In the face of global changes, forest management must now consider adapting forests to novel and uncertain conditions alongside objectives of conservation and production. In this perspective, we modified the TRIAD zoning approach to add a resilience component through functionally diverse plantations following harvesting in the extensive areas. We then assessed the capacity of this new “TRIAD+” zoning approach for improving the resilience of the mature forest biomass to climate change and ...| Clément Hardy
🏆 This presentation won the “Best presentation” award for this annual symposium of the CEF. The composition of Quebec’s forests is likely to be altered by climate change, impacting not only the flora but also the fauna that depends on them.| Clément Hardy
In recent decades, thanks to the increase in the computational capabilities of our computers, the fields of ecology and forestry have seen the appearance of new tools within them. Among these are spatially explicit models, in which processes and represented entities are placed in space.| Clément Hardy
Objectives : We compared the large-scale and longterm impacts of uneven-aged and even-aged managements on the composition, road density and fragmentation of a landscape composed of northern temperate and boreal forests, and presenting frequent forest fires. Methods : We simulated an 800,000 ha forested landscape in the Mauricie region (Quebec, Canada) over a 150-year planning horizon with the LANDISII model and an extension that simulates forest road construction. We compared 30 diffe...| Clément Hardy
When efficiency brings environmental destruction| Clément Hardy
In 2023, the NSERC (an organisation of the federal government of Canada that finances scientific research) launched another edition of their “Science Action !” contest. The pitch was simple, yet challenging : graduate students who participated had to produce a 1 minute video showcasing their research in an interesting way, which would be evaluated by different juries.| Clément Hardy
A yearly science communication contest is held by a gathering of several research groups of the UQAM, the pôle ISE-CIRODD-RIISQ. The theme of the 2023 edition of the contest was Transitions, decarbonization and resilience.| Clément Hardy
Forest roads are an important part of forest management, both in terms of cost and impact on surrounding ecosystems. Existing tools to simulate the construction of forest roads have been designed for tactical or operational planning purposes, for relatively small areas (<10 000 ha) and small-scale topographic information. Hence, no forest road simulation tool properly exists to assist forest landscape ecology and management research. Here, we present the Forest Roads Simulation (FRS) extensio...| Clément Hardy
Although global change can reshape ecosystems by triggering cascading effects on food webs, indirect interactions remain largely overlooked. Climate- and land-use-induced changes in landscape cause shifts in vegetation composition, which affect entire food webs. We used simulations of forest dynamics and movements of interacting species, parameterized by empirical observations, to predict the outcomes of global change on a large-mammal food web in the boreal forest. We demonstrate that climat...| Clément Hardy
The forests in Quebec are facing a lot of different pressures, resulting in different stakeholders arguing for different actions to help them. As a result, Savoir Media (a quebec TV channel) made a documentary regarding the issue.| Clément Hardy
The ComSciCon is an amazing series of workshops and conferences made to help students of science communicate their research better through many different media. In Québec, the ComSciCon-QC is now organized every year by brave volonteers.| Clément Hardy
Or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the boss.| Clément Hardy
In world that always feels unfair, acceptation is the key to changing it.| Clément Hardy
Why the difference can be subtle, and why we should be careful about distinguishing the two.| Clément Hardy
Plant-based diets have a high ecological efficiency; but is it really useful to help the planet ?| Clément Hardy
L'aménagement forestier inéquien : Solution ou mirage d'une foresterie durable ?| Clément Hardy
Uneven-aged forest management is perceived as offering attractive trade-offs between wood production, and other important ecosystem services. But uncertainties persist about its impacts, due to the distribution of harvesting areas and the construction of forest roads over larger areas than the most traditional even-aged development.| Clément Hardy
They're free, they're open-source, and they will certainly transform your researcher life.| Clément Hardy
Uneven-aged management is currently seen by many forest ecologists as an extensive management approach when compared to more traditional even-aged methods, offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services.| Clément Hardy
🏆 This presentation won the “Best presentation” award for this annual conference of the IBFRA. Uneven-aged management is currently seen by many forest ecologists as an extensive management approach when compared to more traditional even-aged methods, offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services.| Clément Hardy
Uneven-aged forest management is currently seen by many forest ecologists as an extensive management approach offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services related to biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, and social acceptability.| Clément Hardy
Our modern lives put us in constant contact with information. So much information that it can be very difficult to structure it, but also to find it. Different softwares exist today to lighten the work that we ask our brains to manage this information.| Clément Hardy
The Forest Roads Simulation (FRS) module is an extension of the LANDIS-II Forest Landscape Model (FLM). It was created so as to help researchers in ecology to take into account the constructions of forest roads when studying the impacts of forest management on forest landscapes.| Clément Hardy
🏆 This presentation won the “Best presentation” award for this annual symposium of the CEF. Uneven-aged management is currently seen by many forest ecologists as an extensive management approach when compared to more traditional even-aged methods, offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services.| Clément Hardy
Clément is a postdoctoral fellow working on forest ecology, forest management, spatially explicit modelling and functional connectivity. He’s also interested in history, ethics, productivity tools, video-games and photography.| Clément Hardy
The duiker community in Central African rainforests includes a diversity of species that can coexist in the same area. The study of their activity patterns is needed to better understand habitat use or association between the species. Using camera traps, we studied the temporal activity patterns, and quantified for the first time the temporal overlap and spatial co-occurrence between species. Our results show that: (i) Two species are strongly diurnal: Cephalophus leucogaster, and Philantomba...| Clément Hardy
Uneven-aged forest management is currently seen by many forest ecologists as an extensive management approach offering interesting compromises between timber production and other important ecosystem services such as biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, and social acceptability.| Clément Hardy
The caribou (Rangifer tarandus) faces many different pressures throughout Québec, making it a vulnerable species. In particular, forest roads, numerous throughout the province, increase caribou mortality. Indeed, forest roads increase predation by the grey wolf (Canis lupus) that uses them to move quickly through the landscape to track its prey.| Clément Hardy
LANDIS-II is a spatially explicit model to simulate the evolution of a forest landscape represented by a raster. Each cell in it represents a piece of the surface of it, and the LANDIS-II user can choose from different extensions in order to represent processes that impact the plant succession of the landscape forests.| Clément Hardy