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Associate Professor
Ecosystem Science and Management Program


 
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Publications

Sanborn, P. 2010. Soil reconnaissance of the Fort Selkirk volcanic field, Yukon (115I/13 and 14). In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2009, K.E. MacFarlane, L.H. Weston and L.R. Blackburn (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey, pp. 293-304. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P. 2010. Topographically controlled grassland soils in the Boreal Cordillera ecozone, northwestern Canada. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 90: 89-101. Download PDF file

Smith, C. A. S., Sanborn, P. T., Bond, J. D. and Frank, G. 2009. Genesis of Turbic Cryosols on north-facing slopes in a dissected, unglaciated landscape, west-central Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 89: 611-622. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P.T. and R.P. Brockley. 2009. Decomposition of pure and mixed foliage litter in a young lodgepole pine – Sitka alder stand in the central interior of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 39: 2257-2262. Download PDF file

Brockley, R.P. and P.T. Sanborn. 2009. Effects of repeated fertilization on forest floor and mineral soil properties in young lodgepole pine and spruce forests in central British Columbia. B.C. Min. For. Range, For. Sci. Prog., Victoria, B.C. Technical Report 052. 50 p. Download PDF file

Froese, D.G., G. D. Zazula, J.A. Westgate, S.J. Preece, P.T. Sanborn, A.V. Reyes, N.J.G. Pearce. 2009. The Klondike goldfields and Pleistocene environments of Beringia. GSA Today 19 (8): 4-10. (Download PDF file)

Bois, C.H., D. T. Janzen, P. T. Sanborn, and A. L. Fredeen. 2009. Contrasting total carbon stocks between ecological site series in a sub-Boreal spruce research forest in central British Columbia. Can. J. For. Res. 39: 897–907 (Download PDF file)

Dampier, L., P. Sanborn, J. Bond, J. Clague, and S. Smith. 2009. Soil genesis in relation to glacial history in central Yukon. In: Yukon Exploration and Geology 2008, L.H. Weston, L.R. Blackburn and L.L. Lewis (eds.), Yukon Geological Survey. pp. 113-123. (Download PDF file)

Arocena, J.M., Z. Chen and P. Sanborn. 2008. Soil microstructure and solution chemistry of a compacted forest soil in a Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone in Canada. pp. 253-272 In: S. Kapur, A. Mermut, and G. Stoops (eds.) New Trends in Soil Micromorphology. Proc. 12th Int. Soil Micromorphology Meeting, Adana, Turkey, 2004. Springer Geoscience.

Sanborn, P., and T. Jull. 2008. The timing of peatland initiation in east-central British Columbia: a first look. NRESI Res. Ext. Note No. 2, Univ. Northern BC, Prince George, B.C., Canada. 11 p. (Download PDF file)

Brockley, R., and P. Sanborn. 2007. Assessing the effects of Sitka alder on the growth and foliar nutrition of young lodgepole pine in central British Columbia (SBSdw3): 9-year results. B.C. Min. For., Victoria, B.C. Extension Note 79. 8 p. (Download PDF file)

Zazula, G.D., D.G. Froese, S.A. Elias, S. Kuzmina, C. La Farge, A.V. Reyes, P.T. Sanborn, C.E. Schweger, C.A.S. Smith, and R.W. Mathewes. 2006. Vegetation buried under Dawson tephra (25,300 14C yr BP) and locally diverse late Pleistocene paleoenvironments of Goldbottom Creek, Yukon, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 242: 253–286. Download PDF file

Bond, J. and P. Sanborn. 2006. Morphology and geochemistry of soils formed on colluviated weathered bedrock case studies from unglaciated upland slopes in west-central Yukon. YGS Open File Report 2006-19. Yukon Geological Survey, Whitehorse, Yukon. Download PDF file

Kranabetter, J.M., P. Sanborn, B.K. Chapman, and S. Dube. 2006. The contrasting response to soil disturbance between lodgepole pine and hybrid white spruce in subboreal forests. Soil Science Society of America Journal 70: 1591-1599. Download PDF file

