Guillaume de Lafontaine

Full professor
Université du Québec à Rimouski
Rimouski, Quebec, Canada

I am the chairholder of the Canada Research Chair in Integrative Biology of the Northern Flora. My research focuses on plant eco-evolutionary dynamics. My reserach team addresses ecological, biogeographical, and evolutionary responses of the boreal and cold-temperate flora to environmental shifts associated with historical (Quaternary) and ongoing (anthropogenic) global change. We rely on an integrative approach, combining field ecology, paleoecology, population genetics/genomics, macroecology, to produce joint inferences across hierarchical levels of biodiversity, from genes to biomes, in a biogeographical context.

Presentation(s):

• COS 12-5 - Hedging at the edge: intraspecific trait variability promotes long term resilience of marginal populations at the rear edge of a widespread boreal tree species

  Monday, August 15, 2022
  2:30 PM – 2:45 PM EDT

• OOS 19-6 - Living on the (northern) edge: Holocene dynamics of marginal, northernmost maple stands in eastern North America

  Tuesday, August 16, 2022
  4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EDT