[CANUFNET] GLFC Webinar - November 18th, 2014 @11:00 Eastern : A new classification of boreal forests in Canada: an update on the Canadian National Vegetation Classification

Fri Nov 14 12:40:17 EST 2014

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Details, time and location:
Title : A new classification of boreal forests in Canada: an update on the Canadian National Vegetation Classification

Presenter: Ken Baldwin

There is no cost to join this English-only presentation, and pre-registration is not required. This webinar is brought to you by the Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC). GLFC is one of five Canadian Forest Service (CFS) research centres. The CFS is one of six sectors within Natural Resources Canada.

Date/time: Tuesday, November 18, 2014
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Eastern time
8:00-9:00 a.m. Pacific time
9:00-10:00 a.m. Mountain time
10:00-11:00 a.m. Central time
12:00-1:00 p.m. Atlantic time
12:30-1:30 p.m. Newfoundland time

Location: Great Lakes Forestry Centre,
Room A103
1219 Queen St. E., Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

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Webinar access:
Those who cannot attend in person can join online by following these three steps:
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Participants may contact the GLFC Publication Assistant via e-mail at publicat at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca<mailto:publicat at NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca> if they experience difficulties during the presentation. There will be a question period following the presentation. Questions may also be submitted afterwards to the e-mail address above.

Within one week of the webinar, the slide presentation and audio recording will be posted for download at: ftp://ftp.nrcan.gc.ca/cfs/glfc/. All previous Webinars are also archived there.
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Summary
The Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) is a nationally standardized, hierarchical classification of vegetation for Canada. The organization of the CNVC hierarchy reflects primary ecological factors that influence vegetation patterns at a range of scales, from site-scale edaphics to global-scale climate. The Canadian Forest Service is coordinating the forest component of the CNVC, using data and professional expertise provided by the provinces and territories. Recently, the first nationally standardized classification of boreal forests for Canada was confirmed. This presentation will introduce the new classification, with an emphasis on diagnostic criteria and classification principles for different levels of the boreal hierarchy. An understanding of the diversity of boreal forests in Canada will emerge, and potential applications for this ecological information framework will be discussed.
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About
Ken Baldwin is a Forest Ecologist with the Ecosystem Impacts Research Team. He has an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from McMaster University (1975) and a Masters in Science, Plant Sciences from the University of Western Ontario (1982). He joined the staff of the Canadian Forest Service in 1990 as a plant community ecologist. He has worked on research and technical development projects involving forest ecosystem classification, predictive ecosystem mapping and forest succession. He is currently chair of the Technical Committee of the Canadian National Vegetation Classification (CNVC) project and coordinator of the CFS' Canadian Forest Ecosystem Classification (CFEC) project that is developing the forest component of the CNVC. Ken may be contacted via email at ken.baldwin at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca<mailto:ken.baldwin at nrcan-rncan.gc.ca>.

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