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Serge Payette

Serge Payette

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
64
Citations
12173
World Ranking
1893
National Ranking
117

Serge Payette publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Serge Payette sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 199 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Serge Payette D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Serge Payette sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec
  • 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

Serge Payette is affiliated with Université Laval in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research spans various subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, and Ecology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, notably Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Tree-ring climate responses, Fire effects on ecosystems, Climate change and permafrost, Lichen and fungal ecology, Species Distribution and Climate Change, and Plant and animal studies.

Serge Payette has published in a range of academic journals, with frequent venues including Communications Earth & Environment, Ecoscience, Nature Human Behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Quaternary Science Reviews.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Serge Payette include:

  • The velocity of postglacial migration of fire-adapted boreal tree species in eastern North America, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Climate, fire and vegetation history at treeline east of Hudson Bay, northern Québec, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews

Other recent collaborative papers relevant to their field include:

  • The colonial legacy of herbaria, 2023, Nature Human Behaviour
  • The colonial legacy of herbaria, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Precarious resilience of the boreal forest of eastern North America during the Holocene, 2021, Forest Ecology and Management

Frequent coauthors working with Serge Payette are Pierre-Luc Couillard, Mathieu Frégeau, Martin Lavoie, Dominique Berteaux, and Jason Laflamme.

The scientist has also contributed to book publications, including Lichens du Québec nordique (2024) published by Presses de l'Université Laval.

Among the awards received by Serge Payette are the Prix Marie-Victorin from the Government of Quebec in 2011 and the William S. Cooper Award from The Ecological Society of America in 1999, the latter recognizing work on landscape change following deforestation at the arctic tree line in Québec, Canada.

Best Publications

  • Accelerated thawing of subarctic peatland permafrost over the last 50 years

    Serge Payette;Ann Delwaide;Marco Caccianiga;Michel Beauchemin

  • A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest: Fire as a controlling process in the North American boreal forest

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  • RECENT FIRE HISTORY OF THE NORTHERN QUEBEC BIOMES

    Serge Payette;Claude Morneau;Luc Sirois;Mireille Desponts

  • White spruce expansion at the tree line and recent climatic change

    Serge Payette;Louise Filion

  • 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

  • THE CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE STABLE STATES IN THE SOUTHERN BOREAL FOREST, QUÉBEC, CANADA

    J. P. Paul Jasinski;Serge Payette

  • Postfire lichen–spruce woodland recovery at the limit of the boreal forest in northern Quebec

    Claude Morneau;Serge Payette

  • The Subarctic Forest–Tundra: The Structure of a Biome in a Changing Climate

    Serge Payette;Marie-José E Fortin;Isabelle Gamache

  • Light rings in subarctic conifers as a dendrochronological tool

    Louise Filion;Serge Payette;Line Gauthier;Yves Boutin

  • Late Holocene deforestation and tree regeneration in the forest–tundra of Québec

    Serge Payette;Réjean Gagnon

  • A matter of divergence: Tracking recent warming at hemispheric scales using tree ring data

    R. Wilson;R. Wilson;Rosanne Dorothy D'Arrigo;Brendan M. Buckley;U. Buntgen

  • Disturbance regime of a cold temperate forest as deduced from tree-ring patterns: the Tantaré Ecological Reserve, Quebec

    Serge Payette;Louise Filion;Ann Delwaide

  • Height growth response of tree line black spruce to recent climate warming across the forest‐tundra of eastern Canada

    Isabelle Gamache;Serge Payette

  • CONTRASTED DYNAMICS OF NORTHERN LABRADOR TREE LINES CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE AND MIGRATIONAL LAG

    Serge Payette

  • Secular climate change in old-growth tree-line vegetation of northern Quebec

    Serge Payette;Louise Filion;Line Gauthier;Yves Boutin

  • Recent Advance of the Arctic Treeline Along the Eastern Coast of Hudson Bay

    Kateri Lescop-Sinclair;Serge Payette

  • Reconstruction of tree-line vegetation response to long-term climate change

    Serge Payette;Louise Filion;Ann Delwaide;Christian Bégin

  • Origin of the lichen woodland at its southern range limit in eastern Canada : the catastrophic impact of insect defoliators and fire on the spruce-moss forest

    Serge Payette;Najat Bhiry;Ann Delwaide;Martin Simard

  • Latitudinal response of subarctic tree lines to recent climate change in eastern Canada

    Isabelle Gamache;Serge Payette

  • Rapid expansion of lichen woodlands within the closed-crown boreal forest zone over the last 50 years caused by stand disturbances in eastern Canada

    F. Girard;S. Payette;R. Gagnon

  • 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

Louise Filion
Louise Filion Université Laval
Claude Lavoie
Claude Lavoie Université Laval
Luc Sirois
Luc Sirois Université du Québec à Rimouski
Hubert Morin
Hubert Morin Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Marie-Josée Fortin
Marie-Josée Fortin University of Toronto
Dominique Arseneault
Dominique Arseneault Université du Québec à Rimouski
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson University of St Andrews
Michelle Garneau
Michelle Garneau University of Quebec at Montreal
Brian H. Luckman
Brian H. Luckman University of Western Ontario
Gilles Houle
Gilles Houle Université Laval

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