-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 |
| Project Leader(s): | K. Baldwin |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5642 |
| E-mail: | kbaldwin@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
Evaluate vegetation succession in relation to harvesting methodologies;
describe post-harvest vegetation successional patterns in two boreal forests;
compare characteristics of vegetation succession subsequent to 3 types
of perturbation; assess vegetation succession in relation to micro-environmental
factors; i.e., investigate the natural dynamics of forest ecosystems in
the Boreal Shield Ecozone; develop spatially distributed, landscape-scape,
successional models for forest ecosystems in the Boreal Shield Ecozone;
upgrade the quality and accessibility of the GLFC plant herbarium as a
regional reference resource.
Location:
Boreal Shield Ecozone
Key Deliverables:
Journal Articles- post-harvest response; post-harvest vegetation succession;
changes in structure and species composition following two episodic cycles
of spruce budworm; vegetation response under various micro-environment
regimes.
Expected Benefits:
This study will help us better understand the fundamental successional
processes necessary to realistically forecast future outcomes of current
forest management practices.
Sources of Funding:
Forest Ecosystem Processes Network
Other Collaborators:
Wayne Bell, Steve Newmaster, Ontario Forest Research Institute; Peter
Uhlig, Forest Management Branch, Forest Program Development Section; Bill
Towill, NW Ontario Science and Technology Unit, Australian National University,
Canberra, Australia
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Provision of botanical survey services; data analysis; field logistical
support; data analysis; data acquisition, management and analysis.
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