Harvard Forest REU Recommended Related Publications - 2004

Ecological and historical aspects of invasion in the exotic species, Alliaria petiolata in New England.

Note from Mentor: This is just an example of papers the student may wish to browse. Reading the complete list is *NOT* required prior to beginning the program.

Brown, C. S. and Rice, K. J. 2000. The mark of Zorro: effects of the exotic annual grass Vulpia myuros on California native perennial grasses. Restoration Ecology 8: 10-17.

Meekins, J. F. and B. C. McCarthy. 1999. Competitive ability of Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard, Brassicaceae), an invasive, nonindigenous forest herb. International Journal Plant Science 160: 743-752.

Pattison, R. R. , G. Goldstein, and A. Ares. 1998. Growth, biomass allocation and photosynthesis of invasive and native Hawaiian rainforest species. Oecologia 117: 449: 459.

Walker, L. R. and P. M. Vitousek. 1991. An invader alters germination and growth of a native dominant tree in Hawaii. Ecology 72: 1449-1455.

Wyckoff, P. H. and S. L. Webb. 1996. Understory influence of the invasive Norway maple (Acer platanoides). Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 123: 197-205.

Disturbance histories as a predictor of habitat invasibility in a mosaic landscape: Cape Cod National Seashore

Motzkin, G., R. Eberhardt, B. Hall, D. R. Foster, J. Harrod, and D. MacDonald. 2002. Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants. Journal of Biogeography 29:1439-1454.

Parker, I. M., D. Simberloff, W. M. Lonsdale, K. Goodell, M. Wonham, P. M. Karieva, M. H. Williamson, B. Von Holle, P. B. Moyle, J. E. Byers, and L. Goldwasser. 1999. Impact: Towards a framework for understanding the ecological effects of invaders. Biological Invasions 1:3-19.

Von Holle, B., K.A Joseph, E.F. Largay R.G. Lohnes. 2004. in press. Facilitations between the introduced nitrogen-fixing tree, Robinia pseudoacacia, and nonnative plant species in the glacial outwash upland ecosystem of Cape Cod, MA. Biodiversity and Conservation.

Plant population biology and evolutionary ecology

Project 1:

Baskin, J. M., and C. C. Baskin. 1983. Seasonal changes in the germination responses of buried seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana and ecological interpretation. Botanical Gazette. 144:540-543.

Baskin, J. M., and C. C. Baskin. 1972. Ecological life cycle and physiological ecology of seed germination of Arabidopsis thaliana. Canadian Journal of Botany. 50:353-360.

Donohue, K. 2002. Germination timing influences natural selection on life-history characters in Arabidopsis thaliana. Ecology. 83:1006-1016.

Munir, J., L. Dorn, K. Donohue, and J. Schmitt. 2001. The influence of maternal photoperiod on germination requirements in Arabidopsis thaliana. American Journal of Botany.

Nordborg, M., and J. Bergelson. 1999. The effect of seed and rosette cold treatment on germination and flowering time in some Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae) ecotypes. American Journal of Botany. 86:470-475.

Project 2:

Stanton, M. L., and C. Galen. 1997. Life on the edge: adaptation versus environmentally mediated gene flow in the Snow Buttercup, Ranunculus adoneus. The American Naturalist. 150:143-178.

Project 3:

Donohue, K. 1998. Seed dispersal as a maternal character: Fruit, plant, and maternal site traits that influence dispersal in Cakile edentula. Ecology 79: 2771-2788.

Donohue, K. 1999. Seed dispersal as a maternally-influenced character: mechanistic basis of maternal effects and selection on maternal characters in an annual plant. The American Naturalist. 154:674-689.

Howe, H. F., and J. Smallwood. 1982. Ecology of seed dispersal. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics. 13:201-228.

Warwick, S. I., and L. D. Black. 1997. Phylogenetic implications of chloroplast DNA restriction site variation in subtribes Raphaninae and Cakilinae (Brassicaceae, tribe Brassiceae). Canadian Journal of Botany. 75:960-973.

Who eats whom? Structure of food webs and nutrient dynamics of carnivorous pitcher plants.

Buckley, H.J., et al. 2003. Reverse latitudinal trends in species richness of pitcher-plant food webs. Ecology Letters 6: 825-829.

Ellison, A.M., et al. 2003. The evolutionary ecology of carnivorous plants. Advances in Ecological Research 33:1-74.

Ellison, A.M. & N.J. Gotelli. 2002. A fine-scale indicator of nitrogen saturation in northern ecosystems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99: 4409-4412.

Gotelli, N.J. & A.M. Ellison. 2002. Nitrogen deposition and extinction risk in the northern pitcher plant Sarracenia purpurea. Ecology 83:2758-2765.

