boreal forests
Changes in Spatiotemporal Patterns of 20th Century Spruce Budworm Outbreaks in Eastern Canadian Boreal Forests
... of forests by altering ecosystem functioning ( Anyomi et ...American boreal forests ( Hardy et ...fir forests are affected cyclically by SBW outbreaks, and more than 50% of the annual loss of ...
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Fire regime and old-growth boreal forests in central Quebec, Canada: an ecosystem management perspective
... young forests within which islands of older forests are naturally isolated (Johnson et ...of forests to grow for more than 150 years (Bouchard et ...old-growth forests as con- tributors to ...
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Fire Regime along Latitudinal Gradients of Continuous to Discontinuous Coniferous Boreal Forests in Eastern Canada
... Those forests are discontinuous and show a low regeneration potential resulting from the cumulative effects of harsh climatic conditions and very short fire ...coniferous boreal forests along four ...
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Overstory influences on light attenuation patterns and understory plant community diversity and composition in southern boreal forests of Quebec
... wood boreal forests of northwestern Quebec with the objective of understanding how overstory light transmission interacts with composition and time since disturbance to influence the diversity and ...
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Multiscale variation in drought controlled historical forest fire activity in the boreal forests of eastern Fennoscandia
... In the case of stand-replacing fires that are the domi- nant type of fire in mesic, spruce-dominated sites (Walle- nius et al. 2002, Kuuluvainen and Aakala 2011), fire initiates new successions, and acts a strong ...
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Dynamics of Territorial Occupation by North American Beavers in Canadian Boreal Forests: A Novel Dendroecological Approach
... the boreal forest and provide habitats to many organisms [ 16 , 17 ] There are few lakes in Canadian boreal forests that lack a beaver presence; thus, this species has one of the most important roles ...
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Effects of overstory and understory vegetation on the understory light environment in mixed boreal forests
... Mixed Boreal Forests Author(s): Christian Messier, Sylvain Parent, Yves Bergeron Source: Journal of Vegetation Science, ...in Boreal Forests ...
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Consequences of various landscape-scale ecosystem management strategies and fire cycles on age-class structure and harvest in boreal forests
... We based our landscape-level fire model on disturbance history information for the neighbouring Abitibi region, which indicated a mean fire return interval (or “fire cycle”) of 122 years for the period 1850–1920 and 283 ...
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Different regional climatic drivers of Holocene large wildfires in boreal forests of northeastern America
... coniferous boreal forests of eastern North ...of boreal forests in Quebec-Labrador (western, central and eastern regions) displaying same or different relief, current climate conditions, fire ...
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Different regional climatic drivers of Holocene large wildfires in boreal forests of northeastern America
... In the western and central regions, large fires were significantly dependent upon warmer springs and summers, relative to those in the preceding period ( figure 3 ; appendix F), and upon the abundance of fire-prone ...
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Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia
... In boreal forests, how- ever, these edge effects were of moderate strength (MEI ...these forests, which are rela- tively short and often have discontinuous canopies, probably results in them being ...
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Effect of Organic Layer Thickness on Black Spruce Aging Mistakes in Canadian Boreal Forests
... Canadian boreal forests provide a broad range of ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, habitat and biodiversity, air and water purification, and regional and global climate ...These ...
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Monitoring Forest Recovery Following Wildfire and Harvest in Boreal Forests Using Satellite Imagery
... of boreal forests and contribute to their maintenance and renewal ...the boreal forest ...Canadian boreal forest has gradually increased and, in some regions, even replaced fire in terms of ...
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Fine-root production in small experimental gaps in successional mixed boreal forests
... Fine-Root Production in Small Experimental Gaps in Successional Mixed Boreal Forests Author(s): Johanne J. Campbell, Leena Finér, Christian Messier Source: Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 9, No. 4, Key ...
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The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests
... temperate forests of the south, comprising the three southernmost bioclimatic zones dominated by deciduous species ...coniferous boreal forests to the north (n = 7858) (see Appendix S1 for technical ...
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Influence of Time since Fire and Micro-Habitat Availability on Terricolous Lichen Communities in Black Spruce (Picea mariana) Boreal Forests
... old forests; model averaging ...mariana) boreal forests, terricolous lichens belonging to the genus Cladonia tend to be progressively replaced by feather mosses as time since the last stand replacing ...
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Functional ecology of advance regeneration in relation to light in boreal forests
... the boreal forests of North America with an emphasis on the relationship between light availability and the growth and survival of shade tolerant conifers up to pole ...of boreal forest dynamics and ...
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Ranking Importance of Topographical Surface and Subsurface Parameters on Paludification in Northern Boreal Forests Using Very High Resolution Remotely Sensed Datasets
... Canada’s boreal forest covers 27% (equivalent of 270 10 6 ha) of the country’s terrestrial area and has considerable economic and ecological ...climates, boreal forests constitute a source of ...
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Stand dynamics modelling approaches for multicohort management of eastern Canadian boreal forests
... Canadian boreal forests. In these forests, the interval between wildfires can be rather long, and the development of natural forest stands may include the establishment, growth and mortality of ...
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Predicting and managing light in the understory of boreal forests
... in boreal spruces and pines of 5–10% because of timing of needle flush and cast (Chen ...the boreal forest, evergreen species are not photosynthetically active (Jurik et ...evergreen boreal ...
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