Forest insects and climate change

DS Pureswaran, A Roques, A Battisti - Current Forestry Reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Climate change affects populations of forest insect pests in a
number of ways. We reviewed the most recent literature (2013–2017) on this subject …

Incorporating insect and wind disturbances in a natural disturbance-based management framework for the boreal forest

LD Grandpré, K Waldron, M Bouchard, S Gauthier… - Forests, 2018 - mdpi.com
Natural disturbances are fundamental to forest ecosystem dynamics and have been used for
two decades to improve forest management, notably in the boreal forest. Initially based on …

Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone

Y Boulanger, AR Taylor, DT Price, D Cyr… - Landscape …, 2017 - Springer
Context Forest landscapes at the southern boreal forest transition zone are likely to undergo
great alterations due to projected changes in regional climate. Objectives We projected …

Boreal forests will be more severely affected by projected anthropogenic climate forcing than mixedwood and northern hardwood forests in eastern Canada

Y Boulanger, J Pascual Puigdevall - Landscape Ecology, 2021 - Springer
Context Increased anthropogenic climate forcing is projected to have tremendous impacts
on global forest ecosystems, with northern biomes being more at risk. Objectives To model …

Multi‐model projections of tree species performance in Quebec, Canada under future climate change

Y Boulanger, J Pascual, M Bouchard… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Many modelling approaches have been developed to project climate change impacts on
forests. By analysing 'comparable'yet distinct variables (eg productivity, growth, dominance …

Rapid 21st century climate change projected to shift composition and growth of Canada's Acadian Forest Region

AR Taylor, Y Boulanger, DT Price, D Cyr… - Forest ecology and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impact of climate change on forests is expected to vary globally and regionally.
Canada's Acadian Forest Region lies in the transition between the North American boreal …

Changes in spatiotemporal patterns of 20th century spruce budworm outbreaks in eastern Canadian boreal forests

L Navarro, H Morin, Y Bergeron… - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In scenarios of future climate change, there is a projectedincrease in the occurrence and
severity of natural disturbances inboreal forests. Spruce budworm (Choristoneura …

Volcano-induced regime shifts in millennial tree-ring chronologies from northeastern North America

F Gennaretti, D Arseneault, A Nicault… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Dated records of ice-cap growth from Arctic Canada recently suggested that a succession of
strong volcanic eruptions forced an abrupt onset of the Little Ice Age between AD 1275 and …

[HTML][HTML] Lowering the rate of timber harvesting to mitigate impacts of climate change on boreal caribou habitat quality in eastern Canada

MH St-Laurent, Y Boulanger, D Cyr, F Manka… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many boreal populations of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) have declined in
Canada, a trend essentially driven by the increasing footprint of anthropogenic disturbances …

[HTML][HTML] How can the forest sector mitigate climate change in a changing climate? Case studies of boreal and northern temperate forests in eastern Canada

L Moreau, E Thiffault, D Cyr, Y Boulanger… - Forest Ecosystems, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Forest based climate mitigation emerged as a key component of the Paris
Agreement, and thus requires robust science to reduce uncertainties related to such …