2009
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Walsh, M.K., Harrison, S.P., Brown, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Higuera, P.E., Power, M.J., Anderson, R.S. Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Carcaillet, C., Daniels, M., Hu, F.S., Lavoie, M., Long, C., Minckley, T., Richard, P.J.H., Shafer, D.S., Tinner, Umbanhowar, C.E., Jr., and C. Whitlock. 2009. Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. [pdf] Supplementary Info: [pdf]
Markgraf, V., Whitlock, C., Anderson, R.S., and A. García. 2009. Late Quaternary vegetation and fire history in the northernmost Nothofagus forest region: Mallín Vaca Lauquen, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 248-258. [pdf]
Huerta, M., Whitlock, C., and J. Yale. 2009. Holocene Vegetation-Fire-Climate Linkages in Northern Yellowstone National Park, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271, 170-181. [pdf]
2008
Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P.J., Carcaillet, C., Gavin, D.G., Harrison, S.P., Higuera, P.E., Joos, F., Power, M.J. and I.C. Prentice. 2008. Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience. 1: 697-702. [pdf] Supplementary Info: [pdf] Supplementary Material: [pdf] Figures: [pdf]
Sugimura, W., Sprugel, D.G., Brubaker, L.B., and P.E,. Higuera. 2008. Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mt. Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38: 566-575. [pdf]
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2008. A 14,000-year-long record of fire-vegetation-climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington. Quaternary Research 70, 343-466. [pdf]
Jacobs, K., and C. Whitlock. 2008. A 2000-year environmental history of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, inferred from lake-sediment records. Western North American Naturalist 68, 350-364. [pdf]
Briles, C. E., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and P.E. Higuera. 2008. Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 265: 159-169. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Marlon, J., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Long, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2008. Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the north-western US based on lake-sediment studies. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:72-83. [email whitlock@montana.edu for article]
Minckley T.A., Bartlein, P.J., Whitlock, C., Shuman, B.N., Williams, J.W., and O.K. Davis. 2008. Associations among modern pollen, vegetation, and climate in western North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1962-1991. [pdf]
Higuera, P. E., Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M., Brown, T.A., Kennedy, A.T., and F.S. Hu. 2008. Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change. PLoS ONE 3: e0001744. [pdf]
Power, M. J., Marlon, J., Ortiz, N., Bartlein, P.J., Harrison, S.P., Mayle, F.E., Ballouche, A., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Carcaillet, C., Cordova, C., Mooney, S., Moreno, P.I., Prentice, I.C., Thonicke, K., Tinner, W., Whitlock, C., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Ali, A.A., Anderson, R.S., Beer, R., Behling, H., Briles, C., Brown, K.J., Brunelle, A., Bush, M., Camill, P., Chu, G.Q., Clark, J., Colombaroli, D., Connor, S., Daniau, A.L., Daniels, M., Dodson, J., Doughty, E., Edwards, M.E., Finsinger, W., Foster, D., Frechette, J., Gaillard, M.J., Gavin, D.G., Gobet, E., Haberle, S., Hallett, D.J., Higuera, P.E., Hope, G., Horn, S., Inoue, J., Kaltenrieder, P., Kennedy, L., Kong, Z.C., Larsen, C., Long, C.J., Lynch, J., Lynch, E.A., McGlone, M., Meeks, S., Mensing, S., Meyer, G., Minckley, T., Mohr, J., Nelson, D.M., New, J., Newnham, R., Noti, R., Oswald, W., Pierce, J., Richard, P.J.H., Rowe, C., Goni, M.F.S., Shuman, B.N., Takahara, H., Toney, J., Turney, C., Urrego-Sanchez, D.H., Umbanhowar, C., Vandergoes, M., Vanniere, B., Vescovi, E., Walsh, M., Wang, X., Williams, N., Wilmshurst, J., and J.H. Zhang. 2008. Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30:887-907. [pdf]
2007
Markgraf, V., Whitlock, C., and S. Haberle, 2007. Vegetation and fire history during the last 18,000 cal yr B.P. in southern Patagonia: Mallin Pollux, Coyhaique, Province Aisén (45º41'30" S, 71º50"30" W, 640 m elev.). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254: 292-507. [pdf]
Higuera, P. E., Peters, M.E., Brubaker, L.B., and D.G. Gavin. 2007. Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:1790-1809. [pdf]
Long, C., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein, 2007. Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Coast Range, western Oregon, USA. The Holocene 17, 917-926. [pdf]
Peters, M.E., and P.E. Higuera. 2007. Quantifying the source area of macroscopic charcoal with a particle dispersal model. Quaternary Research 67, 304-310. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Moreno, P.I., and P.J. Bartlein. 2007. Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America, Quaternary Research 68, 28-36. [pdf]
Pederson, G., Whitlock, C., Watson, E., and L.E. Graumlich. 2007. Paleoperspectives on climate and ecosystem change. In Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: science, policy, and management of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (T.Prato and D. Fagre, eds), pp. 151-170. RFF Press.