Marsh, J., S. Nouvet, P. Sanborn, and D. Coxson. 2006. Composition and function of biological soil crust communities along topographic gradients in grasslands of central interior British Columbia (Chilcotin) and southwestern Yukon (Kluane). Canadian Journal of Botany 84:717-736. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., S. Smith, D. Froese, G. Zazula, and J. Westgate. 2006. Full-glacial paleosols in perennially frozen loess sequences, Klondike goldfields, Yukon Territory, Canada. Quaternary Research 66:147-157 Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., Geertsema, M., Jull, A.J.T., and Hawkes, B. 2006. Soil and sedimentary charcoal evidence for Holocene forest fires in an inland temperate rainforest, east-central British Columbia, Canada. The Holocene 16: 415-427. Download PDF file

Fleming, R.L., R.F. Powers, N.W. Foster, J.M. Kranabetter, D.A. Scott, F.Ponder Jr., S. Berch, W.K. Chapman, R.D. Kabzems, K.H. Ludovici, D.M. Morris, D.S. Page-Dumroese, P.T. Sanborn, F.G. Sanchez, D.M. Stone, and A.E. Tiarks. 2006. Effects of organic matter removal, soil compaction, and vegetation control on 5-year seedling performance: a regional comparison of Long-Term Soil Productivity sites. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36:529-550. Download PDF file

Sanchez, F.G., A.E. Tiarks, J.M. Kranabetter, D.S. Page-Dumroese, R.F. Powers, P.T. Sanborn, and W.K. Chapman. 2006. Effects of organic matter removal and soil compaction on fifth-year mineral soil carbon and nitrogen contents for sites across the United States and Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 36: 565-576. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., J. Prietzel, and R. Brockley. 2005. Soil and lodgepole pine foliar responses to two fertilizer sulphur forms, Sub-Boreal Spruce zone, central interior British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 2316-2322. Download PDF file

Fredeen, A.L., C.H. Bois, D.T. Janzen, and P.T. Sanborn. 2005. Comparison of coniferous forest carbon stocks between old-growth and young second-growth forests on two soil types in central British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 1411-1421. Download PDF file

Strickland, A. J., Arocena, J. M., Sanborn, P. and Smith, C.A.S. 2005. Secondary mineral formation in the White River tephra in grassland and forest soils in central Yukon Territory. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 85: 637-648. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., R. Brockley, B. Mayer, M. Yun., and J. Prietzel. 2005. Sulphur fertilization of lodgepole pine: a stable isotope tracer study (E.P. 886.15). Establishment report. B.C. Min. For., Victoria. Technical Report 020. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., and R. P. Brockley. 2005. Sulphur deficiencies in lodgepole pine: occurrence, diagnosis, and treatment. B.C. Min. For., Victoria. Extension Note71. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., C. Bulmer, and D. Coopersmith. 2004. Use of wood waste in rehabilitation of landings constructed on fine-textured soils, central interior British Columbia, Canada. Western Journal of Applied Forestry. 19: 175-183. Download PDF file

Brockley, R. and P. Sanborn. 2003. Effects of Sitka alder on the growth and foliar nutrition of young lodgepole pine in the central Interior of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 33: 1761-1771. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., C. Preston, and R. Brockley. 2002. N2-fixation by Sitka alder in a young lodgepole pine stand in central interior British Columbia, Canada. For. Ecol. Manage. 167:223-231. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P. 2001. Hardwood influence on soil chemical properties: a retrospective study in the Sub-Boreal Spruce Zone, British Columbia. Plant and Soil 236: 75-82. Download PDF file

Sanborn, P., C. Preston, and R. Brockley. 2001. Effects of Sitka Alder Retention and Removal on the Growth of Young Lodgepole Pine in the Central Interior of British Columbia (E.P. 1185): Establishment Report. Res. Br., Min. For., Victoria, B.C., Working Paper 60.

Arocena, L. and P. Sanborn. 1999. Mineralogy and genesis of selected soils and their implications for forest management in central and northeastern British Columbia. Can. J. Soil Sci. 79: 571-592. Download PDF file