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- Alexander, M. R., Pearl, J. K., Bishop, D. A., Cook, E. R., Anchukaitis, K. J., Pederson, N. 2019. The potential to strengthen
temperature reconstructions in ecoregions with limited tree line using a
multispecies approach. Quaternary Research 92: 583-597.
- Anderson-Teixeira, K.
J., Herrmann, V., Rollinson, C. R., Gonzalez, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Pederson, N., Alexander, M. R., Allen, C. D., Alfaro-Sánchez, R., Awada, T., Baltzer, J. L., Baker, P. J., Birch, J. D., Bunyavejchewin, S., Cherubini, P., Davies, S. J., Dow, C., Helcoski, R., Kašpar, J., Lutz, J. A., Margolis, E. Q., Maxwell, J. T., McMahon, S. M., Piponiot, C., Russo, S. E., Šamonil, P., Sniderhan, A. E., Tepley, A. J., Vašíčková, I., Vlam, M., Zuidema, P. A. 2022. Joint effects of climate, tree
size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten
globally distributed forests. Global Change Biology 28: 245-266.
- Asbjornsen, H., Campbell, J. L., D'Amato, A. W., Garnas, J., Gunn, J. S., Iverson, L. R., Ontl, T. A., Pederson, N., Peters, M. P., Shannon, P. D. 2019. Managing Effects of Drought in
the Midwest and Northeast United States. In: Vose, J. M., Peterson, D. L., Luce, C. H., Patel-Weynand, T., Effects of drought on forests
and rangelands in the United States: translating science into management
responses. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-98, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Forest Service, Washington Office, Washingon, DC.
- Au, T. F., Maxwell, J. T., Novick, K. A., Robeson, S. M., Warner, S. M., Lockwood, B. R., Phillips, R. P., Harley, G. L., Telewski, F. W., Therrell, M. D., Pederson, N. 2020. Demographic shifts in eastern US
forests increase the impact of late-season drought on forest growth. Ecography 43: 12 pp.
- Bishop, D. A., Beier, C. M., Pederson, N., Lawrence, G. B., Stella, J. C., Sullivan, T. J 2015. Regional growth decline of sugar
maple (Acer saccharum) and its potential causes. Ecosphere 6: 1-14.
- Bishop, D. A., Pederson, N. 2015. Regional variation of transient
precipitation and rainless-day frequency across a subcontinental
hydroclimate gradient. Journal of Extreme
Events 2: 1-46.
- Bose, A. K., Doležal, J., Scherrer, D., Altman, J., Ziche, D., Martínez-Sancho, E., Bigler, C., Bolte, A., Colangelo, M., Dorado-Liñán, I., Drobyshev, I., Etzold, S., Fonti, P., Gessler, A., Kolář, T., Koňasová, E., Korznikov, K. A., Lebourgeois, F., Lucas-Borja, M. E., Menzel, A., Neuwirth, B., Nicolas, M., Omelko, A. M., Pederson, N., Petritan, A. M., Rigling, A., Rybníček, M., Scharnweber, T., Schröder, J., Silla, F., Sochová, I., Sohar, K., Ukhvatkina, O. N., Vozmishcheva, A. S., Zweifel, R., Camarero, J. J. 2024. Revealing legacy effects of
extreme droughts on tree growth of oaks across the Northern
Hemisphere. Science of The Total
Environment 926: 172049.
- Bruening, J. M., Dubayah, R. O., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Calle, L. 2024. Definition criteria determine
the success of old-growth mapping. Ecological Indicators 159: 111709.
- Cao, Z., Zhang, J., Gou, X., Wang, Y., Sun, Q., Yang, J. C., Manzanedo, R. D., Pederson, N. 2023. Increasing forest carbon sinks
in cold and arid northeastern Tibetan Plateau. Science of The Total
Environment 905: 167168.
- Carbone, M. S., Czimczik, C. I., Keenan, T. F., Murakami, P. F., Pederson, N., Schaberg, P. G., Xu, X., Richardson, A. D. 2013. Age, allocation and availability
of nonstructural carbon in mature red maple trees. New Phytologist 200: 1145-1155.
