-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): | Neil Foster/ Tom Weldon |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541- |
| E-mail: | tweldon@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To provide the scientific underpinning for sound forest management decisions
that impact on sustainable productivity, climate change and the carbon
budget as it relates to boreal jack pine ecosystems.
Location:
Sudbury
Key Deliverables:
Reports- vegetation and soil relations in a chronosequence of jack pine
ecosystems; characterization of biomass in a chronosequence of jack pine
ecosystem; and, "Best (Forestry) Practices Guide"
Expected Benefits:
The intent of this research is to quantify the impact of full-tree harvesting,
in particular the removal or organic matter (biomass) from the site, site
preparation, blading and lastly the compaction of soil by harvesting and
site preparation equipment, on long-term site productivity.
Sources of Funding:
Forest Ecosystem Processes Network
Other Collaborators:
Dan Smith, Conservation Officer, Sudbury District, Domtar, Inc, Espanola;
Weyerhaeuser and Superior Forest Management Inc., Chapleau
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Accommodations, provision of research sites for on-going experiments in
sustainable productivity (Domtar), and climate change, carbon budget modeling
and sustainable productivity (Weyerhaeuser and Superior Forest Management)
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