To learn more about NSRC's research projects, please refer to this list of scientific publications and other products by NSRC researchers.
Theme One. Sustaining productive forest communities: Balancing ecological, social, and economic considerations
Anderson, N. and R. Germain, 2007. Variation and trends in sawmill wood procurement in the Northeastern United States. Forest Products Journal 57(10): 36-44.
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Anderson, N. and R.H. Germain. 2009. Land cover, land use and mill characteristics as predictors of wood procurement range. Forest Products Journal 59(11/12):100-107.
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Anderson, N., R.H. Germain and E. Bevilacqua. 2009. Characteristics of transborder wood flow to sawmills in eastern Canada. Forestry Chronicle 85(1): 1-10.
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Anderson, N., R.H. Germain and E. Bevilacqua. 2011.GIS-based spatial analysis of sawmill wood procurement. Journal of Forestry 109(1): 34-42.
View NSRC Project: Germain, 2005
Arseneault, J.E., Saunders, M.R., Seymour, R.S., and Wagner, R.G. 2011. First decadal response to treatment in a disturbance-based silviculture experiment in Maine. Forest Ecology and Management 262:402-412.
View NSRC project: Saunders, 2007
Bagstad, K. and M. Ceroni. 2007. Opportunities and challenges in applying the Genuine Progress Indicator at local scales. International Journal of Environment, Workplace and Employment 3(2): 132-153.
View NSRC Project: Ceroni, 2005
Bagstad, K. and Ceroni, M. 2008. The Genuine Progress Indicator: a new measure of economic development for the Northern Forest. Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies 15 (1): 18-26.
View NSRC Project: Ceroni, 2005
Briggs, N.A. and S.A.Sader. 2009. Tracking forest change and development using low-cost remote sensing imagery and GIS Integration. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 26(4):148-155.
View NSRC Project: Sader, 2006
Brown, T.L. and J.J. Daigle. 2009. Improving access through strengthening state recreation liability statues. Transactions of the 73rd North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, Wildlife Management Institute, Washington, D.C: 125-138.
View NSRC Project: Chase, 2005
Chase, L.C., R.M.J. Boumans, and S. Morse. 2006. Participatory modeling of recreation and tourism. Pages 377-381 in: Burns, R. and K. Robinson (eds.) Proceedings of the 2006 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. April 9-11, 2006, Bolton Landing, New York. U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, General Technical Report NRS-P-14.
View NSRC project: Chase, 2003
Chase, L.C., R. Boumans, and S. Morse. 2010. Participatory modeling as a tool for community development planning: Tourism in the northern forest. Community Development: Journal of the Community Development Society 41(3): 385-397.
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Cianfrani, C.M., W.C. Hession, and M.C. Watzin. 2004. Evaluating aquatic habitat quality using channel morphology and watershed scale modeling techniques. In: Proceedings of the World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Salt Lake City, Utah.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Cianfrani, C.M., S.M.P. Sullivan, W.C. Hession, and M.C. Watzin. 2009. Mixed stream channel morphologies: implications for fish community diversity. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19: 147-156.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Clark, J.S., W.C. Hession, D.M. Rizzo, J. Laible, and M.C. Watzin. 2006. Two-dimensional hydraulic modeling approach to linking stream morphology and aquatic habitat quality. In: Voinov, A., A. Jakeman, and A. Rizzoli, (eds.) Proceedings of the iEMSs Third Biennial Meeting: Summit on Environmental Modelling and Software. International Environmental Modelling and Software Society, Burlington, Vermont, USA, July 2006. CD ROM. Internet: http://www.iemss.org/iemss2006/sessions/all.html
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Clark, J.S., D.M. Rizzo, M.C. Watzin, and W.C. Hession. 2008. Spatial distribution and geomorphic condition of fish habitat in streams: an analysis using hydraulic modeling and geostatistics. River Research and Applications 24: 885–899.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
DeWolfe, M.N., W.C. Hession, and M.C. Watzin. 2004. Sediment and phosphorus loads from streambank erosion in Vermont, USA. In: Sehlke, G., D.F. Hayes, and D.K. Stevens (eds.) Critical Transitions in Water and Environmental Resources Management, American Society of Civil Engineers, Reston, Virginia.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Egan, A., D. Taggart, and I. Annis. 2007. Effects of population pressures on wood procurement and logging opportunities in northern New England. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry, 24(2): 85-90.
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Egan, A. 2009. Characteristics of New York's logging businesses and logging business owners. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 26(3):106-110.
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Egan, A. and D. Taggart. 2009. Public perception of the logging profession in Maine and implications for logger recruitment. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 26(3):93-98.
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Foster, B., D. Wang, and W. Keeton. 2008. An exploratory, post-harvest comparison of ecological and economic characteristics of Forest Stewardship Council certified and uncertified northern hardwood stands. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 26(3): 171-191.
View NSRC project: Wang, 2003
Foster, B., D. Wang, W.S. Keeton, and M.S. Ashton. 2010. Implementing sustainable forestry using six management concepts in an adaptive management framework. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 29 (1) 79-108.
