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• Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Davies, S. J., Bennett, A. C., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Muller-Landau, H. C., Wright, S. J., Abu Salim, K., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Alonso, A., Baltzer, J. L., Basset, Y., Bourg, N. A., Broadbent, E. N., Brockelman, W. Y., Bunyavejchewin, S., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Butt, N., Cao, M., Cardenas, D., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Cordell, S., Dattaraja, H. S., Deng, X., Detto, M., Du, X., Duque, A., Erikson, D. L., Ewango, C. E. N., Fischer, G. A., Fletcher, C., Foster, R. B., Giardina, C. P., Gilbert, G. S., Gunatilleke, N., Gunatilleke, S., Hao, Z., Hargrove, W. W., Hart, T. B., Hau, B. C. H., He, F., Hoffman, F. M., Howe, R. W., Hubbell, S. P., Inman-Narahari, F. M., Jansen, P. A., Jiang, M., Johnson, D. J., Kanzaki, M., Kassim, A. R., Kenfack, D., Kibet, S., Kinnaird, M. F., Korte, L., Kral, K., Kumar, J., Larson, A. J., Li, Y., Li, X., Liu, S., Lum, S. K. Y., Lutz, J. A., Ma, K., Maddalena, D. M., Makana, J. R., Malhi, Y., Marthews, T., Serduin, R. M., McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J., Memiaghe, H., Mi, X., Mizuno, T., Morecroft, M., Myers, J. A., Novotny, V., De Olveria, A. A., Ong, P. S., Orwig, D. A., Ostertag, R., Den Ouden, J., Parker, G. G., Phillips, R. P., Sack, L., Sainge, M. N., Sang, W., Sri-Ngernyuang, K., Sukumar, R., Sun, I., Sungpalee, W., Suresh, H. S., Tan, S., Thomas, S. C., Thomas, D. W., Thompson, J., Turner, B. L., Uriartem, M., Valencia, R., Vallejo, M. I., Vicentini, A., Vrska, T., Wang, X., Wang, X., Weiblen, G., Wolf, A., Xu, H., Yap, S., Zimmerman, J. 2015. CTFS-ForestGEO: a worldwide network monitoring forests in an era of global change. Global Change Biology 21: 528-549.
• Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., McGarvey, J. C., Muller-Landau, H. C., Park, J. Y., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Herrmann, V., Bennett, A. C., So, C. V., Bourg, N. A., Thompson, J. R., McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J. 2015. Size-related scaling of tree form and function in a mixed-age forest. Functional Ecology 29: 1587-1602.
• 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.
• Bain, D. B., Green, M., Campbell, J. L., Chamblee, J. F., Chaoka, S., Fraterrigo, J., Kaushal, S. S., Martin, S., Jordan, T., Parolari, A. J., Sobczak, W. V., Weller, D., Wollheim, W., Boose, E. R., Duncan, J., Gettel, G., Hall, B. R., Kumar, P., Thompson, J. R., Vose, J. M., Elliott, E., Leigh, D. 2012. Legacy Effects in Material Flux: Structural Catchment Changes Predate Long-Term Studies. BioScience 62: 575-584.
• 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., 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.
• 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.
• Blumstein, M., Thompson, J. R. 2015. Land-use impacts on the quantity and configuration of ecosystem service provisioning in Massachusetts, USA. Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 1009-1019.
• Buckley, H. L., Case, B. S., Zimmerman, J. K., Thompson, J., Myers, J. A., Ellison, A. M. 2016. Using codispersion analysis to quantify and understand spatial patterns in species–environment relationships. New Phytologist 211: 735–749.
• Campbell, J. L., Driscoll, C. T., Jones, J. A., Boose, E. R., Dugan, H. A., Groffman, P. M., Jackson, C. R., Jones, J. B., Juday, G. P., Lottig, N. R., Penaluna, B. E., Ruess, R. W., Suding, K., Thompson, J. R., Zimmerman, J. K. 2022. Forest and Freshwater Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change and Variability at US LTER Sites. BioScience 72: 851-870.
• Cinoglu, D., Epstein, H. E., Tepley, A. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Thompson, J. R., Perakis, S. S. 2021. Climatic Aridity Shapes Post-Fire Interactions between Ceanothus spp. and Douglas-Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) across the Klamath Mountains. Forests 12: article 1567, 15 pp.
