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Chapter 9- Forests Flashcards

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How many forests does is make to make up a forest?

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enough trees with overlapping crowns forming 60% to 100% cover
-one tree does not=a forest

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crowns

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tops of trees

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crown fire

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at the top of trees

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Functions of Forests

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  • non-wood forest products
  • biodiversity and habitat preservation
  • carbon storage
  • agricultural land
  • human settlements
  • fuelwood and charcol
  • industrial wood for lumber, paper, and packaging
  • ecotourism and recreation
  • watershed, protection, and erosion control
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Continent that does not have forest

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-antarctica

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tropical forest

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lost almost 80% in some countries=huge biodiversity loss

-thousands of different types of trees

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Canada’s Forest

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  • 10% of world’s forests are in Canada
  • compromise ~1/2 of the land area of Canada
  • over 1/2 of Canada’s forests are undisturbed
  • approximately 66% of canada’s 140,000 species live in forests
  • forests are a really good habitat, good biodiversity
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insects

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most biodiverse group (lots in forest)

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Forest Regions of Canada

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  1. Boreal forest
  2. Subalpine
  3. Montane
  4. Coast
  5. Colombian
  6. Deciduous
  7. Great Lakes- St. Lawrence
  8. Acadian
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Ecozone

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an area of the earth’s surface that represents a large ecological zone and has characteristic landforms and climate
-distinguished by plants wildlife, climate,landforms, and human activities.

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Boreal Forest

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-circumpolar
-covers 22% of Canada’s land mass
-22% of canada’s freshwater surface area (lakes rivers streams)
-support commercial wetland activities (logging, pulp and paper, timber)
-lungs of the country massive part of Canada
14% of world’s forests

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Boreal Species

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lodgepole pine, woodland caribou, white spruce, black bear, trembling aspen, lynx and snowshoe hare, tamarack

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Stresses on Boreal Forest

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  1. Logging
  2. Mining- land clearing, pollution, jobs
  3. Hydroelectric Development- 85% of drainage basins altered by hydroelectric
  4. Climate change- ^ forest fire and pests
  5. Acid Precipitation- S and N20 in atmosphere
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Harvesting Methods

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selective cutting- dangerous for people cutting

  • shelterwood cutting
  • clear-cutting (most common&popular)
  • patch cutting (rotating clear cuts (allows movement corridors)
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Subalpine Species

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-englemann spruce, alpine fir, lodgepole pin, mountainous uplands

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Montane

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valley bottoms, douglas fir, lodgepole pine, trembling aspen

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What creates difference between subalpine and montane?

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-temperature

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Coast

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western red cedar
western hemlock 
sitka spruce 
douglas fir 
almost exclusively coniferous
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Columbian

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western red cedar
Douglas fir 
western hemlock 
merges coast, montane, and subalpine regions 
-high biodiversity, interior of BC
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Deciduous/Carolinian

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  • beech, maple, black walnut, oak, hickory, northern limits for some deciduous trees, rare forest type
  • very impacted by agriculture
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Great Lakes- St. Lawrence

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red pine
eastern pine 
eastern hemlock 
yellow birch 
maple 
oak 
-lots of maple syrup comes from here
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Acadian

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red spruce
balsam fir
maple
yellow birch
-related to Great lakes, St. Lawrence and Boreal regions
NB, NS, PEI, interface with hardwoods as well

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Forest helps protect

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Forests are what % of Canada’s Land mass?

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20% & 22% of freshwater surface area

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Clear cutting causes
lots of evaporation
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Biodiversity and Habitat
- over 20% of world's water originates in Canada's forests | - 80% of the world's terrestrial species found in global forests
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Deforestation rate in Madagascar and Brazil
-parts are almost totally deforested
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Where are nutrients stored?
Temperate forest store nutrients in soil | Tropical forest store nutrients in biomass (leaf litter trees etc)
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Role of Biodiversity
- ecosystem connectivity - photosynthesis & Respiration - nutrient cycling - keys to diversity ex) tree growing on another log, fallen log decomposes and other plants start growing on it
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Komodi Bears
-flagship species (spirit bear, lives in BC, very rare)
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Flagship species
a species that people will care about and want to save its habitat or the animal, usually cute
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Economy and non-wood forest products
-442 million/yr for economy | wild rice, mushrooms, animal products, maple syrup, agriculture benefits as well
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Canada's Forests
10% of world's total forest | -45% of land base
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How do we manage forests?
need to identify what is being managed in the first place | -define ownership/jurisdiction (who owns it/who has control)
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Forest Tenure
conditions that govern forest ownership and use
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Forest Tenure in Canada
94% of forests are publicly owned then the province leases the land to private companies who then cut within guidelines -6% private ownership
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Forest Industry
Annual harvest=175 million m3/yr 1/5th of global supply exports- lumber, paper, newsprint, pulp 350 dependent communities
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How many people are employed in timber industry?
over 80,000 | 94 billion$ to Canadian economy
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Forest Harvesting effects on Ecosystem
1. Biodiversity- reduced natural variability, early successional species, more monocultures, loss of species, fragmentation of habitat, plant in straight rows=little structural diversity) 2. Productivity- biomass taken away from sight, seasonal differences 3. Soils- nutrients gone, erosion, leeching, over saturated nutrients gone from soil 4. Water cycle- less evapotranspiration
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Forest Fragmentation
due to logging mines limits pathways for animals to walk and travel places bare patches in forest
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Advantages of Clear Cutting
- money - safer for people cutting - fewer roads - lots of jobs - good when al pine trees are dead due to pine beetle to reduce risk of fire
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Advantages of Forest Fire
- recycled nutrients - biomass still on site - don't need roads - part of natural cycle - regenerate species
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Disadvantages of Forest Fire
- dangerous near human community - can get out of control quickly with dead trees and climate change - animals need forest to live
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Compare fire vs. clear cut
``` Openings- irregular, regular Boundaries- gradual , abrupt Vegetation- left standing, removed Pathogens- most killed, most survive Nutrients- released back into soil, removed Soil- build up with nutrients, compacted and eroded N-fixers- growth, reduced Species- succession, reduced ```
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Silviculture
theory and practice of controlling establishment, composition, growth, and quality of forest stands - like agriculture but with forest - straight line trees - clean forest floors - can replant and leave shelter wood behind
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Methods of silviculture
- reforestation replant - monocultures (one type of tree) - NSR- not sufficiently restocked
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Biocides
kill living things
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Forest sustainability solutions
- alternatives - value-added-build furniture here, adds value to the trees - renewable practices- rotating cuts - precautionary principle- wait until we know what we are doing - protected areas - research - hollistic view
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