STUDIES ON THE VEGETATION OF THE GASPÉ PENINSULA: II. THE SOIL RESPIRATION OF SOME PLANT COMMUNITIES

1962 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helmut Lieth ◽  
Robert Ouellette

The present study was undertaken to investigate the soil respiration of different communities of the boreal forest region in the Gaspé Peninsula. The measurements were done with an absorption method which is described in detail. Productivity of the vegetation in the Gaspé Peninsula is obviously very low. Consequently soil respiration is also very low. Compared with the data obtained with the same method in the temperate zone of middle Europe, our data lie near the lower limit of these values.

1978 ◽  
Vol 56 (19) ◽  
pp. 2344-2347 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Malloch ◽  
C. T. Rogerson

A new genus and species of ascomycetes, Catulus aquilonius, is described, illustrated, and tentatively assigned to the Mycosphaerellaceae. It grows as a parasite on stromata of Seuratia millardetii (Raciborski) Meeker and is characterized by two-celled, setulose ascospores.


1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Gagnon ◽  
K. Hunt

Samples of five pairs of fertilized and non-fertilized 60-year-old natural balsam fir (Abiesbalsamea (L.) Mill.) growing in the Quebec boreal forest region were pulped by the kraft process and the specific gravity was measured. Analyses carried out 7 years after treatment on the last seven terminal internodes revealed the mean pulp yield of trees fertilized exceeded that of non-fertilized by 7%, while the mean specific gravity was about 6% lower.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 2823-2849 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Lidman ◽  
C. M. Mörth ◽  
H. Laudon

Abstract. The concentrations of uranium and thorium in ten partly nested streams in the boreal forest region were monitored over a two-year period. Considerable spatiotemporal variations were observed, with little or no correlation between streams. The export of both uranium and thorium varied substantially between the subcatchments, ranging from 1.7 to 30 g km−2 a−1 for uranium and from 3.2 to 24 g km−2 a−1 for thorium. Airborne gamma spectrometry was used to measure the concentrations of uranium and thorium in surface soils throughout the catchment, but could not explain the variability in the export. Instead, the extent of lakes and mires within each subcatchment was found to be a stronger predictor for the transport of uranium and thorium. The results indicate that there is a predictable and systematic accumulation of both uranium and thorium in boreal mires. Approximately 65–80 % of uranium and 55–65 % of thorium entering a mire is estimated to be retained in the peat. Overall, accumulation in mires and other types of wetlands is estimated to decrease the fluxes of uranium and thorium from the boreal forest landscape by 30–40 %. The atmospheric deposition of uranium and thorium was also quantified and its contribution to boreal streams was found to be low compared to weathering.


2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
V Singhroy ◽  
P Barnett ◽  
S M Yatabe ◽  
R Saint-Jean

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 1035-1040 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Malloch ◽  
B. Malloch

Thirty-one species of vascular plants commonly occurring in the Boreal Forest Region of northeastern Ontario were examined for the presence of mycorrhizae. Two species were ectomycorrhizal, 3 both ecto- and endo-mycorrhizal, and 15 endomycorrhizal. Two species of Ericaceae had ericoid mycorrhizae and one had both ericoid and arbutoid mycorrhizae. Eight species, unexpectedly including three species of Rosaceae and two of Saxifragaceae, completely lacked mycorrhizae. The significance of the findings concerning the Betulaceae, Fraxinus, the Ericaceae, Rosaceae, and Saxifragaceae are discussed, as is occurrence of Cenococcum-type infections among the species.


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