David R. Foster

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Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems (2005) (1648)
The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation (2003) (1065)
Land-Use History (1730-1990) and Vegetation Dynamics in Central New England, USA (1992) (640)
Land-Use History as Long-Term Broad-Scale Disturbance: Regional Forest Dynamics in Central New England (1998) (640)
The changing landscape : ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients (2008) (588)
FOREST RESPONSE TO THE INTRODUCED HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND, USA (1998) (497)
Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances (1998) (474)
Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes (1994) (421)
Species and stand response to catastrophic wind in central New England, U.S.A (1988) (421)
Landscape patterns of hemlock decline in New England due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid (2002) (382)
Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, USA (1992) (376)
Disturbance history, community organization and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth pisgah forest, South-Western New Hampshire, U.S.A (1988) (372)
Response of forest plant species to land‐use change: a life‐history trait‐based approach (2003) (338)
Legacies of the agricultural past in the forested present: an assessment of historical land‐use effects on rich mesic forests (2002) (320)
Threads of Continuity There are immense differences between even-aged silvicultural disturbances (especially clearcutting) and natural disturbances, such as windthrow, wildfire, and even volcanic eruptions. (2000) (309)
Salvage Harvesting Policies After Natural Disturbance (2004) (281)
Three hundred years of forest and land‐use change in Massachusetts, USA (2002) (272)
Impact of Human Activity on Regional Forest Composition and Dynamics in Central New England (1998) (253)
Estimation of net ecosystem carbon exchange for the conterminous United States by combining MODIS and AmeriFlux data (2008) (249)
Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests (2013) (247)
Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options (2016) (243)
Deforestation in the southern Yucatan peninsular region: an integrative approach (2001) (239)
Landscape and regional impacts of hurricanes in puerto rico (2004) (237)
Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain (1996) (233)
Vegetation patterns in heterogeneous landscapes: The importance of history and environment (1999) (226)
Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization (2017) (221)
A continuous measure of gross primary production for the conterminous United States derived from MODIS and AmeriFlux data (2010) (213)
From coastal wilderness to fruited plain (1995) (207)
Vegetation development following fire in Picea mariana (black spruce). Pleurozium forests of south-eastern Labrador, Canada (1985) (204)
FOREST RESPONSE TO CATASTROPHIC WIND: RESULTS FROM AN EXPERIMENTAL HURRICANE (1999) (203)
LANDSCAPE AND REGIONAL IMPACTS OF HURRICANES IN NEW ENGLAND (2001) (200)
The history and pattern of fire in the boreal forest of southeastern Labrador (1983) (195)
Integrated land-change science and tropical deforestation in the southern Yucatán : final frontiers (2004) (193)
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 (1997) (187)
Direct and indirect ecosystem consequences of an invasive pest on forests dominated by eastern hemlock (2002) (182)
HUMAN OR NATURAL DISTURBANCE: LANDSCAPE‐SCALE DYNAMICS OF THE TROPICAL FORESTS OF PUERTO RICO (1999) (181)
Overstorey composition and age as determinants of the understorey flora of woods of central New England (1988) (180)
Ecological and conservation insights from reconstructive studies of temperate old-growth forests. (1996) (179)
Soil carbon and nitrogen in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: Role of vegetation and land-use history (1998) (178)
Assessing net ecosystem carbon exchange of U.S. terrestrial ecosystems by integrating eddy covariance flux measurements and satellite observations (2011) (176)
Long-Term Vegetation Dynamics and Disturbance History of a Tsuga-Dominated Forest in New England (1993) (148)
Preemptive and Salvage Harvesting of New England Forests: When Doing Nothing Is a Viable Alternative (2006) (142)
Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape (2002) (141)
Multi-year ecosystem response to hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in southern New England forests (2008) (139)
Post-settlement history of human land-use and vegetation dynamics of a Tsuga canadensis (hemlock) woodlot in central New England. (1992) (137)
Origin of string patterns in boreal peatlands (1983) (128)
Oak, chestnut and fire: climatic and cultural controls of long‐term forest dynamics in New England, USA (2002) (123)
