Alain
Cuerrier

Ethnobiology and medicinal plants

Adjunct professor
department of biological sciences - Université de Montréal

Botanist and researcher
Montreal Botanical Garden
alain.cuerrier@umontreal.ca
514-872-3182

RESEARCH TOPICS


Our research projects focus on traditional knowledge related to the use of plants, animals, or the perception of traditional medicine, climate change and the landscape (ethnoecology).

Keywords: Ethnobiology, ethnozoology and ethnobotany • Folk classification • Medicinal plants of the First Nations of Canada • Antidiabetic and potentially antioxidant plants • Traditional knowledge of Inuits in Nunavik and Crees in Quebec



STUDENTS


Ph.D. students
Aurélie Collette, co-supervision for David St-Pierre (UQÀM)
Leigh Joseph, co-supervision for Darcy Mathews (University of Victoria)
Marco Antonio Otarola Rojas, co-supervised by Rafael Ocampo
Sugir Selliah, co-supervision for Nathan McClintock (INRS)

M.Sc. students
Emilie Coulombe, co-supervision for Marie-Pierre Bousquet
Frédéric Dwyer-Samuel, co-supervised by Luise Hermanutz
Taylor Montgomery-Stinson, co-supervised by Andrew Trant



PUBLICATIONS


Publications with review committee are available at Google Scholar.