-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, OFRI |
| Project Leader(s): | Suzanne Wetzel |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5654 |
| E-mail: | swetzel@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To determine the impacts of thinning and site preparation techniques on
environmental conditions and ecosystem processes (e.g., nutrient cycling)
and subsequent regeneration success in mid-tolerant species; to consider
physiological indicators for seedling fitness and competitive ability;
to identify environmentally sustainable forestry practices for a mid-tolerant
mixed-wood species; to determine influence of altered precipitation regimes
under change on soil seed bank and subsequent regeneration within a mixed-wood
forest.
Location:
Central Ontario
Key Deliverables:
Journal Articles- the effects of various forestry practices on white pine
regeneration; overview of nutrient cycling in managed white pine ecosystem;
leaf level response of planted eastern white pine seven years after intensive
silvicultural treatments; soil and plant nutrient relationships in white
pine seedlings under a shelterwood system; response of crop and non-crop
vegetation to different degrees of overstory removal. Reports- effects
of various forest management practices on vegetation and soil characteristics
in a mixedwood ecosystem; effects of overstory thinning regimes and site
preparation treatments on soil characteristics (water retention, nutrition).
Expected Benefits:
Sources of Funding:
Forest Ecosystem Processes Network
Other Collaborators:
Dr. Bill Parker, Ontario Forest Research Institute, Andreé Morneault,
NE RSIS Vegetation Management Alternatives Program
Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Funding for sampling and for white pine physiology work.
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