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Climate Change and Natural Hazards

Rodriguez Morata, C., Diaz, H.F., Ballesteros Canovas, J.A., Rohrer, M., Stoffel, M. (2018): The anomalous 2017 coastal El Niño event in Peru. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-018-4466-y.

Rodriguez Morata, C., Ballesteros Canovas, J.A., Rohrer, M., Espinoza, J. C., Beniston, M., Stoffel, M. (2018): Linkages of climate circulation patterns and hydrogeomorphic disasters in Peru. International Journal of Climatology 38, 3388–3404.

Stoffel, M., Corona, C. (2018): Future winters glimpsed in the Alps. Nature Geoscience 11, 458–460.

Allen, S.K., Ballesteros Canovas, J.A., Randhawa, S.S., Singh, A.K., Huggel C., Stoffel, M. (2018): Translating the concept of climate risk into an assessment framework to inform adaptation planning: Insights from a pilot study of flood risk in Himachal Pradesh, Northern India. Environmental Science and Policy 87, 1–10.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Trappmann, D., Madrigal-González, J., Eckert, N, Stoffel, M. (2018): Climate warming enhances snow avalanche risk in the Western Himalayas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 115, 3410–3415.

Beniston, M., Farinotti, D., Stoffel, M., Andreassen, L.M., Coppola, E., Eckert, N., Fantini, A., Giacona, F., Hauck, C., Huss, M., Huwald, H., Lehning, M., López-Moreno, J.I., Magnusson, J., Marty, C., Morán-Tejéda, E., Morin, S., Naaim, M., Provenzale, A., Rabatel, A., Six, D., Stötter, J., Strasser, U., Terzago, S., Vincent, C. (2018): The European mountain cryosphere: A review of its current state, trends and future challenges. The Cryosphere 12, 759–794.

Moos, C., Bebi, P., Schwarz, M., Stoffel, M., Sudmeier, K., Dorren, L. (2018): Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction in mountains. Earth-Science Reviews 177, 497–513.

Paul, J., Buytaert, W., Allen, S., Ballesteros, J., Bhusal, J., Cieslik , K., Clark, J., Dugar, S., Hannah, D., Stoffel, M., Dewulf, A., Dhital, M., Liu, W., Nayaval, J. L., Neupane, B., Schiller, A., Smith, P., Supper, R. (2018): Citizen science for hydrological risk reduction and resilience building. WIREs Water 5, e1262.

Kundzewicz, Z. W., Krysanova, V., Dankers, R., Hirabayashi, Y., Kanae, S., Hattermann, F.F., Huang, S., Milly, P. C.D., Stoffel, M., Driessen, P.P.J., Matczak, P., Quevauviller, P., Schellnhuber, H.-J. (2017): Differences in flood hazard projections in Europe – their causes and consequences for decision making. Hydrological Sciences Journal 62(1), 1–14.

Beniston, M., Stoffel, M., Guillet, S. (2017): Comparing observed and hypothetical climates as a means of communicating to the public and policymakers: the case of European heatwaves. Environmental Science and Policy 67, 27–34.

Morán-Tejeda, E., López-Moreno, I., Stoffel, M., Beniston, M. (2016): Rain-on-snow events in Switzer-land: recent observations and projections for the 21st century. Climate Research 71, 111–125.

Van den Heuvel, F., Goyette, S.. Rahman, K., Stoffel, M. (2016): Circulation patterns related to debris-flow triggering in the Zermatt valley in current and future climates. Geomorphology 272, 127-136.

Allen, S.K., Rastner, P., Arora, M., Huggel, C, Stoffel, M. (2015): Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: Hydrometeorological triggering and topographic predisposition. Landslides 13, 1479–1491.

Kumar, P., Kotlarski, S., Moseley, C., Sieck, K., Frey, H., Stoffel, M., Jacob D. (2015): Response of Karakoram-Himalayan glaciers to climate variability and climatic change: A regional climate model assessment. Geophysical Research Letters 42, doi:10.1002/2015GL063392.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Stoffel, M., Bussi, G., Francés, F., Bréthaut, C. (2015): Climate change impacts on discharges of the Rhone River in Lyon by the end of the 21st century: model results and implications. Regional Environmental Change 15, 505–515.

Sorg, A., Kääb, A., Roesch, A., Bigler, C., Stoffel, M. (2015): Contrasting responses of Central Asian rock glaciers to global warming. Nature Scientific Reports 5, 8228. doi:10.1038/srep08228.

Niedzwiedz, T., Lupikasza, E., Pinskwar, I., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Stoffel, M., Malarzewski, L. (2015): Variability of high rainfalls and related synoptic situations causing heavy floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 119, 273–284.

Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M., Rovéra, G., Edouard, J.L., Guibal, F. (2015): Impacts of more frequent droughts on a relict low-altitude Pinus uncinata stand in the French Alps. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2: 82. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2014.00082.

Smith, P.C., Heinrich, G., Mendlik, T., Suklitsch, M., Gobiet, A., Stoffel, M., Fuhrer, J. (2014): Station-scale bias correction and uncertainty analysis for the estimation of irrigation water requirements in the Swiss Rhone catchment under climate change. Climatic Change 127, 521–534.

Sorg, A., Huss, M., Rohrer, M., Stoffel, M. (2014): The days of plenty might soon be over in glacierized Central Asian catchments. Environmental Research Letters 9, 104018.

Hill Clarvis, M., Fatichi, S., Allan, A., Fuhrer, F., Stoffel. M., Romerio, F., Gaudard, L., Burlando, P., Beniston, M., Xoplaki, E., Toreti, A. (2014): Governing and managing water resources under changing hydro-climatic contexts: The case of the upper Rhone basin. Environmental Science and Policy 43, 56–67.

Gobiet, A., Kotlarski, S., Beniston, M., Heinrich, G., Rajczak, J., Stoffel, M. (2014): 21st century climate change in the European Alps – A review. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1138–1151.

Stoffel, M., Tiranti, D., Huggel, C. (2014): Climate change impacts on mass movements – case studies from the European Alps. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1255–1266.

Stoffel, M., Mendlik, T., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Gobiet, A. (2014): Possible impacts of climate change on debris-flow activity in the Swiss Alps. Climatic Change 122, 141–155.

Schläppy, R., Eckert, N., Jomelli, R. Stoffel, M., Grancher, D., Brunstein, D., Naaim, M., Deschatres, M. (2014): Validation of extreme snow avalanches and related return periods derived from a statistical-dynamical model using tree-ring based techniques. Cold Regions Science and Technology 99, 12–26.

Rohrer, M., Salzmann, N., Stoffel, M., Kulkarni, A.V. (2013): Missing (in-situ) snow cover data hampers climate change and runoff studies in the Greater Himalayas. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S60–S70.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M. (2013): Glacier lakes in the Indian Himalayas – glacier lake inventory, on-site assessment and modeling of critical glacier lakes. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S71–S84.

Toreti, A., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Luterbacher, J. (2013): Atmospheric forcing of debris flows in the southern Swiss Alps. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 52(7): 1554–1560.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2013): Climate change increases frequency of shallow spring landslides in the French Alps. Geology 41(5): 619–622.

Bolch, T., Kulkarni, A., Cogley, G., Frey, H., Fujita, K., Huggel, C., Kargel, J., Paul, F., Scheel, M., Bajracharya S., Stoffel, M. (2012): The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers. Science 336: 310–314. [Supplementary Material]

Sorg, A., Bolch, T., Stoffel., M., Solomina, O., Beniston, M. (2012): Climate change impacts on glaciers and runoff in Central Asia. Nature Climate Change 2(10): 725–731. [Supplementary Material]

Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2012): Hydrometeorological triggers of periglacial debris flows in the Zermatt valley (Switzerland) since 1864. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 117: F02033.

Stoffel, M., Huggel, C. (2012): Effects of climate change on mass movements in mountain environments. Progress in Physical Geography 36: 421–439.

Stoffel, M., Wilford, D.J. (2012): Hydrogeomorphic processes and vegetation: disturbance, process histories, dependencies and interactions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 9-22.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Beniston, M. (2011): Rainfall characteristics for periglacial debris flows in the Swiss Alps: past incidences – potential future evolutions. Climatic Change 105: 263–280.

Lugon, R., Stoffel, M. (2010): Rock-glacier dynamics and magnitude–frequency relations of debris flows in a high-elevation watershed: Ritigraben, Swiss Alps. Global and Planetary Change 73: 202–210.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010): Changes and trends in debris-flow frequency since AD 1850: Results from the Swiss Alps. The Holocene 20: 907–916.

