Étienne Laliberté

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Traits fonctionnels des plantes

Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV)
Université de Montréal
Jardin Botanique, bureau F438
4101 Sherbrooke Est
Montréal (Québec) Canada, H1X 2B2

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FORMATION

• PhD (Ecology), University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2011)
• M.Sc. (Écologie), Université de Montréal, Canada (2006)
• B.Sc. (Botany), McGill University, Canada (2002)

THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

Nous étudions les traits fonctionnels des plantes afin de mieux comprendre et de prédire la distribution des espèces végétales le long de gradients environnementaux. L’emphase est sur la fertilité des sols et les traits fonctionnels reliés à l’acquisition et l’utilisation des éléments nutritifs. En particulier, nous étudions les interactions entre plantes et sols et les conséquences qu’ont ces interactions sur la biodiversité végétale et le fonctionnement des écosystèmes terrestres. Les connaissances obtenues s’appliquent entre autres au niveau de la restauration d’écosystèmes dégradés.

Le programme de recherche porte sur les interactions entre plantes et les propriétés abiotiques et biotiques des sols afin de mieux comprendre:

1. l'influence de la fertilité des sols sur la biodiversité végétale;
2. le développement d'écosystèmes terrestres, incluant la succession primaire;
3. les traits fonctionnels des plantes expliquant la distribution d'espèces le long de gradients édaphiques.

La recherche permet d'améliorer la gestion des écosystèmes naturels et d'optimiser les stratégies de restauration écologique d'écosystèmes dégradés.

Champs d'expertise

• Écologie végétale
• Écologie fonctionelle
• Interactions plante-sol

DISTINCTIONS REÇUES

• Décembre 2016 - Étienne Laliberté remporte The New Phytologist Tansley Medal : The New Phytologist Tansley Medal is awarded annually in recognition of an outstanding contribution to research in plant science by an individual in the early stages of their career (including students and any researcher with up to five years’ experience since gaining/defending their PhD). The winner recives a prize of £2000 (GBP) and authors a short review, published in New Phytologist, accompanied by an Editorial. The winner of the 2016 Tansley Medal for excellence in plant science is Étienne Laliberté, of the University of Montreal, Canada. Etienne's Tansley insight (or editorial) is titled ‘Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology’ .

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Book chapters

1. Lambers, H., Clode, P., Hawkins, H.J., Laliberte, E., Oliveira, R.S., Reddell, P., Shane, M.W., Stitt, M., Weston, P. (2015) Metabolic adaptations of the non-mycotrophic Proteaceae to soils with low phosphorus availability. In Phosphorus Metabolism in Plants in the Post-Genomic Era: From Gene to Ecosystems. (Plaxton, W.C. and Lambers, H., Eds.) Wiley, Chichester, UK, pages 289-336
2. Lambers, H., Shane, M.W., Laliberte, E., Swarts, N.D., Teste, F.P., Zemunik, G. (2014) Plant mineral nutrition. In Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia, A Global Biodiversity Hotspot. (Lambers, H., Eds.) UWA Publishing, Crawley, Australia, pages 101-127
3. Mucina, L., Laliberte, E., Thiele, K.R., Dodson, J.R., Harvey, J. (2014) Biogeography of kwongan: origins, diversity, endemism and vegetation patterns. In Plant Life on the Sandplains in Southwest Australia, A Global Biodiversity Hotspot. (Lambers, H., Eds.) UWA Publishing, Crawley, Australia, pages 35-79

