by Audrey Verreault | 5 May 2020
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 258(12): 2683-2689 Due to the exceptional sweetness of its sap, sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) is economically exploited at a commercial scale for maple syrup production in northeastern North America. Approximately 80%...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 5 May 2020
Published in The Forestry Chronicle 85(5): 756-761 Top height is one of the most useful variables provided by sample plot measurements conducted during forest inventory programs. Combined with tree age, it allows the determination of site index, a common measure of...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 29 April 2020
Published in European Journal of Forest Research 130: 117-133 Vegetation management is crucial to meeting the objectives of forest plantations. Following public hearing processes, chemical herbicides were banned on Crown forest lands in Québec (Canada) in 2001....
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 27 April 2020
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 278: 17-26 We applied four precommercial thinning (PCT) intensities (unthinned control, 2.5, 3.0, and 3.5 m residual spacings) to aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) stems, while preserving understory balsam fir (Abies...
by Audrey Verreault | 27 April 2020
Published in Journal of Environmental Quality 42: 623-639. doi: 10.2134/jeq2012.0378 Environmental change is monitored in North America through repeated measurements of weather, stream and river flow, air and water quality, and most recently, soil properties. Some...