Stoffel, M., Conus, D., Grichting, M.A., Lièvre, I., Maître, G. (2008): Unraveling the patterns of late Holocene debris-flow activity on a cone in the central Swiss Alps: chronology, environment and implications for the future. Global and Planetary Change 60: 222–234.

Stoffel, M., Beniston, M. (2006): On the incidence of debris flows from the early Little Ice Age to a future greenhouse climate: a case study from the Swiss Alps. Geophysical Research Letters 33: L16404.

Stoffel, M. (1999): Impacts of climate change on natural hazards and land use in the Saas and Zermatt Valleys (Switzerland). Geographica Helvetica 54(4): 224-228.

Bloetzer, W., Egli, T., Petrascheck, A., Sauter, J., Stoffel, M. (1998): Klimaänderungen und Naturgefahren in der Raumplanung. Synthesebericht NFP31. vdf Zürich: 200 pp. (ISBN 3-7281261-0-1)

Dendroclimatology

Esper, J., St. George, S. Anchukaitis, K., D’Arrigo, R., Ljungqvist, F., Luterbacher, J., Schneider, L., Stoffel, M., Wilson, R., Büntgen, U. (2018): Large-scale, millennial-length temperature reconstructions from tree-rings. Dendrochronologia 50, 81–90.

Oppenheimer, C., Orchard, A., Stoffel, M., Newfield, T., Guillet, S., Corona, C., Sigl, M., Di Cosmo, N., Büntgen, U., (2018): The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland. Climatic Change 147, 369–381.

Tamkevičiūtė, M., Edvardsson, J., Pukienė, R., Taminskas, J., Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Kibirkštis, G. (2018): Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) based reconstruction of 130 years of water table fluctuations in a peatland and its relevance for moisture variability assessments. Journal of Hydrology 558, 509–519.

Zhang, Y., Tian, Q., Guillet, S., Stoffel, M. (2017): 500-yr precipitation variability in Southern Taihang Mountains, China, and its linkages to ENSO and PDO. Climatic Change 144, 419–432.

Fazan, L., Guillet, S., Corona, C., Kozlowski, G., Stoffel, M. (2017): Imprisoned in the Cretan mountains: how relict Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) trees cope with Mediterranean climate. Science of the Total Environment 599–600, 797–805.

Guillet, S., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Khodri, M., Lavigne, F., Ortega, P., Eckert, N., Selenniou, P., Daux, V., Churakova (Sidorova), O., Davi, N., Edouard, J.L., Yong, Z., Luckman, B.H., Myglan, V.S., Guiot, J., Beniston, M., Masson-Delmotte, V., Oppenheimer, C. (2017): Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records. Nature Geoscience 10, 123–128. [Supplementary Material]

Oppenheimer, C., Wacker, L., Xu, J., Galván, D., Stoffel, M., Guillet, S., Corona, C., Sigl, M., Di Cosmo, N., Hajdas, I., Pan, B., Breuker, R., Schneider, L., Esper, J., Fei, J., Hammond, J., Büntgen, U., 2017. Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’ of Changbaishan to late 946 CE. Quaternary Science Reviews 158, 164–171.

Blanchet, G., Guillet, S., Calliari, B., Corona, C., Edvardsson, E., Stoffel., M., Bragazza, L. (2017): Impacts of regional climatic fluctuations on radial growth of Siberian and Scots pine at Mukhrino mire (central-western Siberia). Science of the Total Environment 574, 1209–1216.

Edvardsson, Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Bragazza, L., Leuschner, H.H., Charman, D., Helama, S. (2016): Sub-fossil peatland trees as proxies for palaeohydrology and climate reconstruction during the Holocene. Earth-Science Reviews 163, 118–140.

Edvardsson, J., Adolphi, F., Linderholm, H.W., Corona, C., Muscheler, R., Stoffel, M. (2016): Periodicities in mid- to late-Holocene peatland hydrology identified from Swedish and Lithuanian tree-ring data. Quaternary Science Reviews 137: 200–208.

Stoffel, M., Khodri, M., Corona, C., Guillet, S., Poulain, V., Bekki, S., Guiot, J., Luckman, B.H., Oppenheimer, C., Lebas, N., Beniston, M., Masson-Delmotte, V. (2015): Estimates of volcanic-induced cooling in the Northern Hemisphere over the past 1,500 years. Nature Geoscience 8: 784–788.

Edvardsson, J., Corona, C., Mažeika, J., Pukienė, R., Stoffel, M. (2016): Recent advances in long-term climate and moisture reconstructions from the Baltic region: Exploring the potential for a new multi-millennial tree-ring chronology. Quaternary Science Reviews 131: 118–126.

Dendroecology

Arbellay, E., Jarvis, I., Chavardès, R.D., Daniels, L.D., Stoffel, M., (2018): Tree-ring proxies of larch bud moth defoliation: latewood width and blue intensity are more precise than tree-ring width. Tree Physiology 38, 1237–1245.

Madrigal-González, J., Andivia, E., Zavala, M.A., Stoffel, M., Sánchez-Salguero, R., Calatayud, J., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A. (2018): Disentangling the relative role of climate change on tree growth in an extreme Mediterranean environment. Science of the Total Environment 642, 619–628.

Madrigal-González, J., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Herrero, A., Ruiz-Benito, P., Stoffel, M., Lucas-Borja, M.E., Sancho-García, C., Zavala, M.A. (2017): Forest productivity in southwestern Europe controlled by coupled North Atlantic and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillations. Nature Communications 8, 2222.

Edvardsson, J., Stančikaitė, M., Miras, Y., Corona, C., Gryguc, G., Gedminienė, L., Mazeika J., Stoffel, M. (2018): Late-Holocene vegetation dynamics in response to a changing climate and anthropogenic influences – Insights from stratigraphic records and subfossil trees from southern Lithuania. Quaternary Science Reviews 185, 91–101.

Francon, L., Corona, C., Roussel, E., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M. (2017): Warm summers and moderate winter precipitation boost Rhododendron ferrugineum L. growth in the Taillefer massif (French Alps). Science of the Total Environment 586: 1020–1031.

González, C., Jofré, M., Stoffel, M., Bottini, R., Giordano, C. (2016): Morphology and hydraulic architecture of Vitis vinifera L. cv. Syrah and Torrontés Riojano plants are unaffected by variations in red to far-red ratio. PLoS ONE 11(12), e0167767

Edvardsson, J., Rimkus, E., Corona, C., Šimanauskiene, R., Kažys, J., Stoffel, M. (2015): Exploring the impact of regional climate and local hydrology on Pinus sylvestris L. growth variability – A comparison between pine populations growing on peat soils and mineral soils in Lithuania. Plant and Soil 392, 345–356.

Fragnière, J., Bétrisey, S., Cardinaux, L., Stoffel, M., Kozlowski, G. (2015): Fighting their last stand? A global analysis of the distribution and conservation status of gymnosperms. Journal of Biogeography 42, 809–820.

Kozlowski, G., Stoffel, M., Cardinaux, L., Bétrisey, S., Mota, M. (2015): Hydrophobia of gymnosperms: myth or reality? Ecohydrology 8, 105–112.

Edvardsson, R., Šimanauskiene, R., Taminskas, J., Baužiene, J., Stoffel, M. (2015): Increased tree establishment in Lithuanian peat bogs detected using a combination of field and remotely sensed approaches. Science of the Total Environment 505, 113–120.

Bosque, M., Adamogianni, M.I., Bariotakis, M., Fazan, L., Stoffel, M., Garfi, G., Gratzfeld, J., Kozlowski, G., Pirintsos, S. (2014): Fine-scale spatial patterns of Tertiary relict Zelkova abelicea (Ulmaceae) indicate possible processes contributing to its persistence to climate change. Regional Environmental Change 14, 835–849.

Stoffel, M., Corona, C. (2014): Dendroecological dating of geomorphic disturbance in trees. Tree-Ring Research 70, 3–20.

Stoffel, M., Rice, S., Turowski, J. M. (2013): Process geomorphology and ecosystems: Disturbance regimes and interactions. Geomorphology 202: 1–3.

Rice, S., Stoffel, M., Turowski, J. M., Wolf, A. (2012): Disturbance regimes at the interface of geomorphology and ecology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 1678–1682.

