Spatiotemporal patterns of mortality in declining balsam fir and spruce stands

SL Taylor, DA MacLean - Forest Ecology and Management, 2007 - Elsevier
We used spatiotemporal inventory data from declining balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.)
and spruce (Picea spp.) stands in New Brunswick, Canada, to determine the extent of tree-to …

Growth and mortality of balsam fir-and spruce-tolerant hardwood stands as influenced by stand characteristics and spruce budworm defoliation

AK Colford-Gilks, DA MacLean, JA Kershaw Jr… - Forest Ecology and …, 2012 - Elsevier
Balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.)-tolerant hardwood and spruce (Picea sp.)-tolerant
hardwood stands were compared along a gradient of hardwood composition (12–82%) …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting balsam fir mortality in boreal stands affected by spruce budworm

DJ Houndode, C Krause, H Morin - Forest Ecology and Management, 2021 - Elsevier
During spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.)) outbreaks, stands dominated by
balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill.) suffer marked levels of mortality after consecutive years …

Dead wood dynamics in declining balsam fir and spruce stands in New Brunswick, Canada

SL Taylor, DA MacLean - canadian Journal of Forest research, 2007 - cdnsciencepub.com
Forest management prescriptions increasingly incorporate snag and downed dead wood
(DDW) guidelines. This study utilizes permanent inventory plots to determine dead wood …

Growth patterns as indicators of impending tree death in silver fir

C Bigler, J Gričar, H Bugmann, K Čufar - Forest Ecology and Management, 2004 - Elsevier
Tree-ring-based growth patterns of dead and living European silver fir (Abies alba Mill.)
trees from a forest stand in Slovenia were compared and used for mortality predictions …

Demography and spatial dynamics in balsam fir stands after a spruce budworm outbreak

S Rossi, H Morin - Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
The renewal of balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) P. Mill.) stands is related to the recurrent
spruce budworm (Archips fumiferana Clemens [syn.: Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens)]) …

Moderate-severity disturbance dynamics in Abies balsamea-Betula spp. forests: The relative importance of disturbance type and local stand and site characteristics …

GP Reyes, D Kneeshaw - Ecoscience, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Sudden versus gradual mortality of canopy trees can differentially affect relative species
assemblages after disturbance, although local biotic and abiotic habitat characteristics can …

Mortality patterns after different levels of harvesting of old-growth boreal forests

JC Ruel, B Gardiner - Forest Ecology and Management, 2019 - Elsevier
Mortality is an important process to include when modelling forest stand development.
Previous attempts to model mortality after partial cutting mostly focused on overturning and …

Many ways to die–partitioning tree mortality dynamics in a near‐natural mixed deciduous forest

F Holzwarth, A Kahl, J Bauhus, C Wirth - Journal of Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Partitioning of tree mortality into different modes of death allows the tracing and mechanistic
modelling of individual key processes of forest dynamics each varying depending on site …

Mortality and stand renewal patterns following the last spruce budworm outbreak in mixed forests of western Quebec

M Bouchard, D Kneeshaw, Y Bergeron - Forest Ecology and Management, 2005 - Elsevier
We studied mortality caused by the last spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.)
outbreak (1972–1984) and the subsequent regeneration processes in the mixed conifer …