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 in Landscape Ecology - Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even‑aged and uneven‑aged management at the landscape scale
New article in the Canadian Journal of Forest Research - A LANDIS-II extension for simulating forest road networks
Animation of forest roads simulated
with the FRS module.
🔬 PhD RESEARCH SUBJECT
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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 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
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
- February 2016 - July 2016 : Analysis of data concerning the effect of village hunting pressure on mammals in the Congo Basin, Africa
- Spring 2015 : Processing and analysis of neophobia test data on the Collared Flycatcher, Ficedula albicollis
- August 2014 : Volunteering in a turtle conservation and discovery center
✒️ PUBLICATIONS
- Clément Hardy, Christian Messier, Yan Boulanger, Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas 2023. “ Land sparing and sharing patterns in forestry: exploring even-aged and uneven-aged management at the landscape scale. ” Landscape Ecology.
- Clément Hardy, Christian Messier, Osvaldo Valeria, Elise Filotas 2023. “ A LANDIS-II extension for simulating forest road networks. ” Canadian Journal of Forest Research.
- Guillemette Labadie, Clément Hardy, Yan Boulanger, Virginie Vanlandeghem, Mark Hebblewhite, Daniel Fortin 2023. “ Global change risks a threatened species due to alteration of predator–prey dynamics. ” Ecosphere.
- Clément Hardy 2022. “ Is Veganism the best way to reduce carbon emissions? ” Skeptical Science.
- Clément Hardy 2022. “ L'aménagement forestier inéquien : Solution ou mirage d'une foresterie durable ? ” Le Couvert Boréal.
- Houngbégnon, Fructueux GA, Daniel Cornelis, Cédric Vermeulen, Bonaventure Sonké, Stephan Ntie, Adeline Fayolle, Davy Fonteyn, et al. 2020. “Daily Activity Patterns and Co-Occurrence of Duikers Revealed by an Intensive Camera Trap Survey across Central African Rainforests. ” Animals 10 (12): 2200.
📣 SCIENCE COMMUNICATION
Talks at the CEF colloque
of 2019 in Chicoutimi
- Science Action ! contest of the NSERC - Virtual
Juin 2023
🏆 Prize of the jury - The future of forests
- Contest of the pôle ISE-CIRODD-RIISQE - Virtual
Mai 2023
🏆 2nd prize of the jury - In the shadow of Jevons - When efficiency brings environmental destruction
- Savoir Media - TV documentary
February 2023
La Bataille pour la Forêt
- 15th annual symposium of the Centre d’Étude de la Forêt (CEF) - Université de Sherbrooke
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , September 2022
New challenges, new TRIAD : exploring a forest management strategy with zoning and functional plantations to increase forest resilience - 11th annual symposium of the Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec (CSBQ) - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , Septembre 2021
Simulating forest roads is necessary to determine the impacts of forest management on habitat amount and fragmentation - Affiche
- Seminary at the University of Alaska Fairbank - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , Septembre 2021
Long-term impacts of uneven-aged development on the quantity and fragmentation of old-growth forest in a landscape - Annual conference of the International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA) - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , August 2021
🏆 1st prize of the best oral presentation - Long-term impacts of uneven-aged development on the quantity and fragmentation of old-growth forest in a landscape - Discovery workshop for students and researchers - Virtual
Clément Hardy, August 2021
Organization and open-source workshop
- Discovery workshop for students and researchers - Virtual
Clément Hardy, July 2021
Workshop to learn to use the FRS module for LANDIS-II
- 14th annual symposium of the Centre d’Étude de la Forêt (CEF) - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , May 2021
🏆 1st prize of the best oral presentation - Long-term impacts of uneven-aged development on the quantity and fragmentation of old-growth forest in a landscape - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences doctoral course : "Enhancing forest resilience for an uncertain future" - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Yan Boulanger , Dominic Cyr, Elise Filotas , May 2021
Oral presentation - Long term impacts of uneven-aged management - 19th annual meeting of the North American Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology (NA-IALE) - Virtual
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Elise Filotas , May 2020
Oral presentation - The influence of forest road networks on the long term impacts of uneven-aged management - 10th annual symposium of the Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec (CSBQ) - Concordia university, Montréal, Québec
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Elise Filotas , December 2019
Oral presentation - Roads to conservation - 13th annual symposium of the Centre d’Étude de la Forêt (CEF) - Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Chicoutimi, Québec
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Elise Filotas , May 2019
Poster - A new LANDIS-II module to study the effects of roads on forest landscapes - 9th annual symposium of the Centre de la Science de la Biodiversité du Québec (CSBQ) - Concordia university, Montréal, Québec
Clément Hardy, Christian Messier , Elise Filotas , December 2018
Oral presentation - How do I cut this forest landscape for you? - Influence of space tessellation methods on modeling in forest ecology