Fazan, L., Stoffel, M., Frey, D. J., Pirintsos, S., Kozlowski, G. (2012): Small does not mean young: age estimation of severely browsed trees in anthropogenic Mediterranean landscapes. Biological Conservation 153: 97-100.

Van der Burght, L., Stoffel, M., Bigler, C.J. (2012): Analysis and modelling of tree succession on a recent rockslide deposit. Plant Ecology 213: 35–46.

Dendrogeomorphology

Franco-Ramos, O., Vázquez-Selem, L., Stoffel, M., Díaz, J.V. (2018): Potencial dendrogeomorfológico de coníferas en volcanes del centro de México. Bosque 39, 191–204.

Bhattacharyya, A., Stoffel, M., Shekhar, M., Ballesteros Cánovas, J.A., Trappmann, D. (2017): Dendrogeomorphic potential of the Himalaya – case studies of process dating of natural hazards in Kullu valley, Himachal Pradesh. Current Science 113, 2317–2324.

Stoffel, M., Corona, C. (2014): Dendroecological dating of geomorphic disturbance in trees. Tree-Ring Research 70, 3–20.

Butler, D.R., Stoffel, M. (2013): John F. Shroder, Jr.’s 1978 and 1980 Papers on Dendrogeomorphology. Progress in Physical Geography 37(5), 717–721.

Stoffel, M., Rice, S., Turowski, J. M. (2013): Process geomorphology and ecosystems: Disturbance regimes and interactions. Geomorphology 202: 1–3.

Stoffel., M., Butler, D.R., Corona, C. (2013): Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating. Geomorphology 200: 106–120.

Rice, S., Stoffel, M., Turowski, J. M., Wolf, A. (2012): Disturbance regimes at the interface of geomorphology and ecology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 1678–1682.

Osterkamp, W.R., Hupp, C.R., Stoffel, M. (2012): The interactions between vegetation and erosion: new directions for research at the interface of ecology and geomorphology. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 23-36.

Stoffel, M., Wilford, D.J. (2012): Hydrogeomorphic processes and vegetation: disturbance, process histories, dependencies and interactions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 9-22.

Astrade, L., Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J. (2012): L’utilisation des cernes de croissance des arbres pour l’étude des événements et des changements morphologiques : intérêts, méthodes et apports des recherches alpines à la dendrogéomorphologie. Géomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement 3: 295–316.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Butler, D. R., Luckman, B. H. (2010): Tree rings and natural hazards: A state-of-the-art. Springer, Heidelberg, Berlin, New York, 505 pp.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2010): Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research – preface. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 10: 2355–2357.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010): Tree rings and debris flows: recent developments, future directions. Progress in Physical Geography 34: 625–645.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2009): What tree rings can tell about earth-surface processes. Teaching the principles of dendrogeomorphology. Geography Compass 3: 1013–1037.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2008): Tree-ring analysis in natural hazards research – an overview. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 8: 187–202.

Debris Flow

de Haas, T., Densmore, A., Stoffel, M., Suwa, H., Imaizumi, F., Ballesteros Canovas, J.A., Wasklewicz, T., (2018): Avulsions and the spatio-temporal evolution of debris-flow fans. Earth-Science Reviews 177, 53–75.

Tichavsky, R., Stoffel M., Silhan, K. (2017): Age-dependent sensitivity of trees disturbed by debris flows – implications for dendrogeomorphic reconstructions. Quaternary Geochronology 42, 63–75.

Allen, S.K., Rastner, P., Arora, M., Huggel, C, Stoffel, M. (2016): Lake outburst and debris flow disaster at Kedarnath, June 2013: Hydrometeorological triggering, and topographic predisposition. Landslides 13(6), 1479–1491.

van den Heuvel, F., Goyette, S.. Rahman, K., Stoffel, M. (2016): Circulation patterns related to debris-flow triggering in the Zermatt valley in current and future climates. Geomorphology 272, 127–136.

Ballesteros-Cánovas J.A., Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Schraml, K., Gobiet, A., Tani, S., Sinabell, F., Fuchs, S., Kaitna, R. (2016): Debris-flow risk analysis in a managed torrent based on a stochastic life-cycle performance. Science of the Total Environment 557–558: 142–153.

Schraml, K., Oismüller, M., Stoffel, M., Hübl, J., Kaitna, R. (2015): Debris-flow activity in five adjacent gullies in a limestone mountain range. Geochronometria 42, 60–66.

Šilhán, K., Pánek, T., Hradecký, J., Stoffel, M. (2015): Tree-age control on reconstructed debris-flow frequencies: examples from a regional dendrogeomorphic reconstruction in the Crimean Mountains. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40, 243–251.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Clague, J.J., Schaub Y., Stoffel, M. (2014): Coupling glacial lake impact, dam breach, and flood processes: A modeling perspective. Geomorphology 224, 161–176.

Borga, M., Stoffel, M., Marchi, L., Marra, F., Jakob, M. (2014): Hydrogeomorphic response to extreme rainfall in headwater systems: flash floods and debris flows. Journal of Hydrology 518, 194–205.

Stoffel, M., Tiranti, D., Huggel, C. (2014): Climate change impacts on mass movements – case studies from the European Alps. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1255–1266.

Stoffel, M., Mendlik, T., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Gobiet, A. (2014): Possible impacts of climate change on debris-flow activity in the Swiss Alps. Climatic Change 122, 141–155.

Schraml, K., Kogelnig-Mayer, B., Scheidl, C. , Stoffel, M., Kaitna, R. (2013): Magnitude-frequency relations of debris flows based on dendrogeomorphic data and semi-empirical relationships. Geomorphology 201: 80–85.

Schneuwly, M., Corona, C., Stoffel, M. (2013): How to improve dating quality and reduce noise in tree-ring based debris-flow reconstructions. Quaternary Geochronology 18: 110–118.

Stoffel., M., Butler, D.R., Corona, C. (2013): Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating. Geomorphology 200: 106–120.

Kogelnig, B., Stoffel, M., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M. (2013): Four-dimensional growth response of mature Larix decidua to stem burial under natural conditions. Trees – Structure and Function 27, 1217–1223.

Savi, S., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Bommer-Denns, B., Stoffel, M., Schlunegger, F. (2013): Geomorphic coupling between hillslopes and channels in the Swiss Alps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 38: 959–969.

Stoffel , M., Casteller, A., Luckman, B.H., Villalba, R. (2012): Spatiotemporal analysis of channel wall erosion in ephemeral torrents using tree roots – An example from the Patagonian Andes. Geology 40(3): 247–250.

Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2012): Hydrometeorological triggers of periglacial debris flows – a reconstruction dating back to 1864. Journal of Geophysical Research – Earth Surface 117: F02033.

Procter E., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Neumann M. (2012): Exploring debris-flow history and process dynamics using an integrative approach on a dolomitic cone in western Austria. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 37: 913–922.

Stoffel, M., Wilford, D.J. (2012): Hydrogeomorphic processes and vegetation: disturbance, process histories, dependencies and interactions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 9-22.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. Beniston, M. (2011): Rainfall characteristics for periglacial debris flows in the Swiss Alps: past incidences – potential future evolutions. Climatic Change 105: 263–280.

Kogelnig-Mayer, B., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Hübl, J., Rudolf-Miklau, F. (2011): Possibilities and limitations of dendrogeomorphic time-series reconstructions on sites influenced by debris flows and frequent snow avalanche activity. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 43: 649–658.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Gotteland, A., Berger, F., Liebault, F. (2011): Debris-flow activity in abandoned channels of the Manival torrent reconstructed with LiDAR and tree-ring data. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 11: 1247–1257.

Procter E., Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Neumann M. (2011): A regional reconstruction of debris-flow activity in the Northern Calcareous Alps, Austria. Geomorphology 132: 41-50.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Schlaeppy, R. (2011): Debris-flood reconstruction in a pre-alpine catchment in Switzerland based on tree-ring analysis of coniferous and broadleaved trees. Geografiska Annaler 93: 1-15.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2010): Wood anatomical analysis of Alnus incana and Betula pendula injured by a debris-flow event. Tree Physiology 30: 1290–1298.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Widmer, S., Sorg, A. (2010): Spatio-temporal variability in debris-flow activity: a tree-ring study at Geisstriftbach (Swiss Alps) extending back to AD 1736. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 103: 283–292.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010): Tree rings and debris flows: recent developments, future directions. Progress in Physical Geography 34: 625–645.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010). Changes and trends in debris-flow frequency since AD 1850: Results from the Swiss Alps. The Holocene 20: 907–916.

