{"title":"Response of aspen to a warming climate along a latitudinal gradient in the Rocky Mountains, USA","authors":"Gabrielle Alexzena Ayres, P. Fulé, W. Flatley","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2024-0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0001","url":null,"abstract":"The 21st century's warming climate threatens aspen (Populus tremuloides) growth in the southern Rocky Mountains (western US), endangering ecosystem diversity, functionality, and associated services. This study linked aspen growth with temperature and moisture variations, assessing how warmer climates and seasonal changes affect ring widths. Sampling 211 aspen trees from 12 latitudinally distributed sites, we compiled three regional aspen chronologies spanning 1913 to 2018. We investigated climate-growth associations using correlation and modeling (climwin) techniques. Results revealed that aspen at the trailing southern edge of the Rocky Mountains are vulnerable to drought, where elevated temperatures and diminished precipitation emerge as primary factors contributing to their reduced growth. In contrast, aspens in the northern region of the gradient exhibited a positive growth response to rising temperatures, potentially linked to the alleviation of growth-limiting cold temperatures. However, while pre-2000s droughts increased growth, recent droughts elicited growth reductions in the North; suggesting that with continued warming, northern populations will increasingly face sensitivity to droughts akin to their southern counterparts. These findings emphasize the increased vulnerability of southern Rocky Mountain aspen populations to climate change-induced growth constraints, particularly in the anticipated warmer and drier conditions of the 21st century. This study is crucial to understanding aspen responses to climate fluctuations in the region.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of three-year amendment measures on coastal saline-alkali soil conditions during the growing season","authors":"Zhaohui Jia, Lingjun Zhu, Yuxuan Shi, Jing Liu, Jin Zeng, Shilin Ma, Chong Li, Yingkang Wu, Huimei Leng, Xin Liu, Jinchi Zhang","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2023-0288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0288","url":null,"abstract":"Seawater intrusion and fluctuations in the water table in coastal areas lead to seasonal variations in soil salinity and pH, which greatly limit the development of coastal protection forests. In a three-year field study, the impact of five soil amendment measures were evaluated on soil conditions in coastal areas. Amendments included biochar, biochar with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), straw with AMF, straw alone, and AMF alone, compared to a control (CK) with no additive. Results indicated that combinations of straw, biochar, and AMF reduced soil pH across various layers and seasons, with electrical conductivity mainly decreasing in spring. During the summer, at the 0-20 cm soil depth, microbial biomass carbon notably increased due to these mixtures. Additionally, AMF alone and biochar with AMF significantly improved enzyme activities in the 0-40 cm layer in spring, while in fall, AMF alone notably increased nutrient availability in the same layer. Linear regression analysis revealed a negative correlation between electrical conductivity, microbial biomass carbon, enzyme activity, and nutrient availability with pH. The biochar–AMF mixture emerged as the most effective soil amendment, suggesting that using it in conjunction with seasonal management could optimize soil health and promote silviculture in coastal regions.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141681444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Att-Mask R-CNN: an individual tree crown instance segmentation method based on fused attention mechanism","authors":"Wenjing Chen, Zhihao Guan, Demin Gao","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2023-0187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0187","url":null,"abstract":"Tree detection and canopy area measurement are important and difficult tasks in forest inventory, which are important for understanding forest stand structure. This study utilized remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) aerial photography technology to collect remote sensing images of forests in Xiong County, China, creating a dataset comprising 1200 images of six tree species. Based on this dataset, the paper proposes an optimized model, Att-Mask R-CNN, for canopy detection and segmentation. Att-Mask R-CNN outperforms the original models (Mask R-CNN and MS R-CNN) by achieving 65.29% mean average precision for detection, 80.44% mean intersection over union for segmentation, and 90.67% overall recognition rate for the six tree species. In addition, a pixel statistics method based on segmentation masks is introduced for estimating the vertical projected area of individual tree crowns, and comparisons between the measured and predicted vertical projected area of the crowns of six tree species (100 trees of each class) show an overall goodness-of-fit R2 of 85% and a relative root-mean-square error rRMSE of 12.81%. By using remote sensing images from RPAs and optimizing existing deep learning models, the detection and segmentation of individual tree canopies can be achieved, resulting in a more accurate understanding of forest structure, which provides scientific support for forest management and resource monitoring.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141228585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Hökkä, A. Ahtikoski, S. Sarkkola, Päivi Väänänen
