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Historical and Retrospective Studies: Since 1988
- Abrams, M. D., Orwig, D. A. 1996. A 300-Year History of
Disturbance and Canopy Recruitment for Co-Occurring White Pine and Hemlock
on the Allegheny Plateau, USA. Journal of Ecology 84: 353-363.
- Abrams, M. D., Orwig, D. A. 1996. A review of dendroecology and
successional dynamics of old-growth and second-growth oak and pine forests
in the eastern United States. In: Dean, J. S., Meko, D. M., Swetnam, T. W., Tree Rings, Environment and
Humanity, Radiocarbon, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
- Abrams, M. D., Orwig, D. A., Dockry, J. 1997. Dendroecology and successional
status of two contrasting old-growth oak forests in the Blue Ridge
Mountains, U.S.A.. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 27: 994-1002.
- Allison, T. D., Moeller, R. E. 1989. Organic Laminations and Detailed
Chronology for Holocene Sediment at Pout Pond, New Hampshire, U.S.A.. Archiv Fur Hydrobiologie 116: 161-180.
- 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. 2001. Integrating lateral expansion
into models of peatland development in temperate New England. Thesis, Harvard University.
- 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.
- Anderson-Teixeira, Kristina
J., Herrmann, Valentine, Rollinson, Christine
R., Gonzalez, Bianca, Gonzalez-Akre, Erika
B., Pederson, Neil, Alexander, M. Ross, Allen, Craig D., Alfaro-Sánchez,
Raquel, Awada, Tala, Baltzer, Jennifer L., Baker, Patrick J., Birch, Joseph D., Bunyavejchewin,
Sarayudh, Cherubini, Paolo, Davies, Stuart J., Dow, Cameron, Helcoski, Ryan, Kašpar, Jakub, Lutz, James A., Margolis, Ellis Q., Maxwell, Justin T., McMahon, Sean M., Piponiot, Camille, Russo, Sabrina E., Šamonil, Pavel, Sniderhan, Anastasia
E., Tepley, Alan J., Vašíčková, Ivana, Vlam, Mart, Zuidema, Pieter A. 2022. Joint effects of climate, tree
size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten
globally distributed forests. Global Change Biology 28: 245-266.
- Ascoli, D., Maringer, J., Hacket-Pain, A., Conedera, M., Drobyshev, I., Motta, R., Cirolli, M., Kantorowicz, W., Zang, C., Schueler, S., Croise, L., Piussi, P., Berretti, R., Palaghianu, C., Westergren, M., Lageard, J. G. A., Burkart, A., Gehrig Bichsel, R., Thomas, P. A., Beudert, B., Overgaard, R., Vacchiano, G. 2017. Two centuries of masting data
for European beech and Norway spruce across the European continent. Ecology 98: 1473-1473.
- 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., 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., Tomlinson, P. B. 2010. The flowering of botany at the
Harvard Forest. Plant Science Bulletin 56: 78-84.
- Bell, M. M. 1989. Did New England go
downhill?. Geographical Review 79: 450-466.
- Bellemare, J. 2002. Environmental and historical
controls on the distribution and variation of rich mesic forests in western
Massachusetts. Thesis, Harvard University.
- 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.
- 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.
- Bertin, R. I., DeGasperis, B. G., Sabloff, J. M. 2006. Land Use and Forest History in
an Urban Sanctuary in Central Massachusetts. Rhodora 108: 119-141.
- Binzen, Timothy L. 2009. The Sanderson Tannery Historical
Site at the Harvard Forest: An Archaeological and Historical Baseline,
Petersham, Massachusetts.
- 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.
- Bond, R. S. 1998. Professional Forestry, Forestry
Education and Research. In: Foster, C. H. W., Stepping Back to Look Forward: a
History of the Massachusetts Forest, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.
- Boose, E. R. 2003. Hurricane impacts in New England
and Puerto Rico. In: Greenland, D., Goodin, G., Smith, R. C., Climate Variability and
Ecosystem Response at Long-term Ecological Research Sites, Oxford University Press, U.K..
- Boose, E. R. 2004. A method for reconstructing
hurricane impacts. In: Murnane, R., Liu, K., Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past,
Present and Future, Columbia University Press, New York.
- 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., 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.
- Bradshaw, R. H. W., Miller, N. G. 1988. Recent successional processes
investigated by pollen analysis of closed-canopy forest sites. Vegetatio 76: 45-54.
- Briggs, J. M., Schaafsma, H., Trenkov, D. 2007. Woody vegetation expansion in a
desert grassland: Prehistoric human impact?. Journal of Arid
Environments 69: 458-472.
- Brubaker, L. B., McLachlan, J. S. 1996. Landscape Diversity and
Vegetation Response to Long-term Climate Change in the Eastern Olympic
Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, USA. In: Walker, B., Steffen, W., Global Change and Terrestrial
Ecosystems, Cambridge University Press., New York, NY.
- Bryant, W. S. 2006. John C. Goodlett (1922-1967)
Botanist, Plant Geographer, and Teacher. Journal of the Kentucky Academy
of Science 67: 3-8.
