Download or read book Boreal Forest Succession in Ontario written by M. Drescher and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest succession can be viewed, from a tree-centric point of view, as the temporal pattern of changes in tree species composition that occur following a disturbance that destroyed the existing forest cover, and includes the initial re-establishment of the forest cover. Fire is one such natural disturbance in boreal forests. The broad goal of the work reported here was to explore the body of boreal forest succession knowledge, to elucidate its strengths, weaknesses, and gaps, and to quantify its levels of uncertainty.--Document.

Download or read book Modelling Boreal Forest Succession at Broad Scales written by Dennis Yemshanov and published by Sault Ste. Marie : Ontario Forest Research Institute. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography was produced to assist foresters and scientists interested in modelling boreal forest succession at broad scales. It contains more than 600 citations describing existing knowledge on succession in North American boreal forests, and the current state-of-knowledge in modelling succession, with particular emphasis on broad scales. References on succession in boreal forests are grouped by geographic and taxonomic categories. This bibliography also provides information on theories and concepts of succession modelling, issues of scale in modelling succession, the spatial process of propagule dispersal, and the probalistic modelling of forest succession. An author index is provided to help users located citations of interest.

Download or read book Identifying uncertainty in practitioner knowledge of boreal forest succession in Ontario through a workshop approach written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Identifying Uncertainty in Practitioner Knowledge of Boreal Forest Succession in Ontario Through a Workshop Approach written by M. Drescher and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert knowledge of boreal forest succession is used widely in forest management in boreal Ontario, but the level of uncertainty of this mainly implicit knowledge is unknown. Therefore, in this study expert knowledge of boreal forest succession was elicited, it's uncertainty quantified, and the sources of this uncertainty investigated. This report consists of four main parts. The introduction presents examples of the use of forest succession knowledge in forest management in boreal Ontario. The methods section provides background information about the concept of knowledge uncertainty and possible assessment methods and describes the characteristics of experts. The results section details the quantification of the various components of uncertainty and describes the distribution of uncertainty. The conclusions section presents the strengths and weaknesses of this study and discusses the implications of the study results for forest policy and management in Ontario.--Includes text from document.

Download or read book Studying Successional Pathways in Forest Communities written by Julie A. Elliot and published by Thunder Bay : Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography whose purpose is to aid in the development of research initiatives studying forest succession in Ontario by providing a central source of relevant material. Although the focus was on northern forest ecosystems, articles that had application to studying succession in these ecosystems were also included. The bibliography is divided into succession theory, natural succession, role of fire, impacts of harvesting, relationship to nutrient cycling, and modelling. Articles are cross-referenced by subject area. Also included are a list of scientific and common names for plant species, and a list of books, conferences and proceedings associated with forest succession.

Download or read book Biotic Forest Communities of Ontario written by Norman Duncan Martin and published by Belleville, Ont. : Commonwealth Research. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Outline for Monitoring Vegetation Succession in a Boreal Forest written by Andrew Promaine and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Succession in the Southern Part of the Canadian Boreal Forest written by Yves Bergeron and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boreal Forests and Global Change written by Michael J. Apps and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boreal forests form Earth's largest terrestrial biome. They are rich in ecosystem and landscape diversity, though characterized by relatively few plant species, as compared to other forested regions. The long term viability and sustainability of boreal forests is influenced by many factors. They are subject to interruptions at intervals by large-scale natural disturbances, and increasingly by human activities. Boreal ecosystem development is typically a slow process; hence rapid changes in the global environment may invoke complex responses. Many industrial nations border, or lie within, boreal regions, deriving much of their economic wealth and culture from the forests. The response of boreal forests to changes in the global environment - whether caused by direct human activity or by indirect changes such as the anticipated changes in climate - are therefore of considerable international interest, both for their policy implications and their scientific challenges. This book which contains almost 50 peer-reviewed papers from a world-wide group of experts assembled under the auspices of IBFRA, the International Boreal Forest Research Association, covers topics which will stimulate further research and the development of constructive policies for improved management and conservation of global boreal forest resources.

Download or read book Ecosystem Management in the Boreal Forest written by Sylvie Gauthier and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2009 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forest Ecosystem Management. A management approach that aims to maintain healthy and resilient forest ecosystems by focusing on a reduction of differences between natural and managed landscapes to ensure long-term maintenance of ecosystem functions and thereby retain the social and economic benefits they provide to society.That is the definition of forest ecosystem management proposed in this book, which provides a summary of key ecological concepts supporting this approach. The book includes a review of major disturbance regimes that shape the natural dynamics of the boreal forest and gives examples from different Canadian boreal regions. Several projects implementing the forest ecosystem management approach are presented to illustrate the challenges created by current forestry practices and the solutions that this new approach can provide. In short, knowledge and understanding of forest dynamics can serve as a guide for forest management. Planning interventions based on natural dynamics can facilitate reconciliation between forest harvesting needs and the interests of other forest users.

Download or read book Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest written by Philip Joseph Burton and published by NRC Research Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a summary of the development in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for some of the world's northern forests. It includes a selection of chapters based on the research conducted by the Sustainable Forest Management Network across Canada. It includes a number of case histories.

