Mark Vellend

Prix et distinctions

• (2022) Highly Cited Researcher. Clarivate (formerly ISI). (Distinction).
• (2019) E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). (Prize / Award).
• (2018) Excel Award, Gold Medal. Association Media & Publishing. (Prize / Award).
• (2015) W.S. Cooper Award. Ecological Society of America. (Prize / Award).
• (2014) Prix de la recherche et de la création 2014, Sciences naturelles et génie (Research and Innovation Prize 2014, Natural Sciences & Engineering). Université de Sherbrooke. (Prize / Award).
• (2013) Faculty Member, Faculty of 1000. Faculty of 1000. (Distinction).
• (2010) Canada Research Chair in Conservation Biology. University of British Columbia. (Distinction).
• (2007) Junior Early Career Scholar. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (UBC). (Distinction).
• (2005) Young Investigator's Prize. American Society of Naturalists. (Prize / Award).
• Fellow. Royal Society of Canada. (Distinction).
• Fellow. Ecological Society of America (ESA). (Honor).
• Top 10 scientific discovery of 2019 / Une des 10 découvertes de l'année. Québec Science (magazine). (Distinction).

Financement

• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. Leverhulme Trust (The). Leverhulme Research Centres. 17 000 000 $. (2019-2029)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. Plant population and community responses to environmental change. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Grants. 325 000 $. (2022-2027)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. The Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Discovery Frontiers. 4 000 000 $. (2018-2023)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. DNA genetic analyzer for molecular ecology/biology applications. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools and Instruments. 149 515 $. (2019-2020)
• Fellowship. (Awarded). Principal Applicant. E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). 250 000 $. (2017-2019)
• Grant. (Awarded). Co-applicant. Vehicles and mobile laboratory for field research in ecology. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools & Instruments. 110 651 $. (2017-2018)
• Grant. (Awarded). Principal Investigator. A network of timelapse cameras for monitoring forest plant phenology. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). Research Tools & Instruments. 24 380 $. (2017-2017)

Publications

Articles de revue

• Carroll, T.*, Cardou, F.*, Dornelas, M., Thomas, C.D. & Vellend, M. (2023). Biodiversity change under adaptive community dynamics. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 29 3525-3538. (Published).
• Rinas, C.*, McMullin, R.T., Rousseu, F. & Vellend, M. (2023). Diversity and assembly of lichens and bryophytes on tree trunks along a temperate to boreal elevation gradient. OECOLOGIA 202 55-67. (Published).
• Jantzen, J., Laliberté, E., Carteron, A., Beauchamp-Rioux, R., Blanchard, F., Crofts, A.*, Girard, A., Hacker, P., Pardo, J., Schweiger, A., Demers-Thibeault, S., Coops, N., Kalacska, M., Vellend, M., Bruneau, A. (2023). Evolutionary history explains foliar spectral differences between arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal plant species. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 238 2651-2667. (Published).
• Dornelas, M., Chase, J.M., Gotelli, N.J., Magurran, A.E., McGill, B.J., Antão, L.H., Blowes, S.A., Daskalova, G.N., Leung, B., Martins, I.S., Moyes, F., Myers-Smith, I.H., Thomas, C.D. & Vellend, M. (2023). Looking back on biodiversity change: lessons for the road ahead. PHILOSPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 378 20220199. (Published).
• Miraglio, T., Coops, N.C., Wallis, C.I.B.*, Crofts, A.L.*, Kalacska, M., Vellend, M., Serbin, S.P, Arroyo-Mora, J.P. & Laliberté, E. (2023). Mapping canopy traits over Québec using airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 13 17179. (Published).
• Messier, J.*, Becker-Scarpitta, A.*, Li, Y., Violle, C. & Vellend, M. (2023). Plant species and community changes over 40 years of warming are associated with biomass allocation and root traits. ECOLOGY (Revision Requested).
• Kothari, S., Beauchamp-Rioux, R., Blanchard, F., Crofts, A.L.*, Girard, A., Guilbeault-Mayers, X., Hacker, P.W., Pardo, J., Schweiger, A.K., Demers-Thibeault, S., Bruneau, A., Coops, N.C., Kalacska, M., Vellend, M., Laliberté, E. (2023). Predicting leaf traits across functional groups using reflectance spectroscopy. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 238 549-566. (Published).
