The Great Northern Forest: Boreal
Tags: TAIGAS; TAIGA ecology; FORESTS & forestry; NATURAL resources; ARCTIC regions
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- FOREWORD/PR�FACE. Apps, M.J.; Karjalainen, T.; Stocks, B.J.; Shaw, C. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;May2002, Vol. 32 Issue 5, precedes p1
Discusses the proceedings of an international conference entitled The Role of Boreal Forests and Forestry in the Global Carbon Budget was held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, from 8 to 12 May, 2000 to examine the present state of understanding of this subject, hosted by the Canadian Forest...
- Monitoring Current Status of and Trends in Boreal Forest Land Use in Russian Karelia. Burnett, Charles; Fall, Andrew; Tomppo, Erkki; Kalliola, Risto // Conservation Ecology (11955449);12/1/2003, Vol. 7 Issue 2, pN.PAG
Some of the last remaining near-natural boreal forest landscapes in northern Europe can be found in the Russian Karelia near its border with Finland. Currently, these forests are facing strong exploitation pressure in the form of extensive clearcuts. Demand for conservation is also high. We...
- Within-stand variation in windthrow in southern boreal forests of Minnesota: Is it predictable? Peterson, Chris J. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Feb2004, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p365
Wind damage to forests is determined by numerous factors that interact to produce complex, seemingly random damage patterns. However, the complexity may lie mostly among stands and be less within stands: in this study, I attempted to discern how predictable tree fall risk is within five southern...
- Stand composition and structure of the boreal mixedwood and epigaeic arthropods of the Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance (EMEND) landbase in northwestern Alberta. Work, Timothy T.; Shorthouse, David P.; Spence, John R.; Volney, W. Jan A.; Langor, David // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Feb2004, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p417
Conservation of biological diversity under the natural disturbance model of boreal forest management relies on the assumption that natural mosaics of stand composition and structure can be adequately recreated through forest management activities. Maintaining compositional and structural...
- Facing Burning Forests, Russia Can't Afford a Bucket. Matloff, Judith // Christian Science Monitor;10/15/98, Vol. 90 Issue 225, p1
Focuses on the devastating forest fires occurring in 1998 in Russia's Siberian taiga. How long the fires have been burning; Why United Nations experts feel the forest fires are a global ecological disaster; Environmental conditions which are worsening the effect of the fires and prolonging...
- Decadal observations of tree regeneration following fire in boreal forests. Johnstone, Jill F.; Chapin III, F. S.; Foote, J.; Kemmett, S.; Price, K.; Viereck, L. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Feb2004, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p267
This paper presents data on early postfire tree regeneration. The data were obtained from repeated observations of recently burned forest stands along the Yukon � British Columbia border and in interior Alaska. Postfire measurements of tree density were made periodically for 20�30 years,...
- Influence of landscape structure on patterns of forest fires in boreal forest landscapes in Sweden. Hellberg, Erik; Niklasson, Mats; Granstr�m, Anders // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Feb2004, Vol. 34 Issue 2, p332
To analyze the effect of landscape structure (viz. amount of wetlands) on the past forest fire regime in boreal Sweden, we reconstructed detailed fire histories by cross-dating fire scars in living and dead Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) in two different landscape types: mire-free landscapes...
- Identifying growth releases in dendrochronological studies of forest disturbance. Fraver, Shawn; White, Alan S. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Jul2005, Vol. 35 Issue 7, p1648
Information on historical disturbances is vital to our understanding of current forest conditions. Dendro chronological methods provide one means of reconstructing disturbance histories in temperate and boreal forests. In particular, the dates of significant growth releases recorded on surviving...
- Development and testing of models for predicting crown fire rate of spread in conifer forest stands. Cruz, Miguel G.; Alexander, Martin E.; Wakimoto, Ronald H. // Canadian Journal of Forest Research;Jul2005, Vol. 35 Issue 7, p1626
The rate of spread of crown fires advancing over level to gently undulating terrain was modeled through nonlinear regression analysis based on an experimental data set pertaining primarily to boreal forest fuel types. The data set covered a significant spectrum of fuel complex and fire behavior...
