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• Barker Plotkin, A., Blumstein, M., Laflower, D., Pasquarella, V. J., Chandler, J. L., Elkinton, J. S., Thompson, J. R. 2021. Defoliated trees die below a critical threshold of stored carbon. Functional Ecology 35: 2156–2167.
• 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., Keevan, B., MacLean, M. Graham., Shiffrin*, G., Thompson, J. R. 2025. Defoliation and demography interact to affect oak survival in Southern New England. Forest Ecology and Management 579: 122507.
• 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., Orwig, D. A., MacLean, M. G., Ellison, A. M. 2024. Logging response alters trajectories of reorganization after loss of a foundation tree species. Ecological Applications 34: e2957.
• 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.
• Barker Plotkin, A., Tomlinson, P. B. 2010. The flowering of botany at the Harvard Forest. Plant Science Bulletin 56: 78-84.
• 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.
• Case, B. S., Buckley, H. L., Barker Plotkin, A., Ellison, A. M. 2016. Using codispersion analysis to quantify temporal changes in the spatial pattern of forest stand structure. Chilean Journal of Statistics 7: 3-15.
• Case, B. S., Buckley, H. L., Barker Plotkin, A., Orwig, D. A., Ellison, A. M. 2017. When a foundation crumbles: forecasting forest dynamics following the decline of the foundation species Tsuga canadensis. Ecosphere 8: e01893.
• Conrad-Rooney*, E., Barker Plotkin, A., Pasquarella, V. J., Elkinton, J., Chandler, J. L., Matthes, J. H. 2020. Defoliation severity is positively related to soil solution nitrogen availability and negatively related to soil nitrogen concentrations following a multi-year invasive insect irruption. Annals of Botany Plants 12: 9 pp.
• 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.
• Dye, A., Barker Plotkin, A., Bishop, D., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Hessl, A. 2016. Comparing tree-ring and permanent plot estimates of aboveground net primary production in three eastern U.S. forests. Ecosphere 7: e01454.
• Eisen*, K., Barker Plotkin, A. 2015. Forty years of forest measurements support steadily increasing aboveground biomass in a maturing, Quercus-dominant northeastern forest. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 142: 97-112.
• 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., Barker Plotkin, A., Khalid, S. 2016. Foundation Species Loss and Biodiversity of the Herbaceous Layer in New England Forests. Forests 7: article9.
• Ellison, A. M., Barker Plotkin, A., Patel, M. V., Record, S. 2021. Broadening the ecological mindset. Ecological Applications 31: e02347, 3 pp.
• Ellison, A. M., Lavine, M., Kerson*, P. B., Barker Plotkin, A. A., Orwig, D. A. 2014. Building a foundation: land-use history and dendrochronology reveal temporal dynamics of a Tsuga canadensis (Pinaceae) forest. Rhodora 116: 377-427.
• 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.
• 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., 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.
• Farnsworth, E. J., Barker Plotkin, A., Ellison, A. M. 2012. The relative contributions of seed bank, seed rain, and understory vegetation dynamics to the reorganization of Tsuga canadensis forests after loss due to logging or simulated attack by Adelges tsugae. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42: 2090-2105.
• 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, 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., 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.
• Guinan, A., Evans, A. E., Barker Plotkin, A., Bradley, B. A. 2025. Identifying candidate plants for climate-informed restoration. Restoration Ecology 33: e70030.
• Hasoba, A. M. M., Siddig, A. A. H., Czimber, K., Omer, A., Gadallah, N. A. H., Adam, M. M. A., Barker Plotkin, A. 2025. Synthesizing knowledge about tree diversity, density, and distribution in the savanna woodlands of Sudan. Trees, Forests and People 21: 100906.
• Orwig, D. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Davidson, E. A., Lux, H., Savage, K., Ellison, A. M. 2013. Foundation species loss affects vegetation structure more than ecosystemfunction in a northeastern USA forest. PeerJ 1: e41.
• Palmer, C. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Keiser, A. D. 2026. The speed of eastern hemlock loss alters the persistence of microbial legacies following hemlock woolly adelgid infestation. Forest Ecology and Management 600: 123304.
• Pasquarella, V. J., Mickley, J. G., Barker Plotkin, A., MacLean, R. G., Anderson, R. M., Brown, L. M., Wagner, D. L., Singer, M. S., Bagchi, R. 2021. Predicting defoliator abundance and defoliation measurements using Landsat-based condition scores. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation 7: 592-609.
• Rastetter, E. B., Kwiatkowski, B. L., Kicklighter, D. W., Barker Plotkin, A., Genet, H., Nippert, J. B., O’Keefe, K., Perakis, S. S., Porder, S., Roley, S. S., Ruess, R. W., Thompson, J. R., Wieder, W. R., Wilcox, K., Yanai, R. D. 2022. N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: Role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry. Ecological Applications 32: e2684.
• Roy Chowdhury, R., Schneider, L., Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., Marcario Mendoza, P., Villar, S. C., Barker Plotkin, A. 2004. Land Cover and Land Use: Classification and Change Analysis. In: Turner, B. L., Geoghegan, J., Foster, D. R., Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Sass, E. M., D'Amato, A. W., Foster, D. R., Barker Plotkin, A., Fraver, S., Schoonmaker, P. K., Orwig, D. A. 2018. Long-term influence of disturbance-generated microsites on forest structural and compositional development. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 48: 958-965.
• Siddig, A. A. H., Omer, A., Hasoba, A. M. M., Khalid, S., Hart, C., Barker Plotkin, A. 2026. Backing Ecologists to Succeed and Thrive (BEST) in Crisis Zones: Inspirations From the 2024 ESA Annual Meeting. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 107: e70056.
• Stone, I., Mintz, J., Garnica-Díaz, C. J., Chang-Yang, C., Orwig, D. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Zee, A., Crandall, R. M., Johnson, D. J., Magee, L. J. 2025. Seedling passage times in gaps and closed canopies reveal decades of understory persistence in a New England forest. Ecosphere 16: e70273.
• Tanzer, D. N., Bagchi, R., Barker Plotkin, A., Mickley, J., Rivers, K. J., Sagarin, M., Fahey, R. T. 2025. Defoliation frequency outweighs timing as a driver of tree mortality related to drought-defoliation interaction. Forest Ecology and Management 592: 122859.
• Trotsiuk, V., Pederson, N., Druckenbrod, D. L., Orwig, D. A., Bishop, D. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Fraver, S., Martin-Benito, D. 2018. Testing the efficacy of tree-ring methods for detecting past disturbances. Forest Ecology and Management 425: 59-67.
• Turner, B. L., Villar, S. C., Foster, D. R., Geoghegan, J., Keys, E., Klepeis, P., Lawrence, D., Mendoza, P. M., Manson, S., Ogneva-Himmelberger, Y., Barker Plotkin, A., Salicrup, D. P., Chowdhury, R. R., Savitsky, B., Schneider, L., Schmook, B., Vance, C. 2001. Deforestation in the southern Yucatan peninsular region: an integrative approach. Forest Ecology and Management 154: 353-370.