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Alexis Achim

Alexis Achim

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
33
Citations
4598
World Ranking
7850
National Ranking
479

Overview

Alexis Achim is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of environmental science, with a particular focus on forest ecology and management. Their research encompasses various subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, environmental engineering, ecology, and atmospheric science.

The main topics in their research include:

  • Forest ecology and management
  • Remote sensing and LiDAR applications
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree root and stability studies

Alexis Achim has published numerous articles in several scientific journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Current Forestry Reports

Their recent papers of note include:

  • "The changing culture of silviculture," 2021, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • "Opportunities and limitations of thinning to increase resistance and resilience of trees and forests to global change," 2022, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • "Framework for near real-time forest inventory using multi source remote sensing data," 2022, Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research
  • "The motion of trees in the wind: a data synthesis," 2021, Biogeosciences

In addition, the paper "lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data" published in 2020 in Remote Sensing of Environment has been widely cited, although this work lists a different primary author.

Collaborations have been an important component of Alexis Achim's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Nicholas C. Coops
  • Guillaume Moreau
  • Catherine Chagnon
  • Alexandre Morin-Bernard
  • John P. Caspersen

Best Publications

  • lidR: An R package for analysis of Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data

    Jean Romain Roussel;David Auty;Nicholas C. Coops;Piotr Tompalski

  • Slope stability and erosion control : ecotechnological solutions

    J.E. Norris;A. Stokes;S.B. Mickovski;E. Cammeraat

  • Wind loading of trees: influence of tree size and competition

    Sophie E. Hale;Barry A. Gardiner;Axel Wellpott;Bruce C. Nicoll

  • Modelling the vulnerability of balsam fir forests to wind damage

    A. Achim;J.-C. Ruel;B.A. Gardiner;G. Laflamme

  • The stability of different silvicultural systems: a wind-tunnel investigation

    Barry Gardiner;Bryan Marshall;Alexis Achim;Rex Belcher

  • Does steep terrain influence tree stability? A field investigation

    Bruce C Nicoll;Alexis Achim;Shaun Mochan;Barry A Gardiner

  • The relationship between standing tree acoustic assessment and timber quality in Scots pine and the practical implications for assessing timber quality from naturally regenerated stands

    David Auty;Alexis Achim

  • The changing culture of silviculture

    Alexis Achim;Guillaume Moreau;Nicholas C Coops;Jodi N Axelson

  • Removing bias from LiDAR-based estimates of canopy height: Accounting for the effects of pulse density and footprint size

    Jean-Romain Roussel;John Peter Caspersen;Martin Béland;Sean Thomas

  • Models for predicting wood density variation in Scots pine

    David Auty;Alexis Achim;Elspeth Macdonald;Andrew D. Cameron

  • Quantifying the influence of live crown ratio on the mechanical properties of clear wood

    Adam Kuprevicius;David Auty;Alexis Achim;John P. Caspersen

  • Genetic Improvement of White Spruce Mechanical Wood Traits—Early Screening by Means of Acoustic Velocity

    Patrick Lenz;David Auty;Alexis Achim;Jean Beaulieu

  • Effects of early re-spacing on the physical and mechanical properties of Sitka spruce structural timber

    John Moore;Alexis Achim;Andrew Lyon;Shaun Mochan

  • The architecture of Picea sitchensis structural root systems on horizontal and sloping terrain

    B. C. Nicoll;S. Berthier;A. Achim;K. Gouskou

  • Models for predicting microfibril angle variation in Scots pine

    David Auty;Barry A. Gardiner;Alexis Achim;John R. Moore

  • Effect of Tree Spacing on Tree Level Volume Growth, Morphology, and Wood Properties in a 25-Year-Old Pinus banksiana Plantation in the Boreal Forest of Quebec

    François Hébert;Cornelia Krause;Pierre-Yves Plourde;Alexis Achim

  • The motion of trees in the wind: A data synthesis

    Toby D. Jackson;Sarab Sethi;Ebba Dellwik;Nikolas Angelou

  • Predicting the branching properties of Sitka Spruce grown in Great Britain.

    Alexis Achim;Barry Gardiner;Jean-Michel Leban;Renaud Daquitaine

  • Improving tree selection for partial cutting through joint probability modelling of tree vigor and quality

    David Pothier;Mathieu Fortin;David Auty;Simon Delisle-Boulianne

  • Modelling knot morphology as a function of external tree and branch attributes

    E. Duchateau;Fleur Longuetaud;Frédéric Mothe;C. H. Ung

  • Evaluating the effect of precommercial thinning on the resistance of balsam fir to windthrow through experimentation, modelling, and development of simple indices.

    A Achim;J C Ruel;B A Gardiner

  • Composition of ethanolic extracts of wood and bark from Acer saccharum and Betula alleghaniensis trees of different vigor classes

    François St-Pierre;Alexis Achim;Tatjana Stevanovic

Frequent Co-Authors

David Pothier
David Pothier Université Laval
Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Claude Ruel
Jean-Claude Ruel Université Laval
John P. Caspersen
John P. Caspersen University of Toronto
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
Aaron R. Weiskittel
Aaron R. Weiskittel University of Maine
Philip G. Comeau
Philip G. Comeau University of Alberta
Sergio Rossi
Sergio Rossi Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Alexia Stokes
Alexia Stokes INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

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