Publications – NSF FESD Amazon-Andes Geogenomics group
AMAZON-ANDES PALEOCLIMATE, TECTONICS, LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION
Baker PA, Fritz SC, Dick CW, Eckert AJ, Horton BK, Manzoni S, Ribas CC, Garzione CN, Battisti DS (2014). The emerging field of geogenomics: constraining geological problems with genetic data. Earth Science Reviews 135: 38-47, doi.10.1016/j.earscirev.2014.04.001. link
Fornace KL, Hughen KA, Shanahan TM, Fritz SC, Baker PA, Sylva SP (2014). A 60,000-year record of hydrologic variability in the Central Andes from the hydrogen isotopic composition of leaf waxes in Lake Titicaca sediments. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 408: 263-271. link
Nace TE, Baker PA, Dwyer GS, Silva CG, Rigsby CA, Burns SJ, Giosan L, Ott-Bliesner B, Liu Z, Zhu J (2014). The role of North Brazil Current transport in the paleoclimate of the Brazilian Nordeste margin and paleoceanography of the western tropical Atlantic during the late Quaternary. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2014.05.030. link
Baker PA, Fritz SC (2015). Nature and causes of Quaternary climate variation of tropical South America. Quaternary Science Reviews 124: 31-47. link
Baker PA, Fritz SC, Silva C, and Trans-Amazon Drilling Project Members (2015). Origins and evolution of the forests, climate, and hydrology of the South American tropics. Scientific Drilling 20: 41-49. link
Horton BH, ND Perez, JD Fitch, JE Saylor (2015). Punctuated shortening and subsidence in the Altiplano Plateau of southern Peru: implications for an early Andean mountain building. Lithosphere 7: 117-137, doi:10.1130/L397.1. link
Liu X, Battisti DS (2015). The influence of orbital forcing of tropical insolation on the climate and isotopic composition of precipitation in South America. Journal of Climate 28, 4841-4862. link
Maroon EA, Frierson DMW, Battisti DS (2015). The tropical precipitation response to Andes topography and ocean heat fluxes in an aquaplanet model. Journal of Climate 28: 381-398, doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-14-00188.1. link
Park E, Latrubesse E (2015). Surface water and sediment distribution patterns at the confluence of mega rivers: the Solimões-Amazon and Negro rivers junction. Water Resources Research 51, doi 10.1002/2014WR016757. link
Bershaw J, Saylor J, Garzione CN, Leier A, Sundell K (2016). Stable isotope variations (δ18O and δD) in modern waters across the Andean Plateau. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 194: 310-324. link
Kar N, Garzione CN, Jaramillo C, Shanahan T, Carlotto V, Pullen A, Moreno F, Anderson V, Moreno E, Eiler J (2016). Rapid regional surface uplift of the northern Altiplano plateau revealed by multiproxy paleoclimate reconstruction. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 447: 33-47. link
Valencia BG, Matthews-Bird F, Urrego DH, Williams JJ, Gosling WD, Bush M (2016). Andean microrefugia: testing the Holocene to predict the Anthropocene. New Phytologist 212: 510-522. link
Fritz SC, PA Baker (2107). Geogenomics – integrating geology and phylogenetics to unravel the evolutionary history of Earth and its biota. Past Global Changes Magazine 25: 90-91. link
Garzione CN, McQuarrie N, Perez ND, Ehlers TA, Beck S., Kar N, Eichelberger N, Chapman AD, Ward KM, Ducea MN, Lease RO, Poulsen CJ, Wagner LS, Horton BK, Saylor JE, Zandt G (2017). Tectonic evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the growth of plateaus. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 45: 529-559. link
Latrubesse EM, Arima E, Dunne T, Park E, Baker VR, d’Horta FM, Wight C, Wittmann F, Zuanon J, Baker PA, Ribas CM, Norgaard RB, Filzola N, Ansar A, Flyybjerg B, Stevaux JC (2017). Damming the rivers of the Amazon basin. Nature 456:363-369, doi:10.1038/nature22333. link
Park E, Latrubesse E (2017). High resolution mapping of flood routing patterns and hydrological connectivity in the middle Amazon River floodplain. Remote Sensing of the Environment 198: 321-332. link
Liu X, Battisti DS, Donohoe AD (2017). Tropical precipitation and cross-equatorial ocean heat transport during the mid-Holocene. Journal of Climate 30: 3529-3547, doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0502.1. link
Liu X, Battisti DS, Roe G (2017). The effect of cloud cover on meridional heat transport (MHT): lessons from variable rotation experiments. Journal of Climate doi: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0745.1. link