• Wallis, C.I.B.*, Crofts, A.L.*, Inamdar, D., Arroyo-Mora, J.P., Kalacska, M., Laliberté, E., Vellend, M. (2023). Remotely sensed carbon content: The role of tree composition and tree diversity. Remote Sensing of the Environment 284 113333. (Published).
• Ni, M.* & Vellend, M. (2023). Soil properties constrain predicted poleward migration of plants under climate change. NEW PHYTOLOGIST 241 131-141. (Published).
• Cardou, F.* & Vellend, M. (2023). Stealth advocacy in ecology and conservation biology. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 280 109968. (Published).
• Martins, I.S.*, Dornelas, M., Vellend, M. & Thomas, C.D. (2022). A millennium of increasing ecosystem diversity until the mid-20th century. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 28 5945-5955. (Published).
• Becker-Scarpitta, A.*, Auberson-Lavoie, D.*, Aussenac, R., Vellend, M. (2022). Different temporal trends in vascular plant and bryophyte communities along elevational gradients over four decades of warming. ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 12 e9102. (Published).
• Staude, I. + 77 co-authors (including Vellend, M.). (2022). Directional temporal turnover toward plant species with larger ranges across habitats. ECOLOGY LETTERS 25 466-482. (Published).
• Beguin, J.*, Côté, S. & Vellend, M. (2022). Large herbivores trigger spatiotemporal changes in forest plant diversity. ECOLOGY 103 e3739. (Published).
• Carteron, A.*, Vellend, M. & Laliberté, E. (2022). Mycorrhizal dominance reduces forest-tree species diversity. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 6 370-374. (Published).
• Crockett, E.T.H., Vellend, M., Bennett, E.M. (2022). Tree biodiversity in northern forests shows temporal stability over 35 years at different scales, levels and dimensions. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 110 2388-2403. (Published).
• Vellend, M., Thompson, J.R., Danneyrolles, V.* & Rousseu, F. (2021). Changes in landscape-scale tree biodiversity in the northeastern United States since European settlement. GLOBAL ECOLOGY & BIOGEOGRAPHY 30 666-673. (Published).
• Rivest, S.*, Lajoie, G.*, Watts, D.A.* & Vellend, M. (2021). Earlier spring reduces potential for gene flow via reduced flowering synchrony across an elevational gradient. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 108 538-545. (Published).
• Martin, C.A., Proulx, R., Vellend, M., Fahrig, L. (2021). How the relationship between vegetation cover and land-cover variance constrains biodiversity in a human dominated world. LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 36 3097-3104. (Published).
• Vellend, M., Béhé, M., Carteron, A.*, Crofts, A.L.*, Danneyrolles, V.*, Gamhewa, H.T.*, Ni, M.*, Rinas, C.L.* & Watts, D.A.*. (2021). Plant responses to climate change and an elevational gradient in Mont Mégantic National Park, Québec. NORTHEASTERN NATURALIST 28 4-28. (Published).
• Danneyrolles, V.*, Vellend, M., Dupuis, S., Boucher, Y., Laflamme, J., Bergeron, Y., Fortin, G., Leroyer, M., de Römer, A., Terrail, R., Arseneault, D. (2021). Scale-dependent changes in tree diversity over more than a century in eastern Canada: landscape diversification and regional homogenisation. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 109 273-283. (Published).
• Ni, M.* & Vellend, M. (2021). Space-for-time inferences about range-edge dynamics of tree species can be influenced by sampling biases. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 27 2102-2012. (Published).
• Thomas, H. + ~104 co-authors (incl. Vellend, M.). (2020). Global plant trait relationships extend to the climatic extremes of the tundra biome. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 11 1351. (Published).
• Bowler, D.E., Bjorkman, A.D., Dornelas, M., Myers-Smith, I.H., Navarro, L.M., Niamir, A., Supp, S.R., Waldock, C., Winter, M., Vellend, M., Blowes, S.A., Böhning-Gaese, K., Bruelheide, H., Elahi, R., Antão, L.H., Hines, J., Isbelle, F., Jones, H.P., Magurran, A.E., Sarmento Cabral, J. & Bates, A.E. (2020). Mapping human pressures on biodiversity across the planet uncovers anthropogenic threat complexes. PEOPLE & NATURE 2 380-394. (Published).
• Carteron, A.*, Parasquive, V., Blanchard, F., Guilbeault-Mayers, X., Turner, B.L., Vellend, M., Laliberté, E. (2020). Soil abiotic and biotic properties constrain the establishment of a dominant temperate tree into boreal forests. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 108 931-944. (Published).
