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Marine-Terrestrial Linkages |
Assistant Professor, Senior Research
Scientist Mailing Address telephone: 541-867-0283 email |
Ph.D. Pennylvania State University, 2003
M.S. Pennsylvania State University, 1999
B.S. Westminster College, 1996
Application of dendrochonrology (tree-ring analysis) to growth increments of long-lived marine and freshwater organisms with objectives of:
1) age validation, 2) development of multidecadal growth chronologies, 3) determining the effects of climate on growth, and 4) climate reconstructions.Linkages between growth patterns of marine and terrestrial organisms, and the climatic variables affecting both systems.
Dendrochronology as a tool for evaluating stand dynamics, stand development, and the effects of climate and disturbance.
Composition, structure, and disturbance regimes of pre-European settlement forests using original land surveys (witness trees).
Effects of Native American populations on pre-European settlement forest composition.
Scientific American "Researchers pry climate change records from giant clams"
National Public Radio "Natural clues to Northwest climate history"
KEZI 9 News "OSU researchers look to marine life for climate clues"
Science Daily "Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change"
Physorg.com "Study finds oldest trees grow slowest - even as youngsters"
Oregon Stater Magazine "Ocean researchers get it together"
Science Daily "Ocean health plays vital role in coral reef recovery"
Oregon Field Guide, Oregon Public Broadcasting. "Freshwater Mussels"
Salt Lake City Morning Desert News. "Mussels offer clues about Oregon streams"
Corvallis Gazette-Times. "Scientists are reading rockfish earbones"
The Oregonian. "Ancient trees win the tortoise versus hare race"
J Carilli, R Norris, BA Black, and S Walsh. 2009. Century-scale records of coral growth rates indicate that local stressors reduce coral thermal tolerance threshold. Global Change Biology. In Press
J Carilli, R Norris, BA Black, and S Walsh. 2009. Decline in Mesoamerican coral growth resiliency. PLoS ONE. 4(7): e6324 PDF
BA Black, CA Copenheaver, D. Frank, MJ Stuckey, and RE Kormanyos. 2009. Multi-proxy reconstructions of northeastern Pacific sea surface temperature data from trees and Pacific geoduck. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeogeography, Palaeoecology. 278:40-47. PDFBA Black. 2009. Climate-driven synchrony across tree, bivalve, and rockfish growth-increment chronologies of the northeast Pacific. Marine Ecology- Progress Series. 378:37-46. PDF
CA Copenheaver, BA Black, MB Stine, RH McManamay, and J. Bartens. 2009. Indentifying dendroecological growth releases in American beech, jack pine, and white oak: within-tree sampling strategy. Forest Ecology and Management 257:2235-2240. PDFBA Black, MD Abrams, PJ Gould, and J Rentch. 2009. Properties of boundary-line release criteria in North American tree species. Annals of Forest Science. 66 doi10.1051/forest/2008087. PDF
BA Black, D Gillespie, SE MacLellan, and CM. Hand. 2008. Establishing highly accurate production-age data using the tree-ring technique of crossdating: a case study for Pacific geoduck (Panopea abrupta). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:2572-2578. PDF
BA Black, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. 2008. Establishing climate-growth relationships for yelloweye rockfish in the northeast Pacific using a dendrochronologial approach. Fisheries Oceanography 5:368-379. PDF
BA Black, JJ Colbert, and N Pederson. 2008. Relationships between lifespan and radial growth rate within North American tree species. Ecoscience 15:349-357. PDF (Ecoscience feature article)
KB Arabas, BA Black, J. Speer, B. Amos, L. Lentile, K. Lewis. 2008. Disturbance history of a mixed-conifer stand in north central Idaho, USA. Tree Ring Research 64:67-80. PDF
MS Love, MM Yoklavich, BA Black, and AH Andrews. 2007. Age of black coral (Antipathes dendrochristos) colonies with notes on its invertebrate species. Bulletin of Marine Science 80:391-400 PDF
BA Black, CM Ruffner, and MD Abrams. 2006. Effects of physiography and Native American populations on pre-European settlement forest vegetation in northwestern Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 36:1266-1275. PDFBA Black, GW Boehlert, and MM Yoklavich. 2005. Using tree-ring crossdating techniques to validate age in long-lived fishes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 62:2277-2284. PDF
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2004 Development and application of boundary-line release criteria. Dendrochronologia 22:31-42. PDF
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2003 A boundary-line approach to establishing dendroecological release criteria. Ecological Applications 13:1733-1749. PDF
BA Black, HT Foster, and MD Abrams. 2002. Combining environmentally dependent and independent analyses of witness tree data in east-central Alabama. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:2060-2075. PDF
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2001. Influences of physiography, surveyor bias, and Native American catchments on witness tree distribution in southeastern Pennsylvania. Ecology 82(9):2574-2586. PDF
BA Black and MD Abrams. 2001. Analysis of temporal variation and species-site relationships of witness tree data in southeastern Pennsylvania. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 31:419-429. PDF