Publications
Hu, F.S., Hampe, A., and Petit, R.J. Paleoecology meets genetics: Deciphering past vegetational dynamics. In press.
Brubaker, L.B., Higuera, P.H., Rupp, T.S., Olson, M., Anderson, P.M., and Hu, F.S. 2008. Linking sediment charcoal records and ecological modeling to understand causes of past fire-regime change in Alaskan boreal forests. In review.
* Chipman, M.L., Clarke, G.H., and Hu, F.S. 2008. A 2000-year record of climate change from Ongoki Lake, southwestern Alaska. In review.
Higuera, P.E., Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M., Brown, T.A., and Hu, F.S. 2008. Vegetation mediated the impacts of postglacial climatic change on fire regimes in the south-central Brooks Range, Alaska. Ecology: Accepted.
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Chase, M., Bleskie, C., Walker, I.R., Gavin, D., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2008. Midge-inferred Holocene summer temperatures in southeastern British Columbia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 257: 244-259.
* Higuera, P.E., Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M., Brown, T.A., Kennedy, A., and Hu, F.S. 2008. Fires in ancient shrub tundra: Implications of paleo-records for Arctic environmental change. PLoS One 3: e0001744. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001744 (featured in Editors’ Choice, Science 328: 586).
Nelson, D.M., and Hu, F.S. Patterns and drivers of Holocene vegetation change near the prairie-forest ecotone in Minnesota: revisiting McAndrews’ transect. New Phytologist:In press.
* Nelson, D.M., Hu, F.S., Scholes, D.R., Joshi, N., and Pearson, A. [PDF] 2008. Using SPIRAL (Single Pollen Isotope Ratio AnaLysis) to estimate C3- and C4-grass abundance in the paleorecord. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 269: 11-16.
Petit, R.J., Hu, F.S., and Dick, C.W. 2008. Forests of the past: A window to future changes. Science: In press.
Shanahan, T.M., Overpeck, J.T., Hubeny, J.B., King, J., Hu, F.S., Hughen, K., Miller, G., and Black, J. 2008. Scanning m-XRF elemental mapping: a new tool for the study of laminated sediment records. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 9: Q02016, doi:10.1029/2007GC001800.
* Tinner, W., Bigler, C., Gedye, S., Gregory-Eaves, I., Jones, R.T., Kaltenrieder, P., Krähenbühl, U., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2008. A 700-year paleoecological record of boreal-ecosystem responses to climatic variation from Alaska. Ecology 89: 729-743. (featured in Editors’ Choice, Science 328: 586).
Vendramin, G.G., Fady, González-Martínez, S.C., Hu, F.S., Scotti, I., Sebastiani, F., Soto, Á, and Petit, R.J. [PDF] 2008. Genetically depauperate but widespread: The case of an emblematic Mediterranean pine. Evolution 62: 680-688.
Dickens, A.F., Gudeman, J.A., Gelinas, Y., Baldock, J.A., Tinner, W., Hu, F.S., and Hedges, J.I. [PDF] 2007. Sources and distribution of CuO derived benzenecarboxylic acids in soils and sediments. Organic Chemistry 38: 1256-1276.
* Gavin, D.G., Hallett, D.J., Hu, F.S., Lertzman, K.P., Prichard, S.J., Brown, K.J., Lynch, J.A., Bartlein, P., and Peterson, D.L. [PDF] 2007. Forest fire and climate change: Insights from sediment charcoal records. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5: 499-506.
* Henne, P.H., Hu, F.S., and Cleland D. T. [PDF] 2007. Lake-effect snow as the dominant control of mesic-forest distribution in Michigan, USA. Journal of Ecology 95: 517-529.
*Tinner, W., Bigler, C., Gedye, S., Gregory-Eaves, I., Jones, R.T., Kaltenrieder, P., Krähenbühl, U., and Hu, F.S., 2007. Boreal ecosystem responses to climatic variation near altitudinal treeline: A 700-year record from Grizzly Lake, Alaska. Ecology: In press.
