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Progressive selection and the erosion of Canadian environmental governance: evidence from elite interviews by Orr, Christopher J., Fyles, James W.

“…Canadian environmental governance formally began in the 1970s with an ambitious vision critical of the status quo. Until the Justin Trudeau government from…”
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Are Mosses Required to Accurately Predict Upland Black Spruce Forest Soil Carbon in National-Scale Forest C Accounting Models? by Bona, Kelly Ann, Fyles, James W., Shaw, Cindy, Kurz, Werner A.

“…The boreal forest plays a key role in the global carbon (C) cycle, and black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) forests are the dominant coniferous forest type…”
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Switchgrass establishment and seeding year production can be improved by inoculation with rhizosphere endophytes by Ker, Keomany, Seguin, Philippe, Driscoll, Brian T., Fyles, James W., Smith, Donald L.

“…Nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) and other plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) have been used to increase growth and yield of corn and sugarcane, two…”
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Interactions between macroclimate, microclimate, and anthropogenic disturbance affect the distribution of aspen near its northern edge in Quebec: Implications for climate change related range expansions by Whitbeck, Kristen L., Oetter, Doug R., Perry, David A., Fyles, James W.

“…[Display omitted] •Aspen showed no systematic decline in abundance with increasing latitude in the James Bay area.•Aspen abundance was more limited to…”
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Demographics and social values as drivers of change in the Canadian boreal zone by Nitoslawski, Sophie A., Chin, Andrew T.M., Chan, Alistair, Creed, Irena F., Fyles, James W., Parkins, John R., Weber, Marian L.

“…The boreal zone, a vast region with abundant natural resources and related industries, has both provisioning and nonprovisioning ecosystem services that draw…”
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Effects of open-top chambers on physical properties of air and soil at post-disturbance sites in northwestern Quebec by Dabros, Anna, Fyles, James W., Strachan, Ian B.

“…Ecosystem responses to current global climate change can be predicted through experimental climate simulations. One such simulation method is the open-top…”
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Effects of open-top chambers and substrate type on biogeochemical processes at disturbed boreal forest sites in northwestern Quebec by Dabros, Anna, Fyles, James W

“…Open-top chamber (OTC) climate change simulation was used to predict the potential effects of climate change on biogeochemistry, including: 1) soil…”
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Maladaptive Habitat Use of a North American Woodpecker in Population Decline by Frei, Barbara, Fyles, James W., Nocera, Joseph J.

“…Rapid anthropogenic habitat changes can lead to non‐ideal habitat use by animals, often resulting in lower fitness and population declines. An extreme case of…”
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Interspecific competition and nest survival of the threatened Red-headed Woodpecker by Frei, Barbara, Nocera, Joseph J, Fyles, James W

“…The cavity-nesting Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a once common, but now threatened, species across most of its range. Although several…”
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Low Fecundity of Red-Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) at the Northern Edge of the Range by Frei, Barbara, Fyles, James W., Berl, Jacob L., Edwards, John W., Nocera, Joseph J.

“…The Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) is a threatened bird species undergoing continued population declines across most of its range. Despite…”
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Evidence for enhanced N availability during switchgrass establishment and seeding year production following inoculation with rhizosphere endophytes by Ker, Keomany, Seguin, Philippe, Driscoll, Brian T., Fyles, James W., Smith, Donald L.

“…Improvement in sustainable production of switchgrass (SG, Panicum virgatum L), as a purpose-grown biomass feedstock crop, could be realized through…”
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Carbon sequestration in perennial bioenergy, annual corn and uncultivated systems in southern Quebec by Zan, Claudia S, Fyles, James W, Girouard, Patrick, Samson, Roger A

“…The conversion of relatively undisturbed ecosystems such as forests and grasslands to intensively managed agroecosystems has had major impacts on global carbon…”
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Development and application of cva, dris, and cnd norms for three hybrids of populus maximowiczii planted in southern quebec by RENÉ, WILGENS, CÔTÉ, BenoÎT, CAMIRÉ, CLAUDE, BURGESS, MAGDALENA, FYLES, JAMES W

“…Plantations of hybrid poplars adapted to relatively poor soils and cold conditions are being established in abandoned fields and forest sites in southern…”
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Conditional Gaussian co-simulation of regionalized components of soil variation by Larocque, Guillaume, Dutilleul, Pierre, Pelletier, Bernard, Fyles, James W.

“…Stochastic simulations are increasingly used to represent and characterize the spatial structure and uncertainty of soil properties. Due to the potential…”
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Coregionalization analysis with a drift for multi-scale assessment of spatial relationships between ecological variables 1. Estimation of drift and random components by Pelletier, Bernard, Dutilleul, Pierre, Larocque, Guillaume, Fyles, James W

“…In this and a second article, we propose ‘coregionalization analysis with a drift' (CRAD), as a method to assess the multi-scale variability of and…”
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Coregionalization analysis with a drift for multi-scale assessment of spatial relationships between ecological variables 2. Estimation of correlations and coefficients of determination by Pelletier, Bernard, Dutilleul, Pierre, Larocque, Guillaume, Fyles, James W

“…In two articles, we present ‘coregionalization analysis with a drift' (CRAD), a method to assess the multi-scale variability of and relationships between…”
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Characterization and Quantification of Uncertainty in Coregionalization Analysis by Larocque, Guillaume, Dutilleul, Pierre, Pelletier, Bernard, Fyles, James W

“…Coregionalization analysis has been presented as a method of multi-scale analysis for multivariate spatial data. Despite an increasing use of this method in…”
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Weed cover in hybrid poplar ( Populus) plantations on Quebec forest soils under different lime treatments by Bona, Kelly Ann, Burgess, Magdalena S., Fyles, James W., Camiré, Claude, Dutilleul, Pierre

“…Fast-growing trees such as hybrid poplars ( Populus) have the potential to decrease rotation length (time to harvest) and thus produce wood products more…”
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Forest regrowth as the controlling factor of soil nutrient availability 75 years after fire in a deciduous forest of Southern Quebec by Belanger, N, Cote, B, Fyles, J.W, Courchesne, F, Hendershot, W.H

“…The effects of secondary succession on soil nutrient availability following fire in the 1920s was investigated in a hardwood forest of southern Quebec by…”
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Optimum Nutrient Concentrations and CND Scores of Mature White Spruce Determined Using a Boundary-Line Approach and Spatial Variation of Tree Growth and Nutrition by Quesnel, P.O, Cote, B, Fyles, J.W, Munson, A.D

“…Standards of optimum nutrition are not readily available for mature trees of the Canadian boreal forest. The objective of this study was to determine foliar…”
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