by Audrey Verreault | 30 January 2019
Published in PeerJ https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.428 Sugar maple syrup production is an important economic activity for eastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Since annual variations in syrup yield have been related to climate, there are concerns about the...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Forestry 87: 153-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpt048 It is necessary to evaluate how large seedling stock, used as an alternative to chemical herbicide for vegetation management, interacts with the timing of mechanical release (MR) and if use of...
by Svetlana Savin | 30 January 2019
Published in Forest Ecology and Management 302: 390-403 Existing models that use the site-index concept (dominant canopy height of a tree species at a reference stand age) are fundamentally stand-level models that do not account for stand dynamics, limiting their use...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in BMC Genomics 14(368). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-368 Background: The genomic architecture of adaptive traits remains poorly understood in non-model plants. Various approaches can be used to bridge this gap, including the mapping of quantitative...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 30 January 2019
Published in Tree Physiology https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpt027 A 20–40% reduction in soil moisture is projected for the boreal forest of Eastern Canada for the period 2070–99 relative to 1971–2000. In order to better predict the effects of a reduced water supply...
