The first-ever research program of its kind has so far:
- Found rapid increases in tree growth in the forest around the Smithsonian's Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Maryland, USA, a finding attributed to increased atmospheric carbon dioxide and longer growing seasons, published in PNAS.
- Proposed a novel biodiversity theory relating stress and seed-size published in PNAS.
- Examined the effects a changing climate in forests is having on white-tailed deer, mice and even mosquitoes.
- Addressed the lack of a reliable method for estimating the carbon storage capability of secondary forests on a landscape scale by assessing how measurements from airborne LiDAR and other remote sensing technologies relate to ground-based measurements.
- Reviewed how human disturbance changes the way forests take up carbon in diverse environments.