A one-page publication presenting popularized summaries of scientific articles published recently by researchers working at the Laurentian Forestry Centre (LFC) of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS).

NUMBER 8:

• A new host for the white pine weevil?
• Do natural parasites of spruce budworm compete with each other?
• Improving the control of tortricid moths through a better understanding of their reproductive processes
• Ladybird beetle larvae: natural allies in controlling pests in Christmas tree plantations
• A new tool for detecting outbreaks and assessing mortality in hemlock looper
• Springtails, a bioindicator of soil acidity in sugar maple stands

NUMBER 7:

• Are wood traits genetically transmitted in white spruce?
• Analysis of the machining properties of cultivated white spruce
• An improved in vitro propagation protocol for eastern white pine
• Do fast-growing trees pose a threat to the nutrient stores in soil?
• Disease-resistant poplars
• Hybrid poplar performance, 10 years after planting

MARCH 2005:

• Silviculture emulating natural disturbance patterns
• Taking stock of biological insecticides
• Successful genetic transformation of eastern white pine
• Understorey vegetation: a major source of biomass
• Improved survey techniques for Collembola
• Refining climate change simulation models

SEPTEMBER 2004:

• For rapid detection of root rot
• Harvesting method affects soil quality
• Pruning to control scleroderris canker
• For healthy red ash populations
• Predicting the effectiveness of B.t. spraying operations
• Ozone affects cold hardening in sugar maple

MARCH 2004:

• Insecticide resistance at what price?
• Low genetic diversity in Canada yew
• Post-fire evolution of the boreal forest
• Stepping stones to the development of resistant elms
• Stimulating growth in balsam fir, even at age 60
• Productivity of trembling aspen and stand origin

DECEMBER 2003:

• Comparative study of black spruce stands originating after harvest or after fire
• Biodiversity: Preserving lichen and bryophyte communities
• Yellow birch more vulnerable to ice damage than previously thought
• Frost damage to seedling root systems and effects on growth
• Does planting white pines under a canopy have an effect on weevil attacks?

JUNE 2003:

• Forecasting the quality of black spruce wood
• Forecasting the population dynamics of the gypsy moth
• Death is part of a tree's life cycle
• How to determine which trees are resistant to white pine weevil
• DNA persistence: Only a few months
• Forest fires: A 235-year history

MARCH 2003:

• Hybrid poplar: Reducing spacing to increase yield
• First mapping of the white spruce genome
• Is fertilizing necessary to promote reproduction of jack pine in seed orchards?
• A new trap to monitor the Bruce spanworm
• A new site index?