Grasslands, heathlands and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservation (2002) (122)
The influence of land use and climate change on forest biomass and composition in Massachusetts, USA. (2011) (120)
A climatic driver for abrupt mid-Holocene vegetation dynamics and the hemlock decline in New England. (2006) (117)
Bog development and landform dynamics in central Sweden and south-eastern Labrador, Canada (1988) (117)
Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants (2002) (110)
Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history (2003) (106)
Fire on the New England landscape: regional and temporal variation, cultural and environmental controls (2002) (102)
The illusion of preservation: a global environmental argument for the local production of natural resources (2002) (99)
Insights from historical geography to ecology and conservation: lessons from the New England landscape (2002) (97)
Toward an Integrated Model for Raised‐Bog Development: Theory and Field Evidence (1995) (95)
Timber harvesting as ongoing disturbance in a landscape of diverse ownership (2003) (93)
Climate remains an important driver of post‐European vegetation change in the eastern United States (2015) (93)
Mire Development, Pool Formation and Landscape Processes on Patterned Fens in Dalarna, Central Sweden (1987) (92)
Effects of the past and the present on species distribution: land‐use history and demography of wintergreen (2000) (91)
Role of Ecosystem Development and Climate Change in Bog Formation in Central Sweden (1990) (90)
Insights from paleoecology to community ecology. (1990) (89)
Anthropogenic ties to late-successional structure and composition in four new England hemlock stands. (2000) (87)
A foundation tree at the precipice: Tsuga canadensis health after the arrival of Adelges tsugae in central New England (2012) (87)
Understory vegetation in old-growth and second-growth Tsuga canadensis forests in western Massachusetts (2009) (87)
Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest : a 22-year synthesis (2013) (85)
Wildlands and Woodlands: A Vision for the New England Landscape (2010) (81)
The influence of successional processes and disturbance on the structure of Tsuga canadensis forests. (2008) (81)
Physiographical and historical effects on forest vegetation in central New England, USA (2002) (80)
CHANGES IN FOREST BIOMASS, LITTER DYNAMICS AND SOILS FOLLOWING SHIFTING CULTIVATION IN SOUTHERN MEXICO: AN OVERVIEW (2002) (80)
Experimentally testing the role of foundation species in forests: the Harvard Forest Hemlock Removal Experiment (2010) (80)
Postglacial climate reconstruction based on compound‐specific D/H ratios of fatty acids from Blood Pond, New England (2006) (79)
A Historical Perspective on Pitch Pine–Scrub Oak Communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts (1999) (78)
THE RAISED BOGS OF SOUTH-EASTERN LABRADOR, CANADA: CLASSIFICATION, DISTRIBUTION, VEGETATION AND RECENT DYNAMICS (1986) (77)
CONSERVATION OF CHANGING LANDSCAPES: VEGETATION AND LAND‐USE HISTORY OF CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE (2003) (76)
Woody Biomass and Bioenergy Potentials in Southeast Asia between 1990 and 2020 (2009) (74)
Forest harvesting and land-use conversion over two decades in Massachusetts (2006) (73)
Predicting the impact of hemlock woolly adelgid on carbon dynamics of eastern United States forests (2010) (73)
Cultural, environmental and historical controls of vegetation patterns and the modern conservation setting on the island of Martha's Vineyard, USA (2002) (72)
LONG‐TERM HISTORY OF VEGETATION AND FIRE IN PITCH PINE–OAK FORESTS ON CAPE COD, MASSACHUSETTS (2003) (69)
LANDSCAPE FEATURES, VEGETATION AND DEVELOPMENTAL HISTORY OF A PATTERNED FEN IN SOUTH-EASTERN LABRADOR, CANADA (1984) (69)
Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England (2003) (68)
From bobolinks to bears: interjecting geographical history into ecological studies, environmental interpretation, and conservation planning (2000) (67)
Dynamics of long‐lived foundation species: the history of Quercus in southern Scandinavia (2010) (65)
Vegetation pattern and diversity in S. E. Labrador, Canada : Betula papyrifera (birch) forest development in relation to fire history and physiography (1986) (64)
Long-Term Ecological Research in a Human-Dominated World (2012) (62)
Scenario Studies as a Synthetic and Integrative Research Activity for Long-Term Ecological Research (2012) (62)
VARIATIONS IN OLD-GROWTH STRUCTURE AND DEFINITIONS: FOREST DYNAMICS ON WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN, MASSACHUSETTS (2001) (60)
Thoreau's country: a historical–ecological perspective on conservation in the New England landscape (2002) (59)
Wind and Trees: Hurricane disturbance regimes in temperate and tropical forest ecosystems (1995) (56)
ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION IN T'HE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE OF NEW ENGLAND: LESSONS FROM NATURE'S HISTORY (1998) (56)
Paleolimnological assessment of human-induced impacts on Walden Pond (Massachusetts, USA) using diatoms and stable isotopes (2005) (53)
Thoreau’s Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape (2001) (52)
Post‐glacial changes in spatial patterns of vegetation across southern New England (2007) (49)
Moisture and temperature changes associated with the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in the northeastern United States (2013) (49)
Analytic webs support the synthesis of ecological data sets. (2006) (49)
Assessing the influence of historical factors, contemporary processes, and environmental conditions on the distribution of invasive species1 (2008) (47)
The consequences of four land‐use scenarios for forest ecosystems and the services they provide (2016) (47)
Survivors, not invaders, control forest development following simulated hurricane. (2013) (47)
Centennial‐scale compound‐specific hydrogen isotope record of Pleistocene–Holocene climate transition from southern New England (2007) (44)
Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: Comparisons of Long-Term Ecological and Cultural Change (2008) (42)
Ensuring reliable datasets for environmental models and forecasts (2007) (42)
Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England (2020) (42)
Response of small New England ponds to historic land use (2001) (41)
Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long‐Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change (2020) (41)
Microtopography and ecology of pit-mound structures in second-growth versus old-growth forests (2017) (38)
Early holocene openlands in southern New England. (2006) (37)
The effect of logging on vegetation composition in Western Massachusetts (2008) (37)
Stand, landscape, and ecosystem analyses of hemlock woolly adelgid outbreaks in southern New England: an overview (2000) (35)
New England Forests Through Time : Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas (2000) (35)
Vegetation and disturbance history of a rare dwarf pitch pine community in western New England, USA (2002) (33)
A buried spruce forest provides evidence at the stand and landscape scale for the effects of environment on vegetation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary (2000) (32)
Some implications of paleoecology for contemporary ecology (1991) (31)
Quantifying the impact of an extreme climate event on species diversity in fragmented temperate forests: the effect of the October 1987 storm on British broadleaved woodlands (2014) (31)
Long-term structural and biomass dynamics of virgin Tsuga canadensis-Pinus strobus forests after hurricane disturbance. (2017) (30)
Land-use History and Forest Transformations in Central New England (1993) (29)
Patterned fens of western Labrador and adjacent Quebec: phytosociology, water chemistry, landform features, and dynamics of surface patterns (1988) (29)
Abrupt cooling repeatedly punctuated early-Holocene climate in eastern North America (2012) (29)
Land system science and the social–environmental system: the case of Southern Yucatán Peninsular Region (SYPR) project (2016) (28)
Frost pockets on a level sand plain: Does variation in microclimate help maintain persistent vegetation patterns?2 (2002) (28)
Frost pockets on a level sand plain: Does variation in microclimate help maintain persistent vegetation patterns?2 (2002) (28)
The Dynamics of Sphagnum in Forest and Peatland Communities in Southeastern Labrador, Canada (1984) (27)
Forest response to chronic hurricane disturbance in coastal New England (2009) (26)
New England's Forest Landscape: Ecological Legacies and Conservation Patterns Shaped by Agrarian History (2008) (25)
Land conservation in northern New England: Historic trends and alternative conservation futures (2014) (23)
Hemlock's future in the context of its history: an ecological perspective (2000) (22)
History and Importance of Land Use and Protection in the North Quabbin Region of Massachusetts (USA) (1997) (22)
Multiple and interacting disturbances lead to Fagus grandifolia dominance in coastal New England (2008) (22)
Middle-Holocene dynamics of Tsuga canadensis (eastern hemlock) in northern New England, USA (2012) (21)
Moose Foraging in the Temperate Forests of Southern New England (2010) (20)
Functional response of ungulate browsers in disturbed eastern hemlock forests (2016) (20)
A late-glacial transition from Picea glauca to Picea mariana in southern New England (2007) (20)
New Estimates of Massachusetts Old-growth Forests: Useful Data for Regional Conservation and Forest Reserve Planning (2006) (20)
Ungulate browsers promote herbaceous layer diversity in logged temperate forests (2016) (20)
Phytosociological description of the forest vegetation of southeastern Labrador (1984) (19)
