Our co-sponsor

• NORTHEASTERN FORESTS
  • Regionalization Studies at Harvard Forest LTER
    (David Foster, Emery Boose, and John Aber)

• CHESAPEAKE: THE BALTIMORE / WASHINGTON CORRIDOR
  • The Baltimore-Washington Regional Collaboratory Land-Use History Research Program
    (Timothy W. Foresman)

• THE GREAT LAKES REGION
  • Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region
    (Kenneth L. Cole, Margaret B. Davis, Forest Stearns, Glenn Guntenspergen, and Karen Walker)

• THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
  • Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River
    (John C. Nelson, Richard E. Sparks, Lynne DeHaan, and Larry Robinson)

• GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM
  • Natural and Human Drivers of Biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
    (Andrew Hansen, Alisa Gallant, Jay Rotella, and Doug Brown)

• THE ARID SOUTHWEST
  • Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States:
    Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends
    (Craig D. Allen, Julio L. Betancourt, and Thomas W. Swetnam)

• THE PALOUSE: WESTERN IDAHO, EASTERN WASHINGTON AND OREGON
  • Biodiversity and Land-use History of the Palouse Bioregion: Pre-European to Present
    (Anne E. Black, Eva Strand, Penelope Morgan, J. Michael Scott, R. Gerald Wright, and Cortney Watson)

• CONTINENTAL PERSPECTIVES
  • Assessing the Impact of Urban Sprawl on Soil Resources in the United States Using Nighttime "City Lights" Satellite Images and Digital Soils Maps
    (Marc L. Imhoff, David Stutzer, William T. Lawrence, and Christopher Elvidge)

  • Historical Interrelationships Between Population Settlement and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992
    (Margaret Maizel, R. Denis White, Stuart Gage, Leon Osborne, Ralph Root, Susan Stitt, and George Muehlbach)

  • Changing Patterns in the Number of Species in North American Floras
    (Mark A. Withers, Michael W. Palmer, Gary L. Wade, Peter S. White, and Paul R. Neal)
  IMPACTS
  Focus on changes due to modern American society,
  such as expansion of the human population,
  the growth of cities and towns,
  and the development of agriculture.

• LAND COVER CHANGES SINCE THE ICE AGE
  • Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region
    (Kenneth L. Cole, Margaret B. Davis, Forest Stearns, Glenn Guntenspergen, and Karen Walker)

  • Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States:
    Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, and Trends
    (Craig D. Allen, Julio L. Betancourt, and Thomas W. Swetnam)
  
  
• THE EXPANSION OF AGRICULTURE
  • Historical Interrelationships Between Population Settlement and Farmland in the Conterminous United States, 1790 to 1992
    (Margaret Maizel, R. Denis White, Stuart Gage, Leon Osborne, Ralph Root, Susan Stitt, and George Muehlbach)
  
  
• THE SPREAD OF CITIES AND TOWNS
  • The Baltimore-Washington Regional Collaboratory Land-Use History Research Program
    (Timothy W. Foresman)

  • Assessing the Impact of Urban Sprawl on Soil Resources in the United States Using Nighttime "City Lights" Satellite Images and Digital Soils Maps
    (Marc L. Imhoff, David Stutzer, William T. Lawrence, and Christopher Elvidge)
  
  
• THE SPREAD OF EXOTIC SPECIES
  • Changing Patterns in the Number of Species in North American Floras
    (Mark A. Withers, Michael W. Palmer, Gary L. Wade, Peter S. White, and Paul R. Neal)
  
  
• THE CHANGING ROLE OF FIRE
  • Landscape Changes in the Southwestern United States:
    Techniques, Long-term Data Sets, aand Trends
    (Craig D. Allen, Julio L. Betancourt, and Thomas W. Swetnam)

  • Natural and Human Drivers of Biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
    (Andrew Hansen, Alisa Gallant, Jay Rotella, and Doug Brown)
  
  
• DEFORESTATION AND REFORESTATION
  • Historical Landcover Changes in the Great Lakes Region
    (Kenneth L. Cole, Margaret B. Davis, Forest Stearns, Glenn Guntenspergen, and Karen Walker)

  • Presettlement and Contemporary Vegetation Patterns along Two Navigation Reaches of the Upper Mississippi River
    (John C. Nelson, Richard E. Sparks, Lynne DeHaan, and Larry Robinson)