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Canadian Journal Revue canadienne of Forest de recherche Research forestiere Contents Sommaire Volume 31, 2001 Volume 31, 2001 January / janvier ARTICLES Charles D. Canham, Michael J. Papaik, and Erika F. Latty Interspecific variation in susceptibility to windthrow as a function of tree size and storm severity for northern temperate tree species Mary A. Arthur, Steven P. Hamburg, and Thomas G. Siccama_ Validating allometric estimates of aboveground living biomass and nutrient contents of a northern hardwood forest Andreas Rigling, Philipp O. Waldner, Theodor Forster, Otto U. Braker, and Antti Pouttu Ecological interpretation of tree- ring width and intraannual density fluctuations in Pinus sylvestris on dry sites in the central Alps and Siberia Daniel J. Perry and Jean Bousquet Genetic diversity and mating system of post-fire and post-harvest black spruce: an investigation using codominant sequence-tagged-site (STS) markers Sonia de Bellefeuille, Louis Bélanger, Jean Huot, and Agathe Cimon Clear-cutting and regeneration practices in Quebec boreal balsam fir forest: effects on snowshoe hare Steven H. Bullard, Thomas J. Straka, and Jon P. Caulfield Inflation and the rule-of-thumb method of adjusting the discount rate for income taxes D.J. Morrison, K.W. Pellow, A.F.L. Nemec, D.J. Norris, and P. Semenoff Effects of selective cutting on the epidemiology of armillaria root disease in the southern interior of British Columbia Beatriz Villanueva and Javier Moro Variance and efficiency of the combined estimator in incomplete block designs of use in forest genetics: a numerical study M.A. Lefsky, W.B. Cohen, and T.A. Spies An evaluation of alternate remote sensing products for forest inventory, monitoring, and mapping of Douglas-fir forests in western Oregon Anne Siira-Pietikadinen, Janna Pietikdinen, Hannu Fritze, and Jari Haimi Short-term responses of soil decomposer communities to forest management: clear felling versus alternative forest harvesting methods Susan D. Day, John R. Seiler, Richard Kreh, and David W. Smith Overlaying compacted or uncompacted construction fill has no negative impact on white oak and sweetgum growth and physiology Sauphie Senneville, Jean Beaulieu, Gaétan Daoust, Marie Deslauriers, and Jean Bousquet Evidence for low genetic diversity and metapopulation structure in Canada yew (Taxus canadensis): considerations for conservation Jacques Ibarzabal and André Desrochers Lack of relationship between forest edge proximity and nest predator activity in an eastern Canadian boreal forest Erh-Yang Lu and Edward I. Sucoff Responses of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) seedlings to solution calcium Adrian Ares and James H. Fownes Productivity, resource use, and competitive interactions of Fraxinus uhdei in Hawaii uplands N.C. Coops and R.H. Waring Estimating forest productivity in the eastern Siskiyou Mountains of southwestern Oregon using a satellite driven process model, 3-PGS O. Langvall and G. Orlander Effects of pine shelterwoods on microclimate and frost damage to Norway spruce seedlings C.J. Cieszewski Three methods of deriving advanced dynamic site equations demonstrated on inland Douglas-fir site curves M. Staudt, N. Mandl, R. Joffre, and S. Rambal Intraspecific variability of monoterpene composition emitted by Quercus ilex leaves NOTE Christopher Asaro and Douglas C. Allen History of a pine false webworm (Hymenoptera: Pamphiliidae) outbreak in northern New York Co Can. J. For. Res. Vol. 31, 2001 Instructions to authors I-1 Recommandations aux auteurs R-1 February / février ARTICLES J.L. Medhurst, C.L. Beadle, and W.A. Neilsen Early-age and later-age thinning affects growth, dominance, and intraspecific competition in Eucalyptus nitens plantations B.E. Ewers, R. Oren, K.H. Johnsen, and J.J. Landsberg Estimating maximum mean canopy stomatal conductance for use in models Christopher Potter, Jill Bubier, Patrick Crill, and Peter Lafleur Ecosystem modeling of methane and carbon dioxide fluxes for boreal forest sites Karen Mah, Linda E. Tackaberry, Keith N. Egger, and Hugues B. Massicotte The impacts of broadcast burning after clear- cutting on the diversity of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with hybrid spruce seedlings in central British Columbia A. Maarit I. Kallio Analysing the Finnish pulpwood market under alternative hypotheses of competition Hua Chen, Mark E. Harmon, and Robert P. Griffiths Decomposition and nitrogen release from decomposing woody roots in coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest: