
Dominique Gravel
Membre associé
Écologie théorique
Professeur agrégé & Titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie intégrative
Université de Sherbrooke
Département de biologie
2500, boulevard de l'Université
Sherbrooke (Québec) J1K 2R1
Téléphone: (819) 821-8000, poste 66589
FORMATION
- Postdoctorat en écologie théorique, 2007-2009 (Université McGill)
- Ph.D. en Écologie forestière, 2007 (UQAM) Directeur : Christian Messier
- B.Sc. en aménagement et environnement forestier, 2003 (Université Laval)
THÈMES DE RECHERCHE
Dominique Gravel est titulaire de la Chaire de recherche du Canada en écologie intégrative . Il s'intéresse à la distribution de la biodiversité et son impact sur le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Utilise des modèles théoriques pour mieux comprendre les mécanismes qui assurent le maintien de la biodiversité, affectent sa structure et son fonctionnement, conjointement avec des approches empiriques et en laboratoire (microcosmes).
Les thèmes de recherche du laboratoire sont :
- Écologie spatiale, biogéographie et écologie des métacommunautés;
- Réseaux d'interactions écologiques;
- Écologie théorique, numérique et computationnelle;
- Biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystème;
- Changements climatiques et foresterie.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Book chapters
- Gravel, D., Messier, C. (2006) Une petite bière avec Darwin: Les théories de la biodiversité. In L'écologie en ville : 25 leçons d'écologie de terrain. (Messier, C., Giraldeau, L.-A. and Beisner, B., Eds.) Montréal, QC, Canada, Fides
Edited books, special journal editions and proceedings
Peer-reviewed articles
- Schuster, M.J., Williams, L.J., Stefanski, A., Bermudez, R., Belluau, M., Messier, C., Paquette, A., Gravel, D., Reich, P.B. (2023) Patterns of belowground overyielding and fine-root biomass in native and exotic angiosperms and gymnosperms. Oikos, 2023:e08877
- Desie, E., Zuo, J., Verheyen, K., Djukic, I., Van Meerbeek, K., Auge, H., Barsoum, N., Baum, C., Bruelheide, H., Eisenhauer, N. et al. (2023) Disentangling drivers of litter decomposition in a multi-continent network of tree diversity experiments. Science of the Total Environment, 857
- Messier, C., Bauhus, J., Sousa-Silva, R., Auge, H., Baeten, L., Barsoum, N., Bruelheide, H., Caldwell, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Dhiedt, E. et al. (2022) For the sake of resilience and multifunctionality, let's diversify planted forests! Conservation Letters, 15(1):e12829
- Urgoiti, J., Messier, C., Keeton, W.S., Reich, P.B., Gravel, D., Paquette, A. (2022) No complementarity no gain—Net diversity effects on tree productivity occur once complementarity emerges during early stand development. Ecology Letters, 25(4):851 – 862
- Laigle, I., Moretti, M., Rousseau, L., Gravel, D., Venier, L., Handa, I.T., Messier, C., Morris, D., Hazlett, P., Fleming, R. et al. (2021) Direct and Indirect Effects of Forest Anthropogenic Disturbance on Above and Below Ground Communities and Litter Decomposition. Ecosystems, 24(7):1716-1737
- Solarik, K.A., Cazelles, K., Messier, C., Bergeron, Y., Gravel, D. (2020) Priority effects will impede range shifts of temperate tree species into the boreal forest. Journal of Ecology, 108(3):1155-1173
- Brousseau, P.-M., Gravel, D., Handa, I.T. (2019) Traits of litter-dwelling forest arthropod predators and detritivores covary spatially with traits of their resources. Ecology, 100(10)
- Raymond-Léonard, L.J., Gravel, D., Handa, I.T. (2019) A novel set of traits to describe Collembola mouthparts: taking a bite out of the broad chewing mandible classification. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 138
- Kumordzi, B.B., Aubin, I., Cardou, F., Shipley, B., Violle, C., Johnstone, J., Anand, M., Arsenault, A., Bell, F.W., Bergeron, Y. et al. (2019) Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understorey plants. Functional Ecology, 33(9):1771-1784
