Summary from: Boyce, Hamann, Dorrell, & Nielsen (2026). “Prioritizing Conservation of Trailing-Edge Populations for Future Climate-Resilient Forests,” Global Change Biology. Imagine a population of spruce or maple trees that has grown for generations in the hottest or driest place where its species can still survive. These populations, known as “rear-edge” populations, often carry genetic adaptations...

Summary of: Isabelle Aubin, Amanda Roe, Benjamin Marquis, Laura Boisvert-Marsh, John Pedlar, Sandy Erni, Benoit Hamel, Glenn Lawrence, Dan McKenney, and Taylor Scarr (2026). “Vulnerability of Canadian Forests to Invasive Insects under Climate Change,” Canadian Journal of Forest Research.  The mountain pine beetle, the emerald ash borer, the hemlock woolly adelgid… the list of invasive insects threatening Canadian forests is growing, as international trade facilitates long-distance invasions and climate change accelerates their northward spread. Until now, most risk assessments have been conducted on a species-by-species basis. A team from Natural Resources Canada wanted to take a step back and produce and integrated...

DIVERSE MSc student Sebastián Guerrero

By Morgane Dendoncker, Christian Messier, Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez & Olivier Villemaire-Côté Published in Climate Change Ecology (2026), with the contribution of Madeleine Gauthier for communication As temperatures climb and precipitation patterns shift, the trees growing across our 2.3 million km² of managed forest are increasingly pushed beyond the climatic conditions they evolved to handle. Our new study, published in Climate...

L'intégration : savons-nous vraiment ce que ça veut dire et comment y arriver?

DIVERSE MSc student Andrea Guarino

Les simulations d'une TRIADE pour Manawan mises à l'honneur à La Semaine Verte

This week, Marie-Josée Fortin, our DIVERSE leader for research themes 3 & 4, was awarded the Killam Prize in Natural Sciences. This Prize is awarded to active Canadian scholars ”who have distinguished themselves through sustained research excellence, making a significant impact in their respective fields” (National Research Council Canada). You can click on the image...

Thanks to James Steenberg, Senior Research and Planning Forester, and his dedicated team at the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, DIVERSE researchers, government representatives, and forestry partners gathered this past November for an inspiring field visit to conserved and managed forests in eastern Nova Scotia. The enthusiasm was palpable as this group—bringing together scientists...

An interview with Christian Messier led by Patrick de Bellefeuille for Météo Media You can click on the image below to access the article and the short video on the Météo Media webpage. The video is only available in French.