Overview
Tatiana Bebchuk is a Klarman postdoctoral research fellow, working at the intersection of (paleo)climatology, dendrochronology and archaeology. She uses living, archaeological and relict wood to reconstruct past climate variability and better understand impacts of past and recent climate changes on ecosystems and societies. Her current research focuses on rapid climate changes that occurred around 4,200 years ago and are believed to have contributed to a decline of several ancient civilizations in the Levant and Central Asia.
Her faculty host is Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classics.
Publications
2026 selected publications
Bakhtiyorov, Z., Arzac, A., Kadioglu, A.K., Norman, C., Bebchuk, T., Santarius, P., Buermann, E., Habibulloev, S., Tao, H., Chen, F., Krusic, P.J., Kirdyanov, A.V., Büntgen, U., 2026. An integrated workflow App for advanced tree-ring analyses: RWLApp. Dendrochronologia 98, 126550. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dendro.2026.126550
Bebchuk, T., Büntgen, U., 2026. Securing the past for the future – why climate proxy archives should be protected. Boreas 55, 272–277. https://doi.org/10.1111/bor.70039
Bebchuk, T., Davies, D., Loader, N.J., Urban, O., Arosio, T., Wacker, L., Pernicová, N., Čáslavský, J., Trnka, M., Kirdyanov, A.V., Brown, D., Esper, J., Oppenheimer, C., Büntgen, U., 2026. An absolutely dated mid-Holocene English yew chronology offers new opportunities for archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research. The Holocene 36(4), 382-389. https://doi.org/10.1177/09596836251407634
Büntgen, U., Oppenheimer, C., Trnka, M., Kempf, M., Holman, I., Arosio, T., Bebchuk, T., Esper, J., 2026. Arctic driftwood proposal for durable carbon removal. npj Climate Action 5, 1. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44168-025-00327-1
Gao, L., Bebchuk, T., Oppenheimer, C., Osborn, T.J., Esper, J., Trnka, M., Gou, X., Deng, Y., Büntgen, U., 2026. Positive covariance between temperature and precipitation affects dendroclimatological reconstructions. Global and Planetary Change 263, 105496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2026.105496
Norman, C., Märker, F., Arizpe, A., Kadioglu, A.K., Bakhtiyorov, Z., Bebchuk, T., Wilson, R., Büntgen, U., 2026. Warming-induced shift in the climate response of Scotland’s temperate rainforests. Forest Ecology and Management 615, 123840. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123840
Sheller, M.A., Büntgen, U., Kirdyanov, A.V., Esper, J., Tabakova, M.A., Tóth, E.G., Kukarskih, V.V., Kolmogorov, A.I., Ibe, A.A., Sukhikh, T.V., Bebchuk, T., Devi, N., Sergeeva, O.V., Agapova, V.V., Akulinina, K.V., Arzac, A., 2026. Genetic diversity suggests two rather than three larch (Larix spp.) species across Siberia. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 71, 125931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ppees.2026.125931