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Choi, D., LaRue, E., Atkins, J., Foster, J.R., Matthes, J. Hatala, Fahey, R., Thapa, B., Fei, S., Hardiman, B. (2023). Short-term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure. Journal of Ecology.
Thapa, B., Wolter, P. T., Sturtevant, B. R., Foster, J. R., & Townsend, P. A. (2023). Linking frass and insect phenology to optimize annual forest defoliation estimation. MethodsX, 10, 102075.
LaRue, E. A., Fahey, R., Fuson, T. L., Foster, J. R., Matthes, J. H., Krause, K., & Hardiman, B. S. (2022). Evaluating the sensitivity of forest structural diversity characterization to LiDAR point density. Ecosphere, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4209.
Pastore, M.A., Classen, A.T., D’Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., Adair, E.C. (2022). Cold-air pools as microrefugia for ecosystem functions in the face of climate change. Ecology 103:8. e3717
Andrews, C.A., Foster, J.R., Weiskittel, A., D’Amato, A.W., Simons-Legaard, E. (2022). Integrating historical observations alters projections of eastern North American spruce-fir habitat under climate change. Ecosphere 13 (4).
Gough, C. M., Foster, J. R., Bond-Lamberty, B., & Tallant, J. M. (2022). Inferring the effects of partial defoliation on the carbon cycle from forest structure: challenges and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters: ERL [Web Site], 17(1), 011002.
Teitelbaum, C.S., Sirén, A.P.K., Coffel, E., Foster, J.R., Frair, J.L., Hinton, J.W., et al. (2021). Habitat use as indicator of adaptive capacity to climate change. Diversity and Distributions 27 (4).
Nevins, M.T., J.A., D'Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., (2021). Future forest composition under a changing climate and adaptive forest management in southeastern Vermont, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 479, 118527.
Woodall, C.W., Westfall, J.A., D'Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., Walters, B.F, (2018). Decadal changes in tree range stability across forests of the eastern U.S. Forest ecology and management, 429, pp.503–510.
Lucash, M.S., Scheller, R.M., Sturtevant, B.R., Gustafson, E.J., Kretchun, A., Foster, J.R. (2018). More than the sum of its parts – How disturbance interactions shape forest dynamics under climate change. Ecosphere 9 (6): e02293..
Foster, J.R. (2017). Xylem traits, leaf longevity and growth phenology predict growth and mortality response to defoliation in northern temperate forests. Tree Physiology 37:1151-1165.
Itter, M.S., Finley, A.O., D’Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., and J.B. Bradford. (2017). Variable effects of climate on forest growth in relation to climate extremes, disturbance, and forest dynamics. Ecological Applications 27:1082-1095.
Gustafson, E.J., de Bruijn, A., Lichti, N., Jacobs, D.F., Sturtevant, B.R., Foster, J.R., Miranda, B., Dalgleish, H.J. (2017). The implications of American chestnut reintroduction on landscape dynamics and carbon storage. Ecosphere 8:e01773.
Curzon, M.T., D'Amato, A.W., Fraver, S., Palik, B.J., Bottero, A., Foster, J.R., Gleason, K.E. (2017). Harvesting influences functional identity and diversity over time in forests of the northeastern U.S.A. Forest Ecology and Management 400:93-99.
Foster, J.R., Finley, A.O., A.W. D’Amato, Bradford, J.B., and S. Banerjee. (2016). Predicting tree biomass growth in the temperate-boreal ecotone: is tree size, age, competition or climate response most important? Global Change Biology 22:2138-2151.
Foster, J.R. and A.W. D’Amato (2015) Montane forest ecotones moved downslope in northeastern US in spite of warming between 1984 and 2011. Global Change Biology 21:4497-4507.
