Research Branch Staff Publications - by Title - C

• Zumrawi, A., P. L. Marshall, S. O. Akindele, S. Ortlepp, and P. Thony. 2005. Calibrating PrognosisBC in the Sub-Boreal Spruce and the Sub-Boreal Pine-Spruce Biogeoclimatic Zones: Development of Growth and Mortality Models for Major Tree Species. Report to the Forest Science Program, Project No: Y051356. 
• Goudie, J.W. 1981. Calibration of tree and stand simulator to natural and fertilized stands of Douglas-fir on international paper company land in Western Washington and Oregon. p. 25. Final Report submitted to: International Paper Company.
• Klinka, K., H.Y.H. Chen, Q. Wang, and L. de Montigny. 1996. Canopies and their influence on understory vegetation in early-seral stands on West Vancouver Island. Northwest Sci. Vol. 70. No. 3, 1996.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 1991. Can we manage resources for climate change. In Reclamation and Sustainable Development. B.C. Tech. Comm. Res. Recl. & Can. Land Recl. Assoc., B.C. Min. Energy, Mines Nat. Resour., Victoria, B.C., pp. 125-133.
• Comeau, P.G. and D.L. Spittlehouse. 1991. The carbon balance of forests in British Columbia. The Northwest Environ. J., 7:345-346. [Abstract]
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 2002. Carbon credits. Canadian Silviculture, Fall issue pp. 10-13.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. and N.J. Livingston. 1999. Carbon isotope discrimination, tree rings, and rainfall on the east coast of Vancouver Island. In: Decoding Canada's Environmental Past: Adaptation Lessons Based on Changing Trends and Extremes in Climate and Biodiversity, D.C. MacIver (ed.), Environment Canada, Downsview, ON, pp.11-17.
• Livingston, N.J. and D.L. Spittlehouse. 1996. Carbon isotope fractionation in tree ring early and late wood in relation to intra-growing season water balance. Plant, Cell Environ. 19: pp.768-774.
• Livingston, N.J. and D.L. Spittlehouse. 1993. Carbon isotope fractionation in tree rings in relation to the growing season water balance. In Stable Isotopes and Plant Carbon-Water Relations. J.R. Ehleringer, A.E. Hall, and G.D. Farquhar. (editors). Academic Press, Inc. New York, pp. 141-153.
• Livingston, N.J. and D.L. Spittlehouse. 1991. Carbon isotope fractionation in tree rings in relation to the growing season water balance. In Proceedings 20th. Conf. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Salt Lake City, Utah. Am. Meteorol. Soc, Boston, Mass. pp. 164-166.
• Hogan, D., P. Tschaplinski, and S. Chatwin. 1998. Carnation Creek and Queen Charlotte Islands Fish/Forestry Workshop: Applying 20 Years of Coast Research to Management Solutions. Res. Br., B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, BC, Land Manage. Handb. No. 41. 275 p.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 1990. Catalogue of forest resource agreement climate stations. FRDA Rep. 131., B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C.
• Powell, G.W., B.M. Wikeem, R.F. Newman, P. Youwe, M.D. Pitt, and D. Quinton. 1994. Cattle in integrated silvicultural systems. In L. Poulk, (editor). Proceedings of Grasses and Legumes in Forestry Workshop. B.C. For. Cont. Stud. Net., Prince George, B.C. pp. 49-54.
• Anderson, ED, Owens, JN, Colangeli, AM and Russell, J.H. 2002. Challenges facing Chamaecyparis nootkatensis seed orchards: low seed production, pollen-cone abortion, self-pollination, and accelerated embryo development. CJFR 32:1411-1419.
• Grossnickle, S.C. and Russell, J.H. 1995. Changes in shoot water relations parameters of yellow-cedar in response to environmental variables. Can. J. Bot.
• Binder, W.D. and P. Fielder. 1996. Chlorophyll fluorescence as an indicator of frost hardiness in white spruce (Picea glauca [Moench.] Voss) seedlings from different latitudes. New Forests. 11: pp. 233-253.
• Ponoy, B., Y.P. Hong, J. Woods, B. Jaquish, and J.E. Carlson. 1994. Chloroplast DNA diversity of Douglas-fir in British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 24:1824-1834.
• Harper, G.J., P.G. Comeau, W. Hintz, R.E. Wall, R. Prasad, and E.M. Becker. 1999. Chondrostereum purpureum as a biological control agent in forest vegetation management. II. Efficacy on Sitka alder and aspen in western Canada. Can. J. For. Res. 29: 852-858.
• Brockley, R.P. 1996. Christmas trees and foliar nutrient analysis. Proc. 38th Annual Growers' Short Course and Trade show, Feb. 7-9, 1996, Abbotsford, B.C. B.C. Min. Agric., Fisheries and Food.
