RESEARCH - TOPICS

Urban ecology and phytotechnologies

More than half the world’s population lives in cities, and this ongoing urbanization engenders numerous environmental challenges. Our studies aim to enrich understanding of the effects of urbanization on the plant world, as well as to develop techniques that use plants to mitigate its impact.

Jacques Brisson
Plant population ecology. Competition for space. Integrated plant management. Invasive species. Aquatic macrophytes for wastewater treatment.
Jacques Brodeur
Plant-insect-natural ennemies interaction, biological control and urban ecology.
Mohamed Hijri
Molecular genetics, genomics and evolution of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF). Environmental genomics and biodiversity of soil microbes.
Pierre-Luc Chagnon
Microbial ecology, mycorrhizal symbioses, life history strategies, plant-soil feedbacks, community assembly, ecological networks, behavioral ecology.
Michel Labrecque
Ecophysiology of woody species: biomass yield of woody crop cultivated for bioenergy and environment applications. Nutrition and assimilation under various environmental conditions. Restoration of contaminated sites, phytoremediation, decontamination of municipal sludge.
Joan Laur
Aquaporines. Molecular physiology of plants. Plant-water relations.

Stéphanie Pellerin
Wetland ecology; Ecosystem dynamics; Historical ecology; Paleoecology; Rare plant conservation; Plant-herbivore interactions .

Frédéric Pitre
Plant physiology, phytotechnologies, phytoremediation, tree biology, genomics, transcriptomics, plant biochemistry.

 

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