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  • Aber, J. D. 1992. Nitrogen Cycling and Nitrogen Saturation in Temperate Forest Ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 7: 220-223.
  • Aber, J. D. 2002. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: current theory, remaining questions and recent advances. In: Horst, W.J., Burkert, A., Claassen, N., Flessa, H., Progress in Plant Nutrition: Plenary Lectures of the XIV International Plant Nutrition Colloquium, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A. H. 2004. Chronic Nitrogen Additions at the Harvard Forest: The First Fifteen Years of a Nitrogen Saturation Experiment.. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 1-5.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D. 1993. Plant and soil responses to three years of chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA. Ecological Applications 3: 156-166.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., McNulty, S. G., Boone, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Hallett, R. A. 1995. Forest biogeochemistry and primary production altered by nitrogen saturation. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 85: 1665-1670.
  • Aber, J. D., Magill, A., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J., Steudler, P. A., Hendricks, J. J., Bowden, R. D., Currie, W. S., McDowell, W., Berntson, G. M. 2004. Exploring the process of nitrogen saturation. 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.
  • Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Magill, A. H., Berntson, G. M., Kamekea, M., McNulty, S. G., Currie, W. S., Rustad, L. E., Fernandez, I. 1998. Nitrogen saturation in temperate forest ecosystems: hypotheses revisited. BioScience 48: 921-934.
  • Aber, J. D., Melillo, J. M., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Pastor, J., Boone, R. D. 1991. Factors controlling nitrogen cycling and nitrogen saturation in northern temperate forest ecosystems. Ecological Applications 1: 303-315.
  • Aber, J. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Steudler, P., Melillo, J. M. 1989. Nitrogen saturation in northern forest ecosystems - Hypotheses and implications. BioScience 39: 378-386.
  • Aitkenhead-Peterson, J. A., Berntson, G. M., McDowell, W. H., Aber, J. D. 2007. Chronic carbon and nitrogen manipulation: effect on the relationships between soil C:N, soil respiration and soil solutation DOC in temperate forests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry : .
  • Antibus, R. K., Linkins III, A. E. 1992. Effects of Liming a Red Pine Forest Floor on Mycorrhizal Numbers and Mycorrhizal and Soil Acid Phosphatase Activities. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 24: 479-487.
  • Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R. 2006. Sustaining long-term research through changing times at the Harvard Forest. In: Irland, L. C., Camp, A. E. , Brissette, J. C. , Donohew, Z. R. , Long-term Silvicultural & Ecological Studies: Results for Science and Management, , GISF Research Paper 005, Yale University.
  • Bauer, G. A., Bazzaz, F. A., Minocha, R., Long, S., Magill, A., Aber, J. D., Berntson, G. M. 2004. Effects of chronic N additions on tissue chemistry, photosynthetic capacity, and carbon sequestration potential of a red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) stand in the NE United States. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 173-186.
  • Bauer, G. A., Berntson, G. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 2001. The effect of elevated CO2 and increased N availability on regenerating temperate forest communities: biochemical versus stomatal limitation of photosynthesis. New Phytologist 152: 249-266.
  • Bell*, S. 2000. Microbial nitrogen utilization under nitrogen-saturation conditions in temperate forests. Thesis, University of Oregon.
  • Berntson, G. M., Aber, J. D. 2000. Fast nitrate immobilization in N-saturated temperate forest soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 151-156.
  • Bowden, R. D., Castro, M. C., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1993. Fluxes of greenhouse gases between soils and the atmosphere in a temperate forest following a simulated hurricane blowdown. Biogeochemistry 21: 61-71.
  • Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D. 1991. Effects of nitrogen additions on annual nitrous oxide fluxes from temperate forest soils in the northeastern United States. Journal of Geophysical Research 96: 9321-9328.
  • Bowden, R. D., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Boone, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Garrison, J. B. 1993. Contributions of aboveground litter, belowground litter, and root respiration to total soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 123: 1402-1407.
  • Callahan, H. S., Del Fierro, K. , Patterson, A. E., Zafar, H. 2008. Impacts of elevated nitrogen inputs on oak reproductive and seed ecology. Global Change Biology 14: 285-293.
  • Carlton, C. G., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Regeneration of three sympatric birch species on experimental hurricane blowdown microsites. Ecological Monographs 68: 99-120.
  • Carlton, G. 1993. Effects of microsite environment on tree regeneration following disturbance. Thesis, Harvard University.
  • Carlton, G. C., Bazzaz, F. A. 1988. Resource Congruence and Forest Regeneration Following An Experimental Hurricane Blowdown. Ecology 79: 1305-1319.