2006
Whitlock, C., and A. Brunelle. 2006. Pollen records from northwestern North America. In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (S.Elias, ed.). Elsevier, Amsterdam. [pdf]
Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., Gavin, D.G., Higuera, P.E., Lynch, J.A., Rupp, T.S., and W. Tinner. 2006. How climate and vegetation influence the fire regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: the Holocene perspective. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 11: 829-846. [pdf]
Marlon, J., Bartlein, P.J., and C. Whitlock. 2006. Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern U.S. during the Holocene. The Holocene 16, 1059-1071. [pdf]
Power, M.J., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and L.R. Stevens. 2006. Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana. Geomorphology 75, 420-436. [pdf]
Theriot, E.C., Fritz, S.C., Whitlock, C., and D.J. Conley. 2006. Late-Quaternary rapid morphologic evolution of an endemic diatom in Yellowstone Lake, USA. Paleobiology 32, 38-54. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bianchi, M.M., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., Walsh, M., Marlon, J.M., and N. McCoy. 2006. Postglacial vegetation, climate, and fire history along the east side of the Andes (lat 41-42.5S), Argentina. Quaternary Research 66, 187-201. [pdf]
Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock, C., Meyer, G., Licciardi, J., and K. Cannon. 2006. Quaternary of the Northern Yellowstone Area Field Trip Guide. American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, Bozeman MT, August 17-20, 2006
Williams, J.W., Shuman, B., Bartlein, P.J., Whitmore, J., Gajewski, K., Sawada, M., Minckley, T., Shafer, S., Viau, A.E., Webb, T. III, Anderson, P. M. Brubaker, L. B., Whitlock, C. and O.K. Davis. 2006. An Atlas of Pollen-Vegetation-Climate Relationships for the United States and Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas.
2005
Higuera, P.E., Brubaker, L.B., and D.G. Sprugel. 2005. Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal from small hollows: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire. The Holocene, 15: 238-251. [pdf]
Daniels, M., Anderson, R.S., and C. Whitlock. 2005. Vegetation history since the late-Pleistocene at Mumbo Lake, northern California. The Holocene 15: 1062-1071. [pdf]
Shafer, S.H., Bartlein, P.J., and C. Whitlock. 2005. Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of global environmental change in mountainous regions. Global change and mountain regions: an overview of current knowledge (U.M. Huber, H.K.M. Bugmann, M.A. Reasoner, eds), pp. 21-31. Kluwer. [pdf]
Briles, C., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2005. Holocene fire, vegetation, and climate history of northern Siskiyou mountains, Oregon. Quaternary Research 64: 44-56. [pdf]
Brunelle, A., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and K. Kipfmuller. 2005. Postglacial fire, climate, and vegetation history along an environmental gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 2281-2300. [pdf]
2004
Whitlock, C. 2004. Land management: Fire, climate, and landscape response. Nature 432, 28-29. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2004. Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change. In Developments in Quaternary Science Volume 1 (A. Gillespie and S.C. Porter, eds.). Elsevier, pp. 479-489. [pdf]
Millspaugh, S.H., Whitlock C. and P.J. Bartlein. 2004. Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau provinces, Yellowstone National Park. In After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park (L. Wallace, ed.), pp. 10-28. Yale University Press.
Whitlock, C., Skinner, C.N., Bartlein, P.J., Minckley, T.A., and J.A. Mohr. 2004. Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains California, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 2110-2121. [pdf]
2003
Whitlock, C., Shafer, S.H., J. and Marlon. 2003. The role of climate and vegetation change in shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern U.S., and the implications for ecosystem management. Forest Ecology and Management 178: 5-21. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., and R.S. Anderson. 2003. Fire history reconstructions based on sediment records from lakes and wetlands. In Fire and Climatic Change in the Americas (T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam, eds.), pp. 3-31. Ecological Studies, vol. 160. Springer-Verlag, New York. [pdf]
Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock, C., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G., and L. Morgan. 2003. Quaternary geology and ecology of the greater Yellowstone area. In Quaternary Geology of the United States (D.J. Easterbrook, ed.), pp. 313-344. INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume (Desert Research Institute, Reno). [pdf]
Brunelle, A., and C. Whitlock. 2003. Holocene vegetation, fire, and climate history in the Clearwater Range, Northern Idaho. Quaternary Research 60: 307-318. [pdf]
Overpeck, J.T., Whitlock, C., and B. Huntley. 2003. Terrestrial biosphere dynamics in the climate system: past and future. In Paleoclimate, Global Change, and the Future (K.D. Alverson, R.S. Bradley and T. Pedersen, eds), pp. 81-103. Springer, Berlin. [pdf]
Alaback, P., Veblen, T.T., Whitlock, C., Lara, A., Kitzberger, and R. Villalba. 2003. Climatic and anthropogenic influences on fire regimes in temperate forest ecosystems in western North and South America. In How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas (G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet, eds.), Ecological Studies 162, pp. 49-89. Springer Verlag.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Marlon, J., Brunelle, A., and C. Long. 2003. Holocene fire reconstructions from the northwestern U.S.: an examination at multiple time scales Second International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress (extended abstract) 4C.1, 7 pp. [pdf]
2002
Whitlock, C., Reasoner, M.A., and C.H. Key. 2002. Paleoenviromental History of the Rocky Mountain region during the last 20,000 years. In Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective (J.A. Barron, ed.), pp. 41-59. Island Press, Washington.
