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Overview

David R. Foster is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Environmental Science, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and Medicine. Key subfields within their body of work include Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Epidemiology.

Foster's contributions cover a variety of topics related to environmental and ecological processes. These topics include:

  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Rangeland and Wildlife Management
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Burn Injury Management and Outcomes

The researcher's recent publications illustrate a diverse range of interests:

  • Carbon budget of the Harvard Forest Long-Term Ecological Research site: pattern, process, and response to global change (2020, Ecological Monographs)
  • Conservation implications of limited Native American impacts in pre-contact New England (2020, Nature Sustainability)
  • A Multicenter Evaluation of Outcomes Following the Use of Nebulized Heparin for Inhalation Injury (HIHI2 Study) (2020, Journal of Burn Care & Research)
  • The Reading Palaeofire Database: an expanded global resource to document changes in fire regimes from sedimentary charcoal records (2022, Earth System Science Data)
  • Cascading effects: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network (2021, Ecosphere)

Foster frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Bryan N. Shuman
  • W. Wyatt Oswald
  • Todd A. Walroth
  • Allyson M McIntire
  • Jonathan R. Thompson

Their work is regularly published in specific academic venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • Journal of Burn Care & Research
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Quaternary Research
  • American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy
  • Rhodora

Best Publications

  • Loss of foundation species: consequences for the structure and dynamics of forested ecosystems

    Aaron M. Ellison;Michael S. Bank;Barton D. Clinton;Elizabeth A. Colburn

  • The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation

    David Foster;Frederick Swanson;John Aber;Ingrid Burke

  • Land-Use History (1730-1990) and Vegetation Dynamics in Central New England, USA

    David R. Foster

  • The changing landscape : ecosystem responses to urbanization and pollution across climatic and societal gradients

    Nancy B. Grimm;David R. Foster;Peter M. Groffman;J. Morgan Grove

  • Land-Use History as Long-Term Broad-Scale Disturbance: Regional Forest Dynamics in Central New England

    David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin;Benjamin Slater

  • Changes in Fire Regimes Since the Last Glacial Maximum: An Assessment Based on a Global Synthesis and Analysis of Charcoal Data

    Mitch J. Power;J. Marlon;N. Ortiz;P. J. Bartlein

  • Landscape Patterns and Legacies Resulting from Large, Infrequent Forest Disturbances

    David R. Foster;Dennis H. Knight;Jerry F. Franklin

  • Forest response to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid in southern New England, USA.

    David A. Orwig;David R. Foster

  • Species and stand response to catastrophic wind in central New England, U.S.A

    David R. Foster

  • Hurricane impacts to tropical and temperate forest landscapes

    Emery Robert Boose;David Russell Foster;Marcheterre Fluet

  • Threads of Continuity There are immense differences between even-aged silvicultural disturbances (especially clearcutting) and natural disturbances, such as windthrow, wildfire, and even volcanic eruptions.

    Jerry F. Franklin;David Lindenmayer;James A. MacMahon;Arthur McKee

  • Patterns of forest damage resulting from catastrophic wind in central New England, USA

    David R. Foster;Emery R. Boose

  • Disturbance history, community organization and vegetation dynamics of the old-growth pisgah forest, South-Western New Hampshire, U.S.A

    David R. Foster

  • Landscape patterns of hemlock decline in New England due to the introduced hemlock woolly adelgid

    David A. Orwig;David R. Foster;David L. Mausel

  • Response of forest plant species to land-use change: a life-history trait-based approach

    Kris Verheyen;Olivier Honnay;Glenn Motzkin;Martin Hermy

  • Widespread sampling biases in herbaria revealed from large-scale digitization

    Barnabas H. Daru;Daniel S. Park;Richard B. Primack;Charles G. Willis

  • Legacies of the agricultural past in the forested present: an assessment of historical land-use effects on rich mesic forests

    Jesse Bellemare;Glenn Motzkin;David R. Foster

  • Nonnative forest insects and pathogens in the United States: Impacts and policy options.

    Gary M. Lovett;Marissa S. Weiss;Andrew M. Liebhold;Thomas P. Holmes

  • Three hundred years of forest and land‐use change in Massachusetts, USA

    Brian Hall;Glenn Motzkin;David R. Foster;Mindy Syfert

  • Salvage Harvesting Policies After Natural Disturbance

    D. B. Lindenmayer;D. R. Foster;J. F. Franklin;M. L. Hunter

Frequent Co-Authors

Glenn Motzkin
Glenn Motzkin Harvard University
David A. Orwig
David A. Orwig Harvard University
Bryan N. Shuman
Bryan N. Shuman University of Wyoming
Anthony W. D'Amato
Anthony W. D'Amato University of Vermont
Aaron M. Ellison
Aaron M. Ellison Harvard University
John D. Aber
John D. Aber University of New Hampshire
Juzhi Hou
Juzhi Hou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jerry F. Franklin
Jerry F. Franklin University of Washington
Yongsong Huang
Yongsong Huang Brown University
Charles T. Driscoll
Charles T. Driscoll Syracuse University

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