Research Publications

Regional Studies: Since 1988

• 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., Currie, W. S., Castro, M. C., Martin, M., Ollinger, S. 2004. Synthesis and extrapolation: models, remote sensing and regional analysis. 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., Freuder, R. 2000. Variation among solar radiation data sets for the Eastern US and its effects on predictions of forest production and water yield. Climate Research 15: 33-43.
• 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., Ollinger, S. V., Federer, C. A., Reich, P. B., Goulden, M. L., Kicklighter, D. W., Melillo, J. M., Lathrop, R. G. L. 1995. Predicting the effects of climate change on water yield and forest production in the northeastern U.S. Climate Research 5: 207-222.
• 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.
• 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.
• Albani, M., Medvigy, D., Hurtt, G. C., Moorcroft, P. R. 2006. The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink. Global Change Biology 12: 2370-2390.
• Alexander, M. R., Pearl, J. K., Bishop, D. A., Cook, E. R., Anchukaitis, K. J., Pederson, N. 2019. The potential to strengthen temperature reconstructions in ecoregions with limited tree line using a multispecies approach. Quaternary Research 92: 583-597.
• Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Herrmann, V., Rollinson, C. R., Gonzalez, B., Gonzalez-Akre, E. B., Pederson, N., Alexander, M. R., Allen, C. D., Alfaro-Sánchez, R., Awada, T., Baltzer, J. L., Baker, P. J., Birch, J. D., Bunyavejchewin, S., Cherubini, P., Davies, S. J., Dow, C., Helcoski, R., Kašpar, J., Lutz, J. A., Margolis, E. Q., Maxwell, J. T., McMahon, S. M., Piponiot, C., Russo, S. E., Šamonil, P., Sniderhan, A. E., Tepley, A. J., Vašíčková, I., Vlam, M., Zuidema, P. 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.
• Au, T. F., Maxwell, J. T., Novick, K. A., Robeson, S. M., Warner, S. M., Lockwood, B. R., Phillips, R. P., Harley, G. L., Telewski, F. W., Therrell, M. D., Pederson, N. 2020. Demographic shifts in eastern US forests increase the impact of late-season drought on forest growth. Ecography 43: 12 pp.
• 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.
• Barnes, D. H., Wofsy, S. C., Fehlau, B. P., Gottlieb, E. W., Elkins, J. W., Dutton, G. S., Montzka, S. A. 2003. Urban/industrial pollution for the New York City - Washington, DC, corridor, 1996-1998: 1. Providing independent verification of CO and PCE emissions inventories. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 108: 4185.
• Barnes, D. H., Wofsy, S. C., Fehlau, B. P., Gottlieb, E. W., Elkins, J. W., Dutton, G. S., Montzka, S. A. 2003. Urban/industrial pollution for the New York City - Washington, DC, corridor, 1996-1998: 2. A study of the efficacy of the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory measures. Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres 108: 4186.
• Barraclough, S. L., Rettie, J. C. 1950. The ownership of small private forest-land holdings in 23 New England towns. Station Paper NE-34. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, Upper Darby, PA.
• 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.
• Bishop, D. A., Pederson, N. 2015. Regional variation of transient precipitation and rainless-day frequency across a subcontinental hydroclimate gradient. Journal of Extreme Events 2: 1-46.
• Bishop, G. D., Church, M. R., Aber, J. D., Neilson, R. P., Ollinger, S. V., Daley, C. 1998. A comparison of mapped estimates of long-term runoff in the northeastern United States. Journal of Hydrology 206: 176-190.
• Bledzki, L. A., Ellison, A. M. 2003. Diversity of rotifers from northeastern USA bogs with new species records for North America and New England. Hydrobiologica 497: 53-62.
• 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.
• Bolton, D. K., Gray, J. M., Melaas, E. K., Moon, M., Eklundh, L., Friedl, M. A. 2020. Continental-scale land surface phenology from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery. Remote Sensing of Environment 240: article 111685, 16 pp.
• 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.
• 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., 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., Fluet, M. 1994. Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monographs 64: 369-400.
