Watershed Ecology
Watershed studies at Harvard Forest focus on headwater streams and the linkages between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Research questions include:
- How are streams and wetlands connected to the ground water system?
- How are diurnal and synoptic variations in stream biogeochemistry related to terrestrial processes and to storm events?
- How will aquatic organisms respond to the conversion of hemlock forests to hardwoods?
- How will drinking water quality and quantity be affected by long-term changes in climate and land use?
Future plans call for real-time integration of meteorological (precipitation, snow pack), hydrological (stream discharge, soil moisture, ground water), and eddy flux (evapotranspiration) measurements to study how water moves through the forest ecosystem over a range of temporal scales.
Abstracts for 2009 Current Research - These abstracts describe the many on-going projects currently happening at the Forest
Abstracts from 2009 Ecological Research Symposium - These abstracts describe the latest results and conclusions from on-going research at Harvard Forest
Publications - Published papers from Harvard Forest related to watershed ecology.
Datasets - Data and metadata for watershed ecology.
