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Faison, E

• DeStefano, S., Faison, E. K., Compton, J. E., Wattles, D. 2010. Forest Exclosures: an Experimental Approach to Understanding Browsing by Moose and Deer. Massachusetts Wildlife 2: 14-23.
• Faison, E. K. 2006. Moose foraging in the temperate forests of Central Massachusetts: a natural re-wilding experiment. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Faison, E. K. 2014. Large Old Tree Declines at Broad Scales: A More Complicated Story. Conservation Letters 7: 70-71.
• Faison, E. K. 2014. Witness trees, fossil pollen, and other insights: how Connecticut's forests have changed from colonial to modern times. Connecticut Woodlands 79: 6-10.
• Faison, E. K. 2015. Complex effects of ungulate browsers on three recruitment and herbaceous layers in New England temperate forests. Thesis, University of Massachusetts.
• Faison, E. K. 2015. Seeing the Landscape in Landscape Art. Arnoldia 73: 2-18.
• 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., DeStefano, S., Koenen, K. 2025. Resilience and alternative successional trajectories in temperate forests exposed to two large herbivores. Forest Ecology and Management 586: 122729.
• 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.
• 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., Lambert, K. F., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B. M, Hart, C. M., Labich, W. G., Meyer, S., Thompson, J. , Buchanan, M., Levitt, J. N., Pershel, R., Ross, K., Elkins, G., Daigle, C., Hall, B., Faison, E. K., D'Amato, A. W., Forman, R. T. T., Del Tredici, P., Irland, L. C., Colburn, B. A., Orwig, D. A., Aber, J. D., Berger, A., Driscoll, C. T., Keeton, W. S., Lilieholm, R. J., Pederson, N., Ellison, A. M., Hunter, M. L., Fahey, T. J. 2017. Wildlands and Woodlands, Farmlands and Communities: Broadening the Vision for New England. Harvard Forest Paper No. 33.
• Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., Faison, E. K., Silver, E., Hall, B. R., Donahue, B., Motzkin, G., Thompson, J. R., D’Amato, A. W., Boose, E. R., Pallant, J, Kelty, M., Van De Poll, R. 2014. Wildlands and Woodlands Science: Long-term forest measurements for ecological and conservation insights.
• Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W., Faison, E. K., Doughty, E. D., Hansen, B. C. S. 2006. A climatic driver for abrupt mid-Holocene vegetation dynamics and the hemlock decline in New England. Ecology 87: 2959-2966.
• Hanberry, B. B., Faison, E. K. 2023. Re-framing deer herbivory as a natural disturbance regime with ecological and socioeconomic outcomes in the eastern United States. Science of The Total Environment 868: 161669.
• Hou, J., Huang, Y., Wang, Y., Shuman, B., Oswald, W. W., Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R. 2006. Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound-specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7: Q03008.
• 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.
• Lindbladh, M., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Faison, E. K., Hou, J., Huang, Y. 2007. A late-glacial transition from Picea glauca to Picea mariana in southern New England. Quaternary Research 67: 502-508.
• 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., Doughty, E. D., Faison, E. K. 2009. A record of Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental and ecological change from southwestern Connecticut, USA. Journal of Quaternary Science 24: 553-556.
• Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. N., Doughty, E. D., Faison, E. K., Hall, B. R., Hansen, B. C. S., Lindbladh, M., Marroquin, A., Truebe, S. A. 2018. Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2375–2388.
• Parshall, T., Foster, D. R., Faison, E. K., MacDonald, D., Hansen, B. C. S. 2003. Long-term history of vegetation and fire in pitch pine-oak forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ecology 84: 736-738.