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  1. Slow growth as a strategy for plant longevity

    Article • Nature Communications, August 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  2. Book review

    Article • IAWA Journal, August 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  3. Fuel-reduction thinning enhances Scots pine growth during the 2022 drought in the south-western Alps

    Article • Trees Forests and People, August 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  4. Book Review

    Article • IAWA Journal, May 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  5. Declining wood density in a Tasmanian conifer limits its role in climate change mitigation

    Article • Environmental Research Communications, May 2026, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  6. What did Robert Hooke actually see? Cork and the origin of the term ‘cell’

    Article • IAWA Journal, April 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  7. The signature of reproduction on wood anatomy in European beech reveals potential for masting reconstruction

    Article • Journal of Ecology, April 2026, Wiley

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  8. Physical constraints and environmental factors shape phloem anatomical traits in woody angiosperm species

    Article • New Phytologist, September 2025, Wiley

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  9. Bridging fields: A call for greater dialogue between wood anatomists and plant hydraulic researchers

    Article • IAWA Journal, July 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  10. Wood under the lens: Unveiling ancient Egyptian heritage

    Article • Journal of Cultural Heritage, July 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  11. The signature of reproduction on wood anatomy in European beech reveals potential for masting reconstruction

    Article • May 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  12. An anatomical approach to investigating Lyctus brunneus feeding behaviour in oak sapwood

    Article • IAWA Journal, May 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  13. Addressing Sustainability Challenges in the Global Aquarium Wood Market

    Article • Forests, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  14. Fibers beyond structure: do they contribute to embolism reversal after drought relief in poplar?

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2025, Wiley

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  15. Wood mechanical properties scale with distance to tree tip in the outermost growth ring of a Scots pine

    Article • Trees, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  16. Environmental Impacts on Plant Cell Wall Lignification

    Article • Journal of Bioresources and Bioproducts, February 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  17. How humans engineered possibilities of landscape: baskets and basketry materials in İnönü Cave

    Article • Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  18. First record of blue ring in a dicotyledonous angiosperm wood

    Article • Trees, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  19. How Humans Engineered Possibilities of Landscape: Baskets and Basketry Materials in İnönü Cave

    Article • September 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  20. The importance of variance and microsite conditions for growth and hydraulic responses following long-term rewetting in pedunculate oak wood

    Article • Trees, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  21. Divergent structural leaf trait spectra in succulent versus non-succulent plant taxa

    Article • Annals of Botany, June 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  22. Accelerated growth increases the somatic epimutation rate in trees

    Article • May 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  23. Sudden disappearance of yew (Taxus baccata) woodlands from eastern England coincides with a possible climate event around 4.2 ka ago

    Article • Quaternary Science Reviews, January 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  24. A 3D multi-scale hygro-mechanical model of oak wood

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, October 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  25. The oldest known clones of Salix herbacea growing in the Northern Apennines, Italy are at least 2000 years old

    Article • American Journal of Botany, September 2023, Wiley

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  26. Reply to: Biogeographic implications of plant stature and microclimate in cold regions

    Article • Communications Biology, June 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  27. A 3D multi-scale hygro-mechanical model of oak wood

    Article • May 2023, Research Square

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  28. Priorities for Bark Anatomical Research: Study Venues and Open Questions

    Article • Plants, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  29. Author Correction: Biogeographic implication of temperature-induced plant cell wall lignification

    Article • Communications Biology, April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  30. European Dendroecological Fieldweek (EDF) 2021 in Val Müstair, Switzerland: International education and research during the pandemic

    Article • Dendrochronologia, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  31. The Macroscopic Structure of Wood

    Article • Forests, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  32. Combining conventional tree-ring measurements with wood anatomy and strontium isotope analyses enables dendroprovenancing at the local scale

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  33. Common Era treeline fluctuations and their implications for climate reconstructions

    Article • Global and Planetary Change, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  34. The Response of Beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) Populations to Climate in the Easternmost Sites of Its European Distribution

    Article • Plants, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  35. Remarkably high blue ring occurrence in Estonian Scots pines in 1976 reveals wood anatomical evidence of extreme autumnal cooling

    Article • Trees, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  36. Global wood anatomical perspective on the onset of the Late Antique Little Ice Age (LALIA) in the mid-6th century CE

    Article • Science Bulletin, November 2022, Elsevier

    Ricardo Villalba, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  37. Recognising bias in Common Era temperature reconstructions

    Article • Dendrochronologia, August 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  38. Biogeographic implication of temperature-induced plant cell wall lignification

    Article • Communications Biology, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  39. Comparative anatomy of leaf petioles in temperate trees and shrubs: the role of plant size, environment and phylogeny

    Article • Annals of Botany, February 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  40. Plants in the UK flower a month earlier under recent warming

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, February 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  41. Toriti, Magali; Durand, Aline & Fohrer, Fabien: Traces of common Xylophagous insects in wood. Atlas of identification—Western Europe

    Article • Wood Science and Technology, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  42. Global tree-ring response and inferred climate variation following the mid-thirteenth century Samalas eruption

    Article • Climate Dynamics, January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  43. Combining Conventional Tree-Ring Measurements with Wood Anatomy and Strontium Isotope Analyses Enables Dendroprovenancing at the Local Scale

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  44. Q-NET – a new scholarly network on quantitative wood anatomy

    Article • Dendrochronologia, December 2021, Elsevier

    Dr. Frederic Lens, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  45. The Suceava oak chronology: A new 804 years long tree-ring chronology bridging the gap between central and south Europe

    Article • Dendrochronologia, August 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  46. Comparative anatomy of leaf petioles in temperate trees and shrubs

    Article • April 2021, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  47. Short communication: Driftwood provides reliable chronological markers in Arctic coastal deposits

