by Svetlana Savin | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 91: 83-91 The ‘talun-kebun’ system consists of a 6-7 year management cycle in which a 4-5 year fallow period of perennial clump bamboo is alternated with 2 years of food crop production. Clearcutting, raking the...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 91: 155-173 The accumulation and removal of biomass, and the inventory of five major nutrients (N, P, K, Ca, and Mg) in plants, litterfall, forest floor, and in the mineral soil were quantified at various stages of a bamboo...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Ecological Modelling 127: 183-205 ln this paper we describe a model of forest development that has been adapted for use in a coniferous forest of northwestern North America. The simulator, DRYADES, is a spatial gap model used to examine the effects of...
by Audrey Verreault | 30 January 2019
Published in Soil Biology and Biochemistry 30: 725-732 In the 1980s, sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) dieback was observed across its range in Québec. In spite of the recovery of the majority of stands during recent years, some have continued to show signs of...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Chapter 15 of Management of tropical plantation-forests and their soil litter system. Litter, biota and soil-nutrient dynamics. Sciences Publisher, Inc. 2002, p. 379-393 Casuarina equisetifolia, a nitrogen-fixing tree species, is planted throughout the tropics and is...