Audrey Lemay

TL;DR: This study quantifies the role of major environmental drivers for incorporation into state-of-the-art Earth system models (ESMs), thereby providing an improved assessment of long-term and high-resolution observations of biogeochemical cycles across terrestrial biomes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effect of careful logging around small merchantable stems on the growth and some wood quality parameters of black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P.) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) mill.) in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada.

TL;DR: In this article, the root structures of standing and uprooted black spruces, after commercial thinning, were compared by looking at root architecture, volume and radial growth, and the structure of the roots was also mapped to obtain a spatial overview of the angle between roots.

TL;DR: Evaluated thinning increased cell production rate and total number of cells produced in both stem and roots of black spruce and balsam fir, but did not result in a change in the phenology of wood formation that could lead to increased risks of frost damage in the spring or autumn.

TL;DR: Comparisons of growth, wood density and tracheid dimensions between the stem and roots of black spruce trees growing in the boreal forest show that all wood density components, especially earlywood density, were higher in the roots than in the stem inblack spruce, leading us to suppose that the hydraulic network of the black Spruce root system may not be so vulnerable to cavitation.