    Article • Geochronology, March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  48. Effects of an innovative densification process on mechanical and physical properties of beech and Norway spruce veneers

    Article • Journal of Wood Science, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  49. How to cut thin sections of cacti for microscope observation

    Article • IAWA Journal, February 2021, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  50. Applicability of Saplings and Shrubs in Dendrogeomorphological Dating: Case Study from the Ciprnik Debris-Flow Event

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  51. On the beauty in plant anatomy

    Article • Dendrochronologia, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  52. Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

    Article • Dendrochronologia, December 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  53. A millennium-long ‘Blue Ring’ chronology from the Spanish Pyrenees reveals severe ephemeral summer cooling after volcanic eruptions

    Article • Environmental Research Letters, November 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  54. Earlywood structure of evergreen conifers near forest line is habitat driven but latewood depends on species and seasons

    Article • Trees, November 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  55. Functional Relationships of Wood Anatomical Traits in Norway Spruce

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, May 2020, Frontiers

    Holger Gärtner, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  56. New Evidence of Thermally Constrained Plant Cell Wall Lignification

    Article • Trends in Plant Science, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  57. Know your woods: new wood identification tools for professionals of the sector

    Article • Forest - Rivista di Selvicoltura ed Ecologia Forestale, February 2020, Italian Society of Sivilculture and Forest Ecology (SISEF)

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  58. Fritz Hans Schweingruber (1936-2020)

    Article • IAWA Journal, February 2020, Brill

    Holger Gärtner, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  59. Intra-annual density fluctuations (IADFs) inPinus nigra(J. F. Arnold) at high-elevation in the central Apennines (Italy)

    Article • Trees, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  60. A new atlas and macroscopic wood identification software package for Italian timber species

    Article • IAWA Journal, October 2019, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  61. Handbook of standardized protocols for collecting plant modularity traits

    Article • Perspectives in Plant Ecology Evolution and Systematics, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  62. Author Correction: Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

    Article • Nature Communications, June 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  63. Limited capacity of tree growth to mitigate the global greenhouse effect under predicted warming

    Article • Nature Communications, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  64. Axial variation of xylem conduits in the Earth’s tallest trees

    Article • Trees, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  65. Atlas of Macroscopic Wood Identification

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  66. Introducing anatomical techniques to subfossil wood

    Article • Dendrochronologia, December 2018, Elsevier

    Holger Gärtner, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  67. The anatomy of »blue ring« in the wood of Pinus nigra

    Article • Les/Wood, October 2018, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  68. The Great Timber Roof of Porta Nuova Railway Station in Turin: The Role of Assessment and Diagnosis for Sustainable Repair and Conservation

    Article • International Journal of Architectural Heritage, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof CLARA BERTOLINI- CESTARI, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  69. Tree differences in primary and secondary growth drive convergent scaling in leaf area to sapwood area across Europe

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2018, Wiley

    tommaso anfodillo, Maria Caldeira, Dr Alan Crivellaro, Giai Petit

  70. Root-soil physical and biotic interactions with a focus on tree root systems: A review

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, February 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Alan Crivellaro, Augusto Zanella

  71. An intensive tree-ring experience: Connecting education and research during the 25th European Dendroecological Fieldweek (Asturias, Spain)

    Article • Dendrochronologia, March 2017, Elsevier

    Heli Huhtamaa, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  72. Stem Anatomy of Dalbergia and Diospyros Species from Madagascar

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  73. IAWA List of Microscopic Bark Features

    Article • IAWA Journal, November 2016, Brill

    Dr. Frederic Lens, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  74. COMMENTS ON THE IAWA HARDWOOD LIST NOW AVAILABLE ON THE WEB

    Article • IAWA Journal, September 2016, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  75. TRACHEID AND PIT ANATOMY VARY IN TANDEM IN A TALL SEQUOIADENDRON GIGANTEUM TREE

    Article • IAWA Journal, July 2016, Brill

    tommaso anfodillo, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  76. Quantitative Wood Anatomy—Practical Guidelines

    Article • Frontiers in Plant Science, June 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Alan Crivellaro, Katarina Cufar

  77. REVIEW OF MACROSCOPIC FEATURES FOR HARDWOOD AND SOFTWOOD IDENTIFICATION AND A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW CHARACTER LIST

    Article • IAWA Journal, May 2015, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  78. The “blue ring”: anatomy and formation hypothesis of a new tree-ring anomaly in conifers

    Article • Trees, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  79. Universal hydraulics of the flowering plants: vessel diameter scales with stem length across angiosperm lineages, habits and climates

    Article • Ecology Letters, May 2014, Wiley

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  80. Comparative axial widening of phloem and xylem conduits in small woody plants

    Article • Trees, March 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  81. Relationship between local and global modulus of elasticity in bending and its consequence on structural timber grading

    Article • European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, March 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  82. Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  83. Axial conduit widening in woody species: a still neglected anatomical pattern

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2013, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  84. Diagnóstico estructural de estructuras de madera históricas: La sala diplomática del Palacio Real de Nápoles

    Article • Loggia Arquitectura & Restauración, December 2012, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Dr Mauro Bernabei, Dr Alan Crivellaro

  85. Anatomy and Mechanical and Hydraulic Needs of Woody Climbers Contrasted with Subshrubs on the Island of Cyprus

    Article • IAWA Journal, January 2012, Brill

    Dr Alan Crivellaro

  86. Evaluation of drought response of two poplar clones (Populus×canadensis Mönch ‘I-214’ and P. deltoides Marsh. ‘Dvina’) through high resolution analysis of stem growth

    Article • Journal of Experimental Botany, June 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Alan Crivellaro