Tab le 18.2. Current biodiversity research programmes in Canada's west coast forests
Subject
Agency
Reference
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Gen eral
Predicting biological diversity on forest land in British Columbia.
Occurrence and ecology of various groups of vertebrate in the Nimpkish
Valley .
Abundance and diversity of various groups of vertebrates in coastal alder
and conifer stands.
Impact of harvesting. isite preparation and other practices on wildlife.
Influence of vegetation management on the diversity of plants and small
mammals.
UBC (Forestry)
BCE
BCMoF
BCMoF/BCF
BCMoF
Daust and Bunne ll, 1992
Fungi
Fungi of old-growth forests in British Columbia .
Diversity of mycorrhizal fungi in old-growth and mature second growth
stands of Douglas fir on Vancouver Island.
Vascular plants
Multi-locus and multi-genome analysis of genetic diversity in western red
cedar and
Dou~las fir.
Genetic diversity In
mountain hemlock.
Sustainable development of natural sources of the emerging anti-cancer
agent , taxol: assessing cultivation options .
Changes in plant diversity in Douglas fir stand following the conversion
of old-growth to second growth .
Microorganisms/invertebrates
Nematode diversity and distribution in different forest soil habitats.
Succession of Collembola in stumps of Douglas fir seres representing
clear-cuts to old-growth forest.
Taxonomic survey of springtails collected from northern Vancouver
Island sites.
Soil fauna communities in cedar -hemlock and hemlock-amabi lis fir forest
types on northern Vancouver Island .
UBC (Soil Science)
Gamiet and Birch, 1992
University of Victoria
Goodman, 1993
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CP Forest Products
Forestry Canada
Arenaria Research/
Fraser and Ryan, 1993
Forestry Canada
UBC (Soil Science)
Panesar and Marshall, 1993
Fores try Canada
Forestry Canada
Setala and Marshall, 1993
UBC (Soil Science) /
Baumbrough et aI., 1992
Forestry Canada
UBC (Soil Sciece)
Battigelli and Berch, 1992