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Overview

Christelle Hély is affiliated with the University of Montpellier in France and specializes in Environmental Science, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Atmospheric Science, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, and Plant Science. Their research explores diverse topics primarily related to fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics, landslides and related hazards, geology and paleoclimatology, ecosystem dynamics and resilience, climate change impacts particularly on permafrost, and rangeland and wildlife management.

Among notable recent publications, Christelle Hély contributed to the following papers:

  • "Temperature and fuel availability control fire size/severity in the boreal forest of central Northwest Territories, Canada" (2020) published in Quaternary Science Reviews
  • "Drivers of extreme wildfire years in the 1965-2019 fire regime of the Tłıchǫ First Nation territory, Canada" (2022) published in Ecoscience
  • "Understanding Ecosystem Complexity via Application of a Process-Based State Space rather than a Potential Surface" (2020) published in Complexity
  • "Qualitative Modeling for Bridging Expert-Knowledge and Social-Ecological Dynamics of an East African Savanna" (2021) published in Land
  • "Interactions within the climate-vegetation-fire nexus may transform 21st century boreal forests in northwestern Canada" (2023) published in iScience

Their frequent coauthors include Cédric Gaucherel, Martin P. Girardin, Franck Pommereau, Christel Tiberi, and Adam A. Ali. These collaborative relationships indicate a network focused on ecological modeling, fire dynamics, and tropical to boreal ecosystem studies.

Christelle Hély has contributed publications to several scientific journals and platforms, with multiple papers appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), as well as targeted contributions to Quaternary Science Reviews, Ecoscience, and iScience. This range highlights engagement in both preprint and peer-reviewed scientific dissemination.

In addition to journal articles, Christelle Hély is the author of a book titled Feux de végétation, published in 2022 by éditions Quae eBooks. The book addresses topics related to vegetation fires.

Best Publications

  • Sahara and Sahel vulnerability to climate changes, lessons from Holocene hydrological data

    Anne-Marie Lézine;Christelle Hély;Christophe Grenier;Pascale Braconnot

  • Phytolith indices as proxies of grass subfamilies on East African tropical mountains

    Laurent Bremond;Anne Alexandre;Matthew J. Wooller;Christelle Hély

  • A phytolith index as a proxy of tree cover density in tropical areas: Calibration with Leaf Area Index along a forest-savanna transect in southeastern Cameroon

    Laurent Bremond;Anne Alexandre;Christelle Hély;Joël Guiot

  • Role of vegetation and weather on fire behavior in the Canadian mixedwood boreal forest using two fire behavior prediction systems.

    Christelle Hély;Mike Flannigan;Yves Bergeron;Douglas McRae

  • Biomass burning fuel consumption rates: a field measurement database

    T.T. van Leeuwen;T.T. van Leeuwen;G.R. van der Werf;A.A. Hoffmann;R.G. Detmers;R.G. Detmers

  • Effects of stand composition on fire hazard in mixed-wood Canadian boreal forest

    C. Hély;Y. Bergeron;Flannigan

  • Sensitivity of African biomes to changes in the precipitation regime

    Christelle Hély;Laurent Bremond;Samuel Alleaume;Benjamin Smith

  • Coarse woody debris in the southeastern Canadian boreal forest: composition and load variations in relation to stand replacement.

    C Hély;Y Bergeron;M D Flannigan

  • Control of the multimillennial wildfire size in boreal North America by spring climatic conditions

    Adam A. Ali;Adam A. Ali;Olivier Blarquez;Olivier Blarquez;Martin P. Girardin;Christelle Hély;Christelle Hély

  • Holocene changes in African vegetation: tradeoff between climate and water availability

    C. Hély;A.-M. Lézine;Apd contributors

  • Vegetation limits the impact of a warm climate on boreal wildfires

    Martin P. Girardin;Martin P. Girardin;Adam A. Ali;Adam A. Ali;Christopher Carcaillet;Christopher Carcaillet;Christopher Carcaillet;Olivier Blarquez

  • Heterogeneous response of circumboreal wildfire risk to climate change since the early 1900s

    Martin P. Girardin;Adam A. Ali;Christopher Carcaillet;Manfred Mudelsee

  • The Southern African Regional Science Initiative (SAFARI 2000): overview of the dry season field campaign

    R. J. Swap;H. J. Annegarn;J. T. Suttles;J. Haywood

  • Plant migration and plant communities at the time of the “green Sahara”

    Julie Watrin;Anne-Marie Lézine;Christelle Hély

  • Fire in managed forests of eastern Canada: Risks and options

    Martin P. Girardin;Adam A. Ali;Christopher Carcaillet;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Emissions of major gaseous and particulate species during experimental burns of southern African biomass

    William C. Keene;Jürgen M. Lobert;Jürgen M. Lobert;Paul J. Crutzen;Paul J. Crutzen;John R. Maben

  • How cold was Europe at the Last Glacial Maximum? A synthesis of the progress achieved since the first PMIP model-data comparison

    G. Ramstein;M. Kageyama;Joel Guiot;H. Wu

  • Modeling Tree Mortality Following Wildfire in the Southeastern Canadian Mixed-Wood Boreal Forest

    Christelle Hely;Mike Flannigan;Yves Bergeron

  • SAFARI-2000 characterization of fuels, fire behavior, combustion completeness, and emissions from experimental burns in infertile grass savannas in western Zambia

    C Hély;S Alleaume;R.J Swap;H.H Shugart

  • Eastern boreal North American wildfire risk of the past 7000 years: A model‐data comparison

    Christelle Hély;Martin P. Girardin;Adam A. Ali;Christopher Carcaillet

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Martin P. Girardin
Martin P. Girardin Natural Resources Canada
Herman H. Shugart
Herman H. Shugart University of Virginia
Christopher Carcaillet
Christopher Carcaillet École Pratique des Hautes Études
Anne-Marie Lézine
Anne-Marie Lézine Sorbonne University
Kelly K. Caylor
Kelly K. Caylor University of California, Santa Barbara
Vincent Moron
Vincent Moron Columbia University
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Christopher O. Justice
Christopher O. Justice University of Maryland, College Park
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada

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