Edited books, special journal editions and proceedings

Peer-reviewed articles

1. Carteron, A., Vellend, M., Laliberte, E. (2022) Mycorrhizal dominance reduces local tree species diversity across US forests. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 6:370-374
2. Carteron, A., Parasquive, V., Blanchard, F., Guilbeault-Mayers, X., Turner, B.L., Vellend, M., Laliberte, E. (2020) Soil abiotic and biotic properties constrain the establishment of a dominant temperate tree into boreal forests. Journal of Ecology, 108(3):931-944
3. Kalacska, M., Lucanus, O., Arroyo-Mora, J.P., Laliberte, E., Elmer, K., Leblanc, G., Groves, A. (2020) Accuracy of 3d landscape reconstruction without ground control points using different uas platforms. Drones, 4(2):1-26
4. Girard, A., Schweiger, A.K., Carteron, A., Kalacska, M., Laliberte, E. (2020) Foliar spectra and traits of bog plants across nitrogen deposition gradients. Remote Sensing, 12(15)
5. De Tombeur, F., Turner, B.L., Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Mahy, G., Faucon, M.-P., Zemunik, G., Cornelis, J.-T. (2020) Plants sustain the terrestrial silicon cycle during ecosystem retrogression. Science, 369(6508):1245-1248
6. Guilbeault-Mayers, X., Turner, B.L., Laliberte, E. (2020) Greater root phosphatase activity of tropical trees at low phosphorus despite strong variation among species. Ecology, 101(8)
7. Laliberte, E., Schweiger, A.K., Legendre, P. (2020) Partitioning plant spectral diversity into alpha and beta components. Ecology Letters, 23(2):370-380
8. Schweiger, A.K., Lussier Desbiens, A., Charron, G., La Vigne, H., Laliberte, E. (2020) Foliar sampling with an unmanned aerial system (UAS) reveals spectral and functional trait differences within tree crowns. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 50(10):966-974
9. de Tombeur, F., Turner, B.L., Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Cornelis, J.-T. (2020) Silicon Dynamics During 2 Million Years of Soil Development in a Coastal Dune Chronosequence Under a Mediterranean Climate. Ecosystems, 23(8):1614-1630
10. Png, G.K., Lambers, H., Kardol, P., Turner, B.L., Wardle, D.A., Laliberte, E. (2019) Biotic and abiotic plant–soil feedback depends on nitrogen-acquisition strategy and shifts during long-term ecosystem development. Journal of Ecology, 107(1):142-153
11. Turner, B.L., Zemunik, G., Laliberte, E., Drake, J.J., Jones, F.A., Saltonstall, K. (2019) Contrasting patterns of plant and microbial diversity during long-term ecosystem development. Journal of Ecology, 107(2):606-621
12. Teste, F.P., Laliberte, E. (2019) Plasticity in root symbioses following shifts in soil nutrient availability during long-term ecosystem development. Journal of Ecology, 107(2):633-649
13. Birnbaum, C., Bissett, A., Teste, F.P., Laliberte, E. (2018) Symbiotic N2-Fixer Community Composition, but Not Diversity, Shifts in Nodules of a Single Host Legume Across a 2-Million-Year Dune Chronosequence. Microbial Ecology, 76(4):1009-1020
14. Lambers, H., Albornoz, F.E., Kotula, L., Laliberte, E., Ranathunge, K., Teste, F.P., Zemunik, G. (2018) How belowground interactions contribute to the coexistence of mycorrhizal and non-mycorrhizal species in severely phosphorus-impoverished hyperdiverse ecosystems. Plant and Soil, 424(1):11-33
15. Zemunik, G., Lambers, H., Turner, B.L., Laliberte, E., Oliveira, R.S. (2018) High abundance of non-mycorrhizal plant species in severely phosphorus-impoverished Brazilian campos rupestres. Plant and Soil, 424(1):255-271
16. Ramalho, C.E., Laliberte, E., Poot, P., Hobbs, R. (2018) Effects of fragmentation on the plant functional composition and diversity of remnant woodlands in a young and rapidly expanding city. Journal of Vegetation Science, 29(2):285-296
17. Abrahão, A., Ryan, M.H., Laliberte, E., Oliveira, R.S., Lambers, H. (2018) Phosphorus- and nitrogen-acquisition strategies in two Bossiaea species (Fabaceae) along retrogressive soil chronosequences in south-western Australia. Physiologia Plantarum, 163(3):323-343
18. Turner, B.L., Hayes, P.E., Laliberte, E. (2018) A climosequence of chronosequences in southwestern Australia. European Journal of Soil Science, 69(1):69-85
19. Png, G.K., Turner, B.L., Albornoz, F.E., Hayes, P.E., Lambers, H., Laliberte, E. (2017) Greater root phosphatase activity in nitrogen-fixing rhizobial but not actinorhizal plants with declining phosphorus availability. Journal of Ecology, 105(5):1246-1255
20. Teste, F.P., Kardol, P., Turner, B.L., Wardle, D.A., Zemunik, G., Renton, M., Laliberte, E. (2017) Plant-soil feedback and the maintenance of diversity in Mediterranean-climate shrublands. Science, 355(6321):173-176
21. Laliberte, E., Kardol, P., Didham, R.K., Teste, F.P., Turner, B.L., Wardle, D.A. (2017) Soil fertility shapes belowground food webs across a regional climate gradient. Ecology Letters, 20(10):1273-1284
