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Suzanne Roy is affiliated with the Université du Québec à Rimouski in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on plant science and ecology-related subfields.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics including peatlands and wetlands ecology, coal and its by-products, bryophyte studies and records, lichen and fungal ecology, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, mine drainage and remediation techniques, and environmental heavy metals.

Recent publications by Suzanne Roy include the following papers:

  • Life in mine tailings: microbial population structure across the bulk soil, rhizosphere, and roots of boreal species colonizing mine tailings in northwestern Québec (2020), published in Annals of Microbiology
  • Vegetation drives the structure of active microbial communities on an acidogenic mine tailings deposit (2020), published in PeerJ
  • Differences in elemental composition of tailings, soils, and plant tissues following five decades of native plant colonization on a gold mine site in Northwestern Québec (2020), published in Chemosphere
  • Bacillus subtilis Modulates Its Usage of Biofilm-Bound Iron in Response to Environmental Iron Availability (2020), published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Survival, growth and element translocation by 4 plant species growing on acidogenic gold mine tailings in Québec (2020), published in Ecological Engineering

Suzanne Roy's frequent coauthors include:

  • Jean-Philippe Bellenger
  • Vanessa Gagnon
  • Michaël Rodrigue-Morin
  • Charles W. Greer
  • Isabelle Laforest-Lapointe

The scientist's works have appeared in various academic venues, with several publications in the Canadian Journal of Microbiology and Planta, followed by contributions to Annals of Microbiology, PeerJ, and Scientific Reports.

Best Publications

  • Solar ultraviolet-B radiation and aquatic primary production: damage, protection, and recovery

    Warwick F. Vincent;Suzanne Roy

  • Phytoplankton pigments : characterization, chemotaxonomy and applications in oceanography

    Suzanne Roy;Carole A. Llewellyn;Einar Skarstad Egeland;Geir Johnsen

  • Distribution, phylogeny, and growth of cold-adapted picoprasinophytes in arctic seas

    Connie Lovejoy;Warwick F. Vincent;Sylvia Bonilla;Suzanne Roy

  • Probable loss of chlorophyll‐derived pigments during passage through the gut of zooplankton, and some of the consequences

    R. J. Conover;Ravi Durvasula;Suzanne Roy;Rong Wang

  • Cell size trade-offs govern light exploitation strategies in marine phytoplankton.

    Tim Key;Avery McCarthy;Douglas A. Campbell;Christophe Six

  • Rapid light-induced changes in cell fluorescence and in xanthophyll-cycle pigments of Alexandrium excavatum (Dinophyceae) and Thalassiosira pseudonana (Bacillario-phyceae): a photo-protection mechanism

    S. Demers;S. Roy;R. Gagnon;C. Vignault

  • Bipolar distribution of the cyst-forming dinoflagellate Polarella glacialis

    Marina Montresor;C Lovejoy;Luisa Orsini;Gabriele Procaccini

  • Late summer phytoplankton distribution along a 3500 km transect in Canadian Arctic waters: strong numerical dominance by picoeukaryotes

    Geneviève Tremblay;Claude Belzile;Michel Gosselin;Michel Poulin

  • Experimental test of the effect of ultraviolet-B radiation in a planktonic community

    Behzad Mostajir;Serge Demers;Stephen de Mora;Claude Belzile

  • Pigments and photoacclimation processes

    Christophe Brunet;Geir Johnsen;Johann Lavaud;Suzanne Roy

  • Vertical Flux of Biogenic Carbon in the Ocean: Is There Food Web Control?

    Richard B. Rivkin;Louis Legendre;Don Deibel;Jean-Éric Tremblay

  • Transformations of biogenic particulates from the pelagic to the deep ocean realm

    P.W. Boyd;N.D. Sherry;J.A. Berges;J.K.B. Bishop

  • Phytoplankton biomass, production and potential export in the North Water

    Bert Klein;Bernard LeBlanc;Zhi-Ping Mei;Rachel Beret

  • Photoprotection and long-term acclimation to UV radiation in the marine diatom Thalassiosira weissflogii.

    Laurent Zudaire;Suzanne Roy

  • Characterization of phytoplankton communities in the lower St. Lawrence Estuary using HPLC-detected pigments and cell microscopy

    Suzanne Roy;J.-P. Chanut;Michel Gosselin;Télesphore Sime-Ngando

  • Characteristics of two distinct high-light acclimated algal communities during advanced stages of sea ice melt

    C. J. Mundy;Michel Gosselin;Jens K. Ehn;Claude Belzile

  • EFFECTS OF UV‐B RADIATION ON THE D1 PROTEIN REPAIR CYCLE OF NATURAL PHYTOPLANKTON COMMUNITIES FROM THREE LATITUDES (CANADA, BRAZIL, AND ARGENTINA)1

    Josée Nina Bouchard;Douglas A. Campbell;Suzanne Roy

  • Photosystem II Photoinactivation, Repair, and Protection in Marine Centric Diatoms

    Hongyan Wu;Suzanne Roy;Meriem Alami;Beverley R. Green

  • Significance of planktonic ciliated protozoa in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary: comparison with bacterial, phytoplankton, and particulate organic carbon

    Télesphore Sime-Ngando;Michel Gosselin;Suzanne Roy;J.-P. Chanut

  • Impact of suspended mussels (Mytilus edulis L.) on plankton communities in a Magdalen Islands lagoon (Québec, Canada): A mesocosm approach

    Aurore Trottet;Suzanne Roy;Eric Tamigneaux;Connie Lovejoy

  • Phytoplankton Pigments: Aids for practical laboratory work

    Suzanne Roy;Carole A. Llewellyn;Einar Skarstad Egeland;Geir Johnsen

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Legendre
Louis Legendre Université Paris Cité
Michel Gosselin
Michel Gosselin Université du Québec à Rimouski
Serge Demers
Serge Demers Université du Québec à Rimouski
Maurice Levasseur
Maurice Levasseur Université Laval
Irene R. Schloss
Irene R. Schloss Argentine Antarctic Institute
André Rochon
André Rochon Université du Québec à Rimouski
Connie Lovejoy
Connie Lovejoy Université Laval
Jean-Éric Tremblay
Jean-Éric Tremblay Université Laval
Geir Johnsen
Geir Johnsen Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Richard B. Rivkin
Richard B. Rivkin Memorial University of Newfoundland

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