Harvard Forest

Research Publications

Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (since 1988)

• Aber, J. D. 1992. Nitrogen Cycling and Nitrogen Saturation in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7: 220-223.
• Aber, J. D. 1993. Modification of nitrogen cycling at the regional scale: the subtle effects of atmospheric deposition. In: McDonnell, M. J., Pickett, S. T. A., Humans as Components of Ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, NY.
• Aber, J. D. 2002. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: current theory, remaining questions and recent advances. In: Horst, W. J., Burkert, A., Claassen, N., Flessa, H., Progress in Plant Nutrition: Plenary Lectures of the XIV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
• 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., Driscoll, C. T. 1997. Effects of land use, climate variation and N deposition on N cycling and C storage in northern hardwood forests. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 11: 639-648.
• Aber, J. D., Driscoll, C. T., Federer, C. A., Lathrop, R. G., Lovett, G., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Vogelmann, J. 1993. A strategy for the regional analysis of the effects of physical and chemical climate change on biogeographical cycles in northeastern (U.S.) forests. Ecological Modelling 67: 37-47.
• Aber, J. D., Goodale, C. G., Ollinger, S. V., Hallett, R. A., Magill, A. H., Martin, M. E., Smith, M. L., Stoddard, J. L. 2003. Is Nitrogen Deposition Altering the Nitrogen Status of Northeastern Forests?. BioScience 53: 375-389.
• Aber, J. D., Magill, A. H. 2004. Chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest (USA): the first 15 years of a nitrogen saturation experiment. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 1-5.
• Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D. 1993. Plant and soil responses to chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Ecological Applications 3: 156-166.
• Aber, J. D., Magill, A., McNulty, S. G., Boone, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Hallett, R. A. 1995. Forest biogeochemistry and primary production altered by nitrogen saturation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 85: 1665-1670.
• 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.
• Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Magill, A. H., Berntson, G. M., Kamekea, M., McNulty, S. G., Currie, W. S., Rustad, L. E., Fernandez, I. 1998. Nitrogen Saturation in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. BioScience 48: 921-934.
• Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., McClaugherty, C. A. 1990. Predicting long-term patterns of mass loss, nitrogen dynamics, and soil organic matter formation from initial fine litter chemistry in temperate forest ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Botany 68: 2201-2208.
• Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Pastor, J., Boone, R. D. 1991. Factors controlling nitrogen cycling and nitrogen saturation in northern temperate forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 1: 303-315.
• Aber, J. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Steudler, P., Melillo, J. M. 1989. Nitrogen Saturation in Northern Forest Ecosystems. BioScience 39: 378-386.
• Aber, J. D., Ollinger, S. V., Federer, C. A., Driscoll, C. T. 1997. Modeling nitrogen saturation in forest ecosystems in response to land use and atmospheric deposition. Ecological Modelling 101: 61-78.
• Aber, J. D., Wessman, C. A., Peterson, D. L., Melillo, J. M., Fownes, J. H. 1990. Remote Sensing of Litter and Soil Organic Matter Decomposition in Forest Ecosystems. In: Mooney, Hobbs, Remote Sensing of Biosphere Functioning, Springer-Verlag, New York, New York.
• Abramoff, R. Z., Davidson, E. A., Finzi, A. C. 2017. A parsimonious modular approach to building a mechanistic belowground carbon and nitrogen model. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences 122: 2418-2434.
• Abramoff, R. Z., Finzi, A. C. 2016. Seasonality and partitioning of root allocation to rhizosphere soils in a midlatitude forest. Ecosphere 7: e01547.
• Adair, E. C., Parton, W. J., Del Grosso, S. J., Silver, W. L., Harmon, M. E., Hall, S. A., Burke, I. C., Hart, S. C. 2008. Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates. Global Change Biology 14: 2636-2660.
• Allen, A. 1995. Soil science and survey at Harvard Forest. Soil Survey Horizons 36: 133-142.
• Alteio, L. V., Schulz, F., Seshadri, R., Varghese, N., Rodriguez-Reillo, E. R., Goudeau, D., Eichorst, S. A., Malmstrom, R. R., Bowers, R. M., Katz, L. A., Blanchard, J. L., Woyke, T. 2020. Complementary Metagenomic Approaches Improve Reconstruction of Microbial Diversity in a Forest Soil. mSystems 5: e00768-19, 18 pp.
• Angert, A., Barkan, E., Barnett, B., Brugnoli, E., Davidson, E. A., Fessenden, J., Maneepong, S., Panapitukkul, N., Randerson, J. T., Savage, K. E., Yakir, D., Luz, B. 2003. Contribution of soil respiration in tropical, temperate, and boreal forests to the 18O enrichment of atmospheric O2. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17: 1089.
