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...

The DIVERSE Team spent the day in the bush learning about assisted migration and alternative harvest strategies.

DIVERSE's Silviculture Trials are well underway!

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

DIVERSE MSc student Andrea Guarino

Découvrez quelques photos marquantes de notre Assemblée Générale Annuelle prises par Viviane Hamel.

Missed the AGM? Click here to check out our YouTube Highlights! Left to right, Guest Speaker Kate Lindsay (FPAC) & Project coordinator Madeleine Gauthier at the DIVERSE AGM. Late this past October, we hosted our Annual General Meeting (AGM) in Gatineau, QC, at the UQO Campus. The event brought together over 60 in-person attendees and...