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35
Citations
3694
World Ranking
7464
National Ranking
463

Overview

Yan Boulanger is affiliated with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a significant emphasis on global and planetary change, ecology, nature and landscape conservation, ecological modeling, and atmospheric science.

Their work covers major topics related to fire effects on ecosystems, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, species distribution and climate change, forest management and policy, forest insect ecology and management, tree-ring climate responses, and plant water relations and carbon dynamics.

Yan Boulanger has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Guillemette Labadie, Junior A. Tremblay, Dominic Cyr, Sylvie Gauthier, and Marc-André Parisien. This network of collaborators reflects a robust engagement with forest and environmental research communities.

The scientist's recent publications reveal a focus on forest ecosystems, climate impacts, and wildfire dynamics. Notable papers include:

  • Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems, 2020, Ecography
  • Drivers and Impacts of the Record-Breaking 2023 Wildfire Season in Canada, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?, 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
  • Wildland fire risk research in Canada, 2020, Environmental Reviews
  • Sequential droughts: A silent trigger of boreal forest mortality, 2021, Global Change Biology

Yan Boulanger frequently publishes in several scientific journals, demonstrating consistent contributions to the academic body of knowledge. Their most frequent publication venues include:

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

Best Publications

  • Spruce budworm outbreaks in eastern Quebec over the last 450 years

    Yan Boulanger;Dominique Arseneault

  • Climate change impacts on forest landscapes along the Canadian southern boreal forest transition zone

    Yan Boulanger;Anthony R. Taylor;David T. Price;Dominic Cyr

  • Globally consistent climate sensitivity of natural disturbances across boreal and temperate forest ecosystems

    Rupert Seidl;Rupert Seidl;Juha Honkaniemi;Tuomas Aakala;Alexey Aleinikov

  • Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long?

    Diana Stralberg;Dominique Arseneault;Jennifer L. Baltzer;Quinn E. Barber

  • Fire regime zonation under current and future climate over eastern Canada

    Yan Boulanger;Sylvie Gauthier;David R. Gray;Héloïse Le Goff

  • Postfire Succession of Saproxylic Arthropods, with Emphasis on Coleoptera, in the North Boreal Forest of Quebec

    Yan Boulanger;Luc Sirois

  • Dendrochronological reconstruction of spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana) outbreaks in southern Quebec for the last 400 years

    Yan Boulanger;Dominique Arseneault;Hubert Morin;Yves Jardon

  • Wildland fire risk research in Canada

    Lynn M. Johnston;Xianli Wang;Sandy Erni;Stephen W. Taylor

  • Postfire dynamics of black spruce coarse woody debris in northern boreal forest of Quebec

    Yan Boulanger;Luc Sirois

  • Mapping Local Effects of Forest Properties on Fire Risk across Canada

    Pierre Y. Bernier;Sylvie Gauthier;Pierre-Olivier Jean;Francis Manka

  • An alternative fire regime zonation for Canada

    Yan Boulanger;Sylvie Gauthier;Philip. J. Burton;Marie-Andrée Vaillancourt

  • Tree vulnerability to climate change: improving exposure-based assessments using traits as indicators of sensitivity

    I. Aubin;L. Boisvert-Marsh;H. Kebli;D.W. McKenney

  • Rapid 21st century climate change projected to shift composition and growth of Canada’s Acadian Forest Region

    Anthony R. Taylor;Yan Boulanger;David T. Price;Dominic Cyr

  • Sequential droughts: A silent trigger of boreal forest mortality

    Martina Sánchez-Pinillos;Martina Sánchez-Pinillos;Loïc D’Orangeville;Yan Boulanger;Phil Comeau

  • Vulnerability of timber supply to projected changes in fire regime in Canada’s managed forests

    S. Gauthier;P.Y. Bernier;Y. Boulanger;J. Guo

  • Boreal forests will be more severely affected by projected anthropogenic climate forcing than mixedwood and northern hardwood forests in eastern Canada

    Yan Boulanger;Jesus Pascual Puigdevall

  • Current and projected cumulative impacts of fire, drought, and insects on timber volumes across Canada

    Dominique Boucher;Yan Boulanger;Isabelle Aubin;Pierre Y. Bernier

  • Model-specification uncertainty in future area burned by wildfires in Canada

    Yan Boulanger;Marc-André Parisien;Xianli Wang

  • Projected changes in fire size from daily spread potential in Canada over the 21st century

    Xianli Wang;Kala Studens;Marc-André Parisien;Steve W. Taylor

  • Projected effects of climate change on boreal bird community accentuated by anthropogenic disturbances in western boreal forest, Canada

    Philippe Cadieux;Yan Boulanger;Dominic Cyr;Anthony R. Taylor

  • Climate change will affect the ability of forest management to reduce gaps between current and presettlement forest composition in southeastern Canada

    Yan Boulanger;Dominique Arseneault;Yan Boucher;Sylvie Gauthier

  • Stand‐level drivers most important in determining boreal forest response to climate change

    Yan Boulanger;Anthony R. Taylor;David T. Price;Dominic Cyr

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
David Price
David Price University of Aberdeen
Dominique Arseneault
Dominique Arseneault Université du Québec à Rimouski
Christian Hébert
Christian Hébert Natural Resources Canada
Luc Sirois
Luc Sirois Université du Québec à Rimouski
Pierre Y. Bernier
Pierre Y. Bernier Natural Resources Canada
Marc-André Parisien
Marc-André Parisien Natural Resources Canada
Han Y. H. Chen
Han Y. H. Chen University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Philip J. Burton
Philip J. Burton University of Northern British Columbia
Daniel Kneeshaw
Daniel Kneeshaw University of Quebec at Montreal

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