• Anthony, M. A., Frey, S. D., Stinson, K. A. 2017. Fungal community homogenization, shift in dominant trophic guild, and appearance of novel taxa with biotic invasion. Ecosphere 8: 17 pp.
• Anthony, M. A., Stinson, K. A., Moore, J. A. M., Frey, S. D. 2020. Plant invasion impacts on fungal community structure and function depend on soil warming and nitrogen enrichment. Oecologia 194: 659–672.
• Antibus, R. K., Linkins III, A. E. 1992. Effects of Liming a Red Pine Forest Floor on Mycorrhizal Numbers and Mycorrhizal and Soil Acid Phosphatase Activities. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 24: 479-487.
• Bahn, M., Reichstein, M., Davidson, E. A., Grunzweig, J., Jung, M., Carbone, M. S., Epron, D., Misson, L., Nouvellon, Y., Roupsard, O., Savage, K. E., Trumbore, S. E., Gimeno, C., Curiel Yuste, J., Tang, J., Vargas, R., Janssens, I. 2010. Soil respiration at mean annual temperature predicts annual total across vegetation types and biomes. Biogeosciences 7: 2147-2157.
• Baillie, I. C., Ashton, P. S., Chin, S. P., Davies, S. J., Palmioto, P. A., Russo, S. E., Tan, S. 2006. Spatial Associations of Humus, Nutrients and Soils in Mixed Dipterocarp Forest at Lambir, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Journal of Tropical Ecology 22: 543-553.
• Bain, W. G. 2002. Wind-induced systematic error in the closed dynamic chamber soil respiration measurement method. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Bain, W. G., Hutyra, L. R., Patterson*, D. C., Bright, A. V., Daube, B. C., Munger, J. W., Wofsy, S. C. 2005. Wind-induced error in the measurement of soil respiration using closed dynamic chambers. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 131: 225-232.
• Bell*, S. 2000. Microbial nitrogen utilization under nitrogen-saturation conditions in temperate forests. Thesis, University of Oregon.
• Berbeco, J., Melillo, J. M., Orians, C. M. 2012. Soil warming accelerates decomposition of fine woody debris. Plant and Soil 356: 405-417.
• Berberich, G. M., Berberich, M. B., Ellison, A. M., Wöhler, C. 2018. Degassing Rhythms and Fluctuations of Geogenic Gases in A Red Wood-Ant Nest and in Soil in The Neuwied Basin (East Eifel Volcanic Field, Germany). Insects 9: 135-159.
• Berberich, G. M., Ellison, A. M., Berberich, M. B., Grumpe, A., Becker, A., Wöhler, C. 2018. Can a Red Wood-Ant Nest Be Associated with Fault-Related CH4 Micro-Seepage? A Case Study from Continuous Short-Term In-Situ Sampling. Animals 8: 46-64.
• Berg, B., McClaugherty, C. 2003. Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Berg, B., McClaugherty, C. A. 2003. Decomposition of Fine Root and Woody Litter. In: , Plant Litter: Decomposition, Humus Formation, Carbon Sequestration, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Berliner, R., Torrey, J. G. 1989. On tripartite Frankia - mycorrhizal associations in the Myricaceae. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 1708-1712.
• Berliner, R., Torrey, J. G. 1989. Studies on mycorrhizal associations in Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Canadian Journal of Botany 67: 2245-2251.
• Berntson, G. M. 1996. Root growth and nitrogen cycling in temperate deciduous forests in an elevated CO2 world. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Berntson, G. M. 1997. Topological scaling and plant root system architecture: developmental and functional hierarchies. New Phytologist 135: 621-634.
• Berntson, G. M., Aber, J. D. 2000. Fast nitrate immobilization in N-saturated temperate forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 151-156.
• Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1996. Belowground positive and negative feedbacks on CO2 growth enhancement. Plant and Soil 187: 119-131.
• Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1996. The allometry of root production and loss in seedlings of Acer rubrum (Aceraceae) and Betula papyrifera (Betulaceae): implications for root dynamics in elevated CO2. American Journal of Botany 83: 608-616.
• Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Elevated CO2 and the magnitude and seasonal dynamics of root production and loss in Betula papyrifera. Plant and Soil 190: 211-216.
• Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Nitrogen cycling in microcosms of yellow birch exposed to elevated CO2: simultaneous positive and negative belowground feedbacks. Global Change Biology 3: 247-258.
• Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Regenerating temperate forest microcosms in elevated CO2: species composition, belowground growth and nitrogen cycling. Oecologia 113: 115-125.
• Berntson, G. M., Lynch, J. P., Snapp, S. 1998. Fractal geometry and the description of plant root systems: current perspectives and future applications. In: Baveye, Parlage, Smith, Chaos and Fractals in Soil Science, CRC Press, Boca Raton.
