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Etienne Laliberté

Etienne Laliberté

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
51
Citations
15330
World Ranking
3557
National Ranking
245

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - William S. Cooper Award, The Ecological Society of America Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science 345: 1602–1605 (2014)

Overview

Etienne Laliberté is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada, focusing primarily on research at the intersection of environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences. Their work encompasses numerous subfields including plant science, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, environmental engineering, and ecological modeling.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas with significant emphasis on remote sensing and ecology. Key topics of their work include:

  • Remote Sensing in Agriculture
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Remote Sensing and LiDAR Applications
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Silicon Effects in Agriculture

Laliberté has contributed to notable publications across a variety of scientific venues, frequently publishing in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • New Phytologist
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Plant and Soil

Some significant papers authored or co-authored by Etienne Laliberté include:

  • "Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression," 2020, Science
  • "Accuracy of 3D Landscape Reconstruction without Ground Control Points Using Different UAS Platforms," 2020, Drones
  • "Plant beta-diversity across biomes captured by imaging spectroscopy," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Temperate Forests Dominated by Arbuscular or Ectomycorrhizal Fungi Are Characterized by Strong Shifts from Saprotrophic to Mycorrhizal Fungi with Increasing Soil Depth," 2020, Microbial Ecology
  • "Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy," 2023, New Phytologist

The scientist has collaborated frequently with other researchers, including Mark Vellend, Margaret Kalácska, Hans Lambers, Alexis Carteron, and Anna L. Crofts, indicating a broad network in ecological and environmental research fields.

Laliberté's contributions have been recognized through awards such as the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 2016, awarded for work on environmental filtering and plant diversity along resource gradients.

Best Publications

  • A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits

    Etienne Laliberté;Pierre Legendre

  • Conservation of species interaction networks

    Jason M. Tylianakis;Etienne Laliberté;Anders Nielsen;Jordi Bascompte

  • Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities

    Etienne Laliberté;Jessie A. Wells;Fabrice DeClerck;Daniel J. Metcalfe

  • Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology.

    Bill Shipley;Francesco De Bello;Francesco De Bello;J. Hans C. Cornelissen;Etienne Laliberté

  • Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands

    François P. Teste;François P. Teste;Paul Kardol;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;David A. Wardle;David A. Wardle

  • Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency

    Hans Lambers;Patrick E. Hayes;Etienne Laliberté;Rafael S. Oliveira;Rafael S. Oliveira

  • Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology

    Etienne Laliberté

  • Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands

    Etienne Laliberté;Hans Lambers;Treena I. Burgess;S. Joseph Wright

  • Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient‐acquisition strategies along a 2‐million‐year dune chronosequence

    Patrick Hayes;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;Hans Lambers;Etienne Laliberté

  • Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients.

    Etienne Laliberté;Graham Zemunik;Benjamin L. Turner

  • Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development

    Graham Zemunik;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;Hans Lambers;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté

  • Phosphorus Nutrition of Proteaceae in Severely Phosphorus-Impoverished Soils: Are There Lessons To Be Learned for Future Crops?

    Hans Lambers;Patrick M. Finnegan;Etienne Laliberté;Stuart J. Pearse

  • How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity

    Etienne Laliberté;James B. Grace;Michael A. Huston;Hans Lambers

  • Primed for change: Developing ecological restoration for the 21st century

    Nancy Shackelford;Richard J. Hobbs;Joanna M. Burgar;Todd E. Erickson

  • Proteaceae from severely phosphorus-impoverished soils extensively replace phospholipids with galactolipids and sulfolipids during leaf development to achieve a high photosynthetic phosphorus-use-efficiency.

    Hans Lambers;Gregory R. Cawthray;Patrick Giavalisco;John Kuo

  • How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse ecosystems

    Hans Lambers;Felipe Albornoz;Lukasz Kotula;Etienne Laliberté;Etienne Laliberté

  • Biotic plant–soil feedbacks across temporal scales

    Paul Kardol;Gerlinde B. De Deyn;Etienne Laliberté;Pierre Mariotte

  • Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2‐million‐year dune chronosequence in the south‐western Australia biodiversity hotspot

    Etienne Laliberté;Benjamin L. Turner;Benjamin L. Turner;Thomas Costes;Thomas Costes;Stuart J. Pearse

  • The winners and losers of land use intensification: pollinator community disassembly is non‐random and alters functional diversity

    Romina Rader;Romina Rader;Romina Rader;Ignasi Bartomeus;Jason M. Tylianakis;Jason M. Tylianakis;Etienne Laliberté

  • Phosphorus-mobilization ecosystem engineering: the roles of cluster roots and carboxylate exudation in young P-limited ecosystems

    Hans Lambers;John G. Bishop;Stephen D. Hopper;Stephen D. Hopper;Etienne Laliberté

  • Land-use intensification reduces functionalredundancy and response diversity in plantcommunities

    Etienne Laliberte;Jessie A. Wells;Fabrice DeClerck;Daniel J. Metcalfe

Frequent Co-Authors

Benjamin L. Turner
Benjamin L. Turner Gyeongsang National University
Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia
François P. Teste
François P. Teste Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
David A. Wardle
David A. Wardle Umeå University
Rafael S. Oliveira
Rafael S. Oliveira State University of Campinas
Paul Kardol
Paul Kardol Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Jason M. Tylianakis
Jason M. Tylianakis University of Canterbury
Pierre Legendre
Pierre Legendre University of Montreal
André Bouchard
André Bouchard University of Montreal
David A. Norton
David A. Norton University of Canterbury

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