by Marie-Claude Boileau | 10 September 2020
Published in Forests 11(7): 742. https://doi.org/10.3390/f11070742 Multi-cohort forest management in northern hardwood stands may well be the best way to successfully regenerate tree species of intermediate shade tolerance, such as yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 10 September 2020
Published in Forests 11(5): 599. In the province of Québec (Canada), pre-commercial thinning (PCT) is a common silvicultural practice applied to young black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) stands. PCT removes some of the competing vegetation and smaller black...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 10 September 2020
Published in Ergonomics: 1-20. Predicted work metabolism (WM) from 9 heart rate (HR)-based models were compared to measured WM obtained during work in 39 forest workers. Using measured (i.e. raw) HR in these models can overestimate actual WM since the HR increase...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 25 August 2020
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 281: 130-139 Dolomitic lime (CaMg(CO3)2) was applied in 1994 at rates of 0–50 Mg ha-1 to sugar maples (SMs) (Acer saccharum Marsh.) in a base-poor and declining northern hardwood stand subjected to a high level of acid...
by Audrey Verreault | 29 July 2020
Published in Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada 107(16): 1-32 This report presents data from 125 black spruce stands located in the Boreal forest of Canada from Newfoundland to western Ontario. A description of the vegetation is presented by strata and in...
