by Svetlana Savin | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Science 58(1): 24-33 Spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) (SBW) outbreaks have caused considerable damage to coniferous forests dominated by balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill.) or black spruce (Picea mariana [Mill.]). Hence,...
by Audrey Verreault | 30 January 2019
Published in Oikos: 1-11. doi : 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19777.x The two major disturbance types of boreal black spruce forest in north-central Québec, Canada – natural disturbance by wildfire and anthropogenic disturbance by harvest – may affect processes...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 16: 685-697. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-16-685-2012 Soil mineral weathering represents an essential source of nutrient base cation (Ca, Mg and K) for forest growth in addition to provide a buffering power against...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Annals of Forest Science 68(8): 1303-1313. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-011-0138-3 Context Root growth is a characteristic to which nursery personnel is particularly attentive. The increase in root growth of white spruce seedlings in the autumn relies...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Applied Geochemistry 26: 2181-2190 The concentrations and the isotopic compositions of S, N and C were studied in soils and in the dominant plant species of three forested watersheds (Québec, Canada) located along a latitudinal and atmospheric deposition...
