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Touchan, R., Xoplaki, E., Funkhouser, G., Luterbacher, J., Hughes, M.K., Erkan, N., Akkemik, Ü., and Stephan, J. Reconstructions of Spring/Summer Precipitation for the Eastern Mediterranean from Tree-Ring Widths and its Connection to Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation. Climate Dynamics 25:75-98 (2005).

Touchan, R., Funkhouser, G., Hughes M.K., and Erkan, N. Standardized precipitation index reconstructed from tree-ring width for the Turkish region. Climatic Change 72 (3):339-353 (2005).

Touchan, R., Garfin, G.M., Meko, D.M., Funkhouser, G., Erkan, N., Hughes, M.K., Wallin, B.S. 2003. Preliminary reconstructions of spring precipitation in southwestern Turkey from tree-ring width. International Journal of Climatology 23: 157-171.

Diaz, S.C., Touchan, R., Swetnam, T.W. 2001. A tree-ring reconstruction of past precipitation for Baja California Sur, Mexico. International Journal of Climatology 21(8): 1007-1019.

Touchan, R. and Hughes, M.K. 2000. The role of dendrochronology in natural resource management. USDA Forest Service Proceedings, RMRS-P-13, pp.277-281.

Hughes, M.K., Vaganov, E.A., Shiyatov, S., Touchan, R., Funkhouser, G. 1999. Twentieth-century summer warmth in northern Yakutia in a 600-year context. The Holocene 9(5): 629-634.

Touchan, R., and Ffolliott , P. 1999. Thinning of emory oak coppice: Effects on growth, yield, harvesting cycle. The Southwestern Naturalist. 44(1): 1-5.

Touchan, R., Hughes, M.K. 1999. Dendrochronology in Jordan. Journal of Arid Environments 42(4): 291-303.

Touchan, R., Meko, D., Hughes, M.K. 1999. A 396-year reconstruction of precipitation in southern Jordan. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 35(1): 49-59.

Allen, C. D., Touchan, R. and Swetnam, T.W. 1996. Overview of fire history in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico. In Fraser Goff, B.S. Kues, M.A. Rogers, L.D. McFadden, and J.N. Gardner, eds., The Jemez Mountains Region : New Mexico Geological Society, Forty-seventh Annual Field Conference, September 25-28. Albuquerque, N.M. pp. 35-36.

Hughes, M.K., Touchan, R., Brown, P.M. 1996. A multimillennial network of giant sequoia chronologies for dendroclimatology. In: J.S. Dean, D.M. Meko, and T.W. Swetnam, eds., Tree Rings, Environment, and Humanity. Radiocarbon 1996; 225-234.

Touchan, R., Allen, C.D., Swetnam, T.W. 1996. Fire history and climatic patterns in ponderosa pine and mixed-conifer forests of the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. In: C.D. Allen, ed., Fire Effects in Southwestern Forests: Proceedings of the Second La Mesa Fire Symposium. USDA ForestService General Technical Report RM- 286: 33-46.

Allen, C.D., Touchan, R., Swetnam, T.W. 1995. Landscape-scale fire history studies support fire management action at Bandelier. Park Science 15(3): 18-19.

Touchan, R., Swetnam, T.W., Grissino-Mayer, H.D. 1995. Effects of livestock grazing on pre-settlement fire regimes in New Mexico. In: J.K. Brown, R.W. Mutch, C.W. Spoon, and R.H. Wakimoto, eds., Proceedings: Symposium on Fire in Wilderness and Park Management, 1993 March 30 - April 1, Missoula, Montana. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report INT- 320: 268-272.

Swetnam, T.W., Touchan, R., Baisan, C.H., Caprio, A.C., Brown, P.M. 1991. Giant sequoia fire history in Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park. In: Yosemite Centennial Symposium Proceedings. Natural Areas and Yosemite: Prospects for the Future. Denver Service Center, NPS D-374. National Park Service, Denver, Colorado: 249-255.