David W Stahle
Biographic Data
| ID | 273672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Stahle |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Stahle |
| SIGNATURE | STAHLE D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Ecuadendro 2025
The 1st Ecuadorian Dendrochronology Conference (ECUADENDRO 2025) took place in Daule, Ecuador, on January 23–24, 2025, with the generous sponsorship of the Tree-Ring Society. The event attracted 230 participants from 45 countries, bringing together leading experts in various subfields of tree-ring science, including dendroclimatology, dendroecology, dendrogeomorphology, dendroarchaeology, and cellular dendrochronology. Fifteen international speak…
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico
The mountain juniper Juniperus monticola Martinez, a decumbent alpine shrub found at elevations up to 4600 m a.s.l. on the high mountains of central Mexico, is the woody species growing at highest elevation in North America. It reaches an age close to a millenium, which probably makes it the oldest alpine shrub in the world. We conducted a dendrochronological study of this species at Pico de Orizaba volcano, the highest peak in Mexico, to analyze…
Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the future would have significant hydroclimatic and socioeconomic consequences in both the semi-arid Southwest and humid East. Using tree-ring reconstructions and hydrologic simulations of summer soil moisture, we evaluate and contextualize the modern summer aridity gradient withi…
Pan American interactions of Amazon precipitation, streamflow, and tree growth extremes
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 (ENSO). This co-variability of precipitation extremes across the Americas is imprinted on tree growth and is detected when new tree-ring chronologies from th…
Meteorological Factors Associated With Frost Rings in Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine at Mt. Goliath, Colorado
The meteorological factors involved in the formation of earlywood frost rings in Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) have not been described in detail. This study used 51 tree-ring dated Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine trees growing at ca. 3500 m a.s.l. on Mt. Goliath, Colorado, to develop earlywood and latewood frost ring chronologies dating from 1930 to 2010 for investigation of the regional and large-scale weather anomalies respon…
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …
Tree-Ring Dating of An Arkansas Antebellum Plantation House
As part of the Lakeport Plantation Restoration Project conducted by Arkansas State University, we examined tree-ring samples of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich.) timbers from the Lakeport Plantation house in Chicot County, Arkansas. Our objectives for the study were to: (1) determine cutting dates of timbers used in the construction of the plantation house and an ancillary log shed in order to support or refute available historical and ar…
Inferring precipitation-anomaly gradients from tree rings
North American drought
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
The western United States is experiencing a severe multiyear drought that is unprecedented in some hydroclimatic records. Using gridded drought reconstructions that cover most of the western United States over the past 1200 years, we show that this drought pales in comparison to an earlier period of elevated aridity and epic drought in AD 900 to 1300, an interval broadly consistent with the Medieval Warm Period. If elevated aridity in the western…
Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies
Precipitation reconstructions based on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich) annual growth ring data collected from locations near the Savannah River valley, coupled with a series of simple models of storage capability, are used to calculate the agricultural food reserves potentially available each year from A.D. 1005 to 1600 to local prehistoric Mississippian populations. The resulting food reserve estimates suggest that interannual variatio…
The Potential for Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating in Eastern North America
Tree-Ring Dating of Baldcypress and the Potential for Millennia-Long Chronologies in the Southeast
The tree-ring dating of baldcypress has been achieved in the southeastern United States, and the first 500 to 600 year long baldcypress chronologies have been developed from remnant stands of old-growth trees. An 800 year long cypress tree-ring chronology based on living trees and extended with long dead submerged logs has recently been dated, demonstrating the feasibility for very long chronology extension using progressively older sources of pr…
Dendroclimatic Relationships of Post Oak Across a Precipitation Gradient in the Southcentral United States
Post oak is a dominant species along the prairie border in the southcentral United States where upland forests gradually merge into the grasslands of the Southern Plains. These vegetation changes coincide with a sharp decrease in mean annual precipitation. Increment core studies at more than 50 sites from southern Texas to central Missouri indicate that old-growth post oak forests are still widespread, probably because these typically small, poor…
An analysis and application of the size distribution of waste flakes from the manufacture of bifacial stone tools
A replication experiment tested the hypothesis that the size range of waste flakes from biface manufacture decreases from initial to final reduction stages and may be used to estimate biface reduction stages in prehistoric flake samples by comparison with replicated flake data. All waste flakes from the replication of twelve projectile points were separated into four experimentally defined stages, and were then sieved into ten size categories. Th…
An analysis and application of the size distribution of waste flakes from the manufacture of bifacial stone tools
A replication experiment tested the hypothesis that the size range of waste flakes from biface manufacture decreases from initial to final reduction stages and may be used to estimate biface reduction stages in prehistoric flake samples by comparison with replicated flake data. All waste flakes from the replication of twelve projectile points were separated into four experimentally defined stages, and were then sieved into ten size categories. Th…
Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies
Precipitation reconstructions based on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich) annual growth ring data collected from locations near the Savannah River valley, coupled with a series of simple models of storage capability, are used to calculate the agricultural food reserves potentially available each year from A.D. 1005 to 1600 to local prehistoric Mississippian populations. The resulting food reserve estimates suggest that interannual variatio…
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …
Tree-Ring Dating of Baldcypress and the Potential for Millennia-Long Chronologies in the Southeast
The tree-ring dating of baldcypress has been achieved in the southeastern United States, and the first 500 to 600 year long baldcypress chronologies have been developed from remnant stands of old-growth trees. An 800 year long cypress tree-ring chronology based on living trees and extended with long dead submerged logs has recently been dated, demonstrating the feasibility for very long chronology extension using progressively older sources of pr…
