Supervising:

Béatrice Dupuis (Master student)

David Querry (Master student)

Zahed Shakeri (Ph.D. student)

Co-supervising:

Jeanne Vermette (Master student)

Recent Theses and Dissertations

Feng Wang (Doctorate - 2021)
Millennial reconstruction of eastern North American summer temperatures from maximum end-wood density of annual tree rings

Scientific Communications

Büntgen, U., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Churakova, O.V., Gennaretti, F., Crivellaro, A., Hughes, M.K., Kirdyanov, A., Klippel, L., Krusic, P.J., Linderholm, H.W., Ljungqvist, F.C., Ludescher, J., McCormick, M., Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Piermattei, A., Oppenheimer, C., Reinig, F., Sigl, M., Vaganov, E.A., Esper, J., 2022. Recognising bias in Common Era temperature reconstructions. Dendrochronologia, 74, 125982. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2022.125982.

Dawe, D.A., Parisien, M.-A., Boulanger, Y., Boucher, J., Beauchemin, A., Arseneault, D., 2022. Short- and long-term wildfire threat when adapting infrastructure for wildlife conservation in the boreal forest. Ecological Applications, 32(6), e2606. DOI: 10.1002/eap.2606.

Marchais, M., Arseneault, D., Bergeron, Y., 2022. The rapid expansion of Populus tremuloides due to anthropogenic disturbances in eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 52(7): 991-1001. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2022-0082.

Margolis, E.Q., Guiterman, C.H., Chavardès, R.D., Coop, J.D., Copes-Gerbitz, K., Dawe, D.A., Falk, D.A., Johnston, J.D., Larson, E., Arseneault, D., Li, H., Marschall, J.M., Naficy, C.E., Naito, A.T., Parisien, M.-A., Parks, S.A., Portier, J., Poulos, H.M., Robertson, K.M., Speer, J.H., Stambaugh, M., Swetnam, T.W., Tepley, A.J., Thapa, I., Allen, C.D., Bergeron, Y., Daniels, L.D., Fulé, P.Z., Gervais, D., Girardin, M.P., Harley, G.L., Harvey, J.E., Hoffman, K.M., Huffman, J.M., Hurteau, M.D., Johnson, L.B., 2022. The North American tree‐ring fire‐scar network. Ecosphere, 13(7), e4159. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.4159.

Wang, F., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Gennaretti, F., Yu, S., Zhang, T., 2022. Tropical volcanoes synchronize eastern Canada with Northern Hemisphere millennial temperature variability. Nature Communications, 13, 5042. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-32682-6.

Arseneault, D., Erni, S., Héon, J., Bégin, Y., 2021. Le climat et les très grands feux à la Baie de James. Pages 71-77 dans Utilisation des archives naturelles pour la reconstitution du passé hydro-climatique. Dossier public 8768, Commission géologique du Canada. DOI: 10.4095/328045.

Baltzer, J.L., Day, N.J., Walker, X.J., Greene, D.M., Mack, M.C., Alexander, H.D., Arseneault, D., Barnes, J., Bergeron, Y., Boucher, Y., Bourgeau-Chavez, L., Brown, C.D., Carrière, S., Howard, B.K., Gauthier, S., Parisien, M.-A., Reid, K.A., Rogers, B.M., Roland, C.H., Sirois, L., Stehn, S., Thompson, D.K., Turetsky, M.R., Veraverbeke, S., Whitman, E., Yang, J., Johnstone, J.F., 2021. Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 118(45), e2024872118. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2024872118.

Berguet, C., Martin, M., Arseneault, D., Morin, H., 2021. Spatiotemporal dynamics of 20th-century spruce budworm outbreaks in Eastern Canada: Three distinct patterns of outbreak severity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 544088. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.544088.

Boucher, Y., Auger, I., Arseneault, D., Elzein, T., Sirois, L., 2021. Long-term (1925–2015) forest structure reorganization in an actively managed temperate-boreal forest region of eastern North America. Forest Ecology and Management, 481, 118744. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118744.