Sorg, A., Bugmann, H., Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010): Debris-flow activity along a torrent in the Swiss Alps: Minimum frequency of events and implications for forest dynamics. Dendrochronologia 28: 215–223.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2010): Variations in debris-flow occurrence in an Alpine catchment – A reconstruction based on tree rings. Global and Planetary Change 73: 186–192.

Mayer, B., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Hübl, J., Rudolf-Miklau, F. (2010): Frequency and spread of debris floods on fans: a dendrogeomorphic case study from a dolomite catchment in the Austrian Alps. Geomorphology 118: 199–206.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2010): Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past debris-flow activity using injured broad-leaved trees. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 35: 399–406.

Stoffel, M. (2010): Magnitude-frequency relationships of debris flows – a case study based on field surveys and tree-ring records. Geomorphology. 116: 67–76.

Szymczak, S., Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Dikau, R. (2010): Debris-flow activity and snow avalanches in a steep watershed of the Valais Alps (Switzerland): dendrogeomorphic event reconstruction and identification of triggers. Geomorphology 116: 107-114.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2009): Tree-ring reconstruction of past debris flows based on a small number of samples – possibilities and limitations. Landslides 6: 225–230.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Leutwiler, A., Aeby, P. (2008): Large debris-flow events and overbank sedimentation in the Illgraben torrent (Valais Alps, Switzerland). Open Geology Journal 2: 18–29.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Schneuwly, D.M. (2008): Dynamics in debris-flow activity on a forested cone – a case study using different dendroecological approaches. Catena 72: 67-78.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Schneuwly, D.M., Bourqui, K. (2008): Traumatic resin ducts in Larix decidua stems impacted by debris flows. Tree Physiology 28: 255–263.

Stoffel, M. (2007): Debris-flow activity in the Ritigraben torrent (Valais Alps, Switzerland): will there be less but bigger events in a future greenhouse climate? McInnes, R., Jakeways, J., Fairbank, H., Mathie, E. (eds.) Landslides and climate change: challenges and solutions. Taylor & Francis Group, London UK: 51–58.

Bollschweiler, M. (2007): Spatial and temporal occurrence of past debris flows in the Valais Alps – results from tree-ring analysis. PhD thesis. Faculty of Science, University of Fribourg. GeoFocus 20, 1–182.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2007): Debris flows on forested cones – reconstruction and comparison of frequencies in two catchments in Val Ferret, Switzerland. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 7, 207-218.

Bollschweiler M., Stoffel M., Ehmisch M., Monbaron M. (2007): Reconstructing spatio-temporal patterns of debris-flow activity using dendrogeomorphological methods. Geomorphology. 87, 337-351.

Stoffel, M., Beniston, M., 2006. On the incidence of debris flows from the early Little Ice Age to a future greenhouse climate: a case study from the Swiss Alps. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L16404.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Hassler, G. R. (2006): Differentiating past events on a cone influenced by debris-flow and snow avalanche activity – a dendrogeomorphological approach. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 31 (11), 1424-1437.

Stoffel, M., Lièvre, I., Conus, D., Grichting, M.A., Raetzo, H., Gärtner, H.W., Monbaron, M. (2005): 400 years of debris flow activity and triggering weather conditions: Ritigraben VS, Switzerland . Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research 37(3): 387–395.

Erosion

Lopez‐Saez, J., Corona, C., Morel, P., Rovéra, G., Dewez, T. J. B., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2018): Quantification of cliff retreat in coastal Quaternary sediments using anatomical changes in exposed tree roots. Earth Surf. Process. Landforms, https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4462.

Bodoque, J.M., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Rubiales, J.M., Perucha, M.A., Nadal-Romero, E., Stoffel, M. (2017): Quantifying soil erosion from hiking trail in a protected natural area in the Spanish Pyrenees. Land Degradation and Development 28, 2255–2267.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Stoffel, M., Martín-Duque, J.F., Corona, C., Lucía, A., Bodoque, J.M., Montgomery, D. R. (2017): Gully evolution and geomorphic adjustments of badlands to reforestation. Nature Scientific Reports 7: 45027.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Lucia-Vela, A., Bodoque, J.M., Martin-Duque, J.F. (2015): Combining terrestrial laser scanning and exposed roots for erosion rate estimation. Plant and Soil 394: 127–137.

Rovéra, G., Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2013): Preliminary quantification of the erosion of sandy-gravelly cliffs on Porquerolles island (Provence, France) through dendrogeomorphology, using exposed roots of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Mill.). Geografia Fisica e Dinamica Quaternaria 36: 181–187.

Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Ballesteros Canovas, J. A., Bodoque del Pozo, J. M. (2013): Dating and quantification of erosion processes based on exposed roots. Earth-Science Reviews 123: 18–34.

Lopez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Rovéra, G., Astrade, L., Berger, F. (2011): Mapping of erosion rates in marly badlands based on anatomical changes in exposed roots and LiDAR data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36: 1162-1171.

Corona, C., Lopez, J., Rovéra, G., Astrade, L., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2011): Quantification des vitesses d’érosion au moyen de racines déchaussées: validation de la méthode dans les badlands marneux des bassins versants expérimentaux de Draix (Alpes de Haute-Provence). Géomorphologie: Relief, Processus, Environnement 11(1): 83–94.

Corona, C., Lopez, J., Rovéra, G., Stoffel, M., Astrade, L., Berger, F. (2011): High resolution, quantitative reconstruction of erosion rates based on anatomical changes in exposed roots (Draix, Alpes de Haute-Provence) – critical review of existing approaches and independent quality control of results. Geomorphology 125: 433–444.

Hitz, O.M., Gärtner, H., Heinrich, I., Monbaron, M. (2008): Application of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) roots to determine erosion rates in mountain torrents. Catena 72: 248–258.

Hitz, O.M., Gärtner, H., Heinrich, I., Monbaron, M. (2008): Wood anatomical changes in roots of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) after exposure. Dendrochronologia. 25: 145–152.

Flooding

Wilhelm, B., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Corella Aznar, J.P., Kämpf, L., Swierczynski, T., Stoffel, M., Støren, E., Toonen, W. (2018): Recent advances in paleoflood hydrology: from new archives to data compilation and analysis. Water Security 3, 1–8.

Iroumé, A., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Mao, L., Barrientos, G., Stoffel, M., Vergara, G. (2018): Geomorphic and stream flow influences on large wood entrainment and displacement lengths in high gradient mountain streams (Chile). Hydrological Processes 32, 2636–2653.

Galia, T. Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Tichavský, R., Šilhán, K., Horáček, M., Stoffel, M., (2018): Characteristics and abundance of large and small instream wood in a Carpathian mixed-forest headwater basin. Forest Ecology and Management 424, 468–482.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Díez-Herrero, A., García, J.A., Ollero, A., Piégay, H., Stoffel, M. (2018): Does the public’s negative perception towards wood in rivers relate to recent impact of flooding experiencing? Science of the Total Environment 635, 294–307.

Kundzewicz, Z., Stoffel, M., Wyżga, B., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Niedźwiedź, T., Kaczka, R., Pińskwar, I., Łupikasza, A., Zawiejska, J., Mikuś, P., Choryński, A. (2017): Changes of flood risk on the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains. Geophysica Acta 65, 799–807.

Galia, T., Šilhán, K., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Tichavský, R., Stoffel, M. (2017): Temporal dynamics of instream wood in headwater streams draining mixed Carpathian forest. Geomorphology 292, 35–46.

Petrov, M.A., Sabitov, T.Y., Tomashevskaya, I.G., Glazirin, G.E., Chernomorets, S.S., Savernyuk, E.A., Tutu-balina, O.V., Petrakov, D.A., Sokolov, L.S., Dokukin, M.D., Mountrakis, G., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Stoffel, M. (2017): Glacial lake inventory and lake outburst potential in Uzbekistan. Science of the Total Environment 592, 228–242.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Wyżga, B., Mikuś, P., Hajdukiewicz, M., Stoffel, M., 2017. Large wood clogging during floods in a gravel-bed river: The Długopole bridge in the Czarny Dunajec River, Poland. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 42, 516–530.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Stoffel, M. (2017): Frederick J. Swanson´s 1976-1979 papers on the effects of instream wood on fluvial processes and instream wood management. Progress in Physical Geography 41, 124–133.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Allen, S., Arora, M., Goel, N.K., Stoffel, M. (2017): Recent catastrophic landslide lake outburst floods in the Himalayan mountain range. Progress in Physical Geography 41, 3–28.