• Davies, S. J., Abiem, I., Abu Salim, K., Aguilar, S., Allen, D., Alonso, A., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Andrade, A., Arellano, G., Ashton, P. S., Baker, P. J., Baker, M. E., Baltzer, J. L., Basset, Y., Bissiengou, P., Bohlman, S., Bourg, N. A., Brockelman, W. Y., Bunyavejchewin, S., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Cao, M., Cárdenas, D., Chang, L., Chang-Yang, C., Chao, K., Chao, W. C., Chapman, H., Chen, Y., Chisholm, R. A., Chu, C., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Comita, L. S., Condit, R., Cordell, S., Dattaraja, H. S., de Oliveira, A. A., den Ouden, J., Detto, M., Dick, C., Du, X., Duque, Á., Ediriweera, S., Ellis, E. C., Obiang, N. L. E., Esufali, S., Ewango, C. E. N., Fernando, E. S., Filip, ., Fischer, G.r A., Foster, R. B., Giambelluca, T., Giardina, C. P., Gilbert, G. S., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Gunatilleke, I. A. U. N., Gunatilleke, C. V. S., Hao, Z., Hau, B. C. H., He, F., Ni, H., Howe, R. W., Hubbell, S. P., Huth, A., Inman-Narahari, F. M., Itoh, A., Janík, D., Jansen, P. A., Jiang, M., Johnson, D. J., Jones, F. A., Kanzaki, M., Kenfack, D., Kiratiprayoon, S., Král, K., Krizel, L., Lao, S., Larson, A. J., Li, Y., Li, Xi., Litton, C. M., Liu, Y., Liu, S., Lum, S. K. Y., Luskin, M. S., Lutz, J. A., Luu, H. T., Ma, K., Makana, J. R., Malhi, Y., Martin, A., McCarthy, C., McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J., Memiaghe, H., Mi, X., Mitre, D., Mohamad, M., Monks, L., Muller-Landau, H. C., Musili, P. M., Myers, J. A., Nathalang, A., Ngo, K. M., Norden, N., Novotny, V., O'Brien, M. J., Orwig, D. A., Ostertag, R., Papathanassiou, K., Parker, G. G., Pérez, R., Perfecto, I., Phillips, R. P., Pongpattananurak, N., Pretzsch, H., Ren, H., Reynolds, G., Rodriguez, L. J., Russo, S. E., Sack, L., Sang, W., Shue, J., Singh, A., Song, G. M., Sukumar, R., Sun, I. F., Suresh, H. S., Swenson, N. G., Tan, S., Thomas, S. C., Thomas, D. W., Thompson, J., Turner, B. L., Uowolo, A., Uriarte, M., Valencia, R., Vandermeer, J., Vicentini, A., Visser, M., Vrska, T., Wang, X., Wang, X., Weiblen, G. D., Whitfeld, T. J. S., Wolf, A., Wright, S. J., Xu, H., Yao, T. L., Yap, S. L., Ye, W., Yu, M., Zhang, M., Zhu, D., Zhu, L., Zimmerman, J. K., Zuleta, D. 2021. ForestGEO: Understanding forest diversity and dynamics through a global observatory network. Biological Conservation 253: article 108907, 24 pp.
• Delavaux, C. S., LaManna, J. A., Myers, J. A., Phillips, R. P., Aguilar, S., Allen, D., Alonso, A., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Baker, M. E., Baltzer, J. L., Bissiengou, P., Bonfim, M., Bourg, N. A., Brockelman, W. Y., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Chang, L., Chen, Y., Chiang, J., Chu, C., Clay, K., Cordell, S., Cortese, M., den Ouden, J., Dick, C., Ediriweera, S., Ellis, E. C., Feistner, A., Freestone, A. L., Giambelluca, T., Giardina, C. P., Gilbert, G. S., He, F., Holík, J., Howe, R. W., Huaraca Huasca, W., Hubbell, S. P., Inman, F., Jansen, P. A., Johnson, D. J., Kral, K., Larson, A. J., Litton, C. M., Lutz, J. A., Malhi, Y., McGuire, K., McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J., Memiaghe, H., Nathalang, A., Norden, N., Novotny, V., O’Brien, M. J., Orwig, D. A., Ostertag, R., Parker, G. G., Pérez, R., Reynolds, G., Russo, S. E., Sack, L., Šamonil, P., Sun, I. F., Swanson, M. E., Thompson, J., Uriarte, M., Vandermeer, J., Wang, X., Ware, I., Weiblen, G. D., Wolf, A., Wu, S., Zimmerman, J. K., Lauber, T., Maynard, D. S., Crowther, T. W., Averill, C. 2023. Mycorrhizal feedbacks influence global forest structure and diversity. Communications Biology 6: 1066.
