The Ancient Blue Oak Woodlands of California Longevity and…加州长寿古老的蓝橡树林地.pdfVIP

Earth Interactions d Volume 17 (2013) d Paper No. 12 d Page 1 Copyright 2013, Paper 17-012; 51245 words, 16 Figures, 0 Animations, 0 Tables. http://EarthI The Ancient Blue Oak Woodlands of California: Longevity and Hydroclimatic History D. W. Stahle,*,1 R. D. Griffin,# D. M. Meko,@ M. D. Therrell, J. R. Edmondson,* M. K. Cleaveland,* L. N. Stahle,** D. J. Burnette,11 J. T. Abatzoglou,## K. T. Redmond,@@ M. D. Dettinger, and D. R. Cayan * Department of Geosciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas # Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona @ Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Department of Geography, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama ** Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana 11 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee ## Department of Geography, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho @@ Western Regional Climate Center, Desert Research Institute, Reno, Nevada Scripps Institution of Oceanography, U.S. Geological Survey, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California Received 9 February 2013; accepted 22 May 2013 ABSTRACT: Ancient blue oak trees are still widespread across the foothills of the Coast Ranges, Cascades, and Sierra Nevada in California. The most ex- tensive tracts of intact old-growth blue oak woodland appear to survive on rugged and remote terrain in the southern Coast Ranges and on the foothills west and southwest of Mt. Lassen. In the authors’ sampling of old-growth stands, most blue oak appear to have recruited to the canopy in the middle to late nineteenth century. The oldest living blue oak tree sampled was over 459 years old, and 1 Corresponding author address: D. W. Stahle, Department of Geosciences, Ozark Hall 216, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701.