Université de Montréal
Candidat Ph.D.
superviseur(e): Pierre Legendre
Marie-Josée Fortin, University of Toronto
Début: 2016-01-04
Fin: 2019-09-01
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Projet

Spatio-temporal responses of trees in the boreal-temperate ecotone to climate change
As temperatures increase, optimal climatic niches of many species are predicted to move northward by hundreds of kilometers beyond their current limits, and thus we might expect geographic range shifts. However, many non-climatic factors might vary along these climatic gradients, such as human-induced disturbances, interspecific competition and soil characteristics, with the potential to stop, slow down or accelerate potential range shifts. Much of my current research centers around understanding and disentangling the influence of these factors on forest communities from 3 different points of view: (1) ß diversity and community composition, (2) community transition dynamics and (3) demographic rates. To address these challenges, I use a long-term dataset (1970-2016) of ca. 6000 permanent forest plots from Quebec.

Mots-clés

Conservation, Changements climatiques/Climate changes, beta-diversity, community ecology

Publications

1- Analysing ecological networks of species interactions
Delmas, Eva, Mathilde Besson, Marie-Hélène Brice, Laura A. Burkle, Giulio V. Dalla Riva, Marie-Josée Fortin, Dominique Gravel, Paulo R. Guimarães, David H. Hembry, Erica A. Newman, Jens M. Olesen, Mathias M. Pires, Justin D. Yeakel, Timothée Poisot
2018 Biological Reviews

2- Does urbanization lead to taxonomic and functional homogenization in riparian forests?
Brice, Marie-Hélène, Stéphanie Pellerin, Monique Poulin,
2017 Diversity and Distributions

3- Environmental filtering and spatial processes in urban riparian forests
Brice, Marie-Hélène, Stéphanie Pellerin, Monique Poulin,
2016 Journal of Vegetation Science

4- Liana Distribution in Response to Urbanization in Temperate Forests
Brice, Marie-Hélène, Alexandre Bergeron, Stéphanie Pellerin
2014 Ecoscience

5- Homogenization of freshwater lakes: recent compositional shifts in fish communities are explained by gamefish movement and not climate change
Cazelles, Kevin, Timothy Bartley, Matthew M. Guzzo, Marie‐Hélène Brice, Andrew S. MacDougall, Joseph R. Bennett, Ellen H. Esch, Taku Kadoya, Jocelyn Kelly, Shin‐ichiro Matsuzaki, Karin A. Nilsson, Kevin S. McCann
2019 Global Change Biology

6- Disturbances amplify tree community responses to climate change in the temperate–boreal ecotone
Brice, Marie‐Hélène, Kevin Cazelles, Pierre Legendre, Marie‐Josée Fortin,
2019 Global Ecology and Biogeography

7- Long-term impact of a major ice storm on tree mortality in an old-growth forest
Deschênes, Élise, Marie-Hélène Brice, Jacques Brisson
2019 Forest Ecology and Management