  • Carlton, G. C., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Resource availability, heterogeneity, and congruence following simulated hurricane blowdown of a temperate forest. Ecology 79: 1305-1319.
  • Chan, A. S. K., Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D., Gulledge, J., Cavanaugh, C. 2005. Consequences of nitrogen fertilization on soil methane consumption in a productive temperate deciduous forest. Biology and Fertility of Soils 41: 182-189.
  • Compton, J. E, Watrud, L. S., Porteous, L. A., DeGrood*, S. 2004. Response of soil microbial biomass and community composition to chronic nitrogen additions at Harvard Forest. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 143-158.
  • Cooper-Ellis, S., Foster, D. R., Carlton, G., Lezberg, A. L. 1999. Forest response to catastrophic wind: results from an experimental hurricane. Ecology 80: 2683-2696.
  • Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D., Driscoll, C. T. 1999. Leaching of nutrient cations from the forests floor: effects of nitrogen saturation in two long-term manipulations. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 609-620.
  • Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H., Boone, R. D., McGill, A. H. 1996. Vertical transport of dissolved organic C and N under long-term N amendments in pine and hardwood forests. Biochemistry 35: 471-505.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 1999. Soil detrital processes controlling the movement of 15N tracers to forest vegetation. Ecological Applications 9: 87-102.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 2004. Redistributions of 15N highlight turnover and replishment of mineral soil organic N as a long-term control on forest C balance. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 109-127.
  • Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Colman, B. P. 2002. Long-term movement of 15N tracers into fine woody debris under chronically elevated N inputs. Plant and Soil 238: 313-323.
  • Fajvan, M. A., Barker Plotkin, A., Foster, D. R. 2006. Modeling tree regeneration height growth after an experimental hurricane. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 2003-2014.
  • Farnsworth, E. J., Nunez-Farfan, J. , Careaga, S. A., Bazzaz, F. A. 1995. Phenology and growth of three temperate forest life forms in response to artificial soil warming. Journal of Ecology 83: 967-977.
  • 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., 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., Aber, J. D. 2004. Overviews of the experiments and approaches. 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., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J., Bazzaz, F. 2004. Comparison between physical disturbance and novel stresses. 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., Melillo, J. M., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1997. Forest response to disturbance and anthropogenic stress. Rethinking the 1938 Hurricane and the impact of physical disturbance vs chemical and climate stress on forest ecosystems. BioScience 47: 437-445.
  • Foster, D. R., Aber, J. D., Melillo, J., Bowden, R. D., Bazzaz, F. A. 1998. Forest response to natural disturbance versus human-induced stresses. Arnoldia 58: 35-40.
  • Foster, D. R., Cooper-Ellis, S., Barker Plotkin, A., Carlton, G., Bowden, R. D., Magill, A., Aber, J. D. 2004. Simulating a catastrophic hurricane. 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., 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.
  • Frey, S. D. 2006. Forest ecosystem responses to chronic nitrogen additions. Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology 4: .
  • Frey, S. D., Drijber, R., Smith, H., Melillo, J. 2008. Microbial biomass, functional capacity, and community composition after twelve years of soil warming. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 40: 2904-2907.
  • Frey, S. D., Knorr, M., Parrent, J. L., Simpson, R. T. 2004. Chronic nitrogen enrichment affects the structure and function of the soil microbial community in temperate hardwood and pine forests. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 159-171.
  • George, L. O. 1996. The understory as an ecological filter. Thesis, Harvard University.
  • Gulledge, J., Hrywna, Y., Cavanaugh, C., Steudler, P. A. 2004. Effects of long-term nitrogen fertilization on the uptake kinetics of atmospheric methane in temperate forest soils. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 49: 389-400.
  • Hartley, A. E., Neill, C., Crabtree, R. C., Melillo, J. M., Bowles, F. P. 1999. Plant performance and soil N mineralization in response to simulated climate change in subarctic dwarf shrub heath. Oikos 86: 331-343.
  • Liu, W. H., Bryant, D. M., Hutyra, L. R., Saleska, S. R., Pyle, E. H., Curran, D. J., Wofsy, S. C. 2006. Woody Debris Contribution to the Carbon Budget of Selectively Logged and Maturing Midlatitude Forests. Oecologia 148: .
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 1998. Long-term effects of chronic nitrogen additions on foliar litter decay and humus formation in forest ecosystems. Plant and Soil 203: 301-311.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2000. Dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen relationships in forest litter as affected by nitrogen deposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 603-613.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2000. Variation in soil net mineralization rates with dissolved organic carbon additions. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 597-601.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Berntson, G. M., McDowell, W. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 2000. Long-term nitrogen additions and nitrogen saturation in two temperate forests. Ecosystems 3: 238-253.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Currie, W. S., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Martin, M. E., McDowell, W. H., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 2004. Ecosystem Response to 15 years of Chronic Nitrogen Additions at the Harvard Forest LTER, Massachusetts, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 7-28.
  • Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Hendricks, J. J., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 1997. Biogeochemical response of forest ecosystems to simulated chronic nitrogen deposition. Ecological Applications 7: 402-415.
  • Magill, A. H., Downs, M. R., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Hallett, R. A., Aber, J. D. 1996. Forest ecosystem response to four years of chronic nitrate and sulfate additions at Bear Brooks Watershed, Maine, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 84: 29-37.
  • 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.
  • McDowell, W. H., Currie, W. S., Aber, J. D., Yano, Y. 1998. Effects of chronic nitrogen amendment on production of dissolved organic carbon and nitrogen in forest soils. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 105: 175-182.
  • McDowell, W. H., Magill, A., Aikenhead-Peterson, J. A., Aber, J. D., Merriam, J. L., Kaushal, S. S. 2004. Effects of chronic nitrogen amendment on dissolved organic matter and inorganic nitrogen soil solution.. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 29-41.
  • McGuire, A. D., Melillo, J. M., Kicklighter, D. W., Joyce, L. A. 1995. Equilibrium responses of soil carbon to climate change: Empirical and process-based estimates. Journal of Biogeography 22: 785-796.
  • McNulty, S. G., Aber, J. D. 1993. Effect of chronic nitrogen additions on nitrogen cycling in a high elevation spruce-fir stand. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 23: 1252-1263.
  • Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A. 1989. The effect of nitrogen fertilization on the COS and CS2 emissions from temperate forest soils. Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry 9: 411-417.
  • Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Aber, J. D., Newkirk, K., Lux, H., Bowles, F. P., Catricala, C., Magill, A., Ahrens, T., Morrisseau, S., Burrows, E., Nadelhoffer, K. 2004. Soil warming - a major consequence of global 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.
  • Micks, P. 1994. Soil respiration and nitrogen additions in two forest stands: short- and long-term responses. Thesis, University of New Hampshire.
  • Micks, P., Aber, J. D., Boone, R. D., Davidson, E. A. 2004. Short-term soil respiration and nitrogen immobiliation response to nitrogen applications in control and nitrogen-enriched temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 57-70.
  • Micks, P., Downs, M. R., Magill, A. H., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D. 2004. Decomposing litter as a sink for 15N-enriched additions to an oak forest and a red pine plantation. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 71-87.
  • Millikin, C. S., Bowden, R. D. 1996. Soil respiration in pits and mounds following an experimental hurricane. Soil Science Society of America Journal 60: 1951-1953.
  • Mills, A. V. 1993. Predicting forest growth and composition - a test of the JABOWA model using data from Earl Stephens' study in the Tom Swamp tract. Thesis, Hampshire College.
  • Minocha, R., Long, S., Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., McDowell, W. H. 2000. Foliar free polyamine and inorganic ion content in relation to soil and soil solution chemistry in two fertilized stands at the Harvard Forest. Plant and Soil 222: 119-137.
  • Mohan, J. E., Hanifin*, R. C., Lenoir*, K. J., Blanchard, J. H., Warshay*, B. A., Melillo, J. M. 2009. Diminished reproduction of forest trees and herbs in response to soil warming. Ecology : .
  • Mohan, J. E., Melillo, J. M., Blanchard, J. H., Hanifin*, R. C., Lenoir*, K. J. 2009. Soil warming impacts on temperate forest tissue chemistry nutrient resorption efficiency and leaf-litter decomposition. Global Change Biology : .
  • 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.
  • Muth, C. C., Bazzaz, F. A. 2002. Tree canopy displacement at forest gap edges. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32: 247-254.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Aber, J. D., Downs, M. R., Fry, B., Melillo, J. M. 1993. Biological sinks for nitrogen additions to a forested catchment. In: , CEC Report of the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Experimental Manipulation of Biota and Biogeochemical Cycling in Ecosystems, , Copenhagen.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Boone, R. D., Bowden, R. D., Canary, J. D., Kaye, J., Micks, P., Ricca, A., McDowell, W. H., Aitkenhead, J. 2004. The DIRT experiment: litter and root influences on forest soil organic matter stocks and function. 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.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Bowden, R. D., Boone, R. D., Lajtha, K. 2000. Controls on forest soil organic matter development and dynamics: chronic litter manipulation as a potential international LTER activity. In: Lajtha, K., Vanderbilt, K., Cooperation in Long Term Ecological Research in Central and Eastern Europe, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Colman, B. P., Currie, W. S., Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2004. Decadal scale fates of 15N tracers added to oak and pine stands under ambient and elevated N inputs at the Harvard Forest (USA). Forest Ecology and Management 196: 89-107.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Fry, B. 1999. Sinks for 15N-enriched additions to an oak forest and a red pine plantation. Ecological Applications 9: 72-86.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Fry, B., Aber, J. D., Magill, A. H., Melillo, J. M. 1995. The fate of 15N-labelled nitrate additions to a northern hardwood forest in eastern Maine, USA. Oecologia 103: 292-301.
