• Research Associate (PostDoc), Lecturer
  University of Bonn, Department of Geography
• ORCID
• Dendrochronology, Dendroecology,  Biogeography, Remote Sensing, Vegetations Ecology, Tundra Greening, Shrub Dynamics
  Alpine Ecosystems, Treeline Ecotone, Peatlands
  Pyrennees, Europeans Alps, Sweden

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Articles in peer-reviewed journals

2024

FRANCON, L., EDVARDSSON, J., CORONA, C. STOFFEL, M. (2024) The Timing of Wood Formation in Peatland Trees as Obtained with Different Approaches. Dendrochronologia, 85, 126210.

ALBRECHT, E. C., DOBBERT, S., KETURKA, K., KÜHNAPFEL, M., FRANCON, L., PAPE, R., WUNDRAM, D. & LÖFFLER, J. (2024) Annual Ring Widths in the Arctic-Alpine Dwarf-Shrub Species Betula nana - Dataset from Long-Term Alpine Ecosystem Research in Central Norway (LTAER-NO). Erdkunde, 78, DP311206. https://doi.org/10.3112/erkunde.2024/dp01

2023

Pereira, T., Francon, L., Corona, C. & Stoffel, M. (2023) Importance of Sampling Design to Increase Climate Signal Detection in Shrub Ring Chronologies. Erdkunde, 76, 4, 289-303, https://doi.org/10.3112/erdkunde.2022.04.04

Francon, L., Roussel, E., Lopez-Saez, J., Saulnier, M., Stoffel, M. & Corona, C. (2023) Alpine shrubs have benefited more than trees from 20th century warming at a treeline ecotone site in the French Pyrenees. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 329, 109284, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.109284

Piccinelli, S., Francon, L., Corona, C., Stoffel, M., Slamova, L. & Cannone, N. (2023) Vessels in a Rhododendron ferrugineum (L.) population do not trace temperature anymore at the alpine shrubline. Frontiers in Plant Sciences, 13, 5545, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1023384 

2021

Francon, L., Corona, C., Till-Bottraud, I., Choler, P., Roussel, E., Carlson, B., Morin, S., Girard, B. & Stoffel, M. (2021) Shrub growth in the Alps diverges from air temperature since the 1990s. Environmental Research Letters 16, 7, 074026, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac0b67

2020

Francon, L., Corona, C., Till-Bottraud, I., Carlson, B. & Stoffel, M. (2020) Some (do not) like it hot: shrub growth is hampered by heat and drought at the alpine treeline in recent decades. American Journal of Botany, 107, 607-617, https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1459 

Francon, L., Corona, C., Till-Bottraud, I., Choler, P., Carlson, B., Charrier, G., Améglio, T., Morin, S., Eckert, N., Roussel, E., Lopez-Saez, J. & Stoffel, M. (2020) Assessing the effects of earlier snow melt-out on alpine shrub growth: the sooner the better? Ecological Indicators, 115, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.106455 

2017

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, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.02.083