Ant diversity in southern New England: Effects of Hemlock Decline and Hemlock Removal

B. Holldobler and E.O. Wilson. 1990. The Ants. Belknap Press, Cambridge D. Agosti et al. 2000. Ants: standard methods for measuring and monitoring biodiversity. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC.

Gotelli, N.J. and A.M. Ellison. 2002. Biogeography at a regional scale: determinants of ant species density in bogs and forests of New England. Ecology 83:1604-1609.

Ellison, A. M., E. J. Farnsworth, and N. J. Gotelli. 2002. Ant diversity in pitcher-plant bogs of Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 9:267-284.

Hemlock Removal Experiment: Initial Responses

Kizlinski, M., D. A. Orwig, R. Cobb, and D. Foster. 2002. Direct and indirect ecosystem consequences of an invasive pest on forests dominated by eastern hemlock. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1489-1503

Tingley, M., D. A. Orwig, R. Field, and G. Motzkin. 2002. Avian response to removal of a forest dominant: consequences of hemlock woolly adelgid infestations. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1505-1516

Orwig, D. A., D. R. Foster, and D. L. Mausel. 2002. Landscape patterns of hemlock decline in New England due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1475-1487

Jenkins, J., J. Aber, and C. Canham. 1999. Hemlock woolly adelgid impacts on community structure and N cycling rates in eastern hemlock forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 630-645

Orwig, D. A. and D. R. Foster. 1998. Forest response to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England, USA. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 59-72

Fifteen years of vegetation response to an experimental hurricane

Cooper-Ellis, S. M., D.R. Foster, G. Carlton and A. Lezberg. 1999. Forest response to catastrophic wind: results from an experimental hurricane. Ecology 80: 2683-2696.

Foster, D.R., S. Cooper-Ellis, A. Barker Plotkin, G. Carlton, R. Bowden, A. Magill and J. Aber. 2004. Simulating a catastrophic hurricane. Pages 235-258 in Foster, D.R. and J. D. Aber (eds.). Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Long-term history of vegetation in New England

Foster, D.R. and Motzkin, G. 2003. Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history. Forest Ecology and Management 185: 127-150.

Parshall, T. and Foster, D.R. 2002. Fire on the New England landscape: regional and temporal variation, cultural and environmental controls. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1305-1317.

Parshall, T., Foster, D.R., Faison, E., MacDonald, D., and Hansen, B.C.S. 2003. Long-term history of vegetation and fire in pitch pine-oak forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Ecology 84: 736-748.

Long term soil respiration at the Harvard Forest

Melillo J.M., Steudler, P., Aber, J.D., Newkirk, K., Lux, H., Bowles, F.P., Catricala, C., Magill, A., Ahrens, T., Morrisseau, S. 2002. Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system. Science. In press.

Peterjohn, W., Melillo, J., Steudler, P., Newkirk, K., Bowles, F., Aber, J. 1994. Responses of trace gas fluxes and N availability to experimentally elevated soil temperatures. Ecological Applications 4(3): 617-625.

Rustad, L. E., J. M. Melillo, M. J. Mitchell, I. J. Fernandez, P. A. Steudler, and P. J. McHale. 2000. Effects of soil warming on carbon and nitrogen cycling. Pages 357-381 in R. A. Mickler, R. A. Birsdsey, and J. Horn, editors. Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Effects of management on forest carbon storage

Barford, Carol C., Wofsy, Steven C., Goulden, Michael L., Munger, J. William, Pyle, Elizabeth Hammond, Urbanski, Shawn P., Hutyra, Lucy, Saleska, Scott R., Fitzjarrald, David, Moore, Kathleen, Factors Controlling Long- and Short-Term Sequestration of Atmospheric CO2 in a Mid-latitude Forest, Science, 294, 1688-1691, 2001.

Additional information about on-going research projects are available at the AmeriFlux www page (http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/programs/ameriflux/) and Harvard's atmospheric sciences page (http://www.as.harvard.edu).

Life History Parameters and Range Expansion of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Infestations

McClure, M.S. & Cheah, C.A.S.J. Reshaping the ecology of invading populations of the hemlock woolly adelgid, Adlges tsugae (Homoptera: Adelgidae), in eastern North America. Biol. Invasions. 1, 247-254 (1999). Orwig, D.A. & Foster, D.R. Forest response to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England, USA. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 125, 60-73 (1998).

Parker, B.L., Skinner, M.S., Gouli, S., Ashikaga, T. and Teillon, H.B. Survival of hemlock woolly adelgid ( Homoptera: Adelgidae) at low temperatures. Forest Sci. 44, 414-420 (1997).

