Sixteenth Annual Harvard Forest Ecology Symposium

Harvard Forest's annual ecology symposium, jointly sponsored by Harvard University's NIGEC and LTER Programs, will be held Wednesday, February 23. The meeting will include a series of synthetic talks outlining the developement, accomplishments, and future directions for science in the LTER and NIGEC programs. Presentations will highlight the effects of historical factors, climate forcing, pollution, and land-use on carbon dynamics, invasive species, and ecosystem structure and function. Synthesizing studies through modeling will be emphasized. Posters of current research activities will also be featured.