Whitlock, C. 2002. Variations in Holocene fire frequency: a view from the western United States: Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101B: 65-77.
Whitlock, C., and M.A. Knox. 2002. Prehistoric Burning in the Pacific Northwest. In: Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape (T.R. Vale, ed.), 195-231. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Blinnikov, M., Busacca, A., and C. Whitlock. 2002. Reconstruction of the late-Pleistocene grassland of the Columbia Basin, Washington, USA, based on phytolith records in loess. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 177: 77-101. [pdf]
Grigg, L.D. and C. Whitlock. 2002. Patterns and causes of millennial-scale climate change in the Pacific Northwest during the last glacial period. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 2067-2083. [pdf]
Long, C.J., and C. Whitlock. 2002. Late Holocene fire and vegetation history from the Picea sitchensis forest of the Oregon Coast Range. Quaternary Research 58: 215-225. [pdf]
Spies, T.A., Hibbs, D.E., Ohmann, J.L., Reeves, G.H., Pabst, R.J., Swanson, F.J., Whitlock, C., Jones, J.A., Wemple, B.C., Parendes, L.A., and B.A. Schrader. 2002. The ecological basis of forest ecosystem management in the Oregon Coast Range. In Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range (S.D. Hobbs, J.P. Hayes, R.L. Johnson, G.H. Reeves, T.A. Spies, J.C. Tappeiner, and G.E. Wells, eds), pp. 31-67. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.
2001
Whitlock, C. 2001. Doing fieldwork in the mud. The Geographical Review 91: 19-26.
Whitlock, C. and C.P.S. Larsen. 2001. Charcoal as a Fire Proxy. In Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 3 Terrestrial, Algal, and Siliceous indicators (J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks, and W. M. Last, eds), pp. 75-97. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. and Millspaugh, S.H. 2001. A paleoecologic perspective on past plant migrations in Yellowstone and its relevance for the invasion of exotic species. Western North American Naturalist 61: 316-327.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., and A.C. Ashworth. 2001. The mid-latitudes of North and South America during the Last Glacial Maximum and early Holocene: Similar paleoclimatic sequences despite differing large-scale controls. In Interhemispheric Climate Linkages; Present and Past Interhemispheric Climate Linkages in the Americas and their Societal Effects (V. Markgraf, ed.), p 391-416. Academic Press.
Gardner, J.J., and C. Whitlock. 2001. Charcoal accumulation following a recent fire in the Cascade Range, northwestern USA, and its relevance for fire-history studies. The Holocene 11: 541-549. [pdf]
Grigg, L.D., Whitlock, C., and W.E. Dean. 2001. Evidence for millennial-scale climate change during marine isotope stages 2 and 3 at Little Lake, western Oregon, USA. Quaternary Research 56: 10-22. [pdf]
Blinnikov, M., Busacca, A., and C. Whitlock. 2001. A new 100,000-year phytolith record from the Columbia Basin, Washington, USA. In Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Science. and Human History (J. Dominique Meunier, ed.). A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
2000
Kershaw, A.P., and C. Whitlock. 2000. (editors). Introduction: Paleoecological records of the last glacial/interglacial cycle: patterns and causes of change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology (special issue) 155: 1-5.
Whitlock, C., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Bartlein, P.J., and R.J. Nickmann. 2000. Vegetation history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, Southwestern Washington, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 155: 7-29. [pdf]
Millspaugh, S.H., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2000. Variations in fire frequency and climate over the last 17,000 years in central Yellowstone National Park. Geology 28: 211-214. [pdf]
Wimberly, M.C., Spies, T.A., Long, C.J., and C. Whitlock. 2000. Simulating historical variability in the amount of old forests in the Oregon Coast Range. Conservation Biology 14: 167-180.
Mohr, J.A., Whitlock, C., and C.N. Skinner. 2000. Postglacial vegetation and fire history, eastern Klamath Mountains, California. The Holocene 10, 587-601. [pdf]
Minckley, T. and C. Whitlock. 2000. Spatial variation of modern pollen rain in Oregon and southern Washington, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 112: 97-123.
1999
Whitlock, C., and L.D. Grigg. 1999. Paleoecological Evidence of Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Climate Variations in the Western U.S. during the late Quaternary. In Mechanisms of millennial-scale global climate change (R.S. Webb P.U. Clark, L.D. Keigwin, eds). American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 112: 227-241.
