-Global change and wildland fire activity
- Data acquisition - permanent sample plot network
- Decision support systems for allowable cut effect
- Development of a jack pine budworm decision support system for Ontario
- Aquatic ecotoxicology - Neem
- Aquatic responses to forestry practices
- Environmental chemistry - research, assessment and modeling
- Forest regeneration assessment using high-resolution CIR digital camera imaging
- Knowledge benchmarking and meta-Analysis for Allowable Cut Effect (ACE)
- Investigation of forest fire behavior and impacts
- The physical processes of surface and crown fire behavior
- Remote sensing and fire effects
- Ice storm recovery of privately owned managed forest lands
- Impact of acid deposition on the biogeochemistry of jack pine forests
- Monitoring forest health - Ontairo
- Canadian Ecology Centre Forestry Research Partnership
- Forest succession studies under natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes
- Physiology and environmental fitness
- Red crossbills as landscape indicators of old
forest ecosystems
- Effects of herbaceous and woody competition on white pine growth and quality
- Effects of vegetation management practices on aspen wood quality
- Vegetation management alternatives
- Vegetation management strategies
- Infrastructure management: The Black Sturgeon Boreal Mixedwood Research Project
- Ontario Model Forest Network
- Technology transfer of Forestry Research Partnership results
- Biodiversity of old growth white pine
- Biodiversity issues in southern Ontario forests
- Effects of inten0sive forest management on biodiversity at multiple scales
- Marten (Martes americana) as indicators and umbrella species in eastern boreal forests
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| Principal Collaborators: | CFS, OMNR Northeast Science and Technology |
| Project Leader(s): | Dan McKenney |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5569 |
| E-mail: | dmckenne@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To quantify the distribution, abundance and productivity of species for
land evaluation (biodiversity and wood production) purposes at both regional
(1km-100m) and operational (20m) resolution through analysis of biological
site data, and spatial GIS models; to develop spatial data for ecological
process models by creating climate and terrain models and integrating
these with other data as appropriate; undertake various types of trade-off
analyses of different forest values using mathematical optimization and
simulation models; to develop biodiversity conservation reserve selection
algorithms that make use of various types of spatial data; to develop
protocols and algorithms that use environmental GIS data to help with
plot selection problems; and, to expand this type of work across the country
and into the U.S. where ecologically appropriate and required
Location:
Sault Ste. Marie
Key Deliverables:
Reports- A boreal forest application of a spatially distributed solar
radiation model; A survey on attitudes toward control of forest insects;
Landscape/regional assessment of bird distribution in Ontario; Knowledge
Product- Preliminary development of ARCVIEW version of EDIS analysis of
representativeness of point and polygon data in relation to environmental
classifications; Trade offs between wood supply and caribou habitat in
NW Ontario trade-offs"; and, DATA for "Natural resources valuation
projects"
Expected Benefits
Sources of Funding:
Knowledge and Information Synthesis Network, Biodiversity and Forest Health
Network
Other Collaborators:
Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Science and Technology, University
of Minnesota (Great Lakes Protection Fund) Bird Biodiversity mapping in
the Great Lakes
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Collaborative Research Agreements
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