Maxence Martin

📣👋On est à la recherche d'un ou deux postdocs sur la croissance & dynamique long terme (50-100 ans) des #forêtsbrulées et des #plantations dans l’est du Canada. Les analyses ont une saveur "big spatial data". Pour plus de détails : cef-cfr.ca/uploads/Actual…

Ce vendredi 10 mai à 12h, Laurent Larrieu et Rita Bütler seront nos invités pour parler du potentiel des dendromicrohabitats au Canada. Une conférence ouverte à toutes et tous à @IRFUQAT et par Zoom (shorturl.at/nFGJ5) @CEF_CFR @chaireAFD

@NiKulha It was a bold methodology, but it paid off!

Taking good photos of old-growth (boreal) forests is never easy. Time to try some new perspectives?

Tree-Related Microhabitats and Multi-Taxon Biodiversity Quantification Exploiting ALS Data mdpi.com/2740950 #mdpiforests via @Forests_MDPI

@hoboshutterbug @Ella_Maru Also a nice addition for next week as we'll be talking about AI!

@Ella_Maru Of course it's Elsevier. @Max_Martin_PhD fodder for your course next year...

How is this even possible? This is obviously written by AI. How is it possible that none of the authors AND reviewers missed this? 😲

@CEF_CFR @UQAT @IRFUQAT Ainsi qu'avec @BraboisGui @UQAT @IRFUQAT @GREMAUQAT !

arte.tv/fr/videos/1171… 🔥 Reportage de ARTE avec @Max_Martin_PhD et Osvaldo Valeria @UQAT @IRFUQAT

@yboulanger2 @ottawavalleywx @annabwild Yes that's the idea. Focusing on areas already degraded by harvest and roads for restoration rather than degrading new OG aeas is better. Yet it requires to better develop silvicultural practices in canadian boreal forests.

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild Overall, it's hard to restore OG forests without reducing the harvest rate and limiting clearcuts. Targeting the restoration of secondary forests (already harvested within a road network) could be nice avenue to find a balance between harvest and conservation

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild I'd say that a good way could be to focus on the conversion of second-growth forests to continuous cover forestry while limiting new harvests of OG. Part of the forest could become "OG-alike managed forests" in areas already degraded by harvests and roads.

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild Unfortunately I'm not aware of many research on this subject for Ontario. Although it's starting to get a little old, this article summarized the results from different research conducted in Canada, including in Ontario: doi.org/10.1007/s11676…

@Max_Martin_PhD @annabwild Any literature you can recommend that is specific to Northeastern Ontario? Yes, I'm well aware that the distribution/ texture of old growth is more fragmented than what would be expected naturally. Still trying to get a better understanding of the NRV of old growth total area.

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild Gee! If I look at the summary from the Government of Quebec for boreal forest territories at the Ontario frontiers, the share of old (>100 forests) range from 49% to 61%. A SNRV of 17-22% implies a rather short fire cycle

@Max_Martin_PhD @annabwild Thanks, still trying to find the LTFC or mean fire return time they used in Ontario to calculate the SRNV old growth level. As far as I can tell the SNRV they used has 17-22% of total area as old growth which is much lower than the Cyr study.

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild If I look at this, it's positive to see that in the next 10 years fragmentation will stop and be a bit reversed, but the absence of very large tracks of OG forests mean that a part of their area based on the SNRV is missing.

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild Thanks, I look at the 2022-2032 Management plan, and I apology but this plan shows the same thing that Mackey et al.'s article, i.e. that we get more small OG patches but overall a lower total OG area, which is consistent with 30+ years of litterature

@ottawavalleywx @annabwild I'm a little bit curious, what's the source behind this number? From the other side of the frontier in QC there are now 3 times less old-growth forests compared to the whole holocene (Cyr et al. 2009 Front. Ecol. Envt.)

@annabwild For example, on the Abitibi River Forest Area there is currently 55% more Old Growth than there would be without any human intervention on the landscape and under the current plan old growth levels are projected to increase for the next 100 years.

So here is a mini-thread about a curious fieldwork day that I recently had. The first months of this summer that is sadly fading away were marked in #Quebec by an intense #wildfire activity. For those of you who don't remember, here is an overview. (+) tvanouvelles.ca/2023/07/01/lim…

👀🎥Vers une visite virtuelle des vieilles forêts de la Forêt d'Enseignement et de Recherche du Lac Duparquet avec la vidéo 360° tridimensionnelle - @Max_Martin_PhD @UQAT chaireafd.uqat.ca/nouvelle-broui…

Are three-dimensional 360° videos an interesting educational tool for explaining old-growth forest ecology? For now, we've just finished shooting videos in the @IRFUQAT @chaireAFD @UQAM Duparquet research forest, and I hope to be able to give an answer soon!

Excellente opportunité de PhD sur la dynamique à long terme des forêts boréales en lien avec les feux de forêt et les coupes. Implique une base de données unique au monde (>100K inventaires forestiers historiques; ~1920-1950) dans tout l'est du Canada tinyurl.com/2c6dj9rr

I'm very grateful to @mrnfqc for this great opportunity to start several exciting research projects. Expect to see a lot more on old-growth boreal forests, airborne LiDAR, natural disturbances, deadwood, tree-related microhabitats and biodiversity in the coming years! 🌲🌲🌲