Peer-reviewed Scientific Publications:
Current Year (2024):
Chen, X., Reich, P.B., Taylor, A.R., Zhengfeng, A., and Chang, S. 2024. Resource availability enhances positive tree functional diversity effects on carbon and nitrogen accrual in natural forests. Nature Communications, 15: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-53004-y
Broom, J., Taylor, A.R. and D’Orangeville, L. 2024. Investigating climate anomalies associated with the sudden mortality of balsam fir trees in Eastern Canada. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 7: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2024.1472699
White, T.L., Adams, G.W., Taylor, A.R., Gagnon, R., Sherrill, J. and McCartney, A. 2024. Tree Species Diversity in Managed Acadian Forests of Eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, (e-First version): https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0110
Thom, D., Rammer, W., Albrich, et al. (Taylor, A.R. + 21 other coauthors). 2024. Parameters of 150 Temperate and Boreal Tree Species for an Individual-Based Forest Landscape and Disturbance Model. Data in Brief, https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4832850
McMonagle, G., Lantz, V.A., Taylor, A.R., Boulanger, Y., Sharma, C., Withey, P. and Hennigar, C.R. 2024. Economic impacts of climate change on forests: a PICUS-LANDIS-CGE modeling approach. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, (e-First version): https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0089
Taylor, A.R. and MacLean, D.A. 2024. The Evolving Role of Wildfire in the Maritimes Region of Eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, (e-First version): https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2024-0032
Bysouth, D., Boan, J., Malcolm, J. and Taylor, A.R. 2024. High emissions or carbon neutral? Inclusion of “anthropogenic” forest sinks leading to underreporting of forestry emissions. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 6: DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1297301
2023
Ravn, J., Taylor, A.R., Lavigne, M.B. and D’Orangeville, L. 2023. Local adaptation of balsam fir seedlings improves growth resilience to heat stress. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 54: 331-343 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0128)
Albert, C., Taylor, A.R., Logan, T., and D’Orangeville, L. 2023. The Acadian Forest of New Brunswick in the 21st century: what shifting heat and water balance implies for future stand dynamics and management. Environmental Reviews, 31: 690-706 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2022-0122)
Willis, S., Taylor, A.R., Thom, D., and D’Orangeville, L. 2023. Calibrating a process-based simulation model for the Acadian forest region. Forestry Chronicle, 99: 226-240 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2023-021)
Collier, J., MacLean, D.A., Taylor, A.R., and D’Orangeville, L. 2023. Warming adversely affects density but not growth of balsam fir regeneration across a climatic gradient in the Acadian Forest Region of eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 54: 134-146 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2023-0126)
Wang, J., D’Orangeville, L. and Taylor, A.R. 2023. Tree species growth response to climate warming varies by forest canopy position in boreal and temperate forests. Global Change Biology, 29: 5397-5414 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16853)
Chen, X., Taylor, A.R., Reich, P.B., Hisano, M., Chen, H.Y. and Chang, S.X. 2023. Tree diversity increases decadal forest soil carbon and nitrogen accrual. Nature, 618: 94-101 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05941-9)
Soubeyrand, M., Gennaretti, F., Blarquez, O., Bergeron, Y., Taylor, A.R., D’Orangeville, L. and Marchand, P. 2023. Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest. Ecography, 2023: e06525 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.06525)
Wang, J., Taylor, A.R. and D’Orangeville, L. 2023. Warming-induced tree growth may help offset increasing disturbance across the Canadian boreal forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120: e2212780120 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2212780120)
2022
Ravn, J., D’Orangeville, L., Lavigne, M.B. and Taylor, A.R. 2022. Phenotypic plasticity enables considerable acclimation to heat and drought in a cold-adapted boreal forest tree species. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 5: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.1075787)
Collier, J., MacLean, D.A., D’Orangeville, L. and Taylor, A.R. 2022. A review of climate change effects on the regeneration dynamics of balsam fir. The Forestry Chronicle, 98: 54-65 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2022-005)