• Briber, B. M., Hutyra, L. R., Dunn, A. L., Raciti, S. M., Munger, J. W. 2013. Variations in Atmospheric CO2 Mixing Ratios across a Boston, MA Urban to Rural Gradient. Land 2: 304-327.
• 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.
• Bruening, J. M., Dubayah, R. O., Pederson, N., Poulter, B., Calle, L. 2024. Definition criteria determine the success of old-growth mapping. Ecological Indicators 159: 111709.
• Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., Ellison, A. M., Gotelli, N. J. 2003. Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs. Ecology Letters 6: 825-829.
• 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.
• Busby, P. E., Motzkin, G., Hall, B. 2009. Distribution and Dynamics of American Beech in Coastal Southern New England. Northeastern Naturalist 16: 159-176.
• Busby, P. E., Swanson, F. J. 2003. Record of Public Communications for the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest.
• 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.
• Campbell, J. L., Ollinger, S. V., Flerchinger, G. N., Wickelein, H., Hayhoe, K., Bailey, A. S. 2010. Past and projected future changes in snowpack and soil frost at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Hydrologic Processes 24: 2465-2480.
• 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.
• Carpenter*, D. N. 2008. Regional and Historical Influences on Exotic Plant Invasions. The Ecological Drivers of Alliaria petiolata Invasion in Western Massachusetts. Thesis, Harvard College.
• Cavender-Bares, J., Ackerly, D. D., Baum, D. A., Bazzaz, F. A. 2004. Phylogenetic overdispersion in Floridian oak communities. American Naturalist 163: 823-843.
• Cavender-Bares, J., Kitajima, K., Bazzaz, F. A. 2004. Multiple trait associations in relation to habitat differentiation among 17 Florida oak species. Ecological Monographs 74: 635-662.
• 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.
• Colburn, E. A., Calhoun, A. J. K. 2016. Vernal Pools of Northeastern North America. In: Finlayson, C. M., Milton, G. R., Prentice, R. C., Davidson, N. C., The Wetland Book: II: Distribution, Description and Conservation, Springer, New York.
• Cole, D. W., Compton, J. E., Homann, P. S., Edmonds, R. L., Miegroet, H. V. 1995. Comparison of carbon accumulation in Douglas fir and red alder forests. In: Kelly, J. M., McFee, W. W., Carbon Forms and Functions in Forest Soils, Soil Science Society of American, Madison, WI.
• Cooper-Ellis, S. 1998. Bryophytes in old-growth forests of western Massachusetts. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 117-132.
• Craig, M. E., Geyer, K. M., Beidler, K. V., Brzostek, E. R., Frey, Serita D., Stuart Grandy, A., Liang, C., Phillips, R. P. 2022. Fast-decaying plant litter enhances soil carbon in temperate forests but not through microbial physiological traits. Nature Communications 13: 1229.
• Craine, J. M., Bond, W., Lee, W., Reich, P. B., Ollinger, S. 2003. The resource economics of chemical and structural defenses across nitrogen supply gradients. Oecologia 442: 547-556.
• Cusack, D. F., Chou, W. W., Yang, W. H., Harmon, M. E., Silver, W. L., LIDET 2009. Controls on long-term root and leaf litter decomposition in neotropical forests. Global Change Biology 15: 1339-1355.
• 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. 2006. New estimates of Massachusetts old-growth forests: useful data for regional conservation and forest reserve planning. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 495-506.
• 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. 2009. Understory vegetation in old-growth and second-growth Tsuga canadensis forests in western Massachusetts. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 1043-1052.
• 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.
• 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.
• Decina, S. M., Hutyra, L. R., Gately, C. K., Getson, J. M., Reinmann, A. B., Short Gianotti, A. G., Templer, P. H. 2016. Soil respiration contributes substantially to urban carbon fluxes in the greater Boston area. Environmental Pollution 212: 433-439.
• Del Toro, I. 2013. Diversity of Eastern North American Ant Communities along Environmental Gradients. PloS ONE 8: e67973.
