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Interactive effects of elevated CO2 and temperature, nutrition, and ectomycorrhizas on morphological traits and summer shoot formation in jack pine
(2022)
Understanding the responses of trees, ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECM) and their association to
climate change can be challenging due to their interactions with multiple environmental factors.
The combined impacts of elevated ...
Triad zoning in northern Ontario and woodland caribou conservation: a critical review
(2023)
Woodland caribou in Ontario are threatened, posing a conflict between habitat
and timber supply for forest areas. The current management practices with Dynamic
Caribou Habitat Schedules (DCHS) address long-term habitat ...
How does aquatic invertebrate community structure and abundance relate to brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) habitat quality?
(2019)
Sixty-seven streams located south-west of Lake Nipigon, Ontario, were sampled for brook trout and macroinvertebrate orders. Sixteen orders were used to determine if their community structure significantly changed in different ...
Forest road location modelling with Dijkstra’s shortest path and ArcGIS
(2019)
Road network modelling has great potential to reduce forest road construction
and planning costs. Forest roads are the essential means to access forest resources and
are one of the most expensive factors in forest ...
Plant diversity effects on soil Collembola in boreal forest
(2024)
Collembola are one of the most abundant soil fauna in terrestrial ecosystems. They play essential
roles in ecosystem processes like litter decomposition. Ongoing biodiversity loss across taxa
harms the stability and ...
A geospatial analysis and comparison of snow leopard and mountain lion habitat: implications for conservations and research
(2022)
Big cats form an integral part of landscape ecosystem management and are vital to the
persistence of natural habitats. Global change, alongside human interactions has severely harmed
populations of these predators, often ...
Biodiversity loss due to the increase of monoculture lawns
(2024)
Lawns have evolved over time, starting as functional spaces in medieval gardens to
appearing as the manicured, European-inspired landscapes we know today. The widespread use
of monoculture lawns in North America signifies ...
Incorporating operational road planning constraints into an integrated tactical level harvest-scheduling and road-planning model
(2015)
At the operational scale of forest planning, the location of roads, in a complex terrain, is a decision of major economic importance. The objective is to locate a network of roads connecting pre-selected cut-blocks, at ...
The effect of tree size on the delivered wood cost in Northern Ontario
(2020)
To determine the effects that tree size has on the delivered wood cost, data was collected from existing literature on: average tree size (m3), average off road transport distance, volume per hectare (m3/ha), logging chance ...
Grazing intensity and carbon pools in soils, roots and forage plants on the Thunder Bay community pasture
(2020)
This thesis explores carbon (C) storage in the forage plants found on the
Thunder Bay Community Pasture (TBCP). Plant tissues, roots and shoots, were
collected from the TBCP and analyzed at Lakehead University using a ...