- D'Orangeville,
L., Maxwell, J., Kneeshaw, D., Pederson, N., Duchesne, L., Logan, T., Houle, D., Arsenault, D., Beier, C. M., Bishop, D. A., Druckenbrod, D., Fraver, S., Girard, G., Halman, J., Hansen, C., Hart, J. L., Hartmann, H., Kaye, M., Leblanc, D., Manzoni, S., Ouimet, R., Rayback, S., Rollinson, C. R., Phillips, R. P. 2018. Drought timing and local climate
determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought. Global Change Biology 24: 2339-2351.
- D'Orangeville, L.
D., Itter, M., Kneeshaw, D., Munger, J. W., Richardson, A. D., Dyer, J. M., Orwig, D. A., Pan, Y., Pederson, N. 2022. Peak radial growth of
diffuse-porous species occurs during periods of lower water availability
than for ring-porous and coniferous trees. Tree Physiology 42: 304-316.
- Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Wise, E. K., Pederson, N., Bishop, D. A. 2020. Delineating Environmental
Stresses to Primary Production of U.S. Forests From Tree Rings: Effects of
Climate Seasonality, Soil, and Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research:
Biogeosciences 125: e2019JG005499, 16 pp.
- Davi, N. K., Rao, M. P., Wilson, R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Oelkers, R., D'Arrigo, R., Nachin, B., Buckley, B., Pederson, N., Leland, C., Suran, B. 2021. Accelerated Recent Warming and
Temperature Variability Over the Past Eight Centuries in the Central Asian
Altai From Blue Intensity in Tree Rings. Geophysical Research
Letters 48: e2021GL092933, 11 pp.
- Dow, C., Kim, A. Y., D’Orangeville, L., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Helcoski, R., Herrmann, V., Harley, G. L., Maxwell, J. T., McGregor, I. R., McShea, W. J., McMahon, S. M., Pederson, N., Tepley, A. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K.
J. 2022. Warm springs alter timing but
not total growth of temperate deciduous trees. Nature 608: 552–557.
- Druckenbrod, D. L., Cook, E. R., Pederson, N., Martin-Benito, D. 2024. Detrending tree-ring widths in
closed-canopy forests for climate and disturbance history
reconstructions. Dendrochronologia 85: 126195.
- Druckenbrod, D. L., Martin-Benito, D., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Renwick, K. M., Shugart, H. H. 2019. Redefining temperate forest
responses to climate and disturbance in the eastern United States: New
insights at the mesoscale. Global Ecology and
Biogeography 28: 557–575.
- Dye, A., Barker Plotkin, A., Bishop, D., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Hessl, A. 2016. Comparing tree-ring and
permanent plot estimates of aboveground net primary production in three
eastern U.S. forests. Ecosphere 7: e01454.
- Finzi, A. C., Giasson, M.-A., Barker Plotkin, A., Aber, J. D., Boose, E. R., Davidson, E. A., Dietze, M. C., Ellison, A. M., Frey, S. D., Goldman, E., Keenan, T. F., Melillo, J. M., Munger, J. W., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Ollinger, S. V., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Richardson, A. D., Savage, K., Tang, J., Thompson, J. R., Williams, C. A., Wofsy, S. C., Zhou, Z., Foster, D. R. 2020. Carbon budget of the Harvard
Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to
global change. Ecological Monographs 90: e01423, 37 pp.
- Foster, D. R., Lambert, K. F., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B. M, Hart, C. M., Labich, W. G., Meyer, S., Thompson, J. , Buchanan, M., Levitt, J. N., Pershel, R., Ross, K., Elkins, G., Daigle, C., Hall, B., Faison, E. K., D'Amato, A. W., Forman, R. T. T., Del Tredici, P., Irland, L. C., Colburn, B. A., Orwig, D. A., Aber, J. D., Berger, A., Driscoll, C. T., Keeton, W. S., Lilieholm, R. J., Pederson, N., Ellison, A. M., Hunter, M. L., Fahey, T. J. 2017. Wildlands and Woodlands,
Farmlands and Communities: Broadening the Vision for New England. Harvard Forest Paper No. 33.
