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• Aber, J. D. 2004. Biogeochemistry: The Physiology of Ecosystems. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Aber, J. D. 2004. The long lens of history. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Aber, J. D., Currie, W. S., Castro, M. C., Martin, M., Ollinger, S. 2004. Synthesis and extrapolation: models, remote sensing and regional analysis. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J., Steudler, P. A., Hendricks, J. J., Bowden, R. D., Currie, W. S., McDowell, W., Berntson, G. M. 2004. Exploring the process of nitrogen saturation. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Albani, M., Moorcroft, P. R., Ellison, A. M., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2010. Predicting the impact of hemlock Woolly Adelgid on carbon dynamics of eastern United States forests. Canadian Journal Forest Research 40: 119-133.
• Almquist-Jacobson, H., Foster, D. R. 1995. Toward an Integrated Model for Raised-Bog Development: Theory and Field Evidence. Ecology 76: 2503-2516.
• Anderson, R. L., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2003. Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England. Journal of Ecology 91: 68-76.
• Bahlai, C. A., Hart, C., Kavanaugh, M. T., White, J. D., Ruess, R. W., Brinkman, T. J., Ducklow, H. W., Foster, D. R., Fraser, W. R., Genet, H., Groffman, P. M., Hamilton, S. K., Johnstone, J. F., Kielland, K., Landis, D. A., Mack, M.C., Sarnelle, O., Thompson, J. R. 2021. Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere 12: article e03430, 29 pp.
• Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R. 2006. Sustaining long-term research through changing times at the Harvard Forest. In: Irland, L. C., Camp, A. E., Brissette, J. C., Donohew, Z. R., Long-term Silvicultural & Ecological Studies: Results for Science and Management, , GISF Research Paper 005, Yale University.
• Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R., Carlson, J., Magill, A. H. 2013. Survivors, not invaders, control forest development following simulated hurricane. Ecology 94: 414-423.
• Barker Plotkin, A., O'Keefe, J., Foster, D. R. 2015. Harvard University Forest, Massachusetts, United States of America. In: Siry, J. P., Bettinger, P., Merry, K., Grebner, D. L., Boston, K., Cieszewski, C., Forest Plans of North America, Academic Press, Boston.
• Barker Plotkin, A., Schoonmaker, P. K., Leon*, B., Foster, D. R. 2017. Microtopography and ecology of pit-mound structures in second-growth versus old-growth forests. Forest Ecology and Management 404: 14-23.
• Bellemare, J., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2002. Legacies of the agricultural past in the forested present: an assessment of historical land-use effects on rich mesic forests. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1401-1420.
• Bellemare, J., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2005. Rich mesic forests: edaphic and physiographic drivers of community variation in western Massachusetts. Rhodora 107: 239-283.
• Berlik, M. M., Kittredge, D. B., Foster, D. R. 2002. The Illusion of Preservation. A Global Environmental Argument for the Local Production of Natural Resources. Harvard Forest Paper No. 26.
• Berlik, M. M., Kittredge, D. B., Foster, D. R. 2002. The illusion of preservation: a global environmental argument for the local production of natural resources. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1557-1568.
• Bernardos, D., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Cardoza, J. 2004. Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Bernardos, D., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Cardoza, J. 2004. Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Birdsey, R., Catanzaro, P., D'Amato, A., Foster, D. R., Kosiba, A., MacLean, M. G., Marx, L., Moomaw, W. R., Ontl, T. A., Riely, C., Shakun, J., Thompson, J. R. 2023. Report of the Climate Forestry Committee: Recommendations for Climate-Oriented Forest Management Guidelines.
• Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E., Foster, D. R. 1997. Reconstructing historical hurricanes in New England. Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Boston, MA.
• Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E., Foster, D. R. 2001. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England. Ecological Monographs 71: 27-48.
• Boose, E. R., Ellison, A. M., Osterweil, L. J., Podorozhny, R., Clarke, L., Wise, A., Hadley, J. L., Foster, D. R. 2007. Data provenance and reliability in sensor networks. Proceedings of Conference on Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks. Boston, MA.
