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Environmental Sciences
Canada
2023

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Environmental Sciences

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65
Citations
13644
World Ranking
2233
National Ranking
87

Biology and Biochemistry

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65
Citations
13165
World Ranking
9282
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Canada Leader Award

Overview

David Paré is affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada and has contributed extensively to research in agricultural and biological sciences as well as environmental science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including nature and landscape conservation, global and planetary change, soil science, plant science, and insect science.

Their research encompasses several key topics such as soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, forest ecology and management, fire effects on ecosystems, botany and plant ecology studies, peatlands and wetlands ecology, and seedling growth and survival studies.

David Paré has published in several scientific venues with frequent publications in:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • SOIL
  • Soil Science Society of America Journal

Recent papers authored or co-authored by David Paré include:

  • Proceedings of the 14th North American Forest Soils Conference, 2024, Soil Science Society of America Journal
  • Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks, 2022, Communications Biology
  • Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis, 2020, Forest Ecology and Management
  • Boreal-forest soil chemistry drives soil organic carbon bioreactivity along a 314-year fire chronosequence, 2020, SOIL

Among frequent co-authors with whom David Paré has collaborated are:

  • Yves Bergeron
  • Fidèle Bognounou
  • Jérôme Laganière
  • Julien Béguin

Best Publications

  • Carbon accumulation in agricultural soils after afforestation: a meta-analysis.

    Jérôme Laganière;Jérôme Laganière;Denis A. Angers;David Paré;David Paré

  • Tamm Review: Influence of forest management activities on soil organic carbon stocks: A knowledge synthesis

    Mathias Mayer;Cindy E. Prescott;Wafa E.A. Abaker;Laurent Augusto

  • Effects of forest biomass harvesting on soil productivity in boreal and temperate forests - a review.

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  • Effects of tree species, stand age and soil type on soil microbial biomass and its activity in a southern boreal forest

    J. Bauhus;D. Pare;L. Cote

  • Soil, pH and N availability effects on net nitrification in the forest floors of a range of boreal forest stands

    Catherine Ste-Marie;David Paré;David Paré

  • Plant secondary metabolites: a key driver of litter decomposition and soil nutrient cycling

    Mathilde Chomel;Mathilde Chomel;Mathilde Chomel;Marie Guittonny-Larcheveque;Catherine Fernandez;Christiane Gallet

  • Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen mineralization in relation to stand type, stand age and soil texture in the boreal mixedwood.

    L Cote;Sue Brown;D Pare;D Pare;J Fyles

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire: an expert assessment

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

  • FOREST PRODUCTIVITY DECLINE CAUSED BY SUCCESSIONAL PALUDIFICATION OF BOREAL SOILS

    Martin Simard;Martin Simard;Nicolas Lecomte;Yves Bergeron;Pierre Y. Bernier

  • Tree species diversity increases fine root productivity through increased soil volume filling

    Brian W. Brassard;Han Y. H. Chen;Xavier Cavard;Jérôme Laganière

  • Differences in fine root productivity between mixed‐ and single‐species stands

    Brian W. Brassard;Han Y. H. Chen;Yves Bergeron;David Paré

  • Climate-induced changes in host tree–insect phenology may drive ecological state-shift in boreal forests

    Deepa S. Pureswaran;Louis De Grandpré;David Paré;Anthony Taylor

  • Impacts of clearcut harvesting and wildfire on soil nutrient status in the Quebec boreal forest

    D G Simard;J W Fyles;D. Paré;T. Nguyen

  • Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation: Bioenergy

    Helena Chum;Andre Faaij;José Moreira;Göran Berndes

  • Element export in runoff from eastern Canadian Boreal Shield drainage basins following forest harvesting and wildfires.

    Sébastien Lamontagne;Richard Carignan;Pierre D'Arcy;Yves T Prairie

  • The importance of forest floor disturbance in the early regeneration patterns of the boreal forest of western and central Quebec: a wildfire versus logging comparison

    Thuy Nguyen-Xuan;Yves Bergeron;Dan Simard;Jim W. Fyles

  • Paludification and management of forested peatlands in Canada: a literature review

    Martin Lavoie;David Paré;Nicole Fenton;Arthur Groot

  • Changes in nutrient availability and forest floor characteristics in relation to stand age and forest composition in the southern part of the boreal forest of northwestern Quebec

    S. Brais;S. Brais;C. Camiré;Y. Bergeron;D. Paré

  • Digital mapping of soil properties in Canadian managed forests at 250m of resolution using the k-nearest neighbor method

    Nicolas Mansuy;Evelyne Thiffault;David Paré;Pierre Bernier

  • Effect of colonizing tree species on soil nutrient availability in a clay soil of the boreal mixedwood

    David Paré;Yves Bergeron

  • Above ground biomass accumulation along a 230 year chronosequence in the southern portion of the Canadian boreal forest

    David Pare;Yves Bergeron

  • Biomass offsets little or none of permafrost carbon release from soils, streams, and wildfire

    Benjamin W. Abbott;Jeremy B. Jones;Edward A. G. Schuur;F. Stuart Chapin

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Pierre Y. Bernier
Pierre Y. Bernier Natural Resources Canada
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
Alison D. Munson
Alison D. Munson Université Laval
Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
Han Y. H. Chen
Han Y. H. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Christelle Hély
Christelle Hély University of Montpellier
Martin P. Girardin
Martin P. Girardin Natural Resources Canada
Christian Hébert
Christian Hébert Natural Resources Canada
Armand Séguin
Armand Séguin Natural Resources Canada

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