Black spruce
Observed versus predicted fire behavior in an Alaskan black spruce forest ecosystem: an experimental fire case study
... Although one should use the results of a single experi- mental fire case study with caution, this study provides information supporting the use of Canadian fire behav- ior modeling systems in Alaskan black ...
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Occurrence of the Maritime Shrew ( Sorex maritimensis ) in Black Spruce ( Picea mariana ) Forest Stands in Southeastern New Brunswick
... were Black Spruce, Balsam Fir ( Abies balsamea), and Eastern White Pine (Pinus strobus), with smaller amounts of Red Maple (Acer rubrum), birches (Betula ...
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Evaluation of two surfacing methods on black spruce wood in relation to gluing performance
... Tests were carried out with black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill) B.S.P.] wood, which came from Chibougamau region, in northern Quebec. A total of 250 kiln-dried boards of 38 mm 9 64 mm were stored in a ...
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Addressing spatial variability in provenance experiments exemplified in two trials with black spruce
... of black spruce and other forest trees: first, substantial site heterogeneity could still be found in a farm-field test, even with extensive site management and uniformity seemingly observed across a test ...
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Identification of selected internal wood characteristics in computed tomography images of black spruce: a comparison study
... of black spruce was investigated using two promising classifi ers: the maximum likelihood classifi er (MLC) and the back propa- gation (BP) artifi cial neural network (ANN) classifi ...a black ...
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Range Extensions of 35 Bryophyte Species in the Black Spruce–Feather Moss Forest of Western Quebec, Canada
... our results also extend to the entire Black Spruce forest domain the known distributions of the liverworts Cephaloziella elachista, C. hampeana, C. spinigera, Chiloscyphus coadnatus var. rivularis, ...
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Sequence-Tagged-Site (STS) Markers of Arbitrary Genes: Development, Characterization and Analysis of Linkage in Black Spruce
... Sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers of arbitrary genes were investigated in black spruce [Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.]. Thirty-nine pairs of PCR primers were used to screen diverse panels of haploid and ...
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Quantifying Growth Responses of Black Spruce and Jack Pine to Thinning within the Context of Density Management Decision Support Systems
... for black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill) BSP) stand-types in central and eastern Canada by Newton and Weetman (1993, 1994) and later for other species including balsam fir (Abies balsam ...for black ...
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Extracting a common high frequency signal from Northern Quebec black spruce tree-rings with a Bayesian hierarchical model
... to black spruce (Picea mariana) tree-rings recorded in Northern Quebec and compared to a classical average- based techniques used by dendrochronologists (Cook and Kairiukstis, ...
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Mitochondrial Genome Recombination in the Zone of Contact Between Two Hybridizing Conifers
... between black spruce and red spruce in generating mtDNA recombi- ...between black spruce and red spruce, recombination has been previously inferred in the mitochondrial ge- nome ...
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Stand age structural dynamics of conifer, mixedwood, and hardwood stands in the boreal forest of central Canada
... During the gap dynamic stage of stand development, pioneering cohort of jack pine had completely died off, and the canopy was dominated by late successional coni- fers. These conifers were younger than the jack pine that ...
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Genetic Worth Effect Models for Boreal Conifers and Their Utility When Integrated into Density Management Decision Support Systems
... Based on approaches deduced from previous research findings and empirical observations from density control experiments, genetic worth effect response models were developed for black spruce (Picea mariana ...
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Birch (Betula papyrifera) × white spruce (Picea glauca) interactions in mixedwood stands: implications for management
... The study sites are located in the Fort Nel- son forest district of north-eastern BC between 122°16' to 123°49'W, and 58°19' to 59°26'N (Ta- ble 1). The biogeoclimatic zone of the study sites is moist, warm subzone of ...
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Communication Variations and Correlations between the Physical Properties of Seeds of Eleven Spruce Species
... Norway spruce seeds were somewhat less plump than those studied by Oleksyn et ...Norway spruce seeds evaluated in this study were characterized by average plumpness, and seed dimensions and seed mass were ...
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Analysis of coniferous species to identify and distinguish juvenile and mature wood
... The transition age in 934 stems of 50-yearsold black spruce Picea mariana [Mill.] B.S.P was determined on the basis of the share of late wood in annual rings to be 9 years, in the case o[r] ...
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Structural Elucidation of Condensed Tannin from Picea mariana Bark
... of black spruce tannin by using the response factors determined by quan- titative gas chromatographic analysis of authentic com- ...of black spruce bark CT, to be ...from black ...
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The permeability of microwave treated wood for distilled water
... of Spruce wood (Picea Abies ...of spruce wood leads to decrease of permeability in longitudinal direction, but this change is not signifi cant for utilization in ...
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The first reaction of soil mite fauna (Acari, Mesostigmata) caused by conversion of Norway spruce stand in the Szklarska Poręba Forest District
... aged spruce stands under conver- sion with common beech and silver fir, four pairs of experimental plots directly neighbouring each other were ...the spruce stands that started to be converted into beech or ...
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Assessing the growth of Picea omorika [Panč.] Purkyně in the Masaryk Forest Training Forest Enterprise at Křtiny
... the whole arboretum is fenced and thus protected from game damage, an absolute majority of cases were due to abiotic factors or competition, an exception being the loss of 17 trees between the years 1994 and 1999, which ...
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The influence of climatic factors on the health condition of forests in the Silesian Lowland
... Norway spruce (Picea abies) is a pre- cipitation amount of 300 mm in the vegetation period, an optimal amount is 430–550 mm in the vegetation ...of spruce bark beetles (Ips typographus, Ips duplicatus), ...
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