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Presence of lakes and wetlands decreases resilience of jack pine ecosystems to late-Holocene climatic changes

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. We reconstructed vegetation and fire histories from four sites located on a sandy outwash plain in northwestern Wisconsin (USA) to test whether lakes and wetlands have influenced how vegetation and fire regimes in pine–oak forests responded ...

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Effects of root tensile force and diameter distribution variability on root reinforcement in the Swiss and Italian Alps

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Root reinforcement is considered to be one of the most important factors contributing to the stability of vegetated hillslopes; however, its estimation is still challenging because of the spatial variability of root distribution and root mechanical ...

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Postharvest needle abscission resistance of balsam fir (Abies balsamea) is modified by harvest date

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Earlier harvest dates have become necessary for Canadian Christmas tree producers to meet international demand, though by harvesting these trees early they may experience poor needle retention. The objective of this study is to understand the ...

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Seedling growth responses to light and mineral N form are predicted by species ecologies and can help explain tree diversity

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Tree species distributions and diversity could be explained by rank changes in performance over multiple spatiotemporal resource gradients, i.e., resource partitioning. For 14 species planted in 45 harvest gap and closed canopy locations in a mesic ...

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Modeling genetic effects on growth of diverse provenances and families of loblolly pine across optimum and deficient nutrient regimes

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Optimal deployment of improved loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) planting stock in the southeastern United States requires knowing how diverse seed sources and families perform over time across the wide range of sites used for plantations. ...

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Home range and habitat use by Magellanic Woodpeckers in an old-growth forest of Patagonia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1265-1273, October 2014. The Magellanic Woodpecker (Campephilus magellanicus (King, 1827)) is a large, vulnerable species exhibiting geographic range retraction. We analyzed the size and location of forest areas used by these woodpeckers ...

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Soil salinity alters the sexual responses to elevated CO2 and temperature in growth and leaf traits of a dioecious plant

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1292-1301, October 2014. This study elucidated whether the adverse effect of soil salinity is different between Populus yunnanensis Dode males and females under climate change. We hypothesized that the magnitude and direction ...

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Wildfire risk adaptation: propensity of forestland owners to purchase wildfire insurance in the southern United States

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. The economic and ecological damages caused by wildfires are alarming. Because such damages are expected to increase with changes in wildfire regimes, this calls for more effective wildfire mitigation and adaptation strategies. Wildfire adaptation options for ...

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Forest diversity as a factor influencing Engelmann spruce resistance to beetle outbreaks

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Tree mortality because of beetle outbreaks has become substantial and widespread in conifer forests in western North America. A number of environmental and physiological factors influence patterns of mortality. Tree diversity may reduce the severity and ...

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Smoke management of wildland and prescribed fire: understanding public preferences and trade-offs

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Smoke from forest fires is a serious and increasing land management concern. However, a paucity of information exists that is specific to public perceptions of smoke. This study used conjoint analysis, a multivariate technique, to evaluate ...

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Environmental preferences and constraints of Daphne laureola, an invasive shrub in western Canada

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Daphne laureola L. is an evergreen forest understory shrub native to the Mediterranean regions of Europe and North Africa that has invaded parts of western North America, including coastal British Columbia (BC) and the states of ...

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Butternut (Juglans cinerea) health, hybridization, and recruitment in the northeastern United States

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1244-1252, October 2014. Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.) trees are being extirpated from their natural range by an epidemic caused by a fungal pathogen. Widespread mortality is reminiscent of past epidemics on American ...

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Effect of selection logging on Yellow-bellied Sapsucker sap-feeding habits in Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1236-1243, October 2014. The sap-feeding behaviour of a keystone woodpecker species, the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (Sphyrapicus varius (Linnaeus, 1766)), was compared between high-quality uncut stands and stands harvested with various forms of selection ...

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Short- and long-term growth characteristics associated with tree mortality in southwestern mixed-conifer forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1227-1235, October 2014. Continued increases in global temperatures and incidences of drought have been implicated in elevated tree mortality in many regions, prompting interest in better understanding tree mortality processes. A recent ...

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Stochastic goal programming in forest planning

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1274-1280, October 2014. Developing a forest management plan in a multicriteria perspective is traditionally accomplished utilizing simulation and optimization tools as a means to predict and optimize a variety of criteria under ...

