Daniel Gavin
Department of Geography
University of Oregon

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS [View list at ResearcherID]

  1. Oswald, W.W., D.G. Gavin, P.M. Anderson, L.B. Brubaker, and F.S. Hu. in press. A 14,500-year record of landscape change from Okpilak Lake, northeastern Brooks Range, northern Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology.

  2. Marlon, J.R., P.J. Bartlein, D.G. Gavin, C.J. Long, R.S. Anderson, Ch.E. Briles, K.J. Brown, D. Colombaroli, D.J. Hallett, M.J. Power, E.A. Scharf, and M.K. Walsh. 2012. Long-term perspective on wildfires in the western USA. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1112839109] [Eureka Alert coverage]

  3. Gavin, D.G., A.C.G. Henderson, K.S. Westover, S.C. Fritz, I.R. Walker, M.J. Leng and F.S. Hu. 2011. Abrupt Holocene climate change and potential response to solar forcing in western Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 30:1243-1255.. [doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.03.003]

  4. Colombaroli, D. and D.G. Gavin. 2010. Highly episodic fire and erosion regime over the past 2000 years in the Siskiyou Mountains, Oregon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. [doi: 10.1073/pnas.1007692107] [press release]

  5. Higuera, P.E., D.G. Gavin, P.J. Bartlein and D.J. Hallett. 2010. Peak detection in sediment-charcoal records: impacts of alternative analytical methods on fire-history interpretation. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19:996-1014. [doi: 10.1071/WF09134]  [PDF]

  6. Gavin, D.G. 2009. The coastal-disjunct mesic flora in the inland Pacific Northwest of USA and Canada: refugia, dispersal, and disequilibrium. Diversity and Distributions 15:972-982. [doi: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00597.x] [Review in Frontiers of Biogeography]

  7. Gavin, D.G., F.S. Hu, I.R. Walker, and K.S. Westover. 2009. The northern inland temperate rainforest of British Columbia: Old forests with a young history? Northwest Science 83:70-78. [PDF]

  8. Marlon, J.R., P J. Bartlein, C. Carcaillet, D.G. Gavin, S.P. Harrison, P.E. Higuera, F. Joos, M.J. Power, and I.C. Prentice. 2008. Climate and human influences on global biomass burning over the past two millennia. Nature Geoscience 1: 697-702. [doi: 10.1038/ngeo313]

  9. Gavin, D.G., B. Beckage, and B. Osborne. 2008. Forest dynamics and the growth decline of red spruce and sugar maple on Bolton Mountain, Vermont: a comparison of modeling methods. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 2635-2649.[doi: 10.1139/X08-106] [PDF]

  10. Beckage, B., B. Osborne, D.G. Gavin, C. Pucko, T. Siccama, and T. Perkins. 2008. A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105:4197-4202. [doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708921105]

  11. Power, M. J., and 84 others. 2008. Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcoal data. Climate Dynamics 30:887-907. [doi: 10.1007/s00382-007-0334-x]

  12. Chase, M., C. Bleskie, I.R. Walker, D.G. Gavin, and F.S. Hu. 2008. Midge-inferred Holocene summer temperatures in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257:244-259. [doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2007.10.020]

  13. Bigler, C., D.G. Gavin, C. Gunning, and T.T. Veblen. 2007. Drought induces lagged tree mortality in a subalpine forest in the Rocky Mountains. Oikos 116:1983-1994. [doi: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16034.x]

  14. Gavin, D.G., D.J. Hallett, F.S. Hu, K.P. Lertzman, S.J. Prichard, K.J. Brown, J.A. Lynch, P.J. Bartlein, and D.L. Peterson. 2007. Forest fire and climate change in western North America: Insights from sediment charcoal records. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 499-506. [Open Access Issue].

  15. Higuera, P.E., M.E. Peters, L.B. Brubaker, and D.G. Gavin. 2007. Understanding the origin and analysis of sediment-charcoal records with a simulation model. Quaternary Science Reviews 26:1790-1809. [doi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.010]

  16. Gavin, D.G., F.S. Hu, K.P. Lertzman and P. Corbett. 2006. Weak climatic control of forest fire history during the late Holocene. Ecology 87:1722-1732. [doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[1722:WCCOSF]2.0.CO;2] [PDF]

  17. Gavin, D.G. and F.S. Hu 2006. Spatial variation of climatic and non-climatic controls on species distribution: the range limit of Tsuga heterophylla. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1384-1396. [doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01509.x] [PDF] [Press release]

