Martin Simard

• Centre d'étude de la forêt
• Centre d'études nordiques

Financements des 2 dernières années

Encadrements des 5 dernières années

• Anna Gaspard, Doctorat en biologie
• Emmanuelle Baby-Bouchard, Maîtrise en sciences géographiques - avec mémoire
• Julie-Pascale Labrecque-Foy, Maîtrise en biologie - avec mémoire
• Lucas Deschênes, Maîtrise en sciences géographiques - avec mémoire
• Véronique Migué, Maîtrise en sciences géographiques - avec mémoire

Travaux de recherche des 5 dernières années

Strengthening of negative fire–fuel feedbacks by large fires in eastern Canadian boreal forests Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2026. Zackary Shakeri, Dominique Arseneault, Martin Simard, Marc-André Parisien. DOI 10.1073/pnas.2512303123

Reconstructing spruce budworm outbreak severity: a comparison of paleoecological and tree-ring signals PLOS One, 2025. Marc-Antoine Leclerc, Martin Simard, Hubert Morin. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0329406

A Meta-Regression of 18 Wildfire Chronosequences Reveals Key Environmental Drivers and Knowledge Gaps in the Boreal Nitrogen Balance Global Change Biology, 2025. Hupperts, Stefan F., Berninger, Frank, Chen, Han Y. H., Fenton, Nicole, Jean, Melanie, Koster, Kajar, Larjavaara, Markku, Mack, Michelle C., Nilsson, Marie-Charlotte, Palviainen, Marjo, Prokushkin, Anatoly, Pumpanen, Jukka, Seedre, Meelis, Simard, Martin, Gundale, Michael J.. DOI 10.1111/GCB.70398

Lepidopteran scales in lake sediments as a reliable proxy for spruce budworm outbreak events in the boreal forest of Eastern Canada The Holocene, 2024. Marc-Antoine Leclerc, Martin Simard, Olivier Blarquez, Hubert Morin. DOI 10.1177/09596836241236326

Radial growth of subarctic tree and shrub species: relationships with climate and association with the greening of the forest–tundra ecotone of subarctic Québec, Canada Arctic Science, 2024. Julie-Pascale Labrecque-Foy, Anna Gaspard, Martin Simard, Stéphane Boudreau. DOI 10.1139/as-2023-0030

Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems Communications Earth & Environment, 2024. Saulnier-Talbot, Emilie, Duchesne, Eliane, Antoniades, Dermot, Arseneault, Dominique, Barnard, Christine, Berteaux, Dominique, Bhiry, Najat, Bouchard, Frederic, Boudreau, Stephane, Cazelles, Kevin, Comte, Jerome, Corbeil-Robitaille, Madeleine-Zoe, Cote, Steeve D., Couture, Raoul-Marie, de Lafontaine, Guillaume, Domine, Florent, Fauteux, Dominique, Fortier, Daniel, Garneau, Michelle, Gauthier, Gilles, Gravel, Dominique, Laurion, Isabelle, Lavoie, Martin, Lecomte, Nicolas, Legagneux, Pierre, Levesque, Esther, Naud, Marie-Jose, Paquette, Michel, Payette, Serge, Pienitz, Reinhard, Rautio, Milla, Roy, Alexandre, Royer, Alain, Simard, Martin, Vincent, Warwick F., Bety, Joel. DOI 10.1038/S43247-024-01791-Z

Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems (vol 5, 624, 2024) Communications Earth & Environment, 2024. Saulnier-Talbot, Emilie, Duchesne, Eliane, Antoniades, Dermot, Arseneault, Dominique, Barnard, Christine, Berteaux, Dominique, Bhiry, Najat, Bouchard, Frederic, Boudreau, Stephane, Cazelles, Kevin, Comte, Jerome, Corbeil-Robitaille, Madeleine-Zoe, Cote, Steeve D., Couture, Raoul-Marie, de Lafontaine, Guillaume, Domine, Florent, Fauteux, Dominique, Fortier, Daniel, Garneau, Michelle, Gauthier, Gilles, Gravel, Dominique, Laurion, Isabelle, Lavoie, Martin, Lecomte, Nicolas, Legagneux, Pierre, Levesque, Esther, Naud, Marie-Jose, Paquette, Michel, Payette, Serge, Pienitz, Reinhard, Rautio, Milla, Roy, Alexandre, Royer, Alain, Simard, Martin, Vincent, Warwick F., Bety, Joel. DOI 10.1038/S43247-024-01938-Y

Contribution de la dendrochronologie à l’étude du patrimoine bâti de la région de Québec Rabaska, 2024. Ann Delwaide, Louise Filion, Martin Simard. DOI 10.7202/1114168ar

Patterns and Drivers of Change in the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in Nunavik (Québec, Canada) over the Period 1984–2020 Atmosphere, 2023. Anna Gaspard, Martin Simard, Stéphane Boudreau. DOI 10.3390/atmos14071115

The Use of Basal Area Increment to Preserve the Multi-Decadal Climatic Signal in Shrub Growth Ring Chronologies: A Case Study of Betula glandulosa in a Rapidly Warming Environment Atmosphere, 2023. Julie-Pascale Labrecque-Foy, Sandra Angers-Blondin, Pascale Ropars, Martin Simard, Stéphane Boudreau. DOI 10.3390/atmos14020319

Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks Communications Biology, 2022. Louis De Grandpré, Maryse Marchand, Daniel D. Kneeshaw, David Paré, Dominique Boucher, Stéphane Bourassa, David Gervais, Martin Simard, Jacob M. Griffin, Deepa S. Pureswaran. DOI 10.1038/s42003-022-03407-8

Disentangling the effect of topography and microtopography on near-ground growing-season frosts at the boreal-temperate forest ecotone (Quebec, Canada) New Forests, 2021. Marquis, Benjamin, Bergeron, Yves, Simard, Martin, Tremblay, Francine. DOI 10.1007/S11056-021-09840-7

Patterns and determinants of lichen abundance and diversity across a subarctic to arctic latitudinal gradient Journal of Biogeography, 2021. Chagnon, Catherine, Simard, Martin, Boudreau, Stephane. DOI 10.1111/JBI.14233

Height growth stagnation of planted spruce in boreal mixedwoods: Importance of landscape, microsite, and growing-season frosts Forest Ecology and Management, 2021. Marquis, Benjamin, Duval, Philippe, Bergeron, Yves, Simard, Martin, Thiffault, Nelson, Tremblay, Francine. DOI 10.1016/J.FORECO.2020.118533