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David R. Foster

Harvard University · US
Area of research
Atmospheric Science · Nature and Landscape Conservation
Research interest
Research interests include Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Fire effects on ecosystems, and Tree-ring climate responses.
h-index
76
citations
23,145
works
281
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records
Earth system science data 2022cited by 33position: middledoi
Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long‐Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change
Ecological Monographs 2020cited by 125position: lastdoi
Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 68position: contributordoi
W. W. Oswald et al. reply
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 9position: contributordoi
Author Correction: Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England
Nature Sustainability 2020cited by 0position: contributordoi
Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large‐scale digitization
New Phytologist 2017cited by 408position: middledoi
Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options
Ecological Applications 2016cited by 394position: middledoi
Climate remains an important driver of post‐European vegetation change in the eastern United States
Global Change Biology 2014cited by 116position: middledoi
Four Centuries of Change in Northeastern United States Forests
PLoS ONE 2013cited by 332position: lastdoi
Soil respiration in a northeastern US temperate forest: a 22‐year synthesis
Ecosphere 2013cited by 110position: middledoi
Moisture and temperature changes associated with the mid-Holocene Tsuga decline in the northeastern United States
Quaternary Science Reviews 2013cited by 82position: middledoi

Grants

Rates, timing, & nature of sub-orbital sea-level change during MIS 5e
NSF1559040$503,9052016–2021PIRePORTER
LTER V: New Science, Synthesis, Scholarship, and Strategic Vision for Society
NSF1237491$5,940,3562013–2019PIRePORTER
RCN-SEES: Integrating Land-Use Scenarios, Ecosystem Services, and Linkages to Society (Scenarios, Services, and Society - S3)
NSF1338809$749,6592013–2019PIRePORTER
COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Interacting influences of climate, land use, and other disturbances on regime shifts in forest ecosystems: Holocene dynamics in the northeastern US
NSF1146207$574,7312012–2016PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research and NEON: PalEON - A PaleoEcological Observatory Network to Assess Terrestrial Ecosystem Models
NSF1065646$65,7902011–2014PIRePORTER
LANDSCAPE VULNERABILITY AND RESILIENCE TO GLOBAL CHANGE
NSF1057617$49,9992010–2012PIRePORTER
RAPID: Regional and landscape initiatives at Harvard Forest LTER
NSF0952792$136,5102009–2011PIRePORTER
Significance of the Damara Orogen in Gondwana Assembly: an Evaluation of Detrital Zircon Ages and Isotopic Compositions of Neoproterozoic Metasedimentary Rocks
NSF0738874$291,0232008–2012PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: Ecosystem Responses to Progressive and Rapid Climate Change During the Holocene in New England
NSF0815036$268,0002008–2011PIRePORTER
LTER IV: Integrated Studies of the Drivers, Dynamics, and Consequences of Landscape Change in New England
NSF0620443$5,655,2632006–2013PIRePORTER
Tectono-Thermal Evolution and Exhumation in Transpressional Orogens: the Deep Crust of the Damara Orogen
NSF0440188$228,7792005–2007PIRePORTER
Proposal for a Workshop to Make NEON - A Transformational Ecological Resch Program that Robustly Embraces the Human Dimension to be held in Fall 2005, at Harvard U. Harvard Forest
NSF0545165$28,7032005–2007PIRePORTER
Nutrient Analysis Equipment for Community, Ecosystem, Hydrological and Physiological Research at Harvard Forest
NSF0400759$69,6452004–2007PIRePORTER
Forest Response to the Decline of a Dominant Species: Ecosystem to Regional Analyses of the Impact of the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid on Northeastern Forests
NSF0236897$430,0002003–2007PIRePORTER
Harvard Forest REU Research Program in Forest Ecology
NSF0139495$237,9182002–2005PIRePORTER
A Mobile Canopy Access Platform for Environmental and Physiological Research at Harvard Forest
NSF0200868$63,2842002–2005PIRePORTER
Digital Government: Harvard Forest Carbon Exchange Modeling Work in Connection with Digital Aerial Image Analysis by UMass, Amherst
NSF0121167$10,0002001–2003PIRePORTER
LTER III: Long Term Ecological Research at Harvard Forest
NSF0080592$4,699,8562000–2008PIRePORTER
Acquisition of a Noble Gas Mass Spectrometer for Geochronology and Thermochronology at the University of Florida
NSF0080086$280,0002000–2004PIRePORTER
Amalgamation and Accretion of the Lachlan Orogen: Implications for Continental Crustal Growth and Recycling
NSF0073638$131,1562000–2003PIRePORTER
Human Disturbance in the Context of Environmental Change: Re-evalutating the Long-term Dynamics of New England Forests
NSF9903792$371,0001999–2003PIRePORTER
Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program in Forest Ecology at Harvard Forest
NSF9820286$157,8751999–2002PIRePORTER
FSML- Enhancing Data Management and Telecommunications at the Harvard Forest
NSF9812263$102,0901998–2001PIRePORTER
FSML: Enhancing Harvard Forest's Study of Forest Response to Disturbance: A Research and Education Program Investigating Ecosystem Dynamics in New England
NSF9602528$100,5461996–1998PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

Aaron M. Ellison · Harvard University3 papers (2013–2020)W. Wyatt Oswald · Emerson College3 papers (2020–2020)Elizabeth S. Chilton · Binghamton University3 papers (2020–2020)Bryan Shuman · Brown University3 papers (2020–2020) · 3 papers (2020–2020)Serita D. Frey · University of New Hampshire2 papers (2013–2020)Jerry M. Melillo · Brown University2 papers (2013–2020)Jianwu Tang · Marine Biological Laboratory2 papers (2013–2020)Jonathan R. Thompson · University of Leicester2 papers (2013–2020)Knute J. Nadelhoffer · University of Michigan–Ann Arbor2 papers (2013–2020)Bryan N. Shuman · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign2 papers (2013–2014)Adrien C. Finzi · University of Massachusetts Boston2 papers (2013–2020)Steven C. Wofsy · Planetary Science Institute2 papers (2013–2020) · 2 papers (2013–2020) · 2 papers (2013–2020)Neil Pederson · Columbia University2 papers (2014–2020)David A. Orwig · University of Vermont2 papers (2016–2020)Marc‐André Giasson · Boston University2 papers (2013–2020)Eric A. Davidson · University of Windsor2 papers (2013–2020)J. William Munger · Planetary Science Institute2 papers (2013–2020)