Browsing by Author "Foster, David"

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    • The Influence of Successional Processes and Disturbance on the structure of Tsuga canadensis Forests 

      D, Anthony W.; Orwig, David Alan; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
      Old-growth forests are valuable sources of ecological, conservation, and management information, yet these ecosystems have received little study in New England, due in large part to their regional scarcity. To increase our ...

    • Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures 

      Meyer, Spencer R.; Cronan, Christopher S.; Lilieholm, Robert J.; Johnson, Michelle L.; Foster, David Russell (Elsevier BV, 2014)
      Protected areas (PAs) are an important component of the global conservation strategy and understanding the past drivers of land protection can inform future conservation planning. Socioeconomic and policy drivers of ...

    • Landscape and Regional Impacts of Hurricanes in New England 

      Boose, Emery Robert; Chamberlin, Kristen E.; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2001)
      Hurricanes are a major factor controlling ecosystem structure, function, and dynamics in many coastal forests, but their ecological role can be understood only by assessing impacts in space and time over a period of ...

    • Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in Puerto Rico 

      Boose, Emery Robert; Serrano, Mayra I.; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
      Puerto Rico is subject to frequent and severe impacts from hurricanes, whose long-term ecological role must be assessed on a scale of centuries. In this study we applied a method for reconstructing hurricane disturbance ...

    • Long-Term History of Vegetation and Fire in Pitch Pine–oak Forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts 

      Parshall, T; Foster, David Russell; Faison, Edward Kerr; MacDonald, D; Hansen, B (Ecological Society of America, 2003)
      Human disturbance in northeastern North America over the past four centuries has led to dramatic change in vegetation composition and ecosystem processes, obscuring the influence of climate and edaphic factors on vegetation ...

    • Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics and Disturbance History of a Tsuga-Dominated Forest in New England 

      Foster, David Russell; Zebryk, T. M. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1993)
      The post—glacial history of two adjacent sites in the Harvard Forest, a 10—ha swamp (Black Gum Swamp) and a 0.006—ha hollow (Hemlock Hollow) in a Tsuga canadensis forest were investigated using pollen analysis. The sites ...

    • Loss of Foundation Species: Consequences for the Structure and Dynamics of Forested Ecosystems 

      Ellison, Aaron M.; Bank, Michael; Clinton, Barton D.; Colburn, Betsy A.; Elliott, Katherine; Ford, Chelcy R.; Foster, David Russell; Kloeppel, Brian D.; Knoepp, Jennifer D.; Lovett, Gary M.; Mohan, Jacqueline; Orwig, David Alan; Rodenhouse, Nicholas L.; Sobczak, William V.; Stinson, Kristina A.; Stone, Jeffrey K.; Swan, Christopher M.; Thompson, Jill; Holle, Betsy Von; Webster, Jackson R. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
      In many forested ecosystems, the architecture and functional ecology of certain tree species define forest structure and their species-specific traits control ecosystem dynamics. Such foundation tree species are declining ...

    • Meeting the Conservation Challenge in New England 

      Foster, David Russell (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010)

    • Moose Foraging in the Temperate Forests of Southern New England 

      Faison, Edward Kerr; Motzkin, Glenn; Foster, David Russell; McDonald, John E. (Humboldt Field Research Institute, 2010)
      Moose have recently re-colonized the temperate forests of southern New England, raising questions about this herbivore’s effect on forest dynamics in the region. We quantifi ed Moose foraging selectivity and intensity on ...

    • Multiple Browsers Structure Tree Recruitment in Logged Temperate Forests 

      Faison, Edward K.; DeStefano, Stephen; Foster, David R.; Rapp, Joshua M.; Compton, Justin A. (Public Library of Science, 2016)
      Historical extirpations have resulted in depauperate large herbivore assemblages in many northern forests. In eastern North America, most forests are inhabited by a single wild ungulate species, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus ...

    • Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options 

      Lovett, Gary M.; Weiss, Marissa S.; Liebhold, Andrew M.; Holmes, Thomas P.; Leung, Brian; Lambert, Kathy Fallon; Orwig, David Alan; Campbell, Faith T.; Rosenthal, Jonathan; McCullough, Deborah G.; Wildova, Radka; Ayres, Matthew P.; Canham, Charles D.; Foster, David Russell; LaDeau, Shannon L.; Weldy, Troy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      We review and synthesize information on invasions of nonnative forest insects and diseases in the United States, including their ecological and economic impacts, pathways of arrival, distribution within the United States, ...

    • Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound-specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England 

      Hou, Juzhi; Huang, Yongsong; Wang, Yi; Shuman, Bryan; Oswald, William Wyatt; Faison, Edward Kerr; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2006)
      We determined hydrogen isotope ratios of individual fatty acids in a sediment core from Blood Pond, Massachusetts, USA, in order to reconstruct climate changes during the past 15 kyr. In addition to palmitic acid (C16 ...

    • Quantifying the impact of an extreme climate event on species diversity in fragmented temperate forests: the effect of the October 1987 storm on British broadleaved woodlands 

      Smart, S. M.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Bunce, R. G. H.; Marrs, R. H.; Kirby, K. J.; Kimberley, A.; Scott, W. A.; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014)
      We report the impact of an extreme weather event, the October 1987 severe storm, on fragmented woodlands in southern Britain. We analysed ecological changes between 1971 and 2002 in 143 200-m2 plots in 10 woodland sites ...

    • A record of Holocene environmental and ecological changes from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, New York 

      Oswald, W. Wyatt; Foster, David Russell; Doughty, Elaine D.; MacDonald, Dana (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
      Analyses of pollen, charcoal, and organic content in a lake-sediment core from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, New York, provide insights into the ecological and environmental history of this region. The early-Holocene interval ...

    • A Record of Lateglacial and Early Holocene Environmental and Ecological Change from Southwestern Connecticut, USA 

      Oswald, W. Wyatt; Foster, David Russell; Doughty, Elaine D.; Faison, Edward Kerr (John Wiley & Sons, 2009)
      Analyses of a sediment core from Highstead Swamp in southwestern Connecticut, USA, reveal Lateglacial and early Holocene ecological and hydrological changes. Lateglacial pollen assemblages are dominated by Picea and Pinus ...

    • Recovery of Biomass Following Shifting Cultivation in Dry Tropical Forests of the Yucatan 

      Read, L; Lawrence, Deborah; Foster, David Russell (Ecological Society of America, 2003)
      Land-use change in the tropics is creating secondary forest at an unprecedented rate. In the tropical Americas, mature dry tropical forest is rapidly being converted to secondary forest during the fallow period of shifting ...

    • Role of Ecosystem Development and Climate Change in Bog Formation in Central Sweden 

      Foster, David Russell; Wright, H. E. (Wiley-Blackwell, 1990)
      Bog development, in terms of the rates of horizontal and vertical accumulation of peat and the timing of landform development of open-water pools, was examined on two concentric raised bogs in central Sweden. The results ...

    • Soil Respiration in a Northeastern US Temperate Forest: A 22-Year Synthesis 

      Giasson, M.-A.; Ellison, Aaron M.; Bowden, R. D.; Crill, P. M.; Davidson, E. A.; Drake, J. E.; Frey, S. D.; Hadley, J; Lavine, M.; Melillo, J. M.; Munger, J. W.; Nadelhoffer, K. J.; Nicoll, L.; Ollinger, S. V.; Savage, K. E.; Steudler, P. A.; Tang, J.; Varner, R. K.; Wofsy, Steven C.; Foster, David Russell; Finzi, A. C. (Ecological Society of America, 2013)
      To better understand how forest management, phenology, vegetation type, and actual and simulated climatic change affect seasonal and inter-annual variations in soil respiration (R\(_{s}\)), we analyzed more than 100,000 ...

    • Survivors, Not Invaders, Control Forest Development Following Simulated Hurricane 

      Plotkin, Audrey Barker; Foster, David Russell; Carlson, Joel; Magill, Alison (Ecological Society of America, 2013)
      Wind disturbance profoundly shapes temperate forests but few studies have evaluated patterns and mechanisms of long-term forest dynamics following major windthrows. In 1990, we initiated a large hurricane simulation ...

    • Toward an Integrated Model for Raised-Bog Development: Theory and Field Evidence 

      Almquist-Jacobson, H.; Foster, David Russell (Wiley-Blackwell, 1995)
      The development and distribution of Northern mires, including minerotrophic fens and ombrotrophic raised bogs, frequently are presumed to be strongly controlled by the interplay of regional climate and site geomorphology ...