Two floating, ring-width chronologies predate the long bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) absolutely-dated, ring-width chronology from the Methuselah Walk (MWK) site in the White Mountains of California. The two non-overlapping floating chronologies were derived from samples that crossdate...
Author(s)
Salzer, M. W.; Pearson, C. L.; Baisan, C. H.
Publisher
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Citation
Tree-Ring Research, 2019, 75, 1, pp 61-66
Ceanothus verrucosus (CEVE) is a globally rare, long-lived, chaparral shrub endemic to coastal southern California (CA) and northern Mexico. There is concern for CEVE persistence because of habitat loss, fire, and climate change, yet little is known about basic features of the plant, including...
Author(s)
Margolis, E. Q.; Lombardo, K.; Smith, A.
Publisher
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
Citation
Tree-Ring Research, 2020, 76, 2, pp 61-73
Prescribed fire in dry coniferous forests of the western U.S. is used to reduce fire hazards. How large, old trees respond to these treatments is an important management consideration. Growth is a key indicator of residual tree condition, which can be predictive of mortality and response to future...
Author(s)
Wenderott, Z.; Mantgem, P. J. van; Wright, M. C.; Farris, C. A.; Sherriff, R. L.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2022, 517,
The U.S. West Coast drought commencing in 2012 developed in association with a large, persistent high-pressure ridge linked to internal atmospheric variability. This study places the occurrence, spatial patterns, and associated circulation features of West Coast drought into a paleoclimate context...
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, USA
Citation
Geophysical Research Letters, 2016, 43, 9, pp 4539-4546
We explore a probabilistic, hierarchical Bayesian approach to the simultaneous reconstruction of local temperature and soil moisture from tree-ring width observations. The model explicitly allows for differing calibration and reconstruction interval responses of the ring-width series to climate due ...
Author(s)
Tolwinski-Ward, S. E.; Tingley, M. P.; Evans, M. N.; Hughes, M. K.; Nychka, D. W.
Publisher
Springer Berlin, Heidelberg, Germany
Citation
Climate Dynamics, 2015, 44, 3/4, pp 791-806
Stand density affects not only structure and growth, but also the health of forests and, subsequently, the functions of forest ecosystems. Here, we integrated dendrochronology and repeated inventories for ponderosa pine research plots to determine whether long-term growth and mortality responded to ...
Author(s)
Zhang JianWei; Finley, K. A.; Johnson, N. G.; Ritchie, M. W.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, New York, USA
Citation
Forest Science, 2019, 65, 4, pp 496-507
Tree rings have long been used to make inferences about the environmental factors that influence tree growth. Great Basin bristlecone pine is a long-lived species and valuable dendroclimatic resource, but often with mixed growth signals; in many cases, not all trees at one location are limited by...
Author(s)
Tran, T. J.; Bruening, J. M.; Bunn, A. G.; Salzer, M. W.; Weiss, S. B.
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK
Citation
Environmental Research Letters, 2017, 12, 1, pp 014007
Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) and foxtail pine (Pinus balfouriana) are valuable paleoclimate resources due to their longevity and climatic sensitivity of their annually-resolved rings. Treeline research has shown that growing season temperatures limit tree growth at and just below...
Author(s)
Bruening, J. M.; Tran, T. J.; Bunn, A. G.; Weiss, S. B.; Salzer, M. W.
Publisher
Institute of Physics Publishing, Bristol, UK
Citation
Environmental Research Letters, 2017, 12, 1, pp 014008
The Sacramento River Basin (SRB) and the San Joaquin River Basin (JRB) have a history of recurring droughts. Both are important for California, being the crucial source of water supply. The available instrumental records may not depict the long-term hydrologic variability encompassing the duration...
Author(s)
Saria Bukhary; Kalra, A.; Sajjad Ahmad
Publisher
IWA Publishing, London, UK
Citation
Journal of Water and Climate Change, 2021, 12, 5, pp 1891-1909
The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa, Douglas ex C. Lawson) is a climate-sensitive tree species dominant in the mixed conifer stands of the San Bernardino Mountains of California. However, the close proximity to the city of Los Angeles has resulted in extremely high levels of air pollution. Nitrogen ...
Publisher
MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Citation
Climate, 2021, 9, 5,