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- Barker-Plotkin, A., Foster, D., Carlson, J., Magill, A. 2013. "Survivors, not invaders, control forest development following simulated hurricane" Ecology 94: 414-423.
- 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.
- Berlik, M. M., Kittredge, D. B., Foster, D. R. 2002. "The illusion of preservation: a global environmental argument for the local production of natural resources" Journal of Biogeography 29: 1557-1568.
- Boose, E. R., Chamberlin, K. E., Foster, D. R. 2001. "Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in New England" Ecological Monographs 71: 27-48.
- 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.
- 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. 2009. "Dwarf beech forests in coastal New England: topographic and edaphic controls on variation in forest structure" American Midland Naturalist 162: 180-194.
- 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.
- Busby, P. E., Motzkin, G., Hall, B. 2009. "Distribution and dynamics of American beech in coastal southern New England" Northeastern Naturalist 16: 159-176.
- 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., 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.
- 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.
- Day, L. T., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Foster, D. R. 2013. "Analysis of hemlock pollen size in Holocene lake sediments from New England" Quaternary Research 79: 362-365.
- DeGasperis, B. G., Motzkin, G. 2007. "Windows of opportunity: Historical and ecological controls on Berberis Thunbergii invasions" Ecology 88: 3115-3125.
- Eberhardt, R., Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., Hall, B. 2003. "Conservation of changing landscapes: vegetation and land-use history of Cape Cod National Seashore" Ecological Applications 13: 68-84.
- Ellison, A. M., Bank, M. S., Clinton, B. D., Colburn, E. A., Elliot, K., Ford, C. F., Foster, D. R., Kloeppel, B. D., Knoepp, J. D., Lovett, G. M., Mohan, J., Orwig, D. A., Rodenhouse, N. L., Sobczak, W. V., Stinson, K. A., Stone, J. K., Swan, C. M., Thompson, J., Von Holle, B., Webster, J. R. 2005. "Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems" Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3: 479-786.
- Faison, E. K., DeStefano, S., Foster, D. R., Barker-Plotkin, A. 2016. "Functional response of ungulate browsers in disturbed eastern hemlock forests" Forest Ecology and Management 362: 177-183.
- Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R. 2014. "Did American Chestnut Really Dominate the Eastern Forest?" Arnoldia 72: 18-32.
- Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W., Hansen, B. C. S., Doughty, E. D. 2006. "Early-Holocene openlands in southern New England" Ecology 87: 2537-2547.
- Foster, D. R. 1985. "Vegetation Development Following Fire in Picea Mariana (Black Spruce)- Pleurozium Forests of South-Eastern Labrador, Canada" Journal of Ecology 73: 517-534.
- 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, USA" 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: 753-771.
- 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, New York.
- Foster, D. R. 2000. "Duarte Pond - Proposal for Completion of Analyses and Production of Final Report"
- 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 Symposium on Sustainable Management of Hemlock Ecosystems in Eastern North America.
- Foster, D. R. 2001. "Conservation lessons and challenges from ecological history" Forest History Today Fall 2000: 2-11.
- Foster, D. R. 2002. "Conservation issues and approaches for dynamic cultural landscapes" Journal of Biogeography 29: 1533-1535.
- 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 on conservation in the New England landscape" Journal of Biogeography 29: 1537-1555.
- Foster, D. R. 2012. "Expanding the Integration and Application of Long-Term Ecological Research" BioScience 62: 323.
- Foster, D. R. 2014. "Book Excerpt Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge" Arnoldia 71: 12-25.
- Foster, D. R. 2014. "Three views from John Sanderson's Woodlot" Forest History Today 20: 37-45.
- Foster, D. R. 2001. "New England's Forest Primeval" Wild Earth 11: 40-44.
- 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., Boose, E. R. 1992. "Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, USA" Journal of Ecology 80: 79-98.
- Foster, D. R., Boose, E. R. 1995. "Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems" In: Coutts, M., Grace, J., Wind and Trees, Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
- 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. M., Kittredge, D. B., Lambert, K. F., Hunter, M. L., Hall, B. R., Irland, L. C., Lilieholm, R. J., Orwig, D. A., D'Amato, A. W., Colburn, E. A., Thompson, J. R., Levitt, J. N., Ellison, A. M., Keeton, W. S., Aber, J. D., Cogbill, C. V., Driscoll, C. T., Fahey, T. J., Hart, C. M. 2010. Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape.
- Foster, D. R., Doucette, D., Oswald, W., Chilton, E., Shuman, B. 2011. Collaborative Research: Interacting influences of climate, land use and other disturbances on regime shifts in forest ecosystems: Holocene dynamics in the northeastern US
- 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., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B. M., Lambert K. F., Hart, C. M., Levitt, J. N. 2014. "The Wildlands and Woodlands Initiative of the Harvard Forest, Harvard University" In: Levitt, J. N., Conservation Catalysts: The Academy as Nature's Agent, Lincoln Institue of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA.
