Audréanne Loiselle

Université Laval | ULAVAL · Department of Phytology

Questions How does the type of swamp, that is, riverine vs palustrine, shape understorey and overstorey plant communities? Beyond swamp type, how do spatial, topographic, soil and landscape characteristics determine the taxonomic and functional structure of swamp communities? Location Southern Québec, Canada. Methods We sampled riverine and palus...

The alteration of environmental conditions has two major outcomes on the demographics of living organisms: population decline of the common species and extinction of the rarest ones. Halting the decline of abundant species as well as the erosion of biodiversity require solutions that may be mismatched, despite being rooted in similar causes. In thi...

Lake-edge wetland types result from the influence of various hydrogeomorphological (HGM) predictors, such as water level, hydroperiod, and elevation. Climate and land-use changes could induce variations in lake water levels, and subsequently trigger changes in wetland type and area. This study aims to determine whether HGM predictors alone can be u...

L’ objectif de cette étude était de caractériser les communautés forestières du parc national du Mont-Saint-Bruno. Plus particulièrement, nous voulions trouver les sites présentant un caractère unique quant à leur composition floristique et déterminer comment cette unicité était associée à diverses variables environnementales. Nous avons aussi éval...

Land use changes pose major threats to biodiversity. In this study, we analysed the impacts of urbanization and agricultural legacy on plant communities of isolated wetlands (Laval, Québec, Canada). We sampled 35 marshes and 32 swamps. We used multi-factor analysis of variance to compare taxonomic richness and functional diversity between wetland t...