- Burakowski, E. A., Ollinger, S. V., Bonan, G. B., Wake, C. P., Dibb, J. E., Hollinger, D. Y. 2016. Evaluating the Climate Effects
of Reforestation in New England Using a Weather Research and Forecasting
(WRF) Model Multiphysics Ensemble. Journal of Climate 29: 5141-5156.
- Busby, P. E. 2006. American beech in coastal New
England: forest history and dynamics. Thesis, Harvard University.
- 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., Boose, E. R. 2008. Landscape-level variation in
forest response to hurricane disturbance across a storm track. Canadian Journal of Forest
Research 38: 2942-2950.
- 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.
- Büntgen, U., Wacker, L., Galván, J. D., Arnold, S. , Arseneault, D., Baillie, M. , Beer, J., Bernabei, M., Bleicher, N., Boswijk, G., Bräuning, A., Carrer, M., Ljungqvist, F. C., Cherubini, P., Christl, M., Christie, D. A., Clark, P. W., Cook, E. R., D’Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Eggertsson, O., Esper, J., Fowler, A. M., Gedalof, Z., Gennaretti, F., Grießinger, J., Grissino-Mayer, H., Grudd, H., Gunnarson, B. E., Hantemirov, R., Herzig, F., Hessl, A. , Heussner, K., Jull, A. J. T., Kukarskih, V., Kirdyanov, A., Kolár, Krusic, P.
J., Kyncl,
T., Lara,
A., LeQuesne,
C., Linderholm, H.
W., Loader, N.
J., Luckman,
B., Miyake,
F., Myglan, V.
S., Nicolussi,
K., Oppenheimer,
C., Palmer,
J., Panyushkina,
I., Pederson,
N., Rybníček,
M., Schweingruber,
F. H., Seim,
A., Sigl,
M., Churakova
(Sidorova), O., Speer, J.
H., Synal,
H., Tegel,
W., Treydte,
K., Villalba,
R., Wiles,
G., Wilson,
R., Winship, L.
J., Wunder,
J., Yang,
B., Young, G. H.
F. 2018. Tree rings reveal globally
coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993
CE. Nature Communications 9, Article number: 3605: 7 pp.
- Bürgi, M. 1998. Habitat Alterations Caused by
Long-term Changes in Forest Use in Northeastern Switzerland. In: Kirby, K. J., Watkins, C., The Ecological History of
European Forests, Cab International
Publication, Wallingford, UK.
- Bürgi, M. 1998. Wie veranderte sich der Wald als
Lebensraum im 19. und 20. Jahrundert? - ein Fallbeispiel aus dem Zurcher
Unterund Weinland. Schweiz Z. Forstwes. 149: 758-769.
- Bürgi, M., Russell, E. W. B. 2000. Evaluating accuracy of two types
of early land survey records in the northeastern United States. Journal of the Torrey Botanical
Society 127: 94-98.
- Bürgi, M., Russell, E. W. B., Motzkin, G. 2000. Effects of postsettlement human
activities on forest composition in the northeastern United States: a
comparative approach. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1123-1128.
- Clark, R. A. 2013. Harvard Pond: Natural and
Cultural History. Unpublished manuscript. Harvard Forest
Archives: 14 pp.
- Cogbill, C. V. 2000. Vegetation of the Presettlement
Forests of Northern New England and New York. Rhodora 102: 250-276.
- Cogbill, C. V., Burk, J., Motzkin, G. 2002. The forests of presettlement New
England, USA: spatial and compositional patterns based on town proprietor
surveys. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1279-1304.
- Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2000. Long-term impacts of agriculture
on soil carbon and nitrogen in New England forests. Ecology 81: 2314-2330.
- 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.
- Cook, T. L., Snyder, N. P., Oswald, W. W., Paradis, K. 2020. Timber harvest and flood impacts
on sediment yield in a postglacial, mixed-forest watershed, Maine,
USA. Anthropocene 29: 100232, 15 pp.
- Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J. 2003. The imprint of land use history:
patterns of carbon and nitrogen in downed woody debris at the Harvard
Forest. Ecosystems 5: 446-460.
- D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A. 2008. Stand and Landscape-Level
Disturbance Dynamics in Old-Growth Forests in Western Massachusetts. Ecological Monographs 78: 507-522.
- 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., 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'Orangeville,
L., Maxwell, J., Kneeshaw, D., Pederson, N., Duchesne, L., Logan, T., Houle, D., Arsenault, D., Beier, C. M., Bishop, D. A., Druckenbrod, D., Fraver, S., Girard, G., Halman, J., Hansen, C., Hart, J. L., Hartmann, H., Kaye, M., Leblanc, D., Manzoni, S., Ouimet, R., Rayback, S., Rollinson, C. R., Phillips, R. P. 2018. Drought timing and local climate
determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought. Global Change Biology 24: 2339-2351.
- Dannenberg, M. P., Song, C., Wise, E. K., Pederson, N., Bishop, D. A. 2020. Delineating Environmental
Stresses to Primary Production of U.S. Forests From Tree Rings: Effects of
Climate Seasonality, Soil, and Topography. Journal of Geophysical Research:
Biogeosciences 125: e2019JG005499, 16 pp.