- Foster, D. R., Kittredge, D. B., Donahue, B., Motzkin, G., Orwig, D. A., Ellison, A. M., Hall, B., Colburn, E. A., D'Amato, A. 2005. Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the Forests of Massachusetts
- Foster, D. R., 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 City.
- Foster, D. R., Knight, D. H., Franklin, J. F. 1998. "Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances" Ecosystems 1: 497-510.
- Foster, D. R., Labich, W. 2008. "A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment" In: Askins, R. A., Dreyer, G. D., Visgilio, G. R., Whitelaw, D. M., Saving Biological Diversity, Springer US,.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 1998. "Ecology and conservation in the cultural landscape of New England: lessons from nature's history" Northeastern Naturalist 5: 111-136.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 1999. Historical Influences on the Landscape of Martha's Vineyard: Perspectives on the Management of the Manuel F. Correllus State Forest.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 1999. Paleoecology of the Great Plain of Martha's Vineyard: Preliminary report on analyses from Duarte Pond.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G. 2000. Harlock Pond Paleoecological Research: Report to the Seven Gates Farm Community.
- 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. "Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape" Journal of Biogeography 29: 1337-1357.
- Foster, D. R., Motzkin, G., O'Keefe, J., Boose, E., Orwig, D., Fuller, J., 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., 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., Orwig, D. A. 2006. "Preemptive and salvage harvesting of New England forests: when doing nothing is a viable alternative" Conservation Biology 20: 959-970.
- Foster, D. R., Orwig, D. A., McLachlan, J. S. 1996. "Ecological and conservation insights from reconstructive studies of temperate old-growth forests" Trends in Ecology and Evolution 11: 419-424.
- 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., Aber, J. D., Burk, I., Brokaw, N., Tilman, D., Knapp, A. 2002. "The importance of land-use legacies to ecology and conservation" BioScience 53: 77-88.
- 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. S., 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.
- Golodetz, A., Foster, D. R. 1997. "History and importance of land use and protection in the North Quabbin Region of Massachusetts (USA)" Conservation Biology 11: 227-235.
- 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.
- Hou, J., Huang, Y., Shuman, B., Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. "Abrupt cooling repeatedly punctuated early-Holocene climate in eastern North America" The Holocene : 1-5.
- 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: .
- Lindenmayer, D. B., Foster, D. R., Franklin, J. F., Hunter, M. L., Noss, R. F., Schmiegelow, F. A., Perry, D. 2004. "Salvage harvesting policies after natural disturbance" Science 303: 1303.
- Lovett, G. M., Weiss, M., Liebhold, A. M., Holmes, T. P., Leung, B., Lambert, K. F., Orwig, D. A., Campbell, F. T., Rosenthal, J., McCullough, D. G., Wildova, R., Ayres, M. P., Canham, C. D., Foster, D. R., LaDeau, S. L., Weldy, T. 2016. "Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options" Ecological Applications 26: 1437-1455.
- Marsicek, J. P., Shuman, B., Brewer, S., Foster, D. R., Oswald, W. W. 2013. "Moisture and temperature changes associated with the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in the northeastern United States" Quaternary Science Reviews 80: 129-142.
- McDonald, R. I., Motzkin, G., Bank, M. S., Kittredge, D. B., Burk, J., Foster, D. R. 2006. "Forest harvesting and land-use conversion over two decades in Massachusetts" Forest Ecology and Management 227: 31-41.
- 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: 260-271.
- McDonald, R. I., Yuan-Farrell, C., Fievet, C., Moeller, M., Karieva, P., Foster, D. R., Gragson, T., Kinzig, T., Kuby, L., Redman, C. L. 2007. "Estimating the Effect of Protected Lands on the Development and Conservation of Their Surroundings" Conservation Biology 21: 1-11.
- McLachlan, J. S., Foster, D. R., Menalled, F. 2000. "Anthropogenic ties to late-successional structure and composition in four New England hemlock stands" Ecology 81: 717-733.
- Meyer, S. R., Cronan, C. S., Lilieholm, R. J., Johnson, M. L., Foster, D. R. 2014. "Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures" Biological Conservation 174: 152-160.
- Motzkin, G., Ciccarello, S. C., Foster, D. R. 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., Eberhardt, R., Hall, B., Foster, D. R., Harrod, J., 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 sand plain" Arnoldia 58: 32-34.
- Motzkin, G., Foster, D. R. 2002. "Grasslands, healthlands 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., Harrod, J., Boone, R. 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.
- 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., Orwig, D. A., Foster, D. R. 2009. Dwarf Pitch Pine Communities in the Southern Taconics: Race Mountain, Bear Mountain, and "Hill 1914"
- Motzkin, G., Patterson, W. A., III, 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.
