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...
by Audrey Verreault | 8 November 2022
Published in Physiologia Plantarum 174(6): e13798. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppl.13798 Under climate change, the increasing occurrence of late frost combined with advancing spring phenology can increase the risk of frost damage in trees. In this study, we tested the...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 7 November 2022
Published in Journal of Quaternary Science, 26: 571-575. The use of macrofossil soil charcoal as a palaeoecological tool to reconstruct past vegetation, climate or fire history has gained much interest in recent years. Yet, little is known about the taphonomy of...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 7 November 2022
Published in Ecosystems, 21: 1183-1195. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-017-0211-3 Balsam fir (Abies balsamea) and black spruce (Picea mariana) forests are the main conifer forest types in the North American boreal zone. The coexistence of the two...
