by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in The Forestry Chronicle 89(1): 32-41 There is a growing interest in fast-growing hybrid poplar and willow plantations in Canada. This interest can be explained both by the rapid growth rate and high yield potential of this type of production system....
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42: 1289-1305 The dynamics of high-altitude balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) forests is mainly driven by insect outbreaks and windthrows. However, very little work has been done on the role of fire on the...
by Audrey Verreault | 30 January 2019
Published in Tree Genetics & Genomes 10: 965–975. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11295-014-0735-z Exotic larch (Larix decidua Mill., Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr. and Larix sibirica Ledeb.) and their hybrids have been introduced into Canada to test adaptation and growth...
by Audrey Verreault | 30 January 2019
Published in Landscape Ecology 29: 437-450. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-013-9974-x Land use history has altered natural disturbance dynamics, causing widespread modifications of the earth’s forests. The aim of this study is to reconstruct a regional,...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Canadian Journal of Forest Research 42: 1277-1288 https://doi.org/10.1139/x2012-055 Since plant growth in the boreal forest is often considered to be limited by low temperatures and low N availability and these variables are projected to increase due to...