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For the most recent list please visit my Google Scholar profile<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

* represents student publications; \u2020 represents publication by postdoctoral fellow; \u2021 authors contributed equally<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Kunz, M., Torbenson, M. C. A., Reinig, F., Martinez del Castillo, E., B\u00fcntgen, U., Wilson, R., Holmfeld, I., King, G., Reid, E., Anchukaitis, K.J., Trouet, V., King, K.E., Harley, G.L., Maxwell, J.T., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Broadman, E., Kuhl, E., Edwards, J., Romer, P., Gunther, B., Gerber, C., Esper, J. (2026). Exorcizing divergence in tree-ring density along the Rocky Mountains. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences<\/em>, 131, e2026JG009783. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2026JG009783<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Germain, S.J., Bekker, M.F., Collins-Key, S., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, DeRose, R.J., Kaiser, A.L., Tucker, C.S., von Arx, G. (2026) Synergies between hydraulic safety and efficiency reduce tree susceptibility to insect attack, Tree Physiology<\/em>, 46(5). https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/treephys\/tpag050<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harley, G. L., King, K. E., Maxwell, J. T., Taylor, A. H., Bergan, E. V., & Csank, A.<\/strong> (2026). California temperature since 1520 CE shows interactions in extremes of heat, drought, and fire. Geophysical Research Letters<\/em>, 53, e2025GL118590. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2025GL118590<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gustin, M.S., Baker, A., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., Haines, H.A., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Weisberg, P.J. (2026) What influences Hg uptake and movement in tree rings? Science of the Total Environment<\/em>, 1013, 181308. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.scitotenv.2025.181308<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Mensing, S., Dingemans, T., Schoolman, E., Piovesan, G., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Tomei, P., Collavini, S.M., Pazienza, A., Cantini, F., Palli, J., Zanchetta, G., Bini, M. (2025) Reconstruction of climatic and socio-economic impacts on the landscape of Northern Tuscany (Italy) over the last 2000 years based on palaeoecological and historical evidence. Anthropocene<\/em>. 52, 100497. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ancene.2025.100497<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Patterson, N.K., Dong, X., Lane, B.A., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., Rood, S.B, Sandoval-Solis, S. (2025) Dendrochronology Reveals the Response of a Riparian Forest to Water Management in an Arid River Basin. Ecological Applications<\/em>. 35(7), e70098. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/eap.70098<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Manning, A., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Allen, S., Harpold, A.A. (2025) Differential snow depth in warm edges versus cold edges of forest gaps, and its potential implications for tree growth in a Sierra Nevada conifer forest. Forest Ecology and Management<\/em>. s97, 123119. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.foreco.2025.123119<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Truettner, C., Poulson, S., Ziaco, E., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2025) Intra-specific Dominance Determines Subseasonal Pinus ponderosa Growth Response to Warm-Season Precipitation amid Drought in southern Nevada, U.S. Ecohydrology<\/em>. 18, e70105. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/eco.70105<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miller, A., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Hannam, M., Sherriff, R., Leavitt, S. (2025) Decoupling of temperature and growth of white spruce at western treeline, Alaska is unrelated to intrinsic water stress. Ecology. <\/em>106, 70147. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/ecy.70147<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arienzo, M.M., Gleason, K.E., Sexstone, G.A., Gustin, M.S., *Schwan, M.R., Choma, N., Dunham-Cheatham, S.M., McConnell, J.R., Weisberg, P.J., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2025). Latitudinal gradients of snow contamination in the Rocky Mountains associated with anthropogenic sources. Environmental Pollution, 373, 126094. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envpol.2025.126094<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