a chronosequence approach Jukka Lamppu and Satu Huttunen Scots pine needle longevity and gradation of needle shedding along pollution gradients Rozi Mohamed, Richard Meilan, Michael E. Ostry, Charles H. Michler, and Steven H. Strauss Bacterio-opsin gene over- expression fails to elevate fungal disease resistance in transgenic poplar (Populus) Ann Christin Roénnberg-WAastljung Genetic structure of growth and phenological traits in Salix viminalis Xiaohong Yao, Stephen J. Titus, and S. Ellen MacDonald Ag eneralized logistic model of individual tree mortality for aspen, white spruce, and lodgepole pine in Alberta mixedwood forests B. Berg and V. Meentemeyer Litter fall in some European coniferous forests as dependent on climate: a synthesis Thomas J. Brandeis, Michael Newton, and Elizabeth C. Cole Underplanted conifer seedling survival and growth in thinned Douglas-fir stands S. Luyssaert, M. Van Meirvenne, and N. Lust Cadmium variability in leaves of a Salix fragilis: simulation and implications for leaf sampling Ze’ev Gedalof and Dan J. Smith Dendroclimatic response of mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana) in Pacific North America Louis Duchesne, Rock Ouimet, Claude Camiré, and Daniel Houle Seasonal nutrient transfers by foliar resorption, leaching, and litter fall in a northern hardwood forest at Lake Clair Watershed, Quebec, Canada NOTES Jie Lin, Paul A. Harcombe, and Mark R. Fulton Characterizing shade tolerance by the relationship between mortality and growth in tree saplings in a southeastern Texas forest Christoph Kleinn A cautionary note on the minimum crown cover criterion in forest definitions Michael G. Shelton and Michael D. Cain Dispersal and viability of seeds from cones in tops of harvested loblolly pines M.R. Turetsky and R.K. Wieder A direct approach to quantifying organic matter lost as a result of peatland wildfire COMMENT / COMMENTAIRE David W. Hann Stability and density management in Douglas-fir plantations DISCUSSION David J. Huggard and André Arsenault Reply—Standing age distributions and fire frequency analysis March / mars RAPID COMMUNICATION / COMMUNICATION RAPIDE Sylvain Parent, Hubert Morin, and Christian Messier Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) establishment dynamics during a spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreak: an evaluation of the impact of aging techniques Contents / Sommaire ARTICLES Yoshinari Moriguchi, Asako Matsumoto, Maki Saito, Yoshihiko Tsumura, and Hideaki Taira DNA analysis of clonal structure of an old growth, isolated forest of Cryptomeria japonica in a snowy region Yves Bergeron, Sylvie Gauthier, Victor Kafka, Patrick Lefort, and Daniel 'Lesieur Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry K.B. Kouterick, J.M. Skelly, S.P. Pennypacker, and R.M. Cox Birch foliar responses to simulated acidic fog and Septoria betulae inoculations A.L. Sullivan and I.K. Knight Estimating error in wind speed measurements for experimental fires Philip J. Radtke and Paul V. Bolstad Laser point-quadrat sampling for estimating foliage-height profiles in broad-leaved forests Bryan A. Black and Mare D. Abrams _ Analysis of temporal variation and species—site relationships of witness tree data in southeastern Pennsylvania Christelle Hély, Mike Flannigan, Yves Bergeron, and Douglas McRae _ Role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the Canadian mixedwood boreal forest using two fire behavior prediction systems Maurizio Mencuccini and Lorenzo Bonosi_ _Leaf/sapwood area ratios in Scots pine show acclimation across Europe Scott St. George and Brian H. Luckman Extracting a paleotemperature record from Picea engelmannii tree-line sites in the central Canadian Rockies Eric W. Beach and Charles B. Halpern Controls on conifer regeneration in managed riparian forests: effects of seed source, substrate, and vegetation Richard A. Moses and Stan Boutin The influence of clear-cut logging and residual leave material on small mammal populations in aspen-dominated boreal mixedwoods G.R. Hodge and W.S. Dvorak Genetic parameters and provenenance variation of Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis in 48 interna- tional trials B.D. Amiro, J.B. Todd, B.M. Wotton, K.A. Logan, M.D. Flannigan, B.J. Stocks, J.A. Mason, D.L. Martell, and K.G. Hirsch Direct carbon emissions from Canadian forest fires, 1959-1999 Donald McKenzie, Amy E. Hessl, and David L. Peterson Recent growth of conifer species of western North America: assessing spatial patterns of radial growth trends Iris Schmid and Marian Kazda fertical distribution and radial growth