• Boose, E. R., Ellison, A. M., Osterweil, L. J., Podorozhny, R., Clarke, L., Wise, A., Hadley, J. L., Foster, D. R. 2007. Ensuring Reliable Datasets for Environmental Models and Forecasts. Ecological Informatics 2: 237-247.
• Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R., Barker Plotkin, A., Hall, B. 2003. Geographical and historical variation in hurricanes across the Yucatan Peninsula. In: Gómez-Pompa, A., Allen, M. F., Fedick, S. L., Jiménez, J. J., Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, Haworth Press, New York.
• Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R., Fluet, M. 1994. Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monographs 64: 369-400.
• Boose, E. R., Serrano, M. I., Foster, D. R. 2004. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in Puerto Rico. Ecological Monographs 74: 335-352.
• Busby, P. E., Canham, C. D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2009. Forest response to chronic hurricane disturbance in coastal New England. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 487-497.
• Busby, P. E., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2008. Multiple and interacting disturbances lead to Fagus grandifolia dominance in coastal New England. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135: 346-359.
• Catovsky, S., Crabtree, R. C., Sipe, T. W., Carlton, G., Bassow, S., George, L. O., Bazzaz, F. A. 2004. Experimental approaches to understanding forest regeneration. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2004. Land-use legacies on soil properties and nutrients. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 1998. Soil carbon and nitrogen in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: role of vegetation and land-use history. Oecologia 116: 536-542.
• Cooper-Ellis, S., Foster, D. R., Carlton, G., Lezberg, A. L. 1999. Forest response to catastrophic wind: results from an experimental hurricane. Ecology 80: 2683-2696.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2006. New estimates of Massachusetts old-growth forests: useful data for regional conservation and forest reserve planning. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 495-506.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2008. The Influence of Successional Processes and Disturbance on the structure of Tsuga canadensis Forests. Ecological Applications 18: 1182-1199.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2009. Understory vegetation in old-growth and second-growth Tsuga canadensis forests in western Massachusetts. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 1043-1052.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., Barker Plotkin, A., Schoonmaker, P. K., Wagner*, M. R. 2017. Long-term structural and biomass dynamics of virgin Tsuga canadensis-Pinus strobus forests after hurricane disturbance. Ecology 98: 721-733.
• D'Amato, A. W., Palik, B. J., Franklin, J. F., Foster, D. R. 2017. Exploring the Origins of Ecological Forestry in North America. Journal of Forestry 115: 126-127.
• Daru, B. H., Park, D. S., Primack, R. B., Willis, C. G., Barrington, D. S., Whitfeld, T. J. S., Seidler, R. G., Sweeney, P. W., Foster, D. R., Ellison, A. M., Davis, C. C. 2017. Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization. New Phytologist 217: 939-955.
• Dawson, A., Williams, J. W., Gaillard, M. J., Goring, S. J., Pirzamanbein, B., Lindstrom, J., Anderson, R. S., Brunelle, A., Foster, D., Gajewski, K., Gavin, D. G., Lacourse, T., Minckley, T. A., Oswald, W., Shuman, B., Whitlock, C. 2025. Holocene land cover change in North America: continental trends, regional drivers, and implications for vegetation–atmosphere feedbacks. Climate of the Past 21: 2031-2060.
• Day*, L. T., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Foster, D. R. 2013. Analysis of hemlock pollen size in Holocene lake sediments from New England. Quaternary Research 79: 362-365.
• Donohue, K., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2000. Effects of the past and the present on species distributions: land-use history and demography of wintergreen. Journal of Ecology 88: 303-316.
• Dunwiddie, P., Foster, D. R., Leopold, D. J., Leverett, R. 1996. Old-growth forests of southern New England, New York and Pennsylvania. In: Davis, M. B., Eastern Old Growth Forests, Island Press, Covelo, CA.
• Eberhardt, R., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Hall, B. 2003. Conservation of changing landscapes: vegetation, land-use history, and fire on Cape Cod National Seashore. Ecological Applications 13: 68-84.
• Ellison, A. M., Bank, M. S., Clinton, B. D., Colburn, E. A., Elliott, K., Ford, C. R., Foster, D. R., Kloeppel, B. D., Knoepp, J. D., Lovett, G. M., Mohan, J., Orwig, D. A., Rodenhouse, N. L., Sobczak, W. V., Stinson, K. A., Stone, J. K., Swan, C. M., Thompson, J., Von Holle, B., Webster, J. R. 2005. Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 479-486.
