Tree-Ring Talk

Shifting from Local to Landscape Controls of Disturbance Size and Severity: A Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Fire, Spruce Beetle Outbreaks, and Species Dynamics of the Pinaleño Mountains

Forest disturbances exert a strong control over species composition and structure. In the Sky Islands of the American Southwest, steep elevation gradients give rise to moisture and temperature gradients that support a diverse array of forest types and disturbance regimes in a relatively small geographic area.

Dendrochemistry of larch tree rings from North Siberia

A new perspective on drought history in the Four Corners: cool- and monsoon-season precipitation reconstructions for the Hopi and Navajo tribal lands

For well over a decade, the Hopi Tribe and Navajo Nation located in northeastern Arizona have suffered the effects of persistent drought conditions. Severe dry spells have critically impacted natural ecosystems, water resources, and regional livelihoods including dryland farming and ranching. Drought planning and resource management efforts in the region are based largely on the instrumental record of climate, which contains a limited number of severe, sustained droughts.

Second century megadrought in the Rio Grande headwaters: how unusual was medieval drought?

A Fire History of the Western San Juan Mountains, Colorado, A comparison of tree-ring and alluvial sediment methods

Long, spatially-explicit temperature reconstructions for temperate western North America and all North America

A tree-ring based reconstruction of Upper Indus Basin streamflow

Earlywood and latewood: new insight on the tree growth-climate response in the U.S. Southwest with emphasis on the summer monsoon.

Earlywood and latewood tree-ring chronologies offer promise for reconstructing season- specific, and in some cases, dual-season climate variability. This was our motivation for developing a new network of 50 intra-annual chronologies for the southwestern U.S., where annual precipitation is split between the westerly influenced winter and summer monsoon climate regimes.

Insights into the importance of ancient carbon to the carbon cycle in NW Greenland

Fire History of Montane Grasslands and Ecotones of the Valles Caldera, New Mexico, USA

Montane grasslands are distributed across the Southwest, but there has been little quantitative study despite their biological and economic value. The study area is the montane forest-grassland ecotone within the Valles Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) northwest of Albuquerque, New Mexico, situated in the heart of the Jemez Mountains. We hypothesize that the fire history record of the ecotone should closely reflect the fire regimes in the montane grasslands throughout the study area and that this zone served as a pathway to encourage the spread of fire to other valles.

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