by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in The Forestry Chronicle 93(03): 246-258 We used a permanent sample plot network established to monitor the effects of forest management practiced in mature northern hardwood and mixedwood stands in Québec, Canada to address two important questions...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in PeerJ 4: e1767 https:/doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1767 Biological carbon sequestration by forest ecosystems plays an important role in the net balance of greenhouse gases, acting as a carbon sink for anthropogenic CO2 emissions. Nevertheless, relatively little...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 398(Suppl. C): 91-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.04.042 Even-aged systems including clearcutting and its variants have been used for decades in North America for managing conifer-dominated stands with the goal to...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in The Forestry Chronicle 92(2): 221-231. https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2016-041 Scarification contributes to creating planting microsites for reforestation by mixing organic matter (OM) with the upper layers of mineral soil. However, on some boreal sites...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forests 9(10): 588. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9100588 Many northern hardwood stands include several low-vigor trees as a result of past management. To restore these degraded stands, partial cuts are applied with partly validated tree classification...