{"title":"Ash fertilization increases long-term timber production in drained nitrogen-poor Scots pine peatlands","authors":"H. Hökkä, A. Ahtikoski, S. Sarkkola, Päivi Väänänen","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2024-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0003","url":null,"abstract":"Wood ash fertilization remarkably increases tree growth and hence, carbon sequestration in drained boreal peatland forests, particularly in nitrogen-rich Scots pine sites with limited phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Because ash lacks nitrogen (N), N-deficient ombrotrophic and poor oligotrophic sites are generally considered unsuitable for ash fertilization. In this study, timber production was investigated in six field experiments in N-poor, drained Scots pine dominated peatlands in central Finland, where ash fertilization was applied 15-85 years earlier. Ash significantly increased tree growth in all the study sites. Unfertilized plots showed long-term average mean annual increment (MAI) of 2.01 m3ha-1a-1, whereas in fertilized plots MAI was 4.46 m3ha-1a-1. An analysis with non-linear mixed effects model revealed a faster volume yield development and higher asymptote of the mean curve in fertilized plots. Higher amount of K in the ash significantly increased the response. Fertilizations were financially lucrative: on average, the break-even cost surpassed the ash fertilization cost (390 € ha-1) more than two-fold at 5 % interest rate. The current nutrient status of fertilized trees was rather balanced. The results proved that the long-term growth response to ash fertilization in poor drained peatland sites is comparable to N-rich sites, but the response time is distinctively longer.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141100513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olivier B. Bouriaud, Philippe Brion, Guillaume Chauvet, Trinh Ho Kim Duong, Minna Pulkinnen
{"title":"The weight share method in forest inventories: refining the relation between points and trees","authors":"Olivier B. Bouriaud, Philippe Brion, Guillaume Chauvet, Trinh Ho Kim Duong, Minna Pulkinnen","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2024-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0007","url":null,"abstract":"The population of forest trees having no sampling frame, forest inventories have relied on indirect sampling methods. This indirect sampling uses two populations: the discrete populations of trees and the continuous population of points, from which trees are being sampled. Important works such as Mandallaz (1991), Eriksson (1995) and Stevens and Urquhart (2000) brought the fundamental elements in the formalization of the sampling of trees, by defining the duality principle that relates both populations. They led to the so-called continuous population approach where trees attributes are transformed into attribute density values. However, in these approaches, the trees quickly fade away despite being the target population while their weight is calculated as the inverse of their inclusion probability. We explain how the Generalized Weight Share Method (GWSM) can be used to formalize the link between the two populations. GWSM allows to revisit previous concepts proposed to solve the question of how to produce estimations from tree-level attributes, under uniform random or more complex sampling designs. The principles of the method are explained, and its functioning is illustrated under a variety of points and trees sampling designs, including fixed-area, Bitterlich and cluster sampling.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can climate variability and landscape position predict white pine blister rust incidence, mortality due to the disease, and regeneration in whitebark pine?","authors":"Vladimir Kovalenko, Lisa J Bate, Diana L Six","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2023-0270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0270","url":null,"abstract":"Invasive forest pathogens, like Cronartium ribicola (Fisch), the fungus that causes white pine blister rust, threaten native tree species. Federally listed whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelmann) is highly susceptible and faces extensive mortality due to this disease. Understanding infection conditions and disease incidence variability is crucial for management and restoration efforts. We surveyed whitebark pine stands in Glacier National Park, Montana, USA from 2020 to 2022, examining the impact of landform and climate on tree mortality, rust incidence, cone production, and regeneration. Our analysis revealed that tree diameter, elevation, and aspect significantly influenced mortality, rust incidence, and cone production, while climatic factors such as spring solar radiation, humidity, and late summer snowpack also played key roles. Regeneration was primarily affected by elevation, geographic location, and humidity. Although landform variables similarly predicted disease incidence in this and other studies, climatic drivers varied by region, emphasizing the need to consider region-specific landform and climate for effective management. Our study highlights the importance of protecting large trees, which harbor genetic diversity crucial for recovery and adaptation to disturbance and climate change.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141111951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate, wildfire, and volcanic ash drivers of ecosystem change in high mountain forests, British Columbia, Canada","authors":"R. Hebda, Kendrick J Brown","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2023-0180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0180","url":null,"abstract":"Northwest North America has unique high elevation Picea-Abies forests and parkland classified in British Columbia as the Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine-fir (ESSF) Biogeoclimatic zone. These ecosystems occur on a topographically and climatically complex landscape, juxtaposed with diverse vegetation types including alpine tundra, inland rain forest, dry conifer forest, and grasslands. Spatio-temporal ecosystem disturbance is varied, driven by factors such as climate variation, wildfire, volcanic eruptions, and insect herbivory. A pollen and charcoal record derived from a lake sediment core from the ESSF reveals a unique late-glacial to modern vegetation history progressing from alpine steppe through dry open conifer forest to moist spruce-fir ecosystems, the latter arising only 4600 years ago; late by comparison to other ESSF sites in the region. Repeated disturbance in the mid Holocene by wildfire coupled with volcanic ash deposition and increased climatic variation resulted in recurring Pinus contorta-dominated seral forest stands before cooling and moistening in the late Holocene led to stable Picea-Abies forest. With rapid climate change, changing disturbance regimes, and timber harvest, the management of dry ESSF forests needs to consider that this forest-type could transform into parkland or open seral pine stands, with a high frequency disturbance regime.