1998
Grigg, L.D., and C. Whitlock. 1998. Late-glacial climate and vegetation changes in western Oregon. Quaternary Research 49: 287-298. [pdf]
Long, C.J., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and S.H. Millspaugh. 1998. A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28: 774-787. [pdf]
Bartlein, P.J., Anderson, P.M., Anderson, K.H., Edwards, M.E., Thompson, R.S., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, and C. Whitlock. 1998. Paleoclimate simulations for North America over the past 21,000 years: features of simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 549-585. [pdf]
MacDonald, G.M., Cwynar, L.C., and C. Whitlock. 1998. The late-Quaternary history of pines in northern North America. In Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus (D.M. Richardson, ed.), pp. 122-136. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
1997
Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 1997. Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr. Nature 388: 57-61. [pdf]
Bartlein, P. J., Whitlock, C., and S. Shafer. 1997. Future climate in the Yellowstone National Park region and its potential impact on vegetation. Conservation Biology 11: 782-792. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bradbury, J.P., and S.H. Millspaugh. 1997. Controls on charcoal distribution in lake sediments: case studies from Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Minnesota. In Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change (J.S. Clark, H. Cachier, J.G. Goldhammer, and B.J. Stocks, eds), pp. 367-366. Springer Verlag.
Hebda, R.J. and C. Whitlock. 1997. Environmental history of the coastal temperate rainforest of northwest North America. In The Rain Forests of Home: Profile of a North American Bioregion (P.K. Schoonmaker, B. von Hagen, and E.C. Wolf, eds), pp. 227-254. Island Press, Washington, DC.
1996
Whitlock, C. and S.H. Millspaugh. 1996. Testing assumptions of fire history studies: an examination of modern charcoal accumulation in Yellowstone National Park. The Holocene 6: 7-15.
1995
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and K.J. Van Norman. 1995. Stability of Holocene climate regimes in the Yellowstone region. Quaternary Research 43, 433-436. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. 1995. The history of Larix occidentalis during the last 20,000 years of environmental change in Ecology and management of Larix forests. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station General Technical Report GTR-INT-319. pp. 83-90.
Whitlock, C. 1995. Review of "Mountains and Plains: the Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes" by Dennis H. Knight. Yellowstone Science 3, 15-16.
Millspaugh, S.H. and C. Whitlock. 1995. A 750-yr fire history based on lake sediment records in central Yellowstone National Park. The Holocene 5, 283-292.
Sea, D.S. and C. Whitlock. 1995. Postglacial vegetation and climate of the Cascade Range, central Oregon. Quaternary Research 43, 370-381. [pdf]
Worona, M.A. and C. Whitlock. 1995. Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate history near Little Lake, Central Coast Range, Oregon. Geological Society of America Bulletin 107, 867-876. [pdf]
1994
Whitlock, C. 1994. Long-term vegetational response to climatic change and edaphic conditions in Yellowstone National Park. In Plants and Their Environments: Proceedings of the First Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRYELL/NRTR, 301-304.
Engstrom, D.E., Whitlock, C., Fritz, S.C., and H.E. Wright, Jr. 1994. Reinventing erosion in Yellowstone's northern range. Journal of Paleolimnology 10: 159-161.
1993
Whitlock, C. 1993. Postglacial vegetation and climate of Grand Teton and southern Yellowstone National Parks. Ecological Monographs 63: 173-198. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. and P.J. Bartlein. 1993. Spatial variations of Holocene climatic change in the Yellowstone region. Quaternary Research 39: 231-238. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and W.A. Watts. 1993. The vegetation history of Elk Lake. In Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North-Central, United States: The Elk Lake record (J.P. Bradbury and W.E. Dean, eds). Geological Society of America Special Paper 276: 251-274.
Bartlein, P.J. and C. Whitlock. 1993. Paleoclimatic interpretation of the Elk Lake pollen record. In Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North-Central, United States: The Elk Lake record (J.P. Bradbury and W.E. Dean, eds). Geological Society of America Special Paper 276: 275-293.