- Harley, G. L., Therrell, M. D., Maxwell, J. T., Bhuta, A., Bregy, J. C., Heeter, K. J., Patterson, T., Rochner, M., Rother, M. T., Stambaugh, M., Zampieri, N. E., Altman, J., Collins-Key, S. A., Gentry, C. M., Guiterman, C., Huffman, J. M., Johnson, D. J., King, D. J., Larson, E. R., Leland, C., Nguyen, H. T. T., Pederson, N., Puhlick, J. J., Rao, M. P., Rodriguez-Caton, M., Sakulich, J. B., Singh, N., Tucker, C. S., van de Gevel, S. L., Kaiser, A. L., Ahmad, S. 2023. The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network:
Reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill.
Dendrochronological data. Progress in Physical Geography:
Earth and Environment 47: 487-651.
- Heilman, K. A., Trouet, V. M., Belmecheri, S., Pederson, N., Berke, M. A., McLachlan, J. S. 2021. Increased water use efficiency
leads to decreased precipitation sensitivity of tree growth, but is offset
by high temperatures. Oecologia 10.1007/s00442-021-04892-0: 16 pp.
- Helcoski, R., Tepley, A. J., Pederson, N., McGarvey, J. C., Meakem, V., Herrmann, V., Thompson, J. R., Anderson-Teixeira, K.
J. 2019. Growing season moisture drives
interannual variation in woody productivity of a temperate deciduous
forest. New Phytologist 223: 1204-1216.
- Kannenberg, S. A., Maxwell, J. T., Pederson, N., D'Orangeville,
Loic, Ficklin, D. L., Phillips, R. P. 2019. Drought legacies are dependent
on water table depth, wood anatomy and drought timing across the eastern
US. Ecology Letters 22: 119-127.
- LeBlanc, D., Maxwell, J., Pederson, N., Berland, A., Mandra, T. 2020. Radial growth responses of tulip
poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera) to climate in the eastern United
States. Ecosphere 11: e03203, 18 pp.
- Leland, Caroline, Andreu-Hayles, Laia, Cook, Edward R., Anchukaitis, Kevin, Byambasuren,
Oyunsanaa, Davi, Nicole, Hessl, Amy, Martin-Benito, Dario, Nachin, Baatarbileg, Pederson, Neil 2023. Impacts of Climate and Tree
Morphology on Tree-ring Stable Isotopes in Central Mongolia. Tree Physiology 43: 539-555.
- Levesque, M., Andreu-Hayles, L., Smith, W. K., Williams, A. P., Hobi, M. L., Allred, B. W., Pederson, N. 2019. Tree-ring isotopes capture
interannual vegetation productivity dynamics at the biome scale. Nature Communications 10 Article number: 742: 10 pp.
- Li, W., Manzanedo, R. D., Jiang, Y., Ma, W., Du, E., Zhao, S., Rademacher, T., Dong, M., Xu, H., Kang, X., Wang, J. A., Wu, F., Cui, X., Pederson, N. 2023. Reassessment of growth-climate
relations indicates the potential for decline across Eurasian boreal larch
forests. Nature Communications 14: 3358.
- Lockwood, B. R., Maxwell, J. T., Denham, S. O., Robeson, S. M., LeBlanc, D. C., Pederson, N., Novick, K. A., Au, T. F. 2023. Interspecific differences in
drought and pluvial responses for Quercus alba and Quercus rubra across the
eastern United States. Agricultural and Forest
Meteorology 340: 109597.
- Manzanedo, R. D., Pederson, N. 2019. Towards a More Ecological
Dendroecology. Tree-Ring Research 75: 152–159.
- Martin-Benito, D., Pederson, N. 2015. Convergence in drought stress,
but a divergence of climatic drivers across a latitudinal gradient in a
temperate broadleaf forest. Journal of Biogeography 42: 925-937.
- Martin-Benito, D., Pederson, N., Férriza, M., Gea-Izquierdo, G. 2020. Old forests and old carbon: A
case study on the stand dynamics and longevity of aboveground carbon. Science of the Total
Environment 765: article 142737, 12 pp.
- Martin-Benito, D., Pederson, N., Kose, N., Dogan, M., Bugmann, H., Mosulishvili, M., Bigler, C. 2018. Pervasive effects of drought on
tree growth across a wide climatic gradient in the temperate forests of the
Caucasus. Global Ecology and
Biogeography 27: 1314-1325.