22. Laliberte, E. (2017) Below-ground frontiers in trait-based plant ecology. New Phytologist, 213(4):1597-1603
23. Albornoz, F.E., Burgess, T.I., Lambers, H., Etchells, H., Laliberte, E. (2017) Native soilborne pathogens equalize differences in competitive ability between plants of contrasting nutrient-acquisition strategies. Journal of Ecology, 105(2):549-557
24. Roy-Bolduc, A., Laliberte, E., Hijri, M. (2016) High richness of ectomycorrhizal fungi and low host specificity in a coastal sand dune ecosystem revealed by network analysis. Ecology and Evolution, 6(1):349-362
25. Roy-Bolduc, A., Laliberte, E., Boudreau, S., Hijri, M. (2016) Strong linkage between plant and soil fungal communities along a successional coastal dune system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology, 92(10)
26. Albornoz, F.E., Teste, F.P., Lambers, H., Bunce, M., Murray, D.C., White, N.E., Laliberte, E. (2016) Changes in ectomycorrhizal fungal community composition and declining diversity along a 2-million-year soil chronosequence. Molecular Ecology, 25(19):4919-4929
27. Zemunik, G., Turner, B.L., Lambers, H., Laliberte, E. (2016) Increasing plant species diversity and extreme species turnover accompany declining soil fertility along a long-term chronosequence in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Ecology, 104(3):792-805
28. Albornoz, F.E., Lambers, H., Turner, B.L., Teste, F.P., Laliberte, E. (2016) Shifts in symbiotic associations in plants capable of forming multiple root symbioses across a long-term soil chronosequence. Ecology and Evolution, 6(8):2368-2377
29. Teste, F.P., Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Auer, Y., Kramer, S., Kandeler, E. (2016) Mycorrhizal fungal biomass and scavenging declines in phosphorus-impoverished soils during ecosystem retrogression. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 92:119-132
30. Shipley, B., De Bello, F., Cornelissen, J.H.C., Laliberte, E., Laughlin, D.C., Reich, P.B. (2016) Reinforcing loose foundation stones in trait-based plant ecology. Oecologia, 180(4):923-931
31. Zemunik, G., Turner, B.L., Lambers, H., Laliberte, E. (2015) Diversity of plant nutrient-acquisition strategies increases during long-term ecosystem development. Nature Plants, 1:--
32. Kruger, M., Teste, F.P., Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Coghlan, M., Zemunik, G., Bunce, M. (2015) The rise and fall of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal diversity during ecosystem retrogression. Molecular Ecology, 24(19):4912-4930
33. Turner, B.L., Laliberte, E. (2015) Soil Development and Nutrient Availability Along a 2 Million-Year Coastal Dune Chronosequence Under Species-Rich Mediterranean Shrubland in Southwestern Australia. Ecosystems, 18(2):287-309
34. Lambers, H., Hayes, P.E., Laliberte, E., Oliveira, R.S., Turner, B.L. (2015) Leaf manganese accumulation and phosphorus-acquisition efficiency. Trends in Plant Science, 20(2):83-90
35. Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Burgess, T.I., Wright, S.J. (2015) Phosphorus limitation, soil-borne pathogens and the coexistence of plant species in hyperdiverse forests and shrublands. New Phytologist, 206(2):507-521
36. Hayes, P., Turner, B.L., Lambers, H., Laliberte, E. (2014) Foliar nutrient concentrations and resorption efficiency in plants of contrasting nutrient-acquisition strategies along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence. Journal of Ecology, 102(2):396-410
37. Sulpice, R., Ishihara, H., Schlereth, A., Cawthray, G.R., Encke, B., Giavalisco, P., Ivakov, A., Arrivault, S., Jost, R., Krohn, N. et al. (2014) Low levels of ribosomal RNA partly account for the very high photosynthetic phosphorus-use efficiency of Proteaceae species. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37(6):1276-1298
38. Rader, R., Bartomeus, I., Tylianakis, J.M., Laliberte, E. (2014) The winners and losers of land use intensification: Pollinator community disassembly is non-random and alters functional diversity. Diversity and Distributions, 20(8):908-917
39. Laliberte, E., Zemimik, G., Turner, B.L. (2014) Environmental filtering explains variation in plant diversity along resource gradients. Science, 345(6204):1602-1605
40. Ramalho, C.E., Laliberte, E., Poot, P., Hobbs, R.J. (2014) Complex effects of fragmentation on remnant woodland plant communities of a rapidly urbanizing biodiversity hotspot. Ecology, 95(9):2466-2478
41. Shackelford, N., Hobbs, R.J., Burgar, J.M., Erickson, T.E., Fontaine, J.B., Laliberte, E., Ramalho, C.E., Perring, M.P., Standish, R.J. (2013) Primed for change: Developing ecological restoration for the 21st century. Restoration Ecology, 21(3):297-304
42. Laliberte, E., Turner, B.L., Zemunik, G., Wyrwoll, K.-H., Pearse, S.J., Lambers, H. (2013) Nutrient limitation along the jurien bay dune chronosequence: Response to uren & parsons (2013). Journal of Ecology, 101(5):1088-1092
