Madeleine Doiron

Area of Research 

As an ecologist, I am interested in how species interact with one another and how they respond to their environment. Much of my work thus far has focused on the ecology of birds, particularly shorebirds and waterbirds. During my Ph.D., I studied the impact of climate change on the breeding ecology of snow geese, a long-distance migrant that nests in the Canadian Artic. Although I’ve now moved to a much warmer climate here in North Florida, I’m still interested in answering many of the same questions using our local species.

Scientific Publications

Doiron, M., Gauthier, G. & Lévesque, E. (2015) Trophic mismatch and its effects on the growth of young in an Arctic herbivore. Global Change Biology, 21, 4364-4376.

Doiron, M., Gauthier, G. & Lévesque, E. (2014) Effects of experimental warming on nitrogen concentration and biomass of forage plants for an arctic herbivore. Journal of Ecology, 102, 508-517.

Gauthier, G., Bêty, J., Cadieux, M.-C., Legagneux, P., Doiron, M., Chevallier, C., Lai, S., Tarroux, A. & Berteaux, D. (2013) Long-term monitoring at multiple trophic levels suggests heterogeneity in responses to climate change in the Canadian Arctic tundra. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 368, 20120482.

Doiron, M., Legagneux, P., Lévesque, E. & Gauthier, G. (2013) Broad-scale satellite Normalized Difference Vegetation Index data predict plant biomass and peak date of nitrogen concentration in Arctic tundra vegetation. Applied Vegetation Science, 16, 343-351