Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry

By Yves Bergeron, Sylvie Gauthier, Victor Kafka, P. Lefort, D. Lesieur. 2001

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Xylophagous insect species composition and patterns of substratum use on fire-killed black spruce in central Quebec (2004, background): “2001), and the natural fire frequency has already decreased considerably since the mid-19th century (Bergeron and Archambault 1993; Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Fire frequency and vegetation dynamics for the south-central boreal forest of Quebec, Canada (2002, background): “Since spatial factors do not explain the variation in the fire cycle, climate change patterns appear to be the key element contributing to the decrease in fire frequency (Bergeron and Archambault 1993; Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Silviculture for old-growth attributes (2009, methodology): “In regions in which present old-growth can be used as a blueprint for management efforts, structure and composition targets can be quantified in detail (e.g. Cissel et al., 2006; Bergeron et al., 2001).”
Trends and periodicities in the Canadian Drought Code and their relationships with atmospheric circulation for the southern Canadian boreal forest (2004, background): “The absence of trends within the CDC indices suggests that factors other than a linear change in climate contributed to the shift in the eastern Canada’s boreal forest dynamics over the past 150 years (Bergeron 2000; Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Age and size structure of gap-dynamic, old-growth boreal forest stands in Newfoundland (2006, background): “Fire cycles in the humid boreal forests of eastern Canada are longer than the 50–75 years commonly cited for the western boreal forest (Bergeron et al. 2001), reaching values of up to 500 years (Foster 1983).”
Natural fire regime : a guide for sustainable management of the Canadian boreal forest (2002, background): “In fact, it has become increasingly evident that this rule applies only partially to the entire boreal forest and that the situation is considerably more complex (Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Edge effects on epiphytic lichens in managed black spruce forests of eastern North America (2003, background): “Time since fire based on fire-history reconstruction (Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Habitat selection by black bears in an intensively logged boreal forest (2008, background): “It has been shown that large wildfires in humid black spruce forests were of limited occurrence and of varying burn severity; this natural perturbation regime generates an uneven-aged stand structure (Bergeron et al. 2001).”
Short-term response of ground beetles (Coleoptera:Carabidae) to fire and logging in a spruce-dominated boreal landscape (2005, background): “For thousands of years, fire has been the main standreplacing disturbance in the boreal forest (Zackrisson, 1977; Johnson, 1992; Payette, 1992; Bergeron et al., 2001), but is now being supplemented by logging over most of the biome’s extant (Bengtsson et al.”