
Martin P. Girardin
Chercheur associé
UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal
Chercheur scientifique
Service canadien des forêts
Centre de Foresterie des Laurentides
1055, rue du P.E.P.S.
Case postale 10380 Succ Sainte-Foy
Québec, Qc
G1V 4C7
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FORMATION
- Baccalauréat en sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (1999)
- Maîtrise en sciences biologiques, Université du Québec à Montréal (2001)
- Doctorat en botanique, University of Manitoba (2005)
- Postdoctorat, Université Laval (2005)
THÈMES DE RECHERCHE
Recherche couvrant les domaines suivants : dendrochronologie, écologie et climatologie globale, reconstitution climatique, historique des feux, climatologie et sciences de l’atmosphère, croissance arborescente et environnement, modélisation de la balance hydrique, dynamique forestière, dynamique des tourbières, dynamique des perturbations, historique des perturbations d’insectes, productivité forestière, etc.

Nos travaux dans les médias
Autres communications
Publications scientifiques
2010
35. Girardin, M.P., Bernier, P.Y., and Gauthier, S. In preparation. Increasing potential productivity of eastern boreal North American forests constrained by a decreasing frequency of wildfires.
34. Meyn, A., Schmidtlein, S., Taylor, S.W., Girardin, M.P., Thonicke, K., and Cramer, W. Submitted. Recent historical climate change and wildfire in British Columbia, Canada.
33. Drobyshev, I., Flannigan, M., Bergeron, Y., Girardin, M.P., Suran, B. In press. Variation in local weather explains differences in fire regimes within a Québec south-eastern boreal forest landscape. International Journal of Wildland Fire.
32. Bergeron, Y., Cyr, D. and Girardin, M.P. In press. Will climate change drive 21st century burn rates in Canadian boreal forest outside of its natural variability: Collating global climate model experiments with sedimentary charcoal data. International Journal of Wildland Fire. Manuscript PDF
31. Girardin, M.P., Bernier, P.Y., Raulier, F., Tardif, J.C., Conciatori, F., Guo, X.J. Accepted. Testing for a CO2 fertilization effect on growth of Canadian boreal forests. Journal of Geophysical Research 00: 00-00.
30. Carcaillet, C., Bergeron, Y., Ali, A.A., Gauthier, S., Girardin, M.P., and Hély, C. 2010. Holocene fires in eastern Canada: toward a forest management perspective in light of future global changes. PAGES News 18: 68-70
29. Hély, C., Girardin M.P., Ali, A.A., Carcaillet, C., Brewer, S., and Bergeron, Y. 2010. Eastern boreal North American wildfire risk of the past 7000 years: a model-data comparison. Geophysical Research Letters L14709, doi:10.1029/2010GL043706. Auxilliary material
28. Meyn, A., Schmidtlein, S., Taylor, S.W., Girardin, M.P., Thonicke, K., Cramer, W. 2010. Spatial variation of trends in wildfire and summer drought in British Columbia, Canada, 1920–2000. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19: 272-283.
27. Huang, J., Tardif, J.C., Bergeron, Y., Denneler, B., Berninger, F., Girardin, M.P. 2010. Radial growth response of four dominant boreal tree species to climate along a latitudinal gradient in the eastern Canadian boreal forest. Global Change Biology 16: 711-731. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01990.x
26. Girardin, M.P. 2010. Wildfire risk inferred from tree rings in the Central Laurentians of boreal Quebec, Canada. Dendrochronologia 28: 187–206.
2009
25. Girardin, M.P., Flannigan, M.D., Tardif, J.C. and Bergeron, Y. 2009. Climate, weather, and forest fire. In Ecosystem management in the boreal forest, S. Gauthier, M-A Vaillancourt, A. Leduc, L. De Grandpré, D. Kneeshaw, H. Morin, P. Drapeau and Y. Bergeron (editors). Presses de l’Université du Québec. 392 pages.
24. Girardin, M.P., Ali, A.A., Carcaillet, C., Mudelsee, M., Drobyshev, I., Hély, C., Bergeron, Y. 2009. Heterogeneous response of circumboreal wildfire risk to climate change since the early 1900s. Global Change Biology 15, 2751–2769, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01869.x
23. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J.C., Epp, B.,Conciatori, F. 2009. Frequency of cool summers in interior North America over the past three centuries. Geophysical Research Letters 36, L07705, doi:10.1029/2009GL037242.
22. St. George, S., Meko, D.M., Girardin, M.P., Nielsen, E., Pederson, G., Sauchyn, D.J., Tardif, J. and Watson, E. 2009. The tree-ring record of summer drought in the Canadian Prairies. Journal of Climate 22: 689-710.

