Past projects
Soil weathering & phosphorus species
Coinvestigators: L. Deiss (PDF)
Funding: -
Keyword: Biogeochemistry
Tell me your ecosystem age, I'll tell you which kinds of P species occur in your soil! Leonardo conducts a data synthesis study on nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy method, which is used to differentiate organic P species.
Let your lawn grown!
Investigators: C. Watson (PDF), L. Carillan-Guillemette, Turcotte (BSc), R. Proulx
Funding: UQTR-MAO (2017)
Keyword: Urban Ecology
We explore the benefits from managing extensively your garden looking at: white worms, ragweed, soil temperature, evapotranspiration...
Microbial biodiversity in Boreal Forests of North-East America
Coinvestigators: R. Giguère-Tremblay (MSc), H. Germain, G. Laperrière, D. Bisson
Funding: MITACS-Accélération, CRIBIQ, Progigraph Inc. and Temiskiming First Nation
Keyword: Biogeochemistry
Here we explore the multiple relationships of alpha and beta biodiversity of bacteria and fungi with the multiple functions of 160 boreal forest sites
Soil fertility and leaf photosynthetic strategies at global scale
Investigators: J. Paillassa (PhD), S. Pépin, I. Wright, G. Éthier
Funding: FRQNT-New researcher (2017-NC-198009)
Keyword: Ecophysiology
Nitrogen and water are two substitutable resources to optimise leaf photosynthesis. We explore how plants manage this optimisation according to climate-soil interactions. (more...)