- Maxwell, J. T., Harley, G. L., Mandra, T. E., Yi, K., Kannenberg, S. A., Au, T. F., Robeson, S. M., Pederson, N., Sauer, P. E., Novick, K. A. 2019. Higher CO2 Concentrations and
Lower Acidic Deposition Have Not Changed Drought Response in Tree Growth But
Do Influence iWUE in Hardwood Trees in the Midwestern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research
Biogeosciences 124: 3798-3813.
- McGregor, I. R., Helconski, R., Kunert, N., Tepley, A. J., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Herrmann, V., Zailaa, J., Stovall, A. E. L., Bourg, N. A., McShea, W. J., Pederson, N., Sack, L., Anderson-Teixeira, K.
J. 2021. Tree height and leaf drought
tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate
broadleaf forest. New Phytologist 231: 601-616.
- Novick, K., Jo, I., D'Orangeville,
L., Benson, M., Au, T. F., Barnes, M., Denham, S., Fei, S., Heilman, K. A., Hwang, T., Keyser, T., Maxwell, J., Miniat, C., McLachlan, J., Pederson, N., Wang, L, Wood, J. D., Phillips, R. P. 2022. The Drought Response of Eastern
US Oaks in the Context of Their Declining Abundance. BioScience 72: 333–346.
- Pearl, J. K., Anchukaitis, K. J., Donnelly, J. P., Pearson, C., Pederson, N., Lardie Gaylord, M.
C., McNichol, A. P., Cook, E. R., Zimmermann, G. L. 2020. A late Holocene subfossil
Atlantic white cedar tree-ring chronology from the northeastern United
States. Journal of Geophysical Research
Atmospheres 228: 106104, 13 pp.
- Pearl, J. K., Anchukaitis, K. J., Pederson, N., Donnelly, J. P. 2020. Multivariate climate field
reconstructions using tree rings for the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research:
Atmospheres 125: e2019JD031619, 20 pp.
- Pederson, N., D'Amato, A. W., Dyer, J. M., Foster, D. R., Goldblum, D., Hart, J. L., Hessl, A. E., Iverson, L. R., Jackson, S. T., Martin-Benito, D., MCCarthy, B. C., McEwan, R. W., Mladenoff, D. J., Parker, A. J., Shuman, B., Williams, J. W. 2014. Climate remains an important
driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United
States. Global Change Biology 20: 2105-2110.
- Pederson, N., D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A. 2007. Natural history from
dendrochronology: maximum ages and canopy persistence of rarely studied
hardwood species. Proceedings of the 15th Central Hardwood Forest
Conference. Knoxville, TN.
- Pederson, N., Davi, N., D'Arrigo, R., Buckley, B., Wiles, G., Peteet, D. 2015. In Memoriam: Gordon Jacoby Jr.
1934-2014. Tree-Ring Research 71: 45-46.
- Pederson, N., Dyer, J. M., McEwan, R. W., Hessl, A. E., Mock, C. J., Orwig, D. A., Rieder, H. E., Cook, B. I. 2014. The legacy of episodic climatic
events in shaping temperate, broadleaf forests. Ecological Monographs 84: 599-620.
- Pederson, N., Young, A. B., Stan, A. B., Ariya, U., Martin-Benito, D. 2017. Low-Hanging DendroDynamic Fruits
Regarding Disturbance in Temperate, Mesic Forests. In: Amoroso, M. M., Daniels, L. D., Baker, P. J., Camarero, J. J., Dendroecology: Tree-Ring
Analyses Applied to Ecological Studies, Springer, Cham., Switzerland.
- Rademacher, T. T., Seyednasrollah, B., Basler, D., Cheng, J., Mandra, T., Miller*, E., Lin, Z., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Pfister, H., Wei, D., Yao, L., Richardson, A. D. 2021. The Wood Image Analysis and
Dataset (WIAD): Open-access visual analysis tools to advance the ecological
data revolution. Methods in Ecology &
Evolution 12: 2379-2387.
- Rollinson, C. R., Alexander, M. R., Dye, A.W., Moore, D. J.
P.
Pederson, N., Trouet, V. 2021. Climate sensitivity of
understory trees differs from overstory trees in temperate mesic
forests. Ecology 102: article e03264, 11 pp.
