Paul R. Sheppard Publications

• Sheppard, P.R., Lassoie, J.P. 1986. A nondestructive method for dating living, fire-scarred trees in wilderness areas. Pp. 35–38 in Proceedings, 1985 National Wilderness Research Conference: Current Research, R.C. Lucas (Comp.). USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-212.
• Sheppard, P.R., Jacoby, G.C. 1987. Tree-ring data. Journal of Forestry 85(10):50–51.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Means, J.E., Lassoie, J.P. 1988. Cross-dating cores as a nondestructive method for dating living, scarred trees. Forest Science 34:781–789.
  
• Jacoby, G.C., Sheppard, P.R., Sieh, K.E. 1988. Irregular recurrence of large earthquakes along the San Andreas fault: evidence from trees. Science 241:196–199.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Cook, E.R., Jacoby, G.C. 1988. Dendrochronology in national parks: a Mammoth Cave case study. Park Science 9:5–6.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Cook, E.R. 1988. Scientific value of trees in old-growth natural areas. Natural Areas Journal 8(1):7–12.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Jacoby, G.C. 1989. Application of tree-ring analysis to paleoseismology: two case studies. Geology 17:226–229.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 1993. Identifying low-frequency tree-ring variation. Tree-Ring Bulletin 51(1991):29–38.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., White, L.O. 1995. Tree-ring responses to the 1978 earthquake at Stephens Pass, northeastern California. Geology 23:109–112.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Graumlich, L.J. 1996. A reflected-light video imaging system for tree-ring analysis of conifers. Pp. 879–889 in Proceedings of the 1994 International Conference on Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity, J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, T.W. Swetnam (Eds.). Radiocarbon: Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Graumlich, L.J., Conkey, L.E. 1996. Reflected-light image analysis of conifer rings for reconstructing climate. The Holocene 6(1):62–68.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Holmes, R.H., Graumlich, L.J. 1997. The "many fragments curse": a special case of the segment length curse. Tree-Ring Bulletin 54:1–9.
  
• Kang, X., Graumlich, L.J., Sheppard, P.R. 1997. A 1,835 year tree-ring chronology and its preliminary analyses in Dulan region, Qinghai. Chinese Science Bulletin 42(13): 1122–1124.
• Sheppard, P.R., Lassoie, J.P. 1998. Fire regime of the lodgepole pine of Mt. San Jacinto, California. Madroño 45(1):47–56.
  
• Zhang, Z., Ji, L., Graumlich, L.J., Sheppard, P.R. 1998. Precipitation and average monthly high temperature in Jimusaer, Xinjiang as reconstructed from tree density and tree widths. Acta Meteorological Sinica 56(1):77–66.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 1999. Overcoming extraneous wood color variation during low-magnification reflected-light image analysis of conifer tree rings. Wood and Fiber Science 31(2):106–115. Society of Wood Science and Technology is the copyright holder for this article.
  
• Wimmer, R., Grabner, M., Strumia, G., Sheppard, P.R. 1999. Significance of vertical resin ducts in tree rings of spruce. Pp. 107–118 in Tree-Ring Analysis: Biological, Methodological, and Environmental Aspects, R. Wimmer, R.E. Vetter (Eds.). CABI Publishing: Oxon, United Kingdom.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Thompson, T.L. 2000. Effect of extraction pretreatment on temporal variation of nitrogen in tree rings. Journal of Environmental Quality 29:2037–2042.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Casals, P., Gutiérrez, E. 2001. Relationships between ring-width trends and soil nutrient availability at the tree scale. Tree-Ring Research 57:105–113.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 2001. Review of "Dendrochronology in Monsoon Asia." Wood and Fiber Science 33:314–315.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Comrie, A.C., Packin, G.D., Angersbach, K., Hughes, M.K. 2002. The climate of the US Southwest. Climate Research 21:219–238.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 2002. Web-based tools for teaching dendrochronology. Journal of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Education 31:123–130.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Topa, M.A. 2002. Physical-chemical pretreatment of wood for measuring tree-ring nitrogen. Extended abstract, Dendrochronology, Environmental Change and Human History, 6^th International Conference on Dendrochronology (Québec City, August 22^nd–27^th 2002).
  
• Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Cleaveland, M.K., Sheppard, P.R. 2002. Mastering the rings - The debate over dating the wood of the Messiah Stradivari seems at last to have reached a conclusion. The Strad 113:408–415.
  
• Sun, N.N., Fastje, C.D., Wong, S.S., Sheppard, P.R., Macdonald, S., Ridenour, G., Hyde, J.D., Witten, M.L. 2003. Dose-dependent transcriptome changes by metal ores on a human acute lymphoblastic leukemia cell line. Toxicology and Industrial Health 19:157–163.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Tarasov, P.E., Graumlich, L.J., Heussner, K.-U., Wagner, M., Osterle, H., Thompson, L.G. 2004. Annual precipitation since 515 BC reconstructed from living and fossil juniper growth of northeastern Qinghai Province, China. Climate Dynamics 23:869–881.
  
• Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Sheppard, P.R., Cleaveland, M.K. 2004. A dendroarchaeological re-examination of the "Messiah" violin and other instruments attributed to Antonio Stradivari. Journal of Archaeological Science 31(2):167–174.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L. 2005. Laser trimming tree-ring cores for dendrochemistry of metals. Tree-Ring Research 61(2):87–92.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., May, E.M., Ort, M.H., Anderson, K.C., Elson, M.D. 2005. Dendrochronological responses to the 24 October 1992 tornado at Sunset Crater, northern Arizona. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35:2911–2919.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Ridenour, G., Speakman, R.J., Witten, M.L. 2006. Elevated tungsten and cobalt in airborne particulates in Fallon, Nevada: possible implications for the childhood leukemia cluster. Applied Geochemistry 21:152–165.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2006. Reply to comment on "Elevated tungsten and cobalt in airborne particulates in Fallon, Nevada: possible implications for the childhood leukemia cluster", by R. Seiler. Applied Geochemistry 21:715–723.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2006. Reply to comment on "Elevated tungsten and cobalt in airborne particulates in Fallon, Nevada: possible implications for the childhood leukemia cluster", by Blasland, Bouck and Lee, Inc. Applied Geochemistry 21:1083–1088.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Singavarapu, S.Y. 2006. Solving the "magnification irony" in reflected-light image analysis of conifer tree rings using a microscope. Journal of Imaging Science and Technology 50(3):304–308.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Wiedenhoeft, A. 2007. An advancement in removing extraneous color from wood for low-magnification reflected-light image analysis of conifer tree rings. Wood and Fiber Science 39(1):173–183. Society of Wood Science and Technology is the copyright holder for this article.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Farris, C., Witten, M.L. 2007. Multiple environmental monitoring techniques for assessing spatial patterns of airborne metals. Environmental Science & Technology 41(2):406–410.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2007. Using lichen chemistry to assess airborne tungsten and cobalt in Fallon, Nevada. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 130:511–518.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Glascock, M.D., Farris, C., Witten, M.L. 2007. Spatial patterns of tungsten and cobalt in surface dust of Fallon, Nevada. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 29:405–412.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Toepfer, P., Schumacher, E., Rhodes, K., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2007. Morphological and chemical characteristics of airborne tungsten particles of Fallon, Nevada. Microscopy and Microanalysis 13:296–303.
  
• Fastje, C.D., Gollapudi, M.S.R., Le, K.H., Yemane, Y., Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L. 2007. Prenatal exposure to tungsten influences expression of DMBT1, a putative tumor suppressor gene. FASEB Journal 21(6):A756–A757.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2007. Temporal variability of tungsten and cobalt in Fallon, Nevada. Environmental Health Perspectives 115:715–719.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2008. Tungsten and cobalt: Sheppard et al. respond to comment. Environmental Health Perspectives 116(5):A197.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Hallman, C.L., Towner, R.H. 2008. Environmental history of the Southwest as general science education. Journal of Geoscience Education 55:212–219.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Ort, M.H., Anderson, K.C., Elson, M.D., Vázquez-Selem, L., Clemens, A.W., Little, N.C., Speakman, R.J. 2008. Multiple dendrochronological signals indicate the eruption of Parícutin Volcano, Michoacán, Mexico. Tree-Ring Research 64(2):97–108.
  
• Gates, J.B., Edmunds, W.M., Ma, J.Z., Sheppard, P.R. 2008. A 700-year history of groundwater recharge in the drylands of NW China. Holocene 18:1045–1054.
  
• Nash, S.E., Sheppard, P.R. 2009. Climate and natural environment of the American Southwest. Pp. 17–21 in Archaeology in America: An Encyclopedia, Vol. 3, F.P. McManamon, L.S. Cordell, K.G. Lightfoot, G.R. Milner (Eds.). Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Hallman, C.L., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2009. Spatial patterns of tungsten and cobalt on leaf surfaces of trees in Fallon, Nevada. Land Contamination and Reclamation 17(1):31–41.
  
• Fastje, C.D., Le, K., Sun, N.N., Wong, S.S., Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L. 2009. Pre-natal exposure to tungstate is associated with decreased transcriptome-expression of the putative tumor suppressor gene, DMBT1: implications for childhood leukemia. Land Contamination and Reclamation 17(1):169–178.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2009. Multiple techniques for researching airborne particulates: a comprehensive case study of Fallon, Nevada. Pp. 141–156 in Airborne Particulates, M. Cheng, W. Liu (Eds.). Nova Science Publishers: New York.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Ort, M.H., Anderson, K.C., Clynne, M.A., May, E.M. 2009. Multiple dendrochronological responses to the eruption of Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California. Dendrochronologia 27:213–221.
  