• Berntson, G. M., Wayne, P. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Belowground architectural and mycorrhizal responses to elevated CO2 in Betula alleghaniensis populations. Functional Ecology 11: 684-695.
• Bishop, D. A., Beier, C. M., Pederson, N., Lawrence, G. B., Stella, J. C., Sullivan, T. J 2015. Regional growth decline of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) and its potential causes. Ecosphere 6: 1-14.
• Bledzki, L. A., Bubier, J. L., Ellison, A. M., Moore, T. R. 2018. Ecology of rotifers and their unappreciated source of nitrogen and phosphorus in temperate northeastern American bogs. Fundamental and Applied Limnology 191: 277-287.
• Bonitti, E. E., Decant, J. P., Munson, S. M, Gathany, M. A., Przeszlowska, A., Haddix, M. L., Owens, S., Burke, I. C., Parton, W. J., Harmon, M. E. 2009. Litter decomposition in grasslands of Central North America (US Great Plains). Global Change Biology 15: 1356-1363.
• Boone, R. D. 1992. Influence of Sampling Date and Substrate on Nitrogen Mineralization: Comparison of Laboratory-Incubation and Buried-Bag Methods For Two Massachusetts Forest Soils. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 22: 1895-1990.
• Boone, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Canary, J. D., Kaye, J. P. 1998. Roots determine the temperature sensitivity of soil respiration. Nature 396: 571-572.
• Borken, W., Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E. 2003. Drying and wetting effects on carbon dioxide release from organic horizons. Soil Science Society of America Journal 67: 1888-1896.
• Borken, W., Davidson, E. A., Savage, K. E., Sundquist, E. T., Stuedler, P. 2006. Effect of summer throughfall exclusion, summer drought, and winter snow cover on methane fluxes in a temperate forest soil. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38: 1388-1395.
• Borken, W., Savage, K. E., Davidson, E. A., Trumbore, S. E. 2006. Effects of experimental drought on soil respiration and radiocarbon efflux from a temperate forest soil. Global Change Biology 12: 177-193.
• Bowden, R. D., Castro, M. C., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1993. Fluxes of greenhouse gases between soils and the atmosphere in a temperate forest following a simulated hurricane blowdown. Biogeochemistry 21: 61-71.
• Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1991. Effects of nitrogen additions on annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research 96: 9321-9328.
• Bowden, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Garrison, J. B. 1993. Contributions of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 123: 1402-1407.
• Bowden, R. D., Newkirk, K. M., Rullo, G. M. 1998. Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes by a forest soil under laboratory-controlled moisture and temperature conditions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30: 1591-1597.
• Bowden, R. D., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D. 1990. Annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research 95: 13997-14005.
• Bowden, R. D., Wurzbacher, S., Washko, S., Wind, L., Rice, A., Coble, A. E., Baldauf, N., Johnson, B., Wang, J., Simpson, M., Lajtha, K. 2019. Long-term Nitrogen Addition Decreases Organic Matter Decomposition and Increases Forest Soil Carbon. Soil Science Society of America Journal 10.2136/sssaj2018.08.0293: 54 pp.
• Bradford, M. A., Wallenstein, M., Allison, S. D., Treseder, K. K., Frey, S., Watts, S. B., Davies, C. A., Maddox, T. R., Melillo, J. M., Mohan, J., Reynolds, J. F. 2009. Decreased mass specific respiration under experimental warming is robust to the microbial biomass method employed. Ecology Letters 12: E15-E18.
• Brangarí, A. C., Knorr, M. A., Frey, S. D., Rousk, J. 2025. Shifts in Microbial Thermal Traits Mitigate Heat-Induced Carbon Losses in Soils. Global Change Biology 31: e70579.
• Brzostek, E. R., Blair, J. M., Dukes, J. S., Frey, S. D., Hobbie, S. E., Melillo, J. M., Mitchell, R. J., Pendall, E., Reich, P. B., Shaver, G. R., Stefanski, A., Tjoelker, M. G., Finzi, A. C. 2012. The effect of experimental warming and precipitation change on proteolytic enzyme activity: positive feedbacks to nitrogen availability are not universal. Global Change Biology 18: 2617-2625.
• Brzostek, E. R., Greco, A., Drake, J., Finzi, A. C. 2013. Root carbon inputs to the rhizosphere stimulate extracellular enzyme activity and increase nitrogen availability in temperate forest soils. Biogeochemistry 115: 65-76.
• Burton, A. J., Melillo, J. M., Frey, S. D. 2008. Adjustment of Forest Ecosystem Root Respiration as Temperature Warms. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology 50: 1462-1483.
