Modelling the impacts of thinning on the structure, biomass, carbon sequestration and economic value of Jack Pine Stands

加拿大的森林是最重要的可再生自然资源，对加拿大的环境、社会和经济福祉作出了重大贡献。为了确保森林资源的管理、采伐和利用达到最大的经济价值，有必要开发一系列综合模型，以支持基于价值和市场驱动的决策战略，而不是基于数量/产量的方法。很少有研究综合了林分密度管理对森林生态系统结构和功能以及碳收支的影响。该项目代表了一种新的尝试，旨在更好地理解和量化间伐对加拿大短叶松林分结构、生物量和碳封存的影响，其总体目标是建立林分水平模型来预测直径

Canada's forests are most important and renewable natural resource, contributing significantly to its environmental, social and economic well-being. To ensure that the forest resources is managed, harvesting and utilized to its maximum economic values, it is necessary to develop a series of integrated models to support a value-based and market-driven decision-making strategy instead of volume/yield-based approach. There are very few studies that have integrated the impacts of stand density management on forest ecosystem structure and functions and carbon budgets. The proposed project represents new attempt to develop a better understanding and quantifying the impacts of thinning on stand structure, biomass and carbon sequestration of jack pine stands in Canada.The overall objective is to develop stand-level models to predict diameter