In recent years, the utility of earlywood vessels anatomical characteristics in identifying and reconstructing hydrological conditions has been fully recognized. In riparian ring-porous species, flood rings have been used to identify discrete flood events, and chronologies developed from...
Author(s)
Tardif, J. C.; Kames, S.; Nolin, A. F.; Bergeron, Y.
Publisher
Frontiers Media S.A., Lausanne, Switzerland
Citation
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021, 12, October,
Considered in isolation, the radiocarbon (14C) dates on short-lived plant remains from the Jean-Baptiste Lainé (formerly Mantle) site, Ontario, yield an ambiguous result: more or less similar probability around AD 1500 or alternatively around AD 1600. This village site, likely of no more than ca....
Author(s)
Manning, S. W.; Birch, J.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
Citation
Radiocarbon, 2022, 64, 2, pp 279-308
Background: The main objective of this study was to examine the climatic sensitivity of the radial growth response of 13 eastern white pine (Pinus strobus L.) provenances planted at seven test sites throughout the northern part of the species' native distribution in eastern North America. Methods:...
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Chhin, S.; Zalesny, R. S., Jr.; Parker, W. C.; Brissette, J.
Publisher
SpringerOpen, Berlin, Germany
Citation
Forest Ecosystems, 2018, 5, 18, pp (13 March 2018)
An inductive, ordination-based approach was used to explore patterns in the microenvironment and natural regeneration of black ash across a range of representative stands in the central Ontario portion of the Great Lakes -St. Lawrence Forest Region (GLSL) near Lake Nipissing, Ontario, Canada. The...
Author(s)
Springer, A.; Dech, J. P.
Publisher
Canadian Institute of Forestry, Ottawa, Canada
Citation
Forestry Chronicle, 2021, 97, 3, pp 343-358
Growth-climate relationships of trees are species-specific and can vary over space and time. Here, we study red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) by analyzing tree-ring width data from 37 sites across northern Ontario, Canada for the period 1901-2010. We performed response function and moving response...
Author(s)
Ashiq, M. W.; Anand, M.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2016, 372, pp 109-119
We employed tree-ring analysis to reconstruct the fire history of High Park, Toronto, Canada, in one of the largest remnants of black oak (Quercus velutina) savanna in Ontario. This heavily urbanized area has a long history of fire suppression, which has degraded the native savanna. Efforts to...
Author(s)
Dinh, T.; Hewitt, N.; Drezner, T. D.
Publisher
Natural Areas Association, Bend, USA
Citation
Natural Areas Journal, 2015, 35, 3, pp 468-475
Afforestation can result in significant accumulations of carbon (C) in both soils and vegetation, which can make an important contribution to GHG emission mitigation. However, there remains a critical knowledge gap about ecosystem C stocks and fluxes at afforested sites, which is required in order...
Author(s)
Metsaranta, J. M.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2019, 441, pp 229-241
The adaptive capacity of boreal tree species to thrive in a warming, more variable climate has significant implications for boreal forest ecosystem structure and function. Dendrochronological and other empirical data indicate reduced growth and increased mortality of white spruce (Picea glauca...
Author(s)
Lu PengXin; Parker, W. C.; Colombo, S. J.; Skeates, D. A.
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd, Oxford, UK
Citation
Forest Ecology and Management, 2019, 448, pp 355-363
Landscape-level forest management has long been hypothesized to affect forest insect outbreak dynamics, but empirical evidence remains elusive. We hypothesized that the combination of increased hardwood relative to host tree species, prevalence of younger forests, and fragmentation of those forests ...
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Robert, L. E.; Sturtevant, B. R.; Cooke, B. J.; James, P. M. A.; Fortin, M. J.; Townsend, P. A.; Wolter, P. T.; Kneeshaw, D.
Publisher
Wiley, Copenhagen, Denmark
Citation
Ecography, 2018, 41, 9, pp 1556-1571
Rises in atmospheric carbon dioxide (atmCO2) levels are known to stimulate photosynthesis and increase intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) in trees. Stand-level increases in iWUE depend on the physiological response of dominant species to increases in atmCO2, while tree-level response to...
Author(s)
Dietrich, R.; Bell, F. W.; Silva, L. C. R.; Cecile, A.; Horwath, W. R.; Anand, M.
Publisher
Wiley, Hoboken, USA
Citation
Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 2016, 121, 10, pp 2761-2774