43. Laliberte, E., Norton, D.A., Scott, D. (2013) Contrasting effects of productivity and disturbance on plant functional diversity at local and metacommunity scales. Journal of Vegetation Science, 24(5):834-842
44. Kardol, P., De Deyn, G.B., Laliberte, E., Mariotte, P., Hawkes, C.V. (2013) Biotic plant-soil feedbacks across temporal scales. Journal of Ecology, 101(2):309-315
45. Laliberte, E., Lambers, H., Norton, D.A., Tylianakis, J.M., Huston, M.A. (2013) A long-term experimental test of the dynamic equilibrium model of species diversity. Oecologia, 171(2):439-448
46. Laliberte, E., Grace, J.B., Huston, M.A., Lambers, H., Teste, F.P., Turner, B.L., Wardle, D.A. (2013) How does pedogenesis drive plant diversity? Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 28(6):331-340
47. Lambers, H., Ahmedi, I., Berkowitz, O., Dunne, C., Finnegan, P.M., Hardy, G.E.St.J., Jost, R., Laliberte, E., Pearse, S.J., Teste, F. (2013) Phosphorus nutrition of phosphorus-sensitive Australian native plants: threats to plant communities in a global biodiversity hotspot. Conservation Physiology, 1(1)
48. Laliberte, E., Shipley, B., Norton, D.A., Scott, D. (2012) Which plant traits determine abundance under long-term shifts in soil resource availability and grazing intensity? Journal of Ecology, 100(3):662-677
49. Laliberte, E., Turner, B.L., Costes, T., Pearse, S.J., Wyrwoll, K.-H., Zemunik, G., Lambers, H. (2012) Experimental assessment of nutrient limitation along a 2-million-year dune chronosequence in the south-western Australia biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Ecology, 100(3):631-642
50. Laliberte, E., Tylianakis, J.M. (2012) Cascading effects of long-term land-use changes on plant traits and ecosystem functioning. Ecology, 93(1):145-155
51. Lambers, H., Cawthray, G.R., Giavalisco, P., Kuo, J., Laliberte, E., Pearse, S.J., Scheible, W.-R., Stitt, M., Teste, F., Turner, B.L. (2012) Proteaceae from severely phosphorus-impoverished soils extensively replace phospholipids with galactolipids and sulfolipids during leaf development to achieve a high photosynthetic phosphorus-use-efficiency. New Phytologist, 196(4):1098-1108
52. Lambers, H., Bishop, J.G., Hopper, S.D., Laliberte, E., Zuniga-Feest, A. (2012) Phosphorus-mobilization ecosystem engineering: the roles of cluster roots and carboxylate exudation in young P-limited ecosystems. Annals of Botany, 110(2):329-348
53. Laliberte, E., Adair, E.C., Hobbie, S.E. (2012) Estimating Litter Decomposition Rate in Single-Pool Models Using Nonlinear Beta Regression. PLOS ONE, 7(9)
54. Laughlin, D.C., Fule, P.Z., Huffman, D.W., Crouse, J., Laliberte, E. (2011) Climatic constraints on trait-based forest assembly. Journal of Ecology, 99(6):1489-1499
55. Lambers, H., Finnegan, P.M., Laliberte, E., Pearse, S.J., Ryan, M.H., Shane, M.W., Veneklaas, E.J. (2011) Phosphorus nutrition of proteaceae in severely phosphorus-impoverished soils: Are there lessons to be learned for future crops? Plant Physiology, 156(3):1058-1066
56. Tylianakis, J.M., Laliberte, E., Nielsen, A., Bascompte, J. (2010) Conservation of species interaction networks. Biological Conservation, 143(10):2270-2279
57. Laliberte, E., Wells, J.A., Declerck, F., Metcalfe, D.J., Catterall, C.P., Queiroz, C., Aubin, I., Bonser, S.P., Ding, Y., Fraterrigo, J.M. et al. (2010) Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities. Ecology Letters, 13(1):76-86
58. Laliberte, E., Tylianakis, J.M. (2010) Deforestation homogenizes tropical parasitoid-host networks. Ecology, 91(6):1740-1747
59. Laliberte, E., Legendre, P. (2010) A distance-based framework for measuring functional diversity from multiple traits. Ecology, 91(1):299-305
60. Laliberte, E., Norton, D.A., Tylianakis, J.M., Scott, D. (2010) Comparison of two sampling methods for quantifying changes in vegetation composition under rangeland development. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 63(5):537-545
61. Laliberte, E., Paquette, A., Legendre, P., Bouchard, A. (2009) Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial processes on beta diversity: A case study from a temperate forest. Oecologia, 159(2):377-388
62. Laliberte, E. (2008) Analyzing or explaining beta diversity? Comment. Ecology, 89(11):3232-3237
63. Laliberte, E., Cogliastro, A., Bouchard, A. (2008) Spatiotemporal patterns in seedling emergence and early growth of two oak species direct-seeded on abandoned pastureland. Annals of Forest Science, 65(4):407p1-407p10
64. Laliberte, E., Bouchard, A., Cogliastro, A. (2008) Optimizing hardwood reforestation in old fields: The effects of treeshelters and environmental factors on tree seedling growth and physiology. Restoration Ecology, 16(2):270-280
65. Paquette, A., Laliberte, E., Bouchard, A., De Blois, S., Legendre, P., Brisson, J. (2007) Lac Croche understory vegetation data set (1998-2006): Ecological Archives E088-197. Ecology, 88(12):3209

