Scientific Graphics

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Wind roses showing wind direction and speed on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Analysis of National Weather Service data done in the statistical program R using the Windrose library and neatened up in Adobe Illustrator (from Foster, 2017).
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Conceptual graph of wildlife changes in New England since European settlement due to landcover changes, hunting, animal arrivals, and species reintroductions (Information from James Cardoza at Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife and researchers at the Harvard Forest).
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Citations:

Foster, David R. 2017. A Meeting of Land and Sea: Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard. Yale University Press.

Duranleau, Deena L. 2009. Flexible Sedentism: The Subsistence and Settlement of Coastal New England and New York. Ph.D. thesis, Harvard University.

Guswa, A. J., Hall, B., Cheng, C., Thompson, J. R. 2020. Co-designed Land-use Scenarios and their Implications for Storm Runoff and Streamflow in New England. Environmental Management 66: 785–800.

Orbay-Cerrato, M. E., Oswald, W. W., Doughty, E. D., Foster, D. R., Hall, B. R. 2016. Historic grazing in southern New England, USA, recorded by fungal spores in lake sediments. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 26: 159-165.

Oswald, W. W., Foster, D. R., Shuman, B. N., Doughty, E. D., Faison, E. K., Hall, B. R., Hansen, B. C. S., Lindbladh, M., Marroquin, A., Truebe, S. A. 2018. Subregional variability in the response of New England vegetation to postglacial climate change. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2375–2388.