Stéphane Boudreau (Regular member)

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Alexandre-Vachon Building
Université Laval
1045 avenue de la Médecine
Québec, Canada
G1V 0A6

Phone: (418) 656-2131 ext. 3857
Email: stephane.boudreau@bio.ulaval.ca



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Northern Research Chair on Disturbance Ecology

Presentation

Research theme
• Regeneration ecology.
• Plants/herbivores relationships.
• Natural and anthropogenic disturbances.
• Ecological processes responsible for biodiversity conservation.

Scientific communications
Boudreau, S., Villeneuve Simard, M.-P., 2012. Dendrochronological evidence of shrub growth suppression by trees in a subarctic lichen woodland. Botany, 90 (2) : 151-156. DOI: 10.1139/b11-089.
Dufour-Tremblay, G., De Vriendt, L., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2012. The importance of ecological constraints on the control of multi-species treeline dynamics in eastern Nunavik, Québec. American Journal of Botany, 99 (10) : 1638-1646. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1200279.
Dufour-Tremblay, G., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2012. Dynamics at the treeline: differential responses of Picea mariana and Larix laricina to climate change in eastern subarctic Québec. Environmental Research Letters, 7 (4) : 044038. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/4/044038.
Lévesque, E., Hermanutz, L., Gérin-Lajoie, J., Bell, T., Boudreau, S., Cuerrier, A., Jacobs, J., Laroque, C., Lavallée, C., Siegwart Collier, L., Tremblay, B., 2012. Trends in vegetation dynamics and impacts on berry production. Pages 223-247 dans Allard, M., Lemay, M. (Éditeurs). Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: From science to policy. An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization. ArcticNet Inc. Québec, Québec, Canada.
Lévesque, E., Hermanutz, L., Gérin-Lajoie, J., Bell, T., Boudreau, S., Cuerrier, A., Jacobs, J., Laroque, C., Lavallée, C., Siegwart Collier, L., Tremblay, B., 2012. Trends in vegetation dynamics and impacts on berry productivity. Pages 223-248 dans Allard, M., Lemay, M. (Éditeurs). Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: From science to policy. An Integrated Regional Impact Study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization. ArcticNet Inc. Québec, Québec, Canada.
McManus, K.M., Morton, D.C., Masek, J.G., Wang, D., Sexton, J.O., Nagol, J.R., Ropars, P., Boudreau, S., 2012. Satellite-based evidence for shrub and graminoid tundra expansion in northern Quebec from 1986 to 2010. Global Change Biology, 18 (7) : 2313–2323. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02708.x.
Ropars, P., Boudreau, S., 2012. Shrub expansion at the forest-tundra ecotone: spatial heterogeneity linked to local topography. Environmental Research Letters, 7 : 015501. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/1/015501.
Tremblay, B., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2012. Recent expansion of erect shrubs in the Low Arctic: evidence from Eastern Nunavik. Environmental Research Letters, 7 (3) : 035501. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/7/3/035501.
Dufour-Tremblay, G., Boudreau, S., 2011. Black spruce regeneration at the treeline ecotone: synergistic impacts of climate change and caribou activity. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 41 (3) : 460-468. DOI: 10.1139/X10-183.
Myers-Smith, I., Forbes, B.C., Wilmking, M., Hallinger, M., Lantz, T., Blok, D., Tape, K.D., Macias-Fauria, M., Sass-Klaassen, U., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., Ropars, P., Hermanutz, L., Trant, A., Collier, L.S., Weijers, S., Rozema, J., Rayback, S.A., Schmidt, N.M., Schaepman-Strub, G., Wipf, S., Rixen, C., Ménard, C.B., Venn, S., Goetz, S., Andreu-Hayles, L., Elmendorf, S., Ravolainen, V., Welker, J., Grogan, P., Epstein, H.E., Hik, D., 2011. Shrub expansion in tundra ecosystems : dynamics, impacts and research priorities. Environmental Research Letters, 6 : 045509. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/4/045509.
Boudreau, S., 2010. Dendroécologie des habitats fauniques. Pages 485-508 dans Payette, S., Filion, L. (Éditeurs). La dendroécologie - Principes, méthodes et applications. Presses de l’Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
Boudreau, S., Ropars, P., Harper, K., 2010. Population dynamics of Empetrum hermaphroditum (Ericaceae) on a subarctic sand dune: Evidence of rapid colonization through efficient sexual reproduction. American Journal of Botany, 97 (5) : 770-781. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900304.
Deshaies, A., Boudreau, S., Harper, K., 2009. Assisted revegetation in a subarctic environment: effects of fertilization on the performance of three indigenous plant species. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 41 (4) : 434-441. DOI: 10.1657/1938-4246-41.4.434.
Faure-Lacroix, J., Boudreau, S., 2009. Tolerance to sand burial, trampling, and drought of two subarctic coastal plant species (Leymus mollis and Trisetum spicatum). Arctic, 62 (4) : 418-428.

CEN Students
Angers-Blondin, Sandra (M.Sc.). Colonization and expansion dynamics of a clonal plant species through sexual reproduction: the case of crowberry (Empetrum hermaphroditum) on a subarctic sand dune.
Denis, Marie-Pier (M.Sc.). Shrub expansion and pollen in the Boniface river region.
Mercier, Caroline (M.Sc.). Effects of black spruce cover and artificial climatic conditions on the performance of Betula glandulosa at Québec’s.
Paradis, Mélissa (M.Sc.). Development of vertical structure of Betula glandulosa: Impacts on snow depth and soil temperature.
Ropars, Pascale (Ph.D.). Dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa Michx.) response to recent climate change: implication for the forest tundra ecotone.
Villeneuve Simard, Marie-Pascale (M.Sc.). Postfire reproductive strategies of Empetrum nigrum along a 2000-year-old fire chronosequence at the arctic tree line.

Recent CEN`s theses
Dufour-Tremblay, Geneviève, 2012 (M.Sc.). Recent treeline dynamics in the east of the subarctic region of Quebec: ecological analysis of two tree species (Larix laricina and Picea mariana).
Boulanger-Lapointe, Noémie, 2011 (M.Sc. - Co-director). A study of arctic willow populations in the High-Arctic of Canada and Greenland.
Dumais, Catherine, 2011 (M.Sc.). Performance analysis of shrub species along an altitudinal gradient in the national park of the gaspésie.
, 2011Ropars, Pascale (M.Sc.). Postfire shrub dynamic in lichen woodland.
Vachon, Mélissa, 2009 (M.Sc.). Impact of the construction and flooding of the hydroelectric reservoir of La Grande Complex on the migratory (Rangifer tarandus) caribou activity.

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