Aquatic connectivity

  • We evaluate the effects of culverts on biodiversity

    Small barriers in aquatic ecosystems can strongly affect the biodiversity and many ecosystem functions downstream of the barriers

  • Impacts of barriers in streams on aquatic-terrestrial exchanges

    Barriers to movement (water, organisms and org. inorg. matters) can affect aquatic ecosystems’ biodiversity and functions but can also affect terrestrial biodiversity and functions.

  • We also worked in marine environments to study functional connectivity and partial barrier to movement

    For marine organisms, barriers (or partial barriers) to movement can be large sand patches or conspecifics density. Functional connectivity is way more complex than structural connectivity…

Projects in progress …

  • Examing the effects of culverts on biodiversity, productivity and ecosystem services

    Baptiste Nelaton
    PhD thesis

  • Evaluate the dependency of terrestrial habitats to emergent aquatic insects near culverts

    Matteo Babinski
    MSc Thesis

  • Using microcosms and protists to test the impacts of barriers to movement on meta-communities

    Sarah Bertrand
    MSc thesis

  • Impacts of vegetation control on biodiversity under hydroelectric lines

    Izaak Régis
    Msc thesis

  • Modeling the connection of aquatic climatic analogs in Quebec : mapping barriers and their impacts

    Camilo Herrera
    PhD Thesis

… Projects finished

  • Evaluate functional connectivity in a coral reef fish

    Partial barrier to movement can impact meta-population dynamics. With a translocation experiment, we examined how sand patch (predation risk) and conspecifics impact damselfish movement.

    Turgeon & Kramer (2010). ECOLOGY