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Determinants of demand for wood products in the US construction sector: an econometric analysis of a system of demand equations

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1217-1226, October 2014. A system of conditional demand equations for wood products in the US construction sector is derived from the relevant end-use cost functions by taking advantage of the duality between ...

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Prediction of Douglas-fir fertilizer response using biogeoclimatic properties in the coastal Pacific Northwest

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1253-1264, October 2014. Fertilizer response of Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco) has been related to site and soil properties in the past, but the models have explained only about half of the ...

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What do ecological regions tell us about wood quality? A case study in eastern Canadian white spruce

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. There is a growing interest in improving knowledge on wood quality of forest resources to allow for an end-product oriented supply for the wood-processing industry. We investigated the differences of white spruce (Picea glauca (Moench) Voss) ...

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Cesium radioisotope content of wild edible fungi, mineral soil, and surface litter in western North America after the Fukushima nuclear ...

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. We measured activity levels of radioisotopes cesium-134 (134Cs) and cesium-137 (137Cs) in wild edible fungi, mineral soil, and surface litter of the west coast of North America from southern California to northern Vancouver Island after the ...

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Drought and flood stress tolerance of butternut (Juglans cinerea) and naturally occurring hybrids: implications for restoration

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1206-1216, October 2014. Efforts to restore species threatened by introduced pathogens often include breeding resistance into susceptible native species from resistant exotics, but this is a lengthy and expensive process. Naturally occurring ...

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Species, elevation, and diameter affect whitebark pine and lodgepole pine stored resources in the sapwood and phloem: implications for bark ...

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Stored resources in trees reflect physiological and environmental variables and affect life history traits, including growth, reproduction, resistance to abiotic stress, and defense. However, less attention has been paid to the fact that stored resources also ...

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Diversifying managed forests to increase resilience

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1196-1205, October 2014. In British Columbia, Canada, a recent epidemic of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, 1902) caused widespread forest mortality. This epidemic was due in part to the changing climate, ...

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Site conditions and definition of compositional proportion modify mixture effects in Picea abies – Abies alba stands

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1281-1291, October 2014. For most forest types in the European Alps, little is known about mixture effects on stand productivity. The comparability of studies on mixture effects often suffers from the open ...

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Stumping trials in British Columbia — organic matter removal and compaction effects on tree growth from seedlings to midrotation stands

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. There is considerable interest in understanding the repercussions of compaction and organic matter removal on soil quality and forest productivity. However, long-term field trials examining the effects of machinery and forest biomass removal on soil quality ...

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Multiple-pathway succession in coastal Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata, and Abies amabilis forests on northeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1145-1155, October 2014. Sustainable forest practices are often designed to mimic natural disturbance and successional processes, yet succession is poorly understood in many ecosystems. On northeastern Vancouver Island, the “disturbance hypothesis” is ...

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Efficient sampling strategies for forest inventories by spreading the sample in auxiliary space

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1156-1164, October 2014. By using more sophisticated sampling designs in forest field inventories, it is possible to select more representative field samples. When full cover auxiliary information is available at the planning ...

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Partial windthrow as a driving process of forest dynamics in old-growth boreal forests

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1165-1176, October 2014. As climate changes, boreal forest ecosystems may become subject to disturbances that were previously uncommon in some regions. In recent decades, large tracts of northeastern boreal forest of Canada ...

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Integrating remote sensing and past inventory data under the new annual design of the Swiss National Forest Inventory using three-phase ...

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1177-1186, October 2014. In 2009, the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) turned from a periodic into an annual measurement design in which only one-ninth of the overall sample of permanent plots is ...

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Wood-based bioenergy products — land or energy efficient?

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Volume 44, Issue 10, Page 1187-1195, October 2014. Woody feedstocks will play an important role in meeting the total demand for biomass to generate electricity and produce ethanol in the United States. We analyzed 186 different scenarios ...

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The impact of overstory density on sapling height growth in the Missouri Ozarks: implications for interspecific differentiation during canopy recruitment

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, e-First Articles. Successful canopy recruitment is one of the most important components of sustainable forestry practices. For many desirable species in oak-dominated forests, insufficient sapling growth is a common limitation to successful recruitment. The objectives of this study ...

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