"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." --Vince Lombardi

Our Team

Eric Harvey
Lab PI

I am a community ecologist with broad interests in metacommunity, metaecosystem and food web ecology. More specifically, I seek to understand the mechanisms that structure communities of interacting species and how the emerging structure influences ecosystem function. That is to say, I am interested in how community and ecosystem ecology interact. I’m also very interested in bridging ecology and conservation sciences by fostering a better communication between both fields, and by developing a research program centered on the empirical testing of ecological theory.

Stéphanie L'italien-Simard
​​MSc Candidate

Stéphanie is working on understanding how freshwater tide dynamics combined with land-use gradients influence biodiversity and ecosystem functions in a system of interconnected freshwater ponds located on the shore of the St-Lawrence river in Quebec.

Charlie Sarran
PhD Candidate

Charlie is working on experimental metaecosystems exploring how alteration to cross-ecosystem subsidy dynamics will affect the recipient ecosystem response in terms of community structure, stability and processes. 

Juliane Vigneault
MSc Candidate

Juliane is working on identifying the main local and regional factors regulating the prevalence of fish parasites in lakes across the landscape.

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Charles Gagnon
MSc Candidate

Charles is working on the influence of land-use change on river biodiversity and functioning. (more details to come)

Louis-Philippe Beauchamp
MSc Candidate

L-P is working on the influence of land-use change on river biodiversity and functioning. (more details to come)

Matteo Babinski
MSc Candidate

Matteo is trying to understand how a loss in structural connectivity along rivers (by damaged culverts) influence the structure and quality (carbon content) of emerging insects, an important source of food for the riparian food web. 

Alumni

Audrey Robert (2020-2021, Honor thesis) - Factors regulating functional diversity in urban waterbodies at multiple spatial scales

Georges Charette (2020-2023, MSc degree) - L'influence des subsides particulaires terrestres et leur stoechiométrie sur les communautés littorales en lacs