of coarse roots in pure and mixed stands of Fagus sylvatica and Picea abies NOTES Marie-Louise Smith and Mary E. Martin A plot-based method for rapid estimation of forest canopy chemistry Michael S. Williams, Hans T. Schreuder, and Raymond L. Czaplewski Accuracy and efficiency of area classifications based on tree tally April / avril Unifying Perspectives of Evolution, Conservation and Breeding: A Symposium in Honour of Dr. Gene Namkoong / [Perspectives unificatrices de |’évolution, de la conservation et de l’'amélioration génétique : un symposium en I’honneur de M. Gene Namkoong] Sally N. Aitken, Kermit Ritland, and Mathew P. Koshy Foreword/Préface J. Burley Genetics in sustainable forestry: the challenges for forest genetics and tree breeding in the new millennium Alvin D. Yanchuk A quantitative framework for breeding and conservation of forest tree genetic resources in British Columbia Goésta Eriksson Conservation of noble hardwoods in Europe J.S.F. Barker Conservation and management of genetic diversity: a domestic animal perspective Rowland D. Burdon Genetic diversity and disease resistance: some considerations for research, breeding, and deployment Hans-Rolf Gregorius and Jérg R.G. Kleinschmit Norms of reaction and adaptational value considered in a tree breeding context J.P. van Buijtenen Genomics and quantitative genetics Gene Namkoong Forest genetics: pattern and complexity REGULAR PAPERS / ARTICLES REGULIERS Kory R. Cease and Jennifer Juzwik Predominant nitidulid species (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) associated with spring oak wilt mats in Minnesota O-4 Can. J. For. Res. Vol. 31, 2001 William J. Dress and Ralph E.J. Boerner Root dynamics of southern Ohio oak-hickory forests: influences of prescribed fire and landscape position Luis A. Apiolaza and Dorian J. Garrick Breeding objectives for three silvicultural regimes of radiata pine T. Takamatsu, H. Sase, and J. Takada Some physiological properties of Cryptomeria japonica leaves from Kanto, Japan: potential factors causing tree decline Nina V. Prasolova, Zhihong Xu, Graham D. Farquhar, Paul G. Saffigna, and Mark J. Dieters Canopy carbon and oxygen isotope composition of 9-year-old hoop pine families in relation to seedling carbon isotope composition, growth, field growth performance, and canopy nitrogen concentration John Nelson Assessment of harvest blocks generated from operational polygons and forest-cover polygons in tactical and strategic planning Heidi B. Lux and Jonathan R. Cumming Mycorrhizae confer aluminum resistance to tulip-poplar seedlings Jonathan R. Cumming, Troy D. Swiger, Betsy S. Kurnik, and Daniel G. Panaccione Organic acid exudation by Laccaria bicolo, and Pisolithus tinctorius exposed to aluminum in vitro Shannon M. Hagerman, Stacey M. Sakakibara, and Daniel M. Durall The potential for woody understory plants to provide refuge for ectoniycorrhizal inoculum at an interior Douglas-fir forest after clear-cut logging R.-P. Wei and D. Lindgren Optimum breeding generation interval considering buildup of relatedness Samuel E. Cox and Cecil Stushnoff Temperature-related shifts in soluble carbohydrate content during dormancy and cold acclimation in Populus tremuloides May / mai ARTICLES Wayne D. Shepperd, Dale L. Bartos, and Stephen A. Mata Above- and below-ground effects of aspen clonal regeneration and succession to conifers Hanna Tammi, Sari Timonen, and Robin Sen Spatiotemporal colonization of Scots pine roots by introduced and indigenous ectomycorrhizal fungi in forest humus and nursery Sphagnum peat microcosms Benoit Marcais and Olivier Caél Relation between Collybia fusipes root rot and growth of pedunculate oak John P. McGuire, Robert J. Mitchell, E. Barry Moser, Stephen D. Pecot, Dean H. Gjerstad, and Craig W. Hedman Gaps in a gappy forest: plant resources, longleaf pine regeneration, and understory response to tree removal in longleaf pine savannas Satish Kumar and D.J. Garrick Genetic response to within-family selection using molecular markers in some radiata pine breeding schemes Britta Widén and Hooshang Majdi Soil CO, efflux and root respiration at three sites in a mixed pine and spruce forest: seasonal and diurnal variation Mahadev Sharma and Richard G. Oderwald Dimensionally compatible volume and taper equations Elina Oksanen and Matti Rousi Differences of Betula origins in ozone sensitivity based on open-field experiment over two growing seasons Christy Shropshire, Robert G. Wagner, F. Wayne Bell, and Clarence J. Swanton Light attenuation by early successional plants of the boreal forest Harald Kvaalen, Erik