- Stahle, D. W., Cook, E. R., Burnette, D. J., Torbenson, M. C. A., Howard, I. M., Griffin, D., Villanueva Diaz, J., Cook, B. I., Williams, P. A., Watson, E., Sauchyn, D. J., Pederson, N., Woodhouse, C. A., Pederson, G. T., Meko, D., Coulthard, B., Crawford, C. J. 2020. Full Access Dynamics,
variability, and change in seasonal precipitation reconstructions for North
America. Journal of Climate 10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0270.1: 65 pp.
- Teets, A., Moore, D. J. P., Alexander, M. R., Blanken, P. D., Bohrer, G., Burns, S. P., Carbone, M. S., Ducey, M. J., Fraver, S., Gough, C. M., Hollinger, D. Y., Koch, G., Kolb, T., Munger, J. W., Novick, K. A., Ollinger, S. V., Ouimette, A. P., Pederson, N., Ricciuto, D. M., Seyednasrollah, B., Vogel, C. S., Richardson, A. D. 2022. Coupling of Tree Growth and
Photosynthetic Carbon Uptake Across Six North American Forests. Journal of Geophysical Research:
Biogeosciences 127: e2021JG006690.
- Trotsiuk, V., Pederson, N., Druckenbrod, D. L., Orwig, D. A., Bishop, D. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Fraver, S., Martin-Benito, D. 2018. Testing the efficacy of
tree-ring methods for detecting past disturbances. Forest Ecology and
Management 425: 59-67.
- Wang, X., Pederson, N., Chen, Z., Lawton, K., Zhu, C., Han, S. 2018. Recent rising temperatures drive
younger and southern Korean pine growth decline. Science of the Total
Environment 649: 1105-1116.
- Wang, Y., Pederson, N., Ellison, A. M., Buckley, H. L., Case, B. S., Liang, E., Camarero, J. J. 2016. Increased stem density and
competition may diminish the positive effects of warming at alpine
treeline. Ecology 97: 1668-1679.
- Waterman, J. M., D'Amato, A. W., Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N. 2020. Historic forest composition and
structure across an old-growth landscape in New Hampshire, USA. Journal of the Torrey Botanical
Society 147: 291-303.
- Zhang , J., Gou, X., Alexander, M. R., Xia, J., Wang, F., Zhang, F., Man, Z., Pederson, N. 2021. Drought limits wood production
of Juniperus przewalskii even as growing seasons lengthens in a cold and
arid environment. Catena 196: article 104936, 11 pp.
- Zhang, J., Alexander, M. R., Gou, X., Deslauriers, A., Fonti, P., Zhang, F., Pederson, N. 2020. Extended xylogenesis and stem
biomass production in Juniperus przewalskii Kom. during extreme late-season
climatic events. Annals of Forest Science 77: article 99, 11 pp.
- Zhang, X., Manzanedo, R. D., D'Orangeville,
L., Rademacher, T. T., Li, J., Bai, X., Hou, M., Chen, Z., Zou, F., Song, F., Pederson, N. 2019. Snowmelt and early to
mid‐growing season water availability augment tree growth during rapid
warming in southern Asian boreal forests. Global Change Biology 25: 3462-3471.
- Zhang, Y., Xu, J., Jiang, Y., Mandra, T., Rademacher, T. T., Xue, F., Dong, M., Pederson, N. 2021. Higher plasticity of water
uptake in spruce than larch in an alpine habitat of North-Central
China. Agricultural And Forest
Meteorology 311: article 108696, 15 pp.
- Zhao, S., Pederson, N., D'Orangeville,
L., HilleRisLanders, J., Boose, E. R., Penone, C., Bauer, B., Jiang, Y., Manzanedo, R. D. 2019. The International Tree‐Ring Data
Bank (ITRDB) revisited: Data availability and global ecological
representativity. Journal of Biogeography 46: 355-368.
- Zhu, L., Wang. X., Pederson, N., Chen, Z., Cooper, D. J., Zhang, Y. 2018. Spatial Variability in
Growth‐Climate Relationships of Amur Cork Tree (Phellodendron amurense) and
Their Connections With PDO in Northeast China. Journal of Geophysical Research:
Biogeosciences 123: 1625–1636.