About the Authors

Mark Baah-Acheamfour

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Baah-Acheamfour, Charles P.-A. Bourque, Fan-Rui Meng, D. Edwin Swift

Affiliation Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

Charles P.-A. Bourque

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Baah-Acheamfour, Charles P.-A. Bourque, Fan-Rui Meng, D. Edwin Swift

cbourque@unb.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

Fan-Rui Meng

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Baah-Acheamfour, Charles P.-A. Bourque, Fan-Rui Meng, D. Edwin Swift

Affiliation Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New Brunswick, New Brunswick, Canada

D. Edwin Swift

Contributed equally to this work with: Mark Baah-Acheamfour, Charles P.-A. Bourque, Fan-Rui Meng, D. Edwin Swift

Affiliation Canadian Wood Fibre Centre, Canadian Forest Service-Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Formal analysis: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Investigation: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Methodology: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Resources: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Software: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Validation: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Writing – original draft: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES. Writing – review & editing: MB-A CP-AB F-RM DES.