Black Rock Forest Consortium
Research at the Forest
Current Research

Distribution, Assemblage, and Activity of Bats in a Temperate Urban Landscape. Chanda Bennett (American Museum of Natural History).

Oak Forest Sustainability and Response to Canopy Disturbance.  William Schuster (Black Rock Forest), Shahid Naeem and Maria Uriarte (Columbia University), Kevin Griffin (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University), and Jerry Melillo (The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory).

Cycling of Mercury in Terrestrial Environments.  Allan Frei (Hunter College, CUNY),  Anthony Carpi (John Jay College, CUNY), David Evers (Biodiversity Research Institute) and Roger Claybrook (US Mercury Deposition Network).

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).

Functional Ecology of Complex Plastic Traits in Forest Trees: Pilot Study of Reproductive and Root Traits.  Hilary S. Callahan (Barnard College) and Louise Comas (Pennsylvania State University).

The Autotrophic Contribution to Soil Respiration by Quercus and Its Associated Mycorrhizal Fungi in Black Rock Forest: An Assessment for th Ecosystem Consequence of Foundation Taxon Loss Project.  Kevin Griffin (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University).

Land-Atmosphere Coupling at Black Rock Forest: The Role of Snow, Vegetation, and Soil Thermodynamics.  Gavin Gong (Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University), Jason Smerdon (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University), and Jessie Cherry (University of Alaska).

Effects of Host Defoliation and Distribution on Spatial Patterns in Ectomycorrhizal Fungi.  J. D. Lewis (Fordham University). 

The Tamarack Pond Core as a Rosetta Stone for Impact Events: Correlation to Know Ejecta Layers.  Dallas Abbott (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University).

LongTerm Study (77+ years) of Tree Population Dynamics and Carbon Storage.  William Schuster (Black Rock Forest).

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

Moss-Microarthropod Community Response and Recovery from Environmental Disturbances at Black Rock Forest.  Shahid Naeem and Claire Jouseau (Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia Universtity).

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