Tonia De Bellis

Chercheure régulière
Microbial ecology and plant–microbe interactions
Écologie microbienne et interactions plantes-microbes

Program Coordinator of Health Studies and Environmental Science
Office: 7B.10-1 Local: 4685
Dawson College
Montréal (Québec)

514 931-8731

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FORMATION

• 2002 – 2007 Ph.D. Biology (Microbial Ecology), Concordia University, Montreal, QC
• 1997 – 2000 M.Sc. Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC
• 1994 –1997 B.Sc. Specialization Biology (Great Distinction), Concordia University, Montreal, QC

PRÉSENTATION

Tonia De Bellis is a researcher in biology, interested in biological invasions and microbial communities. Tonia is leading a project exploring mutualistic interactions between plants and mycorrhizal fungi funded by the FRQNT Programme de recherche pour les chercheurs de collège (2015-18). Specifically, she is interested in whether the relative strength of these positive interactions differ between native and invasive maple trees. She is working with Jean-Philippe Lessard at Concordia University and Steve Kembel at UQAM. She is also an active member of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS).

THÈMES DE RECHERCHE

• Biology
• Ecology
• Environmental science
• Fungi
• Invasive Species

PUBLICATIONS (révisés par un comité de lecture)

1. Enea, M., Beauregard, J., De Bellis, T., Faticov, M., Laforest-Lapointe, I. (2025) The temperate forest phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiome: a case study of sugar maple. Frontiers in Microbiology, Volume 15 - 2024
2. Kempel, A., Adamidis, G.C., Anadon, J.D., Atkinson, J., Auge, H., Avtzis, D., Bachelot, B., Bashirzadeh, M., Bota, J.L., Classen, A. et al. (2025) The Bug-Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems. Ecology and Evolution, 15(10)
3. Eckert, I., De Bellis, T., Munoz, G., Kembel, S.W., Lessard, J.-P., Nunez, M.A. (2024) A single range-expanding species reshapes alpine ecosystems and their belowground diversity. Oikos, 2024(1)
4. Hénault, A., Heim, A., Brisson, J., Dagenais, D., De Bellis, T., Chagnon, P.-L. (2022) Stressful, isolated, yet diverse: Green roofs have rich microbiomes that are not dominated by oligotrophic taxa. Environmental Microbiology Reports
5. De Bellis, T., Kernaghan, G., Widden, P. (2007) Plant community influences on soil microfungal assemblages in boreal mixed-wood forests. Mycologia, 99(3):356 – 367

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