Vendramin, G.G., Fady, González-Martínez, S.C., Hu, F.S., Scotti, I., Sebastiani, F., Soto, Á, and Petit, R.J. 2007. Accounting for the success of a genetically depauperate but widespread tree. Evolution: In press.
* Nelson, D.M., Hu, F.S., Mikucki, J.A., Tian, J., and Pearson, A. [PDF] 2007. Carbon isotopic analysis of individual pollen grains from C3 and C4 grasses using a moving-wire combustion interface. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 71: 4005-4014.
* Nelson, D.M., Ohene-Adjei, S., Hu, F.S., Cann, I.K.O., and Mackie, R.I. [PDF] 2007. Bacterial diversity and distribution in the Holocene sediments of a northern temperate lake. Microbial Ecology54: 253-263.
* Anderson, L.L., Hu, F.S., Nelson, D.M., Petit, R.J., and Paige, K.N. [PDF] 2006. Ice-age endurance: DNA evidence for a white spruce refugium in Alaska. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 103: 12447-12450.
* Gavin, D. G., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2006. Spatial variation of climatic and non-climatic controls on species distribution: The range limit of Tsuga heterophylla. Journal of Biogeography 33: 1384-1396.
* Gavin, D. G., Hu, F.S., Lertzman, K, and Corbett, P. [PDF] 2006. Weak climatic control of stand-scale fire history during the late Holocene in southeastern British Columbia. Ecology 87: 1722-1732.
** Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., Gavin, D.G., Higuera, P.E., Lynch, J.A., Rupp, T.S., and Tinner, W. [PDF] 2006. How climate and vegetation influence the fire regime of the Alaskan boreal-forest biome: The Holocene perspective. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 11: 829-846.
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Hu, F.S., Nelson, D.M., Clarke, G.H., Ruhland, K.M., Huang, Y.S., Kaufman, D.S., and Smol, J.P. [PDF] 2006. Abrupt climatic events during the last glacial-interglacial transition in Alaska. Geophysical Research Letters 33: L18708, doi: 10.1029/2006GL027261.
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Nelson, D.M., Hu, F.S., Grimm, E.C., Curry, B.B., and Slate, J. [PDF] 2006. The influence of aridity and fire on Holocene prairie communities in the eastern Prairie Peninsula. Ecology 87: 2523-2536.
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Nelson, D.M, Hu, F.S., and Michener, R.H. [PDF] 2006. Stable carbon isotope composition of Poaceae pollen: An assessment for reconstructing C3 and C4 grass abundance. The Holocene 16: 819-825.
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Tian, J., Nelson, D.M., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2006. Possible linkages of late-Holocene drought in the North American Midcontinent to Pacific Decadal Oscillation and solar activity. Geophysical Research Letters 33: L23702, doi:10.1029/2006GL028169.
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Tinner, W., Hu, F.S., Beer, R., Kaltenrieder, P., Scheurer, B., and Krähenbühl, U. [PDF] 2006. Postglacial fire and vegetation history: Pollen, plant-macrofossil, and charcoal records from two Alaskan lakes. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 15: 279-293.
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Clegg, B.F., Tinner, W., Gavin, D.G., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2005. Morphological analysis of Betula(birch) pollen and paleoecological application. The Holocene 15: 229-237.
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Gavin, D. G., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2005. Bioclimatic modelling using Gaussian mixture distributions and multiscale segmentation. Global Ecology and Biogeography 14: 491-501.
Korotky, A.M, et al. including Hu, F.S. 2005. Characteristics of the Holocene environmental history of the Sikhote-Alin Range (Primorskii Krai) from lake sediments. In: Pages from Quaternary History of Northeast Asia (V.Ye. Glotov, ed.), pp. 70-86. NEISRI FEB RAS, Magadan.
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Oswald, W.W., Anderson, P.M., Brown, T.A., Brubaker, L.B., Hu, F.S., Lozkin, A.V., Tinner, W., and Kaltenreider, P. [PDF] 2005. Effects of samples size and type on radiocarbon dating
of arctic and subarctic lake sediments. The Holocene 15: 758-767.
