Publication Type: Technical Report
We used the permanent forest inventory database of the ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec to draw a portrait of the actual distribution of the trees (DBH 'diameter at breast height' >10 cm) of the 5 most frequent species in each of the 11 bioclimatic sub-domains found in Quebec.
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Forestry
Publication Type: Technical Report
Aquatic ecosystems, wetlands and riparian habitats cover a considerable proportion of the boreal forest. These ecosystems are among the richest of the boreal biome. Because they mainly depend on hydrological dynamics and local geomorphology, the maintenance of the biodiversity that they support requires the conservation of the natural flow regime.
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Hydrology
Publication Type: Technical Report
Although numerous efforts have been invested, over the last 20 years, at characterising the terrestrial component of forest-dominated landscapes, it has truly been otherwise for wetlands.
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Mapping
Publication Type: Technical Report
Even if we have acquired a good knowledge of wetlands' ecology and classification, quantification of the abundance of wetland types and delineation of homogeneous regions in terms of wetland habitats are still lacking in forest dominated landscapes.
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Mapping