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Hermans, C., and J.D. Erickson. 2007. Multicriteria decision analysis: overview and implications for environmental decision making. Pages 213-228 in: Erickson et al. (eds.) Ecological Economics of Sustainable Watershed Management, Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
View NSRC project: Erickson, 2003
Hermans, C., J.D. Erickson, A. Sheldon, T. Noordewier, and M. Kline. 2007. Collaborative environmental planning in river management: an application of multicriteria decision analysis in the White River Watershed of Vermont, USA. Journal of Environmental Management 84: 534-546.
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Hoover, C, M., Leak, W. B., Keel, B. G. 2012. Benchmark carbon stocks from old-growth forests in northern New England, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 266:108-114.
View NSRC project: Hoover, 2006
Howarth, R.B., and M.A. Wilson. 2006. A theoretical approach to deliberative valuation: aggregation by mutual consent. Land Economics 82: 1-16.
View NSRC project: Erickson, 2003
Keeton, W.S. 2005. Managing for old-growth structure in northern hardwood forests. Pages 107-117 in: C.E. Peterson and D.A. Maguire (eds.) Balancing Ecosystem Values: Innovative Experiments for Sustainable Forestry. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report PNW-GTR-635.
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Keeton, W.S. 2006. Managing for late-successional/old-growth characteristics in northern hardwood-conifer forests. Forest Ecology and Management 235: 129-142.
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Keeton, W.S. 2007. Role of managed forestlands and models for sustainable forest management: perspectives from North America. George Wright Forum 24(3):38-53.
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Kiernan, D.H., E. Bevilacqua, L. Zhang, and R.D. Nyland. 2008. Individual-tree diameter growth model for sugar maple trees in uneven-aged northern hardwood stands under selection system. Forest Ecology and Management 256(2009): 1579-1586.
View NSRC Project: Nyland, 2004
Kiernan, D.H., E. Bevilacqua, L. Zhang, and R.D. Nyland. 2008. Modeling tree mortality in low-and medium-density uneven-aged hardwood stands under selection system using generalized estimating equations. Forest Science 55(4): 1343-1351.
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Klein, J. A. and S. A. Wolf. 2007. Toward multifunctional landscapes: cross-sectional analysis of management priorities in New York’s Northern Forest. Rural Sociology 72(3): 391–417.
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Lishawa, S. C., D. R. Bergdahl, and S. Costa. 2007. Winter conditions in eastern hemlock and mixed hardwood deer wintering areas of Vermont. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37(3): 697-703.
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Long, R. A., T. M. Donovan, P. MacKay, J. S. Buzas, and W. J. Zielinski. 2007. Comparing scat detection dogs, cameras, and hair snares for surveys in carnivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 71: 2018-2025.
View NSRC project: Donovan, 2002
Long, R. A., T. M. Donovan, P. MacKay, J. S. Buzas, and W. J. Zielinski. 2007. Effectiveness of scat detection dogs for detecting forest carnivores. Journal of Wildlife Management 71: 2007-2017.
View NSRC project: Donovan, 2002
McKenny, H.C., W.S. Keeton, and T.M. Donovan. 2006. Effects of structural complexity enhancement on eastern red-backed salamander (Plethodon cinereus) populations in northern hardwood forests. Forest Ecology and Management 230: 186-196.
View NSRC project: Keeton, 2004
Mitchell, B.R., and T.M. Donovan. 2008. Mob mentality: effect of a mobbing playback on avian detection probabilities during point count surveys. Open Ornithology Journal 1:8-19. Internet: http://www.bentham.org/open/tooenij/openaccess2.htm
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North, M.P., and W.S. Keeton. 2008. Emulating natural disturbance regimes: an emerging approach for sustainable forest management. Pages 343-374 in: R. Lafortezza, J. Chen, G. Sanesi, and T. R. Crow (eds.) Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes - Multiple Use and Sustainable Management. Springer-Verlag, New York, New York.
View NSRC project: Keeton, 2004
Pollock, N., L.C. Chase, C. Ginger, and J. Kolodinsky. 2008. Methodological innovations for measuring economic impacts of long-distance recreation trails. Pages 257-263 in: LeBlanc, C. and C. Vogt (eds.) Proceedings of the 2007 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. April 15-17, 2007, Bolton Landing, New York. U.S. Forest Service, Northern Research Station, General Technical Report NRS-P-23.
View NSRC project: Chase, 2004
Ray, D., M.R. Saunders, and R.S. Seymour. 2009. Field Note: Recent changes to the Northeast variant of the Forest Vegetation Simulator and some basic strategies for improving model outputs. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 26(1): 31-34.
View NSRC Project: Seymour, 2005
Ray, D.G, R.S. Seymour, N.A. Scott, and W.S. Keeton. 2009. Mitigating climate change with managed forests: balancing expectations, opportunity, and risk. Journal of Forestry 107(1): 50-51.
