Research Branch Staff Publications - by Date - 2003

• Hassani, B.T., V. LeMay, P. Marshall, and A-A. Zumrawi. 2003. Regeneration under partial cutting for PrognosisBC, MSdk, Cranbrook Forest District. Report prepared for the Forestry Innovation Investment. Ref. No. R02-07, 30 pp.
• Froese, K.L, V. LeMay, P. Marshall, and A-A. Zumrawi. 2003. Regeneration imputation models for PrognosisBC: IDFdm2 subzone variant, Invermere Forest District. Report prepared for the Forestry Innovation Investment. Ref. No. R02-07, 67 pp.
• Chen, X., Hawkins, B., Xie, C.-Y., and Ying, C.C. 2003. Age trends in genetic parameters and early selection of lodgepole pine provenances with particular reference to the Lambeth model. Forest Genetics 10(3): 249-258.
• Harper, G.J., and R. Kabzems. 2003. Growing-space management in Boreal mixedwood forests - The establishment of EP 1192.01, Fort Nelson River site. Extension Note 64. B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C.
• Schwartz, C.C., K. A. Keating, H.V. Reynolds, III, V. G. Barnes, Jr., R. A. Sellers, J. E. Swenson, S. D. Miller, B.N. McLellan, J. Keay, R. McCann, M. Gibeau, W. F. Wakkinen, R. D. Mace, W. Kasworm, R. Smith, and S. Herrero. 2003. Reproductive maturation and senescence in the female brown bear. Ursus 14:109-119.
• Mah, S. and G.D. Nigh. 2003. SIBEC site index estimates in support of forest management in British Columbia. Res. Br., B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 004.
• Nigh, G.D., B.A. Love, and K. Thomas. 2003. A comparison of the time required for two methods of selecting site trees in juvenile stands. North. J. Appl. For. 20: 101-103.
• C.-Y. Xie. 2003. Genotype-by-environment interaction and its implications for genetic improvement of interior spruce in British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 33: 1-9.
• Evans, C., E. Phillips, L. de Montigny. 2003. Silviculture treatments for ecosystem management in the Sayward: cost and productivity of harvesting, 2003. Advantage, Vol.4, no.38.
• Humphreys, E.P., T.A. Black, G.J. Ethier, G.B. Drewitt, D.L. Spittlehouse, E.-M. Jork, Z. Nesic and N.J. Livingston. 2003. Annual and seasonal variability of sensible and latent heat fluxes above a coastal Douglas-fir forest, British Columbia, Canada. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 115:109-125.
• Winkler, R.D., D.L. Spittlehouse, B.A. Heise, T.R. Giles, and Y. Alila. 2003. The Upper Penticton Creek Watershed Experiment: A Review at Year 20. In: Water Stewardship: How Are We Managing? Procs. 56th Annual Meeting, Canadian Water Resources Assoc., Cambridge, ON, pp. 51-58.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 2003. Water availability, climate change and the growth of Douglas-fir in the Georgia Basin. Canadian Water Resources Journal 28:673-688.
• Nadeem, S, B. Jaquish, C. Newton and P.D. Khasa. 2003. Use of diagnostic SSR markers for identification of Larix lyallii and L. occidentalis (Pinaceae). Edinburgh J. of Botany. 60(1): 49-56.
• Proctor, M., B.N. McLellan, and Strobeck, C. 2003. Population fragmentation of grizzly bears in southeastern British Columbia, Canada. Ursus 15:153-160.
• Schwartz, C.C, K.A. Keating, H.V. Reynolds, V.G. Barnes, R.A. Sellers, J.E. Swenson, S.D. Miller, B.N. McLellan, J. Keay, R. McCann, M. Gibeau, W.F. Wakkinen, R.D. Mace, W. Kasworm, R. Smith, and S. Herrero. 2003. Reproductive senescence in the brown/grizzly bear. Ursus 14:109-119.
• Nelson, J.R., M. Stoehr, G. Cooper, C. Smith and H. Mehl. 2003. High levels of chloroplast genetic variation differentiate coastal and interior Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga mensziesii) lineages in southern British Columbia. Forest Genetics 10:153-157.
• Richardson, Andrew D., C. Bealle Statland, and T.G. Gregoire. 2003. Root biomass distribution under three cover types in a patchy Pseudotsuga menziesii forest in western Canada. Ann. For Sci. 60, 469-474.
• Wang, Tongli, S.N. Aitken, J.H. Woods, K.R. Polsson, and S. Magnussen. 2003. Effects of inbreeding on coastal Douglas fir growth and yield in operational plantations: a model-based approach. Theor Appl Genet (2004) 108:1162-1171.
• Xie, C.-Y. and A.D. Yanchuk. 2003. Breeding values of parent trees, genetic worth of seed orchard seedlots, and yields of improved stock in British Columbia. West. J. Appl. For. 18:88-100.
• Hamilton, E. and L. Peterson. 2003. Response of Vegetation to Burning in a Subalpine Forest Cutblock in Central British Columbia: Otter Creek Site. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C., Res. Rep. 23.
• Vourc'h, G., Russell, J.H., Gillon, D. and Martin, J.L. 2003. Short-term effect of defoliation on terpene content in Thuja plicata. Ecoscience 10(2).
• Russell, J.H., Burdon, RB and Yanchuk, A.D. 2003. Inbreeding depression and variance structures for height and adaptation in self- and outcross Thuja plicata families in varying environments. Forest Genetics 10(3).
• DeLong, C. and D. Meidinger. 2003. Ecological variability of high elevation forests in central British Columbia. The Forestry Chronicle 79: 259-262.
• Meidinger, D. 2003. Protocol for accuracy assessment of ecosystem maps. B.C. Min. For., Tech. Rep. 011. 30p.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. and R.B. Stewart 2003. Adaptation to climate change in forest management. BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management, Volume 4, Number 1.
• Brockley, R.P. and P. Sanborn. 2003. Effects of Sitka alder on the growth and foliar nutrition of young lodgepole pine in the central interior of British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 33: 1761-1771.
• Nigh, G.D. and M.G.E. Mitchell. 2003. Development of height-age models for estimating juvenile height of coastal Douglas-fir in British Columbia. West. J. Appl. For. 18: 207-212.
• Brockley, R.P. 2003. Effects of nitrogen and boron fertilization on foliar boron nutrition and growth in two different lodgepole pine ecosystems. Can. J. For. Res. 33: 988-996.
• Biring, Singh B., Comeau, P.G., Fielder, P. 2003. Long-term effects of vegetation control treatments for release of Engelmann sprude from a mixed-shrub community in Southern British Columbia. Ann. For. Sci. 60: 681-690.