Table of Contents

West-East cooperation in Europe for sustainable boreal forests.- Problems of forest management in Russia.- Conserving the boreal forest by shifting the emphasis of management action from vegetation to the atmosphere.- Forest operations and environmental protection.- Application of a bioeconomic strategic planning model to an industrial forest in Saskatchewan.- Emergence of a biodiversity concept in Swedish forest policy.- Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management in Canada.- Forestry and the boreal forest: maintaining inherent landscape patterns.- Forest health monitoring in Canada: how healthy is the boreal forest?.- Bioproductivity of spruce stands in northern European Russia.- Long-term experiments in selectively cut Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest.- Reforestation trials in the Khabarovsk Territory, Russia.- Artificial regeneration of spruce on cold, wet soil: 10 years along.- Structure and biomass of larch stands regenerating naturally after clear-cut logging.- Desiccation of white spruce seedlings planted in the southern boreal forest of British Columbia.- Jack pine (Pinusbanksiana) seedling emergence is affected by organic horizon removal, ashes, soil, water and shade.- Modelling forest regeneration processes in clear-cut and burned areas in Angara Region.- Using fuel characteristics to estimate plant ignitability for fire hazard reduction.- Simulation of mixedwood management of aspen and white spruce in northeastern British Columbia.- Application of science to environmental impact assessment in boreal forest management: the Saskatchewan example.- Nitrogen mineralization in boreal forest stands of Isle Royale, northern Michigan.- The Boreal Forest Transect Case Study: global change effects on ecosystem processes and carbon dynamics in boreal Canada.- Litter quality and its potential effect on decay rates of materials from Canadian forests.- Dynamics of the dead wood carbon pool in northwestern Russian boreal forests.- Carbon pools and fluxes of 25-year old coniferous and deciduous stands in middle Siberia.- Carbon stock and deposition in phytomass of the Russian forests.- A survey of the forest site characteristics in a transect through the central Canadian boreal forest.- Carbon in vegetation of Russian forests: methods to estimate storage and geographical distribution.- Simulating carbon dynamics of the boreal forest in Pukaskwa National Park.- Simulating carbon storage in forests of eastern Russia.- Simulation of forest and wood product carbon budget under a changing climate in Finland.- An analysis of future carbon budgets of Canadian boreal forests.- A system for evaluation of growth and mortality in Russian forests.- Boreal forest catchments: research sites for global change at high latitudes.- The Nashwaak Experimental Watershed Project: analysing effects of clearcutting on soil temperature, soil moisture, snowpack, snowmelt and stream flow.- Temporal and spatial variations of terrestrial biomes and carbon storage since 13 000 yr BP in Europe: reconstruction from pollen data and statistical models.- The aspen parkland in western Canada: a dry-climate analogue for the future boreal forest?.- Potential effects of climatic change on some western Canadian forests, based on phonological enhancements to a patch model of forest succession.- Boreal forest futures: modelling the controls on tree species range limits and transient responses to climate change.- Disturbance impacts on forest temporal dynamics.- Predicting the effects of climate change on fire frequency in the southeastern Canadian boreal forest.- Effects of climate change on insect defoliator population processes in Canadas boreal forest: some plausible scenarios.- Global carbon dynamics of higher latitude forests during an anticipated climate change: ecophysiological versus biome-migration view.- Pattern and change of a boreal forest landscape in northeastern China.- Description of the Canadian Regional Climate Model.- Aspen bark photosynthesis and its significance to remote sensing and carbon budget estimates in the boreal ecosystem.- Using aerial photography and satellite imagery to monitor forest cover in western Siberia.- Monitoring primary production from Earth observing satellites.- First Nations perspective on the boreal forest.- List of Conference Participants.- List of Reviewers.- Author Index.