7 datasets found

ABSTRACT The current mountain pine beetle epidemic is one of the greatest threats to Northern Caribou populations in British Columbia. Northern Caribou in the Southern Mountains...

INTRODUCTION The Itcha-Ilgachuz caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) population winters in low elevation forested habitat east of the Itcha Mountains, and in high elevation...

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,...

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

(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...

INTRODUCTION In north central BC, the current mountain pine beetle outbreak, and the management response to it, is changing the forest environment. In the public media rhetoric...

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;...