• Kattge, J. & TRY database contributors (100s of people). (2020). TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 26 119-188. (Published).
• Auberson-Lavoie, D.* & Vellend, M. (2020). Trillium erectumCauses and consequences of deer browing on red trillium () along an elevational gradient. BOTANY 8 469-478. (Published).
• Renaud, L.-A., Vellend, M. & Pelletier, F. 2019. (2019). Du réchauffement aux conséquences écologiques: s'adapter, migrer ou disparaître. CLIMATOSCOPE 1 31-35. (Published).
• Becker-Scarpitta, A.*, Vissault, S. & Vellend, M. (2019). Four decades of plant community change along a continental gradient of warming. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 25 1629–1641. (Published).
• De Frenne, P., Zellweger, F., Rodriguez-Sánchez, F., Scheffers, B., Hylander, K., Luoto, M., Vellend, M., Verheyen, K. & Lenoir, J. (2019). Global buffering of temperatures under forest canopies. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 3 (5), 744. (Published).
• Fahrig, L., Arroyo-Rodríguez, V., Bennett, J.R., Boucher-Lalonde, V., Cazetta, E., Currie, D.J., Eigenbrod, F., Ford, A.T., Harrison, S.P., Jaeger, J.A.G., Koper, N., Martin, A.E., Metzger, J.P., Morrison, P., Rhodes, J.R., Saunders, D.A., Simberloff, D., Smith, A.C., Tischendorf, L., Vellend, M. and Watling, J.I. (2019). Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity?. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 230 179-186. (Published).
• Chase, J.M., McGill, B.J., Thompson, P.L., Antão, L.H., Bates, A.E., Blowes, S.A., Dornelas, M., Gonzalez, A., Magurran, A.E., Supp, S.R., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A.D., Bruelheide, H., Byrnes, J.E.K., Cabral, J.S., Elahi, R., Gomez, C., Guzman, H.M., Isbell, F., Myers-Smith, I.H., Jones, H.P., Hines, J., Vellend, M., Waldock, C. & O'Connor, M. (2019). Species richness change across spatial scales. OIKOS 128 1079-1091. (Published).
• Danneyrolles, V.*, Dupuis, S., Fortin, G., Leroyer, M., de Römer, A., Terrail, R., Vellend, M., Boucher, Y, Laflamme, J., Bergeron, Y. & Arsenault, D. (2019). Stronger influence of anthropogenic disturbance than climate change on century-scale compositional changes in northern forests. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 10 1265. (Published).
• Vellend, M. (2019). The behavioural economics of biodiversity conservation scientists. PHILOSOPHICAL TOPICS 47 219-237. (Published).
• Blowes, S. A., Supp, S. R., Antão, L. H., Bates, A., Bruelheide, H., Chase, J. M., Moyes, F., Magurran, A., McGill, B., Myers-Smith, I.H., Winter, M., Bjorkman, A.D., Bowler, D., Byrnes, J. E. K., Gonzalez, A., Hines, J., Isbell, F., Jones, H., Navarro, L.M., Thompson, P., Vellend, M., Waldock, C. & Dornelas, M. (2019). The geography of biodiversity change in marine and terrestrial assemblages. SCIENCE 366 339-345. (Published).
• Barnett, D.T., Adler, P.B., Chemel, B.R., Duffy, P.A., Enquist, B.J., Grace, J.B., Harrison, S., Peet, R.K., Schimel, D.S., Stohlgren, T.J. and Vellend, M. (2019). The plant diversity sampling design for The National Ecological Observatory Network. ECOSPHERE 10 e02540. (Published).
• Brady, S. P., Bolnick, D. I., Barrett, R. D. H., Chapman, L. J., Crispo, E., Derry, A. M., Eckert, C.G., Fraser, D. J., Fussmann, G. F., Gonzalez, A., Guichard, F., Lamy, T., Lane, J. E., McAdam, A. G., Newman, A. E. M., Paccard, A., Robertson, B. A., Rolshausen, G., Schulte, P. M., Simons, A. M., Vellend, M. and Hendry, A. P. (2019). Understanding maladaptation by uniting ecological and evolutionary perspectives. THE AMERICAN NATURALIST 194 495-515. (Published).
• Kharouba, H.M., Lewthwaite, J.M.M., Guralnick, R., Kerr, J.T. & Vellend, M. (2019). Using insect natural history collections to study global change impacts: challenges and opportunities. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 374 20170405. (Published).