Conservation issues and approaches for dynamic cultural landscapes (2002) (19)
An Ecological History of Massachusetts Forests (1998) (18)
Local-Scale Carbon Budgets and Mitigation Opportunities for the Northeastern United States (2012) (17)
Process Technology to Facilitate the Conduct of Science (2005) (16)
Lasting legacies of historical clearcutting, wind, and salvage logging on old-growth Tsuga canadensis-Pinus strobus forests (2018) (15)
Did American Chestnut Really Dominate the Eastern Forest (2014) (15)
The aquatic fate of triclopyr in whole-pond treatments. (2001) (15)
Predictable hydrological and ecological responses to Holocene North Atlantic variability (2018) (15)
Landowner conservation awareness across rural-to-urban gradients in Massachusetts (2015) (14)
Rich mesic forests: Edaphic and physiographic drivers of community variation in western Massachusetts (2005) (14)
A record of Holocene environmental and ecological changes from Wildwood Lake, Long Island, New York (2010) (13)
LANDSCAPE AND REGIONAL IMPACTS OF HURRICANES (2004) (12)
Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change (2018) (12)
Multiple Browsers Structure Tree Recruitment in Logged Temperate Forests (2016) (12)
Exploring the Origins of Ecological Forestry in North America (2017) (12)
The vascular flora of raised bogs in southeastern Labrador and its phytogeographic significance (1984) (11)
A record of late-Holocene environmental change from southern New England, USA (2011) (10)
Torrey Botanical Society Frost Pockets on a Level Sand Plain : Does Variation in Microclimate Help Maintain Persistent Vegetation Patterns ? (2008) (10)
Historic grazing in southern New England, USA, recorded by fungal spores in lake sediments (2017) (8)
AN ANALYTIC WEB TO SUPPORT THE ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS OF ECOLOGICAL DATA (2004) (8)
An integrated reconstruction of recent forest dynamics in a New England cultural landscape (2011) (7)
Wildland and Woodlands: A Forest Vision for New England (2010) (7)
Ecological and conservation insights (1996) (7)
Long-term influence of disturbance-generated microsites on forest structural and compositional development (2018) (7)
Modeling tree regeneration height growth after an experimental hurricane (2006) (7)
Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network (2021) (6)
Long-Term Deer Exclusion Has Complex Effects On A Suburban Forest Understory (2016) (6)
Expanding the Integration and Application of Long-Term Ecological Research (2012) (5)
Hemlock: A Forest Giant on the Edge (2014) (5)
A high-resolution hydrogen isotope record of behenic acid for the past 16 kyr in the northeastern United States (2017) (5)
A Wildland and Woodland Vision for the New England Landscape: Local Conservation, Biodiversity and the Global Environment (2008) (5)
Lyford Mapped Tree Plot at Harvard Forest since 1969 (2013) (5)
Nonnative vegetation dynamics in the understory of a fragmented temperate forest1 (2019) (4)
Bob Marshall's forest reconstruction study: three centuries of ecological resilience to disturbance1 (2008) (4)
Comparison of settlement-era vegetation reconstructions for STEPPS and REVEALS pollen–vegetation models in the northeastern United States (2020) (4)
W. W. Oswald et al. reply (2020) (4)
Potential impacts of insect-induced harvests in the mixed forests of New England (2019) (3)
Detection of long-term trends in carbon accumulation by forests in Northeastern U. S. and determination of causal factors: Final report (2012) (3)
Analysis of hemlock pollen size in Holocene lake sediments from New England (2013) (3)
Evaluating the role of insects in the middle-Holocene Tsuga decline1 (2016) (3)
Multivariate climate change, the climate niche, and the Holocene history of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) (2019) (2)
Special Session at 100th Ecological Society of America Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland (2016) (2)
Harvard University Forest, Massachusetts, United States of America (2015) (2)
Using History To Interpret Current Environmental Conditions and Future Trends: An Example from the US Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program (2000) (2)
Technical description of AVENU (1989) (2)
To sprout or not to sprout: Multiple factors determine the vigor of Kalmia latifolia (Ericaceae) in southwestern Connecticut (2014) (2)
Salvage harvesting fire-damaged wet eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia: some ecological perspectives (2004) (1)
Litter Nutrient Dynamics in the Secondary Dry Tropical Forests of the Southern Yucatan (2001) (1)
A record of Lateglacial and early Holocene environmental and ecological change from southwestern Connecticut, USA (2009) (1)
Historic forest composition and structure across an old-growth landscape in New Hampshire, USA1 (2020) (1)
Ecosystem Response to an Introduced Pathogen: The Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (1998) (1)