Dendroclimatic Relationships of Post Oak Across a Precipitation Gradient in the Southcentral United States
Post oak is a dominant species along the prairie border in the southcentral United States where upland forests gradually merge into the grasslands of the Southern Plains. These vegetation changes coincide with a sharp decrease in mean annual precipitation. Increment core studies at more than 50 sites from southern Texas to central Missouri indicate that old-growth post oak forests are still widespread, probably because these typically small, poor…
An analysis and application of the size distribution of waste flakes from the manufacture of bifacial stone tools
A replication experiment tested the hypothesis that the size range of waste flakes from biface manufacture decreases from initial to final reduction stages and may be used to estimate biface reduction stages in prehistoric flake samples by comparison with replicated flake data. All waste flakes from the replication of twelve projectile points were separated into four experimentally defined stages, and were then sieved into ten size categories. Th…
Dendroclimatic Relationships of Post Oak Across a Precipitation Gradient in the Southcentral United States
Post oak is a dominant species along the prairie border in the southcentral United States where upland forests gradually merge into the grasslands of the Southern Plains. These vegetation changes coincide with a sharp decrease in mean annual precipitation. Increment core studies at more than 50 sites from southern Texas to central Missouri indicate that old-growth post oak forests are still widespread, probably because these typically small, poor…
The Potential for Archaeological Tree-Ring Dating in Eastern North America
Tree-Ring Dating of Baldcypress and the Potential for Millennia-Long Chronologies in the Southeast
The tree-ring dating of baldcypress has been achieved in the southeastern United States, and the first 500 to 600 year long baldcypress chronologies have been developed from remnant stands of old-growth trees. An 800 year long cypress tree-ring chronology based on living trees and extended with long dead submerged logs has recently been dated, demonstrating the feasibility for very long chronology extension using progressively older sources of pr…
Paleoclimate and the Potential Food Reserves of Mississippian Societies
Precipitation reconstructions based on bald cypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich) annual growth ring data collected from locations near the Savannah River valley, coupled with a series of simple models of storage capability, are used to calculate the agricultural food reserves potentially available each year from A.D. 1005 to 1600 to local prehistoric Mississippian populations. The resulting food reserve estimates suggest that interannual variatio…
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
The western United States is experiencing a severe multiyear drought that is unprecedented in some hydroclimatic records. Using gridded drought reconstructions that cover most of the western United States over the past 1200 years, we show that this drought pales in comparison to an earlier period of elevated aridity and epic drought in AD 900 to 1300, an interval broadly consistent with the Medieval Warm Period. If elevated aridity in the western…
North American drought
Inferring precipitation-anomaly gradients from tree rings
Tree-Ring Dating of An Arkansas Antebellum Plantation House
As part of the Lakeport Plantation Restoration Project conducted by Arkansas State University, we examined tree-ring samples of baldcypress (Taxodium distichum L. Rich.) timbers from the Lakeport Plantation house in Chicot County, Arkansas. Our objectives for the study were to: (1) determine cutting dates of timbers used in the construction of the plantation house and an ancillary log shed in order to support or refute available historical and ar…
North American megadroughts in the Common Era
During the Medieval Climate Anomaly ( MCA ), Western North America experienced episodes of intense aridity that persisted for multiple decades or longer. These megadroughts are well documented in many proxy records, but the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. General circulation models ( GCMs ) simulate megadroughts, but do not reproduce the temporal clustering of events during the MCA , suggesting they are not caused by the time history of …
Meteorological Factors Associated With Frost Rings in Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine at Mt. Goliath, Colorado
The meteorological factors involved in the formation of earlywood frost rings in Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) have not been described in detail. This study used 51 tree-ring dated Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine trees growing at ca. 3500 m a.s.l. on Mt. Goliath, Colorado, to develop earlywood and latewood frost ring chronologies dating from 1930 to 2010 for investigation of the regional and large-scale weather anomalies respon…
Pan American interactions of Amazon precipitation, streamflow, and tree growth extremes
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 (ENSO). This co-variability of precipitation extremes across the Americas is imprinted on tree growth and is detected when new tree-ring chronologies from th…
Placing the east-west North American aridity gradient in a multi-century context
Instrumental records indicate a century-long trend towards drying over western North America and wetting over eastern North America. A continuation of these trends into the future would have significant hydroclimatic and socioeconomic consequences in both the semi-arid Southwest and humid East. Using tree-ring reconstructions and hydrologic simulations of summer soil moisture, we evaluate and contextualize the modern summer aridity gradient withi…
Ecuadendro 2025
The 1st Ecuadorian Dendrochronology Conference (ECUADENDRO 2025) took place in Daule, Ecuador, on January 23–24, 2025, with the generous sponsorship of the Tree-Ring Society. The event attracted 230 participants from 45 countries, bringing together leading experts in various subfields of tree-ring science, including dendroclimatology, dendroecology, dendrogeomorphology, dendroarchaeology, and cellular dendrochronology. Fifteen international speak…
Climatic response of Juniperus monticola Martinez, a multi-century alpine shrub from the high mountains of central Mexico
The mountain juniper Juniperus monticola Martinez, a decumbent alpine shrub found at elevations up to 4600 m a.s.l. on the high mountains of central Mexico, is the woody species growing at highest elevation in North America. It reaches an age close to a millenium, which probably makes it the oldest alpine shrub in the world. We conducted a dendrochronological study of this species at Pico de Orizaba volcano, the highest peak in Mexico, to analyze…
Geography (15 works) · Tree-ring climate responses (14 works) · Climatology (9 works) · Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (9 works) · Environmental Science (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Dendrochronology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Precipitation (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works)