Christiansen, @ystein Johnsen, and Halvor Solheim Is there a negative genetic correlation between initiation of embryogenic tissue and fungus susceptibility in Norway spruce? Juho Pitkanen Individual tree detection in digital aerial images by combining locally adaptive binarization and local maxima methods Diane L. Rowland Diversity in physiological and morphological characteristics of four cottonwood (Populus deltoides — var. wislizenii) populations in New Mexico: evidence for a genetic component of variation Mike Flannigan, Ian Campbell, Mike Wotton, Christopher Carcaillet, Pierre Richard, and Yves Bergeron Future fire in Canada’s boreal forest: paleoecology results and general circulation model — regional climate model simulations Bernard R. Parresol Additivity of nonlinear biomass equations Kalle Eerikainen Stem volume models with random coefficients for Pinus kesiya in Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe J. Clive Carlyle and E.K. Sadanandan Nambiar Relationships between net nitrogen mineralization, properties of the forest floor and mineral soil, and wood production in Pinus radiata plantations Cont/e Snomtmasir e Staffan Jacobson and Folke Pettersson Growth responses following nitrogen and N-P-K—Mg additions to previously N-fertilized Scots pine and Norway spruce stands on mineral soils in Sweden Akira Osawa and Anatoly P. Abaimov Feasibility of estimating stem size distribution from measurement on the largest trees in even-aged pure stands NOTE Maxine T. Highsmith, John Frampton, David O’Malley, James Richmond, and Martesa Webb Susceptibility of parent and interspecific Fl hybrid pine trees to tip moth damage in a coastal North Carolina planting June / juin ARTICLES Antonio Lara, Juan Carlos Aravena, Ricardo Villalba, Alexia Wolodarsky-Franke, Brian Luckman, and Rob Wilson Dendroclimatology of high-elevation Nothofagus pumilio forests at their northern distribution limit in the central Andes of Chile Tuula Piri and Kari Korhonen Infection of advance regeneration of Norway spruce by Heterobasidion parviporum M.J.W. Godt, J.L. Hamrick, M.A. Edwards-Burke, and J.H. Williams Comparisons of genetic diversity in white spruce (Picea glauca) and jack pine (Pinus banksiana) seed orchards with natural populations Eric Bégin, Jean Bégin, Louis Bélanger, Louis-Paul Rivest, and Stéphane Tremblay Balsam fir self-thinning relationship and its constancy among different ecological regions W.A. Retzlaff, J.A. Handest, D.M. O’Malley, S.E. McKeand, and M.A. Topa_ Whole-tree biomass and carbon allocation of juvenile trees of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda): influence of genetics and fertilization Anna Ringvall, Goran Stahl, Vera Teichmann, Jeffrey H. Gove, and Mark J. Ducey Two-phase approaches to point and transect relascope sampling of downed logs J.M. Kranabetter and P. Kroeger Ectomycorrhizal mushroom response to partial cutting in a western hemlock — western redcedar forest Bjorn Berg, Charles McClaugherty, Amalia Virzo De Santo, and Dale Johnson Humus buildup in boreal forests: effects of litter fall and its N concentration T.L. Wurtz and J.C. Zasada_ An alternative to clear-cutting in the boreal forest of Alaska: a 27-year study of regeneration after shelterwood harvesting Annie DesRochers and Victor J. Lieffers Root biomass of regenerating aspen (Populus tremuloides) stands of different densities in Alberta Christopher B. Edgar and Thomas E. Burk Productivity of aspen forests in northeastern Minnesota, U.S.A., as related to stand composition and canopy structure D. Scott Green, Eric L. Kruger, Glen R. Stanosz, and J.G. Isebrands Light-use efficiency of native and hybrid poplar geno- types at high levels of intracanopy competition Jessica J. Roberts and Janusz J. Zwiazek Growth, morphology, and gas exchange in white spruce (Picea glauca) seedlings ac- climated to different humidity conditions Erika D. Anderson and John N. Owens Embryo development, megagametophyte storage product accumulation, and seed efficiency in Taxus brevifolia Peder Wikstrém Effect of decision variable definition and data aggregation on a search process applied to a single-tree simulator David Paré, Yves Bergeron, and Marie-Héléne Longpré Potential productivity of aspen cohorts originating from fire, harvesting, and tree-fall gaps on two deposit types in northwestern Quebec Pierre Soille and Laurent Misson Tree ring area measurements using morphological image analysis Urban Bergsten, France Goulet, Tomas Lundmark, and Mikaell Ottosson Léfvenius Frost heaving in a boreal soil in relation to soil scarification and snow cover