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A century of landscape change in the southern Rocky Mountains and Foothills of Alberta: Using historical photography to quantify ecological change
DownloadSpring 2017
Throughout the Rocky Mountain regions of North America fire regimes have been altered towards longer fire return intervals in the 20th century as compared to the 18th and 19th centuries; this has been accompanied by losses of grassland and open canopy woodlands due to encroachment by closed...
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A comparison of coarse woody debris in post-harvest and post-fire island remnants a decade after disturbance in northern Alberta
DownloadFall 2022
Retention forestry is the practice of retaining forest structure within cut-blocks at harvest sites and is practiced widely throughout the world. Although retention practices are modelled on the propensity for fires to leave behind a variety of biological legacies or structural elements, the...
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A comparison of residual tree mortality in forest island remnants following wildfire and harvest
DownloadSpring 2023
As forested ecosystems are put under compounding stresses due to the effects of climate change and demand for resources, forest managers must develop innovative ways to utilize natural resources in less-impactful ways. In the boreal forests of Alberta, Ecosystem Based Forest Management (EBFM) is...
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A Proposed Experimental Methodology for Assessing the Effects of Biophysical Properties and Energy Content on Live Fuel Flammability
DownloadFall 2016
The effectiveness of fire management tactics and safety of firefighters strongly depend on the reliability of fire behaviour predictions that is currently limited by a lack of understanding of the flammability of live fuel. Until now fire modeling has been primarily based on the flammability of...
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A range-wide common garden experiment of white spruce indicates population differentiation in drought tolerance traits
DownloadFall 2019
In western regions of the Canadian boreal forest, mean annual temperature has increased by 1.5 to 2.5 °C, significantly exceeding the mean global temperature increase. Climate conditions have also become drier and together these climate trends have induced widespread growth reductions, dieback...
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A simulation/optimization system for modelling timber and old forest under stochastic fire disturbance
DownloadSpring 2011
Stochastic wildfire disturbance contributes to uncertainty in forest management planning. In this study, a system composed of an optimizing forest estate model nested within a Monte Carlo simulation model of stand replacing fires is used to investigate the impact stochastic fire may have on the...