Ana Carvalho, Gregório Ceccantini, Librado R. Centeno-Erguera, Julián Cerano-Paredes, Álvaro Agustín Chávez-Durán, Bruno Barçante Ladvocat Cintra, Malcolm K. Cleaveland, Camille Couralet, Rosanne D’Arrigo, Jorge Ignacio del Valle, Oliver Dünisch, Brian J. Enquist, Karin Esemann-Quadros, Zewdu Eshetu, Ze-Xin Fan, M. Eugenia Ferrero, Esther Fichtler, Claudia Fontana, Kainana S. Francisco, Aster Gebrekirstos, Emanuel Gloor, Daniela Granato-Souza, Kristof Haneca, Grant Logan Harley, Ingo Heinrich, Gerd Helle, Janet G. Inga, Mahmuda Islam, Yu-mei Jiang, Mark Kaib, Zakia Hassan Khamisi, Marcin Koprowski, Bart Kruijt, Eva Layme, Rik Leemans, A. Joshua Leffler, Claudio Sergio Lisi, Neil J. Loader, Giuliano Maselli Locosselli, Lidio Lopez, María I. López-Hernández, José Luís Penetra Cerveira Lousada, Hooz A. Mendivelso, Mulugeta Mokria, Valdinez Ribeiro Montóia, Eddy Moors, Cristina Nabais, Justine Ngoma, Francisco de Carvalho Nogueira Júnior, Juliano Morales Oliveira, Gabriela Morais Olmedo, Mariana Alves Pagotto, Shankar Panthi, Gonzalo Pérez-De-Lis, Darwin Pucha-Cofrep, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Mizanur Rahman, Jorge Andres Ramirez, Edilson Jimmy Requena-Rojas, Adauto de Souza Ribeiro, Iain Robertson, Fidel Alejandro Roig, Ernesto Alonso Rubio-Camacho, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Jochen Schöngart, Paul R. Sheppard, Franziska Slotta, James H. Speer, Matthew D. Therrell, Benjamin Toirambe, Mario Tomazello-Filho, Max C. A. Torbenson, Ramzi Touchan, Alejandro Venegas-González, Ricardo Villalba, Jose Villanueva-Diaz, Royd Vinya, Mart Vlam, Tommy Wils, Zhe-Kun Zhou
    Nature Geoscience, 2022
  • Long-term growth trends of Abies delavayi and its physiological responses to a warming climate in the Cangshan Mountains, southwestern China
    Rao-Qiong Yang, Fan Zhao, Ze-Xin Fan, Shankar Panthi, Pei-Li Fu, Achim Bräuning, Jussi Grießinger, Zong-Shan Li
    Forest Ecology and Management, 2022
  • Growth-climate relationships and long-term growth trends of the tropical forest tree choerospondias axillaris (Anacardiaceous) in east-central Thailand
    Wisawakorn Surayothee, Supaporn Buajan, Peili Fu, Nathsuda Pumijumnong, Zexin Fan, Shankar Panthi, Patrick M. Finnegan, Yongjiang Zhang, Yajun Chen, Pantana Tor-ngern, Wirong Chanthorn, Anuttara Nathalang, Warren Y. Brockelman
    Forests, 2021
  • Radial growth responses of four coniferous species to climate change in the Potatso National Park, China
    Ju-Mei Zhang, Z. Fan, Pei‐Li Fu, P. Shankar, Huaxiu Tang
    Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021
  • Monsoon precipitation variations in Myanmar since AD 1770: linkage to tropical ocean‐atmospheric circulations
    Zaw Zaw, Ze-Xin Fan, Achim Bräuning, Wenjie Liu, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Kay Zin Than, Shankar Panthi
    Climate Dynamics, 2021
  • Ring widths of Rhododendron shrubs reveal a persistent winter warming in the central Himalaya
    Shankar Panthi, Ze-Xin Fan, Achim Bräuning
    Dendrochronologia, 2021
  • Drought Reconstruction Over the Past Two Centuries in Southern Myanmar Using Teak Tree-Rings: Linkages to the Pacific and Indian Oceans
    Zaw Zaw, Ze‐Xin Fan, Achim Bräuning, Chen‐Xi Xu, Wen‐Jie Liu, Narayan Prasad Gaire, Shankar Panthi, Kay Zin Than
    Geophysical Research Letters, 2020
  • Abies spectabilis shows stable growth relations to temperature, but changing response to moisture conditions along an elevation gradient in the central Himalaya
