William J. Beese

Vancouver Island University — Canada

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies(12), Forest Management and Policy(10), Fire effects on ecosystems(9), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(6), Lichen and fungal ecology(4)

Publications28 total

Spore deposition by ectomycorrhizal and polyporous fungi depicts timber harvesting impacts and retention patch effectiveness in a coastal British Columbia montane forest
Biodiversity and Conservation·2026Open Access
Corrigendum to “Understory vegetation response to alternative silvicultural systems in coastal British Columbia montane forests”. [For. Ecol. Manage. 504 (2022) 119817]
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 1 cited
Understory vegetation response to alternative silvicultural systems in coastal British Columbia montane forests
Forest Ecology and Management·2021· 17 cited
Effects of small aggregates of mature tree retention on adjacent planted coastal Douglas-fir growth and survival
Forest Ecology and Management·2020· 5 cited
Two decades of variable retention in British Columbia: a review of its implementation and effectiveness for biodiversity conservation
Ecological Processes·2019· 76 citedOpen Access
Quantifying wind damage associated with variable retention harvesting in coastal British Columbia
Forest Ecology and Management·2019· 21 cited
9 Variable Retention Harvesting in North Pacific Temperate Rainforests
University of Washington Press eBooks·2016Open Access
Distribution and Abundance of<i>Pseudocyphellaria rainierensis</i>(Old-Growth Specklebelly Lichen) on Vancouver Island and a Portion of the Central Mainland Coast of British Columbia
Evansia·2015· 1 cited
REVIEW: Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity? A meta‐analysis
Journal of Applied Ecology·2014· 426 citedOpen Access
Can retention forestry help conserve biodiversity
Epsilon Open Archive (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet biblioteket (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences))·2014· 1 citedOpen Access
Retention Forestry to Maintain Multifunctional Forests: A World Perspective
BioScience·2012· 790 citedOpen Access
A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues
Conservation Letters·2012· 406 citedOpen Access
Effects of Low Levels of Dispersed Retention on the Growth and Survival of Young, Planted Douglas-Fir
Forests·2012· 6 citedOpen Access
Vegetation - environment relationships of forest communities on central eastern Vancouver Island
Open Collections·2010· 2 citedOpen Access
Implementing the Approach
University of British Columbia Press eBooks·2010
The Example
University of British Columbia Press eBooks·2010
Post-harvest nitrogen cycling in clearcut and alternative silvicultural systems in a montane forest in coastal British Columbia
The Forestry Chronicle·2006· 41 citedOpen Access
Prescribed burning impacts on some coastal British Columbia ecosystems.
VIUSpace (Vancouver Island University Library)·2006· 4 citedOpen Access
Long-term silviculture experiments contribute to science-based forest management in British Columbia's public forests
DORA WSL (Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research)·2004· 8 citedOpen Access
Maintaining attributes of old-growth forests in coastal B.C. through variable retention
The Forestry Chronicle·2003· 109 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Lena Gustafsson(4), Susan C. Baker(4), Jari Kouki(4), David B. Lindenmayer(4), Christian Messier(4), Brian J. Palik(4), Anne Sverdrup‐Thygeson(4), Jerry F. Franklin(4), Jeff Sandford(4), Jürgen Bauhus(2), Angus Brodie(2), Asko Lõhmus(2), Guillermo Martínez Pastur(2), Mark G. Neyland(2), Adrian F. Wayne(2), Katja Fedrowitz(2), Julia Koricheva(2), Raul Rosenvald(2), S. Ellen Macdonald(2), Stephen J. Mitchell(2)