• Del Toro, I., Silva, R. R., Ellison, A. M. 2015. Predicted impacts of climatic change on ant functional diversity and distributions in eastern North American forests. Diversity and Distributions 21: 781-791.
• Donahue, B. 2004. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. Yale University Press, New London.
• Donahue, B. M, Burke, J., Anderson, M., Beal, A., Kelly, T., Lapping, M., Ramer, H., Libby, R., Berlin, L. 2014. A New England Food Vision.
• Driscoll, C. T., Buonocore, J. J., Levy, J. I., Lambert, K. F., Burtraw, D., Reid, S. B., Fakhraei, H., Schwartz, J. 2015. US power plant carbon standards and clean air and health co-benefits. Nature Climate Change 5: 535-540.
• Driscoll, C. T., Whitall, D., Aber, J. D., Boyer, B., Castro, M. C., Cronan, C., Goodale, C. G., Groffman, P., Hopkinson, C. S., Lambert, K., Lawrence, G., Ollinger, S. 2003. Nitrogen pollution in the northeastern United States: Sources, effects and management options. BioScience 53: 357-374.
• Driscoll, C. T., Whitall, D., Aber, J. D., Boyer, B., Castro, M. C., Cronan, C., Goodale, C. G., Groffman, P., Hopkinson, C. S., Lambert, K., Lawrence, G., Ollinger, S. 2003. Nitrogen pollution: sources and consequences in the northeastern United States. Environment 47: 8-22.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. 2012. The Ants of Nantucket: Unexpectedly High Biodiversity in an Anthropogenic Landscape. Northeastern Naturalist 19: 43-66.
• Ellison, A. M., Buckley, H. L., Miller, T. E., Gotelli, N. J. 2004. Morphological variation in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniaceae): geographic, environmental, and taxonomic correlates. American Journal of Botany 91: 1930-1935.
• Ellison, A. M., Farnsworth, E. J. 2005. The Cost of Carnivory for Darlingtonia california (Sarracheniaceae): Evidence from Relationships among Leaf Traits. American Journal of Botany 92: 1085-1093.
• Ellison, A. M., Farnsworth, E. J. 2014. Targeted sampling increases knowledge and improves estimates of ant species richness in Rhode Island. Northeastern Naturalist 21: NENHC13-24.
• Ellison, A. M., Farnsworth, E. J. 2014. The Ants of Massachusetts: Biodiversity Under our Feet. Massachusetts Wildlife 64: 4-19.
• Ellison, A. M., Farnsworth, E. J., Gotelli, N. J. 2002. Ant diversity in pitcher-plant bogs of Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 9: 267-284.
• Faison, E. K. 2006. Moose foraging in the temperate forests of Central Massachusetts: a natural re-wilding experiment. Thesis, Harvard University.
• 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., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., McDonald, J. E. 2010. Moose Foraging in the Temperate Forests of Southern New England. Northeastern Naturalist 17: 1-18.
• Fan, S., Goulden, M. L., Munger, J. W., Daube, B. C., Bakwin, P. S., Wofsy, S. C., Amthor, J. S., Fitzjarrald, D. R., Moore, K. E., Moore, T. R. 1995. Environmental controls on the photosynthesis and respiration of a boreal lichen woodland: a growing season of whole-ecosystem exchange measurements by eddy correlation. Oecologia 102: 443-452.
• Farnsworth, E. J. 2007. Plant life history traits of rare versus frequent plant taxa of sandplains: Implications for research and management trials. Biological Conservation 136: 44-52.
• Farnsworth, E. J., Ogurcak, D. E. 2006. Biogeography and decline of rare plants in New England: historical evidence and contemporary monitoring. Ecological Applications 16: 1327-1337.
• Fenn, M. E., Poth, M., Aber, J. D., Baron, J. S., Bormann, B. T., Johnson, D. W., Lemly, A. D., McNulty, S. G., Ryan, D. F., Stottlemeyer, R. 1998. Nitrogen excess in North American ecosystems: predisposing factors, ecosystem responses, and management strategies. Ecological Applications 8: 706-733.