Foster, J.R., D’Amato, A.W. and J.B. Bradford. (2014) Looking for age-related growth decline in natural forests: unexpected biomass patterns from tree rings and simulated mortality. Oecologia 175:363-374.
de Bruijn, A., Gustafson, E., Sturtevant, B.R., Foster, J.R., Miranda, B.R., Lichti, N.I. and D.F. Jacobs (2014). Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: Embedding PnET within LANDIS-II. Ecological Modelling 287:44-57.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A. and D.J. Mladenoff, (2013). Mapping asynchrony between gypsy moth egg-hatch and forest leaf-out: putting the phenological window hypothesis in a spatial context. Forest Ecology and Management 287:67-76.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A., and D.J. Mladenoff, (2013). Spatial dynamics of a gypsy moth defoliation outbreak and dependence on habitat characteristics. Landscape Ecology 28:1307-1320.
Foster, J.R., Burton, J.I., Forrester, J.A., Liu, F., Muss, J.D., Sabatini, F.M., Scheller, R.M., and D.J. Mladenoff. (2010). Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth is questionable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:E86-E87.
Townsend, P.A., Singh A., Foster, J.R., ., Rehberg, N.J., Kingdon, C.C, Eshleman, K.N. and S.W. Seagle. 2012. A general Landsat model to predict canopy defoliation in broadleaf deciduous forests. Remote Sensing of Environment 119:255-265.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A. and C.E. Zganjar, 2008. Spatial and temporal patterns of gap dominance by low-canopy lianas detected using EO-1 Hyperion and Landsat Thematic Mapper. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:2104-2117.
McNeil, B.E., deBeurs, K.M., Eshelman, K.N., Foster, J.R., and P.A. Townsend. 2007. Maintenance of ecosystem nitrogen limitation by ephemeral forest disturbance: An assessment using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (19):L19406.
Foster, J.R. and P.A. Townsend, 2004. Linking hyperspectral imagery and forest inventories for forest assessment in the central Appalachians. Proceedings, 14th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference 2004 March 16-19; Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-316. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Northeastern Research Station.
Townsend, P.A., Foster, J.R., Chastain, R.A., Jr. and W.S. Currie, 2003. Application of imaging spectroscopy to mapping canopy nitrogen in the forests of the central Appalachian mountains using Hyperion and AVIRIS. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41:1347-1354.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster, 2002. A synthetic aperture radar-based model to assess historical changes in lowland floodplain hydroperiod. Water Resources Research 38(7):1115.
In review
Proceedings and technical reports
Young, J., Fleming, G., Townsend, P.A., and J.R. Foster. 2006. Vegetation of Shenendoah National Park in Relation to Environmental Gradients: Final Report (v1.1). USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program, US Department of Interior National Park Service.
Foster, J.R., C.C. Kingdon and P.A. Townsend. 2002. Predicting tropical forest carbon from EO-1 hyperspectral imagery in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster. 2002. Comparison of EO-1 Hyperion to AVIRIS for mapping forest composition in the Appalachian Mountains, USA. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Foster, J.R. and P.A. Townsend. 2002. Mapping forest composition in the Central Appalachians using AVIRIS: Effects of topography and phenology. In Proceedings of the 11th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, R.O. Green, Ed. Pasadena, CA, 2002.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster.2002. Terrain normalization of AVIRIS and Hyperion imagery in forested landscapes. In Proceedings of the 11th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, R.O. Green, Ed. Pasadena, CA, 2002.
Smith, R.B., Foster, J.R., Kouchoukos, N., Gluhosky, P.A., Young, R., J. Zhang and E. Depauw 2000. Hydrologic trends in the Middle East: Modeling and Remote Sensing. ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria.
Kouchoukos, N., Smith, R.B., Gleason, A., Thenkabail, P., Hole, F., Barkoudah, Y., Albert, J., Gluhosky, P. and J. Foster. 1998. Monitoring the distribution, use, and regeneration of natural resources in semi-arid Southwest Asia. In: Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. Albert, J., Bernhardsson, M. and R. Kenna, Editors. Bulletin Series Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 103.
Choi, D., LaRue, E., Atkins, J., Foster, J.R., Matthes, J. Hatala, Fahey, R., Thapa, B., Fei, S., Hardiman, B. (2023). Short-term effects of moderate severity disturbances on forest canopy structure. Journal of Ecology.
