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Journal Publications
2017
Weber, A., Leckie, S., Kimmins, J.P. (Hamish), Gilbert, B., Blanco, J.A., Lo, Y.-H., 2017. Survival and growth as measures of shade tolerance of planted western redcedar, western hemlock and amabilis fir seedlings in hemlock-fir forests of northern Vancouver Island. Forest Ecology and Management 386: 13–21. Link to PDF
2014
Weber, A., Kimmins, J.P., Gilbert, B., Lo, Y.H., Blanco, J.A., 2014. Multiple-pathway succession in coastal Tsuga heterophylla, Thuja plicata, and Abies amabilis forests on northeastern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 1145–1155. Link to PDF
2013
Prescott, C.E., Nery, V., van Niejenhuis, A., Sajedi, T., Marshall, P., 2013. Nutrition management of cedar and hemlock plantations in coastal British Columbia. New Forests 44: 769–784. Link to PDF
2012
Sajedi, T., Prescott, C.E., Seely, B., Lavkulich, L.M., 2012. Relationships among soil moisture, aeration and plant communities in natural and harvested coniferous forests in coastal British Columbia, Canada: Moisture, redox and plants in forest soils. Journal of Ecology 100: 605–618.
2009
Wright, S.H.A., Berch, S.M., Berbee, M.L., 2009. The effect of fertilization on the below-ground diversity and community composition of ectomycorrhizal fungi associated with western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla). Mycorrhiza 19: 267–276. Link to PDF
2007
2005 Link to PDF
Weber, A., Karst, J., Gilbert, B., Kimmins, J.P., 2005. Thuja plicata Exclusion in Ectomycorrhiza-Dominated Forests: Testing the Role of Inoculum Potential of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi. Oecologia 143: 148–156. Link to PDF
2004
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 | Link to 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 Ecology 48: 29-40. Abstract | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
2003
Allen, T.R., Millar, T., Berch, S.M., Berbee, M.L., 2003. Culturing and Direct DNA Extraction Find Different Fungi from the Same Ericoid Mycorrhizal Roots. The New Phytologist 160: 255–272. Link to 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 | Link to 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 | Link to 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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
2002
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
2001
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 | Link to 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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
2000
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 | Link to 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 I. A comparison of two forest types. Can. J. For. Res. 30: 1714-1725. Abstract | Link to 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
Chang, S.X., Handley, L.L., 2000. Site History Affects Soil and Plant 15N Natural Abundances (δ15N) in Forests of Northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Functional Ecology 14, 273–280. Abstract | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
1999
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 | Link to PDF
Monreal, M., Berch, S. M. and Berbee, M. L. 1999. Molecular diversity of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi. Can. J. Bot. 77:1580-1594. Abstract | <href=”https://schirp.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2019/05/Monreal-1999.pdf”>Link to 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 | Link to PDF
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.
1998
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
1997
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 | Link to PDF
1996
Berch, S.M., Xiao, G., 1996. Diversity and abundance of ericoid mycorrhizal fungi of Gaultheria shallon on forest clearcuts. Canadian Journal of Botany 74, 337–346. Link to PDF
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 | Link to PDF
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. Link to 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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to PDF
1995
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
Keenan, R.J, J.P. Kimmins and J. Pastor, 1995. 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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
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
Xiao, G. and S.M. Berch, 1995. Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi of Gaultheria shallon. Mycologia 87:467-471. Abstract
1994
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to PDF
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
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
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 | Link to PDF
1993
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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
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 | Link to 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 | Link to PDF
1992
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 | Link to PDF
Xiao, G., Berch, S.M., 1992. Ericoid Mycorrhizal Fungi of Gaultheria Shallon. Mycologia 84, 470–471. Link to PDF
1991
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 | Link to PDF
1990
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 | Link to 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.
1989
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
Weetman, G.F., R. Fournier, J. Barker, E. Schnorbus-Panozzo, and A. Germain, 1989. 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 | Link to PDF
Weetman, G.F., R. Fournier, J. Barker, and E. Schnorbus-Panozzo, 1989. 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 | Link to 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.
Nery, V. 2012. Productivity analysis of silvicultural treatments in cedar and hemlock stands on northern Vancouver Island. M.Sc. Thesis, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
Negrave, R.W., 2005. Nutrient and establishment density effects on structural development and growth processes in juvenile western redcedar and western hemlock stands on northern Vancouver Island. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Link to PDF
Sajedi, T. 2010. The effects of excessive moisture on soil carbon and nitrogen mineralization and forest productivity. Ph.D. Thesis, Dept. of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., 147 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.