- Aussenac, R., Bergeron, Y., Gravel, D., Drobyshev, I. (2019) Interactions among trees: A key element in the stabilising effect of species diversity on forest growth. Functional Ecology, 33(2):360-367
- Raymond-Léonard, L.J., Gravel, D., Reich, P.B., Handa, I.T. (2018) Springtail community structure is influenced by functional traits but not biogeographic origin of leaf litter in soils of novel forest ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, 285(1879)
- Ameztegui, A., Solarik, K.A., Parkins, J.R., Houle, D., Messier, C., Gravel, D. (2018) Perceptions of climate change across the Canadian forest sector: The key factors of institutional and geographical environment. PLOS ONE, 13(6)
- Brousseau, P.-M., Gravel, D., Handa, I.T. (2018) Trait matching and phylogeny as predictors of predator-prey interactions involving ground beetles. Functional Ecology, 32(1):192-202
- Solarik, K. A., Messier, C., Ouimet, R., Bergeron, Y., Gravel, D. (2018) Local adaptation of trees at the range margins impacts range shifts in the face of climate change. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(12):1507-1519
- Grossman, J.J., Vanhellemont, M., Barsoum, N., Bauhus, J., Bruelheide, H., Castagneyrol, B., Cavender-Bares, J., Eisenhauer, N., Ferlian, O., Gravel, D. et al. (2018) Synthesis and future research directions linking tree diversity to growth, survival, and damage in a global network of tree diversity experiments. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 152:68 - 89
- Brousseau, P.-M., Gravel, D., Handa, I.T. (2018) On the development of a predictive functional trait approach for studying terrestrial arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(5):1209-1220
- Aussenac, R., Bergeron, Y., Ghotsa Mekontchou, C., Gravel, D., Pilch, K., Drobyshev, I. (2017) Intraspecific variability in growth response to environmental fluctuations modulates the stabilizing effect of species diversity on forest growth. Journal of Ecology, 105(4):1010-1020
- Zander, A., Gravel, D., Bersier, L.-F., Gray, S.M. (2016) Top predators affect the composition of naive protist communities, but only in their early-successional stage. Oecologia, 180(2):519-528
- Poisot, T., Baiser, B., Dunne, J.A., Kefi, S., Massol, F., Mouquet, N., Romanuk, T.N., Stouffer, D.B., Wood, S.A., Gravel, D. (2016) mangal-making ecological network analysis simple. Ecography, 39(4):384-390
- Poisot, T., Cirtwill, A.R., Cazelles, K., Gravel, D., Fortin, M.-J., Stouffer, D.B. (2016) The structure of probabilistic networks. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 7(3):303-312
- Poisot, T., Gravel, D., Leroux, S., Wood, S. A., Fortin, M.-J., Baiser, B., Cirtwill, A.R., Araujo, M.B., Stouffer, D.B. (2016) Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses. Ecography, 39(4):402-408
- Nguyen, N.H., Williams, L.J., Vincent, J.B., Stefanski, A., Cavender-Bares, J., Messier, C., Paquette, A., Gravel, D., Reich, P.B., Kennedy, P.G. (2016) Ectomycorrhizal fungal diversity and saprotrophic fungal diversity are linked to different tree community attributes in a field-based tree experiment. Molecular Ecology, 25(16):4032-4046
- Gravel, D., Albouy, C., Thuiller, W. (2016) The meaning of functional trait composition of food webs for ecosystemd functioning. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1694)
- Solarik, K.A., Gravel, D., Ameztegui, A., Bergeron, Y., Messier, C. (2016) Assessing tree germination resilience to global warming: a manipulative experiment using sugar maple (Acer saccharum). Seed Science Research, 26:153-164
- Tobner, C.M., Paquette, A., Gravel, D., Reich, P.B., Williams, L.J., Messier, C. (2016) Functional identity is the main driver of diversity effects in young tree communities. Ecology Letters, 19(6):638-647
- Talluto, M.V., Boulangeat, I., Ameztegui, A., Aubin, I., Berteaux, D., Butler, A., Doyon, F., Drever, C.R., Fortin, M.-J., Franceschini, T. et al. (2016) Cross-scale integration of knowledge for predicting species ranges: A metamodelling framework. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 25(2):238-249
