June 2021
Patrick publishes in Current Forestry Reports!
o Kneeshaw, Daniel & Sturtevant, Brian & De Grandpré, Louis & Doblas-Miranda, Enrique & James, Patrick & Tardif, Dominique & Burton, Philip. (2021). The Vision of Managing for Pest-Resistant Landscapes: Realistic or Utopic?. Current Forestry Reports. 7. 10.1007/s40725-021-00140-z.
JP is invited to the symposium “Phenotype still matters in the genomic era” and the II SBE Meeting. See his talk “Polymorphic, cryptic or hybridizing species? The importance of phenotype in interpreting molecular patterns in a fast-evolving, taxonomically complicated group of Neotropical stingrays” here
JP is featured as an Early Career Researcher in the Journal of Biogeography! Read it here
July 2021
JP’s paper in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society is published!
o Fontenelle, J. P., Lovejoy, N. R., Kolmann, M. A., & Marques, F. P. L. (2021). Molecular phylogeny for the Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Myliobatiformes: Potamotrygoninae) reveals limitations of traditional taxonomy. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. (https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/134/2/381/6329148?login=true)
JP’s paper in Global and Planetary Change is published!
o Albert, J. S., Bernt, M. J., Fronk, A. H., Fontenelle, J. P., Kuznar, S. L., Lovejoy, N. R. (2021). Late Neogene megariver captures and the Great Amazonian Biotic Interchange. Global and Planetary Change. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921818121001399)
JP presents his talk “Evolution and Diversity of the Neotropical Freshwater Stingrays: a Genomic Perspective” at the 2021 Joint Meeting of Ichthyology and Herpelotology, hosted as a hybrid meeting in Phoenix, USA.
Clara is awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology!
August 2021
The intrepid team of Jared, Franck, and Kendriah successfully complete and challenging first field season collecting fuels data in post-JPBW stands. Bravo!
September 2021
Doriana goes from undergraduate assistant to MScF student, studying the effects of mountain pine beetle outbreaks on wildlife severity in BC and Alberta. Her thesis work is supported by a grant from fRi Research.
Simon, Julian, and Patrick publish in Molecular Ecology!
o Legault, Simon & Wittische, Julian & Cusson, Michel & Brodeur, Jacques & James, Patrick. (2021). Landscape-scale population connectivity in two parasitoid species associated with the spruce budworm: Testing the birdfeeder effect using genetic data. Molecular Ecology. 30. 10.1111/mec.16160.
October 2021
Julian publishes in HYSTRIX, the Italian journal of mammalogy!
o Frantz, Alain & Schleimer, Anna & Wittische, Julian & Heddergott, Mike. (2021). Close spatial overlap between the genetic population boundaries of raccoons and the distribution of the raccoon roundworm in Germany. Hystrix. 10.4404/hystrix-00444-2021.
Niamh is awarded the Ontario Graduate Scholarship!
Patrick publishes in Landscape Ecology!
o Germain, Marion & Kneeshaw, Daniel & De Grandpré, Louis & Desrochers, Mélanie & James, Patrick & Vepakomma, Udaya & Poulin, Jean-François & Villard, Marc-André. (2021). Insectivorous songbirds as early indicators of future defoliation by spruce budworm. Landscape Ecology. 36. 10.1007/s10980-021-01300-z.
Read Patrick’s contribution to the Ontario Professional Forest Association Newsletter (p. 16) about spruce budworm and wildfire interaction in the boreal forest here
November 2021
First NSERC Fire Network meeting - a pdf of the James Lab slides can be found here
December 2021
Kennedy passes her PhD transfer exam and is officially a PhD student. Congrats Kennedy!
Mathieu Landry successfully defends his PhD thesis at UQAM. Bravo Mathieu
Read all about Jonas’s work using thermal imaging to assess forest health, profiled here
Clara is awarded the SERG-I Graduate Student Award for attendance to a (now 2023) meeting!
Jeremy, Julian, and Patrick publish in Landscape Ecology!
o Larroque, Jeremy & Wittische, Julian & James, Patrick. (2021). Quantifying and predicting population connectivity of an outbreaking forest insect pest. Landscape Ecology. 10.1007/s10980-021-01382-9.
January 2022
Léo Jourdan joins the lab as an undergraduate researcher. Léo is helping devise a method to analyze point clouds collected from forests using a Terrestrial LiDAR Scanner. Welcome Léo!
Julian is published in Biodiversity and Conservation!
o Frantz, Alain & Viglino, Andrea & Wilwert, · & Cruz, Ana-Paula & Wittische, Julian & Weigand, Alexander & Buijk, Jacky & Nyssen, Pierrette & Dekeukeleire, Daan & Dekker, Jasja & Horsburgh, Gavin & Schneider, Simone & Lang, Mara & Caniglia, Romolo & Galaverni, Marco & Schleimer, Anna & Bücs, Szilárd Lehel & Pir, Jacques. (2022). Conservation by trans-border cooperation: population genetic structure and diversity of Geoffroy's bat (Myotis emarginatus) at its north-western European range edge. Biodiversity and Conservation. 10.1007/s10531-022-02371-3.
Mathieu and Patrick publish in the Journal of Biogeography!
o Landry, Mathieu & James, Patrick & Kneeshaw, Dan & Kembel, Steven. (2022). Spruce budworm bacterial communities vary among sites and host tree species in a boreal landscape. Journal of Biogeography. 10.1111/jbi.14299.
Jack publishes in Ecological Monographs!
o Chemical disturbance cues in aquatic systems: a review and prospectus. (2022). Ecological Monographs., 92(1). https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1487
