Christopher H Guiterman

Biographic Data

ID4053547
NAMEChristopher H Guiterman
GIVEN NAMESChristopher H
FAMILY NAMEGuiterman
SIGNATUREGUITERMAN C H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Arizona
ORCID0000-0002-9706-9332
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS3
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Drought stress detected in tree rings suggests an impending tipping point for forests on the Navajo Nation

    Open AccessJaime O Yazzie, Margaret E K Evans et al.ARTICLETrees Forests and People2025

    Forests across the southwestern U. S. face escalating challenges from changing climate. The objective of this study, conducted in partnership with the Navajo Forestry Department (NFD), was to assess the impact of climate variability and change on forest health on the Navajo Nation by adding tree-ring sampling to a stratified random subsample of NFD’s Continuous Forest Inventory plot network. Increment cores from 1075 trees at 56 plots were used t…

  • The International Tree-Ring Data Bank at Fifty

    Christopher H Guiterman, Edward Gille et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2024

    Marking its 50th year in 2024, the International Tree-Ring Databank (ITRDB) is a lasting and invaluable scientific resource, composed of over 6000 tree-ring chronology sites and more than 9000 publicly available measurement data files. It is the central global repository for tree-ring chronologies and associated measurements, providing the foundation for centennial to millennial length climate reconstructions, including large-scale spatially grid…

  • The influence of land-use activities and regional drought on historical fire regimes of Buryatia, Siberia

    Open AccessErica R Bigio, Thomas W Swetnam et al.ARTICLEEnvironmental Research Letters2022

    Every year, millions of hectares burn across Siberia, driven by a combination of warming temperatures, regional drought and human-caused ignitions. Dendrochronology provides a long-term context to evaluate recent trends in fire activity and interpret the relative influence of humans and climate drivers on fire regimes. We developed a 400 year record of fire-scarred trees from 17 sites in pine-dominated forests located southeast of Lake Baikal. Si…

  • Dating the origins of persistent oak shrubfields in northern New Mexico using soil charcoal and dendrochronology

    Open AccessChristopher I Roos, Christopher H GuitermanARTICLEThe Holocene2021References: 6

    Megafires in dry conifer forests of the Southwest US are driving transitions to alternative vegetative states, including extensive shrubfields dominated by Gambel oak ( Quercus gambelii). Recent tree-ring research on oak shrubfields that predate the 20th century suggests that these are not a seral stage of conifer succession but are enduring stable states that can persist for centuries. Here we combine soil charcoal radiocarbon dating with tree-r…

  • Convergence of Evidence Supports a Chuska Mountains Origin for the Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon

    Open AccessChristopher H Guiterman, Christopher H Baisan et al.ARTICLEAmerican Antiquity2020Cited by: 3References: 20

    The iconic Plaza Tree of Pueblo Bonito is widely believed to have been a majestic pine standing in the west courtyard of the monumental great house during the peak of the Chaco Phenomenon (AD 850-1140). The ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) log was discovered in 1924, and since then, it has been included in 'birth' and 'life' narratives of Pueblo Bonito, although these ideas have not been rigorously tested. We evaluate three potential growth origi…

  • Dendroecological Methods For Reconstructing High-Severity Fire In Pine-Oak Forests

    Christopher H Guiterman, Ellis Q Margolis et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2015

    Recent high-severity fires in pine-oak forests of the southwestern United States are creating shrubfields that may persist for decades to centuries. Shrubfields embedded in conifer forests that pre-date documentary records are potential evidence of older high-severity fire patches, and may therefore provide insights into the occurrence and extent of past high-severity fires and vegetation type conversion dynamics. In this paper we test whether de…

  • Signal Strength In Sub-Annual Tree-Ring Chronologies from Pinus ponderosa In Northern New Mexico

    Becky Brice, Kara K Lorion et al.ARTICLETree-Ring Research2013

    The creation of chronologies from intra-annual features in tree rings is increasingly utilized in dendrochronology to create season-specific climate histories, among other applications. A conifer latewood-width network has recently been developed for the southwestern United States, but considerable uncertainty remains in understanding site and species differences in signal strength and sample depth requirements. As part of the 22nd annual North A…