Glenn Motzkin

Harvard Forest
Harvard University

Petersham, MA 01366
978-724-3302 (voice)
978-724-3595 (fax)
gmotzkin@fas.harvard.edu

EDUCATION

M.S. 1990 University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Forest Ecology)
B.A. 1982 Brown University (American Civilization)

AWARDS AND RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

W.S. Cooper Award, Ecological Society of America. 2003.
State Award for Massachusetts, New England Wildflower Society. 2002.
Donald L. Mader Scholarship Award, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1990.
Member, Committee to Develop a Vision for the Protection of Massachusetts Forests. 1999.
Ecology Advisor, The Trustees of Reservations, Massachusetts. 1999-present.
Assoc. Member, MA Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Advisory Committee, 2001-present.
Member, Cooper Award Committee, Ecological Society of America. 2001-2002.

RESEARCH POSITIONS

1995-present     Plant Ecologist, Harvard Forest, Harvard University
1991-1995     Research Assistant in Historical Ecology, Harvard Forest, Harvard University.
1987-present     Community Ecologist - Private consultant with numerous conservation agencies.
1986-1990     Research Assistant, Dept. of Forestry and Wildlife Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
1985      Research Assistant, Tonto National Forest, Carefree, Arizona.

PUBLICATIONS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS

Bellemare, J. G. Motzkin, and D. R. Foster. 2005. Rich mesic forests: edaphic and physiographic drivers of community variation in western Massachusetts. Rhodora: In press.

Motzkin, G., D. R. Foster, A. Allen, K. Donohue, and P. Wilson. 2004. Forest landscape patterns, structure, and composition. pp. 171-188 in D. R. Foster and J. Aber, editors. Forests in Time - The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

Motzkin, G., and D. R. Foster. 2004. Insights for ecology and conservation. pp. 367-379 in D.R. Foster and J. Aber, editors. Forests in Time - The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

Foster, D. R., G. Motzkin, J. O'keefe, E. Boose, D. Orwig, J. Fuller, and B. Hall. 2004. The environmental and human history of New England. pp. 43-100 in D. R. Foster and J. Aber, editors. Forests in Time - The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

Fuller, J., D. R. Foster, G. Motzkin, J. McLachlan, and S. Barry. 2004. Broadscale forest response to land use and climate change. pp. 101-124 in D. R. Foster and J. Aber, editors. Forests in Time - The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

Bernardos, D., D. R. Foster, G. Motzkin, and J. Cardoza. 2004. Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape. pp. 142-168 in D. R. Foster and J. Aber, editors. Forests in Time - The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press. New Haven, CT.

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

Verheyen, K., O. Honnay, G. Motzkin, M. Hermy, and D. Foster. 2003. Response of forest plant species to disturbance: a life-history trait-based approach. J. Ecology: 91: 563-577.

Eberhardt, R. W., D. R. Foster, G. Motzkin, and B. Hall. 2003. Conservation of changing landscapes: vegetation and land-use history of Cape Cod National Seashore. Ecological Applications 13: 68-84.

Anderson, R., D. R. Foster, and G. Motzkin. 2003. Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England. Journal of Ecology 91: 68-76.

Motzkin, G., S. C. Ciccarello and D. R. Foster. 2002. Frost pockets on a level sand plain: Does variation in microclimate help maintain persistent vegetation patterns? Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 129: 154-163.

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.

Motzkin, G. and D. R. Foster. 2002. Grasslands, heathlands, and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservation. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1569-1590.

Motzkin, G., D. A. Orwig, and D. R. Foster. 2002. Vegetation and disturbance history of a rare dwarf pitch pine community in western New England, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1455-1467.

Motzkin, G., D. A. Orwig, and D. R. Foster. 2002. Historical development and vegetation dynamics of the ridgetop pitch pine community on Mt. Everett, Massachusetts. Harvard Forest Paper No. 25. Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.

Bellemare, J., G. Motzkin, and D.R. Foster. 2002. Legacies of the agricultural past in the forested present: An assessment of historical land-use effects in the rich mesic forests of western Massachusetts, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1401-1420.

Foster, D.R., G. Motzkin, D. Bernardos, and J. Cardoza. 2002. Historical wildlife dynamics in Massachusetts: Responses to land cover and land-use changes. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1337-1357.

Hall, B., G. Motzkin, D. Foster, M. Syfert, and J. Burk. 2002. Three hundred years of forest and land-use change in Massachusetts, U.S.A. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1319-1335.

Cogbill, C. V., J. Burk, and G. Motzkin. 2002. The vegetation of presettlement New England, USA: spatial and compositional patterns based on town proprietor surveys. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1279-1304.

Tingley, M., D. 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.

Motzkin, G. 2001. Montague Plain: a resource manual of historical and ecological information gathered by Harvard Forest. Ecological Restoration Program, MA Biodiversity Initiative, Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Westborough, MA.

Burgi, M., E. W. B. Russell, and G. Motzkin. 2000. Effects of postsettlement human activities on forest composition in the northeastern United States - a comparative approach. J. Biogeography: 27:1123-1138.

Donohue, K., D. R. Foster, and G. Motzkin. 2000. Effects of past and present on species distribution: land-use history and demography of wintergreen. J. of Ecology 88:303-316.

Motzkin, G., W. A. Patterson III, and D. R. Foster. 1999. A historical perspective on pitch pine- scrub oak communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts. Ecosystems 2:255-273.

Motzkin, G., P. Wilson, D. R. Foster, and A. Allen. 1999. Vegetation patterns in heterogeneous landscapes: the importance of history and environment. J. Vegetation Science 903-920.

Foster, D. R. and G. Motzkin. 1999. Historical influences on the landscape of Martha's Vineyard - perspectives on the management of Manuel F. Correllus State Forest. Harvard Forest Paper No. 23. Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.

Motzkin, G. and D. R. Foster. 1998. How land use determines vegetation: evidence from a New England sand plain. Arnoldia 58 (2): 33-34.

Compton, J. E., R. D. Boone, G. Motzkin, and D. R. Foster. 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.

Foster, D. R. and G. Motzkin. 1998. Ecology and conservation in the cultural landscape of New England: lessons from nature's history. Northeastern Naturalist 5:111 126.

Foster, D. R., G. Motzkin, and B. Slater. 1998. Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1:96-119.

Motzkin, G., D. Foster, A. Allen, J. Harrod, and R. Boone. 1996. Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain. Ecological Monographs 66:345-365.

Motzkin, G. 1995. Inventory of uncommon plant communities of western Massachusetts. Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Boston, MA.

Motzkin, G. 1994. Calcareous fens of western New England and adjacent New York state. Rhodora 96:44-68.

Motzkin, G., Patterson, W. A. III, and N. E. Drake. 1993. Fire history and vegetation dynamics of a Chamaecyparis thyoides wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Journal of Ecology 81:391-402.

Motzkin, G. 1993. Uncommon plant communities of the Connecticut Valley, Massachusetts. Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Boston, MA.

Motzkin, G. 1991. Atlantic white cedar wetlands of Massachusetts. Research Bulletin No. 731, Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst. 53 pp.

Motzkin, G. and W. A. Patterson III. 1991. Cape Cod's Atlantic white cedar: managing a unique, natural community. Park Science 11:10-11.

Motzkin, G. and W. A. Patterson III. 1991. Vegetation patterns and basin morphometry of a New England moat bog. Rhodora 93:307-321.