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Citations
13916
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3238
National Ranking
222

Overview

Alain Paquette is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research primarily spans Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a focus on subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Plant Science.

Their work extensively covers topics related to Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest ecology and management, Urban Green Space and Health, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Plant and animal studies, Forest Management and Policy, and Urban Heat Island Mitigation.

Alain Paquette has published across various venues, with frequent publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Ecology, Functional Ecology, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Recent papers authored or co-authored include:

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth (2020, Nature)
  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! (2021, Conservation Letters)
  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • The number of tree species on Earth (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Pathways for cross-boundary effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning (2022, Trends in Ecology & Evolution)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Alain Paquette include Christian Messier, Peter B. Reich, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Nico Eisenhauer, and Dominique Gravel.

In addition to journal articles, Alain Paquette has contributed to book publications, including a 2024 title through éditions Quae eBooks titled De l'arbre en ville à la forêt urbaine.

Best Publications

  • Positive biodiversity-productivity relationship predominant in global forests

    Jingjing Liang;Thomas W. Crowther;Nicolas Picard;Susan Wiser

  • The effect of biodiversity on tree productivity: from temperate to boreal forests

    Alain Paquette;Christian Messier

  • The role of plantations in managing the world's forests in the Anthropocene

    Alain Paquette;Christian Messier

  • Mapping carbon accumulation potential from global natural forest regrowth

    Susan C. Cook-Patton;Susan C. Cook-Patton;Sara M. Leavitt;David Gibbs;Nancy L. Harris

  • The new Green Revolution: Sustainable intensification of agriculture by intercropping

    Marc-Olivier Martin-Guay;Alain Paquette;Jérôme Dupras;David Rivest

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Linking Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services: Current Uncertainties and the Necessary Next Steps

    Patricia Balvanera;Ilyas Siddique;Laura Dee;Alain Paquette

  • Spatial complementarity in tree crowns explains overyielding in species mixtures

    Laura J. Williams;Alain Paquette;Jeannine Cavender-Bares;Christian Messier;Christian Messier

  • Leaf bacterial diversity mediates plant diversity and ecosystem function relationships

    Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe;Alain Paquette;Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Steven W. Kembel

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning relations in European forests depend on environmental context

    Sophia Ratcliffe;Christian Wirth;Christian Wirth;Tommaso Jucker;Tommaso Jucker;Fons van der Plas

  • Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests

    Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Paloma Ruiz-Benito;Lorena Gómez-Aparicio;Alain Paquette;Christian Messier

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!

    Christian Messier;Christian Messier;Jürgen Bauhus;Rita Sousa-Silva;Harald Auge

  • Plantation forests, climate change and biodiversity

    S. M. Pawson;A. Brin;E. G. Brockerhoff;D. Lamb

  • Early stage litter decomposition across biomes

    Ika Djukic;Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas;Inger Kappel Schmidt;Klaus Steenberg Larsen

  • Contributions of a global network of tree diversity experiments to sustainable forest plantations

    Kris Verheyen;Margot Vanhellemont;Harald Auge;Lander Baeten

  • The number of tree species on Earth

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  • Functional identity is the main driver of diversity effects in young tree communities

    Cornelia M Tobner;Alain Paquette;Dominique Gravel;Dominique Gravel;Peter B Reich;Peter B Reich

  • Globally, functional traits are weak predictors of juvenile tree growth, and we do not know why

    C.E. Thimothy Paine;Lucy Amissah;Lucy Amissah;Harald Auge;Christopher Baraloto;Christopher Baraloto

  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia.

    Constantin M. Zohner;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner;Jens-Christian Svenning

  • Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change

    I. Aubin;A. D. Munson;F. Cardou;F. Cardou;P. J. Burton

  • Tropical tree diversity enhances light capture through crown plasticity and spatial and temporal niche differences

    Jurgis Sapijanskas;Jurgis Sapijanskas;Alain Paquette;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Norbert Kunert

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Kris Verheyen
Kris Verheyen Ghent University
Bastien Castagneyrol
Bastien Castagneyrol University of Bordeaux
Catherine Potvin
Catherine Potvin McGill University
Julia Koricheva
Julia Koricheva Royal Holloway University of London
Dominique Gravel
Dominique Gravel Université de Sherbrooke

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