Seedling establishment and survival on decaying logs in boreal mixedwood stands following a mast year

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1446-1455

  Robert, Emilie ^a   Brais, Suzanne ^a   Harvey, Brian D ^a   Greene, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABIES BALSAMEA; BALSAM FIR; BASAL AREA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BIRCH SEEDLINGS; BOREAL FORESTS; BOREAL MIXEDWOODS; C/N RATIO; FOREST FLOORS; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MIXEDWOOD STANDS; PICEA GLAUCA; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SEEDLING SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREE REGENERATION; WHITE SPRUCE; WOOD RESISTANCE;

ECOLOGY; LOGISTICS;

REFORESTATION;

BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEAD WOOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; DENSITY; FOREST FLOOR; FRUIT PRODUCTION; GERMINATION; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LITTER; MASTING; MIXED FOREST; MOISTURE CONTENT; REGENERATION; SEEDLING ESTABLISHMENT; SURVIVAL;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; BETULA PENDULA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 84864615812     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X2012-085     Document Type: Article

References (42)

1. Anderson, L.J., and Winterton, A.J. 1996. Germination as determinant of seedling distributions among natural substrates in Picea engelmannii (Pinacea) and Abies lasiocarpa (Pinaceae). Am. J. Bot. 83(1): 112-117. doi:10.2307/2445963.
2. Beach, E.W., and Halpern, C.B. 2001. Controls on conifer regeneration in managed riparian forests: effects of seed source, substrate, and vegetation. Can. J. For. Res. 31(3): 471-482. doi:10. 1139/x00-190.
3. Bergeron, Y. 2000. Species and stand dynamics in the mixed woods of Quebec's southern boreal forest. Ecology, 81(6): 1500-1516. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1500:SASDIT]2.0.CO;2.
4. Brais, S., Sadi, F., Bergeron, Y., and Grenier, Y. 2005. Coarse woody debris dynamics in a post-fire jack pine chronosequence and its relation with site productivity. For. Ecol. Manage. 220(1-3): 216-226. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.08.013.
5. Burns, R.M., and Honkala, B.H. 1990. Silvics of North America. U. S. Dep. Agric. Agric. Handb. 654. Vol. 2.
6. Christy, E.J., and Mack, R.N. 1984. Variation in demography of juvenile Tsuga heterophylla across the substratum mosaic. J. Ecol. 72(1): 75-91. doi:10.2307/2260007.
7. Dansereau, P.-R., and Bergeron, Y. 1993. Fire history in the southern boreal forest of northwestern Quebec. Can. J. For. Res. 23(1): 25-32. doi:10.1139/x93-005.
8. DeLong, H.B., Lieffers, V.J., and Blenis, P.V. 1997. Microsite effects on first-year establishment and overwinter survival of white spruce in aspen-dominated boreal mixedwoods. Can. J. For. Res. 27(9): 1452-1457. doi:10.1139/x97-109.
9. Duchesneau, R., and Morin, H. 1999. Early seedling demography in balsam fir seedling banks. Can. J. For. Res. 29(10): 1502-1509. doi:10.1139/x99-090.
10. Environment Canada. 2011. Canadian climate normals or averages 1971-2000. Available from http://www.climate.weatheroffice.ec. gc.ca [accessed 29 June 2011].
11. Galipeau, C., Kneeshaw, D., and Bergeron, Y. 1997. White spruce and balsam fir colonization of a site in the southeastern boreal forest as observed 68 years after fire. Can. J. For. Res. 27(2): 139-147. doi:10.1139/x96-148.
