Harvard Forest Bibliography

Historical and Retrospective Studies

Since 1988

• Abrams, M. D., Orwig, D. A. 1996. A review of dendroecology and successional dynamics of old-growth and second-growth oak and pine forests in the eastern United States. In: Dean, J. S., Meko, D. M., Swetnam, T. W., Tree Rings, Environment and Humanity, Radiocarbon, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
• Abrams, M. D., Orwig, D. A., Dockry, J. 1997. Dendroecology and successional status of two contrasting old-growth oak forests in the Blue Ridge Mountains, U.S.A.. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27: 994-1002.
• Allison, T. D., Moeller, R. E. 1989. Organic Laminations and Detailed Chronology for Holocene Sediment at Pout Pond, New Hampshire, U.S.A.. Arch. Hydrobiol. 116: 161-180.
• Almquist-Jacobson, H., Foster, D. R. 1995. Toward an Integrated Model for Raised-Bog Development: Theory and Field Evidence. Ecology 76: 2503-2516.
• Anderson, R. L. 2001. Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Anderson, R. L., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2003. Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England. Journal of Ecology 91: 68-76.
• Bell, M. M. 1989. Did New England go downhill?. Geographical Review 79: 450-466.
• 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.
• Bertin, R. I., DeGasperis, B. G., Sabloff, J. M. 2006. Land Use and Forest History in an Urban Sanctuary in Central Massachusetts. Rhodora 108: 119-141.
• Binzen, Timothy L. 2009. The Sanderson Tannery Historical Site at the Harvad Forest: An Archaeological and Historical Baseline, Petersham, Massaschusetts.
• Bond, R. S. 1998. Professional Forestry, forestry education and research. In: Foster, C.H.W., Stepping Back to Look Forward - a History of the Massachusetts Forest, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.
• Boose, E. R. 2003. Hurricane impacts in New England and Puerto Rico. In: Greenland, D., Goodin, G., Smith, R. C., Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-term Ecological Research Sites, Oxford University Press, U.K..
• Boose, E. R. 2004. A historical-modeling method for reconstructing hurricane impacts. In: Murnane, R., Liu, K., Hurricanes and Typhoons: Past, Present and Future, Columbia University Press, New York.
• Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E., Foster, D. R. 1997. Reconstructing historical hurricanes in New England. Proceedings of 22nd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology. Boston, MA.
• Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E., Foster, D. R. 2001. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England. Ecological Monographs 7: 27-48.
• Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R., Barker Plotkin, A., Hall, B. 2003. Geographical and historical variation in hurricanes across the Yucatan Peninsula. In: Gómez-Pompa, A., Allen, M. F., Fedick, S. L., Jiménez, J. J., Lowland Maya Area: Three Millennia at the Human-Wildland Interface, Haworth Press, New York.
• Boose, E. R., Foster, D. R., Fluet, M. 1994. Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes. Ecological Monographs 64: 369-400.
• Boose, E. R., Serrano, M. I., Foster, D. R. 2004. Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in Puerto Rico. Ecological Monographs 74: 335-352.
• Bradshaw, R. H. W., Miller, N.G. 1988. Recent successional processes investigated by pollen analysis of closed-canopy forest sites. Vegetatio 76: 45-54.
• Briggs, J. M., Schaafsma, H., Trenkov, D. 2006. Woody vegetation expansion in a desert grassland: Preshistoric human impact?. Journal of Arid Environments : doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2006.10.012.
• Brubaker, L. B., McLachlan, J. S. 1996. Landscape Diversity and Vegetation Response to Long-term Climate Change in the Eastern Olympic Peninsula, Pacific Northwest, USA. In: Walker, B., Steffen, W., Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems, Ch. 11, Cambridge University Press., New York, NY.
• Bryant, W. S. 2006. John C. Goodlett (1922-1967) Botanist, Plant Geographer, and Teacher. Journal of the Kentucky Academy of Science 67: 3-8.