*Harris, V.M. & Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2023). A new 500-year reconstruction of Truckee River streamflow. Dendrochronologia<\/em>, 79, 126093. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.dendro.2023.126093<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2021<\/sup>Greer, K., \u2021<\/strong><\/sup>Csank, A.Z<\/strong>, 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 G\u00e9ographe canadien<\/em>, 1\u2013 15. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/cag.12831<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mensing, S., Wang, W., Rhode, D., Kennett, D.J., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hardage, K., Wheelock, S. J., Gaffney, R., O\u2019Halloran, T., Serpa, B, Grant, G., Coppoletta, M., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Manning, A., Harpold, A., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2022) Spruce beetle outbreak increases streamflow from snow-dominated basins in southwest Colorado, USA. Water Resources Research. e2021WR029964. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021WR029964<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Porter, T.J., Anh\u00e4user, T., Halfar, J., Keppler, F., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Williams, C.J. (2022) Canadian Arctic Neogene temperatures from hydrogen isotopes of lignin-methoxy groups from sub-fossil wood. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology.<\/em> e2021PA004345. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2021PA004345<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keen, R., Voelker, S., Wang, S.-Y., Bentz, B., Goulden, M., Dangerfield, C., Reed, C., Hood, S., Csank, A.<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Woodhouse, C.A., Smith, R.M., McAfee, S.A., Pederson, G.T., McCabe, G.J., Miller, W.P., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (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<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

McCabe, G.J., Wolock, D.M., Woodhouse, C.A., Pederson, G.T., McAfee, S.A., Gray, S., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2020) Basinwide hydroclimatic drought in the Colorado River Basin. Earth Interactions, 24, 1-20. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1175\/EI-D-20-0001.1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

Schook, D.M., Friedman, J.M., Stricker, C.A., Csank, A.Z., <\/strong>Cooper, D.J. (2020) Short- and long-term responses of riparian cottonwoods (Populus <\/em>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<\/p>\n\n\n

Lavergne, A., Voelker, S., Csank, A<\/strong>., Graven, H., de Boer, H.J., Daux, V., Robertson, I., Dorado-Li\u00f1\u00e1n, I., Mart\u00ednez-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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Chellman, N., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khider, D., Emile\u2010Geay, J., Mckay, N.P., Gil, Y., Garijo, D., Ratnakar, V., Alonso\u2010Garcia, M., Bertrand, S., Bothe, O., Brewer, P., Bunn, A., Chevalier, M., Comas\u2010Bru, L., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., et al<\/em>. (2019) PaCTS 1.0: A crowdsourced reporting standard for paleoclimate data. Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1029\/2019PA003632<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bice, D., Csank, A<\/strong>., 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. <\/em>542. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1130\/SPE542<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2020<\/sup>Fletcher, T.L., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friedman, J.M., Stricker, C.A., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicklen, E.F., Roland, C.A., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Luczaj, J., Leavitt, S., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., Panyushkina, I., Wright, W. (2018) Comment on \u201cNon-mineralized fossil wood\u201d by George E. Mustoe (Geosciences, 2018). Geosciences 8 (12), 462. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greer, K., Hemsworth, K., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, Calvert, K. (2018) Interdiciplinary research on past environments through the lens of historical-critical physical geographies. Historical Geography 46 (1), 32-47. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maddison-MacFadyen, M., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2018) Mary Prince, enslavement, Cavendish, and historic timber. Historical Geography 46 (1), 79-102. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Chellman, N., McConnell, J., Arienzo, M., Peterson, G.T., Aarons, S.M. and Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gosse, J.C., Ballantyne, A.P., Barker, J.D., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> , 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan, P.F. and Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (2016) Contrasting sampling designs among archived datasets: implications for synthesis efforts. Tree Physiology, 36, 1057-1059. doi:10.1093\/treephys\/tpw067<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brownlee, A., Sullivan, P.F., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Older Publications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sharp, E.D., Sullivan, P.F., Steltzer, H., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>. , 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfe, A.P., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hill, D.J., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bale, R.J., Robertson, I., Leavitt, S.W., Loader, N.J., Harlan, T.P., Gagen, M., Young, G.H.F., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., Froyd, C.A. and McCarroll, D. (2010) Temporal stability in bristlecone pine tree-ring d18<\/sup>O chronologies over the last two centuries. The Holocene, 20, 3-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ballantyne, A.P., Greenwood, D.R., Sinnighe-Damst\u00e9, J.S., Csank, A.Z<\/strong>., Eberle, J.J. and Rybczynski, N. (2010). Significantly higher Arctic surface temperatures during the Pliocene indicated by multiple independent proxies. Geology, 38, 603-606.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Csank, A.Z.<\/strong>, (2009). An international tree-ring isotope data bank-A proposed repository for tree-ring isotopic data. Tree-Ring Research, 65, 163-164.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Falcon-Lang, H.J., MacRae, R.A., Csank, A.Z.<\/strong> (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. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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