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Root, H.T., G.G. McGee, and R.A. Norton. 2007. Arboreal mite communities on epiphytic lichens of the Adirondack Mountains of New York, USA. The Northeastern Naturalist 14: 425-438.
View NSRC project: McGee, 2003
Root, H.T., G.G. McGee, and R.D. Nyland. 2007. Effects of two silvicultural management regimes with large tree retention on epiphytic lichen communities in Adirondack northern hardwoods, New York, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 1854-1866.
View NSRC project: McGee, 2003
Sader, S.A. and K.R. Legaard. 2008. Inclusion of forest harvest legacies, forest type, and regeneration spatial patterns in updated forest maps: a comparison of mapping results. Forest Ecology and Management 255:3846-3856.
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Smith, K.J., W.S. Keeton, M. Twery, and D. Tobi. 2008. Understory plant response to alternative forestry practices in northern hardwood-conifer forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38: 1303-1318.
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Smith, K.W., W. S. Keeton, T. M. Donovan, and B. Mitchell. 2008. Stand-level forest structure in avian habitat: scale dependencies in predicting occurrences in a heterogeneous forest. Forest Science 54: 36-46.
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Sullivan, S.M.P., and M.C. Watzin. 2008. Relating stream physical habitat and concordance of biotic productivity across multiple taxa. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 2667-2677.
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Sullivan, S.M.P., M.C. Watzin, and W.C. Hession. 2006. Differences in the reproductive ecology of belted kingfishers (Ceryle alcyon) across streams with varying geomorphology and habitat quality. Waterbirds 29(3): 258-270.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Sullivan, S.M.P., M.C. Watzin, and W.C. Hession. 2006. Influence of geomorphic condition on stream fish communities in Vermont, USA. Freshwater Biology 51: 1811–1826.
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Sullivan, S.M.P., M.C. Watzin, and W.C. Hession. 2004. Understanding stream geomorphic state in relation to ecological integrity: evidence using habitat assessments and macroinvertebrates. Environmental Management 34: 669-683.
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Sullivan, S.M.P., M.C. Watzin, and W.S. Keeton. 2007. A riverscape perspective on habitat associations among riverine bird assemblages. Landscape Ecology 22: 1169–1186.
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Watzin, M.C. 2007. The promise of adaptive management. Pages 147-158 in: Schnepf, M. and C. Cox, (eds.) Managing Agricultural Landscapes for Environmental Quality: Strengthening the Science Base. Soil and Water Conservation Society Press, Ankeny, Iowa.
View NSRC project: Watzin, 2002
Wolf, S. A., and J. A. Klein. 2007. Enter the working forest: discourse analysis in the Northern Forest. Geoforum 38: 985–998.
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Theme Two. Sustaining ecosystem health in northern forests
Alexander, R., J. Böhlke, E. Boyer, M. David, J. Harvey, P. Mulholland, S. Seitzinger, C. Tobias, C. Tonitto, and W. Wollheim. 2009. Dynamic modeling of nitrogen losses in river networks unravels the coupled effects of hydrological and biogeochemical processes. Biogeochemistry 92:91-116.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Bailey, S.W., B. Mayer, and M.J. Mitchell. 2004. Evidence for the influence of mineral weathering on stream water sulphate in Vermont and New Hampshire. Hydrological Processes 18:1639-1653.
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Bank, M.S., C.S. Loftin, and R.E. Jung. 2005. Mercury bioaccumulation in northern two-lined salamanders from streams in the northeastern United States. Ecotoxicology 14:181-191.
Burgess, N.M., D.C. Evers, and J.D. Kaplan. 2005. Mercury and other contaminants in common loons breeding in Atlantic Canada. Ecotoxicology 14:241-252.
Campbell, J.L., J.W. Hornbeck, M.J. Mitchell, M.B. Adams, M.S. Castro, C.T. Driscoll, J.S. Kahl, J.N. Kochenderfer, G.E. Likens, J.A. Lynch, P.S. Murdoch, S.J. Nelson, and J.B. Shanley. 2004. Input-output budgets of inorganic nitrogen for 24 forest watersheds in the northeastern United States: a review. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 151: 373-396.
View NSRC project: Campbell, 2001
Campbell, J., M.J. Mitchell, and B. Mayer. 2006. Isotopic assessment of NO3- and SO42- mobility during winter in two adjacent watersheds in the Adirondack Mountains, New York. J. Geophys. Res., 111, G04007, doi:10.1029/2006JG000208.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2003
Campbell, J.L., Mitchell, M.J., Mayer, B., Groffman, P.M., and Christenson, L.M. 2007. Mobility of nitrogen-15-labeled nitrate and sulfur-34-labeled sulfate during snowmelt. Soil Science Society of America Journal 71:1934-1944.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2003
Campbell, J.L., L.E. Rustad, E.W. Boyer, S.F. Christopher, C.T. Driscoll, I.J. Fernandez, P.M. Groffman, D. Houle, J. Kiekbusch, A.H. Magill, M.J. Mitchell, and S.V. Ollinger. 2009. Consequences of climate change for biogeochemical cycling in forests of northeastern North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 264-284.
