Pascale Ropars

Department of biology, chemistry and geography, UQAR

Alexandre-Vachon Building
1045 avenue de la Médecine
UQAR
Quebec, Canada
G1V 0A6

418.723.1986 extension 1236
pascale.ropars@uqar.ca

Polar data catalogue metadata

• CCIN 12890 - Tundra Nunavik: Set of 27 gridded climate variables representative of 1981-2010
• CCIN 12891 - Tundra Nunavik: Distribution of birds and mammals in Nunavik during 1981-2010
• CCIN 12892 - Tundra Nunavik: Functional traits of mammal and bird species
• CCIN 12893 - Tundra Nunavik: Set of 27 gridded climate variables projected during the 21st century under 10 climate change scenarios
• CCIN 12894 - Tundra Nunavik: Potential future distribution of birds and mammals in Nunavik projected during the 21st century under climate change
• CCIN 12895 - Tundra Nunavik: Matrix of trophic relations

Scientific communications

Barrette, C., Brown, R.D., Way, R., Mailhot, A., Diaconescu, E.P., Grenier, P., Chaumont, D., Dumont, D., Sévigny, C., Howell, S., Senneville, S., 2020. Nunavik and Nunatsiavut regional climate information update . Ropars, P., Allard, M., Lemay, M. (Editors). Nunavik and Nunatsiavut: From science to policy, an integrated regional impact study (IRIS) of climate change and modernization, second iteration. ArcticNet. Quebec, Canada.

Buchwal, A., Sullivan, P.F., Macias-Fauria, M., Post, E., Myers-Smith, I.H., Stroeve, J.C., Blok, D., Tape, K.D., Forbes, B.C., Ropars, P., Lévesque, E., Elberling, B., Angers-Blondin, S., Boyle, J.S., Boudreau, S., Boulanger-Lapointe, N., Gamm, C., Hallinger, M., Rachelwicz, G., Young, A., Zetterberg, P., Welker, J.M., Jørgensen, R.H., Buras, A., Naito, A.T., Ravolainen, V., Schaepman-Strub, G., 2020. Divergence of arctic shrub growth associated with sea ice decline. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 117(52): 33334-33344. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2013311117.

Ropars, P., Simard, M., Boudreau, S., 2020. Le rôle des herbivores vertébrés sur la dynamique des communautés végétales au Nunavik. Le Naturaliste Canadien, 144(1): 24-36. DOI: 10.7202/1068216ar.

Legagneux, P., Casajus, N., Cazelles, K., Chevallier, C., Chevrinais, M., Guéry, L., Jacquet, C., Jaffré, M., Naud, M.-J., Noisette, F., Ropars, P., Vissault, S., Archambault, P., Bêty, J., Berteaux, D., Gravel, D., 2018. Our house is burning: discrepancy in climate change vs biodiversity coverage in the media as compared to scientific literature. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 5, 175. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2017.00175.

Ropars, P., Angers-Blondin, S., Gagnon, M., Myers-Smith, I., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2017. Different parts, different stories: climate sensitivity of growth is stronger in root collars versus stems in tundra shrubs. Global Change Biology, 23(8): 3281-3291. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13631.

Ropars, P., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2015. How do climate and topography influence the greening of the forest-tundra ecotone in northern Québec? A dendrochronological analysis of Betula glandulosa. Journal of Ecology, 103(3): 679-690. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.12394 .

Ropars, P., Lévesque, E., Boudreau, S., 2015. Shrub densification heterogeneity in subarctic regions: the relative influence of historical and topographic variables. Écoscience, 22(2-4): 83-95. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2015.1107262.

Dumais, C., Ropars, P., Denis, M.-P., Dufour-Tremblay, G., Boudreau, S., 2014. Are low altitude alpine tundra ecosystems under threat? A case study from the Parc National de la Gaspésie, Québec. Environmental Research Letters, 9(9): 094001. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/9/094001.

Plante, S., Champagne, É., Ropars, P., Boudreau, S., Lévesque, E., Tremblay, B., Tremblay, J.-P., 2014. Shrub cover in northern Nunavik: can herbivores limit shrub expansion? Polar Biology, 37(5): 611-619. DOI: 10.1007/s00300-014-1461-6.