Research

Research in this area focuses on:

• defining and measuring sustainable ecosystem productivity across a wide range of ecological conditions, disturbance regimes (fire, harvesting, insects), and management regimes (plantations, spacing, fertilization);
• determining forest vegetation succession after human and natural disturbances; and
• studying population dynamics of forest insects, pathogens, and microbes, ecophysiology, and behavior, hostplant interactions, natural enemies, and population modeling.

National

• Forest Health in Canada
• Perspectives on Developing a Canadian Classification of Ecological Communities

Pacific Forestry Centre

• Coastal Forest Chronosequences
• Forest Ecosystem Research Network of Sites (FERNS)
• Pacific Yew: A review of the Pacific yew and the research carried out at PFC
• The British Columbia Ectomycorrhizal Research Network (BCERN)
• Structure, Processes and Diversity in Successional Forests of Coastal British Columbia: Extended Abstracts
• Database of Descriptions of Ectomycorrihaze
• HForest: Hypermedia Forest Insect and Disease Knowledge Base and Diagnosis
• Scotch broom, Cytisus scoparius L. in British Columbia
• British Columbia Natural Disturbance Database
• Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks on Lodgepole Pine Stand and Woody Debris Dynamics

Northern Forestry Centre

• Climate Change Impacts on the Productivity and Health of Aspen (CIPHA)
• EMEND (Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance)

Great Lakes Forestry Centre

• Jack Pine Ecosystem Productivity Project
• Aquatic Ecotoxicology
• Bio-Indicators Evaluation Project
• Canadian Forest Pest Management Database
• Environmental & Ecological Chemistry
• Environmental Research & Assessment
• Forest Songbirds
• Studies of the functional ecology and biological diversity of eastern old-growth forests
• Turkey Lakes Watershed Study
  

Laurentian Forestry Centre

• A new site index?
• Death is part of a tree's life cycle
• DEFOLIO software - Predictions of spruce budworm defoliation in the province of Quebec
• Does planting white pines under a canopy have an effect on weevil attacks?
• ECOLEAP: Estimating productivity, from leaf to landscape
• ECOLEAP: From ecophysiology to forest productivity
• ECOLEAP project Web site
• Reduction of greenhouse gases: Using the forest resource
• Spruce budworm: Early response strategy
• Sustainable forest management: Which silvicultural treatment should we use?

Atlantic Forestry Centre

Studies and Research Projects Inter-disciplinary Forest Ecosystem Research (InFER)

• InFER attracts collaborators from Germany and Finland
• InFER - Fact Sheet
• InFER - Making a Difference
• InFER - Activities

Fact Sheets

• Soil Respiration Contribution to Ecosystem Carbon Dynamics and its role in Ecosystem Response to Global Change by M.B.Lavigne, R.Foster, G.Goodine, R.Boutin, G.Robitaille
• Biological Control - Insects Against Insects by D.Ostaff
• Cone Site Slection, Clone, and Intraspecific Competition Influence Egg Lay and Survival of Cone Maggots in White Spruce by Jon Sweeney and Dan Quiring
• Soil Science by Dr. M.K.Mahendrappa