Publications – Erica Lilles

Position Title: Natural Resource Management Researcher

Contact: B.C. Government Directory

Current research projects

• Date Creek Research Forest: Long-term responses of timber and non-timber values to different silviculture treatments
• Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification for ecosystems in the northwest Skeena Region
• Drivers of damage in B.C.’s managed lodgepole pine stands
• Forest stand dynamics research and modelling with SORTIE-ND
• Long-term soil productivity project: effects of soil disturbance on tree growth and soil and forest health

Publications

• Google Scholar
• Research Gate

Listed in order of publication date:

2020-2024

2022:

• AJ Clason, I Farnell, EB Lilles. Carbon 5–60 Years After Fire: Planting Trees Does Not Compensate for Losses in Dead Wood Stores. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5, 868024 2022
• P Bartemucci, E Lilles, Y Gauslaa. Silvicultural strategies for lichen conservation: Smaller gaps and shorter distances to edges promote recolonization. Ecosphere 13 (1), e3898 2022

2021:

• EB Lilles, R Trowbridge, WH MacKenzie. Field Guide to Site Identification and Interpretation within the Engelmann Spruce – Subalpine Fir Woodland Subzones of the Skeena Region. Supplement 2 to Land Management Handbook 26: A Field Guide to Site Identification and Interpretation for the Prince Rupert Forest Region 2021

2020:

• KD Coates, EB Lilles, A Dhar, EC Hall. Wind damage over 21 years across different levels of tree removal in natural-origin mixed forests of northwestern British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50 (9), 946-952 2020
• I Farnell, C Elkin, E Lilles, AM Roberts, M Venter. The effects of variable retention forestry on coarse woody debris dynamics and concomitant impacts on American marten habitat after 27 years. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 50(9), 925-935. 2020
• K Price, K Daust, E Lilles, AM Roberts. Long-term response of forest bird communities to retention forestry in northern temperate coniferous forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 462:117982 2020

2015-2019

2018:

• E Lilles, A Dhar, KD Coates, S Haeussler. Retention level affects dynamics of understory plant community recovery in northern temperate hemlock-cedar forests. Forest Ecology and Management 421, 3-15 19 2018

2017:

• K Price, EB Lilles, A Banner. Long-term recovery of epiphytic communities in the Great Bear Rainforest of coastal British Columbia. Forest ecology and management 391, 296-308 13 2017

2016:

• JM Kranabetter, S Dube, EB Lilles. An investigation into the contrasting growth response of lodgepole pine and white spruce to harvest-related soil disturbance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 47 (3), 340-348 2016