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Tian, J., Brown, T. A., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2005. Comparison of varved and radiocarbon chronologies at Steel Lake, Minnesota. The Holocene 15: 510-517.
**Foit, F.F., Gavin, D.G., and Hu, F.S. 2004. The tephra stratigraphy of two lakes in south-central British Columbia, Canada and its implications for the mid-late Holocene volcanic activity at Glacier Peak and Mount St. Helens, Washington, USA. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 41: 1401-1410.
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Lynch, J.A., Hollis, J.L., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2004. Climatic and landscape controls of the boreal-forest fire regime: Holocene records from Alaska. Journal of Ecology 92: 477-489.
Kaufman et al. [PDF] including Hu, F.S. 2004. Holocene thermal maximum in the western Arctic (0 to 180° W). Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 529-560.
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Nelson, D.M., Hu, F.S., Tian, J., Stefanova, I., and Brown, T.A. [PDF] 2004. Response of C3 and C4 plants to middle-Holocene climatic variation near the forest-prairie ecotone in Minnesota. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101: 562-567.
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Wright, H.E., Stephanova, I., Tian, J., Brown, T.A., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2004. A chronological framework for the Holocene vegetational history of northwestern Minnesota: The Steel Lake pollen record. Quaternary Science Reviews 23: 611-626.
Hu, F.S., Kaufman, D., Yoneji, S., Nelson, D., Shemesh, A., Huang, Y.S., Tian, J., Bond, G., Clegg, B., and Brown, T. [PDF] 2003. Cyclic variation and solar forcing of Holocene climate in the Alaskan subarctic. Science 301: 1890-1893.
Hu, F.S., and Shemesh, A. [PDF] 2003. A biogenic-silica d18O record of climatic change during the last glacial-interglacial transition in southwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research 59: 379-385.
Kaufman, D.S., Hu, F.S., Briner, J.P., Werner, A., Finney, B.P., and Gregory-Eaves, I. [PDF] 2003. A 30,000 year record of environmental change from Arolik Lake, Ahklun Mountains, Alaska. Journal of Paleolimnology 30: 343-362.
Korotkii, A.M. et al. including Hu, F.S. 2003. Development of landscapes in southern Primor`ye during the middle and late Holocene. In Simakov, K.V. Spatial and Temporal changes in
Quaternary Environments of North East Asia. NEISRI FEB RAS, Magadan.
Oswald, W.W., Anderson, P.M, Brubaker, L.B., Hu, F.S., and Engstrom D.R. [PDF] 2003. Representation of tundra vegetation by pollen in lake sediments in northern Alaska. Journal of Biogeography 30: 521-535.
Oswald, W.W., Brubaker, L.B., Hu, F.S., and Gavin, D. [PDF] 2003. Pollen-vegetation calibration for tundra communities in the Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska. Journal of Ecology 91: 1022-1033.
Oswald, W.W., Brubaker, L.B., Hu, F.S., and Kling, G. [PDF] 2003. Holocene pollen records from the central Arctic Foothills, northern Alaska: Testing the role of substrate in the response of tundra to climate change. Journal of Ecology 91: 1034-1048.
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Tinner, W., and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2003. Size parameters, size-class distribution, and area-number relationship of microscopic charcoal: Relevance for fire reconstruction. The Holocene 13: 291-296.
Hu, F.S., Lee, B.Y., D.S., Kaufman, Yoneji, S., Nelson, D.M., and Henne, P.D. [PDF] 2002. Response of tundra ecosystem in southwestern Alaska to Younger Dryas climatic oscillations. Global Change Biology 8: 1156-1163.
Hu, F.S., Ito, E., Brown, T. A., Curry, B.B., and Engstrom, D.R. [PDF] 2001. Pronounced climatic variations during the last two millennia in the Alaska Range. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 98: 10552-10556.
