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On February 28 and March 2, Harvard Forest project leaders David Foster and Kathy Lambert joined representatives from the US Forest Service and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington DC to host a series of science and policy dialogues for a new research project entitled "Future Scenarios of Forest Change." These 2-hour conversations bring together leading scientists, conservationists, landowner

New methods in detecting species change

Data on insect population sizes collected at the Kellogg Biological Station (KBS) LTER were used in a new paper by a group including HF senior ecologist Aaron Ellison focused on new methods to detect changes in species assemblages through time. The methods, including hierarchical models and bootstrapping, provide ways to detect temporal trends in the

The Harvard Forest received three grants totaling $150,000 from the LTER Program, the Jessie B. Cox Charitable Trust and Highstead to support a new research project on Future Scenarios of Landscape Change. The project brings together scientists and stakeholders to develop narrative scenarios for how climate and land use change will shape forests over the next century in four focal

We are now accepting applications for the 2011 Summer Program from undergraduates and recent graduates who are interested in an intensive research and education experience in ecology. Deadline: Feb. 4, 2011. Learn more.