A5093091110- Forest ecology and management
- Bioenergy crop production and management
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Seedling growth and survival studies
- Forest Management and Policy
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Botanical Studies and Applications
Ministry of Natural Resources and Wildlife
2023-2024
Natural Resources Canada
2019
Canadian Forest Service
2019
Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts
2019
Université Laval
2018
Centre de Géomatique du Québec
2018
With climate change, favourable growing conditions for tree species are shifting northwards and to higher altitudes. Therefore, local populations becoming less adapted their environment. Assisted migration is one of the proposed adaptive measures reduce vulnerability natural maintain forest productivity. It consists moving genetic material a territory where future correspond those its current location. Eight white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench] Voss) seed sources representing as many orchards...
Climate change is steering tree breeding programs towards the development of families and genotypes that will be adapted more resilient to changing environments. Making genotype-phenotype-environment connections central these predictions it requires evaluation functional traits such as photosynthetic rates can linked environmental variables. However, ability rapidly measure parameters has always been limiting. The estimation Vc,max Jmax using CO2 response curves traditionally time consuming,...
Abstract Genetic parameters for growth, trunk quality, and susceptibility to frost Sphaerulina musiva attack were estimated from 34 half-sib families of hybrid poplar the crossing non-native parents, Populus maximowiczii A. Henry, trichocarpa Torr. & Gray, 3 6 years after planting. The use spatial analysis proved be best method quantitative growth data. proportion among-family variance total (phenotypic) as well high heritabilities Spaherulina showed a potential selection these traits...
Genetic parameters for growth (height, diameter and volume) resistance to the white pine weevil were estimated from 209 Norway spruce families aged 15 or 20 years old. Individual heritability values ranged low moderate, while family moderate high. This suggests that there is a genetic control these variables. A selection index was developed rank individuals on both volume weevil. Opsel 2.0 software used optimize gain keeping level of relatedness between selected trees below an acceptable...