Land Management Search Results
Resource
Authors
C.E. Smyth
A.J. Dugan
M. Olguin
R.A. Birdsey
C. Wayson
A. Alanís
W.A. Kurz
Managing forests and forest products to help mitigate climate change was quantified in three coordinated studies involving six regions within North America. Each country-specific study examined...
Resource
Authors
Claire Depardieu
Martin Girardin
Simon Nadeau
Patrick Lenz
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Drought intensity and frequency are increasing under global warming, with soil water availability now being a major factor limiting tree growth in circumboreal forests. Still, the adaptive capacity of...
Resource
The Natural Regions and Subregions classification represents the state-of-the-art in ecological land classification in Alberta. This classification provides a valuable baseline for resource management...
Resource
Authors
Martin Girardin
Nathalie Isabel
Xiao Jing Guo
Manuel Lamothe
Isabelle Duchesne
Patrick Lenz
Assisted gene flow between populations has been proposed as an adaptive forest management strategy that could contribute to the sequestration of carbon. Here we provide an assessment of the mitigation...
Resource
American Pika populations in Alberta will likely be capable of persisting throughout this century, although their survival will depend increasingly on successful vertical migration.
Resource
Authors
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...
Resource
Authors
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...
Resource
Authors
Tyler Searls
X. Zhu
D.W. McKenney
R. Mazumder
J. Steenberg
G. Yan
F.-R. Meng
Climate has a considerable influence on tree growth. Forest managers benefit from the empirical study of the historic relationship between climatic variables and tree growth to support forest...
Resource
Authors
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...
Resource
Authors
Christopher Shank
Amy Nixon
This report provides a broad overview of how Alberta species are likely to be affected by climate change by the 2050s. Amphibians were consistently found to be the most vulnerable to climate change
Resource
Authors
Martin Girardin
Xiao Jing Guo
David Gervais
Juha Metsaranta
Elizabeth Campbell
Andre Arsenault
Miriam Isaac-Renton
Edward Hogg
The reduction of freeze exposure with winter warming has consequences for carbon sequestration by northern forests. Quantifying the impact of these changes on tree growth is, however, challenging...
Resource
Authors
Diana Stralberg
Erin Bayne
Steven Cumming
Péter Sólymos
Samantha Song
Fiona Schmiegelow
For some boreal songbirds, limits to forest growth and succession may result in dramatic reductions in suitable habitat over the next century.
Resource
The primary goal of this study was to develop a climate-sensitive modular-based structural stand density management model for red pine plantations situated within central North America. For a given...
Resource
Authors
Ryan Fisher
Troy Wellicome
Erin Bayne
Ray Poulin
Danielle Todd
Adam Ford
Frequency and intensity of extreme weather has increased against a backdrop of anthropogenic land change. Extreme rainfall during the breeding season reduced reproductive success of burrowing owls.
Resource
Authors
Jian Zhang
Scott Nielsen
Jessica Stolar
Youhua Chen
Wilfried Thuiller
We found that 368 species (24%) may lose on average > 80% of their current suitable climates (habitats), while 539 species (35%) were projected to more than double their current suitable range
Resource
Authors
Jesús Camarero
Antonio Gazol
Raúl Sánchez-Salguero
Alex Fajardo
Eliot McIntire
Emilia Gutiérrez
Enric Batllori
Stéphane Boudreau
Marco Carrer
Jeff Diez
Geneviève Dufour-Tremblay
Narayan Gaire
Annika Hofgaard
Vincent Jomelli
Alexander Kirdyanov
Esther Lévesque
Eryuan Liang
Juan Carlos Linares
Ingrid Mathisen
Pavel Moiseev
Gabriel Sangüesa-Barreda
Krishna Shrestha
Johanna Toivonen
Olga Tutubalina
Martin Wilmking
Climate warming is expected to positively alter upward and poleward treelines which are controlled by low temperature and a short growing season. Despite the importance of treelines as a bioassay of...
Resource
Authors
José Riofrío
Joanne White
Piotr Tompalski
Nicholas Coops
Michael Wulder
When combining multi-temporal airborne laser scanning (ALS) data sets, forest height growth assessments can be compromised due to variations in ALS acquisitions. Herein, we demonstrate the importance...
Resource
Authors
D.T. Price
D.W. McKenney
L.A. Joyce
R.M. Siltanen
P. Papadopol
K. Lawrence
Projections of future climate were selected for four well-established general circulation models (GCMs) forced by each of three greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions scenarios recommended by the...
Resource
Authors
Laura Boisvert-Marsh
John Pedlar
Sylvie de Blois
Amael Le Squin
Kevin Lawrence
Daniel McKenney
Charlene Williams
Isabelle Aubin
Species distribution modelling (SDM) has been used to understand how climate affects where tree species currently grow and how those suitable climate conditions could change in the future. These...
Resource
Authors
Jacques Régnière
Lukas Seehausen
Véronique Martel
Despite their importance as mortality factors of many insects, the detailed biology and ecology of parasitoids often remain unknown. To gain insights into the spatiotemporal biology of insect...