• Meidinger, D.V., G.D. Hope, and A.J. McLeod. 1984. Classification and interpretation of some ecosystems of the Rocky Mountain Trench, Prince George Forest Region, British Columbia. B.C. Min. For. Land Manage. Rep. No. 22. 294p.
• Klinka, K., H. Qian, J. Pojar, and D.V. Meidinger. 1996. Classification of natural forest communities of coastal British Columbia., Canada. Vegetatio 125: pp. 149-168.
• Spittlehouse, D. 2006. ClimateBC: Your access to interpolated climate data for BC. Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin 99:16-21.
• O'Neill, G.A. and Yanchuk, A.D. 2005. Climate Change and Forest Genetics: a summary of the 29th Biennial Meeting of the Canadian Tree Improvement Association and the Western Forest Genetics Association. The Forestry Chronicle 81: 18-19.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 2005. Climate change impacts and adaptation in forestry. In: Climate Change and Forest Genetics, Proc. 29th Meeting, Canadian Tree Improvement Assoc., part 2, Symposium, G.A. O’Neill and J.D. Simpson (eds.) pp. 43-48.
• Stewart, R.B., E. Wheaton, and D.L. Spittlehouse. 1998. Climate change: implications for the Boreal forest. In: Emerging Air Issues for the 21st Century: The Need for Multidisciplinary Mangement, Proceedings of a Speciality Conference, Sep. 22-24, 1997, Calgary, AB, Legge, A.H. and L.L. Jones (eds.), Air and Waste Management Assoc., Pittsburg, PA, pp 86-101.
• Spittlehouse, D.L. 2004. The climate and long-term water balance of Fluxnet Canada’s coastal Douglas-fir forest. Proceedings 26th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 23-26 August 2004, Vancouver, BC, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, P1.42, 6 pp.
• Parminter, J.V. 1979. Climatic causes of irregular mortality. Final report on PC 006 for Dr. J.H.G. Smith on behalf of the Productivity Committee of the Min. For., Fac. For., Univ. B.C., Vancouver, B.C. 36 pp.
• Russell, J.H. 1992. Clonal forestry with yellow-cedar. In: Ahuja,M.R. and Libby,W.J. Eds. Clonal Forestry II: Conservation and Application. Springer-Verlag. 240p.
• Russell, J.H. and Libby, WJ. 1986. Clonal testing efficiency: the trade-offs between clones tested and ramets per clone. CJFR 16:925-930.
• Boulanger, J. and B.N. McLellan. 2001. Closure Violation in DNA-based mark-recapture estimation of grizzly bear populations. Can. J. Zool. 79:642-651.
• Parminter, J. 2002. Coarse Woody Debris decomposition - principles, rates and models. Presented to: Northern Interior Vegetation Management Association (NIVMA) and Northern Silviculture Committee (NSC) Winter Workshop: Optimizing wildlife trees and coarse woody debris retention at the stand and landscape level. January 22-24, 2002. Prince George, B.C. (Abstract published in meeting proceedings).
• Stone, J.N., A. MacKinnon, J.V. Parminter, and K.P. Lertzman. 1998. Coarse woody debris decomposition documented over 65 years on southern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 28(5): 788-793.
• Densmore, N., J. Parminter and V. Stevens. 2005. Coarse woody debris: inventory, decay modelling, and management implications in three biogeoclimatic zones. BC Journal of Ecosystems and Management 5(2):14-29.
• J. Joy, L. Peterson, N. Winchester, A. MacKinnon, D. Meidinger, M. Kellner, and J. Voller. 1999. Coastal Montane Biodiversity Inventory. Report prepared for BC Ministry of Environment, Lands, and Parks (Region 1), and BC Ministry of Forests (Research Branch). 171 pp.
• Ying, C.C. and C. Bartram. 1990. Coastal seed transfer guidelines. Joint Silviculture/Research Branch Publication, B.C. Min. For.
• Hawkins, B.J., Russell, J.H. and Arnott, J.T. 2000. Cold hardiness of yellow-cedar. In: Frost Hardiness of Conifers. Ed. S. Colombo.
• Traquair, J. and S.M. Berch. 1988. Colonization of peach rootstocks by indigenous vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Can. J. Plant Sci. 68:893-898.
• Berch, S.M., G. Xiao, and C. Bulmer. 1999. Commercial mycorrhizal inoculants: value-added conifers for site rehabilitation or just another way to spend money? In Proceedings: 19th Annual Meeting of the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia, September 27-30, Vancouver, B.C. Extension Services, Tree Improvement Br., Surrey.