NOTES Thomas E. Staples, Ken C.J. Van Rees, J. Diane Knight, and C. van Kessel Vegetation management and site preparation effects on '°C isotopic composition in planted white spruce Susan D. Lawrence, Janice E.K. Cooke, John S. Greenwood, Theresa E. Korhnak, and John M. Davis Vegetative storage protein expression during terminal bud formation in poplar C-6 Can. J. For. Res. Vol. 31, 2001 ERRATUM C.W. Martin, C.T. Driscoll, and T.J. Fahey Erratum: Changes in streamwater chemistry after 20 years from forested watersheds in New Hampshire, U.S.A. July / juillet ARTICLES Christina Lynn Staudhammer and Valerie Marie LeMay _ Introduction and evaluation of possible indices of stand structural diversity Alain Berthelot Mélange de clones en taillis 4 courtes rotations de peuplier : influence sur la productivité et homogénéité des produits récoltés Frank C. Sorensen, Nancy L. Mandel, and Jan E. Aagaard Role of selection versus historical isolation in racial differentia- tion of ponderosa pine in southern Oregon: an investigation of alternative hypotheses Nikos Nanos, Wubalem Tadesse, Gregorio Montero, Luis Gil, and Ricardo Alia Spatial stochastic modeling of resin yield from pine stands Jussi Uusivuori and Jari Kuuluvainen Substitution in global wood imports in the 1990s Teng-Chiu Lin, Steven P. Hamburg, Yue-Joe Hsia, Hen-Biau King, Lih-Jih Wang, and Kuo-Chuan Lin Base cation leaching from the canopy of a subtropical rainforest in northeastern Taiwan Kathryn B. Piatek and H. Lee Allen Are forest floors in mid-rotation stands of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) a sink for nitrogen and phosphorus? H.E. James Hammond, David W. Langor, and John R. Spence Early colonization of Populus wood by saproxylic beetles (Coleoptera) Ulfstand Wennstrém, Urban Bergsten, and Jan-Erik Nilsson Early seedling growth of Pinus sylvestris after sowing with a mixture of stand and orchard seed in dense spacings H.A. Carcamo, C.E. Prescott, C.P. Chanway, and T.A. Abe Do soil fauna increase rates of litter breakdown and nitrogen release in forests of British Columbia, Canada? William L. Baker and Donna Ehle Uncertainty in surface-fire history: the case of ponderosa pine forests in the western United States Christian Dussault, Réhaume Courtois, Jean Huot, and Jean-Pierre Ouellet The use of forest maps for the description of wildlife habitats: limits and recommendations S. Palmroth and P. Hari Evaluation of the importance of acclimation of needle structure, photosynthesis, and respiration to avail- able photosynthetically active radiation in a Scots pine canopy Anni M. Harju, Martti Vendléinen, Egbert Beuker, Pirkko Velling, and Hannu Viitanen Genetic variation in the decay resistance of Scots pine wood against brown rot fungus Hiroaki Ishii and Megan E. Wilson Crown structure of old-growth Douglas-fir in the western Cascade Range, Washington Carmen M. Wong and Ken P. Lertzman_ Errors in estimating tree age: implications for studies of stand dynamics Karen S. Bothwell, Cindy E. Prescott, and Melanie D. Jones Factors contributing to the superior growth and N nutrition of 11-year-old lodgepole pine compared with Sitka spruce on a N-poor cedar—hemlock cutover J.F. Mas et H. Puig Modalités de la déforestation dans le sud-ouest de l’Etat du Campeche, Mexique NOTE Mikhail V. Kozlov, Elena L. Zvereva, and Pekka Niemelé Shoot fluctuating asymmetry: a new and objective stress index in Norway spruce (Picea abies) DISCUSSION Daniel D. Kneeshaw and Yves Claveau Comment—Effects of adventitious roots on age determination in balsam fir regeneration August / aoat ARTICLES S.G. Cumming A parametric model of the fire-size distribution Contents / Sommaire Changxi Li, Francis C. Yeh, and Yasu Hiratsuka Random amplified polymorphic DNA variability among geographic isolates of western gall rust fungus in Canada Sonia de Bellefeuille, Nancy Gagné, Louis Bélanger, Jean Huot, Agathe Cimon, Stéphane Déry et Jean-Pierre Jetté Effets de trois scénarios de régénération de la sapiniére boréale sur les passereaux nicheurs, les petits mammiféres et le livre d’ Amérique Satoru Hobara, Naoko Tokuchi, Nobuhito Ohte, Keisuke Koba, Masanori Katsuyama, Su-Jin Kim, and Asami Nakanishi Mechanism of nitrate loss from a forested catchment following a small-scale, natural disturbance Koichi Takahashi, Tatsuyuki Seino, and Takashi Kohyama __ Responses to canopy openings in architectural development of saplings in eight deciduous broad-leaved tree species Q. Yu, P. Pulkkinen, M. Rautio, M. Haapanen, R. Alén, L.G. Stener, E. Beuker, and P.M.A. Tigerstedt Genetic control of wood physicochemical