• Duveneck, M. J., Thompson, J. R., Gustafson, E. J., Liang, Y., de Bruijn, A. M. G. 2017. Recovery dynamics and climate change effects to future New England forests. Landscape Ecology 32: 1385-1397.
• Duveneck, M. J., Thompson, J. R., Wilson, B. T. 2015. An imputed forest composition map for New England screened by species range boundaries. Forest Ecology and Management 347: 107-115.
• Duveneck, M., Thompson, J. R. 2017. Climate change imposes phenological trade-offs on forest net primary productivity. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122: 2298-2313.
• Duveneck, M., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Social and biophysical determinants of future forest conditions in New England: Effects of a modern land-use regime. Global Environmental Change 55: 115-129.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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., 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., 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.
• Gao, X., Zhou, Z., Ollinger, S. V., Matthes, J. H., Jiao, W., Thompson, J. R. 2025. pnetr: An R package for the PnET family of forest ecosystem models. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 16: 1311-1546.
• Guswa, A. J., Hall, B., Cheng, C., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Co-designed Land-use Scenarios and their Implications for Storm Runoff and Streamflow in New England. Environmental Management 66: 785–800.
• Hall, J. S., Plisinski, J. S., Mladinich, S. K., Van Breugel, M., Lai, H. R., Asner, G. P., Walker, K., Thompson, J. R. 2022. Deforestation scenarios show the importance of secondary forest for meeting Panama’s carbon goals. Landscape Ecology 37: 673–694.
• Hastings, S., Laflower, D., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Forest carbon offsets include co‐benefits and co‐detriments. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17: 143-144.
• Helcoski, R., Tepley, A. J., McGarvey, J. C., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Meakem, V., Thompson, J. R., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. 2019. No significant increase in tree mortality following coring in a temperate hardwood forest. Tree-Ring Research 75: 67-72.
• Helcoski, R., Tepley, A. J., Pederson, N., McGarvey, J. C., Meakem, V., Herrmann, V., Thompson, J. R., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. 2019. Growing season moisture drives interannual variation in woody productivity of a temperate deciduous forest. New Phytologist 223: 1204-1216.
• Holt, J. R., Borsuk, M. E., Butler, B. J., Kittredge, D. B., Laflower, D., MacLean, M. G., Markowski-Lindsay, M., Orwig, D. A., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Landowner functional types to characterize response to invasive forest insects. People and Nature 2: 204-216.
• Holt, J. R., Butler, B. J., Borsuk, M. E., Markowski-Lindsay, M., MacLean, M. G., Thompson, J. R. 2021. Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand Family Forest Owners’ Intended Responses to Invasive Forest Insects. Society and Natural Resources 34: 1001-1018.
• Holt, J. R., Smetzer, J. R., Borsuk, M. E., Laflower, D., Orwig, D. A., Thompson, J. R. 2022. Emerald ash borer intensifies harvest regimes on private land. Ecological Applications 32: e2508, 12 pp.
• Kalinin, A. V., Sims, K. R. E., Meyer, S. R., Thompson, J. R. 2023. Does land conservation raise property taxes? Evidence from New England cities and towns. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 119: 102782.
