Forests in Time: The Environmental Consequences of 1,000 Years of Change in New England Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
I	A Research Program on Forest Ecology and Change	1
1	Background and Framework for Long-Term Ecological Research	3
2	The Physical and Biological Setting for Ecological Studies	19
3	Biogeochemistry: The Physiology of Ecosystems	32
II	Regional History and Landscape Dynamics	41
4	The Environmental and Human History of New England	43
5	Broadscale Forest Response to Land Use and Climate Change	101
6	Long-Term Forest and Landscape Dynamics	125
7	Wildlife Dynamics in the Changing New England Landscape	142
III	The Modern Forest Landscape: Legacies of Historical Change	169
8	Forest Landscape Patterns, Structure, and Composition	171
9	Land-Use Legacies in Soil Properties and Nutrients	189
10	Exchanges between the Forest and the Atmosphere	202
IV	Understanding Forest Ecosystem Dynamics through Long-Term Experiments	231
11	Simulating a Catastrophic Hurricane	235
12	Exploring the Process of Nitrogen Saturation	259
13	Soil Warming: A Major Consequence of Global Climate Change	280
14	Comparisons between Physical Disturbances and Novel Stresses	296
15	The DIRT Experiment: Litter and Root Influences on Forest Soil Organic Matter Stocks and Function	300
16	Experimental Approaches to Understanding Forest Regeneration	316
17	Synthesis and Extrapolation: Models, Remote Sensing, and Regional Analysis	338
V	Lessons from the Forest and Its History	363
18	Insights for Ecology and Conservation	367
19	The Harvard Forest and Understanding the Global Carbon Budget	380
20	The Long Lens of History	394
	Bibliographic Essay	401
	Bibliography	425
	Contributors	463
	Index	467