Vaughn, W.R. and Taylor, A.R. 2022. Projected winter warming unlikely to affect germination success of balsam fir regeneration in Atlantic Canada. Forestry, 95: 659-666. (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpac019)
Achim, A., Moreau, G., Coops, N.C. et al. (Taylor, A.R. + 30 other coauthors). 2022. The Changing Culture of Silviculture. Forestry, 95: 143-152 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpab047)
Sánchez‐Pinillos, M., D’Orangeville, L., Boulanger, Y., Comeau, P., Wang, J., Taylor, A.R. and Kneeshaw, D., 2022. Sequential droughts: A silent trigger of boreal forest mortality. Global Change Biology, 28: 542-556 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15913)
Chen, X., Hisano, M., Taylor, A.R., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2022. The effects of functional diversity and identity (acquisitive versus conservative strategies) on soil carbon stocks are dependent on environmental contexts. Forest Ecology and Management, 503: (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119820)
Vaughn, W.R., Taylor, A.R., MacLean, D.A., and D’Orangeville, L. 2022. Simulated winter warming has negligible effects on germination success of Acadian Forest tree species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 52: 250-260 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2021-0105)
MacLean, D.A., Taylor, A.R., Neily, P.D., Steenberg, J.W.N., Basquill, S.P., Quigley, E., Boone, C.K., Oikle, M., Bush, P., and Stewart, B. 2022. Application of natural disturbance regimes for implementation of ecological forestry: a review and case study from Nova Scotia, Canada. Environmental Reviews, 30: 128-158 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2021-0042)
2021 (Transition year from NRCan to UNB)
Vaughn, W.R., Taylor, A.R., MacLean, D.A., D’Orangeville, L., and Lavigne, M.B. 2021. Climate change experiment suggest divergent responses of tree seedlings in eastern North America’s Acadian Forest Region. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51: 1888-1902 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2021-0047)
Thom, D., Taylor, A.R., Seidl, R., Thuiller, W., Wang, J., Robideau, M. and Keeton, W.S. 2021. Forest structure, not climate, is the primary driver of functional diversity in northeastern North America. Science of The Total Environment, 762: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143070)
2020
Taylor, A.R., MacLean, D.A., Neily, P.D., Stewart, B., Quigley, E., Basquill, S.P., Boone, C.K., Gilby, D., and Pulsifer, M. 2020. A review of natural disturbances to inform implementation of ecological forestry in Nova Scotia, Canada. Environmental Reviews, 28: 387-414 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2020-0015)
Brecka, A.F., Boulanger, Y., Searle, E.B., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., Zhu, Y., Shahi, C. and Chen, H.Y. 2020. Sustainability of Canada’s forestry sector may be compromised by impending climate change. Forest Ecology and Management, 474: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118352)
Wushuang, L., Kershaw, J.A., Costanzaa, K.L. and Taylor, A.R. 2020. Evaluating the potential of red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) to persist under climate change using historic provenance trials in eastern Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 466: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118139)
Seidl, R., Honkaniemi, J., Aakala, T., Aleinikov, A., Angelstam, P., Bouchard, M., Boulanger, Y., Burton, P.J., De Grandpré, L., Gauthier, S., Hansen, W.D., Jepsen, J.U., Jõgiste, K., Kneeshaw, D.D., Kuuluvainen, T., Lisitsyna, O., Makoto, K., Mori, A.S., Pureswaran, D.S., Shorohova, E., Shubnitsina, E., Taylor, A.R., Vladimirova, N., Vodde, F., and Senf, C. 2020. Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems. Ecography, 43: 967-978 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.04995)
Cadieux, P., Boulanger, Y., Cyr, D., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., Sólymos, P., Stralberg, D., Chen, H., Brecka, A. and Tremblay, J.A.. 2020. Projected effects of climate change on boreal bird community accentuated by anthropogenic disturbances in western boreal forest, Canada. Diversity and Distributions, 26: 668-682 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13057)
Wu, Y., MacLean, D.A., Hennigar, C., and Taylor, A.R. 2020. Interactions between defoliation level, species, and soil richness determine foliage production during and after simulated spruce budworm attack. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 50: 565-580 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0449)
Taylor, A.R., Endicott, S., and Hennigar, C. 2020. Disentangling mechanisms of early succession following harvest: Implications for climate change adaptation in Canada’s boreal-temperate forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 461: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117926)
