Beatrix Beisner
Research interests
Mixotrophy in lakes
Identifying conditions influencing alternative strategies of phytoplankton resource-use (bacterivory, autotrophy)
Spatial ecology of plankton communities
Understanding processes structuring metacommunities and metaecosystems
Trait-based ecology of lake plankton
Using functional traits to better understand community assembly in lake food webs
FisHAB
Development of new ecosystem indicators to improve reporting tools and to better describe multiple stressors affecting freshwater fish habitats.
Climate change and plankton ecology
- Phytoplankton and zooplankton community functional trait/diversity
- Phytoplankton mixotrophic strategy shifts
CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
Thomas Charpentier
PhD candidate
Plasticity and coexistence of mixotrophic traits in lake plankton communities
Frédéric Hadi
M.Sc candidate
Assessment of factors favoring bacterivorous nanophytoplankton (mixotrophic)
CO-Supervised students
Jennifer Pham
PhD candidate
Plankton food web structure & dynamics in Canadian lakes
Co-supervised with Irene Gregory-Eaves (McGill)
Charlie Sarran
PhD candidate
Lake food web responses to subsidies
Co-supervised with Éric Harvey (UQTR)
Sam Lucy Behle
PhD Candidate
Bythothrephes invasion dynamics in Quebec
Co-supervised with Guillaume Grosbois (UQAT)
Nathalia Resende
Visiting PhD candidate
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Impacts of biological invasion by cyanobacteria Raphidiopsis raciborskii on biodiversity and freshwater ecosystem functions
Co-supervised with Simone Cardoso (UFJF)
Dr. Cindy Paquette
Post-doctoral fellow
Zooplankton-fish interactions
Co-supervised with Vincent Fugère (UQTR) and
Zofia Taranu (ECCC)
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral fellows
PhD
Msc
Dr. Marine Lemaire
Dr. Louis Tanguay
Dr. Vincent Fugère
Dr. Eyerusalem Goitom
Dr. Katherine Pagnucco
Dr. Patricia Pernica (co)
Dr. Corinne Pomerleau
Dr. Akash Sastri
Dr. Catherine Brown
Dr. Alexandrine Pannard (co)
Dr. Kerri Finlay
Dr. Tamara Romanuk
Dr. Eva Lindstrom (co)
Bruno Cremella (co)
Vera Onana (co)
Paul McKeigan (co)
Philippe Le Noac'h
Juan Du (co)
Cindy Paquette
Marie-Pier Hébert (co)
Gillian Martin (co)
Elder Sodré (co)
Carla Albuquerque de Souza (co)
Ligia Roma Stephan (co)
Nicolas Fortin St-Gelais
Amanda Winegardner (co)
El Amine Mimouni (co)
Anneli Jokela (co)
Maria Lorena Longhi
Richard Vogt
Angela Kouris (co)
Kerri Findlay (co)
Camila Moreira da Silva
Dario Di Girolamo
Riley Hughes
Alice Blanchard (co)
Jade Dormoy-Boulanger
Martin Demers (co)
Jennifer Barrow (co)
Alexandre Langlais-Bourassa
Ola Khawasek (co)
Cindy Paquette
Laurent Fraser
Maxime Fradette (co)
Julia Hart
Pierre-Olivier Benoit (co)
Nadia El Moussaoui
Marie-Pier Hébert (co)
Geneviève Thibodeau
Vincent Ouellet-Jobin
Sara Mercier-Blais (co)
Joanna Gauthier
Myriam Jourdain (co)
Ariane Cantin
Martin Lavoie (co)
Kathleen McMeekin (co)
Maria Maezo
Sonya Lévesque
Allain Barnett
Jonathan Hovius
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