Articles published in proceedings

Scientific reports, manuals and others

1. Laliberte, E., Bouchard, A., Cogliastro, A. (2006) Projet pilote de restauration de paysages forestiers au Parc national des îles-de-Boucherville. Technical report, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale

Theses, dissertations and essays

1. Laliberte, E. (2011) Land-use Intensification in grazing systems: plant trait responses and feedbacks to ecosystem functioning and resilience. PhD thesis, School of Forestry, University of Canterbury, Australia
2. Laliberte, E. (2006) Optimiser l’établissement d’arbres feuillus par la « facilitation artificielle » : l’effet des manchons protecteurs selon des facteurs environnementaux. Master's thesis, Université de Montréal

Supervised theses, dissertations and essays

1. Png, G.K. (2017) Symbiotic nitrogen fixation during long-term ecosystem development: environmental constraints and ecological consequences. PhD thesis, University of Western Australia
2. Roy-Bolduc, A. (2016) La face cachée de la dune : Communautés fongiques du sol: dynamique, succession et interactions avec la végétation d’un écosystème dunaire côtier aux Îles de la Madeleine, Qc. PhD thesis, Université de Montréal
3. Ottaviani, G. (2015) Using a plant functional trait approach to determine dynamics of plant community assembly on granite outcrops of SouthwestWestern Australia. PhD thesis, University of Western Australia

Non peer-reviewed articles

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