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"Although nutrient deficiencies are not uncommon in forests across the north, little is known about these limitations in the Yukon, and even less about how these limitations have been and/or will be affected by climate. To address existing…

"The wetter subzones of the Interior Cedar-Hemlock (ICH) zone are naturally dominated by old forests in which trees regenerate and grow in small gaps in the forest canopy. Increased interest in ecosystem-based management has led to interest in…

"Complex systems science provides an inter-disciplinary framework for understanding and responding to global change phenomena. It seeks to understand the behaviour of whole systems and provides a common language and a suite of analytical tools…

This report is meant to summarize the results of a survey of UNBC faculty undertaken in 2016. Researchers from three institutions (Nipissing University, Royal Roads University and the University of Northern British Columbia) collaborated on this…

The shortcomings of public health research informed by reductionist and fragmented biomedical approaches and the emergence of wicked problems are fueling a renewed interest in ecological approaches in public health. Despite the central role of…

"A pilot study at the Aleza Lake Research Forest (ALRF) in east-central interior British Columbia (BC) examined the timing of peatland initiation using accelerator radiocarbon dating of peat deposits. At the ALRF, Sphagnum bogs occupy numerous…

"A major question for Kyoto signatory nations such as Canada is what role our forests might play in meeting our greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments. The most important greenhouse gas affected by human activity is carbon dioxide (CO…

"Access to clean and safe drinking water is a matter of life and death in rural Uganda. Many villagers do not have access to this basic resource and are forced to consume water unfit for human consumption. As a result, many suffer from serious…

Tl'azt'en Nation, a Canadian indigenous community that became an early participant in industrial commercial forestry. In doing so, T'azt'en Nation encountered challenges that reverberate today for indigenous peoples seeking…

"Recognizing that each additional disturbance in a region can represent a high marginal cost to the environment, there is an increasing awareness of the need to better assess and manage cumulative environmental effects. Yet, cumulative effects…

"Partial cutting systems have often been proposed as a means of maintaining canopy lichen abundance and diversity in managed forests. However, most assessments of the effectiveness of specific harvest practices in maintain canopy lichens are…