Award Abstract # 0080592
LTER III: Long Term Ecological Research at Harvard Forest

NSF Org: DEB
Division Of Environmental Biology
Recipient: PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
Initial Amendment Date: October 27, 2000
Latest Amendment Date: August 13, 2007
Award Number: 0080592
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Henry L. Gholz
DEB
 Division Of Environmental Biology
BIO
 Directorate for Biological Sciences
Start Date: October 15, 2000
End Date: June 30, 2008 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $0.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $4,699,856.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2001 = $755,000.00
FY 2002 = $760,000.00

FY 2003 = $767,000.00

FY 2004 = $890,856.00

FY 2005 = $750,000.00

FY 2006 = $777,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • David Foster (Principal Investigator)
    drfoster@fas.harvard.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Harvard University
1033 MASSACHUSETTS AVE STE 3
CAMBRIDGE
MA  US  02138-5366
(617)495-5501
Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Harvard University Harvard Forest
Holyoke Center 458
Petersham
MA  US  01366
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): LN53LCFJFL45
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Population & Community Ecology,
LONG TERM ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH,
BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH,
ENVIR SOCIAL & BEHAVIOR SCIENC,
TEACHER PROFESSIONAL CONTINUUM,
International Research Collab,
Ecosystem Science,
BROADENING PARTICIPATION
Primary Program Source: 01000102DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
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app-0103 

app-0104 

app-0105 

app-0106 

04000405DB NSF Education & Human Resource

app-0405 
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 1195, 5209, 5905, 5916, 5976, 5979, 7259, 7271, 9169, 9177, 9178, 9251, 9278, EGCH, OTHR, SMET
Program Element Code(s): 112800, 119500, 162900, 520900, 727100, 729800, 738100, 748700
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.074

ABSTRACT

Harvard Forest

Temperate forests, such as those that dominate the eastern United States, are critically important ecosystems at regional to global scales. They harbor a diversity of species and habitats, provide essential resources, offer important amenities to densely populated regions, and comprise key elements in global carbon budgets. Understanding the structure, function and patterns of these ecosystems and anticipating their responses to natural disturbance, environmental change and anthropogenic disturbances and stress are therefore critical societal goals that depend on a sound knowledge of fundamental ecological processes. Such insight can only be gained through long-term, interdisciplinary research that integrates field studies, measurements, experiments and modeling over a range of temporal and spatial scales.

The Harvard Forest LTER program seeks to interpret ecological pattern and process in New England forests and to apply this knowledge to regional and global issues in forest conservation, land restoration and protection, public policy and the environment. Over the past decade, the program has matured into a collaboration that applies unique approaches in historical and community ecology, ecophysiology, atmospheric chemistry and ecosystem studies to the interpretation of long-term, large-scale experiments and measurements, mechanistic studies and retrospective research. This research has produced over 300 publications, a synthesis book, an annual research program for more than 35 students, and innovative approaches to regional, national and international cross-site studies.

Phase III of the research will (1) extend measurements, modeling and historical studies to regional scales, (2) interpret landscape development, vegetation and wildlife dynamics, and ecosystem patterns in relationship to millennial-scale climate change, land use and disturbance, (3) evaluate ecosystem responses to critical ongoing disturbances and stresses (e.g., forest cutting and conversion, ozone and nitrogen pollution, and invasions by pests and non-native species, (4) interpret long-term measurements and responses to experimental treatments mechanistically and in relation to inter-annual and inter-decadal variation and history, and (5) apply these results to understanding the current and projected role of this region in global carbon storage.


PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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Aber, J.D. and A. H. Magill "Chronic nitrogen additions at the Harvard Forest (USA): the first 15 years of a nitrogen saturation experiment" Forest Ecology and Management , v.196 , 2004 , p.1
Aber, J. D. and R. Freuder "Sensitivity of a forest production model to variation in solar radiation data sets for the Eastern U.S." Climate Research , v.15 , 2000 , p.33
Albani, M; Medvigy, D; Hurtt, GC; Moorcroft, PR "The contributions of land-use change, CO2 fertilization, and climate variability to the Eastern US carbon sink" GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY , v.12 , 2006 , p.2370 View record at Web of Science 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01254.
Anderson, R. L., D. R. Foster and G. Motzkin "Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England" Journal of Ecology , v.91 , 2003 , p.68
Atwater*, D. Z., J. L. Butler, and A. M. Ellison "Spatial distribution and impacts of moth herbivory on northern pitcher plants. Northeastern Naturalist" Northeastern Naturalist , v.13 , 2006 , p.43
Bakwin, P. S., K. J. Davis , C. Yi , S. C. Wofsy, J. W. Munger, L. Haszpra, and Z. Barcza "Regional carbon dioxide fluxes from mixing ratio data" Tellus , v.56B , 2004 , p.301
Barford, C. C., S. C. Wofsy, M. L. Goulden, J. W. Munger, E. H. Pyle, S. P. Urbanski, *L. Hutyra, S. R.Saleska, D. Fitzjarrald and K. Moore "Factors controlling long- and short-term sequestration of atmospheric CO2 in a mid-latitude forest" Science , v.294 , 2001 , p.1688
Barker, M. and D. Perez-Salicrup "Comparative water relations of mature mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla) trees with and without lianas in a subhumid, seasonally dry forest in Bolivia" Physiology , v.20 , 2000 , p.1167
Barnes, D. H., S. C. Wofsy, B. P. Fehlau, E. W. Gottlieb, J. W. Elkins, G. S. Dutton and P. C. Novelli "Hydrogen in the atmosphere: observations above a foreest canopy in a polluted environment" Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres , v.108 , 2003 , p.4197
Barnes, D. H., S. C. Wofsy, B. P. Fehlau, E. W. Gottlieb, J. W. Elkins, G. S. Dutton and S. A. Montzka "Urban/industrial pollution for the New York City-Washington D.C. corridor, 1996-1998: 1. Providing independent verification of CO and PCE emissions inventories" Journal of Geophysical Research , v.108 , 2003 , p.unknown
Barnes, D. H., S. C. Wofsy, B. P. Fehlau, E. W. Gottlieb, J. W. Elkins, G. S. Dutton and S. A. Montzka "Urban/industrial pollution for the New York City-Washington D.C. corridor, 1996-1998: 2. A study of the efficacy of the Montreal Protocol and other regulatory measures" Journal of Geophysical Research , v.108 , 2003 , p.unknown
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