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Journal Publications

Bennett, J.N., B.M. Lapthorne, L.L. Blevins and C.E. Prescott. 2004. Response of salal (Gaultheria shallon) and fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium) to large additions of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer. Can. J. For. Res. 34.502-506. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Leckie, S.E., Prescott, C.E., Grayston, S.J., Neufeld, J.D., and Mohn, W.W. 2004. Characterization of humus microbial communities in two adjacent forest types that differ in nitrogen availability. Microbial Ecology48. 29-40. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Leckie, S.E., Prescott, C.E., Grayston, S.J., Neufeld, J.D., and Mohn, W.W. 2004. Comparison of chloroform fumigation-extraction, phospholipid fatty acid, and DNA methods to determine microbial biomass in forest humus. Soil Bio. and Biochem. 36. 529-532. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Bennett, J.N., L.L. Blevins, J.E. Barker, D.P. Blevins and C.E. Prescott. 2003. Long-term increases in tree growth and nutrient supply following fertilization and vegetation control of salal-dominated cedar-hemlock stands on Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 33:1516-1524. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Brunner, A. and J.P. Kimmins 2003. Nitrogen fixation in coarse woody debris of Thuja plicata and Tsuga heterophylla forests on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 33. 1670-1682. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Hannam, K. and C.E. Prescott 2003. Soluble organic nitrogen in forests and adjacent clearcuts in British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 33.1709-1718. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weber, A., B. Gilbert, J.P. Kimmins and C.E. Prescott 2003. Factors limiting the early survivorship of western redcedar on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 33. 854-861. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Bennett, J.N., B. Andrew, and C.E. Prescott. 2002. Vertical fine root distributions of western redcedar, western hemlock, and salal in old-growth cedar-hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 32:1208-1216. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Berch, S.M., T.R. Allen, and M.L. Berbee. 2002. Molecular detection, community structure and phylogeny of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi. Plant and Soil 244: 55-66. Abstract | full article available from Kluwer

Bothwell, K.S., C.E. Prescott, and M.D. Jones. 2001. Factors contributing to the superior growth and N nutrition of 11-year-old lodgepole pine compared to Sitka spruce on a N-poor cedar-hemlock cutover. Can J. For. Res. 31: 1272-1279. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Mallik, A. and C.E. Prescott. 2001. Growth inhibitory effects of salal on western hemlock and western redcedar: allelopathy and competition. Am. Soc. Agron. J. 93:85-92. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weetman, G.F. and C.E. Prescott. 2001. The structure, functioning and management of old-growth cedar-hemlock-fir forests on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. pp. 275-287. In: J. Evans (ed) The Forests Handbook Volume 2, Blackwell Scientific, London. Information on the Forests Handbook

Bradley, R.L., B.D. Titus, C.M. Preston, and J.N. Bennett. 2000. Improvement of nutritional site quality 13 years after single application of fertiliser N and P on regenerating cedar-hemlock cutovers on northern Vancouver Island, B.C. Plant and Soil 223: 195-206. Abstract | full article available from Kluwer

Cade-Menun, B.J., and S. M. Berch, C. M. Preston, and L.M. Lavkulich, 2000. Phosphorus forms and related soil chemistry of Podzolic soils on northern Vancouver Island I. A comparison of two forest types. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1714-1725. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Cade-Menun, B.J., and S. M. Berch, C. M. Preston, and L.M. Lavkulich, 2000. Phosphorus forms and related soil chemistry of Podzolic soils on northern Vancouver Island II. The effects of clearcutting and burning. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1726-1741. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Chang, S.X. and C.M. Preston. 2000. Understorey competition affects tree growth and fate of fertilizer-applied ¹⁵N in a Coastal British Columbia plantation forest: 6-year results. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1379-1388. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Chang, S.X. and L.L. Handley, 2000. Site history affects soil and plant ¹⁵N natural abundances (d¹⁵N) in forests of northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Functional Ecology 14:273-280. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Chang, S. X., C.M. Preston and G.F. Weetman, 1999. Availability of residual ¹⁵N in a coniferous forest soil: a greenhouse bioassay and comparison with chemical extractions. For. Ecol. Manage. 117: 199-209. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Monreal, M., Berch, S. M. and Berbee, M. L. 1999. Molecular diversity of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi. Can. J. Bot. 77:1580-1594. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Prescott, C.E. and L.L. Blevins, 1999. The Salal Cedar Hemlock Integrated Research Program (SCHIRP): management through understanding. For. Chron. 75: 447-451. Abstract | full article available from Forestry Chronicle

