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Expected Increased Risks of Wildfires in Canadian Wildland-Human Interface Areas
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With climate change, current research predicts an increase in forest fires in the wildland-human interface or WHI; several inhabited areas will be more at risk in the years to come. Despite this...
Experimental Moose Reduction Lowers Wolf Density and Stops Decline of Endangered Caribou
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Using an adaptive management experiment, we tested the hypothesis that reducing moose to historic levels would reduce apparent competition and therefor recover caribou populations.
Exploring Ecological Change in Western and Northern Canada
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A video exploring the methods that researchers use to access ecological changes in Western Canada (including wildfires). A PDF of the PowerPoint can be found here.
Exploring Opportunities for Mitigating the Ecological Impacts of Current and Future Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks Through Improved Planning: A Focus on Northeastern British Columbia
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The primary response to the present mountain pine beetle (MPB) epidemic has focused on salvaging beetle-killed wood while it remains economically viable, and developing methods for reducing the spread...
Extreme Precipitation Reduces Reproductive Output of an Endangered Raptor
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Frequency and intensity of extreme weather has increased against a backdrop of anthropogenic land change. Extreme rainfall during the breeding season reduced reproductive success of burrowing owls.
Factors Affecting the Survival of Immature Lodgepole Pine in the Foothills of West-Central Alberta
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Plots were established to monitor the survival of immature lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta var. latifolia Engelm.) in over 70 cutover areas in the subalpine and boreal forest regions of west-central...
FastTRAC (Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifers / Tests rapides pour l’amélioration des conifères)
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(Fast Tests for Rating and Amelioration of Conifer) – A collaboration among CWFC researchers, academia, government and industry transforms traditional tree breeding programs by improving genetic...
Ferruginous Hawk Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Alberta
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The Alberta Ferruginous Hawk Recovery Plan 2009 – 2014 identifies climate change as a factor potentially threatening the recovery of the species in Alberta.
Fertilization and Thinning Effects on a Douglas-fir Ecosystem at Shawnigan Lake: 15-year Growth Response
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This report documents the 15-year growth response of a Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb) Franco) stand to thinning and urea fertilization. The initial treatments were carried out when the...
Fertilization and Thinning Effects on a Douglas-Fir Ecosystem at Shawnigan Lake: 32-Year Growth Response
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The Canadian Forest Service’s Shawnigan Lake Project (SLP) main experiment was established in 1971–1972 to study the effects of fertilizing and thinning 24-year-old coastal Douglas-fir ( Pseudotsuga...
Field Performance of Several Tree Species and Stock Types Planted in Montane Forests of Coastal British Columbia
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The need for tree species selection on a site specific basis to regenerate the province’s forests is now recognized throughout British Columbia. However, little research has been done to assess the...
Fifty Years of Landsat Science and Impacts
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Since 1972, the Landsat program has been continually monitoring the Earth, to now provide 50 years of digital, multispectral, medium spatial resolution observations. Over this time, Landsat data were...
Finding Common Ground: Toward Comparable Indicators of Adaptive Capacity of Tree Species to a Changing Climate
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Adaptive capacity, one of the three determinants of vulnerability to climate change, is defined as the capacity of species to persist in their current location by coping with novel environmental...
Fine Root Density Distribution and Biomass in Second- and Third-Growth Douglas-Fir Stands on Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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Fine root and ectomycorrhizal root density and biomass were quantified in 2003 and 2004 by sequential soil coring in a 54-year old second-growth stand and 3- and 14-year-old third-growth stands of...
Foliage Diseases in Western Larch in British Columbia
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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...
Forest Carbon 101: How Canada Calculates Forest Carbon
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Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
Forest Carbon 101: How Canada Calculates Forest Carbon
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Forests are part of a living system where carbon is continually captured from and emitted to the atmosphere. Calculating the impact of human actions on forest carbon is a complex, but critically...
Forest Carbon Accounting: How Does Canada Assess the Contribution of Forests Toward Reducing Emissions?
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Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada has committed to cut its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40 to 45 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. Each year...
Forest Ecosystem Monitoring in Saskatchewan and Alberta: Identification of Aquatic Elements and Sampling Protocols
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This chapter describes aquatic elements and sampling protocols that could be used to monitor forested stream ecosystems in Alberta and Saskatchewan