• Fielder, P. and J.N. Owens. 1989. A comparative study of shoot and root development of interior and coastal Douglas-fir seedlings. Can. J. For. Res. 19: pp.539-549
• Ott, P.K. 2007. Comparing Design-based and Model-based Inference: an Introduction. BC. Ministry of Forests and Range Research Branch, Victoria, BC, Biom. Info. Pamp. No. 63.
• Brockley, R. 2006. Comparing the Effects of Urea and Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizers on the Growth and Foliar Nutrition of Lodgepole Pine: 6-year Results. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C. Ext. Note. 78.
• Valentine, H.T., C. Bealle, and T.G. Gregoire. 1992. Comparing vertical and horizontal modes of importance and control-variate sampling for bole volume. Soc. of Amer. For., Bethesda, Md. For. Sci. 38: pp.160-172.
• Spittlehouse, D.L., T.A. Black, B. Chen, E.R. Humphreys and Z. Nesic. 2000. Comparison of 3-D sonic anemometers. Proceedings 24th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 14-18 August 2000, Davis, CA, American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA, pp. 127-128.
• Harper, G.J. and R.J. Whitehead. 1994. Comparison of 4 treatment options for weeding shrub dominated spruce plantations. Expert Committee on Weeds, Research Report, Western Canada Section Meeting, December 5-8, 1994, Saskatoon, Sask., Vol 2, p. 1014.
• Goudie, J.W. 1996. A comparison between managed-stand yields of lodgepole pine in British Columbia and Sweden. In Proceedings of Northern Interior Vegetation Management Annual Meeting, January 24-25, 1996, Smithers, B.C., NIVMA.
• Whitehead, R. and G.J. Harper. 1998. A comparison of four treatments for weeding Engelmann spruce plantations in the interior cedar hemlock zone of British Columbia: ten years after treatment. Information Report; BC-X-379. Can. For. Serv., Pac. For. Cent., Victoria, B.C.
• McLellan, B.N. and D.M. Shackleton. 1988. A comparison of grizzly bear harvest data from Montana and southeastern British Columbia. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 16: pp. 371-375.
• Harper, G.J., P.G. Comeau and B.S. Biring. 2005. A comparison of herbicide and mulch mat treatments for reducing grass, herb and shrub competition in the B.C. Interior Douglas-fir zone - Ten year results. West. J. Appl. For. 20 (3): 167-178.
• de Montigny, L., C.M. Prescott, P.G. Hatcher and I. Kögel-Knaber. 1993. Comparison of humus horizons from two ecosystem phases on northern Vancouver Island using 13C CPMAS NMR spectroscopy and CuO oxidation. Can. J. Soil Sci. 73: 9-25
• Yang, R.C., F.C. Yeh, and A.D. Yanchuk. 1996. A comparison of isozyme and quantitative genetic variation in Pinus contorta ssp. latifolia by F-ST. Genetics 142 (3). pp. 1045-1046.
• Comeau, P., R. Wall, G. Harper, and J. Boateng. 1992. Comparison of manual, biological and herbicide treatments for controlling bigleaf maple. EP 1135.02 Working Plan.
• Harper, G.J., R. Whitehead, and C.F. Thompson. 1998. A comparison of manual brushing treatments in the ICHdw at Redfish Creek: 10-year results from blocks 10-13. Extension Note 20. B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C.
• Mitchell, K.J. 1986. Comparison of Mcardle, DFSIM, and TASS growth and yield models. pp. 350-359. In Proc. Symp. Douglas-fir: Stand management for the future, June 18-20, 1985, Seattle, Wash., C.D Oliver, D.P. Hanley, and J.A. Johnson (Editors). Inst. For. Res., Univ. Wash., Contrib. No. 55, Seattle, Wash.
• Harper, G.J., P.G. Comeau, B.S. Biring, W.J. Reid, and P. Fielder. 1998. A comparison of mulch mat and herbicide treatments for reducing grass competition in the IDFww. Extension Note 27. B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C.
• Comeau, P.G., G. Harper, B. Biring, J. Boateng, and B.D'Anjou. 1996. A comparison of mulch mats and herbicide treatments for reducing grass competition in the IDFww. B.C. Min. For., EP 1135.03 Establishment and First Year Progress Report
• Comeau, P.G., G. Harper, J. Boateng, and B.D'Anjou. 1992. A comparison of mulch mats and herbicide treatments for reducing grass competition in the IDFww. B.C. Min. For., EP 1135.03 Working Plan.
• Battigelli, J.P., S.M. Berch, and V.G. Marshall. 1991. Comparison of soil fauna communities between Cedar-Hemlock and Hemlock-Amabilis fir forest phases on Vancouver Island. Soil Ecology Society Meetings, OSU.
• 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.