properties, growth, and phenology in hybrid aspen clones Moses Imo and Victor R. Timmer Growth and nitrogen retranslocation of nutrient loaded Picea mariana seedlings planted on boreal mixedwood sites Dominique Arseneault Impact of fire behavior on postfire forest development in a homogeneous boreal landscape D. Noah Greenwald and Linda B. Brubaker A 5000-year record of disturbance and vegetation change in riparian forests of the Queets River, Washington, U.S.A. Takashi Gomi, Roy C. Sidle, Mason D. Bryant, and Richard D. Woodsmith The characteristics of woody debris and sediment distribution in headwater streams, southeastern Alaska H.T. Valentine and T.G. Gregoire A switching model of bole taper Harry T. Valentine, Jeffrey H. Gove, and Timothy G. Gregoire Monte Carlo approaches to sampling forested tracts with lines or points Nate G. McDowell, Nick J. Balster, and John D. Marshall Belowground carbon allocation of Rocky Mountain Douglas-fir Durland L. Shumway, Marc D. Abrams, and Charles M. Ruffner A 400-year history of fire and oak recruitment in an old- growth oak forest in western Maryland, U.S.A. Isabelle Chuine, Sally N. Aitken, and Cheng C. Ying Temperature thresholds of shoot elongation in provenances of Pinus contorta NOTE M. Troggio, T.L. Kubisiak, G. Bucci, and P. Menozzi Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA linkage relationships in different Norway spruce populations DISCUSSION K. Miyanishi and E.A. Johnson Comment—A re-examination of the effects of fire suppression in the boreal forest P.C. Ward, A.G. Tithecott, and B.M. Wotton Reply—A re-examination of the effects of fire suppression in the boreal forest September / septembre ARTICLES J.A. McLaughlin Distribution, hosts, and site relationships of Armillaria spp. in central and southern Ontario Jacques Tardif, Jacques Brisson, and Yves Bergeron Dendroclimatic analysis of Acer saccharum, Fagus grandifolia, and Tsuga canadensis from an old-growth forest, southwestern Quebec Trevor D. Hindmarch and Mary L. Reid Thinning of mature lodgepole pine stands increases scolytid bark beetle abundance and diversity David R. Thysell and Andrew B. Carey Manipulation of density of Pseudotsuga menziesii canopies: preliminary effects on understory vegetation Joseph A. Donnegan, Thomas T. Veblen, and Jason S. Sibold Climatic and human influences on fire history in Pike National Forest, central Colorado Robert G. Strieg] and Kimberly P. Wickland Soil respiration and photosynthetic uptake of carbon dioxide by ground-cover plants in four ages of jack pine forest Juha Lappi Forest inventory of small areas combining the calibration estimator and a spatial model J.R. Nault and Rene I. Alfaro Changes in cortical and wood terpenes in Sitka spruce in response to wounding C-8 Can. J. For. Res. Vol. 31, 2001 S. livonen, R. Rikala, and E. Vapaavuori Seasonal root growth of Scots pine seedlings in relation to shoot phenology, carbohydrate status, and nutrient supply Carlos Diaz-Avalos, David L. Peterson, Ernesto Alvarado, Sue A. Ferguson, and Julian E. Besag Space-time modelling of lightning-caused ign‘tions in the Blue Mountains, Oregon Riitta Hyvénen and Goran I. Agren Decomposer invasion rate, decomposer growth rate, and substrate chemical quality: how they influence soil organic matter turnover Christopher M. Kaelke, Eric L. Kruger, and Peter B. Reich Trade-offs in seedling survival, growth, and physiology among hardwood species of contrasting successional status along a light-availability gradient Per Johansson and Lena Gustafsson Red-listed and indicator lichens in woodland key habitats and production forests in Sweden John C. Tappeiner, II, John C. Zasada, David W. Huffman, and Lisa M. Ganio Salmonberry and salal annual aerial stem production: the maintenance of shrub cover in forest stands Yngvar Gauslaa, Mikael Ohison, Knut Asbjorn Solhaug, Wolfgang Bilger, and Line Nybakken Aspect-dependent high-irradiance damage in two transplanted foliose forest lichens, Lobaria pulmonaria and Parmelia sulcata NOTES Sarah M. Lieffers, Victor J. Lieffers, U. Silins, and L. Bach Effects of cold temperatures on breakage of lodgepole pine and white spruce twigs Lianjun Zang, Jeffrey H. Gove, Chuangmin Liu, and William B. Leak Af inite mixture of two Weibull distributions for modeling the diameter distributions of rotated-sigmoid, uneven-aged stands October / octobre ARTICLES Tammy E. Foster and J. Renee Brooks Long-term trends in growth of Pinus palustris and Pinus elliottii along a hydrological gradient in central Florida L.R. Schimleck, R. Evans, and J. [lic Estimation of Eucalyptus