Ballesteros Cánovas, J.A., Trappmann D., Shekhar M, Bhattacharyya A, Stoffel, M. (2017) : Regional flood-frequency reconstruction for Kullu district, Western Indian Himalayas. Journal of Hydrology 546, 140–149.

Kundzewicz, Z. W., Krysanova, V., Dankers, R., Hirabayashi, Y., Kanae, S., Hattermann, F.F., Huang, S., Milly, P. C.D., Stoffel, M., Driessen, P.P.J., Matczak, P., Quevauviller, P., Schellnhuber, H.-J. (2017): Differ-ences in projections of changes in flood hazard in Europe – their causes and consequences for decision making. Hydrological Sciences Journal 62(1), 1–14.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Wyżga, B., Mikuś, P., Hajdukiewicz, H., Stoffel, M. (2016): The role of flood hydro-graphs in the remobilization of large wood in a mountain river with contrasting morphologies. Journal of Hydrology 541A, 330–343.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Gurnell, A., Piégay, H., Marston, R.A., Stoffel, M. (2016): Recent advances quantifying the large-wood cycle in forested river basins: new methods, remaining challenges. Reviews of Geophysics 54, 611–652.

Stoffel., M., Wyzga, B., Marston, R.A. (2016): Floods in mountain environments. Geomorphology 272, 1–9.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Wyżga, B., Zawiejska, J., Hajdukiewicz, M., Stoffel, M. (2016): Factors controlling large wood transport in a mountain river. Geomorphology 272, 21–31.

Ballesteros-Cánovas J.A., Stoffel, M., Czajka, B., Janecka, K., Kaczka R.J., Lempa, M. (2016): Paleoflood discharge reconstruction in Tatra Mountain streams. Geomorphology 272, 92–101.

Zaginaev, V., Ballesteros-Cánovas, J. A., Erokhin, S., Matov, E., Petrakov, D., Stoffel, M. (2016): Reconstruction of glacial lake outbursts floods in Northern Tien Shan: Implications for hazard assessment. Geomorphology 269, 75–84.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Wyżga, B., Hajdukiewicz, H., Stoffel, M. (2016): Exploring large wood retention and deposition in contrasting river morphologies linking numerical modelling and field observations. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 41: 446–459.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Stoffel, M., Wyżga, B., Kundzewicz, Z.W., Czajka, B., Niedźwiedź, T. (2016): Decadal variability of floods in the northern foreland of the Tatra mountains. Regional Environmental Change 16: 603–615.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Piégay, H., Gaertner, V., Perret, F., Stoffel, M. (2016): Wood density and moisture sorption and its influence on large wood mobility in rivers. Catena 140: 182–194.

Schwanghart, W., Worni, R., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M., Korup, O. (2016): Uncertainties at the water-energy nexus – the case of Himalayan hydropower and glacial lake outburst floods. Environmental Research Letters 11: 074005.

Rodriguez-Morata, C., Ballesteros-Cánovas J.A., Trappmann, D., Beniston, M., Stoffel, M. (2016): Regional reconstruction of flash flood history in the Guadarrama range (Central System, Spain). Science of the Total Environment 550: 406–417.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Rodríguez-Morata, C., Garófano-Gómez, V., Rubiales, J.M., Sánchez-Salguero, R. Stoffel, M. (2015): Unravelling past flash flood activity in a forested mountain catchment of the Spanish Central System. Journal of Hydrology 529: 468–479.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Márquez-Peñaranda, J.F., Sánchez-Silva, M., Díez-Herrero, A., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Bodoque, J.M., Stoffel, M. (2015): Can tree tilting be used for paleoflood discharge estimations? Journal of Hydrology 529: 480–489.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Stoffel, M., St George, S., Hirschboeck, K. (2015): A review of flood records from tree rings. Progress in Physical Geography 39: 794–816.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Stoffel, M., Guardiola Albert, C., Díez Herrero, A. (2015): XRCT imagery and variograms reveal 3D changes in wood density of riparian trees affected by floods. Trees – Structure and Function 29: 1115–1126.

Jochner, M., Turowski, J.M., Badoux, A., Stoffel, M., Rickli, C. (2015): The role of log jams and exceptional flood events in mobilizing coarse particulate organic matter in a steep headwater stream. Earth Surface Dynamics 3, 311 – 320.

Ballesteros, J.A., Butler, D.R., Stoffel., M. (2015): R. S. Sigafoos’s 1961 and 1964 papers on botanical evidence of paleofloods. Progress in Physical Geography 39, 405–411.

Cudennec, C., Eicker, A., Pilon, P., Stoffel, M., Viglione, A., Xu, Z. (2015): Preface: Extreme hydrological events. Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences 369, 1–2.

Ballesteros-Cánovas, J.A., Czajka, B., Janecka, K., Lempa, M., Kaczka, R.J., Stoffel, M. (2015): Flash floods in Tatra Mountain streams: frequency and triggers. Science of the Total Environment 511, 639–648.

Casteller, A., Stoffel, M., Crespo, S., Villalba, R., Corona, C., Bianchi, E. (2015): Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of flash floods in the Patagonian Andes. Geomorphology 228, 116–123.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Clague, J.J., Schaub Y., Stoffel, M. (2014): Coupling glacial lake impact, dam breach, and flood processes: A modeling perspective. Geomorphology 224, 161–176.

Kundzewicz, Z.W., Stoffel, M., Kaczka, R., Wyzga, B., Niedzwiedz, T., Pinskwar, I., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Lupikasza, E., Czajka, B., Ballesteros-Canovas, J.A., Malarzewski, L., Chorynski, A. (2014): Floods at the northern foothills of the Tatra Mountains – A Polish-Swiss research project. Acta Geophysica 62, 620 – 641.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Díez-Herrero, A., Bodoque, J.M., Ballesteros, J.A., Stoffel, M. (2013): Characterization of flash floods in small ungaugedmountainbasins of central Spain using an integrated approach. Catena 110: 32–43.

Savi, S., Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Bommer-Denns, B., Stoffel, M. Schlunegger, F. (2013): Geomorphic coupling between hillslopes and channels in the Swiss Alps. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 38: 959–969.

Worni, R., Stoffel, M., Huggel, C., Volz C., Casteller, A., Luckman, B.H. (2012): Analysis and dynamic modeling of a moraine failure and glacier lake outburst flood at Ventisquero Negro, Patagonian Andes (Argentina). Journal of Hydrology. 444–445: 134–145.

Stoffel, M., Wilford, D.J. (2012): Hydrogeomorphic processes and vegetation: disturbance, process histories, dependencies and interactions. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 37: 9-22.

Ballesteros, J. A., Bodoque, J. M., Díez, A., Sanchez-Silva, M., Stoffel, M. (2011): Calibration of floodplain roughness and estimation of palaeoflood discharge based on tree-ring evidence and hydraulic modelling. Journal of Hydrology. 403: 103-115.

Ballesteros, J. A., Eguibar, M., Bodoque, J. M., Díez, A., Stoffel, M., Gutiérrez, I. (2011): Estimating flash flood discharge in an ungauged mountain catchment with 2D hydraulic models and dendrogeomorphic paleostage indicators. Hydrological Processes 25: 970-979.

Ballesteros-Canovas, J. A., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Bodoque del Pozo, J. M., Díez-Herrero, A. (2010): Flash-flood impacts cause changes in wood anatomy of Alnus glutinosa, Fraxinus angustifolia and Quercus pyrenaica. Tree Physiology 30: 773–781.

Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Diez-Herrero, A., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Bodoque, J. M., Ballesteros, J. A. (2010): Dendrogeomorphic analysis of flash floods in a small ungauged mountain catchment (Central Spain). Geomorphology 118: 383–392.

Ballesteros-Canovas, J. A., Stoffel, M., Bodoque del Pozo, J. M., Bollschweiler, M., Hitz, O. M., Diez-Herrero, A. (2010): Changes in wood anatomy in tree rings of Pinus pinaster Ait. following wounding by flash floods. Tree-Ring Research 66: 93–103.

Landslides

Šilhán, K., Tichavský, R., Škarpich, V., Břežný, M., Stoffel, M. (2018): Regional, tree-ring based chronology of landslides in the Outer Western Carpathians. Geomorphology 321, 33–44.

