-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): | Gary Grant |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (709) 541-5519 |
| E-mail: | ggrant@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
Chemically identify and test sex pheromones of key forest pests; develop
the mating disruption technique for forest pests (commercial formulations);
identify key host-finding and oviposition cues from coniferous hosts of
Strobilomyia cone flies to determine their ecological role in the cone
fly complex; to understand the ecological role and importance of spruce
budworm, jack pine budworm and their hybrids to naturally occurring Choristonenura
hybrids; complete manuscript and publish pheromone identifications for
three Eucosma species.
Location:
Sault Ste. Marie
Key Deliverables:
Reports- identify forest insect semiochemical; oviposition responses of
the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana to aliphatic and aromatic
carboxylic acids, and some methyl ester; effects of phenolic acids and
flavonoids versus aromatic and aliphatic acids on oviposition of the spruce
budworm; Journal Articles - difference in composition and release rate
of volatiles; deterring and inhibiting effect of quinolizidine alkaloids;
differences in volatility among test compounds influence EAG responses
of Dioryctria abietivorella; mating disruption against European
pine shoot moth, Rhyacionia buoliana; isolation/evaluation of phenolics
from deciduous leaves and conifer needles; phytochemical deterrents regulating
oviposition of the spruce budworm; sex pheromone identifications for three
Eucosa pest species; identification of new sex pheromone (for whitemarked
tussock moth); behavioral responses of spruce coneflies, Strobilomyia.
Expected Benefits:
Sources of Funding:
Forest Ecosystem Processes Network, Enhanced Timber Production and Protection
Network
Other Collaborators:
Taylor Scarr, OMNR, Simon Fraser University, U.S. Forest Service, University
of Concepcion (Chile), University of Wageningen (The Netherlands)
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Research grant (applied for); Co-operative agreement (applied for); Electrophysiological
resources
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