Forest-clearing to create early-successional habitats: Questionable benefits, significant costs (2023) (1)
Ecological effects of afforestation. Studies in the history and ecology of afforestation in Western Europe: Edited by C. Watkins, CAB International, Wallington, UK, 1993, 224 pp., price US $ 61.75, ISBN 0-85198-818-0 (1994) (1)
Data Provenance and Reliability in Sensor Networks (2007) (1)
A postglacial paleoenvironmental dataset from New England (2022) (0)
The Harvard Forest Carbon Budget: Patterns, Processes and Responses to Global Change (2018) (0)
A 10,000-Year-Old White Pine Forest Emerges at Stonewall Beach, Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S.A. (2023) (0)
Evaluating the Contribution of Climate Forcing and Forest Dynamics to Accelerating Carbon Sequestration by Forest Ecosystems in the Northeastern U.S.: Final Report (2014) (0)
The structure of temperature changes across mid-latitude North America over the Holocene (2013) (0)
Biodiversity Conservation on Agricultural Land: The Vegetation and Flora of Petersham Country Club, Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA (2014) (0)
Operational model for the design of optimal wind farm arrays: Technical progress report, 15 February 1988-14 May 1988 (1988) (0)
Richard Hale Goodwin 1910–2007 Botanist, Teacher, Conservationist, and Mentor (2008) (0)
Pre-colonial and modern relative abundance of taxa by ecoregion and throughout the entire study area. (2013) (0)
Regional variability in stream dissolved organic matter characteristics across forested regions of Canada, and its implications for drinking water treatability (2020) (0)
Lasting Effects of Hurricane Disturbance on Long-term Forest Development at the Harvard Forest (2005) (0)
Collaborative Research: Interacting influences of climate, land use and other disturbances on regime shifts in forest ecosystems: Holocene dynamics in the northeastern US. PI: (2012) (0)
Operational model for the design of optimal wind farm arrays: Technical progress report, 15 May 1988--14 August 1988 (1988) (0)
HFR LTER-IV Integrated Studies of the Drivers , Dynamics and Consequences of Landscape Change in New England (0)
Salvage harvesting fire-damaged wet eucalypt forests: some ecological perspectives (2004) (0)
Operational model for the design of optimum wind farm arrays; Final report (1989) (0)
Using settlement vegetation data for paleoclimate and carbon modeling: Preliminary results of the PalEON project (2011) (0)
Carbon andCommunities: Linking Carbon Science withPublic Policy and Resource Managementin the Northeastern United States (2011) (0)
Response of a Wetland Plant Community to Management of Phragmites Australis (Poaceae) in Southwestern Connecticut (2020) (0)
RUNNING HEAD : Old-growth forest understories 1 2 TITLE : Understory Vegetation in Old-Growth and Second-Growth Tsuga canadensis Forests in 3 Western Massachusetts 4 5 AUTHORS : 6 (2010) (0)
Author Correction: Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England (2020) (0)
An abrupt and prominent climatic reversal at 9.2 ka in the northeastern North America (2008) (0)
Operational model for the design of optimal wind farm arrays: Technical progress report, 15 November 1987-14 February 1988 (1988) (0)
Long-term Ecological Research at the Harvard Forest (2005) (0)
LAND-USE HISTORY AS A DRIVER OF CURRENT ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES (2005) (0)
Forest Response to Natural Disturbance Versus Human-Induced Stresses (1998) (0)
Paleoecology of the Great Plain of Martha’s Vineyard (2016) (0)
Book Review:The Ecological History of European Forests Keith J. Kirby, Charles Watkin (2000) (0)
Evaluating the Drivers and Triggers of Ecosystem Dynamics in Pre‐Contact New England (2014) (0)
1 RUNNING HEAD : Old-growth forest understories 1 2 TITLE : Understory Vegetation in Old-Growth and Second-Growth Tsuga canadensis Forests in 3 (2010) (0)
COMPARISON OF POLLEN AND STOMATA IN LATE-GLACIAL AND EARLY-HOLOCENE LAKE SEDIMENTS FROM EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS (2007) (0)
Synthesis and Extrapolation: Models, Remote Sensing and Regional Analyses (2004) (0)
Evaluating Archaic Period Settlement and Subsistence Patterns in Relation to Ecosystem Dynamics in New England (2015) (0)
High resolution Holocene temperature records for the northeastern United States from hydrogen isotope ratios of mid-chain aquatic plant lipids (2011) (0)
WILLIAM S. COOPER AWARD (2003) (0)
Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Blazing the Trail in Pre-contact Southern New England (2018) (0)
Operational model for the design of optimal wind farm arrays: Technical progress report, 15 August 1988--14 November 1988 (1988) (0)
Corrigendum: Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change (2019) (0)

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