• Busby, P. E. 2006. American beech in coastal New England: forest history and dynamics. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Busby, P. E., Canham, C. D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2009. Forest response to chronic hurricane disturbance in coastal New England. Journal of Vegetation Science 20: 487-497.
• Busby, P. E., Motzkin, G., Boose, E. R. 2008. Landscape-level variation in forest response to hurricane disturbance across a storm track. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 2942-2950.
• Busby, P. E., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2008. Multiple and interacting disturbances lead to Fagus grandifolia dominance in coastal New England. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135: 346-359.
• Bürgi, M. 1998. Habitat Alterations Caused by Long-term Changes in Forest Use in Northeastern Switzerland. In: Kirby, K. J., Watkins, C., The Ecological History of European Forests, Cab International Publication, .
• Bürgi, M. 1998. Wie veränderte sich der Wald als Lebensraum im 19. und 20. Jahrundert? - ein Fallbeispiel aus dem Zürcher Unterund Weinland. Schweiz Z. Forstwes. 149: 758-769.
• Bürgi, M., Russell, E. W. B. 2000. Evaluating accuracy of two types of early land survey records in the northeastern United States. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 127: 94-98.
• Bürgi, M., Russell, E. W. B., Motzkin, G. 2000. Effects of postsettlement human activities on forest composition in the northeastern United States: a comparative approach. Journal of Biogeography 27: 1123-1128.
• Cogbill, C. V. 2000. Vegetation of the Presettlement Forests of Northern New England and New York. Rhodora 102: 250-276.
• Cogbill, C. V., Burk, J., Motzkin, G. 2002. The forests of presettlement New England, USA: spatial and compositional patterns based on town proprietor surveys. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1279-1304.
• Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2000. Long-term impacts of agriculture on soil carbon and nitrogen in New England forests. Ecology 81: 2314-2330.
• Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D. 2004. Land-use legacies on soil properties and nutrients. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Compton, J. E., Boone, R. D., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 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.
• Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J. 2003. The imprint of land use history: patterns of carbon and nitrogen in downed woody debris at the Harvard Forest. Ecosystems 5: 446-460.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A. 2008. Stand and Landscape-Level Disturbance Dynamics in Old-Growth Forests in Western Massachusetts. Ecological Monographs 78: 507-522.
• D'Amato, A. W., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2008. The Influence of Successional Processes and Disturbance on the structure of Tsuga canadensis Forests. Ecological Applications 18: 1182-1199.
• DeGasperis, B. G. 2006. Windows of opportunity: historical and ecological perspectives on plant invasions. Thesis, Harvard University.
• DeGasperis, B. G., Motzkin, G. 2007. Windows of opportunity: Historical and ecological controls on Berberis Thunbergii invasions. Ecology 88: 3115-3125.
• Donahue, B. 2003. The Resettling of America. In: N. Wirzba, The Essential Agrarian Reader, University Press of Kentucky, .
• Donahue, B. 2004. The Great Meadow: Farmers and the Land in Colonial Concord. Yale University Press, .
• Donahue, B. 2007. The New View from Sanderson's Farm: A perspective on Harvard Forest, New England History, and the Conservation of Land. Environmental History 12: 8-12.
• Donohue, K., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2000. Effects of the past and the present on species distributions: land-use history and demography of wintergreen. Journal of Ecology 88: 14-15.
• Dunwiddie, P., Foster, D. R., Leopold, D. J., Leverett, R. 1996. Old-growth forests of southern New England, New York and Pennsylvania. In: Davis, M. B., Eastern Old Growth Forests, Island Press, Covelo, CA.
• Eberhardt, R. 2001. Implications of land-use legacies in the sand plain vegetation of Cape Cod National Seashore. Thesis, Harvard.
• Eberhardt, R., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Hall, B. 2003. Conservation of changing landscapes: vegetation, land-use history, and fire on Cape Cod National Seashore. Ecological Applications 13: 68-84.
• Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Hansen, B. C. S. 2006. Early-Holocene openlands in southern New England. Ecology 87: 2537-2547.