Thapa, B., Wolter, P. T., Sturtevant, B. R., Foster, J. R., & Townsend, P. A. (2023). Linking frass and insect phenology to optimize annual forest defoliation estimation. MethodsX, 10, 102075.
LaRue, E. A., Fahey, R., Fuson, T. L., Foster, J. R., Matthes, J. H., Krause, K., & Hardiman, B. S. (2022). Evaluating the sensitivity of forest structural diversity characterization to LiDAR point density. Ecosphere, 13(9). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4209.
Pastore, M.A., Classen, A.T., D’Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., Adair, E.C. (2022). Cold-air pools as microrefugia for ecosystem functions in the face of climate change. Ecology 103:8. e3717
Andrews, C.A., Foster, J.R., Weiskittel, A., D’Amato, A.W., Simons-Legaard, E. (2022). Integrating historical observations alters projections of eastern North American spruce-fir habitat under climate change. Ecosphere 13 (4).
Gough, C. M., Foster, J. R., Bond-Lamberty, B., & Tallant, J. M. (2022). Inferring the effects of partial defoliation on the carbon cycle from forest structure: challenges and opportunities. Environmental Research Letters: ERL [Web Site], 17(1), 011002.
Teitelbaum, C.S., Sirén, A.P.K., Coffel, E., Foster, J.R., Frair, J.L., Hinton, J.W., et al. (2021). Habitat use as indicator of adaptive capacity to climate change. Diversity and Distributions 27 (4).
Nevins, M.T., J.A., D'Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., (2021). Future forest composition under a changing climate and adaptive forest management in southeastern Vermont, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 479, 118527.
Woodall, C.W., Westfall, J.A., D'Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., Walters, B.F, (2018). Decadal changes in tree range stability across forests of the eastern U.S. Forest ecology and management, 429, pp.503–510.
Lucash, M.S., Scheller, R.M., Sturtevant, B.R., Gustafson, E.J., Kretchun, A., Foster, J.R. (2018). More than the sum of its parts – How disturbance interactions shape forest dynamics under climate change. Ecosphere 9 (6): e02293..
Foster, J.R. (2017). Xylem traits, leaf longevity and growth phenology predict growth and mortality response to defoliation in northern temperate forests. Tree Physiology 37:1151-1165.
Itter, M.S., Finley, A.O., D’Amato, A.W., Foster, J.R., and J.B. Bradford. (2017). Variable effects of climate on forest growth in relation to climate extremes, disturbance, and forest dynamics. Ecological Applications 27:1082-1095.
Gustafson, E.J., de Bruijn, A., Lichti, N., Jacobs, D.F., Sturtevant, B.R., Foster, J.R., Miranda, B., Dalgleish, H.J. (2017). The implications of American chestnut reintroduction on landscape dynamics and carbon storage. Ecosphere 8:e01773.
Curzon, M.T., D'Amato, A.W., Fraver, S., Palik, B.J., Bottero, A., Foster, J.R., Gleason, K.E. (2017). Harvesting influences functional identity and diversity over time in forests of the northeastern U.S.A. Forest Ecology and Management 400:93-99.
Foster, J.R., Finley, A.O., A.W. D’Amato, Bradford, J.B., and S. Banerjee. (2016). Predicting tree biomass growth in the temperate-boreal ecotone: is tree size, age, competition or climate response most important? Global Change Biology 22:2138-2151.
Foster, J.R. and A.W. D’Amato (2015) Montane forest ecotones moved downslope in northeastern US in spite of warming between 1984 and 2011. Global Change Biology 21:4497-4507.
Foster, J.R., D’Amato, A.W. and J.B. Bradford. (2014) Looking for age-related growth decline in natural forests: unexpected biomass patterns from tree rings and simulated mortality. Oecologia 175:363-374.
de Bruijn, A., Gustafson, E., Sturtevant, B.R., Foster, J.R., Miranda, B.R., Lichti, N.I. and D.F. Jacobs (2014). Toward more robust projections of forest landscape dynamics under novel environmental conditions: Embedding PnET within LANDIS-II. Ecological Modelling 287:44-57.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A. and D.J. Mladenoff, (2013). Mapping asynchrony between gypsy moth egg-hatch and forest leaf-out: putting the phenological window hypothesis in a spatial context. Forest Ecology and Management 287:67-76.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A., and D.J. Mladenoff, (2013). Spatial dynamics of a gypsy moth defoliation outbreak and dependence on habitat characteristics. Landscape Ecology 28:1307-1320.