• Kenney, M. A., Kopp, R. E., Samaras, C., Alberti, M., Angell, S. Y., Burney, J., Cunliff, C., Duffy-Anderson, J. T., Fischer, Laura West, Frey, S. D., Hicke, J. A., Howard, P. H., Jerolleman, A., Kirchhoff, C. J., Koebele, E. A., Mahowald, N. M., Misarti, N., Pearson, D. L., Phillips, A. A., Siders, A. R., Singh, P. K., Smith, N. G., Teneva, L. T., Ulrich-Schad, J. D., Volenec, J. J., Akamani, K., Alexander, A. J., Anderson, C. E., Arbuckle, J. G., Auffhammer, M., Avery, C. W., Baker, S. H., Balk, D., Barbato, M., Barnard, P. L., Basaraba, A. B., Bednar, D. J., Bell, J. E., Bennett Gayle, D., Berry Daniels, L., Bertrand, D., Bistline, J. E. T., Brelsfoard, C. L., Briceno, T., Burkett, M., Burnham, M., Callahan, J. A., Cannon, C. E. B., Carothers, C., Carter, R. H., Cawley, M., Cha, J. M., Chang, H. H., Chang, M. H., Chegwidden, O. S., Chen, K., Cheng, B. S., Chi, G., Chu, E. K., Cleetus, R., Connor, A., Cook, A. A., Council, D., Cromar, K. R., Curtis, K. J., Daigle, J. J., DeLyser Roney, C., Domingue, S. J., Drake, J. E., Ebi, K. L., Elias, E. H., Fann, N. L., Fleishman, E., Gall, E. T., Ghitis, E., Gilmore, E. A., Gopalakrishnan, S., Grafton, D., Gray, S. A., Griffis, R. B., Grimm, N. B., Hadjimichael, A., Han, X., Haverkamp, J. A., Hess, J. J., Hessburg, P. F., Hinton, K. A., Hondula, D. M., Hubbell, B., Hultman, N., Jean, C., Jinnah, S., Johnson, J. X., Johnson, S. M., Johnson, V. A., Jones, K., Kaplan, P. O., Kay, S., Keenan, J. M., Keith, L., Kim, H. H., Kinney, P. L., Koller, S. F., Konfirst, M. A., Kosmal, A., Krosby, M. B., Lamp, W. O., Lanza, K., Lappen, J., Leach, J. E., Lee, C., Lehner, F., Li, Y., Luchinsky, L. A., Mach, K. J., Maldonado, J., Malone, S. L., Marchand, A. A. M., Marino, E., Markowitz, E. M., Masanet, E. R., Mauger, G. S., May, C. L., McConnell, K., McElwee, P., Mendez, M., Middel, A., Mladinich, S. K., Molina, R., Nassikas, N., Nateghi, R., Newman, R., O’Rourke, M. E., Obringer, R., Ortiz-Bobea, A., Osborne, E. B., Petersen, A., Preston, B. L., Puvvula, J., Raphael, M. N., Raymond, C. L., Reed, K. A., Ricke, K. L., Rising, J., Rocci, K. S., Rosenzweig, B. R., Ryder, S., Sanders, B. F., Sanderson, M. R., Schattman, R. E., Seeteram, N. A., Shi, L., Sidner, L., Siedlecki, S. A., Singh, D., Sonnerup, R. E., Steele, C., Tate, E., Thompson, J. R., Thompson, P. R., Turek-Hankins, L. L., Ulibarri, N., Ullrich, P. A., Wang, C., Ward, M., Ward Jones, M., Ward-Caviness, C., Whitehead, J. C., Wilson, M. T., Winkler, R. L., Wootten, A. M., Xian, G., Yorgey, G. G., York, A. M., Zuetell, E. J. 2026. Research Priorities for Robust Climate Assessments in the United States. Earth's Future 14: e2025EF007336.
• Kittredge, D. B., Thompson, J. R. 2016. Timber Harvesting Behaviour in Massachusetts, USA: Does Price Matter to Private Landowners?. Small-scale Forestry 15: 93-108.
• Kittredge, D. B., Thompson, J. R., Morreale, L. L., Short Gianotti, A. G., Hutyra, L. R. 2017. Three decades of forest harvesting along a suburban–rural continuum. Ecosphere 8: e01882, 22 pp.
• Lacher, I., Akre, T., McShea, W. J., McBride, M., Thompson, J. T., Fergus, C. 2019. Engaging Regional Stakeholders in Scenario Planning for the Long-Term Preservation of Ecosystem Services in Northwestern Virginia. Case Studies in the Environment 10.1525/cse.2018.001180: 13 pp.
