Effects of thinning on drought vulnerability and climate response in north temperate forest ecosystems

AW D'Amato, JB Bradford, S Fraver… - Ecological …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Reducing tree densities through silvicultural thinning has been widely advocated as a
strategy for enhancing resistance and resilience to drought, yet few empirical evaluations of …

People, fire, and pine: Linking human agency and landscape in the boundary waters canoe area wilderness and beyond

ER Larson, KF Kipfmueller… - Annals of the American …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The creation and modification of landscape patterns through interactions among people and
the environment is a defining focus in the discipline of geography. Here, we contribute to that …

Thinning increases climatic resilience of red pine

M Magruder, S Chhin, B Palik… - Canadian Journal of …, 2013 - cdnsciencepub.com
Forest management techniques such as intermediate stand-tending practices (eg, thinning)
can promote climatic resiliency in forest stands by moderating tree competition. Residual …

Human augmentation of historical red pine fire regimes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness

KF Kipfmueller, ER Larson, LB Johnson… - Ecosphere, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Border Lakes Region of Minnesota and Ontario has long been viewed as a fire‐
dependent ecosystem. High‐severity fire in the region's near‐boreal forests has been a …

Variable effects of climate on forest growth in relation to climate extremes, disturbance, and forest dynamics

MS Itter, AO Finley, AW D'Amato, JR Foster… - Ecological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Changes in the frequency, duration, and severity of climate extremes are forecast to
occur under global climate change. The impacts of climate extremes on forest productivity …

Vulnerability of street trees in upper Midwest cities to climate change

LA Brandt, GR Johnson, EA North, J Faje… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Urban trees play an important role in hel** cities adapt to climate change, but also are
vulnerable to changes in climate themselves. We developed an approach for assessing …

A fire history derived from Pinus resinosa Ait. for the Islands of Eastern Lac La Croix, Minnesota, USA

LB Johnson, KF Kipfmueller - Ecological Applications, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We reconstructed fire occurrence near a fur‐trade era canoe travel corridor (used ca. 1780–
1802) in the Quetico‐Superior region west of Lake Superior to explore the possibility of …

Tree-ring growth varies with climate and stand density in a red pine plantation forest in the Great Lakes region of North America

SM McKenzie, WC Parker, MFJ Pisaric, MA Arain - Dendrochronologia, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) was widely planted across the Great Lakes region of
North America in the early 20th century to restore tree cover to degraded forest and …

Managing red pine stand structure to mitigate drought impacts

SM Jones, A Bottero, DN Kastendick, BJ Palik - Dendrochronologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Reducing forest stand density through silvicultural thinning has demonstrated potential to
mitigate drought impacts on growth; however, less has been studied on how changes in …

Spatial and temporal variability in dendroclimatic growth response of red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) to climate in northern Ontario, Canada

MW Ashiq, M Anand - Forest Ecology and Management, 2016 - Elsevier
Growth–climate relationships of trees are species-specific and can vary over space and
time. Here, we study red pine (Pinus resinosa Ait.) by analyzing tree-ring width data from 37 …