Publications – Erica Lilles

Last updated on December 1, 2023

Erica works in silviculture, soil, ecology and climate change research in the Skeena Region and is responsible for the region’s long term research installations.

Position Title: Research generalist

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

Publications

Listed in order of publication date.

 

2020 - 2022

2022:

  • Bartemucci, P., E. Lilles, and Y. Gauslaa. 2022. Silvicultural strategies for lichen conservation: Smaller gaps and shorter distances to edges promote recolonization. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3898

2020:

  • Ingrid Farnell, Ché Elkin, Erica Lilles, Anne-Marie Roberts, and Michelle 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. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0417 
  • Karen Price, Kiri Daust, Erica Lilles, Anne-Marie Roberts. 2020. Long-term response of forest bird communities to retention forestry in northern temperate coniferous forests. Forest Ecology and Management. Volume 462, 2020, 117982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117982
  • K. David Coates, Erica B. Lilles, Amalesh Dhar, and Erin C. 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. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2019-0359
 

2012 - 2018

2018:

  • Lilles, E., Phil LePage, John Marty Kranabetter, 2018: Managing cedar-hemlock-salal scrub forests on the north coast of British Columbia. Report number: North Area Extension Note 57, BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development.
  • Erica Lilles, Amalesh Dhar, K. David Coates, Sybille Haeussler: Retention level affects dynamics of understory plant community recovery in northern temperate hemlock-cedar forests. Forest Ecology and Management 01/2018; DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.12.033

2017:

  • Karen Price, Erica B. Lilles, Allen Banner: Long-term recovery of epiphytic communities in the Great Bear Rainforest of coastal British Columbia. Forest Ecology and Management 05/2017; 391:296-308., DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2017.02.023
  • Kranabetter, J.M., Dube, S, and Lilles E.B. 2017. An investigation into the contrasting growth response of lodgepole pine and white spruce to harvest-related soil disturbance. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 47: 340-348.
  • Lilles, E., Rasmus Astrup, Marie-Lou Lefrançois, K. David Coates: Sapling leaf trait responses to light, tree height and soil nutrients for three conifer species of contrasting shade tolerance. Tree Physiology 11/2014; 34(12)., DOI:10.1093/treephys/tpu092

2014:

  • Lilles, E.B. and Coates, K.D. 2014. An Evaluation of the Main Factors Affecting Yield Differences between Single- and Mixed-species Stands.  J. Ecosys. Manage. 14:1–14.
  • Coates, K. David, Erica B. Lilles, Rasmus Astrup: Competitive interactions across a soil fertility gradient in a multispecies forest. Journal of Ecology 05/2013; 101(3):806–818., DOI:10.1111/1365-2745.12072

2012:

  • Lilles, E.B., and Astrup, R. 2012. Multiple resource limitation and ontogeny combined: a growth rate comparison of three co-occurring conifers. Can. J. For. Res. 42: 99–110.”