    Narayan Prasad Gaire, Ze-Xin Fan, Achim Bräuning, Shankar Panthi, Prabina Rana, Arbindra Shrestha, Dinesh Raj Bhuju
    Dendrochronologia, 2020
  • Long-term physiological and growth responses of Himalayan fir to environmental change are mediated by mean climate
    Shankar Panthi, Ze‐Xin Fan, Peter van der Sleen, Pieter A. Zuidema
    Global Change Biology, 2020
  • Growth response of Abies georgei to climate increases with elevation in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China
    Shankar Panthi, Achim Bräuning, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Ze-Xin Fan
    Dendrochronologia, 2018
  • Tree rings reveal recent intensified spring drought in the central Himalaya, Nepal
    Shankar Panthi, Achim Bräuning, Zhe-Kun Zhou, Ze-Xin Fan
    Global and Planetary Change, 2017

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Monsoon Regulation of Cambial Phenology and Xylogenesis in Pinus kesiya and Pinus latteri in Northern Thailand
    R Chatwatthana, S Panthi, P Netrnil, C MUANGSONG, P Punwong, ...
    Available at SSRN 6429183 , 2026
    2026
  • Competition release dominates growth recovery of four subtropical broadleaved tree species following an extreme snow event
    TL Xu, RQ Yang, Z Zaw, S Panthi, XH Peng, JM Zhang, PL Fu, K Fang, ...
    Forest Ecology and Management 603, 123439 , 2026
    2026
  • Tree-ring δ18O reveals a consistent decrease in April precipitation in southeastern China since the 1950s and its linkage to global climate phenomena
    F Wang, G Lei, C Muangsong, B Cai, M Li, K Fang, N Pumijumnong, ...
    Global and Planetary Change 257, 105249 , 2026
    2026
  • Climatic influences on annual and intra-annual xylem anatomical traits of four coniferous tree species in the central Hengduan Mountains, Southwest China
    JM Zhang, Z Zaw, PL Fu, S Panthi, J Dema, TL Xu, H Zhang, A Bräuning, ...
    Dendrochronologia 94, 126401 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
    PA Zuidema, P Groenendijk, M Rahman, V Trouet, A Abiyu, R Acuña-Soto, ...
    Science 389 (6759), 532-538 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 19
  • The importance of tropical tree-ring chronologies for global change research
    P Groenendijk, F Babst, V Trouet, ZX Fan, D Granato-Souza, ...
    Quaternary Science Reviews 355, 109233 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 27
  • Differential climate sensitivity of cell anatomy and species-specific hydraulic safety of two Asian tropical pines in Northern Thailand
    N Pumijumnong, P Songtrirat, S Panthi, ZX Fan, PL Fu, M Koproski, ...
    Global Ecology and Conservation, e03548 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Climate Variability Affects Differently to the Tree-Growth Cell Anatomy of Tropical Pines in Northern Thailand
    N Pumijumnong, P Songtrirat, S Panthi, ZX Fan, PL Fu, M Koprowski, ...
    Available at SSRN 4932064 , 2025
    2025
  • Reconstruction of hydroclimate variability in southern Laos from 1885 to 2019 based on Pinus latteri tree-ring data
    N Xaybouangeun, Z Zaw, RQ Yang, S Panthi, DX Gao, V Paothor, ZX Fan
    Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 656, 112595 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • 气候变化背景下中国西南热带原始林和次生林的群落和净初级生产力动态研究
    STT Oo, S Panthi, ZX Fan, XY Song, H Zhang‐Zheng, Z Zaw, HZ Lu, ...