View NSRC project: Rustad, 2004
Chen, C.Y., R.S. Stemberger, N.C. Kamman, B.M. Mayes, and C.L. Folt. 2005. Patterns of Hg bioaccumulation and transfer in aquatic food webs across multi-lake studies in the northeast US. Ecotoxicology 14:135-147.
Craine, J.M., A.J. Elmore, M.P. M. Aidar, R.G. Amundson, M. Bustamante, T.E. Dawson, E.A. Hobbie, A. Kahmen, M.C. Mack, K.K. McLauchlan, A. Michelsen, G.B. Nardoto, L.H. Pardo, J. Peñuelas, P.B. Reich, E.A.G. Schuur, W.D. Stock, P.H. Templer, R.A. Virginia, J.M. Welker, and I.J. Wright. 2009. Global patterns of foliar nitrogen isotopes and their relationships with climate, mycorrhizal fungi, foliar nutrient concentrations, and nitrogen availability. New Phytologist 183:980-992. doi 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02917.x.
View NSRC project: Pardo, 2001
Currie, W.S., K.J. Nadelhoffer, and J.D. Aber. 2004. Redistributions of 15N highlight turnover and replenishment of mineral soil organic N as a long-term control on forest C balance. Forest Ecology and Management 196: 109-127.
Dennis, I.F., T.A. Clair, C.T. Driscoll, N. Kamman, A. Chalmers, J. Shanley, S.A. Norton, and S. Kahl. 2005. Distribution patterns of mercury in lakes and rivers of northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14:113-123.
Dukes, J.S., J. Pontius, D. Orwig, J.R. Garnas, V.L. Rodgers, N. Brazee, B. Cooke, K.A. Theoharides, E.E. Stange, R. Harrington, J. Ehrenfeld, J. Gurevitch, K. Lerdau, J. Stinson, R. Wick, and M. Ayres. 2009. Response of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: what can we predict? Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 231-248.
View NSRC project summary: Rustad, 2004
Evers, D.C., N.M. Burgess, L. Champoux, B. Hoskins, A. Major, W.M. Goodale, R.J. Taylor, R. Poppenga, and T. Daigle. 2005. Patterns and interpretation of mercury exposure in freshwater avian communities in northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology. 14:193-221.
Evers, D.C., and T.A. Clair. 2005. Mercury in northeastern North America: A synthesis of existing databases. Ecotoxicology 14:7.
Evers, D.C., Y. Han, C.T. Driscoll, N.C. Kamman, M.W. Goodale, K.F. Lambert, T.M. Holsen, C.Y. Chen, T.A. Clair, and T. Butler. 2007. Biological mercury hotspots in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. BioScience 57:29-43.
Fennel, K., D. Brady, D. DiToro, R. Fulweiler, W. Gardner, A. Giblin, M. McCarthy, A. Rao, S. Seitzinger, M. Thouvenot-Korppoo, and C. Tobias. 2009. Modeling denitrification in aquatic sediments. Biogeochemistry 92:159-178.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Friedland, A.J. and K.T. Gillingham. 2010. Carbon accounting a tricky business (letter). Science 327:410-411.
View NSRC project: Friedland, 2008
Gbondo-Tugbawa, S.S., C.T. Driscoll, M.J. Mitchell, J.D. Aber, and G.E. Likens. 2002. A model to simulate the response of a northern hardwood forest ecosystem to changes in S deposition. Ecological Applications 12:8-23.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2001
Groffman P.M., M.A. Altabet, J.K. Böhlke, K. Butterbach-Bahl, M.B. David, M.K. Firestone, A.E. Giblin, T.M. Kana, L.P. Nielsen, and M.A. Voytek. 2006. Methods for measuring denitrification: diverse approaches to a difficult problem. Ecological Applications 16:2091-2122.
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Groffman, P., K. Butterbach-Bahl, R. Fulweiler, A. Gold, J. Morse, E. Stander, C. Tague, C. Tonitto, and P. Vidon. 2009. Challenges to incorporating spatially and temporally explicit phenomena (hotspots and hot moments) in denitrification models. Biogeochemistry 92:49-77.
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Groffman, P., E. Davidson, and S. Seitzinger. 2009. New approaches to modeling denitrification. Biogeochemistry 92:1-5.
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Groffman, P.M., J.P Hardy, C.T. Drisoll, and T.J. Fahey. 2006. Snow depth, soil freezing and trace gas fluxes in a northern hardwood forest. Global Change Biology 12:1748-1760.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Hales, H.C., D.S. Ross, and A. Lini. 2007. Isotopic signature of nitrate in two contrasting watersheds of Brush Brook, VT. Biogeochemistry 84:51-66.
