U.S. LTER Network  Harvard Forest  Petersham, Massachusetts

 
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Harvard Forest 
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 Institutional affiliations: Harvard University; Universities of New Hampshire and Massachusetts; The Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratory.

Principal biome/main communities: Eastern deciduous forest. Hardwood-white-pine-hemlock forest; spruce swamp forest; conifer plantations.

Research topics: Long-term climate change, disturbance history and vegetation dynamics; comparison of community, population, and plant architectural responses to human and natural disturbance; forest-atmosphere trace gas fluxes; organic matter accumulation, decomposition and mineralization; element cycling, fine root dynamics and forest microbiology.

Site Coordinates:  42.5, -72.2
Site Principal Investigator


DAVID R. FOSTER 
Harvard University 
Harvard Forest 
Petersham, MA 01366 
508/724-3302 
dFoster@LTERnet.edu
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