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Catherine Potvin

Catherine Potvin

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
52
Citations
12622
World Ranking
3423
National Ranking
234

Catherine Potvin publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine Potvin sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 147 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Catherine Potvin D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine Potvin sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Catherine Potvin is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and specializes primarily in Environmental Science. Their research covers a number of subfields including Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Economics and Econometrics, and Ecological Modeling.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest Management and Policy
  • Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change

They have published articles in several frequent venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Journal of Ecology, Basic and Applied Ecology, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Notable recent papers authored by or including Catherine Potvin are:

  • For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests!, 2021, Conservation Letters
  • Neighbourhood-mediated shifts in tree biomass allocation drive overyielding in tropical species mixtures, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Young mixed planted forests store more carbon than monocultures-a meta-analysis, 2023, Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Tree diversity effects on soil microbial biomass and respiration are context dependent across forest diversity experiments, 2022, Global Ecology and Biogeography

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Christian Messier
  • Nico Eisenhauer
  • Peter B. Reich
  • Alain Paquette
  • Jefferson S. Hall

Catherine Potvin has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada since 2015 within the Academy of Science category.

Best Publications

  • TRY plant trait database : Enhanced coverage and open access

    Jens Kattge;Gerhard Bönisch;Sandra Díaz;Sandra Lavorel

  • THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF ECOPHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE CURVES OBTAINED FROM EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING REPEATED MEASURES

    Catherine Potvin;Martin J. Lechowicz;Serge Tardif

  • Variation in carbon storage among tree species: Implications for the management of a small-scale carbon sink project

    Kathryn R. Kirby;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Catherine Jeanne Potvin

  • DISTRIBUTION-FREE AND ROBUST STATISTICAL METHODS: VIABLE ALTERNATIVES TO PARAMETRIC STATISTICS?

    Catherine Potvin;Derek A. Roff

  • BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING: IMPORTANCE OF SPECIES EVENNESS IN AN OLD FIELD

    Brian J. Wilsey;Catherine Potvin

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

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

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

    Kris Verheyen;Margot Vanhellemont;Harald Auge;Lander Baeten

  • Carbon storage of harvest-age teak (Tectona grandis) plantations, Panama

    Margaret Kraenzel;Alvaro Castillo;Tim R. Moore;Catherine Jeanne Potvin

  • Tree species richness affects litter production and decomposition rates in a tropical biodiversity experiment

    Michael Scherer-Lorenzen;Jose Luis Bonilla;Catherine Jeanne Potvin

  • 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

  • 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

  • Biodiversity enhances individual performance but does not affect survivorship in tropical trees

    Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Nicholas J. Gotelli

  • Assessing inter- and intra-specific variation in trunk carbon concentration for 32 neotropical tree species

    Marlène Elias;Catherine Potvin

  • Can we predict carbon stocks in tropical ecosystems from tree diversity? Comparing species and functional diversity in a plantation and a natural forest

    M. C. Ruiz-Jaen;Catherine Jeanne Potvin;Catherine Jeanne Potvin

  • High-fidelity national carbon mapping for resource management and REDD+.

    Gregory P. Asner;Joseph Mascaro;Christopher Anderson;David E. Knapp

  • BAAD: a Biomass And Allometry Database for woody plants

    Daniel S. Falster;Remko A. Duursma;Masae I. Ishihara;Diego R. Barneche

  • Indigenous livelihoods, slash-and-burn agriculture, and carbon stocks in Eastern Panama

    Petra Tschakert;Oliver T. Coomes;Catherine Potvin

  • Neighborhood effects and size-asymmetric competition in a tree plantation varying in diversity.

    Catherine Potvin;Catherine Potvin;Pierre Dutilleul

  • The fate of the tropical forest: Carbon or cattle?

    Oliver T. Coomes;Franque Grimard;Catherin Potvin;Philip Sima

  • Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems.

    Nathaly R Guerrero-Ramirez;Dylan Craven;Peter B Reich;Peter B Reich;John J Ewel

  • Partitioning the effects of biodiversity and environmental heterogeneity for productivity and mortality in a tropical tree plantation

    Chrystal Healy;Nicholas J. Gotelli;Catherine Potvin;Catherine Potvin

Frequent Co-Authors

Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Peter B. Reich
Peter B. Reich University of Minnesota
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen
Michael Scherer-Lorenzen University of Freiburg
Andy Hector
Andy Hector University of Oxford
Julia Koricheva
Julia Koricheva Royal Holloway University of London
Hervé Jactel
Hervé Jactel University of Bordeaux
Alain Paquette
Alain Paquette University of Quebec at Montreal
Helge Bruelheide
Helge Bruelheide Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Boyd R. Strain
Boyd R. Strain Duke University
Bastien Castagneyrol
Bastien Castagneyrol University of Bordeaux

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