This chapter focuses on biotic and abiotic changes (e.g. increases in water temperature, acidification of the aquatic environment, ice covers) in the Great Lakes Basin. The evidence presented in this chapter suggests that the Great Lakes will undergo many of the same type of changes in physical and ...

This chaper presents some key historical and technological developments that lead to the widespread adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) on the Canadian Prairies. Results are presented of research on the effects of no-tillage on (i) soil quality (physical, chemical and biological), (ii) grain...

This chapter discusses the possible effects of climate change on the ecology of invasive pests and their natural enemies in Canada, and describes the applications of climate modelling in studying range expansion of biological control agents and target pests.

This chapter discusses the implication of climate change on production of horticultural-grown woody perennials that overwinter in the temperate zone. Freezing injury affects the survival of many temperate zone woody perennials and is a major constraint to the production of fruit and nut crop and...

Over the past 50 years, considerable effort has been made by state and national agencies as well as other partners to minimize the establishment and spread of newly introduced and/or emerging invasive plants through single agency-led programmes, inter-agency councils and task forces and, most...

The main limitation to fruit production in the Okanagan Valley (British Columbia, Canada) is winter injury. Examination of historical records between 1916 and 2006 revealed 15 severe winter-kill events with two occurring in November, seven in December, four in January and two in February. An...

This chapter describes the abandonment, or future abandonment, of three towns: Shishmaref, Alaska on the Pacific Rim; Cheshire, Ohio in Midwestern America; and Great Harbour Deep on the Atlantic seaboard of Newfoundland. Global warming, over-fishing, and air pollution are the environmental reasons...

A climate change detection framework is presented and applied to five hydrologic variables calculated for a collection of forested catchments from three climatic regions in Canada. The trend detection framework includes the application of a non-parametric statistical test for trend and the use of...

Considerable emphasis has been placed on the interactions between environmental change and forests in recent years. Organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have produced reports detailing scenarios of forest development associated with particular changes in climate....