Projects and Publications

The following projects and publications are examples of CASFRI in action!

Projects

CASFRI has been used in a range of projects requiring continuous coverage of forest attributes.

The BAM project has used CASFRI to model bird density and habitat associations using continuous coverages of forest attributes across the Canadian boreal.

Canada's National Forest Inventory

The NFI has applied the CASFRI framework to develop an ongoing historical database of Canada's forests.

Publications

The following is a list of publications using CASFRI.

CASFRI backgrounder document

A backgrounder document from 2010 describing the origins of CASFRI and it's development for use in natinoal scale wildlife modelling.

Cumming et al. 2015

Cumming et al. 2015 used CASFRI to conduct a gap analysis of tree species representation in Canada's protected area network.

Stralberg et al. 2015

Stralberg et al. 2015 used CASFRI to evaluate the effect that limited forest growth and succession under climate change will have on forest bird habitat suitability.

Crosby et al. 2019

Crosby et al. 2019 used CASFRI to test for differential habitat selection in boreal songbirds.

Boisvenue et al. 2016

Boisvenue et al 2016 used CASFRI along with satellite data to estimate greehouse gas emissions and removals at a 30m resolution.

Boisvenue et al. 2016

Boisvenue et al 2016 used CASFRI, field plot data, and Landsat data to estimate forest growth over time.

Ongoing projects

Estimating the Historical Range of Variation in forest songbird abundances within managed forests of Alberta, Ontario and Quebec. PhD thesis project. Ana Raymundo Sanchez, supervised by Cumming.
Downscaling national models of songbird density to inform forest management planning. PhD thesis project. Isolde Lane-Shaw, supervised by Cumming.
Evaluating two data sources to initialize vegetation state of forest dynamics models: 1) the Forest Inventory non-parametric K-nearest neighbors procedure (kNN), and 2) the Common Attribute schema for Forest Resource Inventory Data (Raymundo-Sanchez, Lane-Shaw, Cumming and others).
Changes in age structure and tree-species composition of managed boreal forests in western Canada: 1990-2020. A new collaboration between the Cumming lab and CWS.