Büntgen, U., Allen, K., Anchukaitis, K.J., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Bräuning, A., Chatterjee, S., Cherubini, P., Churakova (Sidorova), O.V., Corona, C., Gennaretti, F., Grießinger, J., Guillet, S., Guiot, J., Gunnarson, B., Helama, S., Hochreuther, P., Hughes, M.K., Huybers, P., Kirdyanov, A.V., Krusic, P.J., Ludescher, J., Meier, W.J.-H, Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Oppenheimer, C., Reinig, F., Salzer, M.W., Seftigen, K., Stine, A.R., Stoffel, M., St. George, S., Tejedor, E., Trevino, A., Trouet, V., Wang, J., Wilson, R., Yang, B., Xu, G., Esper, J., 2021. The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions. Nature Communications, 12, 3411. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-23627-6.

Danneyrolles, V., Vellende, M., Dupuis, S., Boucher, Y., Laflamme, J., Bergeron, Y., Fortin, G., Leroyer, M., de Römer, A., Terrail, R., Arseneault, D., 2021. Scale‐dependent changes in tree diversity over more than a century in eastern Canada: Landscape diversification and regional homogenization. Journal of Ecology, 109(1): 273-283. DOI: 10.1111/1365-2745.13474.

Delwaide, A., Asselin, H., Arseneault, D., Lavoie, C., Payette, S., 2021. A 2233-year tree-ring chronology of subarctic black spruce (Picea mariana): growth forms response to long-term climate change. Écoscience, 28(3-4): 399-419. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2021.1952014.

Gauthray-Guyénet, V., Schneider, R., Alexis, A., Fortin, M., Paré, D., Arseneault, D., 2021. Legacy of forest composition and changes over the long-term on tree radial growth. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 51(10): 1501-1511. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2020-0395.

Gennaretti, F., Autin, J., Bouthillier, Y., Arseneault, D., 2021. Longues séries dendrochronologiques établies à partir de troncs subfossiles. Pages 172-182 dans Utilisation des archives naturelles pour la reconstitution du passé hydro-climatique. Dossier public 8768, Commission géologique du Canada. DOI: 10.4095/328045.

Naulier, M., Savard, M.M., Bégin, C., Arseneault, D., 2021. Traitement et production d’une série dendroisotopique millénaire. Pages 183-187 dans Utilisation des archives naturelles pour la reconstitution du passé hydro-climatique. Dossier public 8768, Commission géologique du Canada. DOI: 10.4095/328045.

Perreault, L., Nicault, A., Boucher, É., Arseneault, D., Gennaretti, F., 2021. Analyse des changements de régimes dans les sé-ries temporelles issues de la dendrochronologie. Pages 130-142 dans Utilisation des archives naturelles pour la reconstitution du passé hydro-climatique. Dossier public 8768, Commission géologique du Canada. DOI: 10.4095/328045.

Büntgen, U., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Churakova, O.V., Gennaretti, F., Crivellaro, A., Hughes, M.K., Kirdyanov, A., Klippel, L., Krusic, P.J., Linderholm, H.W., Ljungqvist, F.C., Ludescher, J., McCormick, M., Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Piermattei, A., Oppenheimer, C., Reinig, F., Sigl, M., Vaganov, E.A., Esper, J., 2020. Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history. Dendrochronologia, 64, 125757. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125757.

Danneyrolles, V., Dupuis, S., Boucher, Y., Laflamme, J., Fortin, G., Leroyer, M., Terrail, R., Bergeron, Y., Arseneault, D., 2020. Utilisation couplée des archives d’arpentage et de la classification écologique pour affiner les cibles de composition dans l’aménagement écosystémique des forêts tempérées du Québec. Rapport préparé pour Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs. Rapport de recherche Mémoire de recherche forestière n˚183. 53 pages.

Dupuis, S., Danneyrolles, V., Laflamme, J., Boucher, Y., Arseneault, D., 2020. Forest transformation following European settlement in the Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean Valley in Eastern Québec, Canada. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8, 257. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00257.

Elzein, T., Arseneault, D., Sirois, L., Boucher, Y., 2020. The changing disturbance regime in eastern Canadian mixed forests during the 20th Century. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 156. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00156.

Elzein, T., Larocque, G.R., Sirois, L., Arseneault, D., 2020. Comparing the predictions of gap model with vegetation and disturbance data in south-eastern Canadian mixed forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 455, 117649. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117649.