• Lambert, K. F., McBride, M. F., Weiss, M., Thompson, J. R., Theoharides, K. A., Field, P. 2018. Voices from the Land: Listening to New Englanders’ Views of the Future. Harvard Forest, Harvard University and the Science Policy Exchange. 24 pp.
• Lee, L. G., Pasquarella, V. J., Glass, B., Morreale, L. L., Chung, N., Gao, X., Thompson, J. R. 2025. A comparison shopper's guide to forest datasets. Landscape Ecology 40: 216.
• Liang, Y., Duveneck, M., Gustafson, E. J., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Thompson, J. R. 2018. How disturbance, competition, and dispersal interact to prevent tree range boundaries from keeping pace with climate change. Global Change Biology 24: 335-351.
• Liang, Y., Gustafson, E. J., He, H. S., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Duveneck, M. J., Thompson, J. R. 2023. What is the role of disturbance in catalyzing spatial shifts in forest composition and tree species biomass under climate change?. Global Change Biology 29: 1160– 1177.
• Lopez Ortiz, M. J., Marcey, T., Lucash, M. S., Hibbs, D., Shatford, J. P. A., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Post-fire management affects species composition but not Douglas-fir regeneration in the Klamath Mountains. Forest Ecology and Management 432: 1030-1040.
• Lutz, J. A., Furniss, T. J., Daniel J. Johnson, D. J., Davies, S. J., Allen, D., Alonso, A., Anderson‐Teixeira, K. J., Andrade, A., Baltzer, J., Becker, K. M. L., Blomdahl, E. M., Bourg, N. A., Bunyavejchewin, S., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Cansler, C. A., Cao, K., Cao, M., Cárdenas, D., Chang, L., Chao, K., Chao, W., Chiang, J., Chu, C., Chuyong, G. B., Clay, K., Condit, R., Cordell, S., Dattaraja, H. S., Duque, A., Ewango, C. E. N., Fischer , G. A., Fletcher, C. , Freund, J. A., Giardina, C., Germain, S. J., Gilbert, G. S., Hao, Z., Hart, T., Hau, B. C. H., He, F., Hector, A. , Howe, R. W. , Hsieh, C., Hu, Y., Hubbell, S. P., Inman‐Narahari, F. M. , Itoh, A., Janík, D., Kassim, A. R., Kenfack, D., Korte, L., Král, K., Larson, A. J., Li, Y. , Lin, Y., Liu, S. , Lum, S., Ma, K., Makana, J., Malhi, Y. , McMahon, S. M., McShea, W. J., Hervé R. Memiaghe, H. R., Mi, X., Morecroft, M., Musili, P. M., Myers, J. A., Novotny, V., de Oliveira, A., Ong, P., Orwig, D. A., Ostertag, R., Parker, G. G., Patankar, R., Phillips, R. P., Reynolds, G., Sack, L., Song, G. M. , Su, S., Sun, R. S. I., Suresh, H. S., Swanson, M. E., Tan, S., Thomas, D. W., Thompson, J. , Uriarte, M., Valencia, R., Vicentini, A. , Vrška, T., Wang, X., Weiblen, G. D., Wolf, A. , Wu, S. , Xu, H., Yamakura, T., Yap, S. , Zimmerman, J. K. 2018. Global importance of large-diameter trees. Global Ecology and Biogeography 27: 849-864.
• MacLean, M. G., Duveneck, M. J., Plisinski, J., Morreale, L. L., Laflower, D., Thompson, J. R. 2021. Forest carbon trajectories: Consequences of alternative land-use scenarios in New England. Global Environmental Change 69: article 102310, 28 pp.
• 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.
• Mallampalli, V. R., Mavrommati, G., Thompson, J., Duveneck, M., Meyer, S., Ligmann-Zielinska, A., Druschke, C. G., Hychka, K., Kenney, M. A., Kok, K., Borsuk, M. E. 2016. Methods for translating narrative scenarios into quantitative assessments of land use change. Environmental Modelling & Software 82: 7-20.
• Markowski-Lindsay, M., Borsuk, M. E., Butler, B. J., Duveneck, M. J., Holt, J., Kittredge, D. B., Laflower, D., MacLean, M. G., Orwig, D. A., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Compounding the Disturbance: Family Forest Owner Reactions to Invasive Forest Insects. Ecological Economics 167: article106461, 8 pp.
