Negative impacts of high temperatures on growth of black spruce forests intensify with the anticipated climate warming

MP Girardin, EH Hogg, PY Bernier… - Global change …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
An increasing number of studies conclude that water limitations and heat stress may hinder
the capacity of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) trees, a dominant species of …

Nutrient budgets in forests under increased biomass harvesting scenarios

D Paré, E Thiffault - Current Forestry Reports, 2016 - Springer
A developing bioeconomy and the need for alternate sources of energy are promoting a
more intensive procurement and use of forest biomass. While it is a fact that increased …

[HTML][HTML] How large is the difference in large-scale forest biomass estimations based on new climate-modified stand biomass models?

X He, XD Lei, LH Dong - Ecological Indicators, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate forest carbon service accounting is essential for climate change mitigation. At
present, the knowledge about whether and how climate-sensitive stand biomass models …

Soil C: N: P dynamics during secondary succession following fire in the boreal forest of central Canada

A Hume, HYH Chen, AR Taylor, GJ Kayahara… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Measures of soil nutrient availability such as concentrations of nitrogen and phosphorus ([N]
and [P]) are important indicators of terrestrial productivity. Optimal plant growth and …

Aboveground tree growth is a minor and decoupled fraction of boreal forest carbon input

C Pappas, J Maillet, S Rakowski, JL Baltzer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2020 - Elsevier
The boreal biome accounts for approximately one third of the terrestrial carbon (C) sink.
However, estimates of its individual C pools remain uncertain. Here, focusing on the …

Effects of topography and thickness of organic layer on productivity of black spruce boreal forests of the Canadian Clay Belt region

A Laamrani, O Valeria, Y Bergeron, N Fenton… - Forest ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Northern Canadian boreal forest has a considerable ecological and economic importance,
with the black spruce forest type occupying a large extent of this ecosystem. Organic layer …

Stoichiometric distribution models: ecological stoichiometry at the landscape extent

SJ Leroux, EV Wal, YF Wiersma, L Charron… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities are altering the fundamental geography of biogeochemicals. Yet we lack
an understanding of how the spatial patterns in organismal stoichiometry affect …

Afforestation of abandoned agricultural lands for carbon sequestration: how does it compare with natural succession?

M Thibault, E Thiffault, Y Bergeron, R Ouimet… - Plant and Soil, 2022 - Springer
Purpose The objective of this study was to compare the accumulation over time of organic
carbon (C) in soil and vegetation of abandoned agricultural lands left to natural vegetation …

Increasing biomass demand enlarges negative forest nutrient budget areas in wood export regions

W de Oliveira Garcia, T Amann, J Hartmann - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Energy production from biomass is one of the adopted strategies in different European
countries to limit global warming to within the 1.5–2° targets after the 2015 UN climate …

Climate change may increase Quebec boreal forest productivity in high latitudes by shifting its current composition

A Ameray, X Cavard, Y Bergeron - Frontiers in Forests and Global …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Several recent studies point out that climate change is expected to influence boreal forest
succession, disturbances, productivity, and mortality. However, the effect of climate change …