by Audrey Verreault | 2 March 2021
Published in Trees 35(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00468-020-02001-x Some studies suggest that tapping sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marshall) trees can cause their growth to decline, particularly on poor and acidic soils. We tested this hypothesis in seven sugar bushes...
by Audrey Verreault | 2 March 2021
Published in Energies 14(1): 93. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14010093 Unharvested hardwoods are abundant in eastern Canada, due to the low quality of their fiber and the absence of outlets in conventional wood transformation industries. The objective of this study was...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 4 February 2021
Publish in Forest Science 65(4): 411-419 The management of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) at the northern edge of its range is mainly oriented toward timber production, from trees of higher grades. However, both the quality of mature trees in natural stands and how the...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 3 February 2021
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 476: 118460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118460 In boreal forests where the fire return interval is long, the high structural variability of stands may affect wood traits. Here, we build on earlier work that...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 2 February 2021
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 481: 118744. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118744 Over the last century, forest management has modified the natural disturbance regime of temperate and boreal forest regions. Consequently, this new disturbance regime...