- O'Keefe, J. F., Foster, D. R. 1998. "An ecological and environmental history of Massachusetts Forests" In: Foster, C. H. W., Stepping Back to Look Forward - a History of the Massachusetts Forest, Harvard Forest, Petersham, Massachusetts.
- Oswald, W. W., Faison, E. K., Foster, D. R. , Doughty, E. D., Hall, B., Hansen, B. C. S. 2007. "Post-glacial changes in spatial patterns of vegetation across southern New England" Journal of Biogeography 34: 900-913.
- Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. "A record of late-Holocene environmental change from southern New England, USA" Quaternary Research 76: 314-318.
- Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. "Middle-Holocene dynamics of Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) in northern New England, USA" The Holocene 22: 71-78.
- Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R. 2011. The Long-term History of the Squibnocket Area: Progress Report on the Paleoecology of Black Pond.
- Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Doughty, E. D., Faison, E. K. 2009. "A record of Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental and ecological change from southwestern Connecticut, USA" Journal of Quaternary Science 24: 553-556.
- Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Doughty, E. D., MacDonald, D. 2010. "A record of Holocene environmental and ecological changes from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, NY" Journal of Quaternary Science 25: 967-974.
- Oswald, W. W., Hansen, B. C. S., Foster, D. R. 2007. "Comparison of pollen and stomata in late-glacial and early-Holocene lake sediments from eastern Massachusetts" Rhodora 109: 225-229.
- Parshall, T., Foster, D. R. 2002. "Fire on the New England landscape: regional and temporal variation, cultural and environmental controls" Journal of Biogeography 29: 1305-1317.
- Parshall, T., Foster, D. R., Faison, E. K., MacDonald, D., Hansen, B. C. S. 2003. "Long-term history of vegetation and fire in pitch pine-oak forests on Cape Cod, Massachusetts" Ecology 84: 736-738.
- Pederson, N., D'Amato, A. W., Dyer, J. M., Foster, D. R., Goldblum, D., Hart, J. L., Hessl, A. E., Iverson, L. R., Jackson, S. T., Martin-Benito, D., McCarthy, B. C., McEwan, R. W., Mladenoff, D. J., Parker, A. J., Shuman, B., Williams, J. W. 2014. "Climate remains an important driver of post-European vegetation change in the eastern United States" Global Change Biology : 1-6.
- Power, M. J. , Marlon, J., Ortiz, N., Bartlein, P. J., Harrison, S. P., Mayle, F. E., Ballouche, A., Bradshaw, R. H. W., Carcaillet, C., Cordova, C., Mooney, S., Moreno, P. I., Prentice, I. C., Thonicke, K., Tinner, W., Whitlock, C., Zhang, Y., Zhao, Y., Ali, A. A., Anderson, R. S., Beer, R., Behling, H., Briles, C., Brown, K. J., Brunelle, A., Bush, M., Camill, P., Chu, G. Q., Clark, J., Colombaroli, D., Connor, S., Daniau, A.-L., Daniels, M., Dodson, J., Doughty, E., Edwards, M. E., Finsinger, W., Foster, D., Frechette, J., Gaillard, M-J., Gavin, D. G., Gobet, E., Haberle, S., Hallett, D. J., Higuera, P., Hope, G. , Horn, S., Inoue, J., Kaltenrieder, P., Kennedy, L., Kong, Z. C., Larsen, C., Long, C. L. , Lynch, J., Lynch, E. A., McGlone, M., Meeks, S., Mensing, S., Meyer, G., Minckley, T., Mohr, J., Nelson, D. M., New, J., Newnham, R., Noti, R., Oswald, W., Pierce, J., Richard, P. J. H., Rowe, C., Sanchez Goni, M. F., Shuman, B. N., Takahara, H., Toney, J., Turney, C., Urrego-Sanchez, D. H., Umanhowar, C., Vandergoes, M., Vanniere, B., Vescovi, E., Walsh, M., Wang, X., Williams, N., Wilmshurst, J., Zhang, J. H. 2008. "Changes in fire regimes since the Last Glacial Maximum: an assessment based on a global synthesis and analysis of charcol data" Climate Dynamics 30: 887-907.
- Schoonmaker, P. K., Foster, D. R. 1991. "Some implications of paleoecology for contemporary ecology" The Botanical Review 57: 204-245.
- Thompson, J. R., Carpenter, D. N., Cogbill, C. V., Foster, D. R. 2013. "Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests" PLOS One 8: 1-15.
- Thompson, J. R., Foster, D. R., Scheller, R., Kittredge, D. B. 2011. "The influence of land use and climate change on forest biomass and composition in Massachusetts, USA" Ecological Applications 21: 2425-2444.
- Von Holle, B., Motzkin, G. 2007. "Historical land use and environmental determinants of nonnative plant distribution in coastal southern New England" Biological Conservation 136: 33-43.
