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November 1, 2010

First Phase of Mega-Plot Mapping Completed (30,000 stems!)

Tree measuring at mega-plot

This summer, ecologist Dave Orwig and a crew of 6 technicians established a new, 35-hectare (about 85 acres) research "mega-plot" on Harvard Forest's Prospect Hill. Over the course of 13 weeks, they measured, tagged, and mapped every woody plant stem greater than 1 cm diameter. In the end, a whopping 29,908 stems were analyzed. Work will resume next summer to

October 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Book Republished as Classic Text

When Tropical Trees as Living Systems was published in 1978, tropical forests were a mystery to many ecologists. The book, edited by Harvard Forest botanist P. Barry Tomlinson with Martin Zimmerman, has been re-released this year in paperback by Cambridge University Press. The book publishes the results of the Fourth Cabot Symposium held at the Harvard Forest in

August 1, 2010

Tribute to Professor P.B. Tomlinson

Professor P. Barry Tomlinson

A tribute to P. Barry Tomlinson, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Forest, will be given at the 2010 Botany Symposium in Providence, RI. In his 65 year and ongoing research career, Barry Tomlinson has expanded our understanding of tropical plants, particularly many of its iconic representatives in the monocots. He has worked in many research areas, including but not limited to:

June 1, 2010

Harvard Forest Mega-plot Census Begins

Megaplot Map

Harvard Forest researchers, with the assistance of scientists from the Center for Tropical Forest Science (CTFS), began the census of woody stems within a 35 ha plot located on Prospect Hill. Using standardized CTFS methodology, every stem greater than 1 cm diameter at 1.3 m is measured, tagged, and mapped. During the summer, Forest Ecologist David Orwig and

June 1, 2008

Harvard Forest On The Air

Schoolyard Ecology Program Honored

Phenology studentThe Schoolyard Ecology program at Harvard Forest was featured on WBZ-TV in Boston and 3 of our Schoolyard Ecology teachers were honored at the State House for Excellence in Environmental Education. Tewksbury High School teacher, Elaine Senechal and her students along with Harvard Forest Ecologist John O'Keefe made an

February 1, 2008

New Harvard Forest Publication: Mangrove Management Activities

In June 2006, Harvard Forest Senior Ecologist Aaron Ellison delivered the keynote address at the 2nd Meeting on the Mangrove Macrobenthos. Selected papers from this meeting have just been published in the Journal of Sea Research. In the lead paper, Ellison addresses mangrove management activities in the broader context of the diversity of animals such as crabs and prawns that

March 1, 2004

Newly Published Books Available From Harvard Forest

Forests In Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1000 Years of Change in New England. David R. Foster and John D. Aber, eds. 2004, Yale University Press

"Forests in Time" offers a unique look at combining history and science in ecological studies and environmental management and applies this approach to one of the most remarkably transformed landscapes in North America:

June 1, 2003

Yucatán Studies to be Published

Stone stairs

Oxford Press to release:

B.L. Turner, J. Geoghegan, and D. R. Foster. (Eds) 2003. Integrated Land Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers.

Book available here.