- Warren, B.H., Simberloff, D., Ricklefs, R.E., Aguilee, R., Condamine, F.L., Gravel, D., Morlon, H., Mouquet, N., Rosindell, J., Casquet, J. et al. (2015) Islands as model systems in ecology and evolution: Prospects fifty years after MacArthur-Wilson. Ecology Letters, 18(2):200-217
- Moritz, C., Gravel, D., Savard, L., McKindsey, C.W., Brethes, J.-C., Archambault, P. (2015) No more detectable fishing effect on Northern Gulf of St Lawrence benthic invertebrates. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72(8):2457-2466
- Mazel, F., Renaud, J., Guilhaumon, F., Mouillot, D., Gravel, D., Thuiller, W. (2015) Mammalian phylogenetic diversity-area relationships at a continental scale. Ecology, 96(10):2814-2822
- Morales-Castilla, I., Matias, M.G., Gravel, D., Araujo, M.B. (2015) Inferring biotic interactions from proxies. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 30(6):347-356
- Poisot, T., Stouffer, D.B., Gravel, D. (2015) Beyond species: Why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time. Oikos, 124(3):243-251
- Lienard, J.F., Gravel, D., Strigul, N.S. (2015) Data-intensive modeling of forest dynamics. Environmental Modelling and Software, 67:138-148
- Snell, R.S., Huth, A., Nabel, J.E.M.S., Bocedi, G., Travis, J.M.J., Gravel, D., Bugmann, H., Gutierrez, A.G., Hickler, T., Higgins, S.I. et al. (2014) Using dynamic vegetation models to simulate plant range shifts. Ecography, 37(12):1184-1197
- Svenning, J.-C., Gravel, D., Holt, R.D., Schurr, F.M., Thuiller, W., Munkemuller, T., Schiffers, K.H., Dullinger, S., Edwards, T.C., Hickler, T. et al. (2014) The influence of interspecific interactions on species range expansion rates. Ecography, 37(12):1198-1209
- Legagneux, P., Gauthier, G., Lecomte, N., Schmidt, N.M., Reid, D., Cadieux, M.-C., Berteaux, D., Beªty, J., Krebs, C.J., Ims, R.A. et al. (2014) Arctic ecosystem structure and functioning shaped by climate and herbivore body size. Nature Climate Change, 4(5):379-383
- Seguin, A., Harvey, E., Archambault, P., Nozais, C., Gravel, D. (2014) Body size as a predictor of species loss effect on ecosystem functioning. Scientific Reports, 4
- Canard, E.F., Mouquet, N., Mouillot, D., Stanko, M., Miklisova, D., Gravel, D. (2014) Empirical evaluation of neutral interactions in host-parasite networks. American Naturalist, 183(4):468-479
- Matias, M.G., Gravel, D., Guilhaumon, F., Desjardins-Proulx, P., Loreau, M., Munkemuller, T., Mouquet, N. (2014) Estimates of species extinctions from species-area relationships strongly depend on ecological context. Ecography, 37(5):431-442
- Albouy, C., Velez, L., Coll, M., Colloca, F., Le Loc'h, F., Mouillot, D., Gravel, D. (2014) From projected species distribution to food-web structure under climate change. Global Change Biology, 20(3):730-741
- Mazel, F., Guilhaumon, F., Mouquet, N., Devictor, V., Gravel, D., Renaud, J., Cianciaruso, M.V., Loyola, R., Diniz-Filho, J.A.F., Mouillot, D. et al. (2014) Multifaceted diversity-area relationships reveal global hotspots of mammalian species, trait and lineage diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 23(8):836-847
- Gravel, D., Poisot, T., Desjardins-Proulx, P. (2014) Using neutral theory to reveal the contribution of meta-community processes to assembly in complex landscapes. Journal of Limnology, 73(1 SUPPL):61-73
- Poisot, T., Gravel, D. (2014) When is an ecological network complex? Connectance drives degree distribution and emerging network properties. PeerJ, 2013(1)
- Brousseau, P.-M., Gravel, D., Handa, I.T. (2014) First Record In Canada of Onthophilus pluricostatus LeConte (Coleoptera: Histeridae) and a New Mention for the Rare Species Lordithon niger (Gravenhorst) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Coleopterists Bulletin, 68(2):343-344
- Seguin, A., Gravel, D., Archambault, P. (2014) Effect of disturbance regime on alpha and beta diversity of rock pools. Diversity, 6(1):1-17
- Tobner, C.M., Paquette, A., Reich, P.B., Gravel, D., Messier, C. (2014) Advancing biodiversity-ecosystem functioning science using high-density tree-based experiments over functional diversity gradients. Oecologia, 174(3):609-621
