A5040761508- Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management
- Horticultural and Viticultural Research
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
Environment and Climate Change Canada
2016-2023
McGill University
2017-2023
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
2013-2017
Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
2013-2017
Covering 55% of Canada’s total surface area and stretching from coast to coast, the Canadian boreal zone is crucial nation’s economic ecological integrity. Although often viewed as relatively underdeveloped, it vulnerable numerous stressors such mining, forestry, anthropogenic climate change. Natural archives preserved in lake sediments can provide key insights by quantifying pre-disturbance conditions (pre-1850 CE) nature, magnitude, direction, speed environmental change induced over past...
Apple fruit firmness is one of the main attributes indicating quality at harvest. It affected by numerous factors during entire growing season. The effects weather conditions apple development are often mentioned as a result their impact on linked to firmness: size, calcium concentration, water content, etc. In this study, ‘McIntosh’ ( Malus × domestica Borkh. cv. McIntosh) harvest time were analyzed. Fruit harvested nine sites in Quebec and Ontario over 15 years (1996–2011). For each case,...
Zooplankton are relevant indicators of changes in lake water quality, used for monitoring the response aquatic ecosystems to combined effects declining acidic deposition and rising air temperatures. First, current landscape was defined from recent (2017) spatial patterns zooplankton communities 73 Quebec lakes distributed over an 800-km SW–NE gradient, spanning a wide range climate, morphometric characteristics. On large scale, we identified among-lake clustering three types assemblages...
‘Honeycrisp’ is a relatively new apple cultivar highly susceptible to physiological disorders, such as soggy breakdown. The overall objective of this study was identify preharvest weather parameters that influence the incidence breakdown over different phases fruit development. Using data and evaluation quality from three sites in Ontario, two Quebec, one site Nova Scotia 2009 2011, four Ontario 2002 2006, model for (SBI) developed predict level susceptibility apples. This uses primarily...