• Lajoie, G.* & Vellend, M. (2018). Characterizing the contribution of plasticity and genetic differentiation to community-level trait responses to environmental change. ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 8 3895-3907. (Published).
• Balint, M., Pfenninger, M., Grossart, H-P., Taberlet, P., Vellend, M., Leibold, M.A., Englund, G. & Bowler, D. (2018). Environmental DNA time series in ecology. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 33 945-957. (Published).
• Perring, M., Bernhardt-Römermann, M., Baeten, L., Midolo, G., Blondeel, H., Depauw, L., Landuyt, D., Maes, S., De Lombaerde, E., Carón, M., Vellend, M., B., Chudomelova, M., Decocq, G., Diekmann, M., Dirnböck, T., Dorfler, I., Durak, T., De Frenne, P., Gilliam, F., Hédl, R., Heinken, T., Hommel, P., Jaroszewicz, B., Kirby, K., Kopecký, M., Lenoir, J., Li, D., Máliš, F., Mitchell, F., Naaf, T., Newman, M., Petrik, P., Reczynska, K., Schmidt, W., Standovár, T., Swierkosz, K., Van Calster, H., Vild, O., Wagner, E.R., Wulf, M., Verheyen, K. (2018). Global environmental change effects on plant community composition trajectories depend upon management legacies. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 24 1722-1740. (Published).
• Rivest, S.* & Vellend, M. (2018). Herbivory and pollen limitation at the upper elevational range limit of two forest understory plants of eastern North America. ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 8 892-903. (Published).
• Liu, J., Vellend, M., Wang, Z. & Yu, M. (2018). High beta diversity among small islands is due to environmental heterogeneity rather than ecological drift. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY 45 2252 –2261. (Published).
• Múrria, C.*, Bonada, N., Vellend, M., Zamora-Muñoz, C., Alba-Tercedor, J., Sainz-Cantero, C.E., Garrido, J., Acosta, R., El Alami, M., Barquín, J., Derka, T., Álvarez-Cabria, M., Sáinz-Bariain, M., Filipe, A.F., & Vogler, A.P. (2018). Local environment rather than past climate determines community composition of mountain stream macroinvertebrates across Europe. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 26 6085– 6099. (Published).
• Wu, C., Vellend, M., Yuan, W., Jiang, B., Lui, J., Shen, A., Lui, J., Zhu, J. and Yu, M. (2018). Patterns and determinants of plant biodiversity in non-commercial forests of eastern China. PLOS ONE 12 e0188409. (Published).
• Bjorkman, A. + 129 co-authors (incl. Vellend, M.). (2018). Plant functional trait change across a warming tundra biome. NATURE 562 57–62. (Published).
• Bjorkman, A.D.*, Vellend, M., Frei, E.R. & Henry, G.H.R. (2017). Climate adaptation is not enough: warming does not facilitate success of southern tundra plant populations in the high Arctic. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 23 1540-1551. (Published).
• Verheyen, K. + 46 co-authors (incl. Vellend, M.). (2017). Combining biodiversity resurveys across regions to advance global change research. BIOSCIENCE 67 73-83. (Published).
• Vellend, M., Dornelas, M., Baeten, L., Beauséjour, R.*, Brown, C.D., De Frenne, P., Elmendorf, S.C., Gotelli, N.J., Moyes, F., Myers-Smith, I.H., Magurran, A., McGill, B.J., Shimadzu, H. & Sievers, C. (2017). Estimates of local biodiversity change over time stand up to scrutiny. ECOLOGY 98 583-590. (Published).
• Fugère, M.*, Bradley, R. & Vellend, M. (2017). Exotic earthworms dispersion through protected forest areas and their potential impacts on nitrous oxide production. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 19 773-783. (Published).
• Prevéy, J.S., Vellend, M., Ruger, N., Hollister, R.D., Bjorkman, A.D., Myers-Smith, I.H., Elmendorf, S.C., Clark, K., Cooper, E.J., Elberling, B., Fosaa, A.M., Henry, G.H.R., Høye, T.T., Jónsdóttir, I.S., Klanderud, K., Lévesque, E., Mauritz, M., Molau, U., Natali, S.M., Oberbauer, S.F., Panchen, Z.A., Post, E., Rumpf, S.B., Schmidt, N.M., Schuur, E.A.G., Semenchuk, P.R., Troxler, T., Welker, J.M., Rixen, C. (2017). Greater temperature sensitivity of plant phenology at colder sites: implications for convergence across northern latitudes. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 23 2660–2671. (Published).
