Coastal forest chronosequences project


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