by Audrey Verreault | 2 December 2022
Published in Forests 13(12): 1975. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13121975 In recent decades, forest nurseries in eastern Canada have been faced with periods of mild winter weather, delayed snowfall, and low seedling protective snow cover combined with winter rains instead...
by Audrey Verreault | 16 November 2022
Published in Forests 2022(13): 1926. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13111926 Eastern spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) is considered the most important disturbing insect in coniferous stands in eastern North America. During an outbreak, spruce budworm can...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 14 November 2022
Published in Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research, vol. 94(5): 611–629. Manual aerial photo interpretation is used as a cost-effective source of data for forest inventories; however, the process of photo interpretation is inherently subjective and is...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 14 November 2022
Paru dans Canadian Journal of Forest Research, vol. 4, p. 1750-1757. A shadow fraction method was previously developed for mapping forest attributes of northern black spruce forests. This paper evaluates application of the method to (i) balsam fir stands, (ii) stands...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 14 November 2022
Published in Forestry Chronicle, vol. 95(2), 101-112. Canada’s forests have frequently been characterized using binary classifications such as intact/non-intact or managed/unmanaged. A more nuanced classification approach is needed to better understand the geography...