• Becker Scarpitta, A.*, Bardat, J., Lalanne, A. & Vellend, M. (2017). Long-term community change: bryophytes are more responsive than vascular plants to nitrogen deposition and warming. JOURNAL OF VEGETATION SCIENCE 28 1220-1229. (Published).
• Vellend, M., Baeten, L., Becker-Scarpitta, A.*, Boucher-Lalonde, V.*, McCune, J.L., Messier, J.*, Myers-Smith, I.H.* & Sax, D.F. (2017). Plant biodiversity change across scales during the Anthropocene. ANNUAL REVIEW OF PLANT BIOLOGY 68 563-586. (Published).
• Vellend, M., Young, A.B.*, Letendre, G.* and Rivest, S.*. (2017). Thaw circles around tree trunks provide spring ephemeral plants with a big head start on the growing season. ECOLOGY 98 3224–3226. (Published).
• Vellend, M. (2017). The biodiversity conservation paradox. AMERICAN SCIENTIST 105 94-101. (Published).
• Craven, D., Thakur, M.P., Cameron, E.K., Frelich, L.E., Beauséjour, R.*, Blair, R.B., Blossey, B., Burtis, J., Choi, A., Fahey, T.J., Fisichelli, N.A., Gibson, K., Handa, I.T., Hopfensperger, K., Loss, S.R., Nuzzo, V., Maerz, J., Sackett, T., Scharenboch, B.C., Smith, S.M., Vellend, M., Umek, L.G.& Eisenhauer, N. (2017). The unseen invaders: introduced earthworms as drivers of change in plant communities in North American forests (a meta-analysis). GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 23 1065–1074. (Published).
• Kleynhans, E.J.*, Otto, S.P., Reich, P.B., & Vellend, M. (2016). Adaptation to elevated CO2 in different biodiversity contexts. NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 7 12358. (Published).
• Urli, M.*, Brown, C.D.*, Narváez Perez, R., Chagnon, P.-L. & Vellend, M. (2016). Increased seedling establishment via enemy-release at the upper elevational range limit of sugar maple. ECOLOGY 97 3058–3069. (Published).
• Myers-Smith, I.H.* + 32 co-authors + Vellend, M. (last author). (2015). Climate sensitivity of shrub growth across the tundra biome. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 5 887–891. (Published).
• Bjorkman, A.D.*, Elmendorf, S.C., Beamish, A.L., Vellend, M., Henry, G.H.R. (2015). Contrasting effects of warming and increased snowfall on Arctic tundra plant phenology over the past two decades. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 21 4651–4661. (Published).
• Baeten, L., Davies, T.J., Verheyen, K., Van Calster, H., Vellend, M. (2015). Disentangling dispersal from phylogeny in the colonization capacity of forest understorey plants. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 103 175-183. (Published).
• Savage, J.*, Vellend, M. (2015). Elevational shifts, biotic homogenization and time lags in vegetation change during 40 years of climate warming. ECOGRAPHY 38 546-555. (Published).
• Kharouba, H.M.*, Vellend, M. (2015). Flowering time of butterfly nectar food plants is more sensitive to temperature than the timing of butterfly adult flight. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 84 1311–1321. (Published).
• Lajoie, G*, Vellend, M. (2015). Understanding context dependence in the contribution of intraspecific variation to community trait-environment matching. ECOLOGY 96 2912-2922. (Published).
• VELLEND M, SRIVASTAVA DS, ANDERSON KM*, BROWN CD*, JANKOWSKI JE, KLEYNHANS EJ*, KRAFT NJB*, LETAW AD*, MACDONALD AAM*, MACLEAN JE*, MYERS-SMITH IH*, NORRIS AR*, XUE X*. (2014). Assessing the relative importance of neutral stochasticity in ecological communities. OIKOS 123 1420–1430. (Published).
• McCUNE JL*, VELLEND M, PELLATT MG. (2014). Combining phytolith analysis with historical ecology to reveal the long-term, local-scale dynamics within a savannah-forest landscape mosaic. BIODIVERSITY & CONSERVATION 24 609-626. (Published).
