Madeleine Doiron
Professional Profile
Education
Ph.D. in Biology, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada
Dissertation: Impacts of Climate Change on Plant-Herbivore Interactions in the Arctic
M.S. in Biology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
B.S. in Biology, Université de Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada
Teaching
Classes taught
- BIO 111 – General Biology I
- BIO 112 – General Biology II
- BIO 214 – Principles of Ecology
- COR 124 – Environmental Investigations
- NAS 325 – Science Communication
- NAS 340 – Marsh Birds Research
- NAS 352 – Global Climate Change
- NAS 470 – Natural Sciences Research Capstone
- NAS 491 – Independent Study
Research
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 Arctic. 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. In recent years, I have also developed an interest in pedagogy and the scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Scientific Publications
Southwell, M., & Doiron, M. (2025). Can a Hands-On Introduction to Research Increase Motivation to Participate?. Scholarship and Practice of Undergraduate Research, 8(2), 43-54.
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