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As the challenge of global climate change intensifies, environmentalists have called for redoubled efforts to preserve forests and ecosystems that are critical in balancing greenhouse gas emissions. Conservation finance is the subject of this volume, based on a conference held in January 2009 in Chile attended by more than 100 conservationists and

In the fall of 2008, Harvard Forest researcher and Highstead ecologist, Ed Faison along with Greta VanScoy mounted flashless digital game cameras on the moose and deer exclosures north of Fisher House and off Locust Opening Road. The goals were to document

• the relative use of the unfenced plots by deer and moose,
• the use of the partial exclosures by deer and
• any

Phenology, the study of biological events controlled by climate, has received increasing interest recently as a method of measuring some ecological responses to a changing climate. In an ongoing study, Museum Coordinator John O'Keefe began observing the dates of leaf emergence, leaf expansion, leaf coloration and leaf fall of 33 native woody species in 1990. In this chapter

Harvard Forest sponsored a weekend retreat for its graduate student researchers to promote interactions and collaborations among students and across universities. Participants included:

• Alix Contosta (University of New Hampshire – Frey lab),
• Minda Berbeco (Tufts University – Orians lab),
• Primrose Boynton (Harvard University – Pringle lab),
• Eddie Brozstek (Boston University – Finzi lab),
• Israel del Toro (University of Massachusetts – Ellison lab),
• Poliana Lemos (Boston University