July Drought Code across Canada, 1901-2002
21. Girardin, M.P. and Wotton, B.M. 2009. Summer moisture and wildfire risks across Canada. Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology 48: 517-533.
2008
20. Girardin, M.P., Flannigan, M.D., Tardif, J.C. and Bergeron, Y. 2008. Climatologie, météorologie et feux de forêt. pp 83-108. In Aménagement écosystémique en forêt boréale, S. Gauthier, M-A Vaillancourt, A. Leduc, L. De Grandpré, D. Kneeshaw, H. Morin, P. Drapeau and Y. Bergeron (éditeurs). Presses de l’Université du Québec, 600 pp.
19. Le Goff, H., Girardin, M.P., Flannigan, M.D., and Bergeron, Y. 2008. Dendroclimatic inference of wildfire activity in Quebec over the 20th century and implications for natural disturbance based forest management at the northern limit of the commercial forest. International Journal of Wildland Fire 17: 348–362.
18. Mudelsee, M. and Girardin, M.P. 2008. Risk prediction of Canadian wildfires. PAGES News 16(2): 28-30.
17. Girardin, M.P., and Mudelsee, M. 2008. Past and future changes in Canadian boreal wildfire activity. Ecological Applications 18(2): 391-406.
16. Girardin, M.P., Raulier, F., Bernier, P.Y., and Tardif, J.C. 2008. Response of tree growth to a changing climate in boreal central Canada: a comparison of empirical, process-based and hybrid modelling approaches. Ecological Modelling 213: 209-228.
15. Girardin, M.P., and Sauchyn, D. 2008. Three centuries of annual area burned variability in northwestern North America inferred from tree rings. The Holocene 18: 205-214.
2007

Area burned in Canada versus Northern Hemisphere temperatures
14. Le Goff, H., Flannigan, M.D., Bergeron, Y., Girardin, M.P. 2007. Historical fire regime shifts related to climate teleconnections in the Waswanipi area, central Quebec, Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 16(5): 607–618
13. Girardin, M.P. 2007. Interannual to decadal changes in area burned in Canada from 1781 to 1982 and the relationship to Northern Hemisphere land temperatures. Global Ecology and Biogeography 16(5): 557-566, doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2007.00321.x.
2006
12. Girardin, M.P., J. Tardif, M. D. Flannigan, and Y. Bergeron. 2006. Forest fire-conducive drought variability in the southern Canadian boreal forest and associated climatology inferred from tree rings. Canadian Water Resources Journal 31: 275-296.
11. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., and Flannigan, M.D. 2006. Temporal variability in area burned for the Province of Ontario, Canada during the past 200 years inferred from tree-rings. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, D17108, doi:10.1029/2005JD006815.
10. Girardin, M.P., Bergeron, Y., Tardif, J.C., Flannigan, M.D., Gauthier, S., and Mudelsee, M. 2006. A 229-year dendroclimatic-inferred record of forest fire activity for the Boreal Shield of Canada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 15: 375-388.
9. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., Flannigan, M.D., and Bergeron, Y. 2006. Synoptic scale atmospheric circulation and boreal Canada summer drought variability of the past three centuries. Journal of Climate 19: 1922-1947.

Photo: Nicolas Mansuy, Baie-Comeau, 2006
2005
8. Girardin, M.P. and Tardif, J. 2005. Sensitivity of tree growth to the atmospheric vertical profile in the Boreal Plains of Manitoba. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 35: 48-64.
7. Girardin, M.P., Berglund, E., Tardif, J., and Monson, K. 2005. Radial growth of tamarack (Larix laricina) in the Churchill area (Manitoba) in relation to climate and larch sawfly (Pristiphora erichsonii) herbivory. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 37: 206-217.
2004
6. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., Flannigan, M.D., Wotton, B.M., and Bergeron, Y. 2004. Trends and periodicities in the Canadian Drought Code and their relationships with atmospheric circulation for the southern Canadian boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 34: 103-119.
5. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., Flannigan, M.D., and Bergeron, Y. 2004. Multicentury reconstruction of the Canadian Drought Code from eastern Canada and its relationship with paleoclimatic indices of atmospheric circulation. Climate Dynamics 23: 99-115.
2002
4. Girardin M.P., Tardif. J., and Bergeron, Y. 2002. Dynamics of eastern larch stands and its relationships with larch sawfly outbreaks in the Northern Clay Belt of Quebec. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32: 206-216.
3. Bergeron, Y., Denneler, B., Charron, D. and Girardin, M.P. 2002. Using dendrochronology to reconstruct disturbance and forest dynamics around Lake Duparquet, northwestern Quebec. Dendrochronologia 01-02: 175-190.
2001
2. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., and Bergeron, Y. 2001. Radial growth analysis of Larix laricina from Lake Duparquet area, Québec, in relation to climate and larch sawfly outbreaks. Écoscience 8: 127-138.
1. Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., and Bergeron, Y. 2001. Gradient analysis of Larix laricina dominated wetlands in Canada’s southeastern boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 444-456.
Actes de conférence
Girardin, M.P., Tardif, J., Flannigan, M.D., and Bergeron, Y. 2002. Reconstructing atmospheric circulation history using tree rings: one more step toward understanding temporal changes in forest dynamics. In Proceedings for the 3rd International Sustainable Forest Management Network Conference - Advance in forest management: from knowledge to practice, 13-15 November, Edmonton, Alberta. Edited by T.S. Veeman, P.N. Duinker, B.J. Macnab, A,G. Coyne, K.M. Veeman, and D. Korber. Edmonton, Alberta. pp. 105-110.
Résumés de conférence
Voir page web personelle
http://www.freewebs.com/mpgirardin/conferences.htm
Présentations sur invitations
Girardin, M.P. 2007. Past and future changes in wildfire activity in Canada as told by some old living trees. Canadian Institute of Forestry Climate Change and Forests lecture series. June 13. http://www.cif-ifc.org/en/resources/AV
Girardin, M.P. 2007. Past and future changes in wildfire activity in Canada. Canadian Interagency Fire Centre Science and Technology Working Group annual meeting. September 30 and October 1. Four Points Sheraton Hotel, Gatineau, Québec.





