Growth chamber for enhanced forest management

受控生长设施为研究人员提供了在实验定义的条件下种植植物的机会，而这些条件在野外是无法实现的。拟议中的购买步入生长室将为我们在未来几十年提供机会进行广泛的生态和生态生理研究。这些研究包括：羽藓与北方针叶树营养的相互作用；杨树无性系嫁接的功能；控制杨树幼苗发育的因素；杨树生长和形态与森林帐篷毛虫落叶事件的相互作用；林下物种与不同光照强度和温度的生态生理以及外生菌根真菌在不同条件下的生长作用。生长舱将一年365天使用，在未来几十年里，每年至少有3名青年科学家能够使用这个舱提出创新的研究问题。

Controlled growth facilities offer researchers the opportunity to grow plants in experimentally defined conditions that cannot be achieved in the field.  The proposed purchase of a walk-in growth chamber will provide us with an opportunity to execute a wide range of ecological and ecophysiological studies over the next decades.  These include: interactions of feathermosses with the nutrition of boreal conifers; the functionality of root grafts in aspen clones; the factors controlling the development of aspen seedlings; interactions of aspen growth and morphology with defoliation events of forest tent caterpillars; the ecophysiology of understory species in relation to different light intensity and temperature and the growth role of ectomycorrhizal fungi under different conditions.  The growth chamber will be used 365 days a year and at least 3 young scientists per year will be able to use this chamber to ask innovative research questions over the coming decades.