The Mexican Drought Atlas: Tree-ring reconstructions of the soil moisture balance during the late pre-Hispanic, colonial, and modern eras

DW Stahle, ER Cook, DJ Burnette, J Villanueva… - Quaternary Science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Mexico has suffered a long history and prehistory of severe sustained drought. Drought over
Mexico is modulated by ocean-atmospheric variability in the Atlantic and Pacific, raising the …

High-resolution palaeoclimatology of the last millennium: a review of current status and future prospects

PD Jones, KR Briffa, TJ Osborn, JM Lough… - The …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This review of late-Holocene palaeoclimatology represents the results from a
PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Panel meeting that took place in June 2006. The review is in …

Observed and projected hydroclimate changes in the Andes

JD Pabón-Caicedo, PA Arias, AF Carril… - Frontiers in Earth …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The Andes is the most biodiverse region across the globe. In addition, some of the largest
urban areas in South America are located within this region. Therefore, ecosystems and …

Dendroclimatological reconstructions in South America: A review

JA Boninsegna, J Argollo, JC Aravena… - Palaeogeography …, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen a consolidation and expansion of tree-ring sample collection
across South America. Most collections are concentrated in the temperate forests along the …

Multiproxy summer and winter surface air temperature field reconstructions for southern South America covering the past centuries

R Neukom, J Luterbacher, R Villalba, M Küttel… - Climate Dynamics, 2011 - Springer
We statistically reconstruct austral summer (winter) surface air temperature fields back to ad
900 (1706) using 22 (20) annually resolved predictors from natural and human archives …

Precipitation changes in the South American Altiplano since 1300 AD reconstructed by tree-rings

MS Morales, DA Christie, R Villalba, J Argollo… - Climate of the …, 2012 - cp.copernicus.org
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the Central Andes has experienced
significant climatic and environmental changes characterized by a persistent warming trend …

Dendroecological studies in the neotropics: history, status and future challenges

J Schöngart, A Bräuning, ACMC Barbosa… - … : tree-ring analyses …, 2017 - Springer
We review a vast literature of Neotropical forest science and wood anatomical research that
identifies 220 tree species from 46 botanical families with confirmed annual tree-ring …

Towards understanding human–environment feedback loops: the Atacama Desert case

EM Gayo, M Lima, A Gurruchaga… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The overall trajectory for the human–environment interaction has been punctuated by
demographic boom-and-bust cycles, phases of growth/overshooting as well as of …

Southern Hemisphere high-resolution palaeoclimate records of the last 2000 years

R Neukom, J Gergis - The Holocene, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
This study presents a comprehensive assessment of high-resolution Southern Hemisphere
(SH) paleoarchives covering the last 2000 years. We identified 174 monthly to annually …

Different climate sensitivity for radial growth, but uniform for tree-ring stable isotopes along an aridity gradient in Polylepis tarapacana, the world's highest elevation …

M Rodriguez-Caton, L Andreu-Hayles… - Tree …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Tree growth is generally considered to be temperature limited at upper elevation treelines,
yet climate factors controlling tree growth at semiarid treelines are poorly understood. We …