Johnston, L.M., Wang, X., Erni, S., Taylor, S.W., McFayden, C.B., Oliver, J.A., Stockdale, C.A., Christianson, A., Boulanger, Y., Gauthier, S., Arseneault, D., Wotton, B.M., Parisien, M.-A., Flannigan, M.D., 2020. Wildland fire risk research in Canada. Environmental Reviews - Dossiers environnement, 28(2): 164-186. DOI: 10.1139/er-2019-0046.

Marchais, M., Arseneault, D., Bergeron, Y., 2020. Composition changes in the boreal mixedwood forest of western Quebec since euro-canadian settlement. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 8: 126. DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00126.

Nasri, B.R., Boucher, É., Perreault, L., Rémillard, B.N., Huard, D., Nicault, A., Arseneault, D., Bégin, C., Savard, M.M., Bégin, Y., Francus, P., Lajeunesse, P., 2020. Modeling hydrological inflow persistence using paleoclimate reconstructions on the Québec‐Labrador (Canada) Peninsula. Water Resources Research, 56(5), e2019WR025122. DOI: 10.1029/2019WR025122.

Parisien, M.-A., Barber, Q.E., Hirsch, K.G., Stockdale, C.A., Erni, S., Wang, X., Arseneault, D., Parks, S.A., 2020. Author Correction: Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest. Nature Communications, 11, 3855. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-17650-2.

Parisien, M.-A., Barber, Q.E., Hirsch, K.G., Stockdale, C.A., Erni, S., Wang, X., Arseneault, D., Parks, S.A., 2020. Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest. Nature Communications, 11, 2121. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15961-y.

Stralberg, D., Arseneault, D., Baltzer, J.L., Bayne, E.M., Boulanger, Y., Brown, C.D., Cooke, H.A., Devito, K., Edwards, J., Estevo, C.A., Fleynn, N., Frelich, L.E., Hogg, E.H., Johnston, M., Logan, T., Matsuoka, S.M., Moore, P., Morell, L.T., Morissette, J.L., Nelson, E.A., Nenzén, H., Nielsen, S.E., Parisien, M.-A., Pedlar, J.H., Price, D.T., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Slattery, S.M., Sonnentag, O., Thompson, D.K., Whitman, E., 2020. Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 15(5 - Special Issue: Climate‐Change Refugia): 261-270. DOI: 10.1002/fee.2188.

Terrail, R., Morin-Rivat, J., de Lafontaine, G., Fortin, M.-J., Arseneault, D., 2020. Effects of 20th‐century settlement fires on landscape structure and forest composition in eastern Quebec, Canada. Journal of Vegetation Science, 31(1): 40-52. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12832.

Wang, F., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Galipaud Gloaguen, G., Deharte, A., Yu, S., Trou-Kechout, N., 2020. Temperature sensitivity of blue intensity, maximum latewood density, and ring width data of living black spruce trees in the eastern Canadian taiga. Dendrochronologia, 64, 125771. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2020.125771.

Wang, F., Arseneault, D., Boucher, É., Yu, S., Ouellet, S., Chaillou, G., Delwaide, A., Wang, L., 2020. Chemical destaining and the delta correction for blue intensity measurements of stained lake subfossil trees. Biogeosciences, 17: 4559–4570. DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-4559-2020.

Wang, F., Arseneault, D., Boucher, Y., Yu, S., Ouellet, S., Chaillou, G., Delwaide, A., Wang, L., 2020. Chemical destaining and the delta correction for blue intensity measurements of stained lake subfossil trees. Biogeosciences, 17(8): 4559–4570. DOI: 10.5194/bg-17-4559-2020.

Arseneault, D., 2019. Dynamique et productivité des forêts dans la taiga du Nord du Québec. Conférences de l'Institut de recherche en biologie végétal (IRBV), Université de Montréal. Montréal, Québec.

Arseneault, D., 2019. Étude des feux et du climat dans la taïga du Québec. Département de biologie, Université Laval. Québec, Québec.

Boulanger, Y., Arseneault, D., Boucher, Y., Gauthier, S., Cyr, D., Taylor, A.R., Price, D.T., Dupuis, S., 2019. Climate change will affect the ability of forest management to reduce gaps between current and presettlement forest composition in southeastern Canada. Landscape Ecology, 34(1): 159-174. DOI: 10.1007/s10980-018-0761-6.

