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Landscape-scale disturbance and boreal forest birds: can large single-pass harvest approximate fires?
Van Wilgenburg, Hobson
Boreal forest birds have adapted to changes caused by natural disturbances such as fire and this adaptation forms the basis for the Natural Disturbance Paradigm (NDP) underlying recent proposed changes in forest harvesting practices in western…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Persistence of pyrophilous insects in fire-driven boreal forests: population dynamics in burned and unburned habitats
Saint-Germain, Drapeau, Buddle
Several boreal insect species respond to smoke and heat generated by forest fires and use recent burns to reproduce in high numbers. Some of these species are rare or uncommon in undisturbed forests, and the contribution of recently burned habitats…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Integrating climate change into forest management in South-Central British Columbia: an assessment of landscape vulnerability and development of a climate-smart framework
Nitschke, Innes
The achievement of sustainable forest management requires the incorporation of risk and uncertainty into long-term planning. Climatic change will have significant impacts on natural disturbances, species and ecosystems, particularly on landscapes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface: application of a bivariate probit model
Mozumder, Raheem, Talberth, Berrens
With evidence of increasing wildfire risks in wildland-urban interface zones in the U.S. West and elsewhere, understanding intended evacuation behavior is a growing issue for community planners. This research investigates intended evacuation…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Effects of HMX exposure upon metabolic rate of northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) in ovo
Liu, Cox, Beall, Brunjes, Pan, Kendall, Anderson, McMurry, Cobb, Smith
We evaluated the use of the gas exchange rate as an ecologically relevant indicator of chemical stress in avian embryos/eggs. Northern bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) were exposed to octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (HMX) via…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

A marginal cost analysis of trade-offs in old-growth preservation in Ontario
Khajuria, Laaksonen-Craig, Kant
The paper examines the economic impacts of sustainable forest management (SFM) policies in Canada. Specifically, the marginal costs (MC) of old-growth preservation in an even-aged boreal forest in northeastern Ontario are examined under the…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

The use of the natural range of variability for identifying biodiversity values at risk when implementing a forest management strategy
Doyon, Yamasaki, Duchesneau
The Natural Range of Variability is a concept used under the ecosystem management paradigm that means understanding the disturbance-driven spatial and temporal variability of the ecological systems and mimicking them in management strategies. With…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Design and implementation of an integrated GIS-based cellular automata model to characterize forest fire behaviour
Yassemi, Dragicevic, Schmidt
The integration of geographic information systems (GIS) and environmental modelling has been widely investigated for more than a decade. However, such integration has remained a challenging task due to the temporal changes of environmental processes…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Real versus perceived conflicts between restoration of ponderosa pine forests and conservation of the Mexican spotted owl
Prather, Noss, Sisk
Progress in implementing ecosystem approaches to conservation and restoration is slowed by legitimate concerns about the effects of such approaches on individual imperiled species. The perceived conflict between the restoration of fire-excluded…
Year: 2008
Type: Document

Charring does not affect wood infestation by subterranean termites
Peterson, Gerard, Wagner
Fire is an important part of forest ecosystems, as is the insect fauna. Changes in wood brought about by fire may alter the ability of termites to use the wood, interrupting the decay cycle of woody debris. The ability of termites to find, infest,…
Year: 2008
Type: Document