Clément Hardy

Université du Québec à Montréal
Ph.D. candidate

Supervisor: Élise Filotas
Start: 2018-10-23
End: 2021-09-01
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Project

Comparison of the effects of even and uneven-aged forest management methods at large temporal and spatial scales.
The purpose of this project is to explore the effects of even and uneven-aged forest management methods on the supply of ecosystem services by forests, and on the resilience of this supply to global change. To do this, we use a spatially explicit modeling framework (LANDIS-II) to simulate the effects of these landscape-scale management methods over long periods of time. In particular, we have developed a simulation module of forest roads created to access cut areas. This allows us to dynamically measure the fragmentation of a managed forest landscape. For all this, we rely on data from forests located in Quebec, in the Mauricie region.

Keywords

Écologie, Modélisation spatiale, Modélisation de systèmes complexes, ecology, modeling, Simulation modeling