• Foster, C.H.W. 1998. Stepping Back to Look Forward - a History of the Massachusetts Forest. Harvard Forest and Harvard University Press, Petersham and Cambridge.
• Foster, C.H.W. 2008. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation, A Heritage of Civic Engagement. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 1988. Disturbance history, community organization and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth Pisgah Forest, southwestern New Hampshire, U.S.A. Journal of Ecology 76: 105-134.
• Foster, D. R. 1988. Species and stand response to catastrophic wind in central New England, U.S.A. Journal of Ecology 76: 135-151.
• Foster, D. R. 1992. Land-use history (1730-1990) and vegetation dynamics in central New England, USA. Journal of Ecology 80: 753-772.
• Foster, D. R. 1993. Land-use history and forest transformations in central New England. In: Pickett, S., McDonald, M., Humans as Components of Ecosystems, Springer-Verlag, NY.
• Foster, D. R. 1995. Land-use history and four hundred years of vegetation change in New England. In: Turner, B. L., Sal, A. G., Bernaldez, F. G., DiCastri, F., Global Land Use Change: a Perspective from the Columbian Encounter, SCOPE Publication, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid.
• Foster, D. R. 1999. Forests the way they used to be. New York Times. New York.
• Foster, D. R. 1999. Hemlock's Future in the Context of Its History: An Ecological Perspective. Proceedings of Symposium on Sustainable Management of Hemlock Ecosystems in Eastern North America. .
• Foster, D. R. 1999. Thoreau's Country: Journey Through a Transformed Landscape. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. From bobolinks to bears: interjecting geographical history into ecological studies, environmental interpretation, and conservation planning. Journal of Biogeography 27: 27-30.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Hemlock's future in the context of its history: an ecological perspective. Proceedings of Sustainable Management of Hemlock Ecosystems in Eastern North America. .
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Linking the deep and recent past to the modern New England Landscape. Rhodora 102: 278-279.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. The Forest Primeval. Sanctuary 39: 9-12.
• Foster, D. R. 2000. Using history to interpret current environmental conditions and future trends: an example from the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. PAGES Newsletter 8: 23-25.
• Foster, D. R. 2001. Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history. Forest History Today Fall 2000: 2-11.
• Foster, D. R. 2001. New England's Forest Primeval. Wild Earth 11: 40-44.
• Foster, D. R. 2002. Insights from historical geography to ecology and conservation: lessons from the New England landscape. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1269-1275.
• Foster, D. R. 2002. Thoreau's country: a historical-ecological perspective to conservation in the New England landscape. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1537-1555.
• Foster, D. R. 2006. The importance of land use history to conservation biology. In: Groom, M. J. , Meffe, G. K., Carroll, C. R., Principles of Conservation Biology, Sinauer, Sunderland, MA.
• Foster, D. R. 2008. In Memoriam Richard Hale Goodwin 1910-2007, Botanist, Teacher, Conservationist, and Mentor. Rhodora 110: 103-110.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Background and framework for long-term ecological research. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D. 2004. Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Boose, E. R. 1992. Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, USA. Journal of Ecology 80: 79-99.
• Foster, D. R., Clayden, S., Orwig, D. A., Hall, B., Barry, S. 2002. Oak, chestnut and fire: climatic and cultural controls of long-term forest dynamics in New England, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1359-1379.
• Foster, D. R., Donahue, B., Kittredge, D. B., Motzkin, G., Hall, B., Turner, B. L., Chilton, E. 2008. New England's Forest Landscape. Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History. In: Redman, C. L., Foster, D. R., Agrarian Landscapes in Transition, Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, N. Y..
• Foster, D. R., Fluet, M., Boose, E. R. 1999. Human or natural disturbance: landscape-scale dynamics of the tropical forests of Puerto Rico. Ecological Applications 9: 555-572.
• Foster, D. R., Hall, B., Barry, S., Clayden, S., Parshall, T. 2002. Cultural, environmental, and historical controls of vegetation patterns and the modern conservation setting on the island of Martha's Vineyard, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1381-1400.
