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

该项目将探讨森林管理备选办法，以使商业性东部北方森林适应气候变化。我们的重点将是制定管理战略，通过优化现有土壤资源的利用和林分内的养分循环，特别是C和N循环，保持长期的森林生产力。这一战略的一个关键要素将是分析和优化林分一级的物种混合，并制定造林治疗，这可能会增加林分对未来环境的适应能力。因此，我们提出了一个研究计划，将全面评估物种混合的影响和间伐处理对林分水平生产力的影响。作为我们研究的最终成果，我们还将提供选择物种组合和选择造林方法的实用指南，以在不断变化的气候下保持商业森林的生产力。

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.