• Grissino-Mayer, H.D., Sheppard, P.R., Cleaveland, M.K., Cherubini, P., Ratcliffe, P., Topham, J. 2010. Adverse implications of misdating in dendrochronology: addressing the re-dating of the "Messiah" violin. Dendrochronologia 28:149–159.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 2010. Dendroclimatology: extracting climate from trees. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change 1(3):343–352.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., May, E.M., Ort, M.H., Anderson, K.C., Elson, M.D. 2010. Dendrochronological responses to a tornado. Pp. 305–307 in Tree-Ring Analysis in Natural Hazards Research: A State-of-the-Art, M. Stoffel, M. Bollschweiler, D.R. Butler, B.H. Luckman (Eds.). Advances in Global Change Research 41. Springer: Heidelberg, London, New York.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Weaver, R., Pringle, P.T., Kent, A.J.R. 2010. Dendrochemical evidence of the 1781 eruption of Mount Hood, Oregon. Pp. 465–467 in Tree-Ring Analysis in Natural Hazards Research: A State-of-the-Art, M. Stoffel, M. Bollschweiler, D.R. Butler, B.H. Luckman (Eds.). Advances in Global Change Research 41. Springer: Heidelberg, London, New York.
  
• Pringle, P.T., Pierson, T.C., Cameron, K.A., Sheppard, P.R. 2010. Late eighteenth century Old Maid eruption and lahars at Mount Hood, Oregon (USA) dated with tree rings and historical observations. Pp. 487–491 in Tree-Ring Analysis in Natural Hazards Research: A State-of-the-Art, M. Stoffel, M. Bollschweiler, D.R. Butler, B.H. Luckman (Eds.). Advances in Global Change Research 41. Springer: Heidelberg, London, New York.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Donaldson, B.A., Huckleberry, G. 2010. Assessment of a field-based course on integrative geology, ecology, and cultural history. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 19(4):295–313.
  
• Sheppard, P.R. 2010. Review of Fundamentals of Tree-Ring Research, by James H. Speer. International Forestry Review 12(4):427–428.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2011. Multi-year assessment of airborne metals in Fallon, Nevada, based on leaf-surface chemistry. Pp. 329–344 in Air Quality Monitoring, Assessment and Management, N. Mazzeo (Ed.). InTech, Rijeka, Croatia.
  
• Drake, D.C., Sheppard, P.R., Naiman, R.J. 2011. Relationships between salmon abundance and tree-ring δ¹⁵N: three objective tests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:2423–2432.
  
• Routson, K.J., C.C. Routson, P.R. Sheppard. 2012. Dendrochronology reveals planting dates of historic apple trees in the southwestern United States. Journal of the American Pomological Society 66(1):9–15.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Bierman, B.J., Rhodes, K., Ridenour, G., M.L. Witten. 2012. Comparison of size and geography of airborne tungsten particles in Fallon, Nevada, and Sweet Home, Oregon, with implications for public health. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, vol. 2012, Article ID 509458, 8 pages.
  
• Pleil, J.D., Sobus, J., Sheppard, P.R., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2012. Strategies for evaluating the environment-public health interaction of long-term latency disease: the quandary of the inconclusive case-control study. Chemico-Biological Interactions 196:68–78.
  
• Witten, M.L., Sheppard, P.R., Witten, B.L. 2012. Tungsten toxicity. Chemico-Biological Interactions 196:87–88.
• Fastje, C.D., Harper, K., Terry, C., Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L. 2012. Exposure to sodium tungstate and respiratory syncytial virus results in hematological/immunological disease in C57BL/6J mice. Chemico-Biological Interactions 196:89–95.
  
