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Overview

Luc Sirois is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

The scientist's work heavily focuses on several interconnected topics within forest ecology and environmental dynamics. These include:

  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Ecology and vegetation dynamics studies
  • Forest ecology and biodiversity studies
  • Forest ecology and management
  • Forest management and policy
  • Tree-ring climate responses
  • Bioenergy crop production and management

Sirois has contributed to research across various subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Insect Science, Atmospheric Science, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their recent publications include:

  • "Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Above- and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America" (2022), published in Journal of Ecology
  • "Long-term (1925-2015) forest structure reorganization in an actively managed temperate-boreal forest region of eastern North America" (2020), published in Forest Ecology and Management
  • "Preliminary Results from a Structural Conversion Thinning Trial in Eastern Canada" (2020), published in Journal of Forestry
  • "Survey of the vascular plants of Alert (Ellesmere Island, Canada), a polar desert at the northern tip of the Americas" (2021), published in Check List

Their frequent publication venues include Forest Ecology and Management, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Ecology, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, and Journal of Forestry.

Luc Sirois frequently collaborates with several researchers. Notable co-authors include Yan Boucher, Robert Schneider, Dominique Arseneault, Françoise Cardou, and Isabelle Aubin.

Best Publications

  • A review of the regeneration dynamics of North American boreal forest tree species

    D. F. Greene;John C. Zasada;L. Sirois;D. Kneeshaw

  • RECENT FIRE HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN QUEBEC BIOMES

    Serge Payette;Claude Morneau;Luc Sirois;Mireille Desponts

  • Conifer seedling recruitment in a southeastern Canadian boreal forest: the importance of substrate

    Marie-Joseel Simard;Yves Bergeron;Luc Sirois

  • 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

  • Vegetation changes caused by recent fires in the northern boreal forest of eastern Canada

    Luc Lavoie;Luc Sirois

  • Reduced Postfire Tree Regeneration Along A Boreal Forest-Forest-Tundra Transect in Northern Quebec

    Luc Sirois;Serge Payette

  • Spatiotemporal variation in black spruce cone and seed crops along a boreal forest - tree line transect.

    Luc Sirois

  • Air temperature, tree growth, and the northern and southern range limits to Picea mariana

    Gordon B. Bonan;Luc Sirois

  • Postfire Succession of Saproxylic Arthropods, with Emphasis on Coleoptera, in the North Boreal Forest of Quebec

    Yan Boulanger;Luc Sirois

  • 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

  • Postfire dynamics of black spruce coarse woody debris in northern boreal forest of Quebec

    Yan Boulanger;Luc Sirois

  • Substrate and litterfall effects on conifer seedling survivorship in southern boreal stands of Canada

    Marie Josee Simard;Yves Bergeron;Luc Sirois

  • Key issues in disturbance dynamics in boreal forests: Introduction

    Yves Bergeron;Ola Engelmark;Brian Harvey;Hubert Morin

  • 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

  • Habitat selection and home-range dynamics of the Gaspé caribou: a hierarchical analysis

    Arnaud Mosnier;Jean-Pierre Ouellet;Luc Sirois;Nelson Fournier

  • Distribution and dynamics of tree species across a fire frequency gradient in the James Bay region of Quebec

    Marc-André Parisien;Luc Sirois

  • Black spruce and jack pine dynamics simulated under varying fire cycles in the northern boreal forest of Quebec, Canada

    Héloïse Le Goff;Luc Sirois

  • Factors influencing fructification phenology of edible mushrooms in a boreal mixed forest of Eastern Canada

    S. Pinna;M.-F. Gévry;M. Côté;L. Sirois

  • Distribution and dynamics of balsam fir (Abies balsamea [L.] Mill.) at its northern limit in the James Bay area

    Luc Sirois

  • The millennial dynamics of a boreal forest stand from buried trees

    Dominique Arseneault;Luc Sirois

Frequent Co-Authors

Dominique Arseneault
Dominique Arseneault Université du Québec à Rimouski
Serge Payette
Serge Payette Université Laval
Jean-Pierre Ouellet
Jean-Pierre Ouellet Université du Québec à Rimouski
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Yan Boulanger
Yan Boulanger Environment and Climate Change Canada
Christian Hébert
Christian Hébert Natural Resources Canada
Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Hubert Morin
Hubert Morin Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
David F. Greene
David F. Greene Humboldt State University
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez
Laura L. Bourgeau-Chavez Michigan Technological University

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