• Markowski-Lindsay, M., Catanzaro, P., Robillard, A., Butler, B. J., Orwig, D. A., D’Amato, A. W., Thompson, J. R., Laflower, D. M., MacLean, M. G., Itter, M. 2023. Forester and Logger Response to Emerald Ash Borer in Massachusetts and Vermont: a Secondary Disturbance. Journal of Forestry 121: 319-332.
• Maxwell, C. J., Serra-Diaz, J. M., Scheller, R. M., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Co-designed management scenarios shape the responses of seasonally dry forests to changing climate and fire regimes. Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 1328-1340.
• McBride, M. F., Duveneck, M. J., Lambert, K. F., Theoharides, K. A., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Perspectives of resource management professionals on the future of New England’s landscape: Challenges, barriers, and opportunities. Landscape and Urban Planning 188: 30-42.
• McBride, M. F., Lambert, K. F., Huff, E. S., Theoharides, K. A., Field, P., Thompson, J. R. 2017. Increasing the effectiveness of participatory scenario development through codesign. Ecology and Society 22: Art. 16.
• McGarvey, J. C., Thompson, J. R., Epstein, H. E., Shugart, H. H. 2015. Carbon storage in old-growth forests of the Mid-Atlantic: Toward better understanding of the eastern forest carbon sink. Ecology 96: 311-317.
• McKenzie*, P., Duveneck, M. J., Morreale, L. L., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Local and global parameter sensitivity within an ecophysiologically based forest landscape model. Environmental Modelling & Software 117: 1-13.
• Meng, L., Templer, P. H., Hutyra, L. R., Thompson, J. R., Driscoll, C. T. 2025. Regional Projections of the Impacts of Future Urbanization and Climate Change on Biogeochemical Cycles in New England Landscapes. Research 8: 1043.
• Meyer, S. R., Kapur Macleod, K., Thompson, J. R., Foster, D. R., Perschel, R., St. Clair Knobloch, N., Leibowitz, J., Donahue, B., Giffen, A., Vaughn, T., Whalen, T., Labich, B., Colnes, A., Ammermuller, J. 2022. New England’s Climate Imperative: Our Forests as a Natural Climate Solution.
• Miller, A. D., Thompson, J. R., Tepley, A. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. 2019. Alternative stable equilibria and critical thresholds created by fire regimes and plant responses in a fire-prone community. Ecography 42: 55-66.
• Morreale, L. L., Thompson, J. R., Pasquarella, V. J., Hutyra, L. R. 2024. Edge cases: fragmentation and ecosystem processes in temperate forest landscapes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 23: e2828.
• Morreale, L. L., Thompson, J. R., Tang, X., Reinmann, A. B., Hutyra, L. R. 2021. Elevated growth and biomass along temperate forest edges. Nature Communications 12: article 7181, 8 pp.
• Nolte, C., Meyer, S. R., Sims, K. R. E., Thompson, J. R. 2019. Voluntary, permanent land protection reduces forest loss and development in a rural-urban landscape. Conservation Letters 12: e12649, 9pp.
• 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.
• Pasquarella, V. J., Morreale, L. L., Brown, C. F., Kilbride, J. B., Thompson, J. R. 2023. Not-so-random forests: Comparing voting and decision tree ensembles for characterizing partial harvest events. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 125: 103561.
• 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.
• Reinmann, A. B., Smith*, I. A., Thompson, J. R., Hutyra, L. R. 2020. Urbanization and fragmentation mediate temperate forest carbon cycle response to climate. Environmental Research Letters 15: article 114036, 11 pp.
• Serra-Diaz, J. M., Maxwell, C., Lucash, M. S., Scheller, R. M., Laflower, D. M., Miller, A. D., Tepley, A. J., Epstein, H. E., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Thompson, J. R. 2018. Disequilibrium of fire-prone forests sets the stage for a rapid decline in conifer dominance during the 21st century. Scientific Reports 8, article 6749: 12 pp.
• Shifley, S. R., He, H. S., Lischke, H., Wang, W. J., Jin, W., Gustafson, E. J., Thompson, J. R., Thompson III, F. R., Dijak, W. D., Yang, J. 2017. The past and future of modeling forest dynamics: from growth and yield curves to forest landscape models. Landscape Ecology 32: 1307–1325.
