[NatureNS] Forest Perspectives

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:52:31 -0400
From: Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca>
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Quoting David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>:

> Sadly there is more to climate change than warmer temperatures and  
> the dangerous element to forest trees in this area will likely be  
> extreme variation of weather.
> Even one seriously adverse year in 100 can make a mess of good  
> management and 2012 was not great in my North Alton woodlot, to take  
> one example that I happen to know well...

* I'm rereading Hynes' 'Ecology of Running Waters,' and he makes just  
this point about floods - stream beds and their biota are strongly  
shaped by rare events of extreme high water. I was thinking just this  
about droughts this afternoon in our Manitoba Maple thicket, looking  
at the plants that had and hadn't been killed by the summer's drought.

fred.
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