delegatensis wood properties by near infrared spectroscopy B. Jourez, A. Riboux, and A. Leclercq Comparison of basic density and longitudinal shrinkage in tension wood and opposite wood in young stems of Populus euramericana cv. Ghoy when subjected to a gravitational stimulus Mikhail V. Kozlov Snowpack changes around a nickel—copper smelter at Monchegorsk, northwestern Russia Zhong Chen, Thomas E. Kolb, Karen M. Clancy, Valerie D. Hipkins, and Laura E. DeWald Allozyme variation in interior Douglas-fir: association with growth and resistance to western spruce budworm herbivory Glenn Fowler, Jie Zhang, Fred P. Hain, and John F. Manville The distribution pattern of two juvenile hormone related com- pounds in Fraser fir and the induced response to a balsam woolly adelgid infestation James M. Dyer Using witness trees to assess forest change in southeastern Ohio Kristen L. Manies, David J. Mladenoff, and Erik V. Nordheim Assessing large-scale surveyor variability in the historic forest data of the original U.S. Public Land Survey John N. Owens, Glenda Catalano, and Jordan S. Bennett The pollination mechanism of western white pine D.A. MacLean, T.A. Erdle, W.E. MacKinnon, K.B. Porter, K.P. Beaton, G. Cormier, S. Morehouse, and M. Budd The Spruce Budworm Decision Support System: forest protection planning to sustain long-term wood supply Olga J. Proulx and David F. Greene The relationship between ice thickness and northern hardwood tree damage during ice storms Frank S. Gilliam, Bradley M. Yurish, and Mary Beth Adams_ Temporal and spatial variation of nitrogen transformations in nitrogen-saturated soils of a central Appalachian hardwood forest John E. Lundquist, Larry R. Lindner, and John Popp Using landscape metrics to measure suitability of a forested watershed: a case study for old growth John D. Shaw, Edmond C. Packee, Sr., and Chien-Lu Ping Growth of balsam poplar and black cottonwood in Alaska in relation to landform and soil Mathieu Cété and Jean Ferron Short-term use of different residual forest structures by three sciurid species in a clear-cut boreal landscape C. Plomion, G. LeProvost, D. Pot, G. Vendramin, S. Gerber, S. Decroocq, J. Brach, A. Raffin, and P. Pastuszka Pollen contamination in a maritime pine polycross seed orchard and certification of improved seeds using chloroplast microsatellites Contents / Sommaire Bo Karlsson, Hubert Wellendorf, Hans Roulund, and Martin Werner Genotype xt rial interaction and stability across sites in 11 combined provenance and clone experiments with Picea abies in Denmark and Sweden Jeffrey Englin, John Loomis, and Armando Gonzalez-Caban The dynamic path of recreational values following a forest fire: a comparative analysis of states in the Intermountain West NOTE Daniel Mandallaz and Adrian Lanz Forest inventory: further results for optimal sampling schemes based on the anticipated variance November / novembre REVIEW / SYNTHESE Andreas Rothe and Dan Binkley Nutritional interactions in mixed species forests: a synthesis ARTICLES Robert P. Griffiths and Alan K. Swanson Forest soil characteristics in a chronosequence of harvested Douglas-fir forests Kwan-Soo Woo, Lauren Fins, Geral I. McDonald, and Maurice V. Wiese Differences in needle morphology between blister rust resistant and susceptible western white pine stocks Joao Costa e Silva, Gregory W. Dutkowski, and Arthur R. Gilmour Analysis of early tree height in forest genetic trials is en- hanced by including a spatially correlated residual Scott M. Holub, Julie D.H. Spears, and Kate Lajtha A reanalysis of nutrient dynamics in coniferous coarse woody debris Aksel Granhus and Dag Fjeld Spatial distribution of injuries to Norway spruce advance growth after selection harvesting C.B. Davidson, J.E. Johnson, K.W. Gottschalk, and R.L. Amateis Prediction of stand susceptibility and gypsy moth defolia- tion in Coastal Plain mixed pine—hardwoods Simon M. Landhausser, Annie DesRochers, and Victor J. Lieffers A comparison of growth and physiology in Picea glauca and Populus tremuloides at different soil temperatures Bradley D. Pinno, Victor J. Lieffers, and Kenneth J. Stadt Measuring and modelling the crown and light transmission characteristics of juvenile aspen Mark D. Norris, John M. Blair, Loretta C. Johnson, and Robert B. McKane Assessing changes in biomass, productivity, and C and Ns tores following Juniperus virginiana forest expansion into tallgrass prairie K.R. Hubbert, J.L. Beyers, and R.C. Graham _ Roles of weathered bedrock and soil in seasonal water relations of Pinus Jeffreyi and Arctostaphylos patula Daowei Zhang Welfare impacts of the 