Erokhin, S., Zaginaev, V., Meleshko, A., Ruiz-Villanueva, V., Petrakov, D., Chernomorets, S.S., Viskhadzhieva, K., Tutubalina, O.V., Stoffel, M. (2018): Debris flows triggered from non-stationary glacier lake outbursts: the case of the Teztor Lake complex (Northern Tian-Shan, Kyrgyzstan). Landslides 15, 83–98.

Lopez-Saez, J., Morel, P., Corona, C., Bommer-Denns, B., Schlunegger, F., Berger, F., Stoffel, M. (2017): Tree-ring reconstruction of reactivation phases of the Schimbrig landslide (Swiss Alps). Géomorphologie 23, 265–276.

Imaizumi, F., Trappmann, D., Matsuoka, N., Tsuchiya, S., Ohsaka, O., Stoffel, M. (2016): Biographical sketch of a giant: deciphering recent debris-flow dynamics from Ohya landslide body (Japanese Alps). Geomorphology 272, 102–114.

Šilhán, S., Stoffel, M. (2015): Impacts of age-dependent tree sensitivity and dating approaches on dendrogeomorphic time series of landslides.Geomorphology 236, 34–43.

Stoffel, M., Tiranti, D., Huggel, C. (2014): Climate change impacts on mass movements – case studies from the European Alps. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1255–1266.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2014): Tree roots record precursor signals of landslide activity. Géomorphologie: Processus, Relief, Environnement 2/14, 159–174.

Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M. (2014): Defining optimal sample size, sampling design and thresholds for dendrogeomorphic landslide sampling. Quaternary Geochronology 22, 72–84.

Stoffel., M., Butler, D.R., Corona, C. (2013): Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating. Geomorphology 200: 106–120.

Lopez Saez J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Berger F. (2013): High-resolution fingerprints of past landsliding and spatially explicit, probabilistic assessment of future activations: Aiguettes landslide, Southeastern French Alps. Tectonophysics 602, 355–369.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Berger, F. (2013): Climate change increases frequency of shallow spring landslides in the French Alps. Geology 41(5): 619–622.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Astrade, L., Berger, F., Malet, J.P. (2012): Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of past landslide reactivation with seasonal precision: the Bois Noir landslide, southeast French Alps. Landslides 9: 189–203.

Lopez Saez, J., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Schoeneich, P., Berger, F. (2012): Probability maps of landslide reactivation derived from tree-ring records: Pra Bellon landslide, southern French Alps. Geomorphology.

Process modelling

Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Favillier, A., Mainieri, R., Eckert, N., Trappmann, D., Stoffel, M., Bourrier, F., Berger, F. (2017): Modeling rockfall frequency and bounce height from three-dimensional simulation pro-cess models and growth disturbances in submontane broadleaved trees. Geomorphology 281, 66–77.

Sorg, A., Huss, M., Rohrer, M., Stoffel, M. (2014): The days of plenty might soon be over in glacierized Central Asian catchments. Environmental Research Letters 9, 104018.

Trappmann, D., Stoffel, M., Corona, C. (2014): Achieving a more realistic assessment of rockfall hazards by coupling three-dimensional, process based models and field-based tree-ring data. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 39, 1866–1875.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Clague, J.J., Schaub Y., Stoffel, M. (2014): Coupling glacial lake impact, dam breach, and flood processes: A modeling perspective. Geomorphology 224, 161–176.

Corona, C., Trappmann, D., Stoffel, M. (2013): Parameterization of rockfall source areas and magnitudes with ecological recorders – when disturbances in trees serve the calibration and validation of simulation runs. Geomorphology 202: 33–42.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M., Pulgarin, B., (2012): Challenges of modelling recent, very large lahars at Nevado del Huila Volcano, Colombia. Bulletin of Volcanology 74: 309–324.

Stoffel, M., Wehrli, A., Kühne, R., Dorren, L.K.A., Perret, S., Kienholz, H. (2006): Assessing the protective effect of mountain forests against rockfall using a 3D simulation model. Forest Ecology and Management 225: 113-122.

Rockfall

Favillier, A., Mainieri, R., Lopez Saez, J., Berger, F., Stoffel, M., Corona C. (2017): Dendrogeomorphic assessment of rockfall recurrence intervals at Saint Paul de Varces, Western French Alps. Géomorphologie 23, 109–119.

Franco-Ramos, O., Stoffel, M., Vázquez-Selem, L. (2017): Tree-ring based reconstruction of rockfalls at Cofre de Perote volcano, Mexico. Geomorphology 290, 142–152.

Moos, C., Dorren, L.K.A., Stoffel, M. (2017): Quantifying the effect of forests on occurrence frequency and intensity of rockfalls. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 17, 291 – 304.

Lopez-Saez, J., Corona, C., Eckert, N., Stoffel, M., Bourrier, F., Berger F. (2016): Impacts of land-use and land-cover changes on rockfall propagation: Insights from the Grenoble conurbation. Science of the Total Environment 547: 345–355.

Trappmann, D., Stoffel, M. (2015): Visual dating of rockfall scars in Larix decidua (Mill.) trees. Geomorphology 245, 62–72.

Favillier, A., Lopez-Saez, J., Corona, C., Trappmann, D., Toe, D., Stoffel, M., Rovéra, G., Berger, F. (2015): Potential of two submontane broadleaved species (Acer opalus, Quercus pubescens) to reveal spatio-temporal patterns of rockfall activity. Geomorphology 246, 35–47.

Morel, P., Trappmann, D., Corona, C., Stoffel, M. (2015): Defining sample size and sampling strategy for dendrogeomorphic rockfall reconstructions. Geomorphology 236, 79–89.

Stoffel, M., Tiranti, D., Huggel, C. (2014): Climate change impacts on mass movements – case studies from the European Alps. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1255–1266.

Trappmann, D., Corona, C., Stoffel, M. (2013): Rolling stones and tree rings: a state of research on dendrogeomorphic reconstructions of rockfall. Progress in Physical Geography 37(5), 701–716.

Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Schneuwly, D.M. (2012): How fast do European conifers overgrow wounds inflicted by rockfall? Tree Physiology 32: 968–975.

Trappmann, D., Stoffel, M. (2012): Counting scars on tree stems to assess rockfall hazards: A low effort approach, but how reliable? Geomorphology 180–181: 180–186.

Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M., Vazquez-Selem, L., Franco-Ramos, O., Palacios, D. (2011): Dendrogeomorphic dating of rockfalls on low-latitude, high-elevation slopes: Rodadero, Iztaccíhuatl volcano, Mexico. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 36:1209-1217.

Schneuwly, D. M. (2009): Tree rings and rockfall – Anatomic tree reactions and spatio-temporal rockfall analysis. PhD thesis. Department of Geosciences, Geography, University of Fribourg.

Schneuwly, D. M., Stoffel, M., Dorren, L. K. A., Berger, F. (2009): Three-dimensional analysis of the anatomical growth response of European conifers to mechanical disturbance. Tree Physiology 29: 1247–1257.

Schneuwly, D. M., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2009): Formation and spread of callus tissue and tangential rows of resin ducts in Larix decidua and Picea abies following rockfall impacts. Tree Physiology 29: 281–289.

Lundström, T., Jonsson, M. J., Volkwein, A., Stoffel, M. (2009): Reactions and energy absorption of trees subject to rockfall: a detailed assessment using a new experimental method. Tree Phyiology 29: 345–359.

Stoffel, M., Hitz, O.M. (2008): Snow avalanche and rockfall impacts leave different anatomical signatures in tree rings of Larix decidua. Tree Physiology 28(11): 1713–1720.

Schneuwly, D. M., Stoffel, M. (2008): Changes in spatio-temporal patterns of rockfall activity on a forested slope – a case study using dendrogeomorphology. Geomorphology 102: 522–531.

Schneuwly, D. M., Stoffel, M. (2008): Tree-ring based reconstruction of the seasonal timing, major events and origin of rockfall on a case-study slope in the Swiss Alps. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 8: 203–211.

Dorren, L., Berger, F., Jonsson, M., Krautblatter, M., Moelk, M., Stoffel, M., Wehrli, A. (2007): State of the art in rockfall–forest interaction. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 158(6): 128–141.

Stoffel, M. (2006): A review of studies dealing with tree rings and rockfall activity: The role of dendrogeomorphology in natural hazard research. Natural Hazards 39(1): 51-70.

