Ongoing projects

Predicting the growth of the boreal forest: an approach based on the analysis and modelling of ecophysiological processes
Period: 2021 – 2024
Agency: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
Program: Alliance grants
Primary Investigator: Fabio Gennaretti (UQAT)
Government and industrial partners: MFFP and Resolute Forest Products

Multiscale forest carbon and albedo modelling for assessing the potential of different forest management strategies on climate change mitigation
Period: 2021 – 2024
Agency: FRQNT
Program: Contribution of the forestry sector to mitigating the effects of climate change
Principal Investigator: Frédérik Doyon (UQO)

Publications

Hermoso de Mendoza, I., Boucher, E., Gennaretti, F., Lavergne, A., Andreu-Hayles, L., & Field, R. (in review). A new snow module improves predictions of isotope-enabled MAIDENiso forest growth model. Geoscientific Model Development Discussions, 2021, 1–35. doi: 10.5194/gmd-2021-275

Rezsöhazy, J., Gennaretti, F., Goosse, H., & Guiot, J. (2021). Testing the performance of dendroclimatic process-based models at global scale with the PAGES2k tree-ring width database. Climate Dynamics. doi: 10.1007/s00382-021-05789-7

Rezsöhazy, J., Goosse, H., Guiot, J., Gennaretti, F., Boucher, E., André, F., & Jonard, M. (2020). Application and evaluation of the dendroclimatic process-based model MAIDEN during the last century in Canada and Europe. Climate of the Past, 16, 1043–1059. doi: 10.5194/cp-16-1043-2020

Gennaretti, F., Boucher, E., Nicault, A., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Arseneault, D., Berninger, F., … Guiot, J. (2018). Underestimation of the Tambora effects in North American taiga ecosystems. Environmental Research Letters, 13(3), 34017. doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/aaac0c

Lavergne, A., Gennaretti, F., Risi, C., Daux, V., Boucher, E., Savard, M. M., … Guiot, J. (2017). Modelling tree ring cellulose δ18O variations in two temperature-sensitive tree species from North and South America. Clim. Past, 13(11), 1515–1526. doi: 10.5194/cp-13-1515-2017

Gennaretti, F., Gea-Izquierdo, G., Boucher, E., Berninger, F., Arseneault, D., & Guiot, J. (2017). Ecophysiological modeling of photosynthesis and carbon allocation to the tree stem in the boreal forest. Biogeosciences, 14(21), 4851–4866. doi: 10.5194/bg-14-4851-2017

Gea-Izquierdo, G., Nicault, A., Battipaglia, G., Dorado‐Liñán, I., Gutiérrez, E., Ribas, M., & Guiot, J. (2017). Risky future for Mediterranean forests unless they undergo extreme carbon fertilization. Global Change Biology, 23(7), 2915–2927. doi: 10.1111/gcb.13597

Gea-Izquierdo, G., Guibal, F., Joffre, R., Ourcival, J. M., Simioni, G., & Guiot, J. (2015). Modelling the climatic drivers determining photosynthesis and carbon allocation in evergreen Mediterranean forests using multiproxy long time series. Biogeosciences, 12(12), 3695–3712. doi: 10.5194/bg-12-3695-2015

Boucher, É., Guiot, J., Hatté, C., Daux, V., Danis, P. A., & Dussouillez, P. (2014). An inverse modeling approach for tree-ring-based climate reconstructions under changing atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Biogeosciences, 11(12), 3245–3258. doi: 10.5194/bg-11-3245-2014

Danis, P. A., Hatté, C., Misson, L., & Guiot, J. (2012). MAIDENiso: a multiproxy biophysical model of tree-ring width and oxygen and carbon isotopes. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 42(9), 1697–1713. doi: 10.1139/x2012-089

Gaucherel, C., Campillo, F., Misson, L., Guiot, J., & Boreux, J. J. (2008). Parameterization of a process-based tree-growth model: Comparison of optimization, MCMC and Particle Filtering algorithms. Environmental Modelling and Software, 23(10–11), 1280–1288. doi: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2008.03.003

Gaucherel, C., Guiot, J., & Misson, L. (2008). Changes of the potential distribution area of French Mediterranean forests under global warming. Biogeosciences, 5(6), 1493–1504. doi: 10.5194/bg-5-1493-2008

Misson, L., Rathgeber, C., & Guiot, J. (2004). Dendroecological analysis of climatic effects on Quercus petraea and Pinus halepensis radial growth using the process-based MAIDEN model. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34(4), 888–898. doi: 10.1139/x03-253

Misson, L. (2004). MAIDEN: a model for analyzing ecosystem processes in dendroecology. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 34(4), 874–887. doi: 10.1139/x03-252