• Simoes, J., Markowski-Lindsay, M., Butler, B. J., Kittredge, D. B., Thompson, J., Orwig, D. A. 2019. Assessing New England Family Forest Owners' Invasive Insect Awareness. Journal of Extension 57: article 3RIB2, 17 pp.
• Sims, K. R. E., Thompson, J. R., Meyer, S. R., Nolte, C., Plisinski, J. S. 2019. Assessing the local economic impacts of land protection. Conservation Biology 33: 1035–1044.
• Sims, K., Lee, L. G., Estrella-Luna, N., Lurie, M., Thompson, J. R. 2022. Environmental justice criteria for new land protection can inform efforts to address disparities in access to nearby open space. Environmental Research Letters 17: 064014.
• Smith*, I. A., Hutyra, L. R., Reinmann, A. B., Marrs, J. K., Thompson, J. R. 2018. Piecing together the fragments: elucidating edge effects on forest carbon dynamics. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16: 213-221.
• Smith*, I. A., Hutyra, L., Reinmann, A. B., Thompson, J. R., Allen, D. W. 2019. Evidence for edge enhancements of soil respiration in temperate forests. Geophysical Research Letters 46: 4278-4287.
• Swanson, F. J., Foster, D. R., Driscoll, C. T., Thompson, J. R., Rustad, L. E. 2021. How LTER Site Communities Can Address Major Environmental Challenges. In: Waide, R. B., Kingsland, S. E., The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis, Springer, Cham, .
• Tepley, A. J., Thompson, J. R., Epstein, H. E., Anderson-Teixeira, K. J. 2017. Vulnerability to forest loss through altered postfire recovery dynamics in a warming climate in the Klamath Mountains. Global Change Biology 23: 4117-4132.
• Thompson, J. R. 2014. Book Review: The Changing Nature of the Maine Woods by Andrew M. Barton, Alan S. White, Charles V. Cogbill. Rhodora 116: 359-362.
• Thompson, J. R., Canham, C., Morreale, L., Kittredge, D. B., Butler, B. 2017. Social and biophysical variation in regional timber harvest regimes. Ecological Applications 27: 942-955.
• Thompson, J. R., Carpenter*, D. N., Cogbill, C. V., Foster, D. R. 2013. Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests. PLoS ONE 8: e72540.
• Thompson, J. R., Daigneault, A., Plisinski, J. 2026. Conserving the Last Mature Forests in Maine: Pathways to protect the state’s remaining late-successional and old-growth forests.
• Thompson, J. R., Daigneault, A., Plisinski, J., Moon, I., Norton, J. 2026. Pathways for Protecting Maine’s Remaining Late-Successional and Old-Growth Forests.
• Thompson, J. R., Foster, D. R., Scheller, R., Kittredge, D. B. 2011. The influence of land use and climate change on forest biomass and composition in Massachusetts, USA. Ecological Applications 21: 2425-2444.
• Thompson, J. R., Kalinin, A. Lee, Lucy G., Pasquarella, V. J., Plisinski, J., Sims, K. R. E. 2024. Do working forest easements work for conservation?. Environmental Research Letters 19: 114033.
• Thompson, J. R., Laflower, D. M., Plisinski, J. S., MacLean, M. G., Chu, H., Carpenter, D., Antos, K., Cooper, S., Gaertner, K., Judge, M., Mittelman, M., Ryor, J., Van Doren, W. 2025. Forest Carbon Study: The Impact of Alternative Land-use Scenarios on Terrestrial Carbon Storage and Sequestration in Massachusetts.
• Thompson, J. R., Laflower, D., Plisinski, J., MacLean, M. G. 2020. Land Sector Report: A Technical Report of the Massachusetts 2050 Decarbonization Roadmap Study.
• Thompson, J. R., Lambert, K. F., Foster, D. R., Blumstein, M., Broadbent, B., Almeyda Zambrano, A. 2014. Changes to the Land: Four Scenarios for the Future of the Massachusetts Landscape. Harvard Forest Paper No. 32.
