The nonvascular and vascular plant composition of the early regenerating vegetation present following wildfires and clear-cut logging has been compared separately in three areas of the black spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) BSP) - feathermoss (Pleurozium schreberi (Brid.) Mitt.)) forest of western and central Quebec. In each area, a detrended correspondence analysis successfully differentiated the burned and logged stands along the first ordination axis. This separation mainly resulted from the greater abundance of pioneer species or lichens after fire and the greater abundance of residual species after clear-cutting. Spearman's correlation coefficients were calculated to relate variables characterizing physical disturbance of the forest floor and general site conditions to the two first differentiating axes. Variables characterizing forest floor disturbance severity were strongly associated with the first ordination axis in two of the study areas but not in the third one. The interpretation of compositional differences in the light of plant reproductive strategies led to the identification of regeneration patterns that illustrated the influence of disturbance type and severity on post-disturbance vegetation composition. These results suggest that certain forestry practices such as careful logging with the protection of regeneration and soil, scarification, and prescribed burning may differ in their capability to address sustainable forest management issues.
Les travaux de dragage peuvent occasionner la remise en suspension de sédiments contaminés dans la colonne d'eau et leur transport vers les sites aquacoles. Effigis, en collaboration avec Travaux publics et Services gouvernementaux Canada et l'Agence spatiale canadienne, a développé une méthodologie de suivi des concentrations de sédiments en suspension (CSS) en mer à partir d'imagerie satellitaire. Un examen de l'état de l'art a permis de passer en revue les méthodes existantes pour l'estimation des CSS, les capteurs qui répondent aux besoins et les protocoles d'échantillonnage terrain permettant de valider l'approche. La méthodologie retenue repose sur l'utilisation d'un modèle empirique pour l'estimation de la CSS à partir des réflectances de l'eau. La constellation Pléiades a été retenue en raison de son potentiel à estimer la CSS, sa capacité à acquérir des images à des dates spécifiques et à mettre en place une application opérationnelle. Les résultats montrent que les corrélations entre les mesures et les estimations de CSS s'approchent des 80%, avec des erreurs RMSE de l'ordre de 25%.
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