- Thuiller, W., Munkemuller, T., Schiffers, K.H., Georges, D., Dullinger, S., Eckhart, V.M., Edwards, T.C., Gravel, D., Kunstler, G., Merow, C. et al. (2014) Does probability of occurrence relate to population dynamics? Ecography, 37(12):1155-1166
- Gounand, I., Mouquet, N., Canard, E., Guichard, F., Hauzy, C., Gravel, D. (2014) The paradox of enrichment in metaecosystems. American Naturalist, 184(6):752-763
- Thuiller, W., Munkemuller, T., Lavergne, S., Mouillot, D., Mouquet, N., Schiffers, K., Gravel, D. (2013) A road map for integrating eco-evolutionary processes into biodiversity models. Ecology Letters, 16(SUPPL.1):94-105
- Poisot, T., Pequin, B., Gravel, D. (2013) High-Throughput Sequencing: A Roadmap Toward Community Ecology. Ecology and Evolution, 3(4):1125-1139
- Poisot, T., Mouquet, N., Gravel, D. (2013) Trophic complementarity drives the biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationship in food webs. Ecology Letters, 16(7):853-861
- Mouquet, N., Gravel, D., Massol, F., Calcagno, V. (2013) Extending the concept of keystone species to communities and ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 16(1):1-8
- Harvey, E., Seguin, A., Nozais, C., Archambault, P., Gravel, D. (2013) Identity effects dominate the impacts of multiple species extinctions on the functioning of complex food webs. Ecology, 94(1):169-179
- Loreau, M., Daufresne, T., Gonzalez, A., Gravel, D., Guichard, F., Leroux, S.J., Loeuille, N., Massol, F., Mouquet, N. (2013) Unifying sources and sinks in ecology and Earth sciences. Biological Reviews, 88(2):365-379
- Desjardins-Proulx, P., White, E.P., Adamson, J.J., Ram, K., Poisot, T., Gravel, D. (2013) The Case for Open Preprints in Biology. PLoS Biology, 11(5)
- Ai, D., Gravel, D., Chu, C., Wang, G. (2013) Spatial Structures of the Environment and of Dispersal Impact Species Distribution in Competitive Metacommunities. PLOS ONE, 8(7)
- Moritz, C., Levesque, M., Gravel, D., Vaz, S., Archambault, D., Archambault, P. (2013) Modelling spatial distribution of epibenthic communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (Canada). Journal of Sea Research, 78:75-84
- Gravel, D., Poisot, T., Albouy, C., Velez, L., Mouillot, D. (2013) Inferring food web structure from predator-prey body size relationships. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 4(11):1083-1090
- Poisot, T., Canard, E., Mouillot, D., Mouquet, N., Gravel, D., Jordan, F. (2012) The dissimilarity of species interaction networks. Ecology Letters, 15(12):1353-1361
- Mouquet, N., Devictor, V., Meynard, C.N., Munoz, F., Bersier, L.-F., Chave, J., Couteron, P., Dalecky, A., Fontaine, C., Gravel, D. et al. (2012) Ecophylogenetics: Advances and perspectives. Biological Reviews, 87(4):769-785
- Gravel, D., Bell, T., Barbera, C., Combe, M., Pommier, T., Mouquet, N. (2012) Phylogenetic constraints on ecosystem functioning. Nature Communications, 3:1117
- Desjardins-Proulx, P., Gravel, D. (2012) A complex speciation-richness relationship in a simple neutral model. Ecology and Evolution, 2(8):1781-1790
- Desjardins-Proulx, P., Gravel, D. (2012) How likely is speciation in neutral ecology? American Naturalist, 179(1):137-144
- Munkemuller, T., de Bello, F., Meynard, C.N., Gravel, D., Lavergne, S., Mouillot, D., Mouquet, N., Thuiller, W. (2012) From diversity indices to community assembly processes: a test with simulated data. Ecography, 35(5):468-480
- Boulangeat, I., Gravel, D., Thuiller, W. (2012) Accounting for dispersal and biotic interactions to disentangle the drivers of species distributions and their abundances. Ecology Letters, 15(6):584-593
- Canard, E., Mouquet, N., Marescot, L., Gaston, K.J., Gravel, D., Mouillot, D. (2012) Emergence of structural patterns in neutral trophic networks. PLOS ONE, 7(8):--
- Gravel, D., Massol, F., Canard, E., Mouillot, D., Mouquet, N. (2011) Trophic theory of island biogeography. Ecology Letters, 14(10):1010-1016
