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D-Index
71
Citations
16237
World Ranking
1320
National Ranking
73

Sylvie Gauthier 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 Sylvie Gauthier sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 220 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sylvie Gauthier 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 Sylvie Gauthier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Sylvie Gauthier is affiliated with Natural Resources Canada in Canada and specializes in environmental science, with a focus on the boreal and temperate forest ecosystems. Their research covers a diverse range of topics including fire effects on ecosystems, forest management and policy, tree-ring climate responses, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, landslides and related hazards, rangeland and wildlife management, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Their published work includes papers in various well-regarded journals, contributing to the understanding of natural disturbances and forest ecosystem dynamics. Recent publications are:

  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest (2021) in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems (2020) in Ecography
  • Wildland fire risk research in Canada (2020) in Environmental Reviews
  • Fifty years of wildland fire science in Canada (2020) in Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Strong overestimation of water-use efficiency responses to rising CO2 in tree-ring studies (2020) in Global Change Biology

Frequently publishing in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Sylvie Gauthier has contributed to the journal with 14 papers. Other notable publication venues include Global Change Biology, The Science of The Total Environment, Ecology Letters, and The Forestry Chronicle.

Their most frequent coauthors include Yves Bergeron, Martin P. Girardin, Yan Boulanger, Victor Danneyrolles, and Dominique Arseneault, reflecting collaborative efforts in related research areas.

Their subfields of study encompass global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and management, monitoring, policy, and law. This interdisciplinary approach supports their work on complex environmental and ecological processes, particularly around fire dynamics and forest policy.

Best Publications

  • Boreal forest health and global change

    S. Gauthier;P. Bernier;T. Kuuluvainen;A. Z. Shvidenko

  • Natural fire regime : a guide for sustainable management of the Canadian boreal forest

    Yves Bergeron;Alain Leduc;Brian D. Harvey;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Natural fire frequency for the eastern Canadian boreal forest: consequences for sustainable forestry

    Yves Bergeron;Sylvie Gauthier;Victor Kafka;Patrick Lefort

  • FIRE REGIMES AT THE TRANSITION BETWEEN MIXEDWOOD AND CONIFEROUS BOREAL FOREST IN NORTHWESTERN QUEBEC

    Yves Bergeron;Sylvie Gauthier;Sylvie Gauthier;Mike Flannigan;Mike Flannigan;Victor Kafka;Victor Kafka

  • Impacts of salvage logging on biodiversity: A meta‐analysis

    Simon Thorn;Claus Bässler;Roland Brandl;Philip J. Burton

  • Forest management guidelines based on natural disturbance dynamics: Stand- and forest-level considerations

    Yves Bergeron;Brian Harvey;Alain Leduc;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Stand-landscape integration in natural disturbance-based management of the southern boreal forest

    Brian D. Harvey;Alain Leduc;Sylvie Gauthier;Yves Bergeron

  • Forest management is driving the eastern North American boreal forest outside its natural range of variability

    Dominic Cyr;Sylvie Gauthier;Yves Bergeron;Christopher Carcaillet

  • Change of fire frequency in the eastern Canadian boreal forests during the Holocene: does vegetation composition or climate trigger the fire regime?

    Christopher Carcaillet;Christopher Carcaillet;Yves Bergeron;Pierre J. H. Richard;Bianca Fréchette

  • Past, Current and Future Fire Frequency in the Canadian Boreal Forest: Implications for Sustainable Forest Management

    Yves Bergeron;Mike Flannigan;Sylvie Gauthier;Alain Leduc

  • 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

  • Fire return intervals and tree species succession in the North Shore region of eastern Quebec

    Mathieu BouchardM. Bouchard;Mathieu BouchardM. Bouchard;David PothierD. Pothier;David PothierD. Pothier;Sylvie GauthierS. Gauthier;Sylvie GauthierS. Gauthier

  • 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

  • Past, current, and future fire frequencies in Quebec's commercial forests : implications for the cumulative effects of harvesting and fire on age-class structure and natural disturbance-based management

    Yves Bergeron;Dominic Cyr;C Ronnie Drever;Mike Flannigan

  • Young and old forest in the boreal: critical stages of ecosystem dynamics and management under global change

    Timo Kuuluvainen;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Gap dynamics and replacement patterns in gaps of the northeastern boreal forest of Quebec

    Anh Thu Pham;Louis De Grandpré;Sylvie Gauthier;Yves Bergeron

  • Fire-smart forest management: A pragmatic approach to sustainable forest management in fire-dominated ecosystems

    Kelvin Hirsch;Victor Kafka;Cordy Tymstra;Rob McAlpine

  • The reduction of organic-layer depth by wildfire in the North American boreal forest and its effect on tree recruitment by seed

    David F. GreeneD.F. Greene;S. Ellen MacdonaldS.E. Macdonald;Sybille HaeusslerS. Haeussler;Susy DomenicanoS. Domenicano

  • EFFECTS OF FIRE REGIME ON THE SEROTINY LEVEL OF JACK PINE

    Sylvie Gauthier;Yves Bergeron;Jean-Pierre Simon

  • Ecosystem Management in the Boreal Forest

    Sylvie Gauthier;Marie-Andrée Vaillancourt

  • 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
Alain Leduc
Alain Leduc University of Quebec at Montreal
Martin P. Girardin
Martin P. Girardin Natural Resources Canada
Pierre Drapeau
Pierre Drapeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Daniel Kneeshaw
Daniel Kneeshaw University of Quebec at Montreal
Pierre Y. Bernier
Pierre Y. Bernier Natural Resources Canada
Yan Boulanger
Yan Boulanger Environment and Climate Change Canada
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
David F. Greene
David F. Greene Humboldt State University

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