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Research

The personnel of the Minnesota Dendroecology Laboratory are involved in a wide array of research projects that span several ecosystems and geographic locations. We have study sites throughout Minnesota, and other projects taking place in Montana, Oregon, Idaho, and Colorado. We have received funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the University of Minnesota Graduate School, the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts, the University of Minnesota Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, two Graduate Summer Research Fellowships and a Graduate Research Partnership Program from the Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota. Click on any of the research project titles below to learn more about them. A list of some of the publications that laboratory personnel have been involved with over their careers can be found below.
Publications by Laboratory Personnel

Ziegler, Susy Z., Larson, Evan R., Rauchfuss, Julia, and Elliott, Grant P. 2008. Tree recruitment during dry spells at an oak savanna in Minnesota. Tree-Ring Research 64: 47-54. pdf

Larson, Evan R. 2007. Whitebark pine regeneration in southwestern Montana and eastern Oregon. Nutcracker Notes 13: 16-18. pdf

Arabas, Karen B., Keith H. Hadley, and Evan R. Larson. 2006. Fire history of a naturally fragmented landscape in central Oregon. The Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 1108–1120. pdf

Rauchfuss, Julia and James H. Speer. 2006. Age dependence of spiral grain in white oaks (Quercus alba L.) in southwestern Illinois. Tree-Ring Research 62: 13–24. pdf

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and John A. Kupfer.  2005. Complexity of successional pathways in subalpine forests of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, USA.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 95: 495–510.

Brunelle, Andrea, Cathy Whitlock, Patrick J. Bartlein, and Kurt F. Kipfmueller. 2005. Holocene fire and vegetation along environmental gradients in the Northern Rocky Mountains.  Quaternary Science Reviews 24 : 2281–2300.

Gagen, Mary, M., Kevin Anchukaitis, Lori Daniels, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, James H. Speer. 2005.  Tree-ring Presentations at the 2003 Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.  Dendrochronologia 22: 3–6.

Salzer, Matt W. and Kurt F. Kipfmueller.  2005.  Reconstructed temperature and precipitation on a millennial timescale from tree-rings in the Southern Colorado Plateau, USA.  Climatic Change 70: 465–487.

Elliott, Grant P. and William L. Baker. 2004. Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) at treeline: a century of change in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA. Journal of Biogeography 31: 733–745.

Ziegler, Susy S. 2004. Composition, structure, and disturbance history of old-growth and second-growth forests in Adirondack Park, New York. Physical Geography 25: 152–169. pdf

Ziegler, Susy S. 2002. Disturbance regimes of hemlock-dominated old-growth in northern New York, U.S.A. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32: 2106–2115.

Baker, William L. and Kurt F. Kipfmueller. 2001. Spatial ecology of pre-EuroAmerican fires in a Southern Rocky Mountain subalpine forest landscape. The Professional Geographer 53: 248–262.

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and Thomas W. Swetnam. 2001. Using dendrochronology to reconstruct the history of ecosystems.  In: Egan, D. and E. Howell (eds.). The Historical Ecology Handbook. Island Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 199–228.

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and William L. Baker. 2000. A fire history of a subalpine forest in southeastern Wyoming. Journal of Biogeography 27: 71–85.

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and Thomas W. Swetnam. 2000. Fire climate interactions in the Selway Bitterroot Wilderness Area. In: Cole, David N. and Stephen F. McCool (eds.). Proceedings: Wilderness Science in a Time of Change, Missoula, MT, May 23–27, 1999. Proc. RMRS P 15-VOL-5. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. pp. 270–275

Ziegler, Susy S. 2000. A comparison of structural characteristics between old-growth and second-growth hemlock-hardwood forests in Adirondack Park, New York. Global Ecology and Biogeography 9: 373–389.

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and William L. Baker. 1998. A comparison of three techniques to date stand-replacing fires in lodgepole pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 104: 171–177.

Kipfmueller, Kurt F. and William L. Baker. 1998. Fires and dwarf mistletoe in a southeastern Wyoming forest. Forest Ecology and Management 108: 77–84.

Tinker, Daniel B., Catherine A. Resor, Gary P. Beauvis, Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Charles I. Fernandes, and William L. Baker. 1998. Watershed analysis of forest fragmentation by clearcuts and roads in a Wyoming Forest. Landscape Ecology 13: 149–165.

Ziegler, Susy S. 1997. White pine in southwestern Wisconsin: stability and change at different scales. In Wisconsin Land and Life: Geographic Portraits of the State, ed. R. Ostergren and T. Vale, pp. 81–94. Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin Press.

Ziegler, Susy S. 1995. Relict eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) stands in southwestern Wisconsin. American Midland Naturalist 133: 88–100.