Danneyrolles, V., Dupuis, S., Fortin, G., Leroyer, M., de Römer, A., Terrail, R., Vellende, M., Laflamme, J., Boucher, Y., Bergeron, Y., Arseneault, D., 2019. Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests. Nature Communications, 10, 1265. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09265-z.

Terrail, R., Dupuis, S., Danneyrolles, V., Boucher, Y., Fortin, M.-J., Arseneault, D., 2019. Reorganization of tree assemblages over the last century in the northern hardwoods of eastern Canada. Applied Vegetation Science, 22(4): 474-483. DOI: 10.1111/avsc.12449.

Wang, F., Arseneault, D., Pan, B., Liao, Q., Sugiyama, J., 2019. Pre-1930 unstable relationship between climate and tree-ring width of Pinus taiwanensis Hayata in southeastern China. Dendrochronologia, 57, 125629. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2019.125629.

Barber, Q.E., Parisien, M.-A., Whitman, E., Stralberg, D., Johnson, C.J., St-Laurent, M.-H., DeLancey, E.R., Price, D.T., Arseneault, D., Wang, X., Flannigan, M.D., 2018. Potential impacts of climate change on the habitat of boreal woodland caribou. Ecosphere, 9(10), e02472. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2472.

Büntgen, U., Wacker, L., Galván, J.D., Arnold, S., Arseneault, D., Baillie, M., Beer, J., Bernabei, M., Bleicher, N., Boswijk, G., Bräuning, A., Carrer, M., Ljungqvist, F.C., Cherubini, P., Christl, M., Christie, D.A., Clark, P.W., Cook, E.R., D’Arrigo, R., Davi, N., Eggertsson, Ó., Esper, J., Fowler, A.M., Gedalof, Z., Gennaretti, F., Grießinger, J., Grissino-Mayer, H., Grudd, H., Gunnarson, B.E., Hantemirov, R., Herzig, F., Hessl, A., Heussner, K.-U., Jull, A.J.T., Kukarskih, V., Kirdyanov, A., Kolář, T., Krusic, P.J., Kyncl, T., Lara, A., LeQuesne, C., Linderholm, H.W., Loader, N.J., Luckman, B., Miyake, F., Myglan, V.S., Nicolussi, K., Oppenheimer, C., Palmer, J., Panyushkina, I., Pederson, N., Rybníček, M., Schweingruber, F., Seim, A., Sigl, M., Churakova, O., Speer, J.H., Synal, H.-A., Tegel, W., Treydte, K., Villalba, R., Wiles, G., Wilson, R., Winship, L.J., Wunder, J., Yang, B., Young, G.H.F., 2018. Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE. Nature Communications, 9(1), 3605. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06036-0.

D'Orangeville, L., Maxwell, J., Kneeshaw, D., Pederson, N., Duchesne, L., Logan, T., Houle, D., Arseneault, D., Beier, C.M, Bishop, D.A, Druckenbrod, D., Fraver, S., Girard, F., Halman, J., Hansen, C., Hart, J.L, Hartmann, H., Kaye, M., Leblanc, D., Manzoni, S., Ouimet, R., Rayback, S., Rollinson, C.R, Phillips, R.P, 2018. Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought. Global Change Biology, 24(6): 2339-2351. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14096.

Erni, S., Arseneault, D., Parisien, M.-A., 2018. Stand age influence on potential wildfire ignition and spread in the boreal forest of northeastern Canada. Ecosystems, 21(7): 1471-1486. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-018-0235-3.

Gennaretti, F., Boucher, É., Nicault, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Arseneault, D., Berninger, F., Savard, M., Bégin, C., Guiot, J., 2018. Underestimation of the Tambora effects in North American taiga ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 13: 034017. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaac0c.

Lemus-Lauzon, I., Bhiry, N., Arseneault, D., Woollett, J., Delwaide, A., 2018. Tree-ring evidence of changes in the subarctic forest cover linked to human disturbance in northern Labrador (Canada). Écoscience, 25(2): 135-151. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2018.1436244.

Boucher, É., Nicault, A., Arseneault, D., Bégin, Y., Karami, M.P., 2017. Decadal variations in eastern Canada’s taiga wood biomass production forced by ocean-atmosphere interactions. Scientific Reports, 7: 2457. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02580-9.

