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  • 1999 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Landscape change following deforestation at the arctic tree line in Québec, Canada. Ecology 78:693–706.

Overview

Dominique Arseneault is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada, specializing in environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their research primarily focuses on understanding changes in boreal forests and fire ecology through interdisciplinary approaches.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Their work spans a number of subfields, notably:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology
  • Insect Science

Dominique Arseneault's research addresses several principal topics such as:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Landslides and related hazards

Frequently publishing in journals related to forestry and ecology, Arseneault has contributed multiple papers to the following venues:

  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Nature Communications
  • Dendrochronologia
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Among recent papers associated with or relevant to Arseneault's field of study are:

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history, 2020, Dendrochronologia
  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Wildland fire risk research in Canada, 2020, Environmental Reviews

Collaboration has been an important component of Arseneault's career with frequent co-authors including:

  • Yves Bergeron
  • Yan Boucher
  • Étienne Boucher
  • Victor Danneyrolles
  • Marc-André Parisien

Award recognition includes the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America, granted in 1999 for work on landscape change following deforestation at the arctic tree line in Québec, Canada.

Best Publications

  • Drought timing and local climate determine the sensitivity of eastern temperate forests to drought

    Loïc D'Orangeville;Loïc D'Orangeville;Justin Maxwell;Daniel Kneeshaw;Neil Pederson

  • Spruce budworm outbreaks in eastern Quebec over the last 450 years

    Yan Boulanger;Dominique Arseneault

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest.

    Jennifer L. Baltzer;Nicola J. Day;Xanthe J. Walker;David Greene

  • Logging pattern and landscape changes over the last century at the boreal and deciduous forest transition in Eastern Canada

    Yan Boucher;Dominique Arseneault;Luc Sirois;Louis Blais

  • Resistance of the boreal forest to high burn rates

    Jessie Héon;Dominique Arseneault;Marc-André Parisien

  • Tree rings reveal globally coherent signature of cosmogenic radiocarbon events in 774 and 993 CE.

    Ulf Büntgen;Lukas Wacker;J. Diego Galván;Stephanie Arnold

  • The influence of decision-making in tree ring-based climate reconstructions

    Ulf Büntgen;Kathy Allen;Kathy Allen;Kevin J. Anchukaitis;Dominique Arseneault

  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

    Diana Stralberg;Dominique Arseneault;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Quinn E. Barber

  • Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

    Ulf Büntgen;Dominique Arseneault;Étienne Boucher;Olga V. Churakova

  • Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests

    Victor Danneyrolles;Victor Danneyrolles;Sébastien Dupuis;Gabriel Fortin;Marie Leroyer

  • Volcano-induced regime shifts in millennial tree-ring chronologies from northeastern North America

    Fabio Gennaretti;Dominique Arseneault;Antoine Nicault;Luc Perreault

  • Impact of fire behavior on postfire forest development in a homogeneous boreal landscape

    Dominique Arseneault

  • Dendrochronological reconstruction of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreaks in southern Quebec for the last 400 years

    Yan Boulanger;Dominique Arseneault;Hubert Morin;Yves Jardon

  • Logging-induced change (1930-2002) of a preindustrial landscape at the northern range limit of northern hardwoods, eastern Canada

    Yan Boucher;Dominique Arseneault;Luc Sirois

  • Estimating lichen biomass and caribou grazing on the wintering grounds of northern Québec : an application of fire history and Landsat data

    Dominique Arseneault;Normand Villeneuve;Claire Boismenu;Yves Leblanc

  • Wildland fire risk research in Canada

    Lynn M. Johnston;Xianli Wang;Sandy Erni;Stephen W. Taylor

  • Fire deficit increases wildfire risk for many communities in the Canadian boreal forest

    Marc-André Parisien;Quinn E. Barber;Kelvin G. Hirsch;Christopher A. Stockdale

  • RECONSTRUCTION OF MILLENNIAL FOREST DYNAMICS FROM TREE REMAINS IN A SUBARCTIC TREE LINE PEATLAND

    Dominique Arseneault;Serge Payette

  • A Postfire Shift From Lichen-Spruce to Lichen-Tundra Vegetation at Tree Line

    Dominique Arseneault;Serge Payette

  • Change from pre-settlement to present-day forest composition reconstructed from early land survey records in eastern Qu´ ebec, Canada

    S. Dupuis;D. Arseneault;L. Sirois

Frequent Co-Authors

Luc Sirois
Luc Sirois Université du Québec à Rimouski
Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Alexander V. Kirdyanov
Alexander V. Kirdyanov University of Cambridge
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Joël Guiot
Joël Guiot Aix-Marseille University
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Yan Boulanger
Yan Boulanger Environment and Climate Change Canada
Serge Payette
Serge Payette Université Laval
Frank Berninger
Frank Berninger University of Eastern Finland
Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada

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