Browsing by Author "Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish)"

Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration in Chinese fir forests ecosystems

Wei, Xiaohua; Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio

; Jiang, Hong; Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish) (Elsevier, 2012) Artículo / Artikulua

Nitrogen deposition and its ecologic effects on forest ecosystems have received global attention. In this paper, the ecosystem model FORECAST was used to assess the effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon sequestration ...

Highlighting complex long-term succession pathways in mixed forests of the Paciﬁc Northwest: a Markov chain modelling approach

Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio

; Lo, Yueh-Hsin

; Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish); Weber, Adrian (MDPI, 2021) Artículo / Artikulua

Forest succession is an ecological phenomenon that can span centuries. Although the concept of succession was originally formulated as a deterministic sequence of different plant communities by F. Clements more than a ...

Multiple pathway succession in coastal Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata and Abies amabilis forests on northeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Weber, Adrian; Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish); Gilbert, Benjamin; Lo, Yueh-Hsin

; Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio

(NRC Research Press, 2014) Artículo / Artikulua

Sustainable forest practices are often designed to mimic natural disturbance and successional processes, yet succession is poorly understood in many ecosystems. On northeastern Vancouver Island, the ‘disturbance hypothesis’ ...

Survival and growth as measures of shade tolerance of planted western redcedar, western hemlock and amabilis fir seedlings in hemlock-fir forests of northern Vancouver Island

Weber, Adrian; Leckie, Sara; Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish); Gilbert, Benjamin; Blanco Vaca, Juan Antonio

; Lo, Yueh-Hsin

(Elsevier, 2017) Artículo / Artikulua

We examined two measures of shade tolerance (survival and growth) of planted 1-year-old seedlings of western redcedar (Thuja plicata (Donn ex D. Don)), western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla ([Raf.] Sarg.)) and amabilis fir ...