Elise Filotas is a forest ecologist and professor at Télé-université TÉLUQ in Quebec, Canada. Filotas’ research focuses on topics related to forest ecology, including plant community responses to disturbances, the impacts of climate change on forest ecosystems, and the application of complexity science to forest management. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on these topics, with a focus on understanding how forest systems respond to human-induced changes.