Preston, C. M., 1999. Condensed tannins of salal (Gaultheria shallon Pursh): a contributing factor to seedling “growth-check” on northern Vancouver Island? in: Plant Polyphenols: Chemistry and Biology, G. G. Gross, R. W. Hemingway and T. Yoshida (Eds.), Proceedings of the Third Tannin Conference, July 20-25, 1998, Bend, Oregon. Plenum Publishing Co., New York.

Allen, T.R., F. Nafar, S.M. Berch, and M. Berbee July 1998. Diversity of Ericoid Mycorrhizal Fungi on Gaultheria shallon. Inoculum, Newsletter of the Mycological Society of America Conference. 49.

Chang, S. X. and C.M. Preston, 1998. Incorporation and extractability of residual ¹⁵N in a coniferous forest soil. Soil Biol. Biochem. 30:1023-1031. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Prescott, C.E. and S.M. Brown, 1998. Five-year growth response of western redcedar, western hemlock, and amabilis fir to chemical and organic fertilizers. Can. J. For. Res. 28:1328-1334. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Cade-Menun, B.J., and L.M. Lavkulich,  1997. A comparison of methods to determine total, organic and available phosphorus in forest soils. Commun. Soil Sci. Plant Anal. 28: 651-663. Abstract

Cade-Menun, B.J., and S. M. Berch, 1997. Response of mycorrhizal western redcedar to organic phosphorus sources and benomyl. Can. J. Bot. 75:1226-1235. Abstract

Prescott, C.E. and L.M. Zabek, 1997. Growth rsponse and nutrient availability in western redcedar plantations following amendment with fish-wood compost and straw. Can. J. For. Res. 27:598-602. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Archive

Cade-Menun, B. J. and C.M. Preston, 1996. A comparison of soil extraction procedures for ³¹P NMR spectroscopy. Soil Sci. 161:770-785. Abstract

Chang, S.X., C.M. Preston, K. McCullough, G.F. Weetman and J. Barker, 1996. Effect of understory competition effect on distribution and recovery of ¹⁵N applied to a western red cedar–western hemlock clear-cut site. Can. J. For. Res. 26: 313-321. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Chang, S.X., G.F. Weetman and C.M. Preston. 1996. Understory competition effect on tree growth and biomass allocation on a coastal old-growth forest cutover site in British Columbia. For. Ecol. Manage. 83:1-11. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Chang, S.X. and J.A. Trofymow. 1996. Microbial respiration and biomass (substrate-induced respiration) in soils of old-growth and regenerating forests on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Bio. and Fertility of Soils 23:145-152. Abstract full article available from Springerlink

Keenan, R.J., C.E. Prescott, J.P. Kimmins, J. Pastor, and B. Dewey, 1996. Litter decomposition in western red cedar and western hemlock forests in northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Can. J. Bot. 74:1626-1634. Abstract

Prescott, C.E., G.F. Weetman, and J.E. Barker, 1996. Causes and amelioration of nutrient deficiencies in cutovers of cedar-hemlock forests in coastal British Columbia. For. Chron. 72:293-302. Abstract | full article available from Forestry Chronicle

Chang, S.X., C.M. Preston and G.F. Weetman, 1995. Soil microbial biomass and mineralizable N in a clear-cut chronosequence on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 25:1595-1607. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Fraser, L.H., C.P. Chanway and R. Turkington, 1995. The competitive role of Gaultheria shallon on planted western hemlock and western red cedar saplings on northern Vancouver Island. For. Ecol. Managem. 75:27-39. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Keenan, R.J,  J.P. Kimmins and J. Pastor, 1995a. Modelling carbon and nitrogen dynamics in western red cedar and western hemlock forests. In J.M. Kelly and W.W. McFee (eds.), Carbon Forms and Functions in Forest Soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer., Madison, WI. 594 pp. Abstract