Hu, F.S., Finney, B., and Brubaker, L.B. [PDF] 2001. Effects of Holocene Alnus expansion on aquatic productivity, nitrogen cycling, and soil development in southwestern Alaska. Ecosystems 4: 358-368.
Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M, and Hu, F.S. [PDF] 2001. Vegetation ecotone dynamics in Southwestern Alaska during the Late Quaternary. Quaternary Science Reviews 20: 175-188.
Kaufman, D.K., Manley, W.F., Wolf, A. P., Hu, F.S., Preece, S.J., Westgate, J.A., and Forman, S.L. 2001. The last interglacial to glacial transition, Togiak Bay, southwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research 55: 190-202.
Edwards, M.E., Anderson, P.M., Brubaker, L.B., Ager, T.A., Andreev, A.A., Bigelow, N.H., Cwynar, L.C., Eisner, W.R., Harrison, S. P., Hu, F.S., Jolly, D., Lozhkin, A.V., MacDonald, G.M., Mock, C.J., Ritchie, J.C., Sher, A.V., Spear, R.W., Williams, J.W., and Yu, G. 2000. Plant-based biomes for Beringia 18,000, 6,000, and 0 14C yr B.P. Journal of Biogeography 27: 521-554.
Hu, F.S., Hedges, J.I., Gordon, E.S., Brubaker, L.B. [PDF] 1999. Lignin biomarkers and pollen in postglacial sediments of an Alaskan lake. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 63: 1421-1430.
Hu, F.S., Slawinski, D., Wright, H.E. Jr., Ito, E., Johnson, R.G., Kelts, K.R., McEwan, R.F., and Boedigheimer, A. [PDF] 1999. Abrupt climatic change in the North American midcontinent during early Holocene times. Nature 400: 437-440.
Duvall, M. et al. including Hu, F.S. 1999. Paleoenvironmental atlas of Beringia: A regional data synthesis presented in an electronic form. Quaternary Research 52: 270-271.
Hedges, J.I., Hu, F.S., Devol, A.H., Hartnett, H.E., and Keil, R.G. 1999. Sedimentary organic matter preservation: A test for selective oxic degradation. American Journal of Science 299 : 529-555.
Hu, F.S., Ito, E., Brubaker, L.B., and Anderson, P.M. [PDF] 1998. Ostracode trace-element record of Holocene climatic change and implications for vegetational response in the northwestern Alaska Range. Quaternary Research 49: 86-95.
Hu, F.S., Wright, H.E., Jr., Ito, E., and Lease, K. [PDF] 1997. Climatic effect of glacial Lake Agassiz in the midwestern United States. Geology 25: 207-210.
Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., and Anderson, P.M. [PDF] 1996. Boreal ecosystem development in the northwestern Alaska Range since 11,000 years BP. Quaternary Research 46: 188-201.
Hu, F.S., and Davis, R.B. 1995. Postglacial history of a Maine bog and paleoenvironmental implications. Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 638-649.
Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., and Anderson, P.M. [PDF] 1995. Postglacial vegetation and climate change in the northern Bristol Bay region, southwestern Alaska. Quaternary Research 43: 382-392.
Brubaker, L.B., Anderson, P.M., and Hu, F.S. 1995. Arctic tundra biodiversity in Alaska: a temporal perspective. In F.S. Chapin, III, and K. Kuerner (eds.): Tundra Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function. Springer-Verlag.
Anderson, P.M., King, M., Lozhkin, T., Brubaker, L.B., and Hu, F.S. 1994. Late-Pleistocene and early-Holocene vegetation of Beringia: implications for archaeological interpretations. Current Research in Pleistocene 11: 111-113.
Keil, R., Hu, F.S., Tsamakis, E., and Hedges, J. 1994. Pollen in marine sediments as an indicator of oxidation of organic matter. Nature 369: 639-641.
Hu, F.S., Brubaker, L.B., and Anderson, P.M. 1993. A 12 000 year record of vegetation change and soil development from Wien Lake, central Alaska. Canadian Journal of Botany 71: 1133-1142. * =
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