Temperate Forest Responses to Climate Warming

Melillo, J. M., P. A. Steudler, J. D. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. P Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens, and S. Morrisseau. 2002. Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system. Science 298: 2173-2176.

Melillo, J., P. Steudler, J. Aber, K. Newkirk, H. Lux, F. Bowles, C. Catricala, A. Magill, T. Ahrens, S. Morrisseau, E. Burrows, and K. Nadelhoffer. 2004. Soil warming: A major consequence of global climate change. Pgs. 280-295 in D. R. Foster. and J. D. Aber (eds.) Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.

Shaver, G. R., J. Canadell, F. S. Chapin III, J. Gurevitch, J. Harte, G. Henry, P. Ineson, S. Jonasson, J. Melillo, L. Pitelka, and L. Rustad. 2000. Global warming and terrestrial ecosystems: A conceptual framework for analysis. BioScience 50(10): 871882.

Rustad, L. E., J. M. Melillo, M. J. Mitchell, I. J. Fernandez, P. A. Steudler, and P. J. McHale. 2000. Effects of soil warming on carbon and nitrogen cycling. Pages 357-381 in R. A. Mickler, R. A. Birsdsey, and J. Horn, editors. Responses of Northern U.S. Forests to Environmental Change. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Peterjohn, W., Melillo, J., Steudler, P., Newkirk, K., Bowles, F., Aber, J. 1994. Responses of trace gas fluxes and N availability to experimentally elevated soil temperatures. Ecological Applications 4(3): 617-625.

Carbon and water exchange of eastern hemlock and deciduous forests: Differences between forest types, responses to climate, and probable effects of hemlock mortality

Mentee should learn a few principles of plant physiology relating to photosynthesis and respiration, and read some recent papers on whole-forest carbon exchange and water use. I will supply the mentee with recommended readings.

Forecasting Stream Ecosystem Responses to a Regional Landscape Disturbance: Indirect Ecological Consequences of the Removal of Eastern Hemlock from New England Forests

Gomi, T., R. C. Sidle, and J. S. Richardson. 2002. Understanding processes and downstream linkages of headwaters systems. BioScience 52: 905-916.

Jenkins, J.C., J.D. Aber, and C.D. Canham. 1999. Hemlock woolly adelgid impacts on community structure and N cycling rates in eastern hemlock forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 630-645.

Meyer, J. L., L. A. Kaplan, D. Newbold, D. L. Srayer, D. J. Woltemade, J. B. Zedler, R. Beilfuss, Q. Carpenter, R. Semlitsch, M. C. Watzin, P. H Zedler, 2003. Where Rivers Are Born: The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands. Sierra Club and American Rivers. 24 pp. http://www.amrivers.org/doc_repository/WhereRiversAreBorn1.pdf

Orwig, D. A., and D. R. Foster. 1998. Forest response to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England, USA. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 60-73.

Orwig, D. A., D. R. Foster, and D. L. Mausel. 2002. Landscape patterns of hemlock decline in New England due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1475-1487.

Ross, R. M., R. M. Bennett, C. D. Snyder, J. A. Young, D. R. Smith, and D. P. Lemarie. 2003. Influence of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis L.) on fish community structure and function in headwater streams of the Delaware River basin. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 12(1): 60-65.

Sobczak, W. V., and S. Findlay. 2002. Variation in bioavailability of dissolved organic carbon among stream hyporheic flowpaths. Ecology 83: 3194-3209.

Statzner, B. and B. Higler. 1985. Questions and comments on the river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42: 1038-1044.

Thompson, R. M., and C. R. Townsend. 2005. Energy availability, spatial heterogeneity and ecosystem size predict food-web structure in streams. Oikos 108: 137-148.

Townsend, C. R., R. M. Thompson, A. R. McIntosh, C. Kilroy, E. D. Edwards, and M. R. Scarsbrook. 1998. Disturbance, resource supply, and food-web architecture in streams. Ecology Letters 1: 200-209.

Vannote, R. L., G. W. Minshall, K. W. Cummins, J. R. Sedell, and C. E. Cushing. 1980. The river continuum concept. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37: 130-137.

Ion mediated variation of xylem hydraulic resistance

Zwieniecki M.A., Melcher P.J. & Holbrook N.M. (2001) Hydrogel control of xylem hydraulic resistance in plants. Science, 291, 1059-1062.

Zwieniecki M.A., Orians C.M., Melcher P.J. & Holbrook N.M. (2003) Ionic control of the lateral exchange of water between vascular bundles in tomato. Journal of Experimental Botany, 54, 1399-1405.

Aging in large woody stems: the loss of water transport capacity in inner sapwood

Having a look at the book Xylem Structure and the Ascent of Sap (M.T. Tyree and M. H. Zimmermann, 2002) would be helpful.