View NSRC project: Ross, 2002
Harrison, J., R. Maranger, R. Alexander, A. Giblin, P.-A. Jacinthe, E. Mayorga, S. Seitzinger, D. Sobota, and W. Wollheim. 2009. The regional and global significance of nitrogen removal in lakes and reservoirs. Biogeochemistry 92:143 -157.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Huggett, B.A., P.G. Schaberg, G.J. Hawley, and C. Eagar. 2007. Long-term calcium addition increases growth release, wound closure and health of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) trees at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 1692-1700.
View NSRC project: Schaberg, 2003
Huntington, T.G., A.D. Richardson, K.J. McGuire, and K. Hayhoe. 2009. Climate and hydrological changes in the northeastern United States: recent trends and implications for forested and aquatic ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 199-212.
View NSRC project: Rustad, 2004
Jacobs, N., W. Burgin, N. Fridrich, A. Abrams, K. Miskell, R. Braswell, A. Richardson and R. Pless. 2009. The global network of outdoor webcams: properties and applications. Proceedings ACM GIS '09 (November 4-6, 2009. Seattle, WA, USA), 111-120.
View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Kamman, N.C., N.M. Burgess, C.T. Driscoll, H.A. Simonin, W. Goodale, J. Linehan, R. Estabrook, M. Hutcheson, A. Major, A.M. Scheuhammer, and D.A. Scruton. 2005. Mercury in freshwater fish of northeast North America – a geographic perspective based on fish tissue monitoring databases. Ecotoxicology 14:163-180.
Kamman, N.C., A. Chalmers, T.A. Clair, A. Major, R.B. Moore, S.A. Norton, and J.B. Shanley. 2005. Factors influencing mercury in freshwater surface sediments of northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14:101-111.
Kaste, J.M., A.J. Friedland and E.K. Miller. 2005. Potentially mobil lead fractions in montane organic-rich soil horizons. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 167:139-154.
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Kaste, J.M., A.J. Friedland, and S. Sturup. 2003. Using stable and radioactive isotopes to trace atmospherically deposited Pb in montane forest soils. Environmental Science and Technology 37:3560-3567.
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Kaur, A.J., D.S. Ross and G. Fredriksen. 2010. Effect of soil mixing on nitrification rates in soils of two deciduous forests of Vermont, USA. Plant & Soil 331:289–298.
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Kaur, T., J. Singh, W.M. Goodale, D. Kramar, and P. Nelson. 2005. Developing a cyberinfrastructure for integrated assessments of environmental contaminants. Ecotoxicology 14:275-281.
Keeler, G.J., L.E. Gratz, and K. Al-wali. 2005. Long-term atmospheric mercury wet deposition at Underhill, Vermont. Ecotoxicology 14:71-83.
Kramar, D., W.M. Goodale, L.M. Kennedy, L.W. Carstensen, and T. Kaur. 2005. Relating land cover characteristics and common loon mercury levels using geographic information systems. Ecotoxicology 14:253-262.
Kulkami, M.V., P.M. Groffman, and J.B. Yavitt. 2008. Solving the global nitrogen problem: It's a gas! Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 6(4): 199-206.
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Lazarus, B.E., P.G. Schaberg, D.H. DeHayes, and G.J. Hawley. 2004. Severe red spruce winter injury in 2003 creates unusual ecological event in the northeastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34:1784-1788.
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Lazarus, B.E., P.G. Schaberg, G.J. Hawley, and D.H. DeHayes. 2006. Landscape-scale spatial patterns of winter injury to red spruce foliage in a year of heavy region-wide injury. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:142-152.
View NSRC project: Schaberg, 2004
Lovett, G.M., C.D. Canham, M.A. Arthur, K.C. Weathers, and R.D. Fitzhugh. 2006. Forest ecosystem responses to exotic pests and pathogens in eastern North America. Bioscience 56:395-405.
View NSRC project: Lovett, 2004
Luo, Y-Q, B. Su, W.S. Currie, J.S. Dukes, A. Finzi, U. Hartwig, B. Hungate, R.E. McMurtrie, R. Oren, W.J. Parton, D.E. Pataki, M.R. Shaw, D.R. Zak, and C.B. Field. 2004. Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem responses to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide. Bioscience 54: 731-739.
McCormick, S.D., Keyes, A., Monette, M.Y. and Nislow, K.H. 2009. Impacts of episodic acidification on in-stream survival and physiological impairment of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:394-403.
View NSRC projects: McCormick, 2006 and Nislow, 2003
McNeil, B., E. Denny, and A.D. Richardson. 2008. Coordinating a northeast regional phenology network. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 89: 188-190.
View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Micks, P., M.R. Downs, A.H. Magill, K.J. Nadelhoffer, and J.D. Aber. 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.
Miller, E.K., A. Van Arsdale, G.J. Keeler, A. Chalmers, L. Poissant, N.C. Kamman, and R. Brulotte. 2005. Estimation and mapping of wet and dry mercury deposition across northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14:53-70.
