• Wilson, Jeremy
  Harrison Center for Conservation Education
  

Using a series of regional, comprehensive, multi-year, and replicated commercialthinning studies of the spruce-fir (Picea-Abies) forests of the Acadian Region:

• Develop annual thinning response modifiers for stand-level basal area growth,dominant height increment, and mortality

• Establish annual and species-specific thinning response modifiers for individualtreediameter, height, and height to crown base increment as well as mortality

• Evaluate predictions of commercial thinning response across a range oftreatments using both the stand- and individual tree-level modifiers