- Davi, N. K., Rao, M. P., Wilson, R., Andreu-Hayles, L., Oelkers, R., D'Arrigo, R., Nachin, B., Buckley, B., Pederson, N., Leland, C., Suran, B. 2021. Accelerated Recent Warming and
Temperature Variability Over the Past Eight Centuries in the Central Asian
Altai From Blue Intensity in Tree Rings. Geophysical Research
Letters 48: e2021GL092933, 11 pp.
- Davis, C. C., Willis, C. G., Connolly, B., Kelly, C., Ellison, A. M. 2015. Herbarium records are reliable
sources of phenological change driven by climate and provide novel insights
into species’ phenological cueing mechanisms. American Journal of
Botany 102: 1599-1609.
- 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.
- DeGasperis, B. G. 2006. Windows of opportunity:
historical and ecological perspectives on plant invasions. Thesis, Harvard University.
- DeGasperis, B. G., Motzkin, G. 2007. Windows of opportunity:
Historical and ecological controls on Berberis Thunbergii invasions. Ecology 88: 3115-3125.
- Donahue, B. 2003. The Resettling of
America. In: N. Wirzba, The Essential Agrarian
Reader, University Press of Kentucky, Lexington.
- Donahue, B. 2004. The Great Meadow: Farmers and
the Land in Colonial Concord. Yale University Press, New London.
- Donahue, B. 2007. Another Look from
Sanderson's Farm: A Perspective on New England Environmental History
and Conservation. Environmental History 12: 8-12.
- 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.
- Dow, C., Kim, A. Y., D’Orangeville, L., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Helcoski, R., Herrmann, V., Harley, G. L., Maxwell, J. T., McGregor, I. R., McShea, W. J., McMahon, S. M., Pederson, N., Tepley, A. J., Anderson-Teixeira, K.
J. 2022. Warm springs alter timing but
not total growth of temperate deciduous trees. Nature 608: 552–557.
- Druckenbrod, D. L., Martin-Benito, D., Orwig, D. A., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Renwick, K. M., Shugart, H. H. 2019. Redefining temperate forest
responses to climate and disturbance in the eastern United States: New
insights at the mesoscale. Global Ecology and
Biogeography 28: 557–575.
- 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.
- Duranleau, D. L. 2009. Flexible Sedentism: The
Subsistence and Settlement Strategies of the Pre-Contact Residents of
Coastal New England and New York. Thesis, Harvard University.
- Eberhardt, R. 2001. Implications of land-use
legacies in the sand plain vegetation of Cape Cod National Seashore. Thesis, Harvard.
- 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. 2014. They Really do Eat Insects:
Learning from Charles Darwin's Experiments with Carnivorous
Plants. In: Roth, W-M., Verschaffel, L., Darwin-Inspired Learning, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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., Foster, D. R. 2014. Did American chestnut really
dominate the eastern forest?. Arnoldia 72: 18-32.
- 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.
- Forman, R. T. T. 2022. Deciphering Concord’s Old Stone
Walls and What They Indicate: A Field Guide.
- Forman, R. T. T. 2022. Ecologists' Big Step
Forward: Opening the Ecological Society of America’s Washington Office in
1983. Bulletin of the Ecological
Society of America 103: e01969.
- Foster, C. H. W. 1998. Stepping Back to Look Forward -
a History of the Massachusetts Forest. Harvard Forest and Harvard
University Press, Petersham and Cambridge.
- Foster, C. H. W. 1998. The Massachusetts Forest
Today. In: Foster, C. H. W., Stepping Back to Look Forward: a
History of the Massachusetts Forest, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.
- Foster, C. H. W. 1998. The Massachusetts Forest: An
Historical Overview. In: Foster, C. H. W., Stepping Back to Look Forward: a
History of the Massachusetts Forest, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.
- Foster, C. H. W. 2008. Twentieth-Century New England
Land Conservation, A Heritage of Civic Engagement. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
- 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. 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. 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. 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. Forests in Time: The
Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. 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., 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., 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., 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., Motzkin, G. 1998. Ecology and conservation in the
cultural landscape of New England: lessons from nature's
history. Northeastern Naturalist 5: 111-126.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2003. Interpreting and conserving the
openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape
history. Forest Ecology and
Management 185: 127-150.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Bernardos, D., Cardoza, J. 2002. Wildlife dynamics in the
changing New England landscape. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1337-1357.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., O'Keefe, J., Boose, E. R., Orwig, D. A., Fuller, J. L., Hall, B. 2004. The environmental and human
history of New England. 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., Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. 1998. Case studies in forest history
and ecology from the Harvard Forest. Arnoldia 58: 32-44.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Slater, B. 1998. Land-use history as long-term
broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New
England. Ecosystems 1: 96-119.
- Foster, D. R., O'Keefe, J. 2000. New England Forests Through
Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. Harvard Forest and Harvard
University Press, Petersham and Cambridge.
- Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., McLachlan, J. S. 1996. Ecological and conservation
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