Stoffel, M., Perret, S. (2006): Reconstructing past rockfall activity with tree rings: some methodological considerations. Dendrochronologia 24(1): 1-15.

Perret, S., Stoffel, M., Kienholz, H. (2006): Spatial and temporal rockfall activity in a forest stand in the Swiss Prealps – a dendrogeomorphological case study. Geomorphology 74(1-3): 219-231.

Stoffel, M. (2005): Spatio-temporal analysis of rockfall activity into forests – results from tree-ring and tree analysis. PhD thesis. Department of Geosciences, Geography, University of Fribourg. GeoFocus 12: 1–188.

Stoffel, M. (2005): Assessing the vertical distribution and visibility of scars in trees. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 156(6): 195–199.

Stoffel, M., Lièvre, I., Monbaron, M., Perret, S. (2005): Seasonal timing of rockfall activity on a forested slope at Täschgufer (Valais, Swiss Alps) – a dendrochronological approach. Zeitschrift für Geomorphologie 49(1): 89–106.

Stoffel, M., Schneuwly, D., Bollschweiler, M., Lièvre, I., Delaloye, R., Myint, M., Monbaron, M. (2005): Analyzing rockfall activity (1600-2002) in a protection forest – a case study using dendrogeomorphology. Geomorphology 68 (3–4): 224–241.

Snow and Ice

Favillier, A., Guillet, S., Trappmann, D., Morel, P., Lopez-Saez, J., Eckert, N., Zenhäusern, G., Peiry, J.L., Stoffel, M., Corona, C. (2018): Spatio-temporal maps of past avalanche events derived from tree-ring analysis: a case study in the Matter valley (Valais, Switzerland). Cold Regions Science and Technology 154, 9–22.

Fehlmann, M., Gascón, E., Rohrer, M., Schwarb, M., Stoffel, M. (2018): Estimating the snowfall limit in alpine and pre-alpine valleys: A local evaluation of operational approaches. Atmospheric Research 204, 136–148.

Favillier, A., Guillet, S., Morel, P., Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Eckert, N., Ballesteros Cánovas, J.A., Peiry, J.-L., Stoffel, M. (2017): Disentangling the impacts of exogenous disturbances on forest stands to assess multi-centennial tree-ring reconstructions of avalanche activity in the upper Goms Valley (Canton of Valais, Switzerland). Quaternary Geochronology 42, 89–104.

Morán-Tejeda, E., López-Moreno, I., Stoffel, M., Beniston, M. (2016): Rain-on-snow events in Switzerland: recent observations and projections for the 21st century. Climate Research 71, 111–125.

Beniston, M., Stoffel, M. (2016): Rain-on-snow events, floods and climate change in the Alps: Events may increase with warming up to 4°C and decrease thereafter. Science of the Total Environment 571, 228-236.

Petrakov, D., Shpuntova, A., Aleinikov, A., Kääb, A., Kutuzov, S., Lavrentiev, I., Stoffel, M., Tutubalina, O., Usubaliev, R. (2016): Accelerated glacier shrinkage in the Ak-Shyirak massif, Inner Tien Shan, during 2003–2013. Science of the Total Environment 562: 364–378.

Schläppy, R., Jomelli, V., Eckert, N., Stoffel, M., Grancher, D., Brunstein, D., Corona, C., Deschatres, M. (2016): Can we infer avalanche−climate relations using tree-ring data? Case studies from the French Alps. Regional Environmental Change 16: 629–642.

Chiroiu, P., Stoffel, M., Onaca A., Urdea, P. (2015): Testing dendrogeomorphic approaches and thresholds to reconstruct snow avalanche activity in the Fagara Mountains (Romanian Carpathians). Quaternary Geochronology 27, 1–10.

Frey, H., Machguth, H., Huss, M., Huggel, C., Bajracharya, S., Bolch, T., Kulkarni, A., Linsbauer, A., Salzmann, N., Stoffel, M. (2014): Ice volume estimates for the Himalaya-Karakoram region: evaluating different methods. The Cryosphere 8, 2313–2333.

Sorg, A., Huss, M., Rohrer, M., Stoffel, M. (2014): The days of plenty might soon be over in glacierized Central Asian catchments. Environmental Research Letters 9, 104018.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Clague, J.J., Schaub Y., Stoffel, M. (2014): Coupling glacial lake impact, dam breach, and flood processes: A modeling perspective. Geomorphology 224, 161–176.

Pellicciotti, F., Carenzo, M., Bordoy, R., Stoffel, M., Burlando, P., (2014): Changes in glaciers in the Swiss Alps and impact on basin hydrology: current state of the art and future research. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1152–1170.

Sorg, A., Mosello, B., Shalpykova, G., Allan, A., Hill, M., Stoffel, M. (2014): Coping with changing water resources: The case of the Syr Darya river basin in Central Asia. Environmental Science and Policy 43, 68–77.

Moors, E., Stoffel, M. (2013): Changing monsoon patterns, snow and glacial melt, its impacts and adaptation options in northern India: Setting the stage. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S1–S3.

Collins, D., Davenport, J.L., Stoffel, M. (2013): Climatic variation and runoff from partially-glacierised Himalayan headwater basins of the Ganges. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S48–S59.

Stoffel., M., Butler, D.R., Corona, C. (2013): Mass movements and tree rings: A guide to dendrogeomorphic field sampling and dating. Geomorphology 200: 106–120.

Schläppy, R., Jomelli, V., Stoffel, M., Corona, C., Grancher, D., Brunstein, D. (2013): Statistical evaluation of a semi-quantitative dendrogeomorphic approach for the determination of snow avalanche events. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 45: 383–393.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Decaulne, A. (2013): Dating of snow avalanches by means of wound-induced vessel anomalies in subarctic Betula pubescens. Boreas 42: 568–574.

Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M., Rovéra, G., Edouard, J.-P., Berger, F. (2013): Seven centuries of avalanche activity at Echalp (Queyras massif, southern French Alps) as inferred from tree rings. The Holocene 23(2): 292–304.

Corona, C., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M., Bonnefoy, M., Richard, D., Astrade, L., Berger, F. (2012): How much of the real avalanche activity can be captured with tree rings? An evaluation of classic dendrogeomorphic approaches and comparison with historical archives. Cold Regions Science and Technology 74–75: 31–42.

Corona, C., Rovéra, G., Lopez Saez, J., Stoffel, M., Perfettini, P. (2010): Spatio-temporal reconstruction of snow avalanche activity using tree rings: Jean Jeanne avalanche talus, Massif de l’Oisans, France. Catena 83:107–118.

Stoffel, M., Luetscher, M., Bollschweiler, M., Schlatter, F. (2009): Evidence of NAO control on subsurface ice accumulation in a 1200-yr old cave-ice sequence, St. Livres ice cave, Switzerland. Quaternary Research 72: 16–26.

Dängeli, S., Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M. (2009): Jahrringe, Lawinen und eine zerstörte Alphütte. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 160(4): 87–92.

Stoffel, M., Hitz, O.M. (2008): Snow avalanche and rockfall impacts leave different anatomical signatures in tree rings of Larix decidua. Tree Physiology 28(11): 1713–1720.

Tree biomechanics

Lundström, T., Jonsson, M. J., Volkwein, A., Stoffel, M. (2008): Reactions and energy absorption of trees subject to rockfall: a detailed assessment using a new experimental method. Tree Physiology 29: 345–359.

Lundström, T., Jonas, T, Volkwein, A. (2008): Analysing the mechanical performance and growth adaptation of Norway spruce using a non-linear finite-element model and experimental data. Journal of Experimental Botany 59 (9): 2513–2528.

Lundström, T., Stoffel, M., Stöckli, V. (2008): Fresh-stem bending of fir and spruce. Tree Physiology 28: 355–366.

Lundström, T., Jonsson, M. J., Kalberer, M. (2007): The root–soil system of Norway spruce subjected to turning moment: resistance as a function of rotation. Plant and Soil 300 (1-2): 35–49.

Lundström, T., Jonas, T., Stöckli, V., Ammann, W. (2007): Anchorage of mature conifers: resistive turning moment, root–soil plate geometry and root growth orientation. Tree Physiology 27: 1217–1227.

Lundström, T., Heiz, U., Stoffel, M., Stöckli, V. (2007): Fresh-wood bending: linking the mechanical and growth properties of a Norway spruce stem. Tree Physiology 27: 1229–1241.