    Integrative Conservation 3 (3), 230-243 , 2024
    2024
  • Demographic and net primary productivity dynamics of primary and secondary tropical forests in Southwest China under a changing climate
    STT Oo, S Panthi, ZX Fan, XY Song, H Zhang-Zheng, Z Zaw, HZ Lu, ...
    Integrative Conservation 3 (3), 230-243 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 1
  • Site-specific climate sensitivity of tree-ring width and vessel anatomical features of Juglans regia L. in Bhutan Himalaya
    J Dema, Z Zaw, ZX Fan, S Panthi, PL Fu
    Global Ecology and Conservation 53, e03023 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Pantropical tree growth resilience to drought
    P Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, M Rahman, V Trouet, TT Network*
    EGU24 , 2024
    2024
  • Growth-climate relationships of four tree species in the subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests in Southwest China
    TL Xu, RQ Yang, Z Zaw, PL Fu, S Panthi, A Braeuning, ZX Fan
    Dendrochronologia 85, 126186 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • A 225-year pine (Pinus latteri) tree-ring record of pre-monsoon relative humidity variation in Nan province of northern Thailand and the linkage with large-scale ocean …
    N Pumijumnong, C Muangsong, S Panthi, S Buajan, B Cai, P Kulsuwan, ...
    Global and Planetary Change 230, 104277 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • The potential of tree-ring chronologies to global-change studies in the tropics: a quantitative review
    P Groenendijk, F Babst, D Granato Souza, G Locosselli, M Mokria, ...
    EGU General Assembly Conference Abstracts, EGU-10257 , 2023
    2023
  • Response of radial growth of alpine pine (Pinus densata) to climatic factors in Baima Snow Mountain, northwest Yunnan
    X Peng, R Yang, Y Yin, P Shankar, T Xu, P Fu, S Ge, ZX Fan
    Acta Ecologica Sinica 43 (21), 8884-8893 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
    PA Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, V Trouet, A Abiyu, R Acuña-Soto, ...
    Nature Geoscience 15 (4), 269-276 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 148
  • Warming Induced Tree-growth Decline of Toona ciliata in (sub-) Tropical Southwestern China
    B Sharma, ZX Fan, S Panthi, NP Gaire, PL Fu, Z Zaw
    Dendrochronologia 73, 125954 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25
  • Long-term growth trends of Abies delavayi and its physiological responses to a warming climate in the Cangshan Mountains, southwestern China
    RQ Yang, F Zhao, ZX Fan, S Panthi, PL Fu, A Bräuning, J Grießinger, ...
    Forest Ecology and Management 505, 119943 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 39

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability
    PA Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, V Trouet, A Abiyu, R Acuña-Soto, ...
