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Regeneration and Stand Structure Following Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation i...
PROJECT PURPOSE AND MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS (summarized) The Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) epidemic has shifted from controlling the outbreak to mitigating its impact on... -
Improving Juvenile Tree Growth Prediction for Complex Mountain Pine Beetle Da...
(From "Synopsis of FIA-FSP Research Projects (2004-2009)") Forest managers require robust, unbiased predictive equations of juvenile tree growth under a range of management... -
Implications of Alternate Silvicultural Strategies in Mountain Pine Beetle Da...
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;... -
Evaluation of the Complex Stand Simulation Model SORTIE-ND for Timber Supply ...
ABSTRACT A sensitivity analysis was performed to evaluate general model dynamics and model predictions were compared to independent datasets from forests of northwestern BC.... -
Growth Prediction of Canopy Trees in Complex Structured Mixed-Species Stands
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...