• Goudie, J.W. and B.C. Dennis. 1982. A comparison of two diameter distributions using the variance-covariance matrix of the weibull parameters. In Conference on natural resource modeling, Victoria, B.C.
• Binder, W.D. and P. Fielder. 1994. Comparison of Two Fluorometer Systems to Detect Freeze Damage on White Spruce needles. Summary Report and Discussion Paper MOF and outside Ministry Distribution.
• Karlsson, I.K. and Russell, J.H. 1990. Comparison of yellow cypress trees of seedling and rooted cutting origins after 9 and 11 years in the field. Can. J. For. Res. 29:37-42.
• Nigh, G.D. 1995. Compatibility improvements and bias reduction in height-age models. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C. Res. Rep. 03. 10 p.
• McLellan, B.N. 1993. Competition between black and grizzly bears as a natural population regulating factor. In Proc. of the Fourth Western Black Bear Workshop. J.A. Keay. (editor). USDA. Tech. Rep. NPS/NRWR-93/12. pp. 111-116.
• Berch, S.M. 1988. A compilation of the Endogonaceae. Mycologue Publications, Waterloo. 228 pp.
• Goudie, J.W. 1985. Completion report on research project: Supplementary interim managed stand yield tables for Lodgepole Pine. p. 16. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br, Victoria, B.C.
• Kranabetter, J.M. and C.E. Bulmer. 1995. Composting trial using pulp fibre waste and municipal sewage sludge. Report prepared for Forest Sciences Section, Prince George Forest Region, B.C. Min. For.
• Micko, M.M., A.D. Yanchuk, E.I.C. Wang, and F.W. Taylor. 1982. Computerized measurement of fiber length. IAWA (International Association of Wood Anatomists) Bulletin 3 (2). pp. 111-113.
• Pojar, J., D. Meidinger and K. Klinka. 1991. Concepts. pp. 9-38.
• Strang, R.M., and J.V. Parminter. 1980. Conifer encroachment on the Chilcotin grasslands of British Columbia. For. Chron. 56(1):13-18.
• Comeau, P., G. Harper, B. Biring, and J. Boateng. 1995. Conifer response to brushing and development of a provincial system for vegetation management monitoring in B.C. In Proceedings: Northern Interior Vegetation Management Association (NIVMA) Annual General Meeting, January 18-19, 1995, Williams Lake, B.C. Craig Farnden, Can. For. Serv., Prince George District Office (editor), pp 12-16.
• Comeau, P.G., B.S. Biring, and G.J. Harper. 2000. Conifer Response to Brushing Treatments: A Summary of British Columbia Data. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C. Ext. Note 41.
• Harper, G.J. and P.G. Comeau. 1996. Conifer tolerance to Vision herbicide application in the year of planting. Western Research Report, Expert Committee on Weeds, National Meeting, December 9-12, 1996, Victoria. p. 337.
• Harper, G., P. Comeau, B. Biring and B. D'Anjou. 1994. Conifer tolerance to Vision herbicide application in the year of planting. B.C. Min. For., Res. Br., Victoria, B.C., SX93701Q Establish. and 1st Yr. Prog. Rep.
• Harper, G.J., P.G. Comeau, and B. D'Anjou. 1994. Conifer tolerance to Vision herbicide application in the year of planting. Research Report, Expert Committee on Weeds, Western Canada Section Meeting, December 5-8, 1994, Saskatoon, Sask. 2:1015.
• Harper, G.J., L.J. Herring, and W.J. Hays-Byl. 1997. Conifer and vegetation response in the BWBSmw 12 years after mechanical and herbicide site preparation. Working Paper 29. B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C.
• Yanchuk, A.D. 1997. Conservation issues and priorities for the conifer genetic resources of British Columbia, Canada. Forest Genetic Resources 25: pp. 2-9.
• Fielder, P. and P. Comeau. 2000. Construction and testing of an inexpensive PAR Sensor. Res. Br., Min. For., Victoria, BC. Work.-Pap. 53.
• Carlson, M.R. 1990. Cottonwoods Rediscovered in British Columbia. Poplar Counc. Can Newsletter.
• Yanchuk, A.D. and D.T. Lester. 1995. Current status of B.C. conifers in protected areas. B.C. Mini. For., Victoria. Res. Note. # 4.
• McLellan, B.N. 1992. Current status and long term threats to grizzly bears in British Columbia. In Community Action for Endangered Species. September 28-29, 1991, Vancouver, B.C. S. Rautio. (editor). pp. 111-122.
• Dicosmo, F., S.M. Berch, and W.B. Kendrick. 1983. Cylindrotrichum, Chaetopsis and two new genera of Hyphomycetes: Kylindria and Xenokylindria. Mycologia 75:949-973.