The Amazon basin is a global center of hydroclimatic variability and biodiversity, but there are only eight instrumental rainfall stations with continuous records longer than 80 years in the entire basin, an area nearly the size of the coterminous US. The first long moisture-sensitive tree-ring...
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Granato-Souza, D.; Stahle, D. W.; Barbosa, A. C.; Feng Song; Torbenson, M. C. A.; Assis Pereira, G. de; Schöngart, J.; Barbosa, J. P.; Griffin, D.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Climate Dynamics, 2019, 52, 3/4, pp 1857-1869
This paper outlines efficient strategies for the development of long, climatically sensitive tree-ring chronologies in the tropics. Effective strategies include sampling useful temperate or subtropical species that extend naturally into the tropics; sampling species in botanical families that have...
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IAWA Journal, 1999, 20, 3, pp 249-253
The baldcypress (Taxodium mucronatum Ten.) is a long-lived species and Mexico's national tree. The objective of this study was to analyze the dendroclimatic response of baldcypress at sites located on the transitional zone between the semiarid and subtropical regions of Mexico, known as the Middle...
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Villanueva-Díaz, J.; Stahle, D. W.; Therrell, M. D.; Beramendi-Orosco, L.; Estrada-Ávalos, J.; Martínez-Sifuentes, A. R.; Astudillo-Sánchez, C. C.; Cervantes-Martínez, R.; Cerano-Paredes, J.
Publisher
Springer-Verlag GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Citation
Trees: Structure and Function, 2020, 34, 2, pp 623-635
The São Francisco River basin is one of the most drought-prone regions of Brazil. Seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTF) are widely distributed in the basin and we developed a short chronology of Cedrela fissilis annual ring widths from SDTF fragments based on 89 cores from 44 trees dating from...
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Pereira, G. de A.; Barbosa, A. C. M. C.; Torbenson, M. C. A.; Stahle, D. W.; Granato-Souza, D.; Santos, R. M. dos; Barbosa, J. P. D.
Publisher
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Citation
Tree-Ring Research, 2018, 74, 2, pp 162-171
Rainfall and river levels in the Amazon are associated with significant precipitation anomalies of opposite sign in temperate North and South America, which is the dominant mode of precipitation variability in the Americas that often arises during extremes of the El Niño/Southern Oscillation...
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Stahle, D. W.; Torbenson, M. C. A.; Howard, I. M.; Granato-Souza, D.; Barbosa, A. C.; Feng, S.; Schöngart, J.; Lopez, L.; Villalba, R.; Villanueva, J.; Fernandes, K.
Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol, UK
Citation
Environmental Research Letters, 2020, 15, 10,
High-resolution biogenic and geologic proxies in which one increment or layer is formed per year are crucial to describing natural ranges of environmental variability in Earth's physical and biological systems. However, dating controls are necessary to ensure temporal precision and accuracy; simple ...
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Black, B. A.; Griffin, D.; Sleen, P. van der; Wanamaker, A. D.; Speer, J. H.; Frank, D. C.; Stahle, D. W.; Pederson, N.; Copenheaver, C. A.; Trouet, V.; Griffin, S.; Gillanders, B. M.
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK
Citation
Global Change Biology, 2016, 22, 7, pp 2582-2595
Bald cypress trees over 2,000-years old have been discovered in the forested wetlands along Black River using dendrochronology and radiocarbon dating. The oldest bald cypress yet documented is at least 2,624-years old, making Taxodium distichum the oldest-known wetland tree species, the oldest...
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Stahle, D. W.; Edmondson, J. R.; Howard, I. M.; Robbins, C. R.; Griffin, R. D.; Carl, A.; Hall, C. B.; Stahle, D. K.; Torbenson, M. C. A.
Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd, Bristol, UK
Citation
Environmental Research Communications, 2019, 1, 4, pp 041002
Latewood width tree-ring chronologies from arid-site conifers in the southwestern United States are correlated with precipitation during portions of the summer monsoon season. The onset date and length of the monsoon season varies across the region, and these regional differences in summer rainfall ...
Author(s)
Howard, I. M.; Stahle, D. W.; Torbenson, M. C. A.; Griffin, D.
Publisher
Wiley, Chichester, UK
Citation
International Journal of Climatology, 2021, 41, 5, pp 2913-2933
The available dendrochronological data for Pseudotsuga menziesii in Mexico are examined, with particular emphasis on recent samples collected from Durango, in the Sierra Madre Occidental, which have been used to reconstruct historical precipitation and stream flow in the period from 1765 to 2001....
Author(s)
Villanueva Díaz, J.; Cerano Paredes, J.; Stahle, D. W.; Estrada Ávalos, J.; Constante García, V.
Publisher
Editorial Committee of Forestal XXI, Mexico City, Mexico
Citation
Forestal XXI, 2008, 11, 5, pp 16-18
Mean daily to monthly precipitation averages peak in late July over eastern Colorado and some of the most damaging Front Range flash floods have occurred because of extreme 1-day rainfall events during this period. Tree-ring chronologies of adjusted latewood width in ponderosa pine from eastern...
Author(s)
Howard, I. M.; Stahle, D. W.
Publisher
American Meteorological Society, Boston, USA
Citation
Monthly Weather Review, 2020, 148, 2, pp 597-612