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UBC Forestry
Undergraduate ProgramsDepartments
Forest Sciences• Forest Sciences• International Specialization
Conservation• Science & Management• Global Perspectives
UBC Forestry capabilitiesCapability = formal or informal group of scientists active in research and teaching within a given field broadly applicable to the proposed Mountain NCE (grouping not mutually exclusive)
• Climate change impacts and adaptation
• Natural resource conservation• Hydrology / riparian and aquatic ecology• Wildlife ecology• Indigenous forestry• Forest ecology / ecosystem processes• Environmental detection and monitoring• Forest economics and policy• Forest management and silvics• Forest health / disturbance ecology
Forest Insect Disturbance Ecology Lab (FIDEL)Obj: investigate the influence of climate and climate change on the dynamics and impacts of eruptive forest insectse.g. mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle, western spruce budworm
UBC Forestry potential priority contributions• Natural resource conservation• Hydrology• Riparian and aquatic ecology• Wildlife ecology• Indigenous forestry• Forest ecology / ecosystem processes• Environmental detection and monitoring• Forest economics and policy• Forest management and silvics• Forest health / disturbance ecology• Climate change impacts and adaptations