  18. Hu, F.S., L.B. Brubaker, D.G. Gavin, P.E. Higuera, J.A. Lynch, T.S. Rupp, and W. Tinner. 2006. How climate and vegetation influence the fire regime of the Alaskan Boreal biome: The Holocene perspective. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11:829-846. [doi: 10.1007/s11027-005-9015-4] [PDF]

  19. Gavin, D.G. and F.S. Hu 2005. Bioclimatic modelling using Gaussian mixture distributions and multiscale image segmentation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14:491-501. [doi: 10.1111/j.1466-822x.2005.00171.x] [PDF]

  20. Gavin, D.G., L.B. Brubaker, J.S. McLachlan, and W.W. Oswald 2005. Correspondence of pollen assemblages with forest zones across steep environmental gradients, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. The Holocene 15:648-662. [doi: 10.1191/0959683605hl841rp] [PDF]

  21. Clegg, B.F., W. Tinner, D.G. Gavin, and F.S. Hu 2005. Morphological separation of Betula (birch) pollen in western high-latitude North America and its paleoecological application. The Holocene 15:229-237. [doi: 10.1191/0959683605hl788rp]

  22. Foit, F.F., D.G. Gavin, and F.S. Hu 2004. The tephra stratigraphy of two lakes in south-central British Columbia, Canada and its implications for the mid-late Holocene volcanic activity at Glacier Peak and Mount St. Helens, Washington. Canadian Journal of Earth Science 41:1401-1410. [doi: 10.1139/e04-081]

  23. Gavin, D.G., W.W. Oswald, E.R. Wahl, and J.W. Williams. 2003. A statistical approach for evaluating distance metrics and analog assignments for pollen records. Quaternary Research 60: 356-367. [doi: 10.1016/S0033-5894(03)00088-7] [PDF]

  24. Oswald, W.W., L.B. Brubaker, F.S. Hu, and D.G. Gavin 2003. Pollen-vegetation calibration for tundra communities in the Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska. Journal of Ecology 91:1022-1033. [doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2003.00823.x]

  25. Gavin, D.G. 2003. Forest soil disturbance intervals inferred from soil charcoal radiocarbon dates. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:2514-2518. [doi: 10.1139/x03-185] [PDF]

  26. Gavin, D.G., L.B. Brubaker, and K.P. Lertzman 2003. Holocene fire history of a coastal temperate rain forest based on soil charcoal radiocarbon dates. Ecology 84:186-201. [doi: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0186:HFHOAC]2.0.CO;2] [PDF]

  27. Gavin, D.G., L.B. Brubaker, and K.P. Lertzman 2003. An 1800-year record of the spatial and temporal distribution of fire from the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33:573-586. [doi: 10.1139/x02-196] [PDF]

  28. Lertzman, K., D. Gavin, D. Hallett, L. Brubaker, D. Lepofsky, and R. Mathewes. 2002. Long-term fire regime estimated from soil charcoal in coastal temperate rainforests. Conservation Ecology 6(2): 5. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol6/iss2/art5/

  29. Gavin, D.G. 2001. Estimation of inbuilt age in radiocarbon ages of soil charcoal for fire history studies. Radiocarbon 43: 27-44. [PDF]

  30. Gavin, D.G., J.S. McLachlan, L.B. Brubaker and K.A. Young. 2001. Postglacial history of subalpine forests, Olympic Peninsula, WA, USA. The Holocene:11:177-188. [doi: 10.1191/095968301670879949] [PDF]

  31. Gavin, D.G. and L.B. Brubaker 1999. A 6000-year soil pollen record of subalpine meadow vegetation in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, USA. Journal of Ecology 87: 106-122. [doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00335.x] [PDF]

  32. Gavin, D.G. and D.R. Peart 1999. Vegetative life history of a dominant rain forest canopy tree. Biotropica 31: 288-294. [doi: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.1999.tb00140.x] [PDF]

  33. Gavin, D.G. and D.R. Peart 1997. Spatial structure and regeneration of Tetramerista glabra in peat swamp rain forest in Indonesian Borneo. Plant Ecology 131: 223-231. [doi: 10.1023/A:1009771519028] [PDF]

  34. Gavin, D.G., D.R. Peart and M. Leighton. 1996. Canopy gaps in peat swamp forest in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. Tropical Biodiversity 3: 243-249.

  35. Gavin, D.G. and D.R. Peart 1993. Effects of beech bark disease on the growth of American beech (Fagus grandifolia). Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 1566-1575. [doi: 10.1139/x93-197]

updated Feb 1, 2012