Clément Hardy

PhD
Comparison of the long-term and large-scale effects of even-aged and uneven-aged forest management methods.
Université du Québec à Montréal

Emploi étudiant
Ministère des Ressources naturelles et des Forêts du Québec

Director: Élise Filotas
Codirector: Christian Messier

       

New article : Hypothesis, or prediction ? How to make the difference in your articles ! !

New video : Intensive forestry : catastrophy, or opportunity ? (Pilote made for the ComSciCon-QC 2022) !


Animation of forest roads simulated
with the FRS module.

🔬 PhD RESEARCH SUBJECT

My PhD stubject concerns the effects of the so-called "uneven-aged" forest management on forest landscapes.

Uneven-aged management is a type of forest management that tends to maintain a heterogeneous age structure within forest stands. To do this, it is possible to make repeated cuts within a forest stand, during which we will carefully choose part of the trees in the stand to be cut.

Different studies have shown that this type of management could conserve a better supply of different ecosystem services (e.g. carbon storage, biodiversity, visual acceptability) than even-aged management. Meanwhile, Even-aged management (e.g. clearcuts), is more traditionally used in North America. It makes it possible to harvest more biomass per unit area than uneven-aged management.

It is therefore important to know what the effects of uneven management may be, when it is used to replace even-aged management. However, looking at things at the stand level is not enough. In particular, it is at the scale of the landscape that other effects not visible at the scale of the settlement can appear and be taken into account.

I am currently working on the comparison of the effects of even-aged and uneven-aged methods on the fragmentation and composition of landscapes. To do this, I work with the forest landscape simulation model LANDIS-II , for which I developed an extension allowing to dynamically simulate the construction of forest roads, the FRS module .

Ultimately, my research will be able to explore other impacts of even-aged methods on forest landscapes, on carbon emissions (linked to the movement of workers and forestry equipment), and on various ecosystem services.


🧰 TOOLS AND WORKSHOPS

You can find these on my GitHub page :  .


The Université Pierre et Marie
Curie in Paris seen from the sky.

🎓 FORMATION

  • 2014 - 2016 : Master degree in Ecology, Biodiversity and Evolution (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris, France)
  • 2010 - 2014 : Licence degree in Life Sciences (Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris, France)
  • 2007 - 2010 : Baccalauréat – Science specialization (Lycée Montesquieu – Herblay, France)

🌍 EXPERIENCE IN ECOLOGY

  • September 2018 - May 2019 : Teaching assistant
Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montréal, Québec
Supervisors : David Bird and Olivier Aubry (Professors at the UQAM)

Fieldwork in the mountains
of the french Pyrénées.
  • November 2016 - August 2017 : Fieldwork for a landscape genetics study concerning a population of pine marten (Martes martes) in the french Pyrénées mountains
Centre de Recherche et de Formation en Eco-Ethologie de l'Université de Reims (CERFE)
Supervisor : M. Mergey-Barbe, engineer at the CERFE
  • February 2016 - July 2016 : Analysis of data concerning the effect of village hunting pressure on mammals in the Congo Basin, Africa
Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD), Montpellier, France
Supervisors : V. Grosbois, N. Gaidet-Drapier, researchers at the Reserch Unit "AGIRs" of the CIRAD
  • Spring 2015 : Processing and analysis of neophobia test data on the Collared Flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis
Laboratoire de Biométrie et de Biologie Evolutive (LBBE), CNRS 5558, Lyon, France
Supervisor : G. Daniel, PhD student
  • August 2014 : Volunteering in a turtle conservation and discovery center
SOPTOM - Village des Tortues, Gonfaron, France
Supervisors : Bernard Devaux (Director), Romain Levasseur (Intendant)

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25e édition du cours d'été d'Aménagement des écosystèmes forestiers 
Cours intensif à la Forêt d’enseignement et de recherche du Lac Duparquet, Abitibi, du 14 au 25 août 2023.

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Mémoire du CEF sur la Stratégie d’adaptation de la gestion et de l’aménagement des forêts aux changements climatiques 
Mémoire présenté à la Commission indépendante sur les caribous forestiers et montagnards par le CEF, le CEN et le CSBQ 

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