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Assessing operational silviculture and modeling juvenile growth in Saskatchewan white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) plantations
DownloadFall 2015
White spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) plantations are often established with mechanical site preparation and tending. These silvicultural treatments encourage plantation survival and can influence growth, composition, and yield. To assess operational silviculture and model managed stand...
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Investigating Fire as a Silvicultural Tool for Regeneration of Mountain Pine Beetle-killed Serotinous Pine of Northern Alberta
DownloadSpring 2016
Serotinous pine forests in Western Canada are threatened by a record-breaking mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae; MPB) outbreak - the largest recorded in Western North America. Forest managers are concerned with whether these closed-cone MPB-killed forests will successfully regenerate....
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Long-Term Impacts of Commercial Thinning and Nitrogen Fertilization on Lodgepole Pine: A Two-Decade Analysis of Growth and Temporal Dynamics
DownloadFall 2023
Commercial thinning and fertilization are potential silvicultural tools to enhance Alberta’s Forest productivity in an imminent timber supply gap. In 2000, an experiment was initiated in a 68-year-old lodgepole pine stand located in Alberta’s upper foothills, using a 2x6 factorial design....
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Physiological, ecological and environmental factors that predispose trees, stands and landscapes to infestation by tree-killing Dendroctonus beetles
DownloadSpring 2013
In the last century the frequency and severity of outbreaks of tree-killing Dendroctonus beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) have increased. Small-scale drivers within trees likely drive outbreak dynamics across landscapes. At a small scale, variation in carbohydrate availability within the stems...
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Spatial and temporal stand dynamics of mature lodgepole pine forests of the Canadian Rocky Mountains
DownloadFall 2015
In forest ecosystems, structure and species composition change over time as a function of ageing and minor disturbances and it is important to understand these changes for predicting forest productivity and habitat suitability for other plant and animal biota. Disturbances play a major role in...