Projects

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Forest landscape simulation with LANDIS-II

LANDIS-II simulation studies projecting forest succession and disturbance across large landscapes to inform forest management.

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Habitat Connectivity

Landscape connectivity modelling for wildlife habitat and protected area networks, including development of the `grainscape` R package.

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Simulating mountain pine beetle eastward spread

The continued eastward spread of mountain pine beetle (*Dendroctonus ponderosae* Hopk.; MPB) now threatens the boreal forests of eastern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and beyond. …

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LandWeb: historic range of variation in western boreal forests

LandWeb is the first large scale, data-driven approach to simulating historic natural ranges of variation (H/NRV). This model integrates two well-used models for forest stand …

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Eruptive Insect Dynamics

Major forest insect pests in Canada (forest tent caterpillar, spruce budworm, and mountain pine beetle) share a common feature: their populations exhibit *eruptive* (nonlinear, …

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Boreal forest ecosystem forecasts

Integrated simulation models of forest vegetation dynamics, fire, insect disturbance, and wildlife populations, used to forecast boreal landscape change and inform management …