by Audrey Verreault | 19 April 2024
Published in Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 7: 1368590. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1368590 Forest ecosystems have a major role in sequestering atmospheric CO2 and as such, their resilience is of upmost importance. In the boreal forest, trees grow only...
by Audrey Verreault | 12 April 2024
Published in Canadian Journal of Forest Research. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0224 Forest plantations play an increasingly important role in meeting global demand for wood. They usually have higher yield than naturally regenerated forests. Thus, plantations can...
by Audrey Verreault | 8 April 2024
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 555(2): 121731. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2024.121731 Climate, soil, and competition factors jointly drive tree growth variability at local and regional scale. However, the comprehensive interaction of these factors...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 27 March 2024
Published in Silva Fennica 58(2): 2309. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.23029 Mechanical site preparation (MSP) is used prior to planting to control competing vegetation and enhance soil conditions, particularly in areas prone to paludification. Tree planting density can...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 14 March 2024
Published in Ecological Applications e2958. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2958 The boreal forest is one of the world’s largest terrestrial biome and plays crucial roles in global biogeochemical cycles, such as carbon (C) sequestration in vegetation and soil....