Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2002. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-129). Also available on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-273).

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Scientia Silvica extension series was started in 1997 by Karel Klinka, a silvics professor at the University of British Columbia. He saw the need for a friendly way of distributing current research results to the forestry community. Each extension pamphlet represents a 2-4 page summary of research findings in the field of forest ecology. Topics range from humus form and ecosystem classification to forest productivity, regeneration, stand structure, soil nutrient regimes, coarse woody debris, and plant diversity. Included in each summary is a reference to the more technical original report or scientific paper and contact information for those who wish further information. Also included in the series are several full colour comprehensive reports on ecosystem classification. All pamphlets and reports are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format for on-screen viewing or printing. Forest Renewal British Columbia provided the funding for this version of Scientia Silvica extension series.

This thesis contains the results of climatological observations taken during the summers of 1963 and 1964 in a deciduous forest at Mont St. Hilaire, Quebec. I wish to express my gratitude to those who have aided me during the course of this project. [...]

Knowledge of the relationships between nitrogen fertilization and nitrogen availability is needed to guide plans for providing optimum tree growth by silvicultural operations. PART 1. Detailed studies of the mineralization of urea were made by laboratory incubation of black spruce humus samples. These studies form a part of an experiment in which urea is used for the first time to fertilize a soil supporting a black spruce stand. Urea seems to be a very good fertilizer because it is readily transformed to an available form of nitrogen. It is however doubtful that a nitrogen fertilization only could quickly and greatly affect the humus fertility. PART 2. Total number and number of ureolytic bacteria and fungi were determined at time intervals during a laboratory incubation of black sprucc humus samples. Such a quantitative and qualitative study of the microbial population of a raw humus had never been made. The potential for ureolysis is enormous because this humus contains an abundance of ureolyzing microorganisms Indeed, counts in excess of 100 millions per gram are not uncommon.

The currently topical problems of forest management are issues of trans-science. They can be framed in the language of science but they cannot be resolved in the language of science. They involve historically contingent phenomena for which predictive certainty is not possible and they involve issues of moral, aesthetic and economic value. What is the role of science in contributing to the public debate on what are fundamentally social issues such as clear-cut logging or the preservation of old-growth forests? A history and philosophy of science, in general, and ecological science, in particular, is presented that traces the transition, over the last half century, from a positivist science of universal, timeless, predictable order to a science that attempts to interpret local, particular aspects of nature. The former relies on identifying restricted spatio-temporal scales that facilitate prediction while the latter focuses on an understanding of the causal relations within interrelated systems that facilitate explanation of system properties. A kind of contextual or dialectical holism is advocated wherein system components are considered in the context of the whole and the whole is considered as an epiphenomenon resulting from causal interaction of the parts. A history of forest science is presented that identifies sustained yield forestry as a construct of positivist science. Recent insights by ecological science, into the complexity and contingency of forest ecosystems, reveal the limitations of this simplified view. Moreover, the application of a single large-scale strategy such as sustained yield forestry to managing forests in British Columbia contained value assumptions that no longer reflect the full range of values that the public express. The currently topical debates on clear-cutting, logging in municipal watersheds and over-cutting are offered as examples of how questions of fact and questions of value become linked. Although these debates have been carried on in the language of science they are essentially social issues and cannot be resolved by science. The role of science in contributing to the resolution of social issues, such as the development of a sustainable forestry, is not to develop specific solutions but to contribute to the social dialogue in a subservient fashion. Science can characterize the context in which disagreements about matters of value take place. Science can use its experimental protocols to help society construct living experiments that allow us to learn our way into the future. Science can take part in an equitable conversation on sustainable forestry that will facilitate a better understanding of the beliefs and values of the human component of forested ecosystems.

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