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Nicola J. Day
Researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University
Publications - 36
Citations - 1343
Nicola J. Day is an academic researcher from Wilfrid Laurier University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Taiga & Boreal. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 29 publications receiving 796 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicola J. Day include Canterbury of New Zealand & Auckland University of Technology.
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Inside the root microbiome: Bacterial root endophytes and plant growth promotion
Jonathan R. Gaiero,Crystal A. McCall,Karen A. Thompson,Nicola J. Day,Anna Best,Kari E. Dunfield +5 more
TL;DR: The drivers of endophyte community structure relating to plant growth promotion, the mechanisms of plant growth Promotion, and the current and future use of molecular techniques to study these communities are reviewed.
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Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils
Xanthe J. Walker,Jennifer L. Baltzer,Steven G. Cumming,Nicola J. Day,C. Ebert,Scott J. Goetz,Scott J. Goetz,Jill F. Johnstone,Jill F. Johnstone,S. Potter,Brendan M. Rogers,Edward A. G. Schuur,Merritt R. Turetsky,Merritt R. Turetsky,Michelle C. Mack +14 more
TL;DR: Soil radiocarbon dating reveals that combusted ‘legacy carbon’—soil carbon that escaped burning during previous fires—could shift the carbon balance of boreal ecosystems, resulting in a positive climate feedback.
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Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest.
Jennifer L. Baltzer,Nicola J. Day,Xanthe J. Walker,David F. Greene,Michelle C. Mack,Heather D. Alexander,Dominique Arseneault,Jennifer Barnes,Yves Bergeron,Yan Boucher,Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez,Carissa D. Brown,Suzanne Carrière,Brian K. Howard,Sylvie Gauthier,Marc-André Parisien,Kirsten A. Reid,Brendan M. Rogers,Carl A. Roland,Luc Sirois,Sarah E. Stehn,Dan K. Thompson,Merritt R. Turetsky,Sander Veraverbeke,Ellen Whitman,Jian Yang,Jill F. Johnstone +26 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors synthesize data from 1,538 field sites across boreal North America to evaluate compositional changes in tree species following 58 recent fires (1989 to 2014).
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Fuel availability not fire weather controls boreal wildfire severity and carbon emissions
Xanthe J. Walker,Brendan M. Rogers,Sander Veraverbeke,Jill F. Johnstone,Jill F. Johnstone,Jennifer L. Baltzer,Kirsten Barrett,Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez,Nicola J. Day,Nicola J. Day,W. J. de Groot,Catherine M. Dieleman,Scott J. Goetz,Elizabeth Hoy,Liza K. Jenkins,Liza K. Jenkins,Evan S. Kane,Marc-André Parisien,S. Potter,Edward A. G. Schuur,Merritt R. Turetsky,Merritt R. Turetsky,Ellen Whitman,Michelle C. Mack +23 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesized data from 417 field sites spanning six ecoregions in the northwestern North American boreal forest and assessed the network of interactions among potential bottom-up and top-down drivers of carbon emissions.
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Wildfire severity reduces richness and alters composition of soil fungal communities in boreal forests of western Canada.
Nicola J. Day,Kari E. Dunfield,Jill F. Johnstone,Michelle C. Mack,Merritt R. Turetsky,Xanthe J. Walker,Alison L. White,Jennifer L. Baltzer +7 more
TL;DR: This study used an extreme wildfire event in boreal forests of Canada's Northwest Territories to test drivers of fungal communities and assess relationships with plant communities, and found soil pH and fire severity and interactions between these drivers were important for fungal community structure.