Foster, J.R., Burton, J.I., Forrester, J.A., Liu, F., Muss, J.D., Sabatini, F.M., Scheller, R.M., and D.J. Mladenoff. (2010). Evidence for a recent increase in forest growth is questionable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:E86-E87.
Townsend, P.A., Singh A., Foster, J.R., ., Rehberg, N.J., Kingdon, C.C, Eshleman, K.N. and S.W. Seagle. 2012. A general Landsat model to predict canopy defoliation in broadleaf deciduous forests. Remote Sensing of Environment 119:255-265.
Foster, J.R., Townsend, P.A. and C.E. Zganjar, 2008. Spatial and temporal patterns of gap dominance by low-canopy lianas detected using EO-1 Hyperion and Landsat Thematic Mapper. Remote Sensing of Environment 112:2104-2117.
McNeil, B.E., deBeurs, K.M., Eshelman, K.N., Foster, J.R., and P.A. Townsend. 2007. Maintenance of ecosystem nitrogen limitation by ephemeral forest disturbance: An assessment using MODIS, Hyperion, and Landsat ETM. Geophysical Research Letters 34 (19):L19406.
Foster, J.R. and P.A. Townsend, 2004. Linking hyperspectral imagery and forest inventories for forest assessment in the central Appalachians. Proceedings, 14th Central Hardwoods Forest Conference 2004 March 16-19; Wooster, OH. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-316. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forest Service. Northeastern Research Station.
Townsend, P.A., Foster, J.R., Chastain, R.A., Jr. and W.S. Currie, 2003. Application of imaging spectroscopy to mapping canopy nitrogen in the forests of the central Appalachian mountains using Hyperion and AVIRIS. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 41:1347-1354.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster, 2002. A synthetic aperture radar-based model to assess historical changes in lowland floodplain hydroperiod. Water Resources Research 38(7):1115.
In review
Proceedings and technical reports
Young, J., Fleming, G., Townsend, P.A., and J.R. Foster. 2006. Vegetation of Shenendoah National Park in Relation to Environmental Gradients: Final Report (v1.1). USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program, US Department of Interior National Park Service.
Foster, J.R., C.C. Kingdon and P.A. Townsend. 2002. Predicting tropical forest carbon from EO-1 hyperspectral imagery in Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster. 2002. Comparison of EO-1 Hyperion to AVIRIS for mapping forest composition in the Appalachian Mountains, USA. In Proceedings of the 2002 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.
Foster, J.R. and P.A. Townsend. 2002. Mapping forest composition in the Central Appalachians using AVIRIS: Effects of topography and phenology. In Proceedings of the 11th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, R.O. Green, Ed. Pasadena, CA, 2002.
Townsend, P.A. and J.R. Foster.2002. Terrain normalization of AVIRIS and Hyperion imagery in forested landscapes. In Proceedings of the 11th JPL Airborne Earth Science Workshop, R.O. Green, Ed. Pasadena, CA, 2002.
Smith, R.B., Foster, J.R., Kouchoukos, N., Gluhosky, P.A., Young, R., J. Zhang and E. Depauw 2000. Hydrologic trends in the Middle East: Modeling and Remote Sensing. ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria.
Kouchoukos, N., Smith, R.B., Gleason, A., Thenkabail, P., Hole, F., Barkoudah, Y., Albert, J., Gluhosky, P. and J. Foster. 1998. Monitoring the distribution, use, and regeneration of natural resources in semi-arid Southwest Asia. In: Transformations of Middle Eastern Natural Environments: Legacies and Lessons. Albert, J., Bernhardsson, M. and R. Kenna, Editors. Bulletin Series Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 103.