• Ellison, A. M., Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A. 2010. Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal Experiment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 1: 168-179.
• Ellison, A. M., Orwig, D. A., Barker Plotkin, A. A. 2017. Cut or girdle. In: Foster, D. R., Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Ellison, A. M., Osterweil, L. J., Hadley, J. L., Wise, A., Boose, E. R., Clarke, L., Foster, D. R., Hanson, A., Jensen, D., Kuzeja, P. S., Riseman, E., Schultz, H. 2006. Analytic Webs Support the Synthesis of Ecological Data Sets. Ecology 87: 1345-1358.
• Faison, E. K., DeStefano, S., Foster, D. R., Barker Plotkin, A. 2016. Functional response of ungulate browsers in disturbed eastern hemlock forests. Forest Ecology and Management 362: 177-183.
• Faison, E. K., DeStefano, S., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Rapp, J. M. 2016. Ungulate browsers promote herbaceous layer diversity in logged temperate forests. Ecology and Evolution 6: 4591–4602.
• Faison, E. K., DeStefano, S., Foster, D. R., Rapp, J. M., Compton, J. A. 2016. Multiple Browsers Structure Tree Recruitment in Logged Temperate Forests. PloS ONE 11: e0166783.
• Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R. 2014. Did American chestnut really dominate the eastern forest?. Arnoldia 72: 18-32.
• Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R., DeStefano, S. 2016. Long-term deer exclusion has complex effects on a suburban forest understory. Rhodora 118: 382-402.
• Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Hansen, B. C. S. 2006. Early Holocene openlands in southern New England. Ecology 87: 2537-2547.
• Faison, E. K., Laflower, D., Morreale, L. L., Foster, D. R., Hall, B., Johnson, E., Thompson, J. R. 2023. Adaptation and mitigation capacity of wildland forests in the northeastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 544: 121145.
• Faison, E. K., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., McDonald, J. E. 2010. Moose Foraging in the Temperate Forests of Southern New England. Northeastern Naturalist 17: 1-18.
• Faison, E. K., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., Silver, E., Hall, B., Donahue, B. M., Barker Plotkin, A. 2014. Wildlands and Woodlands Stewardship Science: Manual for long-term forest monitoring.
• Fajvan, M. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R. 2006. Modeling tree regeneration height growth after an experimental hurricane. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 2003-2014.
• Finzi, A. C., Giasson, M.-A., Barker Plotkin, A., Aber, J. D., Boose, E. R., Davidson, E. A., Dietze, M. C., Ellison, A. M., Frey, S. D., Goldman, E., Keenan, T. F., Melillo, J. M., Munger, J. W., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Ollinger, S. V., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Richardson, A. D., Savage, K., Tang, J., Thompson, J. R., Williams, C. A., Wofsy, S. C., Zhou, Z., Foster, D. R. 2020. Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change. Ecological Monographs 90: e01423, 37 pp.
• Foster, C. H. W., Foster, D. R. 1999. Thinking in Forest Time - A Strategy for the Massachusetts Forest. Harvard Forest Paper No. 24.
• Foster, C. H. W., Foster, D. R. 1994. Managing the greenwealth - The forests of Quabbin. Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Center for Science & International Affairs, Environment and Natural Resources Program, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, C. H. W., Hagenstein, P. R., Foster, D. R. 2004. Forest Conservation and Stewardship in Massachusetts.
• Foster, D. R. 1983. The history and pattern of fire in the boreal forest of southeastern Labrador. Canadian Journal of Botany 61: 2459-2471.
• Foster, D. R. 1984. Phytosociological description of the forest vegetation of southeastern Labrador. Canadian Journal of Botany 62: 899-906.
• Foster, D. R. 1984. The dynamics of Sphagnum in forest and peatland communities in Southeastern Labrador, Canada. Arctic 37: 133-140.
• Foster, D. R. 1985. The origin and development of patterned mires in Labrador. In: Moore, T. R., Future Directions for Research in Nouveau - Quebec. McGill Subarctic Research paper No. 39, Center for Northern Studies and Research, McGill University, Montreal.