D’Apolito CD, Absy ML, Latrubesse EM (2017). The movement of pre-adapted cool taxa in north-central Amazonia during the last glacial. Quaternary Science Reviews 169: 1-12. link
D’Apolito C, Latrubesse, Absy ML (2017). Results confirm a relatively dry setting during the last glacial (MIS 3 and LGM) in Carajás, Amazonia: a comment on Guimarães et al. The Holocene: doi: 10.1177/0959683617721333. link
Weide DM, Fritz SC, Hastorf CA, Bruno M, Baker PA, Guedron S, Salenbien W (2017). A ~6000-year diatom record of mid- to late-Holocene fluctuations in the level of Lago Wiñaymarca, Lake Titicaca, (Peru/Bolivia). Quaternary Research 88: 179-192. link
Weide DM, Fritz SC, Brinson BA, Billups WE, Thompson L (2017). Freshwater diatoms in the Sajama, Quelccaya, and Coropuna glaciers of the South American Andes. Diatom Research 32: 153-162, 10.1080/0269249X.2017.1335240. link
Matthews-Bird F, Valencia BG, Church W, Peterson LC, Bush M (2017). A 2000-year history of disturbance and recovery at a sacred site in Peru’s northeastern cloud forest. The Holocene 1-13, doi: 10.1177/0959683617702232. link
Bonetti S, Porporato A (2017). On the dynamic smoothing of mountains. Geophysical Research Letters 44, doi: 10.1002/2017GL073095. link
Spanbauer TL, Fritz SC, Baker PA (2018). Punctuated change in the morphology of an endemic diatom from Lake Titicaca. Paleobiology 44: 89-100, doi: 10.1017/pab.2017.27. link
Vélez MI, Jaramillo C, Salazar A, Benito X, Fritz SC, Tapia P, Lubiniecki D, Kar N, Escobar J (2018). Aquatic ecosystems on a newly formed eco-space: Early Pliocene lakes in the central Andean Altiplano. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, and Palaeoecology 490: 218-226, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2017.11.001. link
Valencia BG, Bush MB, Coe AL, Orren E, Gosling, WD (2018). Polylepis woodland dynamics during the last 20,000 years. Journal of Biogeography DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13209. Link
Buenda C, Kleidon A, Manzoni S, Reu B, Porporato A (2018). Evaluating the effect of nutrient redistribution by animals on the phosphorus cycle of lowland Amazonia. Biogeosciences 15: 279-295, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-279-2018
Horton BK (2018). Sedimentary record of Andean mountain building. Earth Science Reviews 178: 279-309.
Fritz SC, Benito X, Steinitz-Kannan M (2018). Long-term and regional perspectives on recent change in lacustrine diatom communities in the tropical Andes. Journal of Paleolimnology doi.org/10.1007/s10933-018-0056-6.
Nunnery A, Fritz SC, Baker PA, Salenbien W (2018). Lake-level variability in Salar de Coipasa, Bolivia during the past ~40,000 years. Quaternary Research
BIODIVERSITY AND PHYLOGENY
Silman MR (2014). Functional megadiversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111: 5763-5764. Link
Smith S and Pease J (2016). Heterogeneous molecular processes among the causes of how sequence similarity scores can fail to recapitulate phylogeny. Bioinformatics 18:451-457. Link
Nazareno AG, Bemmels JB, Dick CW, Lohmann LG (2017). Minimum sample sizes for population genomics: an empirical study from an Amazon plant species. Molecular Ecology Resources doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12654. Link
Nazareno AG, Dick CW (2107) Wide but not impermeable: testing the riverine barrier hypothesis for an Amazonian plant species. Molecular Ecology 2017: 1-13. doi: 10.1111/mec.14142. Link
Vargas OM, Ortiz EM, Simpson, BB (2017) Conflicting phylogenetic signals reveal a pattern of reticulate evolution in a recent high-Andean diversification (Asteraceae: Astereae: Diplostephium). New Phytologist 214: 1736–1750, doi:10.1111/nph.14530. Link
Bemmels JB, Wright SJ, Garwood NC, Queenborough NA, Valencia R, Dick CW (2018). Filter-dispersal assembly of lowland Neotropical rainforests across the Andes. Ecography 41: 1-13. Link
Benito X, Fritz SC, Steinitz-Kannan M, Tapia P, Kelly M, Lowell T. (2018). Geo-climatic factors drive diatom community responses in tropical South American freshwaters. Journal of Ecology 107: 1660-1672, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12934. link
Benito X, Fritz SC, Steinitz-Kannan M, Velez M, McGlue M (2018). Lake regionalization and diatom metacommunity structuring in tropical South America. Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4305