Download or read book Ontario Forest Research Institute Publications 2006 2010 written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This bibliography includes a list and descriptions of the content of publications written or co-authored by staff of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources' Ontario Forest Research Institute between 2006 and 2010. During this five-year period, over 150 publications were produced by the institute's 14 research scientists, including a book, 83 journal articles, 31 reports, 10 technical notes, 5 newsletters, and 11 papers/summaries in conference/ workshop proceedings. The overall focus of the publications is forest resource management-related research and practice. Topical areas and scales of investigation are diverse and include natural disturbance regimes and landscape dynamics; carbon budgets and effects of climate change on forests; and silviculture studies on site preparation, tree improvement, vegetation management, growth and yield, disease management, and harvesting in conifer, mixedwood, and hardwood forests. Author and subject indexes are provided."--Document.

Download or read book Forest Ecosystems in the Alaskan Taiga written by K. van Cleve and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The information presented in this book is the result of combined research efforts of scientists at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, the Institute of Northern Forestry, USDA Forest Service, and the Systems Ecology Research Group, San Diego State University. The objective of the volume is to present a synthetic overview of structure and function of taiga forest ecosystems in interior Alaska. The data base for this work has appeared in earlier published articles including the special issue of the Canadian Journal of Forest Research Volume 13:5 (1983). Stimulus for this book was a conference held in Fairbanks from June 10-14, 1983. The papers presented at the conference were fore runners of the chapters in this book. We invited 19 scientists from North America and England to critique our research and synthesis efforts. Six of these people were asked to write introductory chapters for each section of the book. Formal presentation sessions, combined with field trips to research sites, introduced the invitees to the primary and secondary successional ecosystems with which we were dealing. A major wildfire, only 24 km from the University campus, was contained the week prior to the conference and one field trip provided graphic evidence of fire impact in subarctic forests. The conference conveners regretted that it was not possible to host a similar meeting during synthesis efforts in mid-January.

Download or read book Modelling Landscape level Vegetation Dynamics in the Boreal Forests of Northwestern Ontario written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Successional trends in the boreal forest have been inferred using two approaches: (i) analysis of size and/or age class distributions of trees, and species vital attributes; (ii) enumeration of stands at different ages. The first approach assumes that mortality, natality and growth rates, and life-history strategies, are similar between species. The second approach is restricted to self regenerating, monodominant forests and assumes that the reconstructed successional trends are not confounded by intersite environmental variation. The objective of this study was to develop a succession (vegetation dynamics) model for the boreal forests of northwest Ontario using these two approaches. The data used in this study were collected between 1983 and 1988 as part of the North Western Ontario Forest Ecosystem Classification (FEC) project. A total of 1389 plots enumerated within the ca. 184,000 km$\sp2$ study area were retained for further analysis. Percent cover estimates were obtained for all vascular plants and terricolous cryptograms species within 10 x 10 m plots. Tree and shrub cover were separately enumerated in four height-based vegetation strara. In addition, extensive edaphic data were collected within each plot. An analysis was undertaken to ascertain vegetation-environment relationships and soil variable redundancy. In addition, a synoptic stand dynamic model for the boreal forests of northwestern Ontario was developed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

Download or read book Silvicultural Guide to Managing for Black Spruce Jack Pine and Aspen on Boreal Forest Ecosites in Ontario written by Ontario. Ministry of Natural Resources and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boreal Forests in the Face of Climate Change written by Miguel Montoro Girona and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book explores a new conceptual framework for the sustainable management of the boreal forest in the face of climate change. The boreal forest is the second-largest terrestrial biome on Earth and covers a 14 million km2 belt, representing about 25% of the Earth’s forest area. Two-thirds of this forest biome is managed and supplies 37% of global wood production. These forests also provide a range of natural resources and ecosystem services essential to humanity. However, climate change is altering species distributions, natural disturbance regimes, and forest ecosystem structure and functioning. Although sustainable management is the main goal across the boreal biome, a novel framework is required to adapt forest strategies and practices to climate change. This collaborative effort draws upon 148 authors in summarizing the sustainable management of these forests and detailing the most recent experimental and observational results collected from across the boreal biome. It presents the state of sustainable management in boreal forests and highlights the critical importance of this biome in a context of global change because of these forests' key role in a range of natural processes, including carbon sequestration, nutrient cycling, and the maintaining of biodiversity. This book is an essential read for academics, students, and practitioners involved in boreal forest management. It outlines the challenges facing sustainable boreal forest management within the context of climate change and serves as a basis for establishing new research avenues, identifying future research trends, and developing climate-adapted forest management plans.

Download or read book Multiple Scale Research Studies on Boreal Forest Fires Regimes to Inform Ontario s Policies for Emulating Natural Forest Disturbances written by Ajith H. Perera and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prospectus presents a broad framework for a series of research studies to investigate Ontario boreal forest fire regime at multiple scales. The broad research goal is to reduce uncertainties in knowledge about boreal forest fire regimes related to policy directions in Ministry of Natural Resources' Forest management guide for natural disturbance pattern emulation. The research studies are grouped into three categories: reviews and syntheses of published literature; determining the characteristics of the broad-scale fire regime in boreal Ontario; and spatial mapping and monitoring.