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Michelle Garneau is affiliated with the University of Quebec at Montreal in Canada. Their research activity is primarily situated within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences.

The scientist's main subfields of study include Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. They have conducted extensive research related to peatlands and wetlands ecology, coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics, and geology and paleoclimatology. Additional topics of focus encompass fire effects on ecosystems, climate change and permafrost, botany and plant ecology studies, and Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Michelle Garneau have been:

  • Gabriel Magnan
  • Minna Väliranta
  • Laure Gandois
  • Pierre Taillardat
  • Marissa A. Davies

Some recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Michelle Garneau include:

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink, 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration, 2020, Interface Focus
  • Peat deposits store more carbon than trees in forested peatlands of the boreal biome, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands, 2021, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Recent climate change has driven divergent hydrological shifts in high-latitude peatlands, 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist regularly publishes in venues such as The Holocene, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Communications Earth & Environment, Nature Climate Change, and Global Change Biology.

Best Publications

  • A Database and Synthesis of Northern Peatland Soil Properties and Holocene Carbon and Nitrogen Accumulation

    Julie Loisel;Zicheng Yu;David W. Beilman;Philip Camill

  • Climate-related changes in peatland carbon accumulation during the last millennium

    D. J. Charman;D. W. Beilman;M. Blaauw;R. K. Booth

  • Expert assessment of future vulnerability of the global peatland carbon sink

    J. Loisel;A. V. Gallego-Sala;Matthew J. Amesbury;Matthew J. Amesbury;G. Magnan

  • Latitudinal limits to the predicted increase of the peatland carbon sink with warming

    Angela V. Gallego-Sala;Daniel J. Charman;Simon Brewer;Susan E. Page

  • Toward dynamic global vegetation models for simulating vegetation–climate interactions and feedbacks: recent developments, limitations, and future challenges

    Anne QuilletA. Quillet;Changhui PengC. Peng;Michelle GarneauM. Garneau

  • The net carbon footprint of a newly created boreal hydroelectric reservoir

    Cristian R. Teodoru;Cristian R. Teodoru;Julie Bastien;Marie-Claude Bonneville;Paul A. del Giorgio

  • Climate change mitigation potential of wetlands and the cost-effectiveness of their restoration.

    Pierre Taillardat;Benjamin S Thompson;Benjamin S Thompson;Michelle Garneau;Karelle Trottier

  • Methane fluxes from three peatlands in the La Grande Rivière watershed, James Bay lowland, Canada

    L. Pelletier;L. Pelletier;T. R. Moore;N. T. Roulet;M. Garneau

  • Late Holocene paleoecohydrology and carbon accumulation estimates from two boreal peat bogs in eastern Canada: potential and limits of multi-proxy archives.

    Julie Loisel;Julie Loisel;Michelle Garneau;Michelle Garneau

  • The long-term fate of permafrost peatlands under rapid climate warming

    Graeme T. Swindles;Paul J. Morris;Donal Mullan;Elizabeth J. Watson

  • Effects of permafrost aggradation on peat properties as determined from a pan-Arctic synthesis of plant macrofossils

    C. C. Treat;C. C. Treat;M. C. Jones;P. Camill;A. Gallego-Sala

  • Relationship between climate, pollen concentrations of Ambrosia and medical consultations for allergic rhinitis in Montreal, 1994–2002

    Marie-Claude Breton;Michelle Garneau;Isabel Fortier;Frédéric Guay

  • Peat deposits store more carbon than trees in forested peatlands of the boreal biome.

    Joannie Beaulne;Michelle Garneau;Gabriel Magnan;Étienne Boucher;Étienne Boucher

  • The essential carbon service provided by northern peatlands

    Lorna I Harris;Karen Richardson;Kelly A Bona;Scott J Davidson

  • Associations between grass and weed pollen and emergency department visits for asthma among children in Montreal.

    Léa Héguy;Michelle Garneau;Mark S. Goldberg;Mark S. Goldberg;Marie Raphoz

  • Quantifying spatial and temporal Holocene carbon accumulation in ombrotrophic peatlands of the Eastmain region, Quebec, Canada

    Simon van Bellen;Pierre-Luc Dallaire;Michelle Garneau;Yves Bergeron

  • 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

  • Recent peat accumulation rates in minerotrophic peatlands of the Bay James region, Eastern Canada, inferred by 210Pb and 137Cs radiometric techniques.

    Adam A. Ali;Bassam Ghaleb;Bassam Ghaleb;Michelle Garneau;Michelle Garneau;Hans Asnong;Hans Asnong

  • Natural revegetation of two block-cut mined peatlands in eastern Canada

    Élisabeth Claire Robert;Line Rochefort;Michelle Garneau

  • Holocene paleohydrological reconstruction and carbon accumulation of a permafrost peatland using testate amoeba and macrofossil analyses, Kuujjuarapik, subarctic Québec, Canada

    Alexandre Lamarre;Michelle Garneau;Hans Asnong

  • Paleoenvironments of the Canadian high arctic derived from pollen and plant macrofossils: Problems and potentials

    K. Gajewski;Michelle Garneau;Jocelyne C. Bourgeois;Jocelyne C. Bourgeois

  • Greenhouse gas emissions-- fluxes and processes

    Alain Tremblay;Louis Varfalvy;Charlotte Roehm;Michelle Garneau

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan J. Charman
Dan J. Charman University of Exeter
Angela V. Gallego-Sala
Angela V. Gallego-Sala University of Exeter
Nigel T. Roulet
Nigel T. Roulet McGill University
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Robert K. Booth
Robert K. Booth Lehigh University
Zicheng Yu
Zicheng Yu Lehigh University
Graeme T. Swindles
Graeme T. Swindles Queen's University Belfast
Minna Väliranta
Minna Väliranta University of Helsinki
Steve Frolking
Steve Frolking University of New Hampshire
Claire C. Treat
Claire C. Treat Aarhus University

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