Global change - MOU - Great Lakes Forestry Centre

-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

- Implementation of the Spruce Budworm Decision Support System in Ontario (CEC Forestry Research Partnership

- Silviculture systems analysis

- Spatial models and trade-offs in forest landscapes

- Aquatic ecotoxicology - Neem

- Aquatic responses to forestry practices

- Effects of forestry practices on sustainable productivity of jack pine ecosystems, including vegetation succession and stand and habitat dynamics

- 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)

- Regeneration processes in mixedwood ecosystems

- Regeneration and vegetative response to harvesting in tolerant hardwoods: Relationship to topographic position and soil nutrient status: The Turkey Lakes Tolerant Hardwood Research Project

- Investigation of forest fire behavior and impacts

- The physical processes of surface and crown fire behavior

- Remote sensing and fire effects

- Chemical identification of insect pheromones and host-tree semiochemicals and their application to monitoring, control and ecological analysis of forest insect pests

- Environmental assessment of biorational pest control agents

- Forest health assessment

- 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

- Systems ecology

- 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

| Original Document | Introduction | Ontario's Forests | GLFC

Global change and wildland fire activity

*Principal Collaborators:*	CFS, FCAR
*Project Leader(s):*	Brian J. Stocks
Address:	Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5
Phone:	(705) 541-5568
E-mail:	bstocks@NRCan.gc.ca

Abstract:

Objectives:
Use the most current models to predict future fire climate across the global boreal zone; predict future boreal fire dynamics/regimes under a changing climate; inventory the extent and atmospheric impact of biomass burning globally; reconstruct Holocene boreal fire regimes as an analogue for the future; and, investigate interactions between climate, fire and vegetation.

Location:
Various locations across the world

Key Deliverables:
Journal Articles- relationships between airborne and lake sediment charcoal particles; Canadian climate and fire activity inter-relationships using spatially-gridded data; Association between mid-troposphere circulation anomalies and area burned by wildfire in Canada Gridded biomass burning inventory Reconstruction of post-1980 large fire in Russia using NOAA-AVHRR satellite imagery; scientific results from 1997 IGBP IGAC Biomass Burning Experiment in East Africa; Holocene fire dynamics; Climate change and Caribou Range; Innovation- create new RCM/GCM database for fire danger calculation from transient run. Poster - Future fire weather using the Regional Climate Model. Manuscripts- Climate change and forest fires; Fire, Climate change and Carbon Cycling in the boreal Forest. Paper- Regional climate model projections of future Canadian fire climates. Innovation- N.W.T. International Crown Fire Modeling experiment.

Expected Benefits:

Sources of Funding:
Climate Change and Fire Research Network

Other Collaborators:
FCAR- contact Yves Bergeron NASA Langley, NCE, NWT Government

Nature of Other Collaborators' Involvement:
Research support, students, travel, experimental burning logistics

Links to Internet Sites:
http://fire.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php