Minocha, R., Long, S., Thangavel, P., Minocha, S.C., Eagar, C., and Driscoll, C.T. 2010. Elevation dependent sensitivity of northern hardwoods to Ca addition at Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, NH, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 260: 2115-2124.
View NSRC project: Minocha, 2004
Mitchell, M.J., S.W. Bailey, J.B. Shanley, and B. Mayer. 2008. Evaluating storm events for three watersheds in the northeastern United States: a combined hydrological, chemical and isotopic approach. Hydrological Processes 22:4023-4034.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2003
Mitchell, M.J., B. Mayer, S.W. Bailey, J.W. Hornbeck, C. Alewell, C.T. Driscoll, and G.E. Likens. 2001. Use of stable isotope ratios for evaluating sulfur sources and losses at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. Water, Air and Soil Pollution 130: 75-86.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2001
Mitchell, M.J., K.B. Piatek, S. Christopher, B. Mayer, C. Kendall, and P. McHale. 2006. Solute sources in stream water during consecutive fall storms in a northern hardwood forest watershed: a combined hydrological, chemical and isotopic approach. Biogeochemistry 78:217-246.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2001
Mohan, J.E., R.M. Cox, and L.R. Iverson. 2009. Composition and carbon dynamics of forests in northeastern North America in a future, warmer world. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 213-230.
View NSRC project: Rustad, 2004
Monette, M.Y., and McCormick, S.D. 2008. Impacts of short-term acid and aluminum exposure on Atlantic salmon physiology: a comparison of parr and smolts. Aquatic Toxicology 86: 216-226.
View NSRC projects: McCormick, 2006 and Nislow, 2003
Monette, M.Y., Yada, T., Matey, V., and McCormick, S.D. 2010. Physiological, molecular and cellular mechanisms of impaired seawater tolerance following exposure of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, smolts to acid and aluminum. Aquatic Toxicology 99:17-32.
View NSRC projects: McCormick, 2006 and Nislow, 2003
Morisette, J.T., A.D. Richardson, A.K. Knapp, J.I. Fisher, E.A. Graham, J. Abatzoglou, B.E. Wilson, D.D. Breshears, G.M. Henebry, J.M. Hanes, and L. Liang. 2009. Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st Century. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7:253-260.
View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Nacci, D., M. Pelletier, J. Lake, R. Bennett, J. Nichols, R. Haebler, J. Grear, A. Kuhn, J. Copeland, M. Nicholson, S. Walters, and W.R. Munns. 2005. An approach to predict risks to wildlife populations from mercury and other stressors. Ecotoxicology 14:283-293.
Nadelhoffer, K.J., B.P. Colman, W.S. Currie, A.H. Magill, and J.D. Aber. 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.
Pardo, L.H., S.G. McNulty, J.L. Boggs, and S. Duke. 2007. Regional patterns in foliar 15N across a gradient of nitrogen deposition in the northeastern U.S. Environmental Pollution 149:293-302. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2007.05.030.
View NSRC project: Pardo, 2001
Pardo, L. H., and Nadelhoffer K. J. 2009. Using nitrogen isotope ratios to assess terrestrial ecosystems at regional and global scales. West, J.B; Bowen, G. J., Dawson, T.E., Tu, K.P. (eds). Isoscapes: Understanding movement, pattern, and process on Earth through isotope mapping. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. October 2009, pp 221-249. doi: 10.1007/978-90-481-3354-3_11.
View NSRC project: Pardo, 2001
Pardo, L.H., P.H. Templer, C.L. Goodale, S. Duke, P.M. Groffman, M.B. Adams, P. Boeckx, J. Boggs, J. Campbell, B. Colman, J. Compton, B. Emmett, P. Gundersen, Kjønaas, G. Lovett, M. Mack, A. Magill, M. Mbila, M. J. Mitchell, G. McGee, S. McNulty, K. Nadelhoffer, S. Ollinger, D. Ross, H. Rueth, L. Rustad, P. Schaberg, S. Schiff, P. Schleppi, J. Spoelstra, and W. Wessel. 2006. Regional assessment of nitrogen saturation using foliar and root d15N. Biogeochemistry 80(2):143-171.
View NSRC project: Ross, 2002
Park, B.B., R.D. Yanai, T.J. Fahey, S.W. Bailey, T.C. Siccama, J.B. Shanley, and N.L. Cleavitt. 2008. Fine root dynamics and forest production across a calcium gradient in northern hardwood and conifer ecosystems. Ecosystems 11:325-341.
View NSRC project: Shanley, 2002
Pennuto, C.M., O.P. Lane, D.C. Evers, R.J. Taylor, and J. Loukmas. 2005. Mercury in the northern crayfish, Orconectes virilis (Hagen), in New England, USA. Ecotoxicology 14:149-162.
Perry, E., S.A. Norton, N.C. Kamman, P.M. Lorey, and C.T. Driscoll. 2005. Deconstruction of historic mercury accumulation in lake sediments, northeastern United States. Ecotoxicology 14:85-99.
