Development of silvicultural programs for mixed stands to increase resilience of commercial forests of Eastern Canada (MixCanada)

该项目将探索森林管理方案，使商业东部寒带森林适应气候变化。我们的重点将是制定管理战略，通过优化利用可利用土壤资源和林分内的养分循环，特别是- C和N循环，来维持长期的森林生产力。该战略的一个关键要素将是分析和优化林分水平上的物种混合，并开发可以提高林分对未来环境的适应能力的造林处理。因此，我们提出了一个综合评价物种混合效应和间伐处理对林分生产力影响的研究方案。作为我们研究的最终成果，我们还将提供在气候变化下选择树种组合和选择造林处理以保持商品林生产力的实用指南。

The project will explore forest management options to adapt commercial Eastern boreal forests to climate changes. Our focus will be in developing management strategies to maintain long-term forest productivity through optimizing the use of available soil resources and nutrient cycling within the stands, specifically - C and N cycling. A pivotal element of this strategy will be analysis and optimizing of species mixing at stand level and developing silvicultural treatments which could increase stand resilience to future environments. We therefore propose a research program that will comprehensively evaluate effects of species mixing and effects of thinning treatments on stand-level productivity. As the final deliverables of our research, we will also provide practical guidelines in selecting species combinations and selecting silvicultural treatments to maintain productivity of commercial forests under the changing climate.