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* represents student publications; † represents publication by postdoctoral fellow; ‡ authors contributed equally
2023
*Harris, V.M. & Csank, A.Z. (2023). A new 500-year reconstruction of Truckee River streamflow. Dendrochronologia, 79, 126093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2023.126093
‡Greer, K., ‡Csank, A.Z, Calvert, K., Maddison-MacFadyen, M., Smith, A., Monk, K., & Morrison, S. (2023). Understanding the historic legacies of empire from the timbers left behind: Towards critical dendroprovenancing in the British North Atlantic. The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien, 1– 15. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12831
Mensing, S., Wang, W., Rhode, D., Kennett, D.J., Csank, A.Z., Thomas, D.H., Briem, C., Harper, T.K., Culleton, B.J., George, R.J., Southon, J. (2023) Temporal and geographic extent of the late Holocene dry period in the central Great Basin, USA. Quaternary Science Reviews. 300, 107900. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.20
2022
Hardage, K., Wheelock, S. J., Gaffney, R., O’Halloran, T., Serpa, B, Grant, G., Coppoletta, M., Csank, A.Z., Tague, C., Staudacher, M., Tyler, S. (2022) Soil moisture and micrometeorological differences across reference and thinned stands during extremes of precipitation, southern Cascade Range. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 5, https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.898998
*Manning, A., Harpold, A., Csank, A.Z. (2022) Spruce beetle outbreak increases streamflow from snow-dominated basins in southwest Colorado, USA. Water Resources Research. e2021WR029964. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR029964
Porter, T.J., Anhäuser, T., Halfar, J., Keppler, F., Csank, A.Z., Williams, C.J. (2022) Canadian Arctic Neogene temperatures from hydrogen isotopes of lignin-methoxy groups from sub-fossil wood. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. e2021PA004345. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021PA004345
Keen, R., Voelker, S., Wang, S.-Y., Bentz, B., Goulden, M., Dangerfield, C., Reed, C., Hood, S., Csank, A., Dawson, T., Merschel, A., Still, C. (2022) Changes in tree drought sensitivity provided early warning signals to the California drought and forest mortality event. Global Change Biology, 28, 1119-1132.
2021
Woodhouse, C.A., Smith, R.M., McAfee, S.A., Pederson, G.T., McCabe, G.J., Miller, W.P., Csank, A.Z. (2021) Upper Colorado River Basin 20th century droughts under 21st century warming: Plausible scenarios for the future. Climate Services, 21, 100206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2020.100206
2020
McCabe, G.J., Wolock, D.M., Woodhouse, C.A., Pederson, G.T., McAfee, S.A., Gray, S., Csank, A.Z. (2020) Basinwide hydroclimatic drought in the Colorado River Basin. Earth Interactions, 24, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-20-0001.1
Schook, D.M., Friedman, J.M., Stricker, C.A., Csank, A.Z., Cooper, D.J. (2020) Short- and long-term responses of riparian cottonwoods (Populus spp.) to flow diversion: Analysis of tree-ring radial growth and stable carbon isotopes. Science of the Total Environment, 735, 139523 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.139523
Lavergne, A., Voelker, S., Csank, A., Graven, H., de Boer, H.J., Daux, V., Robertson, I., Dorado-Liñán, I., Martínez-Sancho, E., Battipaglia, G., Bloomfield, K.J., Still, C.J., Meinzer, F.C., Dawson, T.E., Camarero, J.J., Clisby, R., Fang, Y., Menzel, A., Keen, R.M., Roden, J.S., Prentice, I.C. (2020) Historical changes in the stomatal limitation of photosynthesis: empirical support for an optimality principle. New Phytologist, 225, 2484-2497. doi:10.1111/nph.16314
*Chellman, N., Csank, A.Z., Gustin, M.S., Arienzo, M.M., Estrada Vargas, M., McConnell, J.R. (2020) Comparison of co-located ice-core and tree-ring mercury records indicates potential radial translocation of mercury in whitebark pine. Science of the Total Environment, 743, 140695 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.140695
2019
Csank, A.Z., Czimczik, C., Xu, X., Welker, J.M. (2019) Seasonal patterns of riverine carbon sources and export in NW Greenland. JGR-Biogeosciences, 124 (4), 840-856.
Khider, D., Emile‐Geay, J., Mckay, N.P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso‐Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas‐Bru, L., Csank, A.Z., et al. (2019) PaCTS 1.0: A crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019PA003632
Bice, D., Csank, A., Macalady, A., Montanari, A., Tierney, D., Baldanza, A. (2019) Paleoclimate implications of earliest Pleistocene tree rings from the Dunarobba Fossil Forest, Umbria, Italy. 250 Million Years of Earth History in Central Italy: Celbrating 25 Years of the Geological Observatory of Coldigioco, Geological Society of America Special Paper. 542. https://doi.org/10.1130/SPE542
†Fletcher, T.L., Csank, A.Z., Ballantyne, A.P. (2019) Identifying bias in cold season temperature reconstructions by beetle mutual climatic range methods in the Pliocene Canadian Arctic. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 514, 672-676.