Thompson, R.S., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Harrison, S., and W.G. Spaulding. 1993. Climatic changes in the western United States since 18,000 yr B.P. In Global climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein, eds), pp. 468-513. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
Marlon, J.R., Bartlein, P.J., Walsh, M.K., Harrison, S.P., Brown, K.J., Edwards, M.E., Higuera, P.E., Power, M.J., Anderson, R.S. Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Carcaillet, C., Daniels, M., Hu, F.S., Lavoie, M., Long, C., Minckley, T., Richard, P.J.H., Shafer, D.S., Tinner, Umbanhowar, C.E., Jr., and C. Whitlock. 2009. Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America. Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. [pdf] Supplementary Info: [pdf]
Markgraf, V., Whitlock, C., Anderson, R.S., and A. García. 2009. Late Quaternary vegetation and fire history in the northernmost Nothofagus forest region: Mallín Vaca Lauquen, Neuquén Province, Argentina. Journal of Quaternary Science 24, 248-258. [pdf]
Huerta, M., Whitlock, C., and J. Yale. 2009. Holocene Vegetation-Fire-Climate Linkages in Northern Yellowstone National Park, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 271, 170-181. [pdf]
2008
Marlon, J. R., Bartlein, P.J., Carcaillet, C., Gavin, D.G., Harrison, S.P., Higuera, P.E., Joos, F., Power, M.J. and I.C. Prentice. 2008. Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience. 1: 697-702. [pdf] Supplementary Info: [pdf] Supplementary Material: [pdf] Figures: [pdf]
Sugimura, W., Sprugel, D.G., Brubaker, L.B., and P.E,. Higuera. 2008. Millennial-scale changes in local vegetation and fire regimes on Mt. Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington, USA, using small hollow sediments. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 38: 566-575. [pdf]
Walsh, M.K., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2008. A 14,000-year-long record of fire-vegetation-climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington. Quaternary Research 70, 343-466. [pdf]
Jacobs, K., and C. Whitlock. 2008. A 2000-year environmental history of Jackson Hole, Wyoming, inferred from lake-sediment records. Western North American Naturalist 68, 350-364. [pdf]
Briles, C. E., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and P.E. Higuera. 2008. Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 265: 159-169. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Marlon, J., Briles, C., Brunelle, A., Long, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2008. Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the north-western US based on lake-sediment studies. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17:72-83. [email whitlock@montana.edu for article]
Minckley T.A., Bartlein, P.J., Whitlock, C., Shuman, B.N., Williams, J.W., and O.K. Davis. 2008. Associations among modern pollen, vegetation, and climate in western North America. Quaternary Science Reviews 27, 1962-1991. [pdf]
Higuera, P. E., Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M., Brown, T.A., Kennedy, A.T., and F.S. Hu. 2008. Frequent Fires in Ancient Shrub Tundra: Implications of Paleorecords for Arctic Environmental Change. PLoS ONE 3: e0001744. [pdf]
Power, M. J., Marlon, J., Ortiz, N., Bartlein, P.J., Harrison, S.P., Mayle, F.E., Ballouche, A., Bradshaw, R.H.W., Carcaillet, C., Cordova, C., Mooney, S., Moreno, P.I., Prentice, I.C., Thonicke, K., Tinner, W., Whitlock, C., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Ali, A.A., Anderson, R.S., Beer, R., Behling, H., Briles, C., Brown, K.J., Brunelle, A., Bush, M., Camill, P., Chu, G.Q., Clark, J., Colombaroli, D., Connor, S., Daniau, A.L., Daniels, M., Dodson, J., Doughty, E., Edwards, M.E., Finsinger, W., Foster, D., Frechette, J., Gaillard, M.J., Gavin, D.G., Gobet, E., Haberle, S., Hallett, D.J., Higuera, P.E., Hope, G., Horn, S., Inoue, J., Kaltenrieder, P., Kennedy, L., Kong, Z.C., Larsen, C., Long, C.J., Lynch, J., Lynch, E.A., McGlone, M., Meeks, S., Mensing, S., Meyer, G., Minckley, T., Mohr, J., Nelson, D.M., New, J., Newnham, R., Noti, R., Oswald, W., Pierce, J., Richard, P.J.H., Rowe, C., Goni, M.F.S., Shuman, B.N., Takahara, H., Toney, J., Turney, C., Urrego-Sanchez, D.H., Umbanhowar, C., Vandergoes, M., Vanniere, B., Vescovi, E., Walsh, M., Wang, X., Williams, N., Wilmshurst, J., and J.H. Zhang. 2008. Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30:887-907. [pdf]
2007
Markgraf, V., Whitlock, C., and S. Haberle, 2007. Vegetation and fire history during the last 18,000 cal yr B.P. in southern Patagonia: Mallin Pollux, Coyhaique, Province Aisén (45º41'30" S, 71º50"30" W, 640 m elev.). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 254: 292-507. [pdf]
Higuera, P. E., Peters, M.E., Brubaker, L.B., and D.G. Gavin. 2007. Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:1790-1809. [pdf]
Long, C., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein, 2007. Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Coast Range, western Oregon, USA. The Holocene 17, 917-926. [pdf]
Peters, M.E., and P.E. Higuera. 2007. Quantifying the source area of macroscopic charcoal with a particle dispersal model. Quaternary Research 67, 304-310. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Moreno, P.I., and P.J. Bartlein. 2007. Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America, Quaternary Research 68, 28-36. [pdf]
Pederson, G., Whitlock, C., Watson, E., and L.E. Graumlich. 2007. Paleoperspectives on climate and ecosystem change. In Sustaining Rocky Mountain Landscapes: science, policy, and management of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem (T.Prato and D. Fagre, eds), pp. 151-170. RFF Press.