Richardson, A.D., B.H. Braswell, D.Y. Hollinger, J.P. Jenkins, and S.V. Ollinger. 2009. Near-surface remote sensing of spatial and temporal variation in canopy phenology. Ecological Applications 19:1417-1428.
View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Richardson, A.D. and J. O’Keefe. 2009. Phenological differences between understory and overstory: A case study using the long-term Harvard Forest records. In: A. Noormets, ed. Phenology of Ecosystem Processes. Springer Science + Business, New York. pp. 87-117. View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Rimmer, C.C., K.P. McFarland, D.C. Evers, E.K. Miller, Y. Aubry, D. Busby, and R.J. Taylor. 2005. Mercury concentrations in Bicknell’s thrush and other insectivorous passerines in montane forests of northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14:223-240.
Rodenhouse, N.L., L.M. Christenson, D. Parry, and L.E. Green. 2009. Climate change effects on native fauna of northeastern forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 249-263.
View NSRC project: Rustad, 2004
Rosfjord, C.H., K.E. Webster, J.S. Kahl, S.A. Norton, I.J. Fernandez, and A.T. Herlih. 2007. Anthropogenically driven changes in chloride complicate interpretation of base cation trends in lakes recovering from acidic deposition. Environmental Science and Technology 41(22): 7688 -7693.
View NSRC project: Kahl 2003
Ross, D.S. 2007. A carbon-based method for estimating the wetness of forest surface soil horizons. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37:846-852.
View NSRC project: Ross, 2002
Ross, D.S., S.W. Bailey, G.B. Lawrence, J.B. Shanley, G. Fredriksen, A.E. Jamison and P.A. Brousseau. 2011. Near-surface soil carbon, C/N ratio and tree species are tightly linked across northeastern USA watersheds. Forest Science 57(6):460-469.
View NSRC project: Ross, 2002
Ross, D.S., B. Fredriksen, A.E. Jamison, B.C. Wemple, S.W. Bailey, J.B. Shanley, and G.B. Lawrence. 2006. One-day rate measurements for estimating net nitrification potential in humid forest soils. Forest Ecology and Management 230:91-95.
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Ross, D.S., J.B. Shanley, J.L. Campbell, G.B. Lawrence, S.W. Bailey, G.E. Likens, B. Wemple, G. Fredriksen, and A.E. Jamison. 2012. Spatial patterns of soil nitrification and nitrate export from forested headwaters in the northeastern USA. J. Geophys. Res. 117, G01009, 14 pp.
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Ross, D.S. and B.C. Wemple. 2011. Soil nitrification in a large forested watershed, Ranch Brook (Vermont), mirrors patterns in smaller northeastern USA catchments. For. Ecol. Manag. 262:1084-93.
View NSRC project: Ross, 2002
Ross, D.S., B.C. Wemple, A.E. Jamison, G. Fredriksen, J.B. Shanley, G.B. Lawrence, S.W. Bailey, and J.L. Campbell. 2009. A cross-site comparison of factors influencing soil nitrification rates in northestern USA forested watersheds. Ecosystems 12:158-178. DOI:10.1007/s10021-008-9214-4.
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Rustad, L.E., and R.M. Cox, eds. 2009. NE Forests 2100: a synthesis of climate change impacts on forests of the northeastern US and eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: v-vii.
View NSRC project: Rustad, 2004
Schaberg, P.G., B.E. Lazarus, G.J. Hawley, J.M. Halman, C.H. Borer, and C.F. Hanson. 2011. Assessment of weather-associated causes of red spruce winter injury and consequences to aboveground carbon sequestration. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41:359-369.
View NSRC project: Schaberg, 2006
Schaberg, P.G., J.W. Tilley, G.J. Hawley, D.H. DeHayes, and S.W. Bailey. 2006. Associations of calcium and aluminum nutrition with the growth and health of sugar maple trees in Vermont. Forest Ecology and Management 223:159-169.
View NSRC project: DeHayes, 2001
Shanley, J.B., N.C. Kamman, T.A. Clair, and A. Chalmers. 2005. Physical controls on total and methylmercury concentrations in streams and lakes of the northeastern USA. Ecotoxicology 14:125-134.
Shanley, J.B., P. Kram, J. Hruska and T.D. Bullen. 2004. A biogeochemical comparison of two well-buffered catchments with contrasting histories of acid depositon. Water, Air and Soil Pollution: Focus 4:325-342.
View NSRC project: Shanley, 2002
Shanley, J.B., B. Mayer, M.J. Mitchell, R.L. Michel, S. Bailey, and C. Kendall. 2005. Tracing sources of streamwater sulfate during snowmelt using S and O isotope ratios of sulfate and 35S activity. Biogeochemistry 76:161-185.
View NSRC project: Mitchell, 2001
Sherman, J., I.J. Fernandez, S.A. Norton, T. Ohno, and L.E. Rustad. 2006. Soil aluminum, iron, and phosphorus dynamics in response to long-term experimental nitrogen and sulfur additions at the Bear Brook Watershed in Maine, USA. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 121:421-429. DOI:10.1007/s10661-005-9140-2.
