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Elyssa Cameron
Mégane Déziel
Elise Bouchard
Jon Urgoiti Otazua
Orane Mordacq
Michaël Belluau
Gauthier Lapa
Alex-Anne Couture
Vanessa Di Maurizio
Nicole Papagiannakis
Paula Andrea Morales Morales
Charlotte Langlois
Natali Caro Marin
Shan Kothari

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Integrating functional ecology to tree species distribution models & effects on ecosystem service provisionMégane Déziel

Projects

Integrating functional ecology to tree species distribution models & effects on ecosystem service provisionMégane Déziel

Publications

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access.
- Kattge, J., Bönisch, G., Díaz, S., Lavorel, S., Prentice, I. C., Leadley, P., ... & Acosta, A. T. 2020
- Glob Chang Bio
The thermal tolerances, distributions, and performances of tropical montane tree species.
- Feeley, K., Martinez-Villa, J., Perez, T., Duque, A. S., Gonzalez, D. T., & Duque, A. 2020
- Front For Glob Change
Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia
- Zohner, C. M., Mo, L., Renner, S. S., Svenning, J. C., Vitasse, Y., Benito, B. M., ... & Reich, P. B. 2020
- PNAS
Light mediates the relationship between community diversity and trait plasticity in functionally and phylogenetically diverse tree mixtures
- Williams, L. J., Cavender-Bares, J., Paquette, A., Messier, C., & Reich, P. B. 2020
- J Ecol
Plant Trait Assembly in Species-Rich Forests at Varying Elevations in the Northwest Andes of Colombia.
- Ochoa-Beltrán, Angélica, Johanna A. Martínez-Villa, Peter G. Kennedy, Beatriz Salgado-Negret, and Alvaro Duque 2021
- Land
Temporal shifts in the functional composition of Andean forests at different elevations are driven by climate change
- Johanna Andrea Martínez-Villa, Sandra M. Durán, Brian J. Enquist, Alvaro Duque, Christian Messier, Alain Paquette 2023
- Glob Ecol Biogeogr
Forêts en mouvement: vers de meilleurs prédictions des effets des changements globaux sur la distribution des arbres
- Mégane Déziel 2023
- Natura
Global patterns and environmental drivers of forest functional composition
- Elise Bouchard et al. 2024
- Glob Ecol Biogeogr
It takes a village to grow a tree: Most tree species benefit from dissimilar neighbors
- Vanessa Di Maurizio, Eric Searle, Alain Paquette 2023
- Ecol Evol
The effect of biodiversity on productivity changes over time in duckweed communities
- Alex-Anne Couture et al. 2025
- Oikos

News & outreach

Offre de maîtrise pour le projet DIVERSEFeb 2024
Actualités UQAM: plein feux sur les travaux d'Élise BouchardFeb 2024
Le CarrefourForêts avec Alain, Mégane et Vanessa.May 2023
Mégane spent the week at UBC to participate in a working group on zooplankton functional traits!Feb 2023
Johanna presents at the AGU Fall 2021 meetingJan 2022
Une nouvelle professionnelle au laboOct 2021
Des vols de drone sont en cours pour effectuer des suivis de phénologie à IDENT - A drone over IDENTJun 2021
S.O.S. : forêts québécoises menacéesNov 2019
Concours de vulgarisation de la recherche : Voyage autour de la Terre : à la découverte des forêts ! Oct 2019

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