Université du Québec à Montréal
Postdoctoral fellow candidate
Supervisor: Steven Kembel
Start: 2017-09-05
End: 2018-04-01
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Publications

1- Conifer epiphytic phyllosphere bacterial communities respond more strongly to rain exclusion and host species identity than to soil water content
Khlifa, Rim, Marie Renaudin, Daniel Houle, Loïc D’Orangeville, Louis Duchesne, Steven W. Kembel
2025 Forest Ecology and Management

2- Understory Species Identity Rather than Species Richness Influences Fine Root Decomposition in a Temperate Plantation
Khlifa, Rim, Denis A. Angers, Alison D. Munson
2020 Forests

3- Methodology for material flow analysis at the organizational scale
Khlifa, Rim, Sompogda Adissa Lydie Yiougo, Marc Journeault
2024 Journal of Cleaner Production

4- Long-Term Simulated Nitrogen Deposition Has Moderate Impacts on Soil Microbial Communities across Three Bioclimatic Domains of the Eastern Canadian Forest
Renaudin, Marie, Rim Khlifa, Simon Legault, Steven W. Kembel, Daniel Kneeshaw, Jean-David Moore, Daniel Houle
2023 Forests

5- Soil carbon pools are affected by species identity and productivity in a tree common garden experiment
Waring, Bonnie G., Kenneth R. Smith, Michael Belluau, Rim Khlifa, Christian Messier, Alison Munson, Alain Paquette
2022 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

6- Novel soil reconstruction leads to successful afforestation of a former asbestos mine in southern Quebec, Canada
Grimond, Laurence, David Rivest, Simon Bilodeau-Gauthier, Rim Khlifa, Raed Elferjani, Nicolas Bélanger
2023 New Forests

7- Stability of carbon pools and fluxes of a Technosol along a 7-year reclamation chronosequence at an asbestos mine in Canada
Khlifa, Rim, David Rivest, Laurence Grimond, Nicolas Bélanger
2023 Ecological Engineering

8- Tree identity and diversity directly affect soil moisture and temperature but not soil carbon ten years after planting
Martin‐Guay, Marc‐Olivier, Michaël Belluau, Benoit Côté, Ira Tanya Handa, Mark D. Jewell, Rim Khlifa, Alison D. Munson, Maxime Rivest, Joann K. Whalen, David Rivest
2022 Ecology and Evolution

9- Balsam Fir and American Beech Influence Soil Respiration Rates in Opposite Directions in a Sugar Maple Forest Near Its Northern Range Limit
Bélanger, Nicolas, Alexandre Collin, Rim Khlifa, Simon Lebel-Desrosiers
2021 Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

10- Thermal acclimation of photosynthetic activity and RuBisCO content in two hybrid poplar clones
Lahcen Benomar, Mohamed Taha Moutaoufik, Raed Elferjani, Nathalie Isabel, Annie DesRochers, Ahmed El Guellab, Rim Khlifa, Lala Amina Idrissi Hassania
2019 PLOS ONE

11- Evergreenness influences fine root growth more than tree diversity in a common garden experiment
Archambault, Chelsea, Alain Paquette, Christian Messier, Rim Khlifa, Alison D. Munson, I. Tanya Handa
2019 Oecologia

12- Tree species richness and water availability interact to affect soil microbial processes
Strukelj, Manuella, William Parker, Emmanuel Corcket, Laurent Augusto, Rim Khlifa, Hervé Jactel, Alison D. Munson
2021 Soil Biology and Biochemistry

13- Do temperate tree species diversity and identity influence soil microbial community function and composition?
Khlifa, Rim, Alain Paquette, Christian Messier, Peter B. Reich, Alison D. Munson
2017 Ecology and Evolution

14- Biomass and nutrients in tree root systems-sustainable harvesting of an intensively managedPinus pinaster(Ait.) planted forest
Augusto, Laurent, David L. Achat, Mark R. Bakker, Frederic Bernier, Didier Bert, Frederic Danjon, Rim Khlifa, Celine Meredieu, Pierre Trichet
2015 GCB Bioenergy