Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

L D'Orangeville, J Maxwell, D Kneeshaw… - Global change …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Projected changes in temperature and drought regime are likely to reduce carbon (C)
storage in forests, thereby amplifying rates of climate change. While such reductions are …

Key interactions between nutrient limitation and climatic factors in temperate forests: a synthesis of the sugar maple literature

SB St. Clair, WE Sharpe… - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2008‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
Mineral stress (nutrient deficiency and (or) ion toxicity) is a widespread phenomenon in
forests around the world. However, with the exception of N limitation, its significance is often …

Nutrient stress predisposes and contributes to sugar maple dieback across its northern range: a review

TL Bal, AJ Storer, MF Jurgensen… - … Journal of Forest …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Over the last 60 years, multiple studies have attributed sugar maple (Acer saccharum
Marsh.) dieback and decline to nutrient status, interaction and tree stress. Site differences in …

Basal area growth of sugar maple in relation to acid deposition, stand health, and soil nutrients

L Duchesne, R Ouimet, D Houle - Journal of Environmental …, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have shown in noncalcareous soils that acid deposition may have
increased soil leaching of basic cations above the input rate from soil weathering and …

Boreal tree growth exhibits decadal‐scale ecological memory to drought and insect defoliation, but no negative response to their interaction

MS Itter, L D'Orangeville, A Dawson… - Journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Interactions between drought and insect defoliation may dramatically alter forest function
under novel climate and disturbance regimes, but remain poorly understood. We empirically …

Assessment of sugar maple health based on basal area growth pattern

L Duchesne, R Ouimet… - Canadian Journal of Forest …, 2003‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
The first tree health decline symptoms usually observed are foliar deficiency symptoms,
foliage loss, and dieback. To improve the subjective nature and unspecificity of these …

Base cation and nitrogen budgets for seven forested catchments in central Ontario, 1983–1999

SA Watmough, PJ Dillon - Forest Ecology and Management, 2003‏ - Elsevier
There is widespread concern that the combination of acid (S and N) deposition and tree
harvesting may deplete available base cation pools in soils to the extent that forest health …

Reconstructing the recent dynamics of mires using a multitechnique approach

S Pellerin, C Lavoie - Journal of Ecology, 2003‏ - JSTOR
1 The recent vegetation dynamics of 16 ombrotrophic mires in southern Québec (Canada)
was studied through palaeoecological (dendrochronology, plant macrofossil and pollen …

Long-term calcium addition increases growth release, wound closure, and health of sugar maple (Acer saccharum) trees at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest

BA Huggett, PG Schaberg, GJ Hawley… - Canadian Journal of …, 2007‏ - cdnsciencepub.com
We surveyed and wounded forest-grown sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) trees in a
long-term, replicated Ca manipulation study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in …

Forest health conditions in North America

B Tkacz, B Moody, JV Castillo, ME Fenn - Environmental Pollution, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Some of the greatest forest health impacts in North America are caused by invasive forest
insects and pathogens (eg, emerald ash borer and sudden oak death in the US), by severe …