Keenan, R.J., C.E. Prescott and J.P. Kimmins, 1995. Litter production and nutrient resorption in western red cedar and western hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 25:1850-1857. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Messier, C., R. Keenan and J.P. Kimmins, 1995. The effects of soils mixing on soil nutrient status, recovery of competeing vegetation and conifer growth on cedar-hemlock cutovers in coastal British Columbia. New Forests 9:163-179. Abstract | full article available from Kluwer

Prescott, C.E., L.E. deMontigny, C.M. Preston, R.J. Keenan, and G.F. Weetman, 1995. Carbon chemistry and nutrient supply in cedar-hemlock and hemlock-amabilis fir forest floors. pp. 377-396 In J.M. Kelly and W.W. McFee (eds.), Carbon Forms and Functions in Forest Soils. Soil Sci. Soc. Amer., Madison, WI. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Xiao, G. and S.M. Berch, 1995. Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi of Gaultheria shallon. Mycologia 87:467-471. Abstract

Battigelli, J.P., S.M. Berch and V.G. Marshall. 1994. Soil fauna communities in two distinct but adjacent forest types on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 1557-1566. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Fox, C.A., C.M. Preston, C.A. Fyfe, 1994. Micromorphological and ¹³C NMR characterization of a Humic, Lignic, and Histic Folisol from British Columbia. Can. J. Soil Sci.74: 1-15. Abstract

Keenan, R.J., C. Messier and J.P. Kimmins, 1994. Effects of clearcutting and soil mixing on soil properties and understorey biomass in western red cedar and western hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island, Canada. For. Ecol. Managem. 68:251-261. Abstract

McDonald, M.A., B.J. Hawkins, C.E. Prescott, and J.P. Kimmins, 1994. Growth and foliar nutrition of western red cedar fertilized with sewage sludge, pulp sludge, fish silage and wood ash on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 24:297-301. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Prescott, C.E. and M.A. McDonald, 1994. Effects of starch and lime additions on mineralization of C and N in humus from western red cedar - western hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 24:2432-2438. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Prescott, C.E. and C.M. Preston, 1994. Nitrogen mineralization and decomposition in adjacent plantations of western red cedar, western hemlock and Douglas-fir. Can. J. For. Res. 24:2424-2431. Abstract | Article (PDF)

deMontigny, L.E., C.M. Preston, P.G. Hatcher, and I. Kogel-Knaber, 1993. I. Comparison of humus horizons from two ecosystem phases on northern Vancouver Island using C-13 CPMAS NMR spectroscopy and CuO oxidation. Can. J. Soil Sci. 73:9-25. Abstract

Fraser, L., R. Turkington, and C.P. Chanway, 1993. The biology of Canadian weeds. 102. Gaultheria shallon Pursh.  Can. J. Plant Sci. 73:1233-1247. Abstract

Keenan, R.J., C.E. Prescott and J.P. Kimmins, 1993. Mass and nutrient content of the forest floor and woody debris in western red cedar and western hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 23:1052-1059. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Messier, C., 1993. Factors limiting early growth of western red cedar, western hemlock and Sitka spruce seedlings on ericaceous-dominated clearcut sites in coastal British Columbia. For. Ecol. Managem. 60:181-206. Abstract

Prescott, C.E., M.A. McDonald and G.F. Weetman, 1993. Availability of N and P in the forest floors of adjacent stands of western red cedar-western hemlock and western hemlock- amabilis fir on northern Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 23:605-610. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weetman, G.F., M.A. McDonald, C.E. Prescott, and J.P. Kimmins, 1993. Responses of western hemlock, Pacific silver fir, and western red cedar plantations on northern Vancouver Island to applications of sewage sludge and inorganic fertilizer. Can. J. For. Res. 23:1815-1820. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Messier, C., 1992. Effects of neutral shade and growing media on growth, biomass allocation, and competitve ability of Gaultheria shallon. Can J. Bot. 70:2271-2276. Abstract

Messier, C. and J.P. Kimmins. 1992. Growth of western red cedar seedlings in relation to microtopography, forest floor nutrient status, and fireweed and salal on clear-cut sites in coastal British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 22:273-278. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Messier, C. and J.P. Kimmins, 1991. Above- and belowground vegetation recovery in recently clearcut and burned sites dominated by Gaultheria shallon in coastal British Columbia. For. Ecol. Managem. 46:275-294. Abstract