1996 United States - Canada Softwood Lumber (trade) Agreement Mohammed Lamhamedi, Gil Lambany, Hank Margolis, Mario Renaud, Linda Veilleux, and Pierre Y. Bernier Growth, physiology, and leachate losses in Picea glauca seedlings (1+0) grown in air-slit containers under different irrigation regimes Louise E. Cullen, Jonathan G. Palmer, Richard P. Duncan, and Glenn H. Stewart Climate change and tree-ring relationships of Nothofagus menziesii tree-line forests Daniel A. Spring, Michael Bevers, John O.S. Kennedy, and Dan Harley Economics of a nest-box program for the conservation of an endangered species: a reappraisal Jari Liski, Ari Pussinen, Kim Pingoud, Raisa Makipéa, and Timo Karjalainen Which rotation length is favourable to carbon sequestration? Darren E. Robinson, Robert G. Wagner, F. Wayne Bell, and Clarence J. Swanton Photosynthesis, nitrogen-use efficiency, and water-use efficiency of jack pine seedlings in competition wiih four boreal forest plant species Dominique Boucher, Yves Mauffette, and Robert Lavallée Biological performance of the white pine weevil in different host species and in two ecological regions of southern Quebec Dominique Boucher, Robert Lavallée, and Yves Mauffette Biological performance of the white pine weevil in relation to the anatomy of the resin canal system of four different host species A. Osawa, A.P. Abaimov, and T. Kajimoto Feasibility of estimating total stem volume and aboveground biomass from measurement on the largest trees in even-aged pure stands Tongli Wang and Sally N. Aitken Variation in xylem anatomy of selected populations of lodgepole pine C-10 Can. J. For. Res. Vol. 31, 2001 December / décembre ARTICLES Brian J. Stanton Clonal variation in basal area growth patterns during stand development in hybrid poplar Robert L. Deal The effects of partial cutting on forest plant communities of western hemlock — Sitka spruce stands in southeast Alaska Michael S. Williams Nonuniform random sampling: an alternative method of variance reduction for forest surveys Thomas T. Veblen, Dominik Kulakowski, Karen S. Eisenhart, and William L. Baker Subalpine forest damage from a severe windstorm in northern Colorado Pal Varga and Karel Klinka Structure of high-elevation, old-growth stands in west-central British Columbia Matthew G. Rollins, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Penelope Morgan Evaluating a century of fire patterns in two Rocky Moun- tain wilderness areas using digital fire atlases C. Ronnie Drever and Kenneth P. Lertzman Light-growth responses of coastal Douglas-fir and western redcedar saplings under different regimes of soil moisture and nutrients David P. Kreutzweiser and Scott S. Capell Fine sediment deposition in streams after selective forest harvesting without riparian buffers Thomas Ledermann and Albert R. Stage Effects of competitor spacing in individual-tree indices of competition Jacques Brisson Neighborhood competition and crown asymmetry in Acer saccharum Martin Simard and Serge Payette Black spruce decline triggered by spruce budworm at the southern limit of lichen woodland in eastern Canada Linda M. Nagel and Kevin L. O’Hara_ The influence of stand structure on ecophysiological leaf characteristics of Pinus ponderosa in western Montana Markus L. Heinrichs, Richard J. Hebda, and Ian R. Walker Holocene vegetation and natural disturbance in the Engelmann Spruce — Subalpine Fir biogeoclimatic zone at Mount Kobau, British Columbia Debra C. Stowe, Mohammed S. Lamhamedi, and Hank A. Margolis Water relations, cuticular transpiration, and bud characteristics of air-slit containerized Picea glauca seedlings in response to controlled irrigation regimes P.L. Wilcox, S.D. Carson, T.E. Richardson, R.D. Ball, G.P. Horgan, and P. Carter Benefit-cost analysis of DNA marker- based selection in progenies of Pinus radiata seed orchard parents Peter S. Homann, Bruce A. Caldwell, H.N. Chappell, Phillip Sollins, and Chris W. Swanston Douglas-fir soil C and N properties a decade after termination of urea fertilization Felipe Bravo, David W. Hann, and Douglas A. Maguire Impact of competitor species composition on predicting diameter growth and survival rates of Douglas-fir trees in southwestern Oregon NOTES Y. Nakao, H. Iwata, A. Matsumoto, Y. Tsumura, and N. Tomaru Highly polymorphic microsatellite markers in Chamaecyparis obtusa Bin Xiang and Bailian Li A new mixed analytical method for genetic analysis of diallel data Note of Appreciation / Note de reconnaissance Author Index for Volume 31 / Index des auteurs pour le volume 31 Contents for Volume 31 / Sommaire pour le volume 31