Boucher, Y., Auger, I., Noël, J., Grondin, P., Arseneault, D., 2017. Fire is a stronger driver of forest composition than logging in the boreal forest of eastern Canada. Journal of Vegetation Science, 28(1): 57-68. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12466.

Danneyrolles, V., Dupuis, S., Arseneault, D., Terrail, R., Leroyer, M., de Römer, A., Fortin, G., Boucher, Y., Ruel, J.-C., 2017. Eastern white cedar long-term dynamics in eastern Canada: Implications for restoration in the context of ecosystem-based management. Forest Ecology and Management, 400: 502-510. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.024.

Erni, S., Arseneault, D., Parisien, M.-A., Bégin, Y., 2017. Spatial and temporal dimensions of fire activity in the fire-prone eastern Canadian taiga. Global Change Biology, 23(3): 1152-1166. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13461.

Gennaretti, F., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Boucher, É., Berninger, F., Arseneault, D., Guiot, J., 2017. Ecophysiological modeling of photosynthesis and carbon allocation to the tree stem in the boreal forest. Biogeosciences, 14(21): 4851-4866. DOI: 10.5194/bg-14-4851-2017.

Gennaretti, F., Huard, D., Naulier, M., Savard, M., Bégin, C., Arseneault, D., Guiot, J., 2017. Bayesian multiproxy temperature reconstruction with black spruce ring widths and stable isotopes from the northern Quebec taiga. Climate Dynamics, 49(11-12): 4107-4119. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3565-5.

Whitman, E., Parisien, M.-A., Price, D.T., St-Laurent, M.-H., Johnson, C.J., DeLancey, E.R., Arseneault, D., Flannigan, M.D., 2017. A framework for modeling habitat quality in disturbance-prone areas demonstrated with woodland caribou and wildfire. Ecosphere, 8(4): e01787. DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1787.

Danneyrolles, V., Arseneault, D., Bergeron, Y., 2016. Long-term compositional changes following partial disturbance revealed by the resurvey of logging concession limits in the northern temperate forest of eastern Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 46(7): 943-949. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2016-0047.

Danneyrolles, V., Arseneault, D., Bergeron, Y., 2016. Pre-industrial landscape composition patterns and post-industrial changes at the temperate–boreal forest interface in western Quebec, Canada. Journal of Vegetation Science, 27(3): 470-481. DOI: 10.1111/jvs.12373.

Laflamme, J., Munson, A.D., Grondin, P., Arseneault, D., 2016. Anthropogenic disturbances create a new vegetation toposequence in the Gatineau River Valley, Quebec. Forests, 7: 254. DOI: 10.3390/f7110254 .

Portier, J., Gauthier, S., Leduc, A., Arseneault, D., Bergeron, Y., 2016. Fire regime along latitudinal gradients of continuous to discontinuous coniferous boreal forests in eastern Canada. Forests, 7(10): 211. DOI: 10.3390/f7100211.

Arseneault, D., 2015. Exposition des Infrastructures et des écosystèmes au risque de feux dans la taïga du Québec. Séminaire Ouranos - L’adaptation aux changements climatiques en milieu municipal. Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Autin, J., Gennaretti, F., Arseneault, D., Bégin, Y., 2015. Biases in RCS tree ring chronologies due to sampling heights of trees. Dendrochronologia, 36: 13-22. DOI: 10.1016/j.dendro.2015.08.002.

Naulier, M., Savard, M., Bégin, C., Gennaretti, F., Arseneault, D., Marion, J., Nicault, A., Bégin, Y., 2015. A millennial summer temperature reconstruction for northeastern Canada using oxygen isotopes in subfossil trees. Climate of the Past, 11: 1153-1164. DOI: 10.5194/cp-11-1153-2015.

Nicault, A., Boucher, É., Tapsoba, D., Arseneault, D., Berninger, F., Bégin, C., DesGranges, J.-L., Guiot, J., Marion, J., Wicha, S., Bégin, Y., 2015. Spatial analysis of black spruce (Picea mariana [MILL] B.S.P.) radial growth response to climate in northern Québec-Labrador Peninsula, Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45(3): 343-352. DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0080.