Research

Research in this area focuses on

• studying forest diseases (e.g. Armillaria), their physiology and life cycles, in order to control outbreaks and manage their spread; and
• developing biological pesticides and alternative controls.

Also included in forest pathology studies is damage caused by noninfectious disease agents such as humans (through air and soil contamination), animals, and weather.

National

• Forest Health in Canada

Pacific Forestry Centre

• Development of biological control strategy for management of dwarf mistletoes
• Forest Pathology Herbarium
• Forest Pathology Home Page
• Fungal parasites of lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe in British Columbia
• Histopathological examination of western hemlock dwarf mistletoe infected with potential biocontrol fungi
• Root and Butt Rot : A Sustainable Forestry Issue

Northern Forestry Centre

• Climate Change Impacts on the Productivity and Health of Aspen (CIPHA)
• EMEND (Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance)
• Biodiversity Research (Forest Insect Biodiversity Team)

Great Lakes Forestry Centre

• Biological Control of Forest Pests and Elucidation of Their Interactive Processes Frontline Express Note 5
• Effects of Partial Cutting on the Incidences of Tree Wounding Microbial Succession and Tree Mortality Frontline Express Note 17
• Epidemiology of Armillaria Root Disease in Plantations Frontline Express Note 6
• Forest Pathology Project
• Growth Loss Resulting from Infection by Armillaria Root Disease Frontline Express Note 7
• Molecular Forest Pathology Frontline Express Note 1

Laurentian Forestry Centre

• DNA: A print to identify pests
• Forest monitoring: ARNEWS and NAMP
• Freezing rain and forests: Minimizing damage
• René Pomerleau Herbarium
• Stepping stones to the development of resistant elms
• Unlocking the secrets of fungi
• Yellow birch more vulnerable to ice damage than previously thought

Atlantic Forestry Centre

Fact Sheets

• Boreal Spruce - Balsam Fir Forests: Resolving a Pathological Mystery