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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Harvard Forest flora: an inventory, analysis and ecological history. Harvard Forest Paper 28, 2008.
  • 2003 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Land-use history as long-term broad-scale disturbance: regional forest dynamics in central New England. Ecosystems 1:96–119.

Overview

Glenn Motzkin is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has an academic focus primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with additional work in Environmental Science. Their research spans multiple subfields including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Ecological Modeling, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist has contributed to topics related to Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies, Plant and animal studies, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, and Lichen and fungal ecology.

Among recent publications, Motzkin co-authored three papers published in the journal Rhodora:

  • Two Centuries of Change in the Native Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2022, Rhodora
  • Patterns and Changes in the Nonnative Flora of Franklin County, Massachusetts, 2024, Rhodora
  • Patterns and Changes in Orchid Frequencies in Southern New England, 2025, Rhodora

Frequent coauthors of Motzkin include Robert I. Bertin, Karen B. Searcy, Matthew G. Hickler, and Peter P. Grima. The scientist's work has been concentrated in the Rhodora publication venue, with three papers featured there.

Glenn Motzkin has received the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America twice, in 2003 and 2009. The 2003 award recognized work on long-term broad-scale disturbance and regional forest dynamics in central New England. The 2009 award cited analysis and ecological history of the Harvard Forest flora.

Best Publications

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

    David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin;Benjamin Slater

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

    Kris Verheyen;Olivier Honnay;Glenn Motzkin;Martin Hermy

  • 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

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

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

  • Controlling site to evaluate history: vegetation patterns of a New England sand plain

    Glenn Motzkin;David Russell Foster;Arthur Allen;Jonathan Harrod

  • The forests of presettlement New England, USA: spatial and compositional patterns based on town proprietor surveys

    Charles V. Cogbill;John Burk;G. Motzkin

  • Avian response to removal of a forest dominant: consequences of hemlock woolly adelgid infestations

    Morgan W. Tingley;David A. Orwig;Rebecca Field;Rebecca Field;Glenn Motzkin

  • Vegetation patterns in heterogeneous landscapes: The importance of history and environment

    Glenn Motzkin;Paul Wilson;David R. Foster;Arthur Allen

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen in a pine-oak sand plain in central Massachusetts: Role of vegetation and land-use history.

    Jana E. Compton;Richard D. Boone;Glenn Motzkin;David R. Foster

  • Wildlife dynamics in the changing New England landscape

    David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin;Debra Bernardos;James Cardoza

  • Grasslands, heathlands and shrublands in coastal New England: historical interpretations and approaches to conservation

    Glenn Motzkin;David R. Foster

  • Interpreting and conserving the openland habitats of coastal New England: insights from landscape history

    David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin

  • WINDOWS OF OPPORTUNITY: HISTORICAL AND ECOLOGICAL CONTROLS ON BERBERIS THUNBERGII INVASIONS

    Brian G. DeGasperis;Glenn Motzkin

  • Historical land use and environmental determinants of nonnative plant distribution in coastal southern New England.

    Betsy Von Holle;Glenn Motzkin

  • Vegetation variation across Cape Cod, Massachusetts: environmental and historical determinants

    Glenn Motzkin;Robert Eberhardt;Brian Hall;David R. Foster

  • Effects of the past and the present on species distribution: land-use history and demography of wintergreen

    Kathleen Donohue;David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin

  • A Historical Perspective on Pitch Pine–Scrub Oak Communities in the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts

    G. Motzkin;W. A. Patterson;D. R. Foster

  • Forest harvesting and land-use conversion over two decades in Massachusetts

    Robert I. McDonald;Glenn Motzkin;Michael S. Bank;David B. Kittredge

  • Integrating lateral expansion into models of peatland development in temperate New England.

    Rebecca L. Anderson;David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin

  • CONSERVATION OF CHANGING LANDSCAPES: VEGETATION AND LAND-USE HISTORY OF CAPE COD NATIONAL SEASHORE

    Robert W. Eberhardt;David R. Foster;Glenn Motzkin;Brian Hall

  • Historical land use and environmental determinants of nonnative plant distribution in coastal southern

    Betsy Von Holle;Glenn Motzkin

Frequent Co-Authors

David R. Foster
David R. Foster Harvard University
Robert I. McDonald
Robert I. McDonald The Nature Conservancy
David A. Orwig
David A. Orwig Harvard University
Richard D. Boone
Richard D. Boone University of Alaska Fairbanks
David B. Kittredge
David B. Kittredge University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jana E. Compton
Jana E. Compton Environmental Protection Agency
Martin Hermy
Martin Hermy KU Leuven
Billie Turner
Billie Turner Arizona State University
Morgan W. Tingley
Morgan W. Tingley University of Connecticut

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