  • Nadelhoffer, K. J., Downs, M. R., Fry, B., Magill, A., Aber, J. D. 1999. Controls on N retention and exports in a fertilized watershed. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 55: 187-210.
  • Neelon, S. E. 1996. The response of understory vegetation to simulated hurricane disturbance. Thesis, Smith College.
  • Peterjohn, W. T., Melillo, J. M., Bowles, F. P., Steudler, P. A. 1993. Soil warming and trace gas fluxes: experimental design and preliminary flux results. Oecologia 93: 18-24.
  • Peterjohn, W. T., Melillo, J. M., Steudler, P. A., Newkirk, K. M., Bowles, F. P., Aber, J. D. 1995. Responses of trace gas fluxes and N availability to experimentally elevated soil temperatures. Ecological Applications 4: 617-625.
  • Rainey, S. M., Nadelhoffer, K. J., Silver, S. L., Downs, M. R. 1999. Effects of chronic nitrogen additions on understory species abundance and nutrient content in a red pine plantation. Ecological Applications 9: 949-957.
  • Schmidt, L. 1999. Exploration of possible feedback mechanism for carbon and nitrogen cycling in a forested ecosystem in response to artificial soil warming.. Thesis, Brown University.
  • Simmons*, B. 2007. Preferred microenvironments for tree regeneration: pit-mound vs. non-pit-mound. Thesis, Johnson C. Smith University.
  • Sipe, T. W. 1990. Gap partitioning among maples (Acer) in the forests of central New England. Thesis, Harvard University.
  • Sipe, T. W., Bazzaz, F. A. 1994. Gap partitioning among maples (Acer) in Central New England: shoot architecture and photosynthesis. Ecology 75: 2318-2332.
  • Sipe, T. W., Bazzaz, F. A. 1994. Gap partitioning among maples (Acer) in central New England: survival and growth. Ecology 76: 1587-1602.
  • Sipe, T. W., Bazzaz, F. A. 2001. Shoot damage effects on regeneration of maples (Acer) across an understory-gap microenvironmental gradient. Journal of Ecology 89: 761-773.
  • Steudler, P. A., Bowden, R. D., Melillo, J. M., Aber, J. D. 1989. Influence of nitrogen fertilization on methane uptake in temperate forest soils. Nature 341: 314-316.
  • Sullivan*, K. A., Ellison, A. M. 2006. The seed bank of hemlock forests: implications for forest regeneration following hemlock decline. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 3: 393-402.
  • Trumbull*, M. 2005. The forest in flux: essays on past ecological events in central New England. Thesis, Hampshire College.
  • Venterea, R. T., Groffman, P. M., Verchot, L. V., Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D. 2004. Gross nitrogen process rates in temperate forest soils exhibiting symptoms of nitrogen saturation. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 129-142.
  • Venterea, R. T., Groffman, P. M., Verchot, L. V., Magill, A. H., Aber, J. D., Steudler, P. A. 2003. Nitrogen oxide gas emissions from temperate forest soils receiving long-term nitogen inputs.. Global Change Biology 9: 346-357.
  • Vitousek, P. M., Aber, J. D., Bayley, S. E., Howarth, R. W., Likens, G. E., Matson, P. A., Schindler, D. W., Schlessinger, W. H., Tilman, G. D. 1997. Human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle: causes and consequences. Ecological Issues 1: 1-15.
  • Wayne, P. M., Bazzaz, F. A. 1993. Morning vs afternoon sun patches in experimental forest gaps: consequences of temporal incongruency of resources to birch regeneration. Oecologia 94: 235-243.
  • Wilson*, K. 2002. Lasting impacts of a catastrophic wind event: the 1938 Hurricane and thirty-two years of changing stand dynamics Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA.. Thesis, Middlebury College.
  • Yano, Y., McDowell, W. H., Aber, J. D. 2000. Biodegradable dissolved organic carbon in forest soil solution and effects of chronic nitrogen deposition. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 32: 1743-1751.
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