Taylor, A.R., Gao, B., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2020. The effect of species diversity on tree growth varies during forest succession in the boreal forest of central Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 455: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117641)
Nenzén, H., Price, D.T., Boulanger, Y., Taylor, A.R., Cyr, D., and Campbell, E. 2020. Projected climate change effects on Alberta’s boreal forests imply future challenges for oil sands reclamation. Restoration Ecology, 28: 39-50 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13051)
2019
Cadieux, P., Boulanger, Y., Cyr, D., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., and Tremblay, J.A. 2019. Spatially explicit climate change projections for the recovery planning of threatened species: The Bicknell’s Thrush (Catharus Bicknelli) as a case study. Global Ecology and Conservation, 17: (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00530)
Boulanger, Y., Arseneault, D., Boucher, Y., Gauthier, S., Cyr, D., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., and Dupuis, S. 2019. Climate change will affect the ability of forest management to reduce gaps between current and presettlement forest composition in southeastern Canada. Landscape Ecology, 34: 159-174 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0761-6)
Taylor, A.R., Dracup, E., MacLean, D.A., Boulanger, Y., and Endicott, S. 2019. Forest structure more important than topography in determining windthrow during Hurricane Juan in Canada’s Acadian Forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 434: 255-263 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.12.026)
Nie, Z., MacLean, D.A., and Taylor, A.R. 2019. Disentangling variables that influence growth response of balsam fir regeneration during a spruce budworm outbreak. Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 13-23 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2018.10.050)
2018
Tremblay, J. A., Boulanger, Y., Cyr, D., Taylor, A. R., Price, D. T., and St-Laurent, M. H. 2018. Harvesting interacts with climate change to affect future habitat quality of a focal species in eastern Canada’s boreal forest. PlosOne, (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191645)
Hume, A.M., Chen, H.Y.H., and Taylor, A.R. 2018. Intensive forest harvesting increases susceptibility of northern forest soils to carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus loss. Journal of Applied Ecology, 55: 246-255 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12942)
Boulanger, Y., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., Cyr, D., and Sainte Marie, G. 2018. Stand-level drivers most important in determining boreal forest response to climate change. Journal of Ecology, 106: 977-990 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12892)
Gao, B., Taylor, A.R., Searle, E.B., Kumar, P., Ma, Z., Hume, A.M., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2018. Carbon Storage Declines in Old Boreal Forests Irrespective of Succession Pathway. Ecosystems, 21: 1168-1182 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-017-0210-4)
Nie, Z., MacLean, D.A., Taylor, A.R. 2018. Forest overstory composition and seedling height influence defoliation of understory regeneration by spruce budworm. Forest Ecology and Management, 409: 353-360 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.11.033)
2017
Taylor, A.R., MacLean, D.A., McPhee, D., Dracup, E., and Keys, K. 2017. Salvaging has minimal impacts on vegetation regeneration 10 years after severe windthrow. Forest Ecology and Management, 406: 19-27 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.09.061)
Taylor, A.R., Boulanger, Y., Price, D.T., Cyr, D., McGarrigle, E., Rammer, W., and Kershaw, J.A. 2017. Rapid 21st century climate change projected to shift composition and growth of Canada’s Acadian Forest Region. Forest Ecology and Management, 405: 284-294 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.07.033)
Chen, H.Y.H., Brant, A., Seedre, M., Brassard, B., and Taylor, A.R. 2017. The contribution of litterfall to net primary production during secondary succession in the boreal forest. Ecosystems, 20: 830-844 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-016-0063-2)
Zhang, Y., Chen, H.Y.H., and Taylor, A.R. 2017. Positive species diversity and above-ground biomass relationships are ubiquitous across forest strata despite interference from overstorey trees. Functional Ecology, 31: 419-426 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12699)
Boulanger, Y., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., Cyr, D., McGarrigle, E., Rammer, W., Sainte-Marie, G., Beaudoin, A., Guindon, L., and Mansuy, N. 2017. Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone. Landscape Ecology, 32: 1415-1431 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-016-0421-7)
