Small Openings in Trembling Aspen Forest
Small Openings in Trembling Aspen Forest

Author: Arthur Groot

Publisher: Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. : Great Lakes Forestry Centre

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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Describes a study of a 40-year-old trembling aspen stand to examine how microclimate influences the regeneration of white spruce and trembling aspen. In the study, openings of various sizes were created in the stand and measurements were made of microclimatological parameters and tree growth parameters. Results presented include solar radiation, soil and air temperature, humidity, and soil moisture in the various types of openings; seedling-water relationships; first- and second-year establishment ratios; effectiveness of vegetation control treatments; daytime patterns in stomatal conductance and transpiration; height and diameter growth; leaf area index; and differences in height between trees with pruned and unpruned roots.

Dynamic Forest
Dynamic Forest

Author: Malcolm F. Squires

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2017-08-26

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1459739345

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Nearing the end of a lifetime in the boreal forest, a retired forester writes a passionate plea for rational, science-based forest management. The boreal forest is constantly changing, often dramatically. We like to picture it as a stable, balanced system. Really, it is anything but stable. The boreal forest is dynamic. For over sixty years, forester Malcolm F. Squires has seen mature forests within protected areas devastated by insects, moose, wind, and wildfire. While the forests often return from this destruction, they are never quite the same. A naturally balanced boreal forest is a human notion that does not match the reality of nature. If we don’t soon recognize and accept that reality and stop making irrational demands that a forest be “protected” from change or human management, we may be dooming them to disaster.

Conifer Cold Hardiness
Conifer Cold Hardiness

Author: F.J. Bigras

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-14

Total Pages: 593

ISBN-13: 9401596506

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Conifer Cold Hardiness provides an up-to-date synthesis by leading scientists in the study of the major physiological and environmental factors regulating cold hardiness of conifer tree species. This state-of-the-art reference comprehensively explains current understanding of conifer cold hardiness ranging from the gene to the globe and from the highly applied to the very basic. Topics addressed encompass cold hardiness from the perspectives of ecology, ecophysiology, acclimation and deacclimation, seedling production and reforestation, the impacts of biotic and abiotic factors, and methods for studying and analyzing cold hardiness. The content is relevant to geneticists, ecologists, stress physiologists, environmental and global change scientists, pathologists, advanced nursery and silvicultural practitioners, and graduate students involved in plant biology, plant physiology, horticulture and forestry with an interest in cold hardiness.

Principles of Forest Pathology
Principles of Forest Pathology

Author: F. H. Tainter

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 1996-01-26

Total Pages: 828

ISBN-13: 9780471129523

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This book focuses on the practical aspects of forest diseases and on practical measures to minimize damage and loss. Forest Pathology is a reference book that deals with the study of the problems and damage to forests due to: plant diseases, insects, fire, weather, and animals. It is both a forestry book and a plant pathology book. The first section deals with general topics and principles, including both abiotic causes and biotic causes such as fungi, bacteria, mycoplasms, and viruses. The second section presents the details of particular forest diseases and offers practical management suggestions.

Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Author: Gordon Bonan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-01-31

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1108487521

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Planting trees to improve climate is an age-old idea, once refuted in scientific dispute more than a century ago, and reborn today with climate change worries. Spanning the 1500s to the present, this book examines the history and science of forest-climate influences, and forest management to mitigate climate change.

Forest, Edge and Opening Microclimate at Sicamous Creek
Forest, Edge and Opening Microclimate at Sicamous Creek

Author: David Leslie Spittlehouse

Publisher: University of British Columbia Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13:

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The study described in this report is part of a larger project intended to address concerns about the effects of clear-cut harvesting on high-elevation forests in southern interior British Columbia. The study investigated microclimatic conditions in mature forest and in clear-cuts of 0.1 to 10 hectares. Parameters measured include solar radiation, ultraviolet-B radiation, energy balance (fluxes of net radiation, soil heat, sensible heat, & water vapour), wind speed, precipitation & snow melt, and air & soil temperature. Results compare measurements made in forests with those made in the openings. Implications of the findings for plants & for forest hydrology are discussed.

Ecophysiology of Northern Spruce Species
Ecophysiology of Northern Spruce Species

Author: Steven C. Grossnickle

Publisher: NRC Research Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780660179599

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This manual offers foresters information to help them understand the performance of spruce seedlings after being planted on a reforestation site. It was written for university students taking a regeneration silviculture class, and foresters and researchers who work with spruce species.