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Lorraine Maclauchlan,Julie Brooks
This study describes the impacts of 25 damaging agents recorded on young lodgepole pine trees over a 30-year period in a study plot in southern British Columbia. During the study, density fluctuated due to infill and mortality. Of the 1,295 stems per hec...
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Howard Williams, Sharon M. Hood, Christopher R. Keyes, Joel M. Egan and José Negrón
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Jennifer Cartwright
Droughts and insect outbreaks are primary disturbance processes linking climate change to tree mortality in western North America. Refugia from these disturbances—locations where impacts are less severe relative to the surrounding landscape—m...
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Zachary W. Carter, Benjamin W. Sullivan, Robert G. Qualls, Robert R. Blank, Casey A. Schmidt and Paul S.J. Verburg
Fire is an important component of forests in the western United States. Not only are forests subjected to wildfires, but fire is also an important management tool to reduce fuels loads. Charcoal, a product of fire, can have major impacts on carbon (C) an...
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Alex J. Woods, K. David Coates, Martin Watts, Vanessa Foord and Erin I. Holtzman
We examine the direct effects of multiple disturbance agents on individual tree development and stand productivity in 15?40-year-old managed forests in British Columbia, Canada. Our primary interest was to establish a baseline assessment of damage in the...
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Ryer M. Becker, Robert F. Keefe and Nathaniel M. Anderson
The western United States faces significant forest management challenges after severe bark beetle infestations have led to substantial mortality. Minimizing costs is vital for increasing the feasibility of management operations in affected forests. Multi...
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J. Douglas Steventon
To assist in evaluating habitat retention options, the abundance of northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus) and North American red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus) wer examined in 2005 and again in 2010 across a gradient of mountain pine beetle...
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John Rex, Stéphane Dubé and Vanessa Foord
The mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia has covered 18.1 million hectares of forest land showing the potential for exceptionally large-scale disturbance to influence watershed hydrology. Pine stands killed by the epidemic can experience red...
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Trevor A. Kinley,Jesse Whittington,Alan D. Dibb,Nancy J. Newhouse
Conservation of species at risk requires an understanding of resource-selection patterns and habitat distribution. We used 1,795 radio-telemetry locations from 55 study animals to model resource selection for an endangered population of American badger (...
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Amalesh Dhar,Chris D.B. Hawkins
The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; MPB) infestation has altered forests of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) to an unprecedented extent in British Columbia. After an MPB outbreak, advance regen...
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