• Foster, D. R. 1985. Vegetation Development Following Fire in Picea Mariana (Black Spruce)-Pleurozium Forests of South-Eastern Labrador, Canada. Journal of Ecology 73: 517-534.
• Foster, D. R. 1988. Disturbance history, community organization and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth Pisgah Forest, southwestern New Hampshire, U.S.A. Journal of Ecology 76: 105-134.
• Foster, D. R. 1988. Species and stand response to catastrophic wind in central New England, U.S.A. Journal of Ecology 76: 135-151.
• Foster, D. R. 1992. Land-use history (1730-1990) and vegetation dynamics in central New England, USA. Journal of Ecology 80: 753-771.
• Foster, D. R. 1993. Land-use history and forest transformations in central New England. In: Pickett, S., McDonald, M., Humans as Components of Ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, NY.
• Foster, D. R. 1995. Land-use history and four hundred years of vegetation change in New England. In: Turner, B. L., Sal, A. G., Bernaldez, F. G., DiCastri, F., Global Land Use Change: a Perspective from the Columbian Encounter, SCOPE Publication, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid.
• Foster, D. R. 1999. Forests the way they used to be. New York Times. New York.
• Foster, D. R. 1999. Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history. Forest History Today Fall: 2-11.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. From bobolinks to bears: interjecting geographical history into ecological studies, environmental interpretation, and conservation planning. Journal of Biogeography 27: 27-30.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Hemlock's future in the context of its history: an ecological perspective. Proceedings of Sustainable Management of Hemlock Ecosystems in Eastern North America. Newtown Square, PA.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Linking the deep and recent past to the modern New England Landscape. Rhodora 102: 278-279.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. The Forest Primeval. Sanctuary 39: 9-12.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Using history to interpret current environmental conditions and future trends: an example from the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. PAGES Newsletter 8: 23-25.
• Foster, D. R. 2001. New England's Forest Primeval. Wild Earth 11: 40-44.
• Foster, D. R. 2002. Conservation issues and approaches for dynamic cultural landscapes. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1533-1535.
• Foster, D. R. 2002. Insights from historical geography to ecology and conservation: lessons from the New England landscape. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1269-1275.
• Foster, D. R. 2002. Thoreau's country: a historical-ecological perspective to conservation in the New England landscape. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1537-1555.
• Foster, D. R. 2005. Wildlands and Woodlands. Sanctuary 44: 18.
• Foster, D. R. 2006. The importance of land use history to conservation biology. In: Groom, M. J., Meffe, G. K., Carroll, C. R., Principles of Conservation Biology, Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 2008. In Memoriam Richard Hale Goodwin 1910-2007, Botanist, Teacher, Conservationist, and Mentor. Rhodora 110: 103-110.
• Foster, D. R. 2010. Meeting the Conservation Challenge in New England. In: Levitt, J. N., Conservation Capital in the Americas, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 2012. Expanding the Integration and Application of Long-Term Ecological Research. BioScience 62: 323.
• Foster, D. R. 2013. Lessons from Harvard Forests and Ecologists: Bob Marshall’s Plot. Forest History Today Spring/Fall: 34-41.
• Foster, D. R. 2014. Book Excerpt: Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Arnoldia 71: 12-25.
• Foster, D. R. 2014. The Pisgah Forest: Harvard's Living Laboratory. Northern Woodlands 21: 40.
• Foster, D. R. 2014. Three Views from John Sanderson's Woodlot. Forest History Today 20: 37-45.
• Foster, D. R. 2017. A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha's Vineyard. Yale University Press, New Haven.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Background and framework for long-term ecological research. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Background and framework for long-term ecological research. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. The Physical and Biological Setting for Ecological Research. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. The Physical and Biological Setting for Ecological Research. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J., Bazzaz, F. 2004. Comparison between physical disturbance and novel stresses. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J., Bazzaz, F. 2004. Comparison between physical disturbance and novel stresses. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Forest response to disturbance and anthropogenic stress. Rethinking the 1938 Hurricane and the impact of physical disturbance vs. chemical and climate stress on forest ecosystems. BioScience 47: 437-445.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Forest response to natural disturbance versus human-induced stresses. Arnoldia 58: 35-40.