Volcanology

Salaorni, E., Stoffel, M., Tutubalina, O. V., Chernomorets, S., Seynova, I, Sorg, A. (2017): Dendrogeomorphic reconstruction of lahar activity and triggers: Shiveluch Volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Bulletin of Volcanology 79, 6.

Franco-Ramos, O., Stoffel, M., Vázquez-Selem, L., 2016. Tree-ring based record of intra-eruptive lahar activity: Axaltzintle valley, Malinche volcano, Mexico. Geochronometria 43, 74-83.

Franco-Ramos, O., Stoffel, M., Vazquez-Selem, L., Capra, L. (2013): Spatio-temporal reconstruction of lahars on the southern slopes of Colima Volcano, Mexico – a dendrogeomorphic approach. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 267: 30–38.

Lavigne, F., Degeai, J.P., Komorowski, J.C., Guillet, S., Lahitte, P., Robert, V., Oppenheimer, C., Stoffel, M., Vidal, C.M., Wassmer, P., Hajdas, I., Hadmoko, D.S., Pratomo, I., De Bélizal, E., Surono (2013): Identity of the volcano responsible for the mid-thirteenth century “mystery eruption” revealed: Mt. Samalas, Indonesia, AD 1257. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 110(42), 16742–16747.

Worni, R., Huggel, C., Stoffel, M., Pulgarin, B., (2012): Challenges of modelling recent, very large lahars at Nevado del Huila Volcano, Colombia. Bulletin of Volcanology 74: 309–324.

Bollschweiler, M., Stoffel, M., Vázquez-Selem, L., Palacios, D. (2010): Tree-ring reconstruction of past lahar activity at Popocatépetl, Mexico. The Holocene 20: 265–274.

Water ressources management

Sorg, A., Huss, M., Rohrer, M., Stoffel, M. (2014): The days of plenty might soon be over in glacierized Central Asian catchments. Environmental Research Letters 9, 104018.

Beniston, M., Stoffel. M., Hill Clarvis, M., Quevauviller, P. (2014): Assessing climate change impacts on the quantity of water in Alpine regions: Foreword to the adaptation and policy implications of the EU/FP7 “ACQWA” project. Environmental Science and Policy 43, 1–4.

Hill Clarvis, M., Fatichi, S., Allan, A., Fuhrer, F., Stoffel. M., Romerio, F., Gaudard, L., Burlando, P., Beniston, M., Xoplaki, E., Toreti, A., (2014): Governing and managing water resources under changing hydro-climatic contexts: The case of the upper Rhone basin. Environmental Science and Policy 43, 56–67.

Beniston, M., Stoffel. M. (2014): Assessing the impacts of climatic change on mountain water resources. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1129–1137.

Gaudard, L., Romerio, F., Dalla Valle, F., Gorret R., Maran S., Ravazzani, G., Stoffel, M., Volonterio M. (2014): Climate change and hydropower: Comparison of case studies and methodologies. Science of the Total Environment 493, 1211–1221.

Mathison, C., Wiltshire, A., Dimri A. P., Falloon, P., Jacob, D., Kumar, P., Moors, E., Ridley, J., Siderius, C., Stoffel, M., Yasunari, T. (2013): Regional projections of North Indian climate for adaptation studies. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S4–S17.

Moors, E.J., Stoffel, M. (2013): Changing monsoon patterns, snow and glacial melt, its impacts and adaptation options in northern India: Synthesis. Science of the Total Environment 468–469, S162–S167.

Quevauviller, P., Barceló, D., Beniston, M., Djordjevic, S., Froebrich, J., Harding, R. J., Iglesias, A., Ludwig, R., Navarra, A., Navarro Ortega, A., Mark, O., Roson, R., Sempere, D., Stoffel, M., van Lanen, H.A.J., Werner, W. (2012): Integration of research advances in modelling and monitoring in support of WFD river basin management planning in the context of climate change. Science of the Total Environment 440: 167–177.

Beniston, M., Stoffel, M., Harding, R., Kernan, M., Ludwig, R., Moors, E., Samuels, S., Tockner, K. (2012): Obstacles to data access for research related to climate and water: implications for science and EU policy-making. Environmental Science and Policy 17: 41–48.

Beniston, M., Stoffel, M., Hill, M. (2011): Impacts of climatic change on water and natural hazards in the Alps: can current water governance cope with future challenges? Examples from the European “ACQWA” project. Environmental Science and Policy 14: 734-743.

Moors, E.J., Biemans, H., Groot A., Siderius, C., Stoffel, M., Huggel C., Wiltshire, A., Mathison C., Ridley, J., Jacob, D., Kumar, P., Bhadwal, S., Gosain, A. (2011): Adaptation to changing water resources availability in northern India. Environmental Science and Policy 14: 758-769.

Wood anatomy

Guardiola-Albert, C., Ballesteros-Canovas, J.A., Stoffel, M., Diez-Herrero, A. (2015): How to improve dendrogeomorphological sampling: variogram analyses of wood density using XRCT. Tree-Ring Research 71, 25–36.

Pop, O., Buimaga-Iarinca, S., Anghel, T., Stoffel, M. (2014): Effects of open-cast sulphur mining on sediment transfers and intoxication of riparian forests. Geografiska Annaler 96, 485–496.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Sutherland, E.K., Smith, K.T., Falk, D.A. (2014): Resin duct size and density as ecophysiological traits in fire scars of Pseudotsuga menziesii and Larix occidentalis. Annals of Botany 114, 973–980.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Sutherland, E.K., Smith, K.T., Falk, D.A. (2014): Changes in tracheid and ray traits in fire scars of North American conifers and their ecophysiological implications. Annals of Botany 114, 223–232.

Stoffel, M., Klinkmüller, M. (2013): 3D analysis of anatomical reactions in conifers after mechanical wounding: first qualitative insights from X-ray computed tomography. Trees – Structure and Function 27: 1805 – 1811.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Decaulne, A. (2013): Dating of snow avalanches by means of wound-induced vessel anomalies in subarctic Betula pubescens. Boreas 42: 568–574.

Schneuwly-Bollschweiler, M., Schneuwly, D.M. (2012): How fast do European conifers overgrow wounds inflicted by rockfall? Tree Physiology, doi:10.1093/treephys/tps059.

Arbellay, E., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Fonti, P., Decaulne, A. (2012): Defining an adequate sample of earlywood vessels for retrospective injury detection in diffuse-porous species. PLoS one 7: e38824.

Arbellay, E., Fonti, P., Stoffel, M. (2012): Duration and extension of anatomical changes in wood structure after cambial injury. Journal of Experimental Botany 63: 3271-3277.

Arbellay, E., Stoffel, M., Bollschweiler, M. (2010): Wood anatomical analysis of Alnus incana and Betula pendula injured by a debris-flow event. Tree Physiology 30: 1290–1298.

Stoffel, M., Hitz, O.M. (2008): Snow avalanche and rockfall impacts leave different anatomical signatures in tree rings of Larix decidua. Tree Physiology 28(11): 1713–1720.

Stoffel, M. (2008): Dating past geomorphic processes with tangential rows of traumatic resin ducts. Dendrochronologia 26(1): 53–60.

Bollschweiler M., Stoffel M., Schneuwly D.M., Bourqui K., (2008): Traumatic resin ducts in Larix decidua stems impacted by debris flows. Tree Physiology 28: 255–263.

Hitz, O.M., Gärtner, H., Heinrich, I., Monbaron, M. (2008): Application of ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) roots to determine erosion rates in mountain torrents. Catena 72: 248-258.

Hitz, O.M., Gärtner, H., Heinrich, I., Monbaron, M. (2008): Wood anatomical changes in roots of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior L.) after exposure. Dendrochronologia. 25: 145–152.

Hitz, O.M., Gärtner, H., Heinrich, I., Monbaron, M. (2008): Erosions rekonstruktion aufgrund holzanatomischer Veränderungen in Eschenwurzeln. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen 159(3): 51–57.

Climate Change and Natural Hazards

Dendroclimatology

Dendroecology

Dendrogeomorphology

Debris Flow

Erosion

Flooding

Landslides

Process modelling

Rockfall

Snow and Ice

Tree biomechanics

Volcanology

Water ressource management

Wood anatomy

Climate Change and Natural Hazards

Dendroclimatology

Dendroecology

Dendrogeomorphology

Debris Flow

Erosion

Flooding

Landslides

Process modelling

Rockfall

Snow and Ice

Tree biomechanics

Volcanology

Water ressources management

Wood anatomy