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Ecology and Evolution

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112
Citations
41786
World Ranking
155
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Canada Leader Award
  • 2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2007 - Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec

Overview

Yves Bergeron is affiliated with the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and earth and planetary sciences, with significant contributions across several subfields including global and planetary change, atmospheric science, nature and landscape conservation, ecology, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Their work largely centers on topics such as fire effects on ecosystems, tree-ring climate responses, plant water relations and carbon dynamics, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, forest ecology and management, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, and geology and paleoclimatology research.

Yves Bergeron has an extensive publishing record in various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Forests
  • Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Rabaska Revue d ethnologie de l Amérique française
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, notable among them are:

  • Martin P. Girardin
  • Pierre Grondin
  • Nicole J. Fenton
  • Sylvie Gauthier
  • Alain Leduc

Recent publications include:

  • Forest Carbon Management: a Review of Silvicultural Practices and Management Strategies Across Boreal, Temperate and Tropical Forests (2021, Current Forestry Reports)
  • Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest (2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • sPlotOpen - An environmentally balanced, open-access, global dataset of vegetation plots (2021, Global Ecology and Biogeography)
  • Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects (2021, Nature Communications)

Over the course of their career, Yves Bergeron has been recognized with awards including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2010) with a citation from the Academy of Science
  • Prix Marie-Victorin, Government of Quebec (2007)

Best Publications

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

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

  • CANOPY GAP CHARACTERISTICS AND TREE REPLACEMENT IN THE SOUTHEASTERN BOREAL FOREST

    Daniel D. Kneeshaw;Yves Bergeron

  • SPECIES AND STAND DYNAMICS IN THE MIXED WOODS OF QUEBEC'S SOUTHERN BOREAL FOREST

    Yves Bergeron

  • 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

  • Can forest management based on natural disturbances maintain ecological resilience

    C. Ronnie Drever;Garry Peterson;Christian Messier;Yves Bergeron

  • Future wildfire in circumboreal forests in relation to global warming

    M.D. Flannigan;M.D. Flannigan;Y. Bergeron;O. Engelmark;B.M. Wotton

  • The Influence of Island and Mainland Lakeshore Landscapes on Boreal Forest Fire Regimes

    Yves Bergeron

  • Basing silviculture on natural ecosystem dynamics: an approach applied to the southern boreal mixedwood forest of Quebec

    Yves Bergeron;Brian Harvey

  • Effects of overstory and understory vegetation on the understory light environment in mixed boreal forests

    Christian Messier;Sylvain Parent;Yves Bergeron

  • 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

  • Succession in the southern part of the Canadian boreal forest

    Yves Bergeron;Michelle Dubuc

  • LANDSCAPE-SCALE DISTURBANCES AND CHANGES IN BIRD COMMUNITIES OF BOREAL MIXED-WOOD FORESTS

    Pierre Drapeau;Alain Leduc;Jean-François Giroux;Jean-Pierre L. Savard

  • 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

  • Radial growth response of four dominant boreal tree species to climate along a latitudinal gradient in the eastern Canadian boreal forest

    Jianguo Huang;Jacques C. Tardif;Yves Bergeron;Bernhard Denneler

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

    Yves Bergeron;Mike Flannigan;Sylvie Gauthier;Alain Leduc

  • Global change and the boreal forest: thresholds, shifting states or gradual change?

    F. Stuart Chapin;Terry V. Callaghan;Yves Bergeron;M. Fukuda

  • 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

  • Future fire in Canada's boreal forest: paleoecology results and general circulation model--regional climate model simulations

    Mike Flannigan;Ian Campbell;Mike Wotton;Christopher Carcaillet

Frequent Co-Authors

Sylvie Gauthier
Sylvie Gauthier Natural Resources Canada
David Paré
David Paré Natural Resources Canada
Alain Leduc
Alain Leduc University of Quebec at Montreal
Martin P. Girardin
Martin P. Girardin Natural Resources Canada
Igor Drobyshev
Igor Drobyshev Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Christelle Hély
Christelle Hély University of Montpellier
Christopher Carcaillet
Christopher Carcaillet École Pratique des Hautes Études
Mike D. Flannigan
Mike D. Flannigan University of Alberta
Pierre Drapeau
Pierre Drapeau University of Quebec at Montreal
Jacques C. Tardif
Jacques C. Tardif University of Winnipeg

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