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Cladonia subgenus Cladina (the reindeer lichens) can be a dominant part of terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. They are particularly abundant in arctic-alpine and boreal regions, where they are a...
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This brief provides an overview of a toolkit that was created by the Indigenous Knowledge Circle of the NBCKC to support individuals and organizations seeking to learn how to do things differently...
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Juho Rantala
Pertti Harstela
Veli-Matti Saarinen
Leo Tervo
Techno-economically reasonable mechanization of tree planting has proved to be a difficult task in the Nordic working conditions. Although planting machines and combinations of base machine and...
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Françoise Cardou
Alison Munson
Laura Boisvert-Marsh
Madhur Anand
André Arsenault
Wayne Bell
Yves Bergeron
Isabelle Boulangeat
Sylvain Delagrange
Nicole Fenton
Dominique Gravel
Benoît Hamel
François Hébert
Jill Johnstone
Bright Kumordzi
Ellen Macdonald
Azim Mallik
Anne. McIntosh
Jennie McLaren
Christian Messier
Bill Shipley
Luc Sirois
Nelson Thiffault
Isabelle Aubin
Intraspecific trait variability (ITV) provides the material for species' adaptation to environmental changes. To advance our understanding of how ITV can contribute to species' adaptation to a wide...
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Tim Williamson
Mark Johnston
Harry Nelson
Jason Edwards
Canadian forest management agencies have already made significant progress in addressing climate change. Adaptation measures have included undertaking research and completing assessments; implementing...
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This infographic provides an overview of the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change research study at the Petawawa Research Forest.
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Nelson Thiffault
Patricia Raymond
Jean-Martin Lussier
Isabelle Aubin
Samuel Royer-Tardif
Anthony D’Amato
Frédérik Doyon
Benoit Lafleur
Martin Perron
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Sylvie Carles
Patrick Lupien
Annie Malenfant
As part of the Carrefour Forêts 2019 Conference, the forest research branch of Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada...
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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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Pruning is a very useful silvicultural treatment both for improving the final quality of a stand and for controlling certain pests. However, pruning causes wounds that the tree must close as quickly...
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Pruning is a very useful silvicultural treatment both for improving the final quality of a stand and for controlling certain pests. However, pruning causes wounds that the tree must close as quickly...
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Marc-André Parisien
Denyse Dawe
Carol Miller
Christopher Stockdale
Bradley Armitage
Wildland fire scientists and land managers working in fire-prone areas require spatial estimates of wildfire potential. To fulfill this need, a simulation-modelling approach was developed whereby...
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Kishan Sambaraju
Chantal Côté
Invasions of exotic forest insects and pathogens can devastate evolutionarily naïve habitats and could cause irreversible changes to urban and natural ecosystems. Given the ever-increasing volume of...
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John Pedlar
Daniel McKenney
Emily Hope
Sharon Reed
Jon Sweeney
Oak wilt is a disease that kills oak trees and is caused by a fungus named Bretziella fagacearum. Though not currently found in Canada, our distribution models indicate that suitable climate...
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With climate change, current research predicts an increase in forest fires in the wildland-human interface or WHI; several inhabited areas will be more at risk in the years to come. Despite this...
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Loius Archambault
J. Morissette
In Quebec, the bioclimatic zone of balsam fir-yellow birch covers an area of 94,768 km 2. Some of the forest cover types in the area, such as balsam fir-yellow birch, are among the most productive in...
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Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
Beech scale is an introduced insect that damages beech trees; this damage can lead to beech bark disease. The insect was introduced to North America in the late 1800’s and has spread throughout...
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Jordan Seider
Trevor Lantz
Txomin Hermosilla
Michael Wulder
Jonathan Wang
Temperature increases across the circumpolar north have driven rapid increases in vegetation productivity, often described as ‘greening’. These changes have been widespread, but spatial variation in...
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Trees are constantly exposed to a multitude of micro-organisms, but only a few are capable of causing disease. When trees come under attack from micro-organisms, their primary line of defence is a...
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To make up for timber losses caused by fire, salvage logging of burned timber is an economically attractive option. Improved logging practices could promote the establishment of regeneration while...
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This publication discusses the restoration of treed peatlands after disturbances caused by oil and gas activities, particularly in areas where seismic lines have been created. Seismic lines are...