University of Arkansas Tree-Ring Laboratory Publications

Tree-Ring Laboratory Publications

Selected TRL Publications

	*Griffin, R.D., D.W. Stahle, and M.D. Therrell, 2005. Repeat photography in the ancient Cross Timbers of Oklahoma, USA. Natural Areas Journal* 25: 176-182.**		*Therrell, M.D., D.W. Stahle, R. Acuna Soto, 2004. Aztec drought and the curse of One Rabbit. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society* 85: 1263-1272.**
	*Fye, F.K., D.W. Stahle, and E.R. Cook, 2003. Paleoclimatic analogs to 20th century moisture regimes across the USA. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society* 84: 901-909.**		Stahle, D.W., F.K. Fye, and M.D. Therrell, 2003. Interannual to decadal climate and streamflow variability estimated from tree rings. The Quaternary Period in the United States, edited by A. Gillespie, S.C. Porter, and B. Atwater. Elsevier, Developments in Quaternary Science, pp. 491-504.
	*Acuna-Soto, R., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, and M.D. Therrell, 2002. Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico. Emerging Infectious Diseases* 8(4): 360-362.**		*Stahle, D.W., 2002. The unsung ancients. Natural History* 2/02: 49-52.**
	*Therrell, M.D., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, and J. Villanueva-Diaz, 2002. Warm season tree growth and precipitation over Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research* 107(D14): ACL6-1 to 6-8.**		Stahle, D.W., M.D. Therrell, M.K. Cleaveland, D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger, and N. Knowles, 2001. Ancient blue oak reveal human impact on San Francisco Bay salinity. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 82 (12) 141, 144-145. Reprinted by AGU in Earth in Space, April 2001.
	Stahle, D.W., E.R. Cook, M.K. Cleaveland, M.D. Therrell, D.M. Meko, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, E. Watson, and B.H., Luckman, 2000. Tree-ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 81(12): 212,125. Reprinted by AGU in Earth in Space, March 2000.		Stahle, D.W., P.T. Mushove, M.K. Cleaveland, F. Roig, and G.A. Haynes, 1999. Management implications of annual growth rings in Pterocarpus angolensis from Zimbabwe. Forest Ecology and Management 124:217-229.
	*Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland, D.B. Blanton, M.D. Therrell, and D.A. Gay, 1998. The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts. Science* 280, 564-567.**		*Stahle, D.W. 1996. Tree rings and ancient forest history. In: Eastern Old-Growth Forests, edited by M.B. Davis, Island Press, Washington D.C., pp. 321-343.*
	*Stahle, D.W. and P.L. Chaney, 1994. A predictive model for the location of ancient forests. Natural Areas Journal* 14: 151-158.**		Stahle, D.W., and M.K. Cleaveland, 1992. Reconstruction and analysis of spring rainfall over the Southeastern U.S. for the past 1000 years. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 73: 1947–1961
	*Stahle, D.W., R.B. VanArsdale, and M.K. Cleaveland, 1992. Tectonic Signal in baldcypress trees at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee. Seismological Research Letters, 63: 439–448.*		*Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland and J.G. Hehr, 1985. A 450–year drought reconstruction for Arkansas, United States. Nature* 316: 530–532.**

2005

Acuna Soto, R., D.W. Stahle, M.D. Therrell, S. Gomez Chavez, and M.K. Cleaveland, 2005. Drought, epidemic disease, and the fall of classic period cultures in Mesoamerica (AD 750-950). Medical Hypotheses (in press).

Clark, S.L., S.W. Hallgren, D.W. Stahle, and T.B. Lynch, 2005. Characteristics of the Keystone Ancient Forest Preserve, an old-growth forest in the Cross Timbers of Oklahoma, USA. Natural Areas Journal 25: 165-175.

Griffin, R.D., D.W. Stahle, and M.D. Therrell, 2005. Repeat photography in the ancient Cross Timbers of Oklahoma, USA. Natural Areas Journal 25: 176-182.

Le Quesne, C., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, 2005. An 800-year reconstruction of precipitation in central Chile. Journal of Climate (in press).

Stahle, D.W., 2005. Tree-ring analysis of ancient Douglas-fir at Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. The Guadalupe Mountains Symposium. F.R. Armstrong and K. KellerLynn, eds. Natioanl Park Service, 205-207.

Stahle, D.W., and J.S. Dean, 2005. Tree ring evidence for North American climate extremes and Social disasters. Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects. Developments in Paleoecological Research, Springer, (submitted).

Stahle, D.W., and R.D. Griffin, 2005. The Ancient Cross Timbers Consortium. Moving Toward Sustainable Forestry: Lessons from Old Growth Forests, K.P. Bennet, technical coordinator, University of New Hampshire Cooperative Extension Natural Resource Network Report, pp. 17-18.

Therrell, M.D., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, J. Villanueva-Diaz, E. Cornejo Oviedo, 2005. Tree-ring reconstructed maize yield in Central Mexico: 1474-2001. Climatic Change (in press).

2004

Acuna Soto, R., D.W. Stahle, R.D. Griffin, and M.D. Therrell, 2004. When half the population died: the epidemic of hemorrhagic fevers of 1576 in Mexico. FEMS Microbiology Letters, 240: 1-5.

