A regional integrated assessment of the impacts of climate change and of the potential adaptation avenues for Quebec's forests

Y Boulanger, JP Puigdevall, AC Bélisle… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - cdnsciencepub.com
Regional analyses assessing the vulnerabilities of forest ecosystems and the forest sector to
climate change are key to considering the heterogeneity of climate change impacts as well …

Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution

PHP Braga, K Hébert, EJ Hudgins… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Researchers in ecology and evolutionary biology are increasingly dependent on
computational code to conduct research. Hence, the use of efficient methods to share …

[HTML][HTML] There is still time to reconcile forest management with climate-driven declines in habitat suitability for boreal caribou

M Leblond, Y Boulanger, JP Puigdevall… - Global Ecology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Many boreal populations of woodland caribou in Canada are declining, mainly due to the
prevalence of anthropogenic disturbances which alter predator-prey dynamics. Climate …

Empowering ecological modellers with a PERFICT workflow: Seamlessly linking data, parameterisation, prediction, validation and visualisation

C Barros, Y Luo, AM Chubaty, IMS Eddy… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Modelling is widely used in ecology and its utility continues to increase as scientists,
managers and policy‐makers face pressure to effectively manage ecosystems and meet …

Will this umbrella leak? A caribou umbrella index for boreal landbird conservation

T Micheletti, S Haché, D Stralberg… - … Science and Practice, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Conservation approaches that efficiently protect multiple values, such as the umbrella
species concept, have been widely promoted with expected dramatic ecosystem changes …

PERFICT: A Re‐imagined foundation for predictive ecology

EJB McIntire, AM Chubaty, SG Cumming… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Making predictions from ecological models—and comparing them to data—offers a coherent
approach to evaluate model quality, regardless of model complexity or modelling paradigm …

Effects of global change on bird and beetle populations in boreal forest landscape: An assemblage dissimilarity analysis

I Bouderbala, G Labadie, JM Béland… - Diversity and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Despite an increasing number of studies highlighting the impacts of climate change on
boreal species, the main factors that will drive changes in species assemblages remain …

Climate‐informed forecasts reveal dramatic local habitat shifts and population uncertainty for northern boreal caribou

FEC Stewart, T Micheletti, SG Cumming… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Most research on boreal populations of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) has
been conducted in areas of high anthropogenic disturbance. However, a large portion of the …

Long-term effect of forest harvesting on boreal species assemblages under climate change

I Bouderbala, G Labadie, JM Béland, JA Tremblay… - PLOS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Logging is the main human disturbance impacting biodiversity in forest ecosystems.
However, the impact of forest harvesting on biodiversity is modulated by abiotic conditions …

Climate sensitive growth and yield models in Canadian forestry: Challenges and opportunities

JM Metsaranta, M Fortin, JC White, D Sattler… - The Forestry …, 2024 - pubs.cif-ifc.org
Growth and yield models in forest management planning are used to project future forest
conditions and estimate quantities such as wood volume and biomass. These models are …