Aller au contenu

Françoise Cardou

Professeure, Faculté des sciences
FSCI Département de biologie

Présentation

Adhésions

  • (2026-). Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
  • (2026-). Centre d'étude de la forêt. Montréal, Canada.
  • (2025-). Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Ottawa, Canada.

Diplômes

  • (2020). PhD. Biologie. Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
  • (2010). MSc Ecology. Biological Sciences. University of Alberta. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • (2007). BSc. Biologie. Université Laval. Québec, Quebec, Canada.

Expériences académiques

  • Professeure adjointe (Biologie). (2026-). Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
  • Assistant professor (Biological sciences). (2024-2025). University of Calgary. Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Publications

Articles

  • Françoise Cardou. (2026). The gardener's dilemma: Biodiversity change in cities and what we can do about it. American Journal of Botany. DOI
  • Raphaël Turquin, Isabelle Aubin, Françoise Cardou, Robert Schneider, Martin Barrette, Luc Sirois. (2025). Understory community dynamics 12 years after commercial thinning and gap creation in naturally regenerated and planted stands. Forest Ecology and Management. DOI
  • Isabelle Aubin, Élise Deschênes, Kierann R. Santala, Erik J.S. Emilson, Amanda L. Schoonmaker, Anne C.S. McIntosh, Bérenger Bourgeois, Françoise Cardou, Angélique Dupuch, I. Tanya Handa, Mélanie Lapointe, Jonathan Lavigne, Audrey Maheu, Solange Nadeau, M. Anne. Naeth, Eric W. Neilson, Philip A. Wiebe. (2024). Restoring forest ecosystem services through trait-based ecology. Environmental Reviews. DOI
  • Tadhg Carroll, Françoise Cardou, Maria Dornelas, Chris D. Thomas, Mark Vellend. (2023). Biodiversity change under adaptive community dynamics. Global Change Biology. DOI
  • Li Zhang, Seraina Lisa Cappelli, Mengjiao Huang, Xiang Liu, Yao Xiao, Françoise Cardou, Yizhong Rong, Shurong Zhou. (2023). Intraspecific trait variability mediates the effect of nitrogen addition and warming on aboveground productivity. Oikos. DOI
  • F. Cardou, M. Vellend. (2023). Stealth advocacy in ecology and conservation biology. Biological Conservation. DOI
  • Françoise Cardou, Alison D. Munson, Laura Boisvert‐Marsh, Madhur Anand, André Arsenault, F. Wayne Bell, Yves Bergeron, Isabelle Boulangeat, Sylvain Delagrange, Nicole J. Fenton, Dominique Gravel, Benoît Hamel, François Hébert, Jill F. Johnstone, Bright B. Kumordzi, S. Ellen Macdonald, Azim Mallik, Anne C. S. McIntosh, Jennie R. McLaren, ... Isabelle Aubin. (2022). Above‐ and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America. Journal of Ecology. DOI
  • Kierann Santala, Françoise Cardou, Denys Yemshanov, Fabio Campioni, Mackenzie Simpson, I. Tanya Handa, Peter Ryser, Isabelle Aubin. (2022). Finding the perfect mix: An applied model that integrates multiple ecosystem functions when designing restoration programs. Ecological Engineering. DOI
  • Françoise Cardou, Isabelle Aubin, Mélanie Lapointe, Bill Shipley. (2022). Multifunctionality in practice: Measuring differences in urban woodland ecosystem properties via functional traits. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening. DOI
  • Françoise Cardou, Isabelle Aubin, Alexandre Bergeron, Bill Shipley. (2020). Functional markers to predict forest ecosystem properties along a rural‐to‐urban gradient. Journal of Vegetation Science. DOI
  • Isabelle Aubin, Françoise Cardou, Laura Boisvert‐Marsh, Eric Garnier, Manuella Strukelj, Alison D. Munson. (2020). Managing data locally to answer questions globally: The role of collaborative science in ecology. Journal of Vegetation Science. DOI
  • Bright B. Kumordzi, Isabelle Aubin, Françoise Cardou, Bill Shipley, Cyrille Violle, Jill Johnstone, Madhur Anand, André Arsenault, F. Wayne Bell, Yves Bergeron, Isabelle Boulangeat, Maxime Brousseau, Louis De Grandpré, Sylvain Delagrange, Nicole J. Fenton, Dominique Gravel, S. Ellen Macdonald, Benoit Hamel, Morgane Higelin, ... Alison D. Munson. (2019). Geographic scale and disturbance influence intraspecific trait variability in leaves and roots of North American understorey plants. Functional Ecology. DOI
  • I. Aubin, A.D. Munson, F. Cardou, P.J. Burton, N. Isabel, J.H. Pedlar, A. Paquette, A.R. Taylor, S. Delagrange, H. Kebli, C. Messier, B. Shipley, F. Valladares, J. Kattge, L. Boisvert-Marsh, D. McKenney. (2016). Traits to stay, traits to move: a review of functional traits to assess sensitivity and adaptive capacity of temperate and boreal trees to climate change. Environmental Reviews. DOI
  • I. Aubin, F. Cardou, K. Ryall, D. Kreutzweiser, T. Scarr. (2015). Ash regeneration capacity after emerald ash borer (EAB) outbreaks: Some early results. The Forestry Chronicle. DOI
  • Isabelle Aubin, Olivier Deshaies, Françoise Cardou, Luc Sirois. (2014). Management legacy in the understory of North American mixed boreal regenerating stands. Forest Ecology and Management. DOI

Chapitres de livre

  • Françoise Cardou, Marc Cadotte. (2023). From pattern to process in the search for generality. DOI