• Thompson, J. R., Lambert, K. F., Foster, D. R., Broadbent, E. N., Blumstein, M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M., Fan,Y. 2016. The consequences of four land-use scenarios for forest ecosystems and the services they provide. Ecosphere 7: e01469.
• Thompson, J. R., Plisinski, J. S., Lambert, K. F., Duveneck, M. J., Morreale, L., McBride, M., MacLean, M. G., Weiss, M., Lee, L. 2020. Spatial Simulation of Codesigned Land Cover Change Scenarios in New England: Alternative Futures and Their Consequences for Conservation Priorities. Earth's Future 8: e2019EF001348, 23 pp.
• Thompson, J. R., Plisinski, J. S., Olofsson, P., Holden, C. E., Duveneck, M. J. 2017. Forest loss in New England: A projection of recent trends. PloS One 12: e0189636, 17 pp.
• Thompson, J. R., Simons-Legaard, E., Legaard, K., Domingo, J. B. 2016. A LANDIS-II extension for incorporating land use and other disturbances. Environmental Modelling & Software 75: 202-205.
• Thompson, J. R., Wiek, A., Swanson, F. J., Carpenter, S. R., Fresco, N., Hollingsworth, T., Spies, T. A., Foster, D. R. 2012. Scenario Studies as a Synthetic and Integrative Research Activity for Long-Term Ecological Research. BioScience 62: 367-376.
• Thorn, A. M., Thompson, J. R., Plisinski, J. S. 2016. Patterns and Predictors of Recent Forest Conversion in New England. Land 5: 30.
• Tumber-Dávila, S. J., Lucey, T., Boose, E. R., Laflower, D., León-Sáenz, A., Wilson, B. T., MacLean, M. G., Thompson, J. R. 2024. Hurricanes pose a substantial risk to New England forest carbon stocks. Global Change Biology 30: e17259.
• Vellend, M., Thompson, J. R., Danneyrolles, V., Rousseu, F. 2021. Changes in landscape-scale tree biodiversity in the north-eastern USA since European settlement. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30: 666-673.
• Xiao, J., Liang, Y., He, H., Thompson, J. R., Wang, W., Fraser, J., Wu, Z. 2017. The formulations of site-scale processes affect landscape-scale forest change predictions: a comparison between LANDIS PRO and LANDIS-II forest landscape models. Landscape Ecology 32: 1347–1363.
• Zhong, Y., Chu, C., Myers, J. A., Gilbert, G.y S., Lutz, J. A., Stillhard, J., Zhu, K., Thompson, J., Baltzer, J. L., He, F., LaManna, J. A., Davies, S. J., Aderson-Teixeira, K. J., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Alonso, A., Chao, K., Wang, X., Gao, L., Orwig, D. A., Yin, X., Sui, X., Su, Z., Abiem, I., Bissiengou, P., Bourg, N., Butt, N., Cao, M., Chang-Yang, C., Chao, W. C., Chapman, H., Chen, Y., Coomes, D. A., Cordell, S., de Oliveira, A. A., Du, H., Fang, S., Giardina, C. P., Hao, Z., Hector, A., Hubbell, S. P., Janík, D., Jansen, P. A., Jiang, M., Jin, G., Kenfack, D., Král, K., Larson, A.J., Li, B., Li, X., Li, Y., Lian, J., Lin, L., Liu, F., Liu, Y., Liu, Y., Luan, F., Luo, Y., Ma, K., Malhi, Y.r, McMahon, S. M., McShea, W., Memiaghe, H., Mi, X., Morecroft, M., Novotny, V., O’Brien, M. J., Ouden, J., Parker, G. G., Qiao, X., Ren, H., Reynolds, G., Samonil, P., Sang, W., Shen, G., Shen, Z., Song, G. M., Sun, I. F., Tang, H., Tian, S., Uowolo, A. L., Uriarte, M., Wang, B., Wang, X., Wang, Y., Weiblen, G. D., Wu, Z., Xi, N., Xiang, W., Xu, H., Xu, K., Ye, W., Yu, M., Zeng, F., Zhang, M., Zhang, Y., Zhu, L., Zimmerman, J. K. 2021. Arbuscular mycorrhizal trees influence the latitudinal beta-diversity gradient of tree communities in forests worldwide. Nature Communications 12: article 3137, 12 pp.