2009
DOI: 10.1007/s10310-009-0134-8
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Emulating natural disturbances: the role of silviculture in creating even-aged and complex structures in the black spruce boreal forest of eastern North America

Abstract: Ecosystem-based forest management is based on the principle of emulating regional natural disturbance regimes with forest management. An interesting area for a case study of the potential of ecosystem-based forest management is the boreal forest of north-western Québec and north-eastern Ontario, where the disturbance regime creates a mosaic of stands with both complex and simple structures. Old-growth stands of this region have multistoried, open structures, thick soil organic layers, and are unproductive, whi… Show more

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“…More particularly, harvest rotations inspired by the natural fire regime, such as fire frequency and fire cycle, would better respect the natural distribution of forest stands in the landscape mosaic in terms of composition and proportion (Bergeron et al 2002;Fenton et al 2009). The present study aims to analyse the effect of the landscape mosaic composition on fire propagation by evaluating fire size distribution for different mosaic compositions under different weather conditions from fire ignition to extinction.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…More particularly, harvest rotations inspired by the natural fire regime, such as fire frequency and fire cycle, would better respect the natural distribution of forest stands in the landscape mosaic in terms of composition and proportion (Bergeron et al 2002;Fenton et al 2009). The present study aims to analyse the effect of the landscape mosaic composition on fire propagation by evaluating fire size distribution for different mosaic compositions under different weather conditions from fire ignition to extinction.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…High-severity soil burns convert these stands to first cohort stands, whereas low-severity soil burns, by not completely consuming the organic layer (gray area under the stands), create low-productivity forests that are structurally similar to third-cohort stands. Modified from Lecomte et al (2006a), Simard et al (2009), andFenton et al (2009) 2015). Since each of these species are associated with specific stand structures, community composition is greatly influenced by soil burn severity and time elapsed since fire (Bergeron and Fenton 2012;Boudreault et al 2009;Paradis and Work 2011;Fenton and Bergeron 2013;Doblas-Miranda and Work 2015).…”
Section: Biodiversitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Over the years it appeared that where organic layer is > 30 cm thick, careful logging was suspected to favor paludification and to reduce black spruce forest productivity (Fenton et al 2005;Lavoie et al 2005b). Reports of declining productivity following careful logging initiated an important research program focusing on the effects of silvicultural treatments on stand productivity for sites prone to paludification with the aim of identifying silvicultural treatments most likely to control paludification and maintain forest productivity Fenton et al 2009). …”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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