by Marie-Claude Boileau | 14 November 2022
Published in Forest Ecology and Management, 485: 118954. The dynamics of the boreal forest have followed several successional trajectories during the Holocene caused by recurrent stand-scale, abiotic and biotic disturbances. Under stable environmental conditions, site...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 November 2022
Published in Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 46: 822-831. In the St-Lawrence Lowlands, sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) is considered the dominant species of old-growth deciduous forests, whereas red maple (Acer rubrum L.) tends to dominate sites recently...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 November 2022
Published in The Holocene, 25: 1246-1256. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959683615580863 Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is a shade-tolerant tree species of the temperate conifer-hardwood forests of northeastern North America, the northern distribution limit of which...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 November 2022
Published in Forest Ecology and Management, 433: 376-385. Analysis and ¹⁴C dating of charcoal fragments ≥ 2 mm buried in mineral soils make it possible to obtain a stand-scale portrait of Holocene fires that occurred in well-drained, fire-prone environments, as well...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 11 November 2022
Published in Botany, 95: 697-707 https://doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2016-0319 Plant species are unique in their biological traits and biogeographical history, resulting in distinctive species distributions. Continuous and fragmented ranges of varying size and shape have...
