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Martin P. Girardin

Martin P. Girardin

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Ecology and Evolution

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Overview

Martin P. Girardin is a researcher affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada. Their work focuses primarily on environmental and earth sciences, with significant contributions to the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

Girardin's research covers several subfields, including:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Ecology

The main topics of their research include:

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

Frequent publication venues for Girardin's work are:

  • Global Change Biology
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Martin P. Girardin include:

  • "Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada" (2024), published in Nature Communications
  • "Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate" (2020), published in New Phytologist
  • "Assessing changes in global fire regimes" (2024), published in Fire Ecology
  • "Detrending climate data prior to climate-growth analyses in dendroecology: A common best practice?" (2023), published in Dendrochronologia
  • "Strong overestimation of water-use efficiency responses to rising CO2 in tree-ring studies" (2020), published in Global Change Biology

Girardin frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most common coauthors include:

  • Yves Bergeron
  • Nathalie Isabel
  • Dorian M. Gaboriau
  • Sylvie Gauthier
  • Adam A. Ali

Best Publications

  • Twentieth century redistribution in climatic drivers of global tree growth.

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Olivier Bouriaud;Benjamin Poulter;Valerie Trouet

  • Radial growth response of four dominant boreal tree species to climate along a latitudinal gradient in the eastern Canadian boreal forest

    Jianguo Huang;Jacques C. Tardif;Yves Bergeron;Bernhard Denneler

  • 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

  • No growth stimulation of Canada's boreal forest under half-century of combined warming and CO2 fertilization.

    Martin P. Girardin;Olivier Bouriaud;Edward H. Hogg;Werner Kurz

  • When tree rings go global: Challenges and opportunities for retro- and prospective insight

    Flurin Babst;Flurin Babst;Paul Bodesheim;Noah Charney;Andrew D. Friend

  • Negative impacts of high temperatures on growth of black spruce forests intensify with the anticipated climate warming.

    Martin P. Girardin;Edward H. Hogg;Pierre Y. Bernier;Werner A. Kurz

  • Potential changes in forest composition could reduce impacts of climate change on boreal wildfires

    Aurélie Terrier;Martin P. Girardin;Catherine Périé;Pierre Legendre

  • 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

  • Will climate change drive 21st century burn rates in Canadian boreal forest outside of its natural variability: collating global climate model experiments with sedimentary charcoal data.

    Yves Bergeron;Dominic Cyr;Martin P. Girardin;Christopher Carcaillet

  • PAST AND FUTURE CHANGES IN CANADIAN BOREAL WILDFIRE ACTIVITY

    Martin P. Girardin;Manfred Mudelsee

  • Summer Moisture and Wildfire Risks across Canada

    Martin P. Girardin;B. Mike Wotton

  • Response of tree growth to a changing climate in boreal central Canada: A comparison of empirical, process-based, and hybrid modelling approaches

    Martin P. Girardin;Martin P. Girardin;Frédéric Raulier;Pierre Y. Bernier;Jacques C. Tardif

  • Tree rings provide a new class of phenotypes for genetic associations that foster insights into adaptation of conifers to climate change.

    Johann M. Housset;Johann M. Housset;Simon Nadeau;Nathalie Isabel;Nathalie Isabel;Claire Depardieu;Claire Depardieu

  • 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

  • Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate.

    Claire Depardieu;Claire Depardieu;Martin P. Girardin;Simon Nadeau;Patrick Lenz;Patrick Lenz

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

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

  • Synoptic-Scale Atmospheric Circulation and Boreal Canada Summer Drought Variability of the Past Three Centuries

    Martin-Philippe Girardin;Jacques C. Tardif;Mike D. Flannigan;Yves Bergeron

  • How Climate Change Might Affect Tree Regeneration Following Fire at Northern Latitudes: A Review

    Dominique Boucher;Sylvie Gauthier;Sylvie Gauthier;Nelson Thiffault;Nelson Thiffault;William Marchand;William Marchand

  • Unusual forest growth decline in boreal North America covaries with the retreat of Arctic sea ice

    Martin P. Girardin;Xiao Jing Guo;Rogier De Jong;Christophe Kinnard

  • Trends and periodicities in the Canadian Drought Code and their relationships with atmospheric circulation for the southern Canadian boreal forest

    Martin-Philippe Girardin;Jacques Tardif;Mike D Flannigan;B Mike Wotton

  • North America's oldest boreal trees are more efficient water users due to increased [CO2], but do not grow faster.

    Claudie Giguère-Croteau;Étienne Boucher;Étienne Boucher;Yves Bergeron;Yves Bergeron;Martin P Girardin

  • 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
Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
Christelle Hély
Christelle Hély University of Montpellier
Jacques C. Tardif
Jacques C. Tardif University of Winnipeg
Igor Drobyshev
Igor Drobyshev Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christopher Carcaillet
Christopher Carcaillet École Pratique des Hautes Études
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Pierre Y. Bernier
Pierre Y. Bernier Natural Resources Canada
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
David Frank
David Frank University of Arizona

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