Cary Forest Response to Stress and Damage (FORSTAD) and long term forest monitoring project overview
The Forest Response to Stress and Damage (frequently referred to as FORSTAD) and long term forest monitoring project began approximately in 1992 to study how mixed-oak forests respond to multiple forms of environmental change. Most of the project data collection was collected over a period of approximately 10 years, however, some of the data that contributed to the project predate the onset of FORSTAD project, some data continued to be collected after the project ended and some data are still being collected as of 2024. Several additional projects developed as a result of and/or in conjunction with the FORSTAD project. The research took place at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in the Hudson Valley of New York. FORSTAD included several sub-projects including (1) nutrient cycling, (2) spongy moth dynamics, (3) small mammal dynamics and 4) vegetation dynamics.
This is an overview of the project and sub-projects, authored by Vicky Kelly. This overview contains descriptions of each sub-project, funders, a bibliography and detailed plot locations including maps.
Funding
General Reinsurance Corporation, Long-term monitoring of critical environmental problems
Direct and Indirect Effects on Community Resilience in Oak Forests
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...Marilyn M. Simpson Endowment Funds, Mouse-mast-moth project (3M)
LTREB: Effects of Insect Defoliation on Nitrogen Loss from Forest Ecosystems
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...Direct and Indirect Effects on Community Resilience in Oak Forests
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...LTREB: Pulsed Resources and the Dynamics of Rodents, Ticks, and Lyme-disease Risk in Oak Forests
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Heterogenous defoliation in forested landscape mosaics: A spatial analysis of causes
NYSERDA, Monitoring the deposition & effects of air pollution in the Hudson Valley
LTREB: Exotic Pests, Nitrogen Saturation, and Nutrient Cycling in a Northeastern Forest
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...Of Moths and Mice: The Influence of Dispersal Distance and Local Predation Risk on Persistence of a Sparse Prey
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Find out more...COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Hot Today, Cold Tomorrow? Variable Persistence of Generalist Predator Hot Spots and the Dynamics of their Prey and Parasites
Directorate for Biological Sciences
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