Multiple-use land management is an important aspect of sustainable forest management and requires strategies that both promote sustainable fiber production and conserve biodiversity. Studies formally integrating these two aspects of forest management are needed to develop silviculture prescriptions ...

Climate change is expected to impact the function, health, and productivity of many northern latitude forests, including North American mixed-pine ecosystems. Additionally, forest managers face increasing challenges to sustaining forests in the face of high uncertainty associated with response to...

Forest management agencies have budget constraints and continually face difficult questions regarding how much to invest in silviculture and when to harvest forests. Economic thought suggests these decisions should be guided by the pursuit of economic efficiency and tools like net present value...

Taper, or stem profile functions are practical mathematical tools for quantifying the volume and distribution of products of standing trees. These data are relevant in creating forest management programs for timber production. The objective of this study was to fit different models of total volume, ...

Forest management activities are increasingly analyzed through a lens that quantifies their effects on soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) storage because forest soils are an important C sink. Data on the longer-term impacts of repeated interventions are often lacking. At the Petawawa Research Forest, ...

Tree species identification is important in forest management. The multispectral lidar Titan of Teledyne Optech Inc. can improve tree species separation by providing classification features computed from the three-channel intensities, ratios and normalized differences. However, the value of...

Context: Many forest tree species are composed of a gradient of populations adapted to different environmental segments, especially to temperature gradients. Therefore, populations are likely to respond differently to climate change compared to the entire species. Objectives: Using Pinus strobus as ...

Growth, components of growth, and biomass allocation were quantified for eight species in two commercially important genera, Pinus and Picea, grown in a 2 × 2 factorial of atmospheric CO₂ and soil moisture stress. Four of the pines and three of the spruces are native to eastern North America; a...

Whole-tree harvesting (WTH) is increasingly used to extract forest biomass for energy and commercial wood products. Slash burning, which is used for fuels reduction and site preparation, also reduces aboveground biomass. Yet effects of incremental biomass reduction, from either WTH or slash...

Despite growing interest in management strategies for climate change adaptation, there are few methods for assessing the ability of stands to endure or adapt to projected future climates. We developed a means for assigning climate "Compatibility" and "Adaptability" scores to stands for assessing...