12. Greene, D.F., Zasada, J.C., Sirois, L., Kneeshaw, D., Morin, H., Charron, I., and Simard, M.J. 1999. A review of the regeneration dynamics of North American boreal forest tree species. Can. J. For. Res. 29(6): 824-839. doi:10.1139/x98-112.
13. Greene, D.F., Kneeshaw, D.D., Messier, C., Lieffers, V., Cormier, D., Doucet, R., Coates, K.D., Groot, A., Grover, G., and Caloger-opoulos, C. 2002. Modelling silvicultural alternatives for conifer regeneration in boreal mixedwood stands (aspen/white spruce/ balsam). For. Chron. 78: 281-295.
14. Greene, D.F., Macdonald, S.E., Haeussler, S., Domenicano, S., Noël, J., Jayen, K., Charron, I., Gauthier, S., Hunt, S., Gielau, E.T., Bergeron, Y., and Swift, L. 2007. The reduction of organic layer depth by wildfire in the North American boreal forest and its effect on tree recruitment by seed. Can. J. For. Res. 37(6): 1012-1023. doi:10.1139/X06-245.
15. Harmon, M.E. 1987. The influence of litter and humus accumulations and canopy openness on Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr. and Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg. seedlings growing on logs. Can. J. For. Res. 17(12): 1475-1479. doi:10.1139/x87-229.
16. Harmon, M.E., and Franklin, J.F. 1989. Tree seedlings on logs in Picea-Tsuga forests in Oregon and Washington. Ecology, 70(1): 48-59. doi:10.2307/1938411.
17. Harvey, D.B. 1999. The Lake Duparquet research and teaching forest: building a foundation for ecosystem management. For. Chron. 75: 389-393.
18. Hesketh, M., Greene, D.F., and Pounden, E. 2009. Early establishment of conifer recruits in the northern Rocky Mountains as a function of post-fire duff depth. Can. J. For. Res. 39(11): 2059-2064. doi:10.1139/X09-120.
19. Iijima, H., Shibuya, M., Saito, H., and Takahashi, K. 2006. The water relation of seedlings of Picea jezoensis on fallen logs. Can. J. For. Res. 36(3): 664-670. doi:10.1139/x05-285.
20. Iijima, H., Shibuya, M., and Saito, H. 2007. Effects of surface and light conditions of fallen logs on the emergence and survival of coniferous seedlings and saplings. J. For. Res. 12(4): 262-269. doi:10.1007/s10310-007-0012-1.
21. Landhäusser, S.M., and Leiffers, V.J. 2001. Photosynthesis and carbon allocation of six boreal tree species grown in understory and open conditions. Tree Physiol. 21(4): 243-250. doi:10.1093/ treephys/21.4.243. PMID:11276418.
22. Lee, P., and Sturgess, K. 2001. The effects of logs, stumps, and root throws on understory communities within 28-year-old aspendominated boreal forests. Can. J. Bot. 79: 905-916.
23. Littell, R.C., Milliken, G.A., Stroup, W.W., Wolfinger, R.D., and Schabenberger, O. 2006. SAS for mixed models. 2nd ed. SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C.
24. Lusk, C.H., and Kelly, C.K. 2003. Interspecific variation in seed size and safe sites in a temperate rain forest. New Phytol. 158(3): 535-541. doi:10.1046/j.1469-8137.2003.00760.x.
25. Martin-DeMoor, J., Lieffers, V., and Macdonald, S. 2010. Natural regeneration of white spruce in aspen-dominated boreal mixedwoods following harvesting. Can. J. For. Res. 40(3): 585-594. doi:10.1139/X10-016.
26. McGee, G.G. 2001. Stand-level effects on the role of decaying logs as vascular plant habitat in Adirondack northern hardwood forests. J. Torrey Bot. Soc. 128(4): 370-380. doi:10.2307/3088669.
27. Messaoud, Y., Bergeron, Y., and Asselin, H. 2007. Reproductive potential of balsam fir (Abies balsamea), white spruce (Picea glauca), and black spruce (P. mariana) at the ecotone between mixedwood and coniferous forests in the boreal zone of western Quebec. Am. J. Bot. 94(5): 746-754. doi:10.3732/ajb.94.5.746. PMID:21636443.