Friedman, J.M., Stricker, C.A., Csank, A.Z., Zhou, H. (2019) Effects of age and environment on stable carbon isotope ratios in tree rings of riparian Populus. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 524, 25-32.
Nicklen, E.F., Roland, C.A., Csank, A.Z., Wilmking, M., Ruess, R.W., *Muldoon, L.A. (2019) Competition and solar radiation amplify white spruce climate sensitivity in interior Alaska: evidence from carbon isotopes and tree rings. Global Change Biology. 25, 911-926.
2018
Luczaj, J., Leavitt, S., Csank, A.Z., Panyushkina, I., Wright, W. (2018) Comment on “Non-mineralized fossil wood” by George E. Mustoe (Geosciences, 2018). Geosciences 8 (12), 462.
Greer, K., Hemsworth, K., Csank, A.Z., Calvert, K. (2018) Interdiciplinary research on past environments through the lens of historical-critical physical geographies. Historical Geography 46 (1), 32-47.
Maddison-MacFadyen, M., Csank, A.Z. (2018) Mary Prince, enslavement, Cavendish, and historic timber. Historical Geography 46 (1), 79-102.
2017
Chellman, N., McConnell, J., Arienzo, M., Peterson, G.T., Aarons, S.M. and Csank, A.Z. (2017) Reassessment of the Upper Fremont Glacier ice-core chronologies by synchronizing of ice-core water isotopes with a nearby tree-ring chronology. Environmental Science & Technology. 51, 4230-4238.
Gosse, J.C., Ballantyne, A.P., Barker, J.D., Csank, A.Z. , Fletcher, T.L., Grant, G.W., Greenwood, D.R., MacPhee, R.D.E., Rybczynski, N. (2017) PoLAR-FIT: Pliocene Landscapes and Arctic Remains- Frozen in Time. Geoscience Canada, 44, 47-54. doi:10.12789/geocanj.2017.44.16
2016
Sullivan, P.F. and Csank, A.Z. (2016) Contrasting sampling designs among archived datasets: implications for synthesis efforts. Tree Physiology, 36, 1057-1059. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpw067
Csank, A.Z., Miller, A., Sherriff, R., Berg, E., Welker, J.W., (2016). Tree-ring isotopes reveal drought sensitivity in trees killed during south-central Alaska spruce beetle outbreaks. Ecological Applications. 26, 2001-2020.
Brownlee, A., Sullivan, P.F., Csank, A.Z., Sveinbjornsson, B., Ellison, S.B.Z. (2016) Drought-induced stomatal closure probably cannot explain divergent white spruce growth in the Brooks Range, Alaska. Ecology. 97, 145-159
Older Publications
Csank, A.Z., Fortier, D., Leavitt, S.W. (2013). Annually resolved temperature reconstructions from a late Pliocene-early Pleistocene polar forest on Bylot Island, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 369, 313-322.
Sharp, E.D., Sullivan, P.F., Steltzer, H., Csank, A.Z. , Welker, J.M. (2013). Complex carbon cycle responses to multi-level warming and supplemental summer rain in the high Arctic. Global Change Biology, 19 (6), 1780-1792.
Wolfe, A.P., Csank, A.Z., McKellar, R.C., Muehlenbachs, K., Reyes, A.V., Tappert, R. (2012). Pristine early Eocene wood buried deeply in kimberlite from northern Canada. PLoS ONE, 7, e45537.
Csank, A.Z., Tripati, A., Patterson, W.P., Eagle, R. Rybczynski, N., Ballantyne, A.P. and Eiler, J. (2011). Estimates of Arctic land surface temperatures during the early Pliocene from two novel proxies. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 304, 291-299.
Hill, D.J., Csank, A.Z., Dolan, A.M., Lunt, D.J. (2011). Pliocene climate variability: Northern Annular Mode in models and tree-ring data. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatoloty, Palaeoecology, 309, 118-127.
Csank, A.Z., Patterson, W.P., Eglington, B.M., Rybczynski, N., Basinger, J.F. (2011). Climate variability in the Early Pliocene Arctic: Annually resolved evidence from stable isotope values of sub-fossil wood, Ellesmere Island, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatoloty, Palaeoecology, 308 (3-4), 339-349.
Bale, R.J., Robertson, I., Leavitt, S.W., Loader, N.J., Harlan, T.P., Gagen, M., Young, G.H.F., Csank, A.Z., Froyd, C.A. and McCarroll, D. (2010) Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring d18O chronologies over the last two centuries. The Holocene, 20, 3-6.
Ballantyne, A.P., Greenwood, D.R., Sinnighe-Damsté, J.S., Csank, A.Z., Eberle, J.J. and Rybczynski, N. (2010). Significantly higher Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies. Geology, 38, 603-606.
Csank, A.Z., (2009). An international tree-ring isotope data bank-A proposed repository for tree-ring isotopic data. Tree-Ring Research, 65, 163-164.
Falcon-Lang, H.J., MacRae, R.A., Csank, A.Z. (2004). Palaeoecology of late Cretaceous polar vegetation preserved in the Hansen Point volcanics, NW Ellesmere Island, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 212 (1-2), 45-64.