Coastal forest chronosequences project
- Introduction
- Component studies
- Data sets
- Reports and publications
- Project participants
Component studies
Ecosystem description and structure
- Plot environmental characteristics
- Soils description and chemistry
- Stand description
- Indicator plant species
- Canopy gap fractions and leaf area index
- Stand structural attributes
- Tree ages
- Spatial distribution of trees
Ecosystem processes
- Carbon and biomass distributions in post-harvest chronosequences and old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia.
- Carbon, mass, and nutrient distribution
- Organic carbon and nutrient transformations
- Microbial activity and detrital carbon fluxes in Douglas-fir
- Microenvironments in Douglas-fir (Data sets)
Biological diversity
- Plant communities
- Ectomycorrhizae in Douglas-fir
- Nematode diversity in Douglas-fir
- Carabid beetles and spiders in Douglas-fir
- Douglas-fir stump fauna
- Douglas-fir litter microarthropods
- Earthworms
- Salamanders in Douglas-fir
- Mushroom diversity in Douglas-fir
- Upper canopy lichens
- Forest health surveys
Ecosystem processes
- Changes in carbon distributions in post-harvest and old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia after ten years.
More information on component studies is available on our Reports and publications.
Biological diversity
- Functional diversity of soil microbes in Douglas-fir
Project status
- On-going