by André Boily | 30 January 2019
Published in Canadian Silviculture May: 26-29. In its simplest expression, adaptive management is often described as “learning by doing”. At the other end of the spectrum, academics emphasize the need for adaptive forest management to “incorporate knowledge from...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 505-517 Logging-induced changes from preindustrial (1930) to current conditions (2002) were studied in a landscape covering 13 550 ha in eastern Québec. Age and types of forest cover were compared between 1930 and...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Policy and Economics 9: 1046-1055 Forestry occupations are known to be physically demanding, and workers are often paid on a piece rate basis. This pay system is largely used in silvicultural treatments such as plantation and vegetation management....
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 291: 404-416 We evaluated the effectiveness of the regular shelterwood system in mitigating water table rise and regenerating a new cohort while favoring red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) in an 80-year-old, red spruce –...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 24(1): 67-75 The objectives of this study were (1) to compare six methods for predicting parameters of the Weibull probability density function (PDF) for diameter at breast height (dbh) distribution in the unthinned...
