Search Results - "Filotas, Elise"

Increased unpredictability in spruce budworm outbreaks following habitat loss and landscape fragmentation by McNie, Pierce, Kneeshaw, Daniel, Filotas, Élise

“…The spruce budworm (SBW) is the insect defoliator responsible for the greatest tree mortality in North America. Fragmentation and loss of habitat are expected…”
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Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research by Gonzalez, Andrew, Germain, Rachel M., Srivastava, Diane S., Filotas, Elise, Dee, Laura E., Gravel, Dominique, Thompson, Patrick L., Isbell, Forest, Wang, Shaopeng, Kéfi, Sonia, Montoya, Jose, Zelnik, Yuval R., Loreau, Michel, Brose, Ulrich

“…A rich body of knowledge links biodiversity to ecosystem functioning (BEF), but it is primarily focused on small scales. We review the current theory and…”
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Biodiversity as insurance: from concept to measurement and application by Loreau, Michel, Barbier, Matthieu, Filotas, Elise, Gravel, Dominique, Isbell, Forest, Miller, Steve J., Montoya, Jose M., Wang, Shaopeng, Aussenac, Raphaël, Germain, Rachel, Thompson, Patrick L., Gonzalez, Andrew, Dee, Laura E.

“…ABSTRACT Biological insurance theory predicts that, in a variable environment, aggregate ecosystem properties will vary less in more diverse communities…”
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Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale by Hardy, Clément, Messier, Christian, Boulanger, Yan, Cyr, Dominic, Filotas, Élise

“…Context Uneven-aged forest management is sometimes seen as offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services,…”
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Evaluating forest resilience to global threats using functional response traits and network properties by Aquilué, Núria, Filotas, Élise, Craven, Dylan, Fortin, Marie-Josée, Brotons, Lluís, Messier, Christian

“…Ecosystem functions provided by forests are threatened by direct and indirect effects of global change drivers such as climate warming land-use change,…”
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Response diversity, functional redundancy, and post-logging productivity in northern temperate and boreal forests by Correia, David Laginha Pinto, Raulier, Frédéric, Bouchard, Mathieu, Filotas, Élise

“…The development of efficient ecosystem resilience indicators was identified as one of the key research priorities in the improvement of existing sustainable…”
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Maximizing Conservation and Production with Intensive Forest Management: It’s All About Location by Tittler, Rebecca, Filotas, Élise, Kroese, Jasmin, Messier, Christian

“…Functional zoning has been suggested as a way to balance the needs of a viable forest industry with those of healthy ecosystems. Under this system, part of the…”
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TAMM review: On the importance of tap and tree characteristics in maple sugaring by Rademacher, Tim, Cliche, Michaël, Bouchard, Élise, Kurokawa, Sara Yumi Sassamoto, Rapp, Joshua, Deslauriers, Annie, Messier, Christian, Rossi, Sergio, Dupras, Jérôme, Filotas, Élise, Delagrange, Sylvain

“…•Maple sugaring is an important and rapidly expanding industry in eastern North America with a long and rich history, yet there is to-date no review on the…”
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The role of dispersal, selection, and timing of sampling on the false discovery rate of loci under selection during geographic range expansion by Mayrand, Paul, Filotas, Élise, Wittische, Julian, James, Patrick M A

“…Identifying adaptive loci is important to understand the evolutionary potential of species undergoing range expansion. However, in expanding populations,…”
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Stand height and cover type complement forest age structure as a biodiversity indicator in boreal and northern temperate forest management by Laginha Pinto Correia, David, Raulier, Frédéric, Filotas, Élise, Bouchard, Mathieu

“…•Stand cover type and height explained changes in beta diversity better than age.•Stand characteristics were better than climate at predicting beta…”
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From white to green gold: Digging into public expectations and preferences for ecological restoration of asbestos mines in southeastern Quebec, Canada by Lévesque, Ann, Bélanger, Nicolas, Poder, Thomas G., Filotas, Élise, Dupras, Jérôme

“…•Despite an attachment to their mining heritage, residents want mine reclamation.•Individual preferences for ecological restoration scenarios are…”
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The effect of positive interactions on community structure in a multi-species metacommunity model along an environmental gradient by Filotas, Elise, Grant, Martin, Parrott, Lael, Rikvold, Per Arne

“…Positive interactions are widely recognized as playing a major role in the organization of community structure and diversity. As such, recent theoretical and…”
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Positive interactions and the emergence of community structure in metacommunities by Filotas, Elise, Grant, Martin, Parrott, Lael, Rikvold, Per Arne

“…The significant role of space in maintaining species coexistence and determining community structure and function is well established. However, community…”
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Landscape‐scale patterns of eastern spruce budworm outbreak risk: Defoliation onset vs. tree mortality by McNie, Pierce, Kneeshaw, Daniel, Filotas, Élise

“…The stand‐level risk of both defoliation and mortality due to the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana, Clem., SBW) is mainly linked to the quality of the…”
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Disentangling the effect of drought on stand mortality and productivity in northern temperate and boreal forests by Laginha Pinto Correia, David, Bouchard, Mathieu, Filotas, Élise, Raulier, Frédéric, Mori, Akira

“…It has recently been reported that changing precipitation patterns increase tree mortality and reduce biomass accumulation in northern temperate and boreal…”
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Trade-offs between timber production, carbon stocking and habitat quality when managing woodlots for multiple ecosystem services by CARPENTIER, SOPHIE, FILOTAS, ELISE, HANDA, I. TANYA, MESSIER, CHRISTIAN

“…Managing for multiple ecosystem services is a growing issue for forest managers. As trade-offs arise between conflicting management objectives, stakeholders…”
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Dealing with Non-linearity and Uncertainty in Forest Management by Messier, Christian, Puettmann, Klaus, Filotas, Elise, Coates, Dave

“…Forest managers today are struggling with the great uncertainties and rapid changes in many biophysical and socioeconomic aspects of their work. We argue in…”
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Viewing forests through the lens of complex systems science by Filotas, Elise, Parrott, Lael, Burton, Philip J, Chazdon, Robin L, Coates, K. David, Coll, Lluís, Haeussler, Sybille, Martin, Kathy, Nocentini, Susanna, Puettmann, Klaus J, Putz, Francis E, Simard, Suzanne W, Messier, Christian

“…Complex systems science provides a transdisciplinary framework to study systems characterized by (1) heterogeneity, (2) hierarchy, (3) self-organization, (4)…”
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Epidemiological landscape models reproduce cyclic insect outbreaks by Nenzén, Hedvig K., Filotas, Elise, Peres-Neto, Pedro, Gravel, Dominique

“…•Forest insect outbreaks can have large impacts on ecosystems and should be modelled.•We propose a new process-based landscape model of insect outbreaks.•The…”
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Critical slowing down as an indicator of transitions in two-species models by Chisholm, Ryan A., Filotas, Elise

“…Transitions in ecological systems often occur without apparent warning, and may represent shifts between alternative persistent states. Decreasing ecological…”
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