Wetlands Knowledge Search Results
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V. Fewster
Jeffrey Fidgen
Chris MacQuarrie
Spongy moth ( Lymantria dispar) is a naturalized non-native pest that prefers oak leaves, but it can defoliate several other tree species native to Canada. Repeated high rates of defoliation by spongy...
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The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030 (hereafter “UN Decade”) recognizes the critical need to prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of the world’s ecosystems. Effective...
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Forest Pest Leaflets are a series of about eighty publications dealing with insects, tree diseases, and other problems affecting the growth, survival, and general health of forests. Each leaflet...
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Kristin Denryter
Rachel Cook
John Cook
Katherine Parker
High-quality habitats for caribou are associated primarily with lichens, but lichens alone fail to satisfy summer nutritional requirements. To evaluate the summer forage value of plant communities...
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Service Canadien des Forêts
The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers has spearheaded the development of the Canadian Wildland Fire Prevention and Mitigation Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy outlines a set of goals...
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
This maintenance schedule outlines the care that trees need in each season. It can be used as a checklist year after year. You can adapt it to your local area and the specific needs of your project.
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L. Archambault
J. Morissette
In Quebec, the bioclimatic zone of balsam fir-yellow birch covers an area of 94,768 km 2. Some of the forest cover types in the area, such as balsam fir-yellow birch, are among the most productive in...
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Simon Shamoun
Grace Sumampong
Robert Kowbel
Katherine Bernier
Marianne Elliott
Danny Rioux
Martine Blais
Alexandra Schlenzig
Phytophthora ramorum is an oomycete pathogen and causal agent of a disease commonly referred to as sudden oak death (SOD). The pathogen also causes foliar blight and shoot dieback of nursery plants...
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Laminated root rot caused by the fungus Phellinus weirii is one of the most important root diseases of conifers in western North America. This short note discusses the susceptibility of western...
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The SFM Toolkit links to various modules on specific knowledge, tools and cases related to putting Sustainable Forest Management into practice.
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Robert Powers
Peter Avers
Along with water and air, soil is the most fundamental of resources. This unconsolidated skin of the earth is the source from which many other resources and our most valued commodities flow. And along...
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The video link is in French A short, 9 min video describing the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change (ASCC) study at the Petawawa Research Forest. The ASCC project is a large-scale collaborative...
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This infographic provides an overview of the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change research study at the Petawawa Research Forest.
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Service Canadien des Forêts
This infographic provides an overview of the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change research study at the Petawawa Research Forest.
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Nelson Thiffault
Patricia Raymond
Jean-Martin Lussier
Isabelle Aubin
Samuel Royer-Tardif
Anthony D’Amato
Frédérik Doyon
Benoit Lafleur
Martin Perron
Jean Bousquet
Nathalie Isabel
Sylvie Carles
Patrick Lupien
Annie Malenfant
As part of the Carrefour Forêts 2019 Conference, the forest research branch of Quebec’s Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs and the Canadian Wood Fibre Centre of Natural Resources Canada...
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The Peace River Coal Block in B.C. extends a distance of 150 miles from the Williston reservoir to the Alberta border. Approximately seven hundred and fifty Coal Licences are involved, each one mile...
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Jean-François Côté
Olivier van Lier
Dasvinder Kambo
This fibre fact demonstrates that fine-scale structural information derived from t-lidar and new modeling techniques can improve wood fibre attribute predictions.
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K.A. Baldwin
K. Chapman
D. Meidinger
P.W.C. Uhlig
L. Allen
S. Basquill
D. Faber-Langendoen
N. Flynn
C. Kennedy
W. Mackenzie
M. Major
W.J. Meades
C. Morneau
J.-P. Saucier
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is an ecological classification of natural vegetation communities in Canada. It provides a framework for describing patterns of vegetation at...
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Georges Pelletier
Christian Hébert
This review of Cryptophagidae of Canada and the Northern United States (US) covers 142 species among the following genera: Caenoscelis (6 species), Antherophagus (4), Cryptophagus (33), Henoticus (4)...
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Philippe Tanguay
Richard Hamelin
In the era of molecular biology, DNA barcoding is being used to fill gaps in taxonomy and confirm findings obtained through traditional approaches based on morphological differences between species...