• Foster, D. R., Baiser, B., Barker Plotkin, A., D'Amato, A. W., Ellison, A. M., Orwig, D. A., Oswald, W. W., Thompson, J. R. 2014. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Baiser, B., Barker Plotkin, A., D'Amato, A. W., Ellison, A. M., Orwig, D. A., Oswald, W. W., Thompson, J. R. 2014. Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Boose, E. R. 1992. Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, USA. Journal of Ecology 80: 79-99.
• Foster, D. R., Boose, E. R. 1992. Technology development in the LTER Network - Current status of GIS, remote sensing, Internet connectivity, archival storage and global positioning systems. LTER Publication No. 12 12: LTER.1992-9647.
• Foster, D. R., Boose, E. R. 1995. Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. In: Coutts, M., Grace, J., Wind and Trees, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
• Foster, D. R., Clayden, S., Orwig, D. A., Hall, B., Barry, S. 2002. Oak, chestnut and fire: climatic and cultural controls of long-term forest dynamics in New England, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1359-1379.
• Foster, D. R., Cooper-Ellis, S., Barker Plotkin, A., Carlton, G., Bowden, R. D., Magill, A., Aber, J. D. 2004. Simulating a catastrophic hurricane. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Cooper-Ellis, S., Barker Plotkin, A., Carlton, G., Bowden, R. D., Magill, A., Aber, J. D. 2004. Simulating a catastrophic hurricane. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Donahue, B. M., Kittredge, D. B., Lambert, K. F., Hunter, M. L., Hall, B. R., Irland, L. C., Lilieholm, R. J., Orwig, D. A., D'Amato, A. W., Colburn, E. A., Thompson, J. R., Levitt, J. N., Ellison, A. M., Keeton, W. S., Aber, J. D., Cogbill, C. V., Driscoll, C. T., Fahey, T. J., Hart, C. M. 2010. Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape. Harvard Forest Paper No. 31.
• Foster, D. R., Donahue, B., Kittredge, D. B., Motzkin, G., Hall, B., Turner, B. L., Chilton, E. 2008. New England's Forest Landscape. Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History. In: Redman, C. L., Foster, D. R., Agrarian Landscapes in Transition, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY.
• Foster, D. R., Donahue, B., Kittredge, D. B., Motzkin, G., Hall, B., Turner, B. L., Chilton, E. 2008. New England's Forest Landscape. Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History. In: Redman, C. L., Foster, D. R., Agrarian Landscapes in Transition, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY.
• Foster, D. R., Fluet, M., Boose, E. R. 1999. Human or natural disturbance: landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico. Ecological Applications 9: 555-572.
• Foster, D. R., Fritz, S. C. 1987. Mire development, pool formation and landscape processes on patterned fens in Dalarna, central Sweden. Journal of Ecology 75: 409-437.
• Foster, D. R., Glaser, P. H. 1986. The raised bogs of south-eastern Labrador, Canada: classification, distribution, vegetation and recent dynamics. Journal of Ecology 74: 47-71.
• Foster, D. R., Hall, B., Barry, S., Clayden, S., Parshall, T. 2002. Cultural, environmental and historical controls of vegetation patterns and the modern conservation setting on the island of Martha's Vineyard, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1381-1400.
• Foster, D. R., Jacobson, H. A. 1990. The comparative development of bogs and fens in central Sweden: Evaluating the role of climate change and ecosystem development. Aquilo Series Botanica 28: 15-26.
• Foster, D. R., Johnson, E. E., Hall, B. R., Leibowitz, J., Thompson, E. H., Donahue, B., Faison, E. K., Sayen, J., Publicover, D., Sferra, N., Irland, L. C., Thompson, J. R., Perschel, R., Orwig, D. A., Keeton, W. S., Hunter, M. L., Jr., Masino, S. A., Howell, L. 2023. Wildlands in New England. Past, Present, and Future. Harvard Forest Paper No. 34.
• Foster, D. R., King, G. A. 1984. Landscape features, vegetation and developmental history of a patterned fen in south-eastern Labrador, Canada. Journal of Ecology 72: 115-143.