Cook, E.R., C. Woodhouse, C.M. Eakin, D.M. Meko, and D.W. Stahle, 2004. Long-term aridity changes in the western United States. Science 306:1015-1018.

Fye, F.K., D.W. Stahle, and E.R. Cook, 2004. Twentieth-century sea surface temperature patterns in the Pacific during decadal moisture regimes over the United States. Earth Interactions 8:22:1-22.

Therrell, M.D., D.W. Stahle, R. Acuna Soto, 2004. Aztec drought and the curse of One Rabbit. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 85: 1263-1272.

2003

Cleaveland, M.K., D.W. Stahle, M.D. Therrell, J. Villanueava-Diaz, and B.T. Burns, 2003. Tree-ring reconstructed winter precipitation in Durango, Mexico. Climatic Change 59: 369-388.
Druckenbrod, D.L., M.E. Mann, D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, M.D. Therrell, and H.H. Shugart, 2003. Late-eighteenth century precipitation reconstructions from James Madison's Montpelier Plantation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 84: 57-71.

Fye, F.K., D.W. Stahle, and E.R. Cook, 2003. Paleoclimatic analogs to 20th century moisture regimes across the USA. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 84: 901-909.
Pohl, K., M.D. Therrell, J. Santiago Blay, N. Ayotte, S. Bernal-Salazar, J. Jil Cabrera Hernandez, S. Diaz Castro, J.A. Elvir, M. Gonzales Elizondo, D. Opland, J. Park, G. Pederson, L. Vazquez-Salem, and D.W. Stahle (corresponding author for the 2002 North American Dendroecology Fieldweek climate reconstruction team), 2003. A cool seasonprecipitation reconstruction for Saltillo, Mexico. Tree-Ring Research 59: 11-19.
Stahle, D.W., F.K. Fye, and M.D. Therrell, 2003. Interannual to decadal climate and streamflow variability estimated from tree rings. The Quaternary Period in the United States, edited by A. Gillespie, S.C. Porter, and B. Atwater. Elsevier, Developments in Quaternary Science, pp. 491-504.

Villanueva-Diaz, J., D.W. Stahle, M.D. Therrell, F. Camacho Morfin, P. Nunez Diaz, J.A. Ramirez Garcia, 2003. Registros climaticos de los ahuehuetes de Chapultepec en los ultimos 450 años. Boletin del Archivo Historico del Agua 8(23): 34-43.

2002

Acuna-Soto, R., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, and M.D. Therrell, 2002. Megadrought and megadeath in 16th century Mexico. Emerging Infectious Diseases 8(4): 360-362.

Diaz, S.C., M.D. Therrell, D.W. Stahle, and M.K. Cleaveland, 2002. Chihuahua (Mexico) winter-spring precipitation reconstructed from tree-rings, 1647-1992. Climate Research 22: 237-244.

Stahle, D.W., 2002. The unsung ancients. Natural History 2/02: 49-52.

Therrell, M.D., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, and J. Villanueva-Diaz, 2002. Warm season tree growth and precipitation over Mexico. Journal of Geophysical Research 107(D14): ACL6-1 to 6-8.

2001

Stahle, D.W., M.D. Therrell, M.K. Cleaveland, D.R. Cayan, M.D. Dettinger, and N. Knowles, 2001. Ancient blue oak reveal human impact on San Francisco Bay salinity. Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 82 (12) 141, 144-145. Reprinted by AGU in Earth in Space, April 2001.

2000

Stahle, D.W., E.R. Cook, M.K. Cleaveland, M.D. Therrell, D.M. Meko, H.D. Grissino-Mayer, E. Watson, and B.H., Luckman, 2000. Tree-ring data document 16th century megadrought over North America, Eos, Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 81(12): 212,125. Reprinted by AGU in Earth in Space, March 2000.

Stahle, D.W., J. Villanueva, M.K. Cleaveland, M.D. Therrell, G.J. Paull, B.T. Burns, W. Salinas, H. Suzan, and P.Z. Fule, 2000. Recent tree-ring research in Mexico. In: Dendrocronologia en America Latina , Fidel Roig, editor. EDIUNC (Editorial de la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), Mendoza, Argentina, pp. 285-306.

1999

Cook, E.R., D.M. Meko, D.W. Stahle, and M.K. Cleaveland, 1999. Drought reconstructions for the continental United States. Journal of Climate 12, 1145-1162.

Stahle, D.W., 1999. Effective strategies for the development of tropical tree-ring chronologies. IAWA Journal 20: 249-253.

Stahle, D.W., P.T. Mushove, M.K. Cleaveland, F. Roig, and G.A. Haynes, 1999. Management implications of annual growth rings in Pterocarpus angolensis from Zimbabwe. Forest Ecology and Management 124:217-229.

1998

Stahle, D.W., R.D. D'Arrigo, P.J. Krusic, M.K. Cleaveland, E.R. Cook, R.J. Allan, J.E. Cole, R.B. Dunbar, M.D. Therrell, D.A. Gay, M.D. Moore, M.A. Stokes, B.T. Burns, J. Villanueva-Diaz, L.G. Thompson, 1998. Experimental dendroclimatic reconstruction of the Southern Oscillation. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 79, 2137-2152.

Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland, D.B. Blanton, M.D. Therrell, and D.A. Gay, 1998. The Lost Colony and Jamestown Droughts. Science 280, 564-567.

Therrell, M.D., and D.W. Stahle, 1998. A predictive model to locate ancient forests in the Cross Timbers of Osage County, Oklahoma. Journal of Biogeography 25:847-854.

Van Arsdale, R.B., D.W. Stahle, M.K. Cleaveland, and M.J. Guccione, 1998. Earthquake signals in tree-ring data from the New Madrid seismic zone and implications for paleoseismicity. Geology 26:515-518.

1997

Stahle, D.W., 1997. Tree rings and ancient forest relics. Arnoldia 56(4): 2-10.

1996

Cleaveland, M.K. and D. W. Stahle, 1996. Variability of hydrologic drought in the Ozark Highlands, 1680-1980. In: Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity, edited by J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam. Radiocarbon 1996, pp. 43-50.
Stahle, D.W. 1996. The hydroclimatic application of tree-ring chronologies. In: Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity , edited by J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam. Radiocarbon 1996, pp. 119-126.

Stahle, D.W. 1996. Tree rings and ancient forest history. In: Eastern Old-Growth Forests, edited by M.B. Davis, Island Press, Washington D.C., pp. 321-343.

Stahle, D.W. and M.K. Cleaveland, 1996. Large-scale climatic influences on baldcypress tree growth across the southeastern United States. In: Climate Variations and Forcing Mechanisms of the Last 2000 Years , edited by P.D. Jones and R.S. Bradley, NATO Advanced Science Institute Series; Series 1: Global Environmental Change, Vol. 41, pp. 125-140. Springer, Berlin.

1995

Anderson, D.G., D.W. Stahle and M.K. Cleaveland, 1995. Paleoclimate and the potential food reserves of Mississippian societies in the southeastern United States. American Antiquity 60: 258-286.
Stahle, D.W. and M.K. Cleaveland, 1995. Texas paleoclimatic data from daily to millennial timescales. In: The Changing Climate of Texas, edited by G.R. North, J.R. Giardino, and J. Norwine, Geobooks, Texas A&M University, pp. 49-69.

1994

Stahle, D.W. and M.K. Cleaveland, 1994. Tree–ring reconstructed rainfall over the southeastern USA during the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age. Climate Change 26: 199-212.

Stahle, D.W. and P.L. Chaney, 1994. A predictive model for the location of ancient forests. Natural Areas Journal 14: 151-158.

1993

Stahle, D.W. and M.K. Cleaveland, 1993. Southern Oscillation extremes reconstructed from tree–rings of the Sierra Madre Occidental and the southern Great Plains. Journal of Climate 6:129–140.

1992

Cleaveland, M.K., E.R. Cook, and D.W. Stahle, 1992. Secular variability of the ENSO signal detected in tree– ring data from Mexico and the southern United States. In: El Nino: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation , edited by H. Diaz and V. Markgraf, Cambridge University Press, pp. 271–291.

Stahle, D.W., R.B. VanArsdale, and M.K. Cleaveland, 1992. Tectonic Signal in baldcypress trees at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee. Seismological Research Letters, 63: 439–448.

Stahle, D.W., and M.K. Cleaveland, 1992. Reconstruction and analysis of spring rainfall over the Southeastern U.S. for the past 1000 years. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , 73: 1947–1961.

1991

Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland and R.S. Cerveny, 1991. Tree–ring reconstructed sunshine duration over central USA. International Journal of Climatology 11: 285–295.

1989

Cleaveland, M.K. and D.W. Stahle, 1989. Tree–ring analysis of surplus and deficit runoff in the White River, Arkansas. Water Resources Research 25: 1391–1401.

1988

Stahle, D.W. and M.K. Cleaveland, 1988. Texas drought history reconstructed and analyzed from 1698 to 1980. Journal of Climate 1: 59–74.

Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland and J.G. Hehr, 1988. North Carolina climate changes reconstructed from tree– rings: A.D. 372 to 1985. Science 240: 1517– 1519.

1985

Stahle, D.W. and D. Wolfman, 1985. The potential for archaeological tree–ring dating in eastern North America. Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol. 8. Academic Press, New York. pp. 279–302.

Stahle, D.W., E.R. Cook and J.W.C. White, 1985. Tree–ring dating of baldcypress and the potential for millennia– long chronologies in the Southeast. American Antiquity 50: 796–802.

Stahle, D.W., M.K. Cleaveland and J.G. Hehr, 1985. A 450–year drought reconstruction for Arkansas, United States. Nature 316: 530–532.

1984

Stahle, D.W. and J.G. Hehr, 1984. Dendroclimatic characteristics of post oak across a precipitation gradient in the southcentral United States. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 74(4): 561– 573.

1979

Stahle, D.W., 1979. Tree–ring dating of historic buildings in Arkansas. Tree–Ring Bulletin 39: 1–29.