2016
Salmon, L., Kershaw, J.A., Taylor, A.R., Krasowski, M., and Lavigne, M.B. 2016. Exploring factors influencing species natural regeneration response following harvesting in the Acadian Forests of New Brunswick. Open Journal of Forestry, 6: 199-215 (DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojf.2016.63017)
Gao, B., Taylor, A.R., Chen, H.Y.H., and Wang, J. 2016. Variation in total and volatile carbon concentration among the major tree species of the boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management, 375: 191-199 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.05.041)
Hume, A., Chen, H.Y.H., Taylor, A.R., Kayahara, G.J., and Rongzhou, M. 2016. Soil C:N:P dynamics during secondary succession following fire in the boreal forest of central Canada. Forest Ecology and Management, 369: 1-9 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.03.033)
Aubin, I., Munson, A.D., Cardou, F., Burton, P.J., Isabel, N., Pedlar, J.H., Paquette, A., Taylor, A.R., Delagrange, S., Kebli, H., Messier, C., Shipley, B., Valladares, F., Kattge, J., Boisvert-Marsh, L., and McKenney, D. 2016. Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change. Environmental Reviews, 24: 164-186 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1139/er-2015-0072)
Zhang, Y., Chen, H.Y.H., and Taylor, A.R. 2016. Aboveground biomass of understorey vegetation has a negligible or negative association with overstorey tree species diversity in natural forests. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25: 141-150 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12392)
2015
Pureswaran, D.S., De Grandpre, L., Pare, D., Taylor, A.R., Barrette, M., Morin, H., Regniere, J., and Kneeshaw, D.D. 2015. Climate-induced changes in host tree-insect phenology may drive ecological state-shift in boreal forest. Ecology, 96: 1480-1491 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1890/13-2366.1)
2014
Zhang, Y., Chen, H.Y.H., and Taylor, A.R. 2014. Multiple drivers of plant diversity in forest ecosystems. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23: 885-893 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12188)
Seedre, M., Taylor, A.R., Brassard, B., Chen, H.Y.H., and Jõgiste, K. 2014. Recovery of ecosystem carbon stocks in young boreal forests: a comparison of harvesting and wildfire disturbance. Ecosystems, 17: 851-863 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-014-9763-7)
Taylor, A.R., Seedre, M., Brassard, B., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2014. Decline in net ecosystem productivity following canopy transition to late-succession forests. Ecosystems, 17: 778-791 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-014-9759-3)
2013
Taylor, A.R., Hart, T., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2013. Tree community structural development in young boreal forests: a comparison of fire and harvesting disturbance. Forest Ecology and Management, 310: 19-26 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2013.08.017)
Taylor, A.R., McPhee, D. and Loo, J.A. 2013. Incidence of beech bark disease resistance in the eastern Acadian forest of North America. The Forestry Chronicle, 89: 690-695 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2013-122)
Seedre, M., Taylor, A.R., Chen, H.Y.H., and Jõgiste, K. 2013. Dead wood density of five boreal tree species in relation to field assigned decay class. Forest Science, 59: 253-260 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.11-157)
2012
Chen, H.Y.H., and Taylor, A.R. 2012. A test of ecological succession hypotheses using 55-year time-series data for 361 boreal forest stands. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 21: 441-454 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00689.x)
2011
Taylor, A.R., and Chen, H.Y.H. 2011. Multiple successional pathways of boreal forest stands in central Canada. Ecography, 34: 208-219 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0587.2010.06455.x)
2009
Taylor, A.R., Chen, H.Y.H., and Van Damme, L. 2009. A review of forest succession models and their application to strategic forest management planning. Forest Science, 55: 23-36 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/forestscience/55.1.23)
2008
Taylor, A.R., Wang, J.R., and Kurz, W.A. 2008. Effects of harvesting intensity on carbon stocks in eastern Canadian red spruce (Picea rubens) forests: An exploratory analysis using the CBM-CFS 3 simulation model. Forest Ecology and Management, 255: 3632-3641 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.052)
2007 My very first paper 🙂
Taylor, A.R., Wang, J.R., Chen, H.Y.H. 2007. Carbon storage in a chronosequence of red spruce (Picea rubens) forests in central Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 37: 2260-2269