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 1998. Ecology and conservation in the cultural landscape of New England: lessons from nature's history. Northeastern Naturalist 5: 111-126.
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2003. Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history. Forest Ecology and Management 185: 127-150.
• 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.
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., O'Keefe, J., Boose, E. R., Orwig, D. A., Fuller, J. L., Hall, B. 2004. The environmental and human history of New England. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. 1998. Case studies in forest history and ecology from the Harvard Forest. Arnoldia 58: 32-44.
• Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Slater, B. 1998. Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1: 96-119.
• Foster, D. R., O'Keefe, J. 2000. New England Forests Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas. Harvard Forest and Harvard University Press, Petersham and Cambridge.
• Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., O'Keefe, J. F. 1996. Evaluation of the old-growth forest at Mount Wachusett, central Massachusetts. , .
• Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., O'Keefe, J. F. 1997. Impact of development on the forests of Wachusett Mountain. , .
• Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., O'Keefe, J. F. 1997. Old-growth forest monitoring on Wachusett Mountain. , .
• Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W. , Faison, E. K. , Doughty, E. D. , Hansen, B. C. S. 2006. A climatic driver for abrupt mid-Holocene vegetation dynamics and the hemlock decline in New England. Ecology 87: 2959-2966.
• Foster, D. R., Schoonmaker, P. K., Pickett, S. T. A. 1990. Insights from paleoecology to community ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 5: 119-122.
• Foster, D. R., Swanson, F. J., Aber, J. D., Burke, I., Brokaw, N., Tilman, D., Knapp, A. 2003. The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation. BioScience 53: 77-88.
• Foster, D. R., Turner, B. L. 2003. The Long View: Human--Environment Relationships, 1000 BC--AD 1900. In: Turner, B. L., Geoghegan, J., Foster, D. R., I, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Foster, D. R., Zebryk, T. M. 1993. Long-term vegetation dynamics and disturbance history of a Tsuga-dominated forest in New England. Ecology 74: 982-998.
• Foster, D. R., Zebryk, T. M., Schoonmaker, P. K., Lezberg, A. L. 1992. Post-settlement history of human land-use and vegetation dynamics of a hemlock woodlot in central New England. Journal of Ecology 80: 773-786.
• Francis, D. R. 2001. Reconstructing past hyopolimnetic oxygen conditions in a temperate multidepression lake using chemical evidence and chironomid remains. Journal of Paleolimnology 25: 351.
• Francis, D. R. 2004. Distribution of Midge Remains (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Surficial Lake Sediments in New England. Northeastern Naturalist 11: 459-478.
• Francis, D. R., Foster, D. R. 2001. Response of small New England ponds to historic land use. The Holocene 11: 301-312.
• Fritz, S. C. 2007. Deciphering climatic history from lake sediments. Journal of Paleolimnology : .
• Fritz, S. C., Baker, P. A., Seltzer, G. O., Ballantyne, A., Tapia, P., Cheng, H., Edwards, R. L. 2007. Quaternary glaciation and hydrologic variation in the South American tropics as reconstructed from the Lake Titicaca drilling project. Quaternary Research : .
• Fuller, J. L. 1997. Holocene forest dynamics in southern Ontario, Canada: fine-resolution pollen data. Canadian Journal of Botany 75: 1714-1727.
• Fuller, J. L. 1998. Ecological impact of the mid-Holocene hemlock decline in southern Ontario, Canada. Ecology 79: 2337-2351.
• Fuller, J. L., Foster, D. R., McLachlan, J. S., Drake, N. 1998. Impact of human activity on regional forest composition and dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1: 76-95.
• Fuller, J. L., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., McLachlan, J., Barry, S. 2004. Broad-scale forest response to land-use and climate change. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Belk, E. 1997. Determination of organic carbon turnover rates at Harvard Forest, Massachusetts. Proceedings of Agronomy Abstracts Annual Meeting. Anaheim, CA.
• Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Richter, A. 2001. The age of fine-root carbon in three forests of the eastern United States measured by radiocarbon.. Oecologia 129: 420-429.
• Gaudinski, J. B., Trumbore, S. E., Davidson, E. A., Zheng, S. 2000. Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes. Biogeochemistry 51: 33-69.
• Gavin, D. G., Brubaker, L. B. , McLachlan, J. S., Oswald, W. W. 2005. Correspondence of pollen assemblages with forest zones across steep environmental gradients, Olympic Peninsula, Washington, USA. The Holocene 15: 633-650.
• Gerhardt, F. 1993. Physiographic and historical influences of forest composition in central New England, U.S.A.. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Gerhardt, F., Foster, D. R. 2002. Physiographical and historical effects on forest vegetation in central New England, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1421-1437.
• Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D. 2000. The long-term effects of land-use history on nitrogen cycling in northern hardwood forests. Ecological Applications 11: 253-267.
• Goodale, C. L., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H. 2000. The long-term effects of disturbance on organic and inorganic nitrogen export in the White Mountains, New Hampshire. Ecosystems 3: 433-450.
• Hall, B., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Syfert, M., Burk, J. 2002. Three hundred years of forest and land-use change in Massachusetts, USA. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1319-1335.
• Harrod, J. C., White, P. S., Harmon, M. E. 1998. Changes in xeric forests in western Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Castanea 63: 346-360.
• Harrod, J. C., White, R. D. 1999. Age structure and radial growth in xeric pine-oak forests in western Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 126: 139-146.
• He, J-S., Zhang, Q-B, Bazzaz, F. A. 2005. Differential drought responses between saplings and adult trees in four co-occurring species of New England. Trees 19: 442-450.
• Hou, J., Huang, Y., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. 2007. Centennial-scale compound-specific hydrogen isotope record of Pleistocene - Holocene climate transition from southern New England.. Geophysical Research Letters : doi:10.1029/2007GL030303.
• Hou, J., Huang, Y., Wang, Y., Shuman, B., Oswald, W. W., Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R. 2006. Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound-specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems 7: Q03008.
• Ingerson, A. E. 2004. From Contracts to Consequences: History as an Adaptive Management Tool for National Forests and Local Communities. In: Foster, C.H.W., Hagenstein, P. R., Forest Conservation and Stewardship in Massachusetts, , U.S.A..
• Ireland*, A. W., Mew*, B. J., Foster, D. R. 2008. Bob Marshall’s forest reconstruction study: three centuries of ecological resilience to disturbance. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 125: 411-422.
• Johnson, T. C., Barry, S. L., Chan, Y., Wilkinson, P. 2001. Decadal record of climate variability spanning the past 700 years in the Southern Tropics of East Africa. Geology 29: 83.
• Johnson, T. C., Brown, E. T., McManus, J., Barry, S., Barker, P., Gasse, F. 2002. A high-resolution paleoclimate record spanning the past 25,000 years in southern East Africa. Science 296:: 113-132.
• Jones, N. 1991. An ecological history of agricultural land use in two Massachusetts towns. Thesis, Hampshire College.
• Kelty, M. J., D'Amato, A. W. 2006. Historical perspective on diameter-limit cutting in northeastern forests. Proceedings of Diameter-limit Cutting in Northeastern Forests 2005 May 23-24. Newtown Square, PA.
• Köster, D., Pienitz, R. 2006. Seasonal Diatom Variability and Paleolimnological Inferences - A Case Study. Journal of Paleolimnology 35: 395-416..
• Köster, D., Pienitz, R., Wolfe, B. B., Barry, S., Foster, D. R., Dixit, S. S. 2005. Paleolimnological assessment of human-induced impacts on the nutrient balance of Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) during the last three centuries using diatoms and stable isotopes. Aquatic Ecosystem Health and Management 8: 117-131.
• Laborde*, A. 2000. The influence of stone walls on white-footed mice and red-back voles. Thesis, Harvard University.
• Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2001. Determinants of regional variability in litter production of forests in the Southern Yucatan: environmental gradients or human legacy? . EOS. Trans. AGU 82: .
• Lawrence, D., Foster, D. R. 2003. Recovery of Nutrient Cycling and Ecosystem Properties Following Swidden Cultivation: Regional and Stand-Level Constraints. In: Turner, B. L., Geoghegan, J., Foster, D. R., Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatán: Final Frontiers, Oxford University Press, New York.
• Lindbladh, M., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Faison, E. K., Hou, J., Huang, Y. 2007. A late-glacial transition from Picea glauca to Picea mariana in southern New England. Quaternary Research 67: 502-508.
• Matlack, G. R. 1997. Four centuries of forest clearance and regeneration in the hinterland of a large city. Journal of Biogeography 24: 281-295.
• McDonald, R. I., Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2008. Assessing the influence of historical factors, contemporary processes, and environmental conditions on the distribution of invasive species. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 135: 259-270.
• McLachlan, J. S., Brubaker, L. B. 1995. Local and regional vegetation change on the northeastern Olympic Peninsula during the Holocene. Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 1618-1627.
• McLachlan, J. S., Clark, J. S. 2004. Reconstructing historical ranges with fossil data. Forest Ecology and Management 197: 139-147.
• McLachlan, J., Foster, D. R., Clayden, S., Barry, S. 2004. Long-term forest and landscape dynamics. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• McLachlan, J., Foster, D. R., Menalled, F. 2000. Anthropogenic ties to late-successional structure and composition in four New England hemlock stands. Ecology 81: 717-733.
• McLauchlan, K. K., Craine, J. M., Oswald, W. W., Leavitt, P. R., Likens, G. E. 2007. Changes in nitrogen cycling during the past century in a northern hardwood forest. PNAS 104: 7466-7470.
• Motzkin, G., Eberhardt, R., Hall, B., Foster, D. R., Harrod, J. C., MacDonald, D. 2002. Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1439-1454.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 1998. How land use determines vegetation: evidence from a New England sandplain. Arnoldia 58: 32-34.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2002. Grasslands, heathlands and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservation. Journal of Biogeography 29: 1569-1590.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E., Donohue, K., Wilson, P. 2004. Forest landscape patterns, structure and composition. In: Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
• Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E., Harrod, J. C., Boone, R. D. 1996. Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain. Ecological Monographs 66: 345-365.
• Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2002. History and Dynamics of a Ridgetop Pitch Pine Community - Mount Everett, Massachusetts. Harvard Forest Paper No. 25 : .
• Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 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., Patterson, W. A., Drake, N. E. R. 1993. Fire history and vegetation dynamics of a Chamaecyparis thyoides wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Journal of Ecology 81: 391-402.
• Motzkin, G., Patterson, W. A., Drake, N. E. R. 1996. Fire history and vegetation dynamics of a Chamaecyparis thyoides wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.. In: Samson, F. B., Knopf, F. L., Ecosystem Management - Selected Readings, Springer, New York.
• Motzkin, G., Patterson, W. A., Foster, D. R. 1999. A historical perspective on pitch pine-scrub oak communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts. Ecosystems 2: 255-273.
• Motzkin, G., Wilson, P., Foster, D. R., Allen, A. E. 1999. Vegetation patterns in heterogeneous landscapes: the importance of history and environment. Journal of Vegetation Science 10: 903-920.
• Neill, C. M., Von Holle, B., Kleese, K., Ivy*, K., Collins*, A. R., Treat, C., Dean, M. 2007. Historical influences on the vegetation and soils of the Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts coastal sandplain: Implications for conservation and restoration. Biological Conservation 136: 17-32.
• O'Keefe, J. F. 2003. Domestication of the Land: From Wilderness to Farmland: 1492-1770’s; and New England Agrarian Commonwealths: 1492-1770’s. In: C. Miller, The Atlas of US and Canadian Environmental History, Routledge, New York.
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