17 datasets found

ABSTRACT Vegetation succession following fire disturbances has long been of interest in ecology, but the evolution of landscape pattern and structure following low-severity...

ABSTRACT Large and small scale natural disturbances shape and define characteristics of forest stands. This research examines the response of a western hemlock stand following...

ABSTRACT Dendrochronological analyses were conducted across a gradient of productivity and soil drainage quality characterizing four vegetation types in a low-productivity...

ABSTRACT A retrospective study was undertaken in an old Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) attacked forest to gain insight in stand dynamics post-beetle attack. Extent of mortality,...

ABSTRACT A mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic is currently ravaging large areas of interior British Columbia (BC) with significant implications for ecosystem services including...

ABSTRACT Most natural disturbances leave structural legacies that are used by a variety of organisms as forest regrows. Forest management prescribes retention of “wildlife tree...

INTRODUCTION (summarized) The Bulkley Valley Research Centre hosted a dynamic conference in February of 2007, attracting some of the province’s top forestry professionals as...

PROJECT HISTORY, PURPOSE, METHODOLOGY AND SCOPE (summarized) This executive summary is part of a two year project, which started in April 2006 and runs till March 2008. This...

PROJECT PURPOSE AND MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS (summarized) The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) epidemic has shifted from controlling the outbreak to mitigating its impact on...

ABSTRACT In 1997, 30 one-ha stem mapped plots were located in randomly selected juvenile lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. Ex Loud.) leading stands aged 15-20 years. The...

ABSTRACT In this project, we incorporated a robust snag dynamics submodel into SORTIE-­ND, a version of the spatially explicit, individual tree model SORTIE (Pacala et al. 1996;...

The document outlines a collaborative effort involving various stakeholders to establish ecologically-driven strategies for the preservation of downed woody material (DWM) and...

In British Columbia, many of our second-growth stands have regenerated as mixed-species stands and yet our understanding of how to manage these stands to achieve multiple goals...

This report's purpose is to address the significant mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia's lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm.) forests and it...

ABSTRACT A sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate general model dynamics and model predictions were compared to independent datasets from forests of northwestern BC....

Abstract: We examined young harvested (41–100) and naturally disturbed mature (101–250), and old (>250) temperate rainforests on the central and north coast of British...

This project, assisted by Erin Hall, Gabe Newman, and Denise Bustard, is designed to quantify and predict growth responses to different management strategies of the dominant...