• Foster, D. R., King, G. A. 1986. Vegetation Pattern And Diversity In S.E. Labrador, Canada: Betula Papyrifera (Birch) Forest Development In Relation To Fire History And Physiography. Journal of Ecology 74: 465-483.
• Foster, D. R., King, G. A., Glaser, P. H., Wright Jr., H. E. 1983. Origin of string patterns in boreal peatlands. Nature 306: 256-258.
• Foster, D. R., King, G. A., Santelmann, M. V. 1988. Patterned fens of western Labrador and adjacent Quebec: phytosociology, water chemistry, landform features, and dynamics of surface patterns. Canadian Journal of Botany 66: 2402-2418.
• Foster, D. R., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B. M, Lambert, K. F., Hart, C. M., Levitt, J. N. 2014. The Wildlands and Woodlands Initiative of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University. In: Levitt, J. N., Conservation Catalysts: The Academy as Nature's Agent, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, D. R., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B., Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Ellison, A. M., Hall, B., Colburn, E. A., D'Amato, A. 2005. Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts. Harvard Forest Paper No. 27.
• Foster, D. R., Knight, D., Franklin, J. F. 1998. Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances. Ecosystems 1: 497-510.
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• Giasson, M.-A., Ellison, A. M., Bowden, R. D., Crill, P. M., Davidson, E. A., Drake, J. E., Frey, S. D., Hadley, J. L., Lavine, M., Melillo, J. M., Munger, J. W., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Nicoll, L., Ollinger, S. V., Savage, K., Steudler, P. A., Tang, J., Varner, R. K., Wofsy, S. C., Foster, D. R., Finzi, A. C. 2013. Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22-year synthesis. Ecosphere 4: article 140.
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• Harrison, S. P., Villegas-Diaz, R., Cruz-Silva, E., Gallagher, D., Kesner, D., Lincoln, P., Shen, Y., Sweeney, L., Colombaroli, D., Ali, A., Barhoumi, C., Bergeron, Y., Blyakharchuk, T., Bobek, P., Bradshaw, R., Clear, J. L., Czerwiński, S., Daniau, A. L., Dodson, J., Edwards, K. J., Edwards, M. E., Feurdean, A., Foster, D., Gajewski, K., Gałka, M., Garneau, M., Giesecke, T., Gil Romera, G., Girardin, M. P., Hoefer, D., Huang, K., Inoue, J., Jamrichová, E., Jasiunas, N., Jiang, W., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Karpińska-Kołaczek, M., Kołaczek, P., Kuosmanen, N., Lamentowicz, M., Lavoie, M., Li, F., Li, J., Lisitsyna, O., López-Sáez, J. A., Luelmo-Lautenschlaeger, R., Magnan, G., Magyari, E. K., Maksims, A., Marcisz, K., Marinova, E., Marlon, J., Mensing, S., Miroslaw-Grabowska, J., Oswald, W., Pérez-Díaz, S., Pérez-Obiol, R., Piilo, S., Poska, A., Qin, X., Remy, C. C., Richard, P. J. H., Salonen, S., Sasaki, N., Schneider, H., Shotyk, W., Stancikaite, M., Šteinberga, D., Stivrins, N., Takahara, H., Tan, Z., Trasune, L., Umbanhowar, C. E., Väliranta, M., Vassiljev, J., Xiao, X., Xu, Q., Xu, X., Zawisza, E., Zhao, Y., Zhou, Z., Paillard, J. 2022. The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records. Earth System Science Data 14: 1109-1124.
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• Hou, J., Huang, Y., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. 2007. Centennial-scale compound-specific hydrogen isotope record of Pleistocene - Holocene climate transition from southern New England. Geophysical Research Letters 34: L19706.
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• Ireland*, A. W., Mew*, B. J., Foster, D. R. 2008. Bob Marshall’s forest reconstruction study: three centuries of ecological resilience to disturbance. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 411-422.
• Ireland, A. W., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. An integrated reconstruction of recent forest dynamics in a New England cultural landscape. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 20: 245-252.
• Kellett, M. J., Maloof, J. E., Masino, S. A., Frelich, L. E., Faison, E. K., Brosi, S. L., Foster, D. R. 2023. Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5: 1-30.