• Sheppard, P.R., Helsel, D.L., Speakman, R.J., Ridenour, G., Witten, M.L. 2012. Additional analysis of dendrochemical data of Fallon, Nevada. Chemico-Biological Interactions 196:96–101.
• Sheppard, P.R., Lipson, R., Hansbrough, D., Gilbert, J. 2013. Field trip pedagogy for teaching "sense of place" in middle school. Science Scope 36(7):49–54.
• France, C.A.M., Sheppard, P.R., Cano, N., Little, N.C., Speakman, R.J. 2014. Stable isotopic and chemical indicators of volcanic eruptions in tree rings from Parícutin, Mexico. In: R.H. Tykot (ed.), Proceedings of the 38^th International Symposium on Archaeometry, May 10–14, 2010, Tampa, Florida. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2:5261.
• Muñoz, A.A., González-Reyes, A., Lara, A., Sauchyn, D., Christie, D., Puchi, P., Urrutia-Jalabert, R., Toledo-Guerrero, I., Aguilera-Betti, I., Mundo, I., Sheppard, P.R., Stahle, D., Villalba, R., Szejner, P., LeQuesne, C., Vanstone, J. 2016. Streamflow variability in the Chilean Temperate-Mediterranean climate transition (35°S–42°S) during the last 400 years inferred from tree-ring records. Climate Dynamics 47(12):4051-4066.
• Aguilera-Betti, I., Muñoz, A.A., Stahle, D., Figueroa, G., Duarte, F., González-Reyes, A., Christie, D., Lara, A., González, M.E., Sheppard, P.R., Sauchyn, D., Moreira-Muñoz, A., Toledo-Guerrero, I., Olea, M., Apaz, P., Fernandez, A. 2017. The first millennium-age Araucaria araucana in Patagonia. Tree-Ring Research 73(1):53–56.
• Bunn, A.G., Helfield, J.M., Gerdts, J.R., Gleaves, D.A., Drake, D.C., Sheppard, P.R. 2017. A solvent-based extraction fails to remove mobile nitrogen from western redcedar (Thuja plicata). Dendrochronologia 44:19–21.
• Muñoz, A., Klock, K., Sheppard, P.R., Aguilera-Betti, I., Christie, D., Toledo, I., Gorena, T., Gallardo, L., González, A., Lara, A., Lambert, F., Gayo, E., Barraza, F., Chavez, R. 2019. Multidecadal environmental pollution in a mega-industrial area in central Chile registered by tree rings. Science of the Total Environment doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133915.
• Hobson, C., Kulkarni, H.V., Johannesson, K., Bednar, A., Tappero, R., Mohajerin, T.J., Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L., Hettiarachchi, G., Datta, S. 2020. Origin of tungsten and geochemical controls on its occurrence and mobilization in shallow sediments from Fallon, Nevada, USA. Chemosphere doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2020.127577.
• Brice, B., Guiterman, C., Woodhouse, C., McClellan, C., Sheppard, P.R. 2021. Comparing tree-ring based reconstructions of snowpack variability at different scales. Climate Services, doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2021.100213.
• Khan, A., Sheppard, P.R., Ahmed, M. 2022. Dendroclimatology of a mid-elevation forest in Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Botany 54(1): DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30848/PJB2022-2(10).
• Zuidema, P.A., Babst, F., Groenendijk, P., Trouet, V., et al. 2022. Tropical tree growth driven by dry-season climate variability. Nature Geoscience https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-00911-8.
• Gayo, E.M., Muñoz, A.A., Maldonado, A., Lavergne, C., Francois, J.P., Rodríguez, D., et al. 2022. A cross-cutting approach for relating Anthropocene, environmental injustice and sacrifice zones. Earth's Future 10, e2021EF002217. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002217
• Sheppard, P.R. (guest editor). In progress. Special Issue "Dendrochemistry: Tools for Evaluating Variations in Past and Present Forest Environments." Forests. Articles so far:
  • Dobrzańska, J., Lochyński, P., Kalbarczyk, R., Ziemiańska, M. 2021. Challenges in the Application of dendrochemistry in research on historical environmental pollution in an old copper mining area. Forests 12:1505. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12111505.
  • Bertín, L.J., Christie, D.A., Sheppard, P.R., Muñoz, A.A., Lara, A., Alvarez, C. 2021. Chemical signals in tree rings from Northern Patagonia as indicators of Calbuco Volcano eruptions since the 16^th Century. Forests 12:1305. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12101305.
  • Sheppard, P.R., Witten, M.L. 2022. Dendrochemistry in public health: A case study in North Carolina, USA. Forests 13:1767. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111767.
  • McCoy, A., Sheppard, P.R. 2022. Riparian dendrochemistry: Detecting anthropogenic gadolinium in trees along an effluent-dominated desert river. Forests 13:2047. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13122047
  • Ballikaya, P., Song, W., Bachmann, O., Guillong, M., Wang, X., Cherubini, P. 2023. Chemical elements recorded by Quercus mongolica Fisch. ex Ledeb. tree rings reveal trends of pollution history in Harbin, China. Forests 14:187. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14020187
  • Canning, C.M., Laroque, C.P., Muir, D. 2023. Critical analysis of the past, present, and future of dendrochemistry: A systematic literature review. Forests 14(10):1997. https://doi.org/10.3390/f14101997
  • Muñoz, A.A., González, M., Schneider-Valenzuela, I., Klock-Barría, K., et al. 2023. Multiproxy approach to reconstruct the fire history of the relictual Araucaria araucana population of the Nahuelbuta coastal range, Chile. Forests

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