by Audrey Verreault | 10 April 2020
Published in Nature Communications 10: 1265. doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09265-z Predicting future ecosystem dynamics depends critically on an improved understanding of how disturbances and climate change have driven long-term ecological changes in the past. Here we...
by Audrey Verreault | 10 April 2020
Published in Journal of Applied Ecology 56(3): 758-768 It has recently been reported that changing precipitation patterns increase tree mortality and reduce biomass accumulation in northern temperate and boreal forests. Functional diversity can mitigate the impacts of...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 4 April 2019
Forestry research paper No. 7 This report demonstrates the suitability of using multiple regression and principal component analyses for growth prediction and phytosociological studies in black spruce forests of eastern Canada. The data come from 125 black spruce...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 6 March 2019
Published in Trees https://doi.org/0.1007/s00468-013-0899-4. Tree growth in most boreal forests is strongly regulated by temperature and nitrogen (N) availability. The expected increases in soil temperature and N deposition over the next decades have the potential to...
by Marie-Claude Boileau | 5 March 2019
Published in Quaternary Research: 91(2): 650-664 https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2018.101 Paludification is the most common process of peatland formation in boreal regions. In this study, we investigated the autogenic (e.g., topography) and allogenic (fire and climate)...