    Nature Geoscience 15 (4), 269-276 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 148
  • Tree rings reveal recent intensified spring drought in the central Himalaya, Nepal
    S Panthi, A Bräuning, ZK Zhou, ZX Fan
    Global and Planetary Change 157, 26-34 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 128
  • Long‐term physiological and growth responses of Himalayan fir to environmental change are mediated by mean climate
    S Panthi, ZX Fan, P van der Sleen, PA Zuidema
    Global Change Biology 26 (3), 1778-1794 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 112
  • Growth response of Abies georgei to climate increases with elevation in the central Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China
    S Panthi, A Bräuning, ZK Zhou, ZX Fan
    Dendrochronologia 47, 1-9 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 85
  • Abies spectabilis shows stable growth relations to temperature, but changing response to moisture conditions along an elevation gradient in the central Himalaya
    NP Gaire, ZX Fan, A Braeuning, S Panthi, P Rana, A Shrestha, DR Bhuju
    Dendrochronologia 60, 125675 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 61
  • Growth-climate sensitivity of two pine species shows species-specific changes along temperature and moisture gradients in southwest China
    RQ Yang, P Fu, ZX Fan, S Panthi, J Gao, Y Niu, Z Li, A Bräuning
    Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 318, 108907 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 45
  • Ring widths of Rhododendron shrubs reveal a persistent winter warming in the central Himalaya
    S Panthi, ZX Fan, A Bräuning
    Dendrochronologia 65, 125799 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 40
  • Drought reconstruction over the past two centuries in southern Myanmar using teak tree-rings: linkages to the Pacific and Indian Oceans
    Z Zaw, ZX Fan, A Bräuning, C Xu, WJ Liu, NP Gaire, S Panthi, KZ Than
    Geophysical Research Letters , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 40
  • Long-term growth trends of Abies delavayi and its physiological responses to a warming climate in the Cangshan Mountains, southwestern China
    RQ Yang, F Zhao, ZX Fan, S Panthi, PL Fu, A Bräuning, J Grießinger, ...
    Forest Ecology and Management 505, 119943 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 39
  • The importance of tropical tree-ring chronologies for global change research
    P Groenendijk, F Babst, V Trouet, ZX Fan, D Granato-Souza, ...
    Quaternary Science Reviews 355, 109233 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 27
  • Monsoon precipitation variations in Myanmar since AD 1770: linkage to tropical ocean‐atmospheric circulations
    Z Zaw, ZX Fan, A Bräuning, W Liu, NP Gaire, KZ Than, S Panthi
    Climate Dynamics 56 (9), 3337-3352 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 26
  • Warming Induced Tree-growth Decline of Toona ciliata in (sub-) Tropical Southwestern China
    B Sharma, ZX Fan, S Panthi, NP Gaire, PL Fu, Z Zaw
    Dendrochronologia 73, 125954 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 25
  • Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth
    PA Zuidema, P Groenendijk, M Rahman, V Trouet, A Abiyu, R Acuña-Soto, ...
    Science 389 (6759), 532-538 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 19
  • Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability. Nat. Geosci. 15, 269–276
    PA Zuidema, F Babst, P Groenendijk, V Trouet, A Abiyu, R Acuña-Soto, ...
    2022
    Citations: 16
  • Growth-climate relationships of four tree species in the subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests in Southwest China
    TL Xu, RQ Yang, Z Zaw, PL Fu, S Panthi, A Braeuning, ZX Fan
    Dendrochronologia 85, 126186 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 12
  • Growth-Climate Relationships and Long-Term Growth Trends of the Tropical Forest Tree Choerospondias axillaris (Anacardiaceae) in East-Central Thailand
    W Surayothee, S Buajan, P Fu, N Pumijumnong, Z Fan, S Panthi, ...
    Forests 12 (12), 1655 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 10
  • Site-specific climate sensitivity of tree-ring width and vessel anatomical features of Juglans regia L. in Bhutan Himalaya
    J Dema, Z Zaw, ZX Fan, S Panthi, PL Fu
    Global Ecology and Conservation 53, e03023 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • A 225-year pine (Pinus latteri) tree-ring record of pre-monsoon relative humidity variation in Nan province of northern Thailand and the linkage with large-scale ocean …
    N Pumijumnong, C Muangsong, S Panthi, S Buajan, B Cai, P Kulsuwan, ...
    Global and Planetary Change 230, 104277 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • Response of radial growth of alpine pine (Pinus densata) to climatic factors in Baima Snow Mountain, northwest Yunnan
    X Peng, R Yang, Y Yin, P Shankar, T Xu, P Fu, S Ge, ZX Fan
    Acta Ecologica Sinica 43 (21), 8884-8893 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 6
  • Radial growth responses of four coniferous species to climate change in the Potatso National Park, China
    J Zhang, ZX Fan, P Fu, S Panthi, H Tang
    Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology 32 (10), 3548-3556 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 5