Guillaume de Lafontaine

Experience

• –present
  Professeur en écologie végétale, Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR)

Education

• 2017 
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , Postdoctorat (plant biology)
• 2015 
  Université Laval, Postdoctorat (sciences du bois et de la forêt)
• 2012 
  INRAE et Université de Bordeaux, Postdoctorat (UMR BIOGECO)
• 2010 
  Université Laval, Doctorat en biologie

Publications

• 2025
  Early departures and delayed arrivals: Holocene dynamics of temperate tree species in the boreal-temperate ecotone, Journal of Ecology
• 2025
  Drying spring accelerates transition to pyrogenic vegetation in American boreal forest, Ecology Letters
• 2025
  Solving a century-old conundrum: genetic integrity of a rare and local endemic shrub facing introgression with a widespread congener, Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society
• 2025
  Reassessing the schedule of the sugar season in maple under climate warming, Frontiers in Agronomy
• 2024
  Lakes cannot burn and buried charcoals cannot fly: reconciling lake- versus soil-based reconstructions of past forest dynamics, Holocene
• 2024
  Cypripède royal : 15 ans de suivi d’une population de la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent, au Québec, Le Naturaliste Canadien
• 2024
  Future carbon sequestration potential in a widespread transcontinental boreal tree species: Standing genetic variation matters!, Global Change Biology
• 2024
  Décalage temporel dans l’établissement des érables en forêt boréale révélé par une population marginale à la limite nordique de l’érable à sucre, Écoscience
• 2024
  Integrating different data sources using a Bayesian hierarchical model to unveil glacial refugia, Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics
• 2024
  Expert elicitation of state shifts and divergent sensitivities to climate warming across northern ecosystems, Communications Earth & Environment
• 2024
  Historical dynamics of marginal populations at the leading edge of a temperate species in the boreal-temperate ecotone, Ecosphere
• 2024
  Responses to spring rainfall and shading in moonworts: trait variability and the dynamics of a genus community, Plant Ecology
• 2024
  Eco-evolutionary dynamics at the altitudinal limit of a transcontinental boreal conifer, Evolutionary Ecology
• 2024
  Atlas des plantes exotiques naturalisées du parc national de la Gaspésie, Le Naturaliste Canadien
• 2024
  Lire le passé forestier dans un bourbier : histoire écologique et dynamique contemporaine d’une population marginale nordique d’érable rouge (Acer rubrum), Écoscience
• 2023
  Hedging at the rear edge: Intraspecific trait variability drives the trajectory of marginal populations in a widespread boreal tree species, Journal of Ecology
• 2023
  Jack pine of all trades: Deciphering intraspecific variability of a key adaptive trait at the rear edge of a widespread fire-embracing North American conifer, American Journal of Botany
• 2023
  Local adaptation shapes functional traits and resource allocation in black spruce, Scientific Reports
• 2021
  Spruce population genomics, Population genomics: Forest trees
• 2021
  A tale of two conifers: Migration across a dispersal barrier outpaced regional expansion from refugia, Journal of Biogeography
• 2020
  Ice-age persistence and genetic isolation of the disjunct distribution of larch in Alaska, Ecology and Evolution
• 2020
  The evolution of paleoecology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
• 2020
  Exploring genomic variation associated with drought stress in Picea mariana populations, Ecology and Evolution
• 2020
  Effects of 20th-century settlement fires on landscape structure and forest composition in Eastern Québec, Canada, Journal of Vegetation Science
• 2020
  Contrasted patterns of local adaptation to climate change across the range of an evergreen oak, Quercus aquifolioides, Evolutionary Applications
• 2019
  Rethinking long-term vegetation dynamics: multiple glacial refugia and local expansion of a species complex, Ecography
• 2018
  The teal spruce: A game about the importance of study design and communication, Science Teacher
• 2018
  Invoking adaptation to decipher the genetic legacy of past climate change, Ecology
• 2018
  The critical role of local refugia in postglacial colonization of Chinese pine: joint inferences from DNA analyses, pollen records, and species distribution modeling, Ecography
• 2017
  Asymmetry matters: a genomic assessment of directional biases in gene flow between hybridizing spruces, Ecology and Evolution
• 2016
  Joint inferences from cytoplasmic DNA and fossil data provide evidence for glacial vicariance and contrasted postglacial dynamics in tamarack, a transcontinental conifer, Journal of Biogeography
• 2015
  The Quaternary coversands of southwest France, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2015
  Tracking the progression of speciation: variable patterns of introgression across the genome provide insights on the species delimitation between progenitor-derivative spruces (Picea mariana × P. rubens), Molecular Ecology
• 2015
  Integrating phylogeography and paleoecology to investigate the origin and dynamics of hybrid zones: insights from two widespread North American firs, Molecular Ecology
• 2014
  Cryptic no more: soil macrofossils uncover Pleistocene forest microrefugia within a periglacial desert, New Phytologist
• 2014
  Beyond skepticism: inferring cryptic refugia using multiple lines of evidence, New Phytologist
• 2014
  Climate refugia: joint inferences from fossil records, species distribution models, and phylogeography, New Phytologist
• 2013
  L’anthracothèque de Bordeaux : une collection de référence pour l’identification taxonomique des charbons de bois macrofossiles provenant des Landes de Gascogne et leur périphérie, Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux
• 2013
  Stronger spatial genetic structure in recolonized areas than in refugia in the European beech, Molecular Ecology
• 2012
  Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene - Response to comments by Mikael Ohlso, Quaternary Research
• 2012
  Multiplex kits of microsatellite markers for genetic studies of beech, Molecular Ecology Resources
• 2012
  How climate and fire disturbances influence contrasted dynamics of Picea glauca alpine tree lines in Atlantic and continental eastern North America, Ecotones between forest and grassland
• 2012
  Long-term fire and forest history of subalpine balsam fir (Abies balsamea) and white spruce (Picea glauca) stands in eastern Canada inferred from soil charcoal analysis, Holocene
• 2011
  Permineralization of soil macrofossil charcoal promotes preservation of palaeoecological information, Journal of Quaternary Science
• 2011
  Soil charcoal stability over the Holocene across boreal northeastern North America, Quaternary Research
• 2011
  Shifting zonal patterns of the southern boreal forest in eastern Canada associated with changing fire regime during the Holocene, Quaternary Science Reviews
• 2010
  The origin and dynamics of subalpine white spruce and balsam fir stands in boreal eastern North America, Ecosystems
• 2010
  Phylogeography of white spruce (Picea glauca) in eastern North America reveals contrasting ecological trajectories, Journal of Biogeography
• 2007
  Species richness along a production gradient: a multivariate approach, American Journal of Botany
• 2005
  Protocole de suivi des populations d'aster du Saint-Laurent, Symphyotrichum laurentianum, aux îles-de-la-Madeleine, Canadian Field-Naturalist