Concordia University
Ph.D. candidate
Supervisor: Eric Pedersen
Start: 2021-01-13

Project

Threshold responses of spatially structured marine communities.
To identify the spatial and temporal structure of marine species' functional signals to external pressures (e.g., human activities such as fishing and environmental factors such as climate change) to improve early detection of regime shifts.

Keywords

marine communities, regime shifts, spatial-temporal models, species distribution models, species functional traits, phylogenetic relationships

Publications

1- Midge-inferred temperature reconstructions and vegetation change over the last ~15,000 years from Trout Lake, northern Yukon Territory, eastern Beringia
Irvine, Fonya, Les C. Cwynar, Jesse C. Vermaire, Andrew B. H. Rees
2012 Journal of Paleolimnology