• Butler, S. M., Melillo, J. M., Johnson, J. E., Mohan, J. E., Stuedler, P. A., Lux, H., Burrows, E., Smith, R. M., Vario, C. L., Scott, L., Hill, T. D., Aponte*, N., Bowles, F. P. 2011. Soil warming alters nitrogen cycling in a New England forest: implications for ecosystem function and structure. Oecologia 168: 819-828.
• Campbell, J. L., Rustad, L. E., Boyer, E. W., Christopher, S. F., Driscoll, C. T., Fernandez, I. J., Groffman, P. M., Houle, D., Kiekbusch, J., Magill, A. H., Mitchell, M. J., Ollinger, S. V. 2009. Consequences of climate change for biogeochemical cycling in forests of northeastern North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 264-284.
• Carey, J. C., Tang, J., Templer, P. H., Kroeger, K. D., Crowther, T. W., Burton, A. J., Dukes, J. S., Emmett, B., Frey, S. D., Heskel, M. A., Jiang, L., Machmuller, M. B., Mohan, J., Panetta, A., Reich, P. B., Reinsch, S., Wang, X., Allison, S. D. , Bamminger, C., Bridgham, S., Collins, S. L., de Dato, G., Eddy, W. C., Enquist, B. J., Estiarte, M., Harte, J., Henderson, A., Johnson, B. R., Steenberg Larsen, K., Luo, Y., Marhan, S., Melillo, J. M., Peñuelas, J., Pfeifer-Meister, L., Poll, C., Rastetter, E., Reinmann, A. B., Reynolds, L. L., Schmidt, I. K., Shaver, G. R., Strong, A. L., Suseela, V., Tietema, A. 2016. Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming. PNAS 113: 13797–13802.
• Caron, S., Garvey, S. M., Gewirtzman, J., Schultz, K., Bhatnagar, J. M., Driscoll, C. T., Hutyra, L. R., Templer, P. H. 2023. Urbanization and fragmentation have opposing effects on soil nitrogen availability in temperate forest ecosystems. Global Change Biology 29: 2156-2171.
• Castro, M. S., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D., Bowden, R. D. 1995. Factors controlling atmospheric methane consumption by temperate forest soils. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 9: 1-10.
• Castro, M. S., Steudler, P. A., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D., Millham, S. E. 1993. Exchange of N2O and CH4 between the atmosphere and soils in spruce-fir forests in the northeastern United States. Biogeochemistry 18: 119-135.
• Chaib de Mares, M., Hess, J., Floudas, D., Lipzen, A., Choi, C., Kennedy, M., Grigoriev, I. V., Pringle, A. 2015. Horizontal transfer of carbohydrate metabolism genes into ectomycorrhizal Amanita. New Phytologist 205: 1552-1564.
• Chan, A. S. K., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D., Gulledge, J., Cavanaugh, C. 2005. Consequences of nitrogen fertilization on soil methane consumption in a productive temperate deciduous forest. Biology and Fertility of Soils 41: 182-189.
• Chaput, G., Ford, J., DeDiego, L., Narayanan, A., Tam, W. Y., Whalen, M., Huntemann, M., Clum, A., Spunde, A., Pillay, M., Palaniappan, K., Varghese, N., Mikhailova, N., Chen, I-M., Stamatis, D., Reddy, T. B. K., O'Malley, R., Daum, C., Shapiro, N., Ivanova, N., Kyrpides, N. C., Woyke, T. , Glavina del Rio, T., DeAngelis, K. 2019. Complete Genome Sequence of Serratia quinivorans Strain 124R, a Facultative Anaerobe Isolated on Organosolv Lignin as a Sole Carbon Source. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8: e00409-19, 3 pp.
• Chari, N. R., DeAngelis, K. M., Aguilar, A. A., Chan, A. L. H., Burgin, G. A., Frey, S. D., Taylor, B. N. 2026. Warming mitigates root exudate-induced priming effects via changes to microbial biomass, community structure, and gene abundance. The ISME Journal 20: wrag002.
• Chari, N. R., Taylor, B. N. 2022. Soil organic matter formation and loss are mediated by root exudates in a temperate forest. Nature Geoscience 15: 1011-1016.
• Chari, N. R., Muratore, T. J., Frey, S. D., Winters*, C. L., Martinez*, G., Taylor, B. N. 2024. Long-Term Soil Warming Drives Different Belowground Responses in Arbuscular Mycorrhizal and Ectomycorrhizal Trees. Global Change Biology 30: e17550.
• 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.
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• Compton, J. E, Watrud, L. S., Porteous, L. A., DeGrood*, S. 2004. Response of soil microbial biomass and community composition to chronic nitrogen additions at Harvard Forest. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 143-158.
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