The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) is pursuing a collaborative, national level initiative to develop climate-sensitive growth and yield models. The ultimate outcome is envisioned to be a national-level open-source approach, applicable in both managed and unmanaged forests, drawing from a diversity of approaches and models and having characteristics of interoperability, modularity, scalability, and complementarity with models developed by provincial and territorial forest management agencies. The climate-sensitive growth and yield modelling initiative will help advance the understanding of how climate change is affecting forest growth or mortality in the present and how future forests will be affected by these changes. Developing more accurate and reliable growth and yield models will support the sustainable management of forest resources.