2006
Whitlock, C., and A. Brunelle. 2006. Pollen records from northwestern North America. In: Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (S.Elias, ed.). Elsevier, Amsterdam. [pdf]
Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., Gavin, D.G., Higuera, P.E., Lynch, J.A., Rupp, T.S., and W. Tinner. 2006. How climate and vegetation influence the fire regime of the Alaskan Boreal Biome: the Holocene perspective. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 11: 829-846. [pdf]
Marlon, J., Bartlein, P.J., and C. Whitlock. 2006. Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern U.S. during the Holocene. The Holocene 16, 1059-1071. [pdf]
Power, M.J., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and L.R. Stevens. 2006. Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana. Geomorphology 75, 420-436. [pdf]
Theriot, E.C., Fritz, S.C., Whitlock, C., and D.J. Conley. 2006. Late-Quaternary rapid morphologic evolution of an endemic diatom in Yellowstone Lake, USA. Paleobiology 32, 38-54. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bianchi, M.M., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., Walsh, M., Marlon, J.M., and N. McCoy. 2006. Postglacial vegetation, climate, and fire history along the east side of the Andes (lat 41-42.5S), Argentina. Quaternary Research 66, 187-201. [pdf]
Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock, C., Meyer, G., Licciardi, J., and K. Cannon. 2006. Quaternary of the Northern Yellowstone Area Field Trip Guide. American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting, Bozeman MT, August 17-20, 2006
Williams, J.W., Shuman, B., Bartlein, P.J., Whitmore, J., Gajewski, K., Sawada, M., Minckley, T., Shafer, S., Viau, A.E., Webb, T. III, Anderson, P. M. Brubaker, L. B., Whitlock, C. and O.K. Davis. 2006. An Atlas of Pollen-Vegetation-Climate Relationships for the United States and Canada. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Foundation, Dallas.
2005
Higuera, P.E., Brubaker, L.B., and D.G. Sprugel. 2005. Reconstructing fire regimes with charcoal from small hollows: a calibration with tree-ring records of fire. The Holocene, 15: 238-251. [pdf]
Daniels, M., Anderson, R.S., and C. Whitlock. 2005. Vegetation history since the late-Pleistocene at Mumbo Lake, northern California. The Holocene 15: 1062-1071. [pdf]
Shafer, S.H., Bartlein, P.J., and C. Whitlock. 2005. Understanding the spatial heterogeneity of global environmental change in mountainous regions. Global change and mountain regions: an overview of current knowledge (U.M. Huber, H.K.M. Bugmann, M.A. Reasoner, eds), pp. 21-31. Kluwer. [pdf]
Briles, C., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2005. Holocene fire, vegetation, and climate history of northern Siskiyou mountains, Oregon. Quaternary Research 64: 44-56. [pdf]
Brunelle, A., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and K. Kipfmuller. 2005. Postglacial fire, climate, and vegetation history along an environmental gradient in the Northern Rocky Mountains. Quaternary Science Reviews 24: 2281-2300. [pdf]
2004
Whitlock, C. 2004. Land management: Fire, climate, and landscape response. Nature 432, 28-29. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2004. Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change. In Developments in Quaternary Science Volume 1 (A. Gillespie and S.C. Porter, eds.). Elsevier, pp. 479-489. [pdf]
Millspaugh, S.H., Whitlock C. and P.J. Bartlein. 2004. Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history of the Yellowstone-Lamar and Central Plateau provinces, Yellowstone National Park. In After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park (L. Wallace, ed.), pp. 10-28. Yale University Press.
Whitlock, C., Skinner, C.N., Bartlein, P.J., Minckley, T.A., and J.A. Mohr. 2004. Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains California, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34, 2110-2121. [pdf]
2003
Whitlock, C., Shafer, S.H., J. and Marlon. 2003. The role of climate and vegetation change in shaping past and future fire regimes in the northwestern U.S., and the implications for ecosystem management. Forest Ecology and Management 178: 5-21. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., and R.S. Anderson. 2003. Fire history reconstructions based on sediment records from lakes and wetlands. In Fire and Climatic Change in the Americas (T.T. Veblen, W.L. Baker, G. Montenegro, and T.W. Swetnam, eds.), pp. 3-31. Ecological Studies, vol. 160. Springer-Verlag, New York. [pdf]
Pierce, K.L., Despain, D., Whitlock, C., Cannon, K.P., Meyer, G., and L. Morgan. 2003. Quaternary geology and ecology of the greater Yellowstone area. In Quaternary Geology of the United States (D.J. Easterbrook, ed.), pp. 313-344. INQUA 2003 Field Guide Volume (Desert Research Institute, Reno). [pdf]
Brunelle, A., and C. Whitlock. 2003. Holocene vegetation, fire, and climate history in the Clearwater Range, Northern Idaho. Quaternary Research 60: 307-318. [pdf]
Overpeck, J.T., Whitlock, C., and B. Huntley. 2003. Terrestrial biosphere dynamics in the climate system: past and future. In Paleoclimate, Global Change, and the Future (K.D. Alverson, R.S. Bradley and T. Pedersen, eds), pp. 81-103. Springer, Berlin. [pdf]
Alaback, P., Veblen, T.T., Whitlock, C., Lara, A., Kitzberger, and R. Villalba. 2003. Climatic and anthropogenic influences on fire regimes in temperate forest ecosystems in western North and South America. In How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas (G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet, eds.), Ecological Studies 162, pp. 49-89. Springer Verlag.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Marlon, J., Brunelle, A., and C. Long. 2003. Holocene fire reconstructions from the northwestern U.S.: an examination at multiple time scales Second International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress (extended abstract) 4C.1, 7 pp. [pdf]
2002
Whitlock, C., Reasoner, M.A., and C.H. Key. 2002. Paleoenviromental History of the Rocky Mountain region during the last 20,000 years. In Rocky Mountain Futures: An Ecological Perspective (J.A. Barron, ed.), pp. 41-59. Island Press, Washington.
