-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): | Phil Reynolds |
| Address: | Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 |
| Phone: | (705) 541-5634 |
| E-mail: | preynold@NRCan.gc.ca |
Abstract:
Objectives:
To develop an understanding of how alternative vegetation management practices
affect microclimate, nutrient movements, water use, carbon cycling, plant
succession, and crop responses to light, nutrients, and water in boreal
mixedwood ecosystems; to develop an understanding of how natural and anthropogenic
disturbances affect forest microclimate, available light, plant succession
and plant biodiversity, and seedling gas exchange and productivity in
managed temperate ecosystems; to develop an understanding of how leaf
area of overstory vegetation affects microclimate and seedling gas exchange
and growth in managed mixedwood, spruce, and hardwood forests; to develop
an understanding of factors controlling carbon cycling in managed boreal
and temperate forests; to establish black spruce physiological and growth
responses to microclimatic differences induced by controlled competition
thresholds; to develop an understanding of how microclimatic factors and
ecological processes affect crop growth and yield in agroforestry systems;
to prepare a review paper on leaf litter dynamics in temperate deciduous
ecosystems; to develop an understanding of the role of vegetation management
in reestablishing native woodlands.
Location:
Key Deliverables:
Journal Articles- impact of alternative vegetation management treatments
on plant succession, white spruce seedling physiology, nutrition and growth;
impact of competing vegetation thresholds on black spruce seedling microclimate,
physiology, and growth; impacts of alternative vegetation management treatment
on leaf litter deposition, decomposition, and nutrient cycling; impacts
of microclimatic factors and ecological processes on crop yield in agroforestry
systems.
Expected Benefits:
Sources of Funding:
Forest Ecosystem Processes Network, Enhanced Timber Production & Protection
Network
Collaborators:
Ontario Forest Research Institute (OFRI); University of Guelph; Institute
for Silviculture and Forest Protection, Dresden, Germany; National Institute
for Agronomic Research (INRA), Nancy, France; United Kingdom Forestry
Commission; University of Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Nature of Collaboration:
External funding, salaries of technicians, site establishment and maintenance,
adjunct faculty
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