View NSRC project: Fernandez, 2004
Smith, C.M, and J.T. Luke. 2005. Mercury policy and science in northeastern North America: the mercury action plan of the New England governors and eastern Canadian premiers. Ecotoxicology 14:19-35.
Steinnes, E., and A.J. Friedland. 2005. Lead migration in podzolic soils from Scandinavia and the United States of America. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 85: 291–294.
View NSRC project: Friedland, 2002
Steinnes, E., and A.J. Friedland. 2006. Metal contamination of natural surface soils from long-range atmospheric transport: existing and missing knowledge. Environmental Review 14:169-186.
View NSRC project: Friedland, 2002
Tague, C. 2009. Modeling hydrologic controls on denitrification: sensitivity to parameter uncertainty and landscape representation. Biogeochemistry 92:79-90.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Van Arsdale, A., J. Weiss, G. Keeler, E. Miller, G. Boulet, R. Brulotte, and L. Poissant. 2005. Patterns of mercury deposition and concentration in northeastern North America (1996–2002). Ecotoxicology 14:37-52.
Venterea, R.T., P.M. Groffman, M.S. Castro, L.V. Verchot, I.J. Fernandez, and M.B. Adams. 2004. Soil emissions of nitric oxide in two forest watersheds subjected to elevated inputs. Forest Ecology and Management 196:335-349.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Venterea, R.T., P.M. Groffman, L.V. Verchot, A.H. Magill, and J.D. Aber. 2004. Gross nitrogen process rates in temperate forest soils exhibiting symptoms of nitrogen saturation. Forest Ecology and Management 196:129-142.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Venterea, R.T, P. M. Groffman, L.V. Verchot, A.H. Magill, J.D. Aber, and P.A. Steudler. 2003. Nitrogen oxide gas emissions from temperate forest soils receiving long-term nitrogen inputs. Global Change Biology 9:346-357.
View NSRC project: Groffman, 2002
Watmough, S.A., J. Aherne, C. Alewell, P. Arp, S. Bailey, T. Clair, P. Dillon, L. Duchesne, C. Eimers, I. Fernandez, N. Foster, T. Larssen, E. Miller, M. Mitchell, and S. Page. 2005. Sulphate, nitrogen and base cation budgets at 21 forested catchments in Canada, the United States and Europe. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 109:1-36.
Weiss, J. 2005. Approaches to reducing mercury in North America. Ecotoxicology 14:15-17.
White, M.A., K.M. de Beurs, K. Didan, D.W. Inouye, A.D. Richardson, O.P. Jensen, J. O’Keefe, G. Zhang, R.R. Nemani, W.J.D. van Leeuwen, J.F. Brown, A. de Wit, M. Schaepman, X. Lin, M. Dettinger, A.S. Bailey, J. Kimball, M.D. Schwartz, D.D. Baldocchi, J.T. Lee,and W.K. Lauenroth. 2009. Intercomparison, interpretation, and assessment of spring phenology in North America estimated from remote sensing for 1982 to 2006. Global Change Biology, 15: 2335-2359.
View NSRC project: Richardson, 2007
Yanai, R.D., W.S. Currie, and C.L. Goodale. 2003. Soil carbon dynamics after forest harvest: an ecosystem paradigm reconsidered. Ecosystems 6:197-212.
Yates, D.E., D.T. Mayack, K. Munney, D.C. Evers, A. Major, T. Kaur, and R.J. Taylor. 2005. Mercury levels in mink, Mustela vison, and river otter, Lontra canadensis, from northeastern North America. Ecotoxicology 14:263-274.
Zummo, L.M. and A.J. Friedland. 2011. Soil carbon release along a gradient of physical disturbance in a harvested northern hardwood forest. Forest Ecology and Management. 261(6): 1016-1026.
View NSRC project: Friedland, 2008
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Theme Three. Forest productivity and forest products
Briedis, J.I., J.S. Wilson, J.G. Benjamin, and R.G. Wagner. 2011. Logging residue volumes and characteristics following integrated roundwood and energy-wood whole-tree harvesting in Central Maine. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry.
View NSRC project: Wilson, 2007
Seymour, R.S. 2007. Low-density management of white pine crop trees: A primer and early research results. Northern Journal of Applied Forestry 24: 301-306.
View NSRC project: Seymour, 2006
Wood, D.M., D. Parry, R.D. Yanai, and N.E. Pitel. 2010. Forest fragmentation and duration of forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria Hübner) outbreaks in northern hardwood forests. For. Ecol. Manage. 260(7): 1193-1197.
View NSRC project: Yanai, 2007
Wood, D.M, R.D. Yanai, D.C. Allen, and S. Wilmot. 2009. Sugar maple decline following defoliation by forest tent caterpillar. Journal of Forestry 107(1): 29-37.
View NSRC project: Yanai, 2007