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140965979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nursery cultural practices influence morphological and physiological aspen seedling traits: Implications for post-fire restoration","authors":"Aalap Dixit, Owen Burney","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2024-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0031","url":null,"abstract":"Aspen forests are threatened by the impacts of a changing climate and are showing large-scale mortality with meager natural regeneration to restore these loses. Therefore, there is an increasing demand for high quality aspen seedlings to assist with forest restoration efforts. Nursery cultural practices can be used to alter aspen seedling traits to improve adaptability to dry planting conditions. In this study, the effects of container size (SC10 and D30; 158 ml and 490 ml, respectively) and nursery irrigation treatment (High and Low irrigation; 90% and 70% container capacity, respectively) on seedling growth and a suite of morphological and physiological traits were investigated. The combination of large container size and low irrigation treatment resulted in seedlings with lowest height to diameter ratio and specific leaf area, which are desired traits for seedling performance on dry sites. Additionally, seedlings exposed to low irrigation conditions at the nursery stage had a lower (more negative) osmotic potential at full turgor suggesting a higher likelihood of drought tolerance. Overall results from this study provide insight on utilizing nursery cultural practices to produce seedlings with target characteristics that may ultimately lead to establishment on harsh, dry planting sites in large scale reforestation projects.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140967258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron Petty, Sergei Senko, H. Strandman, Essi Jyrkinen, Olli-Pekka Tikkanen, A. Kilpeläinen, Heli Peltola
{"title":"Effects of forest management intensity and climate change severity on volume growth, timber yield, carbon stocks, and the amount of deadwood in Scots pine, Norway spruce and silver birch stands in boreal conditions","authors":"Aaron Petty, Sergei Senko, H. Strandman, Essi Jyrkinen, Olli-Pekka Tikkanen, A. Kilpeläinen, Heli Peltola","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2023-0295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0295","url":null,"abstract":"We studied how management intensity and climate severity affect volume growth, timber yield, carbon stocks, and the amount of deadwood in Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris (L.), Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) Karst.) and silver birch (Betula pendula Roth.) dominated stands in the Republic of Karelia and Arkhangelsk region of northwest Russia. Using the forest ecosystem model (SIMA) under different climates (current and representative concentration pathway scenarios, RCP4.5 and RCP8.5), no-thinning, low, medium, and high intensity thinning rotational forestry regimes were simulated. Under RCPs, the volume growth and timber yield (5-53%), carbon stocks (1-22%), and deadwood amounts (11-75%) increased for all Scots pine and silver birch stands. The use of low intensity management increased volume growth and carbon stocks (3-16%) and deadwood amount (up to 60%) under RCPs, but not timber yield (±3%) in these stands. For Norway spruce stands, the volume growth (5-26%), timber yield (23-75%), and carbon stocks (5-15%) decreased under RCP8.5, but deadwood amount increased (up to 142%). Intensive management increased volume growth (4-19%), timber yield (4-63%), carbon stocks (up to 14%) and deadwood amounts (up to 49%). Our results highlight that effects of climate severity and management intensity are site and species-specific for Eurasian’s boreal forests.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140977954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Galen McMonagle, Van A. Lantz, Anthony Robert Taylor, Yan Boulanger, Chinmay Sharma, Patrick Withey, C. Hennigar
{"title":"Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS-LANDIS-CGE modeling approach","authors":"Galen McMonagle, Van A. Lantz, Anthony Robert Taylor, Yan Boulanger, Chinmay Sharma, Patrick Withey, C. Hennigar","doi":"10.1139/cjfr-2024-0089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0089","url":null,"abstract":"Climate change is expected to alter both forest stand- and landscape-level dynamics through a change in environmental characterises. While numerous studies have employed models to assess the ecological and/or economic impacts of such changes on forests throughout the world, there is need to further refine such analyses. In this paper, we contribute to this literature by coupling an ecological (PICUS-LANDIS II) modeling framework with an economic (CGE) model to better account for the economic impact associated with climate-induced impacts on forest stand and landscape-level structure and composition dynamics. Applying this framework to a case-study region of New Brunswick, Canada, we estimate that climate change will reduce softwood supply by 16-73% and impact hardwood supply in the range of -2% to +4% by 2150. The change in wood supply is estimated to reduce the value of the softwood and hardwood forestry and logging sector output by up to 51% and 17%, respectively, by 2150. These sector-level impacts may lead to a 0.08-0.88% reduction in annual GDP by 2150. The methodological advances established in this study can be used to better inform future forest management and economic plans that aim to lessen both the ecological and economic impact of climate change.","PeriodicalId":9483,"journal":{"name":"Canadian Journal of Forest Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140976639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}