The Canadian Forest Service: Agent of change in an evolving forest environment

Bio-indicators in the tropical forest of Western Ghats environment

Background: Investigation on the natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th, 40K and natural fallout radionuclide 210Po in the prominent plants species of Western Ghats tropical forest near Kotagiri have been carried out as a part of baseline background radiation studies in the forest environment. Materials and Methods: The prominent plants species of the region Evodia roxburghiana and Eleaoca...

Bio-indicators in the tropical forest of western Ghats environment

Introduction: Investigation on the natural radionuclides 238U, 232Th, 40K and natural fallout radionuclide 210Po in the prominent plants species of Western Ghats tropical forest near Kotagiri have been carried out as a part of baseline background radiation studies in the forest environment. Materials and Methods: The prominent plants species of the region Evodia roxburghiana and Eleaocarpus obl...

Detecting the effect of climate change on Canadian forest fires

[1] The area burned by forest fires in Canada has increased over the past four decades, at the same time as summer season temperatures have warmed. Here we use output from a coupled climate model to demonstrate that human emissions of greenhouse gases and sulfate aerosol have made a detectable contribution to this warming. We further show that human-induced climate change has had a detectable i...

Identifying the Canadian Forest Biorefinery

This paper presents an overview of certain emerging biorefinery process options, and highlights the complex and ambiguous decision-making challenges that mills will face who would like to consider implementing the biorefinery. While most biorefinery developments have focused on process technologies, it is critical a) to first define the specific products that the mill should seek to produce con...

An Evolving Service Managing Change