- Massol, F., Gravel, D., Mouquet, N., Cadotte, M.W., Fukami, T., Leibold, M.A. (2011) Linking community and ecosystem dynamics through spatial ecology. Ecology Letters, 14(3):313-323
- Gravel, D., Canard, E., Guichard, F., Mouquet, N. (2011) Persistence increases with diversity and connectance in trophic metacommunities. PLOS ONE, 6(5):e19374
- Messier, C., Belanger, N., Brisson, J., Lechowicz, M.J., Gravel, D. (2011) Comment on "Present-day expansion of American beech in northeastern hardwood forests: Does soil base status matter?". Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 41(3):649-653
- Gravel, D., Beaudet, M., Messier, C. (2011) Sapling age structure and growth series reveal a shift in recruitment dynamics of sugar maple and American beech over the last 40 years. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 41(4):873-880
- Gravel, D., Bell, T., Barbera, C., Bouvier, T., Pommier, T., Venail, P., Mouquet, N. (2011) Experimental niche evolution alters the strength of the diversity-productivity relationship. Nature, 469(7328):89-92
- Gravel, D., Guichard, F., Hochberg, M.E. (2011) Species coexistence in a variable world. Ecology Letters, 14(8):828-839
- Gravel, D., Guichard, F., Loreau, M., Mouquet, N. (2010) Source and sink dynamics in meta-ecosystems. Ecology, 91(7):2172-2184
- Gravel, D., Mouquet, N., Loreau, M., Guichard, F. (2010) Patch dynamics, persistence, and species coexistence in metaecosystems. American Naturalist, 176(3):289-302
- Gravel, D., Canham, C. D., Beaudet, M., Messier, C. (2010) Shade tolerance, canopy gaps and mechanisms of coexistence of forest trees. Oikos, 119(3):475-484
- Gravel, D., Beaudet, M., Messier, C. (2010) Large-scale synchrony of gap dynamics and the distribution of understory tree species in maple-beech forests. Oecologia, 162(1):153-161
- Gravel, D., Beaudet, M., Messier, C. (2008) Partitioning the Factors of Spatial Variation in Regeneration Density of Shade-Tolerant Tree Species. Ecology, 89(10):2879-2888
- Beaudet, M., Brisson, J., Gravel, D., Messier, C. (2007) Effect of a major canopy disturbance on the coexistence of Acer saccharum and Fagus grandifolia in the understorey of an old-growth forest. Journal of Ecology, 95:458-467
- Beaudet, M., Brisson, J., Messier, C., Gravel, D. (2007) Effect of a major ice storm on understory light conditions in an old-growth Acer-Fagus forest: Pattern of recovery over seven years. Forest Ecology and Management, 242(2-3):553-557
- Gravel, D., Canham, C.D., Beaudet, M., Messier, C. (2006) Reconciling niche and neutrality: The continuum hypothesis. Ecology Letters, 9(4):399-409
Articles published in proceedings
Scientific reports, manuals and others
- Lienard, J.F., Gravel, D., Strigul, N. (2014) Data-intensive modeling of forest dynamics. Technical report
Theses, dissertations and essays
- Gravel, D. (2007) Dynamique et coexistence d'espèces forestières tolérantes à l'ombre : le cas de l'érable à sucre et du hêtre à grandes feuilles. PhD thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal
Supervised theses, dissertations and essays
- Aussenac, R. (2017) La relation diversité-stabilité dans les écosystèmes forestiers : mécanismes et implications face aux changements climatiques. PhD thesis, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
- Solarik, K. (2017) Limited migration : will sugar maple tap out to climate change? PhD thesis, Université du Québec à Montréal
- Brousseau, P.-M. (2016) Structure et diversité fonctionnelle des communautés d'arthropodes de la litière forestière. PhD thesis, UQAM
- McKinnon, R. (2015) Complémentarité par interactions : un nouveau mécanisme en biodiversité et fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Master's thesis, Université du Québec à Rimouski
- Canard, E. (2011) Neutralité et espace dans les réseaux d’interaction. PhD thesis, Université des Sciences de Montpellier
Non peer-reviewed articles
- Gravel, D., Gounand, I., Mouquet, N. (2010) Le rôle de la biodiversité dans le fonctionnement des écosystèmes. Ciencia & Ambiente, 12:63-83
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