-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): | Ian Thompson |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5644 |
| E-mail: | ithompso@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To determine indicators for old growth pine ecosystems; to determine the
regional contribution of old pine ecosystems to total biodiversity; to
determine the uniqueness of animal community structure in old pine growth
to develop predictive models for selective harvest old growth characteristics;
to develop objectives for selective harvest at the landscape level; to
assess the keystone role of woodpeckers in old pine ecosystems.
Location:
Ontario
Key Deliverables:
Journal articles- Bat communities in old pine and other forests; diversity
of ants in old pine and other forestry; selection of roost sites by bats
at forest and landscape scales; long-term study on winter resident birds
and the importance of pine forest to these birds populations in time and
space; keystone role of woodpeckers in old pine forests and effects on
wood-boring insect species.
Expected Benefits:
Sources of Funding:
Biodiversity and Forest Health Network
Other Collaborators:
A. Perera, J. Baker, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Domtar, Inc.
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
In-kind assistance. OMNR contributed $200,000 to this study for components
that have now been completed. We use OMNR lodging, database, and equipment
purchased through the original contribution.
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