List of works - Cathy Whitlock

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

scholarly article

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

scientific article published on 17 April 2017

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

scholarly article

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

scientific article

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

scientific article (publication date: 8 May 2012)

Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

scientific article published in 2010

Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr

scientific article published in Nature

Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene

Variations in fire frequency and climate over the past 17 000 yr in central Yellowstone National Park

scholarly article

Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

article

Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA

article published in 2010

Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America

Simulating Historical Variability in the Amount of Old Forests in the Oregon Coast Range

article

Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires

article

Holocene fire and vegetation along environmental gradients in the Northern Rocky Mountains

scholarly article

Twenty Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Lessons About Disturbance and Ecosystems

article

A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following polynesian arrival in New Zealand

scientific article

A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

scientific article published on March 2017

Holocene lake-level trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

scholarly article

Holocene forest development and maintenance on different substrates in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Late-Glacial Vegetation and Climate Change in Western Oregon

scholarly article by Laurie D. Grigg & Cathy L. Whitlock published May 1998 in Quaternary Research

Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the north-western US based on lake-sediment studies

article

A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study

article by Colin J. Long et al published 1998 in Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Future Climate in the Yellowstone National Park Region and Its Potential Impact on Vegetation

article published in 1997

Postglacial vegetation, fire, and climate history of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA

Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event

2013 scientific paper by Mark Boslough et al.

Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA

scholarly article by Philip E. Higuera et al published 8 August 2014 in Journal of Ecology

1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis

article

Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history in the Clearwater Range, Northern Idaho, USA

scholarly article

Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA

scientific article published in 2008

A 14,300-year-long record of fire–vegetation–climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington

article

Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA

Evidence for Millennial-Scale Climate Change During Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 at Little Lake, Western Oregon, U.S.A

article

Last glacial–interglacial environments in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA and implications for Younger Dryas-age human occupation

scholarly article

Vegetation, fire, and climate history of the northwestern Great Basin during the last 14,000 years

scholarly article

Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana

scholarly article

Fire responses to postglacial climate change and human impact in northern Patagonia (41–43°S)

scientific article published on December 8, 2014

Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA

article

An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley

article

Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling

scientific article

Land-use history as a guide for forest conservation and management

scientific article

Vegetation and fire history during the last 18,000 cal yr B.P. in Southern Patagonia: Mallín Pollux, Coyhaique, Province Aisén (45°41′30″ S, 71°50′30″ W, 640 m elevation)

scholarly article

Environmental history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, southwestern Columbia Basin, Washington, USA

article

Land management: forests, fires and climate

scientific article published in November 2004

Past and Present Vulnerability of Closed-Canopy Temperate Forests to Altered Fire Regimes: A Comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia

article

Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Coast Range, western Oregon, USA

Pinus contorta invasions increase wildfire fuel loads and may create a positive feedback with fire

scientific article

Paleoecological changes at Lake Cuitzeo were not consistent with an extraterrestrial impact

scholarly article

Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change

Postglacial history of the Patagonian forest/steppe ecotone (41–43°S)

scholarly article

List of works by Cathy Whitlock

Wildfire responses to abrupt climate change in North America

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data

Rapid landscape transformation in South Island, New Zealand, following initial Polynesian settlement

Global climate evolution during the last deglaciation

Paleoecological Perspectives on Fire Ecology: Revisiting the Fire-Regime Concept

Vegetation and climate change in northwest America during the past 125 kyr

Fire-fuel-climate linkages in the northwestern USA during the Holocene

Variations in fire frequency and climate over the past 17 000 yr in central Yellowstone National Park

Explaining fire-driven landscape transformation during the Initial Burning Period of New Zealand's prehistory

Linking tree-ring and sediment-charcoal records to reconstruct fire occurrence and area burned in subalpine forests of Yellowstone National Park, USA

Climatic controls of Holocene fire patterns in southern South America

Simulating Historical Variability in the Amount of Old Forests in the Oregon Coast Range

Rapid deforestation of South Island, New Zealand, by early Polynesian fires

Holocene fire and vegetation along environmental gradients in the Northern Rocky Mountains

Twenty Years After the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Lessons About Disturbance and Ecosystems

A high-resolution chronology of rapid forest transitions following polynesian arrival in New Zealand

A walk on the wild side: Disturbance dynamics and the conservation and management of European mountain forest ecosystems

Holocene lake-level trends in the Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

Holocene forest development and maintenance on different substrates in the Klamath Mountains, northern California, USA

Late-Glacial Vegetation and Climate Change in Western Oregon

Long-term relations among fire, fuel, and climate in the north-western US based on lake-sediment studies

A 9000-year fire history from the Oregon Coast Range, based on a high-resolution charcoal study

Future Climate in the Yellowstone National Park Region and Its Potential Impact on Vegetation

Postglacial vegetation, fire, and climate history of the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon, USA

Arguments and Evidence Against a Younger Dryas Impact Event

Fire-regime complacency and sensitivity to centennial-through millennial-scale climate change in Rocky Mountain subalpine forests, Colorado, USA

1200 years of fire and vegetation history in the Willamette Valley, Oregon and Washington, reconstructed using high-resolution macroscopic charcoal and pollen analysis

Postglacial fire, vegetation, and climate history in the Clearwater Range, Northern Idaho, USA

Regional and local controls on postglacial vegetation and fire in the Siskiyou Mountains, northern California, USA

A 14,300-year-long record of fire–vegetation–climate linkages at Battle Ground Lake, southwestern Washington

Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains, California, USA

Evidence for Millennial-Scale Climate Change During Marine Isotope Stages 2 and 3 at Little Lake, Western Oregon, U.S.A

Last glacial–interglacial environments in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA and implications for Younger Dryas-age human occupation

Vegetation, fire, and climate history of the northwestern Great Basin during the last 14,000 years

Fire and vegetation history during the last 3800 years in northwestern Montana

Fire responses to postglacial climate change and human impact in northern Patagonia (41–43°S)

Holocene seasonal variability inferred from multiple proxy records from Crevice Lake, Yellowstone National Park, USA

An 11 000-year-long record of fire and vegetation history at Beaver Lake, Oregon, central Willamette Valley

Reconstruction of fire regimes through integrated paleoecological proxy data and ecological modeling

Land-use history as a guide for forest conservation and management

Vegetation and fire history during the last 18,000 cal yr B.P. in Southern Patagonia: Mallín Pollux, Coyhaique, Province Aisén (45°41′30″ S, 71°50′30″ W, 640 m elevation)

Environmental history and tephrostratigraphy at Carp Lake, southwestern Columbia Basin, Washington, USA

Land management: forests, fires and climate

Past and Present Vulnerability of Closed-Canopy Temperate Forests to Altered Fire Regimes: A Comparison of the Pacific Northwest, New Zealand, and Patagonia

Holocene vegetation and fire history of the Coast Range, western Oregon, USA

Pinus contorta invasions increase wildfire fuel loads and may create a positive feedback with fire

Paleoecological changes at Lake Cuitzeo were not consistent with an extraterrestrial impact

Holocene fire activity as a record of past environmental change

Postglacial history of the Patagonian forest/steppe ecotone (41–43°S)