28. Morin, H., Laprise, D., and Bergeron, Y. 1993. Chronology of spruce budworm outbreaks near Lake Duparquet, Abitibi region, Quebec. Can. J. For. Res. 23(8): 1497-1506. doi:10.1139/x93-189.
29. Narukawa, Y., Iida, S., Tanouchi, H., Abe, S., and Yamamoto, S.-I. 2003. State of fallen logs and the occurrence of conifer seedlings and saplings in boreal and subalpine old-growth forests in Japan. Ecol. Res. 18(3): 267-277. doi:10.1046/j.1440-1703.2003.00553. x.
30. O'Hanlon-Manners, D.L., and Kotanen, P.M. 2004. Evidence that fungal pathogens inhibit recruitment of a shade-intolerant tree, white birch (Betula papyrifera), in understory habitats. Oecologia (Berl.), 140(4): 650-653. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1625-0. PMID: 15243795.
31. Parent, S., Simard, M.J., Morin, H., and Messier, C. 2003. Establishment and dynamics of the balsam fir seedling bank in old forests of northeastern Quebec. Can. J. For. Res. 33(4): 597-603. doi:10.1139/x02-194.
32. Peters, V.S., Macdonald, S.E., and Dale, M.R.T. 2005. The interaction between masting and fire is key to white spruce regeneration. Ecology, 86(7): 1744-1750. doi:10.1890/03-0656.
33. Ramsey, F.L., and Schafer, D.W. 2002. The statistical sleuth: a course in methods of data analysis. 2nd ed. Duxbury Press, Belmont, Calif.
34. Rutherford, P.M., McGill, W.B., and Arocena, J.M. 2008. Total nitrogen. In Soil sampling and methods of analysis. 2nd ed. Edited by M.R. Carter and E.G. Gregorich. Canadian Society of Soil Science; CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fla. pp. 239-250.
35. Saucier, J.-P., Bergeron, J.-F., Grondin, P., and Robitaille, A. 1998. Les régions écologiques du Québec méridional. Un des éléments du système hiérarchique de classification écologique du territoire mis au point par le ministère des Ressources naturelles du Québec. 3rd ed. Supplément de L'Aubelle, no. 124.
36. Simard, M.-J., Bergeron, Y., and Sirois, L. 1998. Conifer seedling recruitment in a south eastern Canadian boreal forest: the importance of substrate. J. Veg. Sci. 9(4): 575-582. doi:10.2307/ 3237273.
37. Simard, M.-J., Bergeron, Y., and Sirois, L. 2003. Substrate and litter fall effect on conifer seedling survivorship in southern boreal stands of Canada. Can. J. For. Res. 33(4): 672-681. doi:10.1139/ x02-204.
38. Szewczyk, J., and Szwagrzyk, J. 1996. Tree regeneration on rotten wood and on soil in old-growth stand. Vegetatio, 122(1): 37-46. doi:10.1007/BF00052814.
39. Takahashi, M., Sakai, Y., Ootomo, R., and Shiozaki, M. 2000. Establishment of tree seedlings and water-soluble nutrients in coarse woody debris in an old-growth Picea-Abies forest in Hokkaido, northern Japan. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1148-1155. doi:10.1139/x00-042.
40. Van Wagner, C.E. 1982. Practical aspects of the line intersect method. Can. For. Serv. Inf. Rep. PI-X-12. Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, Ont.
41. Wang, G.G., and Kemball, K.J. 2005. Balsam fir and white spruce seedling recruitment in response to understory release, seedbed type and litter exclusion in trembling aspen stands. Can. J. For. Res. 35(3): 667-673. doi:10.1139/x04-212.
42. Zielonka, T. 2006. When does dead wood turn into a substrate for spruce replacement? J. Veg. Sci. 17(6): 739-746. doi:10.1111/j. 1654-1103.2006.tb02497.x.