Messier, C. and J.P. Kimmins, 1990. Nutritional stress in Picea sitchensis plantations in coastal British Columbia: the effects of Gaultheria shallon and declining site fertility. Wat. Air Soil Pollut. 54:257-267. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weetman, G.F., R. Fournier, E. Schnorbus-Panozzo, and J. Barker, 1990. Post-burn nitrogen and phosphorus availability of deep humus soils in coastal British Columbia cedar/hemlock forests and the use of fertilization and salal eradication to restore productivity. pp. 451-499 In S.P. Gessel, D.S. Lacate, G.F. Weetman and R.F. Powers (eds), Sustained Productivity of Forest Soils. Proc. 7th N. Amer. Forest Soils Conf., Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.

Messier, C., T.W. Honer and J.P. Kimmins, 1989. Photosynthetic photon flux density, red:far-red ratio, and minimum light requirement for survival of Gaultheria shallon in western red cedar – western hemlock stands in coastal British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 19:1470-1477. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weetman, G.F., R. Fournier, J. Barker, E. Schnorbus-Panozzo, and A. Germain, 1989a. Foliar analysis and response of fertilized chlorotic Sitka spruce plantations on salal-dominated cedar-hemlock cutovers on Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 19:1501-1511. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Weetman, G.F., R. Fournier, J. Barker, and E. Schnorbus-Panozzo, 1989b. Foliar analysis and response of fertilized chlorotic western hemlock and western red cedar reproduction on salal-dominated cutovers on Vancouver Island. Can. J. For. Res. 19:1512-1520. Abstract | Article (PDF)

Graduate theses

Battigelli, J.P. 1992. Soil fauna communities in cedar-hemlock and hemlock-amabilis fir forest types on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Soil Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 84 pp.

Bennett, J.N. 2001. The nitrogen nutrition of western redcedar, western hemlock and salal: species-specific mechanisms for accessing nitrogen in cedar-hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 167 pp.

Bothwell, K. 2000. The nitrogen nutrition of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. contorta) and Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) on a cedar-hemlock cutover on northern Vancouver Island. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 142 pp.

Cade-Menun, B. 1995. Phosphorus forms in podzols on northern Vancouver Island. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Soil Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 211pp.

Chang, S.X. 1996. Fertilizer efficiency and incorporation and soil dynamics in forest ecosystems of northern Vancouver Island. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 190 pp.

deMontigny, L. 1992. An investigation into the factors contributing to the growth check of conifer regeneration on northern Vancouver Island. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 191 pp.

Fraser, L. 1993. The influence of salal on planted hemlock and cedar saplings on northern Vancouver Island. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver B.C., 116pp.

Germain, A.Y. 1985. Fertilization of stagnated Sitka spruce plantations on northern Vancouver Island. M.F. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 185 pp.

Hannam, K.D. 2002. Does clearcutting affect the quality of soluble organic nitrogen in forest soil? M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 73 pp.

Husted, L.D. 1982. The relationship between foliar and soil chemistry, growth parameters, and variable height growth in advance regeneration of amabilis fir. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 123 pp.

Keenan, R. 1993. Structure and function of western red cedar and western hemlock forests on northern Vancouver Island. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 167 pp.

Leckie, S. 2003. A comparison of soil microbial communities in two forests that differ in nutrient cycling rates M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 99 pp.

Messier, C. 1991. Factors limiting early conifer growth in salal-dominated cutovers on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 160 pp.

Nafar, F. 1998. Studies of interactions among cultured ericoid mycorrhizal fungi of salal (Gaultheria shallon Pursh.) M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 97 pp.

Vales, D. J, 1986. Functional relationships between salal understory and forest overstory. M.Sc. Thesis, Forestry Dept., University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 164 pp.

White, J.B. 2000. Studies of western hemlock nutrition. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 220 pp.

Xiao, G. 1994. The role of root-associated fungi in the dominance of Gaultheria shallon. Ph.D. Thesis. Dept. Botany, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. 137 pp.