Canadian intersite decomposition experiment (CIDET)

• Introduction
• Research results: Measures of litter quality
• Research results: Comparison of 3rd-year results and model predictions
• Research results: Controls on litter decomposition
• Research results: Effects of climate change on litter decomposition
• CIDET Publications and Presentations
• CIDET working group

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CIDET working group

Study leader

Tony Trofymow

Site cooperators

Darwin Anderson
College of Agriculture
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 0W0
Phone:306-966-6827
FAX:306-966-6881

Claude Camiré
Faculte de Foresterie et ade Geomatique
Universite Laval
Quebec City, Quebec
G1K 7P4
Phone: 418-656-5085
FAX:418-656-3551

Luc Duchesne
Great Lake Forestry Centre
1219 Queen St. East
Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 5M7
Phone: 705-949-9461
FAX:705-759-5700

Jim Fyles
Dept. Renewable Resources
MacDonald College, McGill University
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec H9X 1C0
Phone: 514-398-7758
FAX:514-398-7990
Email: fylesj@nrs.mcgill.ca

Leonard M. Kozak, Pedologist
Agriculture Canada Research -
CLBRR/LRD
Saskatchewan Land Resource Unit
c/o Soil Science Department
University of Saskatchewan
Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W0
Phone: 306-975-5637
FAX:306-966-4226

Marty Kranabetter
Forest Research Officer
B.C. Ministry of Forests
Bag 5000 Smithers, B.C. V0J 2N0
Phone: 604-847-7435
FAX:604-847-7217
Email: mkranabe@mfor01.for.gov.bc.ca

Tim Moore
Department of Geography
McGill University, Burnside Hall
805 Sherbrooke St. West
Montreal, QC H3A 2K6
Phone: 514-398-4112 or 4961
FAX:514-398-7437
Email: moore@felix.geog.mcgill.ca

Ian Morrison
Great Lake Forestry Centre
1219 Queen St. East
Sault Ste. Marie, ON P6A 5M7
Phone: 705-949-9461
FAX:705-759-5700
Email: mailto:%20cpres@unixg.ubc.ca

Cindy Prescott
Dept. Forest Science,
University of British ColumbiaVancouver B.C. V6T 1Z4
Phone: 604-822-4701
FAX:604-822-5744
Email: cpres@unixg.ubc.ca

Marty Siltanen
Northern Forestry Centre
5320 122 St.
Edmonton, Alberta T6H 3S5
Phone: 780-435-7378
FAX: 780-435-7359

Scott Smith
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Pacific Agri-food Research Centre
Highway 97
Summerland, BC V0H 1Z0
Phone: 250 494-6382
FAX: 250-494-0755
Email: smithcas@em.agr.ca

Brian Titus

Suzanne Visser
Dept. Biological Sciences
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Phone: 403-220-6375
FAX:403-289-9311
Email: svisser@acs.ucalgary.ca

Ross Wein
Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2P5
Phone: 403-492-4413
FAX:403-492-4323

Don White
Forest Resources
Dept. Indian and Northern Affairs
345 -300 Main St.
Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2B5
Phone: 403-668-2263
FAX:403-668-2311

Litter chemical analyses

C. Preston, CFS, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC
A. Harris, CFS, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC
B. Sayer, Dep. Chemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

Soil and LFH chemical analyses

D. Anderson, College of Agriculture, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
A. Harris, CFS, Pacific Forestry Centre, Victoria, BC

Acknowledgements

Chemical, proximate and NMR analyses were conducted under the direction of A. Harris, M. Harmon and B. Sayer, respectively. Thanks to M. Weber and C. Monreal for collecting litter and to Eric Andersen, Stacey Dixon and Jennifer Kinnis for their help in preparing the litterbags. 

The Working Group wishes to gratefully acknowledge the assistance and encouragement of past participants in this experiment including Rick Trowbridge and the late Steve Zoltai.

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