Whitlock, C. 2002. Variations in Holocene fire frequency: a view from the western United States: Biology and Environment: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 101B: 65-77.
Whitlock, C., and M.A. Knox. 2002. Prehistoric Burning in the Pacific Northwest. In: Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape (T.R. Vale, ed.), 195-231. Island Press, Washington, D.C.
Blinnikov, M., Busacca, A., and C. Whitlock. 2002. Reconstruction of the late-Pleistocene grassland of the Columbia Basin, Washington, USA, based on phytolith records in loess. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 177: 77-101. [pdf]
Grigg, L.D. and C. Whitlock. 2002. Patterns and causes of millennial-scale climate change in the Pacific Northwest during the last glacial period. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 2067-2083. [pdf]
Long, C.J., and C. Whitlock. 2002. Late Holocene fire and vegetation history from the Picea sitchensis forest of the Oregon Coast Range. Quaternary Research 58: 215-225. [pdf]
Spies, T.A., Hibbs, D.E., Ohmann, J.L., Reeves, G.H., Pabst, R.J., Swanson, F.J., Whitlock, C., Jones, J.A., Wemple, B.C., Parendes, L.A., and B.A. Schrader. 2002. The ecological basis of forest ecosystem management in the Oregon Coast Range. In Forest and Stream Management in the Oregon Coast Range (S.D. Hobbs, J.P. Hayes, R.L. Johnson, G.H. Reeves, T.A. Spies, J.C. Tappeiner, and G.E. Wells, eds), pp. 31-67. Oregon State University Press, Corvallis.
2001
Whitlock, C. 2001. Doing fieldwork in the mud. The Geographical Review 91: 19-26.
Whitlock, C. and C.P.S. Larsen. 2001. Charcoal as a Fire Proxy. In Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 3 Terrestrial, Algal, and Siliceous indicators (J.P. Smol, H.J.B. Birks, and W. M. Last, eds), pp. 75-97. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. and Millspaugh, S.H. 2001. A paleoecologic perspective on past plant migrations in Yellowstone and its relevance for the invasion of exotic species. Western North American Naturalist 61: 316-327.
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Markgraf, V., and A.C. Ashworth. 2001. The mid-latitudes of North and South America during the Last Glacial Maximum and early Holocene: Similar paleoclimatic sequences despite differing large-scale controls. In Interhemispheric Climate Linkages; Present and Past Interhemispheric Climate Linkages in the Americas and their Societal Effects (V. Markgraf, ed.), p 391-416. Academic Press.
Gardner, J.J., and C. Whitlock. 2001. Charcoal accumulation following a recent fire in the Cascade Range, northwestern USA, and its relevance for fire-history studies. The Holocene 11: 541-549. [pdf]
Grigg, L.D., Whitlock, C., and W.E. Dean. 2001. Evidence for millennial-scale climate change during marine isotope stages 2 and 3 at Little Lake, western Oregon, USA. Quaternary Research 56: 10-22. [pdf]
Blinnikov, M., Busacca, A., and C. Whitlock. 2001. A new 100,000-year phytolith record from the Columbia Basin, Washington, USA. In Phytoliths: Applications in Earth Science. and Human History (J. Dominique Meunier, ed.). A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
2000
Kershaw, A.P., and C. Whitlock. 2000. (editors). Introduction: Paleoecological records of the last glacial/interglacial cycle: patterns and causes of change. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology (special issue) 155: 1-5.
Whitlock, C., Sarna-Wojcicki, A.M., Bartlein, P.J., and R.J. Nickmann. 2000. Vegetation history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, Southwestern Washington, U.S.A. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 155: 7-29. [pdf]
Millspaugh, S.H., Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 2000. Variations in fire frequency and climate over the last 17,000 years in central Yellowstone National Park. Geology 28: 211-214. [pdf]
Wimberly, M.C., Spies, T.A., Long, C.J., and C. Whitlock. 2000. Simulating historical variability in the amount of old forests in the Oregon Coast Range. Conservation Biology 14: 167-180.
Mohr, J.A., Whitlock, C., and C.N. Skinner. 2000. Postglacial vegetation and fire history, eastern Klamath Mountains, California. The Holocene 10, 587-601. [pdf]
Minckley, T. and C. Whitlock. 2000. Spatial variation of modern pollen rain in Oregon and southern Washington, USA. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 112: 97-123.
1999
Whitlock, C., and L.D. Grigg. 1999. Paleoecological Evidence of Milankovitch and Sub-Milankovitch Climate Variations in the Western U.S. during the late Quaternary. In Mechanisms of millennial-scale global climate change (R.S. Webb P.U. Clark, L.D. Keigwin, eds). American Geophysical Union Geophysical Monograph 112: 227-241.
