Yves Bergeron - Staff Member Profile
Yves Bergeron
Position
Professeur émérite
Workplace
Locations
Station de recherche de la Forêt d’enseignement et de recherche du lac Duparquet(opens a dialog window)
- Room :
- Pavillon C
- Phone :
- 819 762-0971
- Email :
- yves.bergeron@uqat.ca
Education
- Ph. D. en sciences biologiques de l'Université de Montréal (1983)
- B. Sc. (1977)
Areas of expertise
- Écologie forestière appliquée
- Sciences naturelles
- Biodiversité
- Incendies forestiers (historique et impacts)
- Biologie
- Environnement
- Foresterie
Publications
Source: ORCID(opens in a new tab)
2026
Influence of environmental factors on pollen- and chironomid-based Holocene temperature inferences: A multisite comparison in eastern Canada
Journal articleQuaternary Science Reviews
Spruce budworm outbreaks promote natural regeneration of Eastern white pine
Journal articleForest Ecology and Management
UAV-based assessment of canopy surface temperatures in a boreal forest: a new high-resolution dataset and recommendations for future studies
Preprint
2025
Black spruce growth under climate extremes: Genetic insights for managing a key resource production species
Journal articleForest Ecology and Management
Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal‐temperate ecotone
Journal articleJournal of Ecology
Natural regeneration 18 years after experimental silvicultural treatments in Canadian boreal forests
Journal articleForest Ecology and Management
High-severity fires undermine resilience of black spruce-dominated boreal forests in eastern North America
PreprintMulti‐proxy analysis of early Holocene vegetation dynamics on the islands of proglacial Lake Ojibway (northeastern America)
Journal articleJournal of Quaternary Science
PDO Dynamics Shape the Fire Regime of Boreal Subarctic Landscapes in the Northwest Territories, Canada
Journal articleJournal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Yves Bergeron : une carrière dévolue à comprendre les forêts naturelles et à influencer l'aménagement forestier
Journal articleBotany
2024
Anticipated impacts in habitat of diagnostic species of potential natural vegetations due to climate change at the ecotone between temperate and boreal forests
Journal articleClimate Change Ecology
Morphological, physiological, and biochemical responses of yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) genotypes to water deficit
Journal articleNew Forests
An 8500-year history of climate-fire-vegetation interactions in the eastern maritime black spruce–moss bioclimatic domain, Québec, Canada
Journal articleÉcoscience
Future carbon sequestration potential in a widespread transcontinental boreal tree species: Standing genetic variation matters!
Journal articleGlobal Change Biology
Seedling recruitment in response to stand composition, interannual climate variability, and soil disturbance in the boreal mixed woods of Canada
Journal articleJournal of Vegetation Science
Can the Impact of Gravel Roads on Organic Layer Thickness Explain the Distribution of Populus tremuloides along Road Networks in the Boreal Forest of Eastern Canada?
Journal articleForests
2023
Recent decline in sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) growth extends to the northern parts of its distribution range in eastern Canada
Journal articleForest Ecology and Management
Modelling the potential of forest management to mitigate climate change in Eastern Canadian forests
Journal articleScientific Reports
Response of forest productivity to changes in growth and fire regime due to climate change
Journal articleCanadian Journal of Forest Research
Nine-years effect of harvesting and mechanical site preparation on bryophyte decomposition and carbon stocks in a boreal forested peatland
Journal articleForest Ecology and Management
Soil and tree phyllosphere microbial communities differ between coniferous and broadleaf deciduous boreal forests
Journal articlePlant and Soil
Masting is uncommon in trees that depend on mutualist dispersers in the context of global climate and fertility gradients
Journal articleNature Plants
Competitive interactions under current climate allow temperate tree species to grow and survive in boreal mixedwood forest
Journal articleEcography
2022
Regional, Site, and Tree Variations of Wood Density and Growth in Thuja occidentalis L. in the Quebec Forest
Journal articleForests
Influence of Leaf Litter and Humus Composition on the Development of Black Spruce Seedlings: A Greenhouse Experimentation
Journal articleForests
Climate drove the fire cycle and humans influenced fire occurrence in the East European boreal forest
Journal articleEcological Monographs
Dominance of coniferous and broadleaved trees drives bacterial associations with boreal feather mosses
Journal articleEnvironmental Microbiology
Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America
Journal articleJournal of Ecology
Irregular forest structures originating after fire: An opportunity to promote alternatives to even‐aged management in boreal forests
Journal articleJournal of Applied Ecology
Limits to reproduction and seed size-number trade-offs that shape forest dominance and future recovery
Journal articleNature Communications
Insect defoliation modulates influence of climate on the growth of tree species in the boreal mixed forests of eastern Canada
Journal articleEcology and Evolution
Site index as a predictor of the effect of climate warming on boreal tree growth
Journal articleGlobal Change Biology
North American tree migration paced by climate in the West, lagging in the East
Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Dominance of coniferous and broadleaved trees drives bacterial associations with boreal feather mosses
PreprintScandinavian Forest Fire Activity Correlates with Proxies of the Baffin Bay Ice Cover
Journal articleForests
2021
Are periodic (intra-annual) tangential bands of vessels in diffuse-porous tree species the equivalent of flood rings in ring-porous species? Reproducibility and cause
Journal articleDendrochronologia
Increasing fire and the decline of fire adapted black spruce in the boreal forest
Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Influences of climate fluctuations on northeastern North America’s burned areas largely outweigh those of European settlement since AD 1850
Journal articleEnvironmental Research Letters
Contrasting life-history traits of black spruce and jack pine influence their physiological response to drought and growth recovery in northeastern boreal Canada
Journal articleScience of The Total Environment
Tree-rings, genetics and the environment: Complex interactions at the rear edge of species distribution range
Journal articleDendrochronologia
Sphagnum and feather moss-associated N2 fixation along a 724-year chronosequence in eastern boreal Canada
Journal articlePlant Ecology
Is there tree senescence? The fecundity evidence
Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Factors explaining the composition and diversity of vascular plant understories along a transcontinental gradient in the Canadian boreal forest
Journal articleJournal of Vegetation Science
A 249‐yr chronosequence of forest plots from eight successive fires in the Eastern Canada boreal mixedwoods
Journal articleEcology
Contrasting Growth Response of Jack Pine and Trembling Aspen to Climate Warming in Quebec Mixedwoods Forests of Eastern Canada Since the Early Twentieth Century
Journal articleJournal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Author Correction: Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Journal articleNature Communications
Influence of soil warming and N‐addition on sap flux density and stem radius variation in boreal stands in Quebec, Canada
Journal articleEcohydrology
Partial Harvest in Paludified Black Spruce Stand: Short-Term Effects on Water Table and Variation in Stem Diameter
Journal articleForests
Continent-wide tree fecundity driven by indirect climate effects
Journal articleNature Communications
Influence of habitat availability and fire disturbance on a northern range boundary
Journal articleJournal of Biogeography
Advancing and reversing succession as a function of time since fire and insect outbreaks: An 18 year in situ remeasurement of changes in forest composition
Journal articleJournal of Vegetation Science
Projected Changes in Fire Activity and Severity Feedback in the Spruce–Feather Moss Forest of Western Quebec, Canada
PreprintTree-Ring Based Fire Reconstruction from 1666 to 2017 in Southeastern Siberia Boreal Forest and its Potential Underlying Drivers
Preprint
2020
Reply to Elmendorf and Ettinger: Photoperiod plays a dominant and irreplaceable role in triggering secondary growth resumption
Journal articleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
How Initial Forest Cover, Site Characteristics and Fire Severity Drive the Dynamics of the Southern Boreal Forest
Journal articleRemote Sensing
Success Factors for Experimental Partial Harvesting in Unmanaged Boreal Forest: 10-Year Stand Yield Results
Journal articleForests
Analysis of the Effect of Climate Warming on Paludification Processes: Will Soil Conditions Limit the Adaptation of Northern Boreal Forests to Climate Change? A Synthesis
Journal articleForests
Fire Detection and Fire Radiative Power in Forests and Low-Biomass Lands in Northeast Asia: MODIS versus VIIRS Fire Products
Journal articleRemote Sensing
Decadal‐Scale Recovery of Carbon Stocks After Wildfires Throughout the Boreal Forests
Journal articleGlobal Biogeochemical Cycles
Strong overestimation of water‐use efficiency responses to rising CO2 in tree‐ring studies
Journal articleGlobal Change Biology
Importance of Soil, Stand, and Mycorrhizal Fungi in Abies balsamea Establishment in the Boreal Forest
Journal articleForests
Spatiotemporal Variations of Satellite Microwave Emissivity Difference Vegetation Index in China Under Clear and Cloudy Skies
Journal articleEarth and Space Science
Contrasting Root System Structure and Belowground Interactions between Black Spruce (Picea mariana (Mill.) B.S.P) and Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx) in Boreal Mixedwoods of Eastern Canada
Journal articleForests
2019
Modelling Post-Disturbance Successional Dynamics of the Canadian Boreal Mixedwoods
Journal articleForests
Coherent signature of warming-induced extreme sub-continental boreal wildfire activity 4800 and 1100 years BP
Journal articleEnvironmental Research Letters
Coniferization of the mixed‐wood boreal forests under warm climate
Journal articleJournal of Quaternary Science
Decline in the strength of genetic controls on aspen environmental responses from seasonal to century‐long phenomena
Journal articleEcosphere
Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understorey plants
Journal articleFunctional Ecology
Taxonomy, together with ontogeny and growing conditions, drives needleleaf species' sensitivity to climate in boreal North America
Journal articleGlobal Change Biology
Persistence of balsam fir and black spruce populations in the mixedwood and coniferous bioclimatic domain of eastern North America
Journal articleEcology and Evolution
Tracking Open Versus Closed‐Canopy Boreal Forest Using the Geochemistry of Lake Sediment Deposits
Journal articleJournal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests
Journal articleNature Communications
2018
Digital mapping of paludification in soils under black spruce forests of eastern Canada
Journal articleGeoderma Regional
Satellite‐Observed Impacts of Wildfires on Regional Atmosphere Composition and the Shortwave Radiative Forcing: A Multiple Case Study
Journal articleJournal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres
Beneficial effects of climate warming on boreal tree growth may be transitory
Journal articleNature Communications
2017
Strong Gradients in Forest Sensitivity to Climate Change Revealed by Dynamics of Forest Fire Cycles in the Post Little Ice Age Era
Journal articleJournal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
2012
La modélisation en sciences de l'environnement : approches et questionnements
Journal articleVertigO
2005
L’aménagement forestier : les enjeux sociaux, économiques et environnementaux
Journal articleVertigO