• Fitzpatrick, M. C., Preisser, E. L., Ellison, A. M., Elkinton, J. S. 2009. Observer bias and the detection of low-density populations. Ecological Applications 19: 1673-1679.
• Forman, R. T. T. 2006. Good and bad places for roads: effects of varying road and natural patterns on habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation. Proceedings of 2005 International Conference on Ecology and Transportation. Center for Transportation and the Environment, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Forman, R. T. T., McDonald, R. I. 2007. A massive increase in roadside woody vegetation: goals, pros, and cons. Proceedings of International Conference on Ecology and Transportation 2007 Proceedings. CTE, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Foster, C. H. W., Hagenstein, P. R., Foster, D. R. 2004. Forest Conservation and Stewardship in Massachusetts.
• 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., Aber, J. D. 2004. The Physical and Biological Setting for 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., Boose, E. R. 1995. Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems. In: Coutts, M., Grace, J., Wind and Trees, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
• 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., Knight, D., Franklin, J. F. 1998. Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances. Ecosystems 1: 497-510.
• Foster, D. R., Labich, W. 2008. A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment. In: Askins, R. A., Dreyer, G. D., Visgilio, G. R., Whitelaw, D. M., Saving Biological Diversity, Springer, US.
• 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., 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., Slater, B. 1998. Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1: 96-119.
• Fuller, J. L., Foster, D. R., McLachlan, J. S., Drake, N. 1998. Impact of human activity on regional forest composition and dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1: 76-95.
• Gao, L, Huang, Y., Shuman, B., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2017. A high-resolution hydrogen isotope record of behenic acid for the past 16 kyr in the northeastern United States. Quaternary International 449: 1-11.
• Gavin, D. G., Brubaker, L. B., McLachlan, J. S., Oswald, W. W. 2005. Correspondence of pollen assemblages with forest zones across steep environmental gradients, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. The Holocene 15: 633-650.
• Gilliam, F. S., Burns, D. A., Driscoll, C. T., Frey, S. D., Lovett, G. M., Watmough, S. A. 2019. Decreased atmospheric nitrogen deposition in eastern North America: Predicted responses of forest ecosystems. Environmental Pollution 244: 560-574.
• Golodetz, A. 1993. Historical patterns of land protection in north-central Massachusetts: the emergence of a greenway. Thesis, Hampshire College.
• Gomez, S., Gonda-King, L., Orians, C. M., Orwig, D. A., Panko, R., Radville, L., Soltis, N., Thornber, C. S., Preisser, E. L. 2015. Interactions between invasive herbivores and their longterm impact on New England hemlock forests. Biological Invasions 17: 661-673.
• Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D. 2000. The long-term effects of land-use history on nitrogen cycling in northern hardwood forests. Ecological Applications 11: 253-267.
• Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H. 2000. The long-term effects of disturbance on organic and inorganic nitrogen export in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ecosystems 3: 433-450.
• Goodlett, J. C., Zimmermann, R. C., Milton, N. M. 1984. Distribution of common oaks (Quercus spp.) and regional forest types in New England. USGS Open-File Report No. 84-764.
• Gotelli, N. J., Ellison, A. M. 2002. Biogeography at a Regional Scale: Determinants of Ant Species Density in New England Bogs and Forests. Ecology 83: 1604-1609.
• Gotelli, N. J., Mouser, P. J., Hudman, S., Morales, S. E., Ross, D., Ellison, A. M. 2008. Geographic variation in nutrient availability, stoichiometry, and metal concentrations of plants in ombrotrophic bogs in New England, USA. Wetlands 28: 827-84.
• Haines, D. F., Aylward, J. A., Frey, S. D., Stinson, K. A. 2018. Regional Patterns of Floristic Diversity and Composition in Forests Invaded by Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata). Northeastern Naturalist 25: 399-417.
• Hall, B. R., Raynal, D. J., Leopold, D. J. 2001. Environmental Influences on Plant Species Composition in Ground-Water Seeps in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Wetlands 21: 125-134.
• Hall, B., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Syfert, M., Burk, J. 2002. Three hundred years of forest and land-use change in Massachusetts, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1319-1335.
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