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Nelson Thiffault
Caludie-Maude Canuel
Michael Hoepting
James Farrell
This fact sheet provides an overview of a study on the management implications of pre-commercial thinning in balsam fir. While the effects of pre-commercial thinning on stand growth and quality are...
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Amir Behzad Bazrgar
Derek Sidders
Naresh Thevathasan
Afforestation systems as a pathway for natural climate solutions contributing to terrestrial C sequestration are influenced by agroclimatic conditions, tree species and clones. This study validated a...
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The jack pine budworm is the most damaging pest of jack pine in eastern Canada, but especially so in the provinces of Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Outbreaks of this budworm occur approximately...
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Ruth Greuel
Geneviève Degré-Timmons
Jennifer Baltzer
Jill Johnstone
Eliot McIntire
Nicola Day
Sarah Hart
Philip McLoughlin
Fiona Schmiegelow
Merritt Turetsky
Alexandre Truchon-Savard
Mario van Telgen
Steven Cumming
Resource Date:
April
2021
New allometric equations to estimate lichen biomass from field measurements of lichen cover and height; allometries were consistent among ecoprovinces, suggesting generalizability
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La tordeuse du pin gris est la plus dommageable ravageur de pin gris dans l’est du Canada, mais surtout dans les provinces de l’Ontario, du Manitoba et de la Saskatchewan. Des éclosions de cette...
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This report is the first stage of a larger study to determine how factors that determine wood quality and quantity change with time-since-death, including the rate of tree fall. The type of wood...
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Dasvinder Kambo
Jack Woods
Michael Stoehr
Catherine Bealle Statland
Miriam Isaac-Renton
This fibre fact provides a validation of tree breeding under 'real world' conditions in confirming stand volume projections from growth and yield models.
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Mar Martinez
Gary Borstad
Leslie Brown
Kaan Ersahin
Michael Henley
Monitoring of reclaimed sites is a complex, interdisciplinary undertaking, especially in large, disturbed areas with difficult access. In that context, remote sensing is a unique and valuable tool...
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The resource information needs of land use, soil handling and revegetation in the US are integral to the reclamation planning and permitting requirements of Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act...
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The current infestation of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is having a significant effect on the lodgepole pine forests of Interior British Columbia. By 2004, 7 million hectares had...
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AMEC Earth & Environmental Limited
Various methods have been developed and used to revegetate sites disturbed by oil and gas activities in Western Canada. Considerable information describing these methods and their effectiveness exists...
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Ronny Seidel
Ullrich Dettmann
Bärbel Tiemeyer
Peat and other organic soils (e.g., organo-mineral soils) show distinctive volume changes through desiccation and wetting. Important processes behind volume changes are shrinkage and swelling. There...
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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Carolyn Pike
Martin Williams
Andrea Brennan
Keith Woeste
James Jacobs
Sean Hoban
Melanie Moore
Jeanne Romero-Severson
Butternut is a relatively uncommon hardwood tree native to eastern North America. The species’ abundance has declined over the past 50 years, primarily because of an invasive pathogen ( Ophiognomonia...
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This thesis investigates the effectiveness of machine learning algorithms for automatic detection of coniferous seedling data along Boreal seismic lines. In order to obtain a survival assessment and...
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Recovery and Resistance: Restoring the wetland plant community after invasive reed control PRESENTER: DR. REBECCA ROONEY, UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO For established invasions, like European common reed...
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Emily Jones
Laura Chasmer
Kevin Devito
Christopher Hopkinson
Climate change in northern latitudes is increasing the vulnerability of peatlands and the riparian transition zones between peatlands and upland forests (referred to as ecotones) to greater frequency...
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Colette Shellian
Julia Linke
Gregory McDermid
Michael Cody
Scott Nielsen
Seismic lines in western Canada's boreal region are linear disturbances that affect the habitat of threatened woodland caribou ( Rangifer tarandus caribou). To hasten the return of forest cover and...
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D. Meidinger
K.A. Baldwin
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural and semi-natural Canadian vegetation. The classification is a hierarchical taxonomy, describing...
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Mélina Guêné-Nanchen
Benoit-St-Hilaire
In light of the many potential benefits of Sphagnum farming and interest from the Canadian horticultural peat industry, some research projects to test small-scale Sphagnum farming approaches were...