Publications by lab members

 

Pisaric, M.F.J., Clayden, S.L., MacDonald, G.M. and Cwynar, L.C.  1998.  A statistical analysis of pollen and stomata content of lake surface-sediments across a vegetation and climatic gradient in the lower Lena River region, Siberia.  Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.  30(7).


Pisaric, M.F.J., Szeicz, J.M., Karst, T. and Smol, J.P.  2000.  Comparison of pollen and stomate spectra as indicators of treeline in montane and alpine lake sediments from northwestern Canada.  Canadian Journal of Botany.  78:1180-1186 (PDF)


Pisaric, M.F.J., MacDonald, G.M., Cwynar, L.C. and Velichko, A.A.  2001.  Modern pollen and stomate spectra from lake sediments from north-central Siberia: their use in interpreting late-Quaternary fossil pollen assemblages.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research.  33(1): 19-27 (PDF).


Pisaric, M.F.J., MacDonald, G.M., Velichko, A.A.  and Cwynar, L.C.  2001.  The late-glacial and post-glacial vegetation history of the northwestern limits of Beringia based on pollen, stomate and megafossil evidence.  Quaternary Science Reviews.  20:235-245 (PDF).


Pisaric, M.F.J.  2002.  Long-distance transport of terrestrial plant material by convection resulting from forest fires.  Journal of

Paleolimnology.  28(3):349-354 (PDF).


Pisaric, M.F.J., Holt, C., Szeicz, J.M., Karst, T and Smol, J.P.  2003.  Holocene treelinedynamics in the mountains of northeastern British Columbia, Canada, inferred from fossil pollen and stomates.  The Holocene.  13(2): 161-173 (PDF).


Graumlich, L.J., Pisaric, M.F.J., Waggoner, L., Littell, J.S., and King, J.C.  2003.  Upper Yellowstone River flow and

teleconnections with Pacific Basin climate variability during the past three centuries.  Climatic Change.  59(1):245-262 (PDF).


Bigelow, N.H., Brubaker, L.B., Edwards, M.E., Harrison, S.P., Prentice, I.C., Anderson, P.M., Andreev, A.A., Bartlein, P.J., Christensen, T.R., Cramer, W., Kaplan, J.O., Lozhkin, A.V., Matveyeva, N.V., Murray, D.F., McGuire, A.D., Razzhivin, V.Y., Ritchie, J.C., Smith, B., Walker, D.A., Gajewski, K., Wolf, V., Holmqvist, B.H., Igarashi, Y., Kremenetskii, K., Paus, A., Pisaric, M.F.J., and Volkova, V.S.  2003. Climate change and Arctic ecosystems: 1. Vegetation changes north of 55_N between the last glacial maximum, mid-Holocene, and present. Journal of Geophysical Research.  108:D19, 8170, doi:10.1029/2002JD002558 (PDF).


MacDonald, G.M., Edwards, T.W.D., Gervais, B., Laing, T., Pisaric, M.F.J., Porinchu, D., Snyder, J., Solovieva, N., Tarasov, P. and Wolfe, B.  2004.  Recent paleolimnological research from northern Russian Eurasia.  In, R. Pienitz, M.S.V. Douglas, and J.P. Smol (eds.).  Long term Environmental Change in Arctic and Antarctic Lakes.  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.


Karst-Riddoch, T.L., Pisaric, M.F.J. and Smol, J.P.  2005. Diatom responses to 20th century climate-related environmental

changes in high-elevation mountain lakes of the northern Canadian Cordillera.  Journal of Paleolimnology.  33:265-282 (PDF).


Karst-Riddoch, T.L., Pisaric, M.F.J. Youngblut, D. and Smol, J.P. 2005. Postglacial record of diatom assemblage changes

related to climate in an alpine lake from the northern Rocky Mountains, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany.  83(8): 968-982

(PDF).


Pisaric, M.F.J., King, G.M., Marcantonio, R.V. and Youngblut, D.K.  2006.  Paleoecological studies of climate, forest

development and disturbance, south-central Yukon Territory.   A report submitted to the Yukon Government.  49 pp.


Pisaric, M.F.J.  2006.  A dendroclimatic study of white spruce in the eastern Mackenzie Delta.  A report submitted to Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) Water Resources Division.  Carleton University Paleoecological Laboratory (CUPL).  45 pp.   

 

Porter, T.J. and Pisaric, M.F.J.  2006.  Mackenzie Delta Stable Isotope Dendroclimatology.  A report submitted to Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (DIAND) Water Resources Division.  Carleton University Paleoecological Laboratory (CUPL).  32 pp.


Pisaric, M.F.J., Carey, S.K., Kokelj, S.V. and Youngblut, D.  2007.  Anomalous 20th century tree growth, Mackenzie Delta,

Northwest Territories, Canada.  Geophysical Research Letters.  VOL. 34, L05714, doi:10.1029/2006GL029139, 2007 (PDF). 


Kokelj, S.V., Pisaric, M.F.J. and Burn, C.R..  2007.  Cessation of ice-wedge development during the 20th century in spruce forests of eastern Mackenzie Delta, Northwest Territories, Canada.  Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences.  44(11): 1503-1515 (PDF).


Youngblut, D. and B. Luckman.  2008.  Maximum June–July temperatures in the southwest Yukon over the last 300 years reconstructed from tree rings.  Dendrochronologia. 25(3):153-166 (PDF).


Pisaric, M.F..J., King, D. MacIntosh, A. and Bemrose, R.  2008.  Impact of the 1998 ice storm on the health of sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) dominated forest stands in Gatineau Park, Quebec.  Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 135(4):530–539. (PDF)


Porter, T.J., Pisaric, M.F.J., Kokelj, S.V. and Edwards, T.W.D. 2009. Climatic signals in δ13C and δ18O of tree-rings from white spruce in the Mackenzie Delta region, northern Canada. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 41(4):497–505.

(PDF)


Pisaric, M.F.J., St-Onge, S. and Kokelj, S.V.  2009.  Tree-ring reconstruction of early-growing season precipitation from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 41(4):486–496. (PDF)


Wolfe, B.B.,  Humphries, M.H.,  Pisaric, M.F.J., Balasubramaniam, A.N.,  Burn, C.R.,  Chan, L., Cooley, D., Froese, D.G.,

Graupe, S., Hall, R.I., Lantz, T., Porter, T.J., Roy-Leveillee, P., Turner, K.W., Wesche, S.D. and Williams, M.  Forthcoming.  Environmental change and traditional use of the Old Crow Flats in northern Canada: An IPY opportunity to meet the challenges of the new northern research paradigm.  Arctic.