Black Rock Forest Consortium
Research at the Forest
Current Research

Consequences of Oak Loss on Microbial Community Composition and Function. Krista McGuire (Barnard College).

Impacts of Oak Mortality on the Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes scapularis), the Primary Vector of Lyme Disease.  Mary Killilea (New York University).

The Future of Oak Forests.  William Schuster (Black Rock Forest), Kevin Griffin (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University), Shahid Naeem (Columbia University), Kathleen Weathers (Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies), and Jerry Melillo (The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory).

Population Dynamics of Painted Turtles in the Black Rock Forest. Christopher Raxworthy (American Museum of Natural History), William Schuster (Black Rock Forest) and Martha Villaba (Barnard College).

Cycling of Mercury in Terrestrial Environments.  Anthony Carpi (John Jay College, City University of New York) and Allan Frei (Hunter College, City University of New York),

Native Plant Performance along an Urbanization Gradient.  Kevin Griffin and Natalie Boelman(Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University), William Schuster (Black Rock Forest), Matthew Brown (Central Park Conservancy), and J. D. Lewis (Fordham University).

Ecology of Slave-Maker Ants and Their Hosts: The Effect of Geographic Variation in Parasite and Host Range on Co-Evolutionary Trajectories.  Christine A. Johnson (American Museum of Natural History).

The Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics of Coarse Woody Debris in an Oak-Dominated Northeastern Forest.  Matthew Palmer and Dan Flynn (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University) and Kevin Griffin (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University).

Linking Holocene Vegetation and Carbon Accumulation with Hydrological Change Using Macrofossils, C/N, Stable Isotopes and Biomarkers from Sutherland Pond/Fen and Tamarack Pond. Dorothy Peteet (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University).

Small Mammal Response to Oak Removal.   Kate McFadden (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University).

Insect and Arachnid Diversity of Black Rock Forest.  Vladimir I. Ovtsharenko (American Museum of Natural History).

Total Below-Ground Carbon Budget in Black Rock Forest.  Kevin Grffin and Jennifer Levy (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University).