1998
Grigg, L.D., and C. Whitlock. 1998. Late-glacial climate and vegetation changes in western Oregon. Quaternary Research 49: 287-298. [pdf]
Long, C.J., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and S.H. Millspaugh. 1998. A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28: 774-787. [pdf]
Bartlein, P.J., Anderson, P.M., Anderson, K.H., Edwards, M.E., Thompson, R.S., Webb, R.S., Webb, T. III, and C. Whitlock. 1998. Paleoclimate simulations for North America over the past 21,000 years: features of simulated climate and comparisons with paleoenvironmental data. Quaternary Science Reviews 17, 549-585. [pdf]
MacDonald, G.M., Cwynar, L.C., and C. Whitlock. 1998. The late-Quaternary history of pines in northern North America. In Ecology and Biogeography of Pinus (D.M. Richardson, ed.), pp. 122-136. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
1997
Whitlock, C., and P.J. Bartlein. 1997. Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr. Nature 388: 57-61. [pdf]
Bartlein, P. J., Whitlock, C., and S. Shafer. 1997. Future climate in the Yellowstone National Park region and its potential impact on vegetation. Conservation Biology 11: 782-792. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bradbury, J.P., and S.H. Millspaugh. 1997. Controls on charcoal distribution in lake sediments: case studies from Yellowstone National Park and Northwestern Minnesota. In Sediment Records of Biomass Burning and Global Change (J.S. Clark, H. Cachier, J.G. Goldhammer, and B.J. Stocks, eds), pp. 367-366. Springer Verlag.
Hebda, R.J. and C. Whitlock. 1997. Environmental history of the coastal temperate rainforest of northwest North America. In The Rain Forests of Home: Profile of a North American Bioregion (P.K. Schoonmaker, B. von Hagen, and E.C. Wolf, eds), pp. 227-254. Island Press, Washington, DC.
1996
Whitlock, C. and S.H. Millspaugh. 1996. Testing assumptions of fire history studies: an examination of modern charcoal accumulation in Yellowstone National Park. The Holocene 6: 7-15.
1995
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and K.J. Van Norman. 1995. Stability of Holocene climate regimes in the Yellowstone region. Quaternary Research 43, 433-436. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. 1995. The history of Larix occidentalis during the last 20,000 years of environmental change in Ecology and management of Larix forests. U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station General Technical Report GTR-INT-319. pp. 83-90.
Whitlock, C. 1995. Review of "Mountains and Plains: the Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes" by Dennis H. Knight. Yellowstone Science 3, 15-16.
Millspaugh, S.H. and C. Whitlock. 1995. A 750-yr fire history based on lake sediment records in central Yellowstone National Park. The Holocene 5, 283-292.
Sea, D.S. and C. Whitlock. 1995. Postglacial vegetation and climate of the Cascade Range, central Oregon. Quaternary Research 43, 370-381. [pdf]
Worona, M.A. and C. Whitlock. 1995. Late-Quaternary vegetation and climate history near Little Lake, Central Coast Range, Oregon. Geological Society of America Bulletin 107, 867-876. [pdf]
1994
Whitlock, C. 1994. Long-term vegetational response to climatic change and edaphic conditions in Yellowstone National Park. In Plants and Their Environments: Proceedings of the First Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. National Park Service Technical Report NPS/NRYELL/NRTR, 301-304.
Engstrom, D.E., Whitlock, C., Fritz, S.C., and H.E. Wright, Jr. 1994. Reinventing erosion in Yellowstone's northern range. Journal of Paleolimnology 10: 159-161.
1993
Whitlock, C. 1993. Postglacial vegetation and climate of Grand Teton and southern Yellowstone National Parks. Ecological Monographs 63: 173-198. [pdf]
Whitlock, C. and P.J. Bartlein. 1993. Spatial variations of Holocene climatic change in the Yellowstone region. Quaternary Research 39: 231-238. [pdf]
Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., and W.A. Watts. 1993. The vegetation history of Elk Lake. In Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North-Central, United States: The Elk Lake record (J.P. Bradbury and W.E. Dean, eds). Geological Society of America Special Paper 276: 251-274.
Bartlein, P.J. and C. Whitlock. 1993. Paleoclimatic interpretation of the Elk Lake pollen record. In Evidence for Rapid Climate Change in the North-Central, United States: The Elk Lake record (J.P. Bradbury and W.E. Dean, eds). Geological Society of America Special Paper 276: 275-293.
Thompson, R.S., Whitlock, C., Bartlein, P.J., Harrison, S., and W.G. Spaulding. 1993. Climatic changes in the western United States since 18,000 yr B.P. In Global climates since the Last Glacial Maximum (H.E. Wright, Jr., J.E. Kutzbach, T. Webb III, W.F. Ruddiman, F.A. Street-Perrott, and P.J. Bartlein, eds), pp. 468-513. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.