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Overview

Alain Leduc is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research focuses on environmental science with a significant contribution to the study of global and planetary change, nature and landscape conservation, insect science, ecology, and atmospheric science.

Their work explores multiple main topics including fire effects on ecosystems, forest ecology and management, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest management and policy, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and tree-ring climate responses.

Alain Leduc has participated in several publications, with recent papers including:

  • Mitigating post-fire regeneration failure in boreal landscapes with reforestation and variable retention harvesting: At what cost? (2021, Canadian Journal of Forest Research)
  • Success Factors for Experimental Partial Harvesting in Unmanaged Boreal Forest: 10-Year Stand Yield Results (2020, Forests)
  • The 2023 wildfire season in Québec: an overview of extreme conditions, impacts, lessons learned, and considerations for the future (2024, Canadian Journal of Forest Research)
  • Projected changes in fire activity and severity feedback in the spruce-feather moss forest of western Quebec, Canada (2022, Trees Forests and People)
  • Irregular forest structures originating after fire: An opportunity to promote alternatives to even-aged management in boreal forests (2022, Journal of Applied Ecology)

They frequently publish in the following venues:

  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Forests
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • The Forestry Chronicle
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

Collaboration is a significant aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including Yves Bergeron, Nelson Thiffault, Nicole J. Fenton, Annie Claude Bélisle, and Martin P. Girardin.

Best Publications

  • Natural fire regime : a guide for sustainable management of the Canadian boreal forest

    Yves Bergeron;Alain Leduc;Brian D. Harvey;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Forest management guidelines based on natural disturbance dynamics: Stand- and forest-level considerations

    Yves Bergeron;Brian Harvey;Alain Leduc;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Stand-landscape integration in natural disturbance-based management of the southern boreal forest

    Brian D. Harvey;Alain Leduc;Sylvie Gauthier;Yves Bergeron

  • LANDSCAPE-SCALE DISTURBANCES AND CHANGES IN BIRD COMMUNITIES OF BOREAL MIXED-WOOD FORESTS

    Pierre Drapeau;Alain Leduc;Jean-François Giroux;Jean-Pierre L. Savard

  • Past, Current and Future Fire Frequency in the Canadian Boreal Forest: Implications for Sustainable Forest Management

    Yves Bergeron;Mike Flannigan;Sylvie Gauthier;Alain Leduc

  • Balsam fir mortality following the last spruce budworm outbreak in northwestern Quebec

    Yves Bergeron;Alain Leduc;Claude Joyal;Hubert Morin

  • Comparing composition and structure in old-growth and harvested (selection and diameter-limit cuts) northern hardwood stands in Quebec

    Viriginie Arielle Angers;Christian Messier;Marilou Beaudet;Alain Leduc

  • Past, current, and future fire frequencies in Quebec's commercial forests : implications for the cumulative effects of harvesting and fire on age-class structure and natural disturbance-based management

    Yves Bergeron;Dominic Cyr;C Ronnie Drever;Mike Flannigan

  • Silvicultural disturbance severity and plant communities of the southern Canadian boreal forest

    Sybille Haeussler;Lorne Bedford;Alain Leduc;Yves Bergeron

  • Study of spatial components of forest cover using partial Mantel tests and path analysis

    A. Leduc;P. Drapeau;Y. Bergeron;P. Legendre

  • Relationships between change in fire frequency and mortality due to spruce budworm outbreak in the southeastern Canadian boreal forest

    Yves Bergeron;Alain Leduc

  • Development of integrated ecological standards of sustainable forest management at an operational scale

    D.D. Kneeshaw;A. Leduc;P. Drapeau;S. Gauthier

  • Comparison of the understory vegetation in boreal forest types of southwest Quebec

    Sonia Légaré;Yves Bergeron;Alain Leduc;David Paré

  • Refining the use of point counts at the scale of individual points in studies of bird-habitat relationships

    Pierre Drapeau;Alain Leduc;Raymond McNeil

  • Understorey light profiles in temperate deciduous forests: recovery process following selection cutting

    Marilou Beaudet;Christian Messier;Alain Leduc

  • Forest dynamics modelling under natural fire cycles: A tool to define natural mosaic diversity for forest management.

    Sylvie Gauthier;Alain Leduc;Yves Bergeron

  • Constraints to partial cutting in the boreal forest of Canada in the context of natural disturbance-based management: a review

    Arun K. Bose;Brian D. Harvey;Suzanne Brais;Marilou Beaudet

  • Conditions and significance of night feeding in shorebirds and other water birds in a tropical lagoon

    Michel Robert;Raymond McNeil;Alain Leduc

  • Seasonal flowering and fruiting patterns in tropical semi-arid vegetation of northeastern Venezuela.

    Maria Guevara de Lampe;Yves Bergeron;Raymond McNeil;Alain Leduc

  • Effect of fire severity on regeneration success in the boreal forest of northwest Québec, Canada

    Karelle Jayen;Alain Leduc;Yves Bergeron

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
Pierre Drapeau
Pierre Drapeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Daniel Kneeshaw
Daniel Kneeshaw University of Quebec at Montreal
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
André Bouchard
André Bouchard University of Montreal
Marc-André Villard
Marc-André Villard Mount Allison University
Richard Carignan
Richard Carignan University of Montreal

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