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Ecology

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, host-plant interactions, natural enemies, and population modeling.

Studies and Research Projects

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

National Research Portal : Ecology and Ecosystems