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• Köster, D., Pienitz, R., Wolfe, B. B., Barry, S., Foster, D. R., Dixit, S. S. 2005. Paleolimnological assessment of human-induced impacts on the nutrient balance of Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) during the last three centuries using diatoms and stable isotopes. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 8: 117-131.
• Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2001. Determinants of regional variability in litter production of forests in the Southern Yucatan: environmental gradients or human legacy?. Eos. Trans. AGU 82: B22A-01.
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• Lindenmayer, D. B., Foster, D. R., Franklin, J. F., Hunter, M. L., Noss, R. F., Schmiegelow, F. A., Perry, D. 2004. Salvage Harvesting Policies after Natural Disturbance. Science 303: 1303.
• Littlefield, C., Donahue, B., Catanzaro, P., Foster, D. R., D'Amato, A., Laustsen, K., Hall, B. R. 2024. Beyond the "Illusion of Preservation".
• Lovett, G. M., Weiss, M., Liebhold, A. M., Holmes, T. P., Leung, B., Lambert, K. F., Orwig, D. A., Campbell, F. T., Rosenthal, J., McCullough, D. G., Wildova, R., Ayres, M. P., Canham, C. D., Foster, D. R., LaDeau, S. L., Weldy, T. 2016. Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options. Ecological Applications 26: 1437-1455.
• MacLean, M. G., Holt, J., Borsuk, M. E., Markowski-Lindsay, M., Butler, B. J., Kittredge, D. B., Duveneck, M. J., Laflower, D., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Potential Impacts of Insect-Induced Harvests in the Mixed Forests of New England. Forests 11: article 498, 19 pp.
• Marsicek, J. P., Shuman, B., Brewer, S., Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W. 2013. Moisture and temperature changes associated with the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in the northeastern United States. Quaternary Science Reviews 80: 129-142.
• McDonald, R. I., Motzkin, G., Bank, M. S., Kittredge, D. B., Burk, J., Foster, D. R. 2006. Forest harvesting and land-use conversion over two decades in Massachusetts. Forest Ecology and Management 227: 31-41.
• McDonald, R. I., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2008. Assessing the influence of historical factors, contemporary processes, and environmental conditions on the distribution of invasive species. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135: 259-270.
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• McDonald, R. I., Yuan-Farrell, C., Fievet, C., Moeller, M., Kareiva, P., Foster, D. R., Gragson, T., Kinzig, T., Kuby, L., Redman, C. L. 2007. Estimating the Effect of Protected Lands on the Development and Conservation of Their Surroundings. Conservation Biology 21: 1526-1536.
• McLachlan, J., Foster, D. R., Clayden, S., Barry, S. 2004. Long-term forest and landscape dynamics. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• McLachlan, J., Foster, D. R., Clayden, S., Barry, S. 2004. Long-term forest and landscape dynamics. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• McLachlan, J., Foster, D. R., Menalled, F. 2000. Anthropogenic ties to late-successional structure and composition in four New England hemlock stands. Ecology 81: 717-733.
• Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D., Newkirk, K., Lux, H., Bowles, F. P., Catricala, C., Magill, A., Ahrens, T., Morrisseau, S., Burrows, E., Nadelhoffer, K. 2004. Soil warming - a major consequence of global climate change. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Meyer, S. R., Cronan, C. S., Lilieholm, R. J., Johnson, M. L., Foster, D. R. 2014. Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures. Biological Conservation 174: 152-160.
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• Motzkin, G., Ciccarello, S. C., Foster, D. R. 2002. Frost pockets on a level sand plain: does variation in microclimate help maintain persistent vegetation patterns?. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 129: 154-163.
• Motzkin, G., Eberhardt, R., Hall, B., Foster, D. R., Harrod, J. C., MacDonald, D. 2002. Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1439-1454.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 1998. How land use determines vegetation: evidence from a New England sandplain. Arnoldia 58: 32-34.
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• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E., Donohue, K., Wilson, P. 2004. Forest landscape patterns, structure and composition. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E., Harrod, J. C., Boone, R. D. 1996. Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain. Ecological Monographs 66: 345-365.
• Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2002. History and Dynamics of a Ridgetop Pitch Pine Community - Mount Everett, Massachusetts. Harvard Forest Paper No. 25.
• Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2002. Vegetation and disturbance history of a rare dwarf pitch pine community in western New England, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1455-1467.
• Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2009. Dwarf Pitch Pine Communities in the Southern Taconics: Race Mountain, Bear Mountain, and "Hill 1914". Harvard Forest Paper No. 29.
• Motzkin, G., Patterson, W. A., Foster, D. R. 1999. A historical perspective on pitch pine-scrub oak communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts. Ecosystems 2: 255-273.
• Motzkin, G., Wilson, P., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E. 1999. Vegetation patterns in heterogeneous landscapes: the importance of history and environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 10: 903-920.
• Munger, J. W., Barford, C. C., Wofsy, S. C. 2004. Exchanges between the forest and atmosphere. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Nadelhoffer, K. J., Boone, R. D., Bowden, R. D., Canary, J. D., Kaye, J., Micks, P., Ricca, A., McDowell, W. H., Aitkenhead, J. 2004. The DIRT experiment: litter and root influences on forest soil organic matter stocks and function. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
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• O'Keefe, J., Foster, D. R. 1998. An ecological history of Massachusetts forests: II. Disturbance prior to European settlement. Arnoldia 58: 8-10.
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• Orbay-Cerrato*, M. E., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Foster, D. R., Hall, B. R. 2016. Historic grazing in southern New England, USA, recorded by fungal spores in lake sediments. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26: 159-165.
• Orwig, D. A. 2014. An iconic species. In: Foster, D. R., Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Orwig, D. A. 2014. Invasion of an exotic pest. In: Foster, D. R., Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Orwig, D. A., Cobb, R. C., D'Amato, A. W., Kizlinski, M. L., Foster, D. R. 2008. Multi-year ecosystem response to hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in southern New England Forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 834-843.
• Orwig, D. A., Cobb, R. C., Kizlinski, M. L., Currie, S. J., Foster, D. R. 2000. Ecosystem response to hemlock decline from hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England. Proceedings of ESA. .
• Orwig, D. A., Cogbill, C. V., Foster, D. R., O'Keefe, J. F. 2001. Variations in old-growth structure and definitions: forest dynamics on Wachusett Mountain, Massachusetts. Ecological Applications 11: 437-452.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 1998. Ecosystem response to an imported pathogen: the hemlock woolly adelgid. Arnoldia 58: 41-44.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 1998. Forest response to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England, USA. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 59-72.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 1999. Stand, landscape and ecosystem analyses of hemlock woolly adelgid outbreaks in southern New England: an overview. Proceedings of Symposium on Sustainable Management of Hemlock Ecosystems in Eastern North America. Durham, NH.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., Kizlinski, M. L. 1999. Stand and Landscape Level Analysis of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Outbreaks in Southern New England (Abstract). Proceedings of U. S. Department of Agriculture interagency research forum on gypsy moth and other invasive species. Annapolis, MD.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., Mausel*, D. L. 2002. Landscape patterns of hemlock decline in New England due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1475-1487.
• Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R., O'Keefe, J. F. 1999. Old-growth forests on Wachusett Mountain. In: Epsilon Associates, Wachusett Mountain State Reservation Resource Management and Protection Plan, Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, Boston, MA.
• Orwig, D. A., Thompson, J. R., Povak*, N. A., Manner, M., Niebyl*, D., Foster, D. R. 2012. A foundation tree at the precipice: Tsuga canadensis health after the arrival of Adelges tsugae in central New England. Ecosphere 3: art10.
• Osterweil, L. J., Wise, A., Clarke, L., Ellison, A. M., Hadley, J. L., Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R. 2006. Process technology to facilitate the conduct of science. Proceedings of International Software Process Workshop. Beijing, China.
• Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. N., Wagner, D. L. 2017. Evaluating the role of insects in the middle-Holocene Tsuga decline. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 144: 35-39.
• Oswald, W. W., Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R., Doughty, E. D., Hall, B., Hansen, B. C. S. 2007. Post-glacial changes in spatial patterns of vegetation across southern New England. Journal of Biogeography 34: 900-913.
• Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. A record of late-Holocene environmental change from southern New England, USA. Quaternary Research 76: 314-318.
• Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2012. Middle-Holocene dynamics of Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) in northern New England, USA. The Holocene 22: 71-78.
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