Professor
BScF New Brunswick;
PhD Alaska

E-mail: agordon@uoguelph.ca

Professional Affiliations:

Project Director, CIDA Tier 1, "Agroforestry Practices to Enhance the Livelihoods of the Resource-Poor in Ghana"
Canadian Institute of Forestry
Soil Science Society of America
Ontario Professional Foresters Association
Association for Temperate Agroforestry
International Union of Forest Research Organizations
Ontario Forestry Association
Ontario Centres of Excellence-E-Tech
International Energy Agency, Task 30: Short Rotation Crops
International Society of Ecological Modeling
Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution

Research Programs

Ecological interactions in forest, riparian and agroforest ecosystems. Carbon dynamics, nutrient cycling, ecological modelling.

Recent Publications

Reynolds, P.E., J.A. Simpson, N.V. Thevathasan and A.M. Gordon. 2007.

Effects of tree competition on corn and soybean photosynthesis, growth and yield in a temperate tree-based agroforestry intercropping system in southern Ontario, Canada. Ecol. Engineer. 29: 362-371.

Starr, M., L. Ukonmaanaho, P.K. Sibley, P.W. Hazlett and A.M. Gordon. 2007.

Deposition in boreal forests in relation to type, size number and placement of collectors. Environ. Monitor. Assess. 125: 123-136.

Hazlett, P.W., A.M. Gordon, R.P. Voroney and P.K. Sibley. 2007.

Impact of harvesting and logging slash on nitrogen and carbon dynamics in soils from upland spruce forests in northeastern Ontario. Soil Biol. Biochem. 39: 43-57.

Oelbermann, M., R.P. Voroney, N.V. Thevathasan, A.M. Gordon, D.C.L. Kass and A.M. Schlonvoigt. 2006.

Soil carbon dynamics and residue stabilization in a Costa Rican and southern Canadian alley cropping system. Agroforestry Systems 68: 27-36.

Peichl, M., N.V. Thevathasan, A.M. Gordon J. Huss and R.A. Abohassan. 2006.

Carbon sequestration potentials in temperate tree-based intercropping systems, southern Ontario, Canada. Agroforestry Systems 66: 243-257.

Hazlett, P.W., A.M. Gordon, P.K. Sibley and J.M. Buttle. 2005.

Stand carbon stocks and soil carbon and nitrogen storage for riparian and upland forests of boreal lakes in northeastern Ontario. For. Ecol. Mgmt. 219: 56-68.

Thevathasan, N.V. and A.M. Gordon. 2004.

Ecology of tree intercropping systems in the North temperate region: Experiences from southern Ontario, Canada. Agrofor. Syst. 61: 257-268.

Hunt, S.L., A.M. Gordon, D.M. Morris and G.T. Marek. 2003.

Understory vegetation in northern Ontario jack pine and black spruce plantations: 20-year successional changes. Can. J. For. Res. 33: 1791-1803.

Gordon, A.M., D.M. Morris and A.G. Gordon. 2001.

Ecological considerations in forest regeneration and management. p. 63-90. In: Wagner, R.G. and S.J. Colombo (eds.). Regenerating the Canadian Forest: Principles and Practice for Ontario, Fitzhenry and Whiteside, Markham, Ontario.

Courses Taught

ENVB*2030 Current Issues in Forest Science (F)¹ ('06)

ENVB*4400 Forest Systems Field Camp (F) (beginning '08)

ENVB*4780 Forest Ecology (F)¹

ENVB*6560 Forest Ecosystem Dynamics (F)

Manager, Agroforestry Research and Development

Graduate Students

*co-supervise

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