Paleoecology and Biogeography Laboratory

Department. of Geography
University of Oregon

PI: Assistant Professor Dan Gavin
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Title Modern pollen assemblages (Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA)
Reference 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. [PDF]
Files olympic_surface_sample_data.xls


Title Paleoecological records [pollen, charcoal, macrofossils, 14C dates], Moose Lake and Martins Lake (Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA.)
Reference 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. [PDF]
Files Moose.xls
Martins.xls


Title Fire history [soil charcoal radiocarbon dates], Clayoquot Valley (British Columbia, Canada)
Reference 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. [PDF]
Link http://www.esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E084/004/


Title Paleoecological records [charcoal, macrofossils], Clayoquot Lake (British Columbia, Canada)
Reference 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. [PDF]

Gavin, D.G. 2000. Holocene fire history of a coastal temperate rainforest, Vancouver Island, Canada. PhD dissertation. University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Files CQ_core_data.xls


Title Paleoecological records [charcoal, pollen, 14C dates, bathymetry maps, minerology, macrofossils, tree ages], Cooley Lake and Rockslide Lake (British Columbia, Canada)
Reference 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. [PDF]
Files Cooley.xls
Rockslide.xls


Title Paleoecological records [pollen, macrofossils, LOI, 14C dates], Redmountain Lake and Gerry Lake (British Columbia, Canada).
Reference 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.
Files [coming soon]


Title Tree-ring measurements and metadata, Bolton Mountain (Vermont, USA)
Reference 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
Files Map of tree locations: bolton.png
List of tree locations and attributes: bolton_fieldnotes.xls
Core attributes: see hemlock worksheet for column descriptions: Bolton_core_attributes.xls
Raw ring-width measurements (Tucson decadal format): [hemlock, 360 m] [maple, 550 m] [maple, 725 m] [spruce, 725 m] [spruce, 900 m] [fir, 900 m]