Harvard Forest Bibliography

Biodiversity Studies

Since 1988

• Anderson, J. A., Cooper-Ellis, S., Tan, B. C. 1998. New distribution notes on the mosses of Massachusetts. Rhodora 99: 352-367.
• Balfour, R. P. 2007. The Impact of Changes in Average Winter Temperatures and Habitat Modification on Populations of Terrestrial Birds Over-wintering in Inland Areas of Massachusetts. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Bank, M. S., Burgess, J., Evers, D., Loftin, C. S. 2007. Mercury contamination in biota from Acadia National Park, Maine, USA: a review. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment (Special Nitrogen & Mercury Biogeochemistry in Acadia National Park Issue) 126: 105-115.
• Bank, M. S., Crocker, J. B., Davis, S., Brotherton, D., Cook, R., Behler, J., Connery, B. 2009. Population Decline of Northern Dusky Salamanders at Acadia National Park, Maine, USA. . Biological Conservation 130: 230-233.
• Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Tropical forests in a changing climate: the future of biological diversity and impact on carbon cycle. In: S. H. Schneider, Climate Change, Special Issue: Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Tropical Forest Ecosystems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, London.
• Bellemare, J. 2002. Environmental and historical controls on the distribution and variation of rich mesic forests in western Massachusetts. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Bellemare, J., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2002. Legacies of the agricultural past in the forested present: an assessment of historical land-use effects on rich mesic forests. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1401-1420.
• Bellemare, J., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2005. Rich mesic forests: edaphic and physiographic drivers of community variation in western Massachusetts. Rhodora 107: 239-283.
• 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.
• Cheney, C. A. 2009. Familiar Faces? Assessing the Representation of Live, Native, Terrestrial Mammalian Wildlife in Massachusetts Museum Environments. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Colburn, E. A. 2001. Small pools close up: Examining vernal pools of the Northeast. National Wetlands Newsletter 7-8: 17-18.
• Colburn, E. A. 2004. Vernal Pools: Natural History and Conservation. McDonald & Woodward, Blacksburg, Virginia and Granville, Ohio.
• Colburn, E. A., Garretson Clapp, F. M. 2007. Habitat and life history of a northern caddisfly, Phanocelia canadensis (Banks) (Trichoptera: Limnephilidae), at the southern extreme of its known range. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 537.
• Cooper-Ellis, S. 1998. Bryophytes in old-growth forests of western Massachusetts. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 117-132.
• Crocker, J. B., Bank, M. S., Loftin, C. S., Jung-Brown, R. E. 2007. Influence of observers and stream flow on Northern Two-Lined salamander relative abundance estimates in Acadia and Shenendoah National Parks, USA. Journal of Herpetology 41: 325-329.
• Ellison, A. M., Farnsworth, E. J., Gotelli, N. J. 2002. Ant diversity in pitcher-plant bogs of Massachusetts. Northeastern Naturalist 9: 267-284.
• Ellison, A. M., Record, S. , Arguello*, A., Gotelli, N. J. 2007. Rapid Inventory of the Ant Assemblage in a Temperate Hardwood Forest: Species Composition and Assessment of Sampling Methods. Environmental Entomology 36: 766-775.
• Evers, D. C., Savoy, L., DeSorbo, C., Yates, D., Hanson, W., Taylor, K. M. , Siegel, L. , Cooley, J. H., Bank, M. S. , Major, A. , Munney, K. , Mower, B. F., Vogel, H. S. , Schoch, N. , Pokras, M. , Goodale, M. W., Fair, J. 2008. Adverse effects from environmental mercury loads on breeding common loons. Ecotoxicology 17: 69-81.
• Farnsworth, E. J., Lowe, S. 2005. Peterson Field Guide to Ferns and Their Related Families. Houghton Mifflin, .
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Bernardos, D., Cardoza, J. 2002. Historical wildlife dynamics in Massachusetts: Responses to land cover and land-use changes. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1337-1357.
• 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.
• Jenkins, J. C., Motzkin, G., Ward*, K. 2008. The Harvard Forest Flora. An Inventory, Analysis and Ecological History. Harvard Forest Paper 28: 266.
• Kittredge, D. B. 1995. Logging & the protection of rare wetland species habitat. The Northern Logger & Timber Processor October: 28-33.
• Kittredge, D. B. 1996. Protection of habitat for rare wetland fauna during timber harvesting in Massachusetts. Natural Areas Journal 16: 310-317.
• Kittredge, D. B., Clark, K., Ohmann, M., Huckery, P., French, T. 2006. Protection of habitat for state-listed rare flora and fauna in Massachusetts during timber harvesting. Natural Areas Journal 26: 198-207.
• Laborde*, A. 2000. The influence of stone walls on white-footed mice and red-back voles. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Lattin, J. D., Stanton, N. L. 1992. A Review of the Species of Anthocoridae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) found on Pinus contorta. Journal of the New York Entomol. Society 100: 424-479.
• Lent, R. A., Capen, D. E. 1995. Effects of small-scale habitat disturbance on the ecology of breeding birds in a Vermont (USA) hardwood forest. Ecography 18: 97-108.
• Mathewson, B. 2006. Differences in eastern red-back salamander populations in eastern hemlock-dominated and mixed deciduous forest in north central Massachusetts. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Mathewson, B. 2007. Salamanders in a Changing Environment on Hemlock Hill. Arnoldia 65: 19-25.
• Mathewson, B. 2009. The relative abundance of Eastern Red-backed Salamanders in eastern hemlock-dominated and mixed deciduous forests at Harvard Forest. Northeastern Naturalist 16: 1-12.
• Motzkin, G. 1994. Calcareous fens of western New England and adjacent New York State. Rhodora 96: 44-68.
• Motzkin, G. 1995. Inventory of uncommon plant communities of western Massachusetts: 1993-1994. Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program, Boston : 40 + appendices.
• Ollinger, S. V. 2005. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function in Forests. Review of: Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael, Christian Körner, and Ernst-Detlef Schulze, editors. 2005. Forest diversity and function: temperate and boreal systems. Springer, New York. Ecology 86: 2256-2257.
• Peterson, C. N., Day*, S., Wolfe, B. E., Ellison, A. M., Kolter, R., Pringle, A. 2008. A keystone predator controls bacterial diversity in the pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) microecosystem. Environmental Microbiology 10: 2257-2266.
• Rodriguez*, E. 2009. Environmental clues sought from ants. Inside NAU 6: .
• Schulze, E.-D., Bazzaz, F. A., Nadelhoffer, K., Koike, T., Takatsuki, S 1996. Biodiversity and ecosystem function of temperate deciduous broad-leaved forests. In: Mooney, H. A., Cushman, J. H., Medina, E. A., Sala, O. E., Schulze, E.-D., Functional Roles of Biodiversity: A Global Perspective, John Wiley and Sons, Ltd., New York.
• Sodhi, N. S., Liow, L. H., Bazzaz, F. A. 2004. Avian extinctions from tropical and subtropical forests. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 35: 323-345.
• Solbrig, O. T. 1992. From Genes to Ecosystems: A Research Agenda For Biodiversity. Proceedings of Report of a IUBS-SCOPE-UNESCO workshop June 27-July 1991. Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.
• Wayne, P. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1991. Assessing diversity in plant communities: The importance of within-species variations. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 6: 400-404.
• Whigham, D. F. 2004. Ecology of Woodland Herbs in Temperate Deciduous Forests. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 35: 538-621.