• VELLEND M, LAJOIE G*, BOURRET A*, MÚRRIA C*, KEMBEL SW, GARANT D. (2014). Drawing ecological inferences from coincident patterns of population- and community-level biodiversity. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 23 (12), 2890–2901. (Published).
• BEAUSÉJOUR R*, HANDA IT, LECHOWICZ MJ, GILBERT B, VELLEND M. (2014). Historical anthropogenic disturbances influence patterns of non-native earthworm and plant invasions in a temperate primary forest. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 17 1267–1281. (Published).
• BROWN CD*, VELLEND M. (2014). Non-climatic constraints on upper elevational plant range expansion under climate change. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 281 20141779. (Published).
• KHAROUBA HM*, VELLEND M, SARFRAZ RM, MYERS JH. (2014). The effects of experimental warming on the timing of a plant-insect herbivore interaction. JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY 84 785-796. (Published).
• VELLEND M. (2014). The value of biodiversity: a humbling analysis. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 29 (3), 138–139. (Published).
• McCUNE JL*, VELLEND M. (2014). Using plant traits to predict the sensitivity of colonizations and extirpations to landscape context. OECOLOGIA 178 511-524. (Published).
• BENNETT JR*, VELLEND M, LILLEY PL*, CORNWELL WK*, ARCESE P. (2013). Abundance, rarity and invasion debt among exotic species in a patchy ecosystem. BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS 15 (3), 707-716. (Published).
• VELLEND M, BAETEN L, MYERS-SMITH IH*, ELMENDORF SC, BEAUSÉJOUR R*, BROWN CD*, DE FRENNE P, VERHEYEN K, WIPF S. (2013). A global meta-analysis reveals no net change in local-scale plant biodiversity over time. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USA 110 (48), 19456-19459. (Published).
• McCUNE JL*, VELLEND M. (2013). Gains in native species promote biotic homogenization over four decades in a human?dominated landscape. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 101 (6), 1542-1551. (Published).
• VELLEND M, BROWN CD*, KHAROUBA HM*, McCUNE JL*, MYERS-SMITH IH*. (2013). Historical ecology: Using unconventional data sources to test for effects of global environmental change. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY 100 (7), 1294-1305. (Published).
• GIESELMAN TM*, HODGES KE, VELLEND M. (2013). Human-induced edges alter grassland community composition. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 158 384-392. (Published).
• DE FRENNE P, RODRÍGUEZ-SÁNCHEZ F, COOMES DA, BAETEN L, VERSTRAETEN G, VELLEND M, BERNHARDT-RÖMERMANN M, BROWN CD*, et al. (2013). Microclimate moderates plant responses to macroclimate warming. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USA 110 (46), 18561-18565. (Published).
• McCUNE JL*, PELLATT M, VELLEND M. (2013). Multidisciplinary synthesis of long-term human–ecosystem interactions: A perspective from the Garry oak ecosystem of British Columbia. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 166 293-300. (Published).
• KHAROUBA HM*, VELLEND M, RIOUX-PAQUETTE SR, KERR JT. (2013). Predicting the sensitivity of butterfly phenology to temperature over the past century. GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY 20 (2), 504-514. (Published).
• DORNELAS M, + 15 co-authors, VELLEND M. (2013). Quantifying temporal change in biodiversity: challenges and opportunities. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 280 (1750), 20121931. (Published).
• VELLEND M, KHAROUBA HM*. (2013). Setting conservation priorities when what you see is not what you get. ANIMAL CONSERVATION 16 14-15. (Published).
• STEGEN JC, + 14 co-authors, VELLEND M. (2013). Stochastic and deterministic drivers of spatial and temporal turnover in breeding bird communities. GLOBAL ECOLOGY & BIOGEOGRAPHY 22 (2), 202-212. (Published).
• TOMIMATSU H, SASAKI T, KUROKAWA H, BRIDLE JR, FONTAINE C, KITANO J, STOUFFER DB, VELLEND M, et al. (2013). Sustaining ecosystem functions in a changing world: a call for an integrated approach. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 50 1124-1130. (Published).
• WILLIAMS JW, KHAROUBA HM*, VELOZ S, VELLEND M, McLACHLAN J, LIU Z, OTTO-BLIESNER B, HE F. (2013). The ice age ecologist: testing methods for reserve prioritization during the last global warming. GLOBAL ECOLOGY & BIOGEOGRAPHY 22 (3), 289-301. (Published).
• URBAN MC, DE MEESTER L, VELLEND M, STOKS R, VANOVERBEKE J. (2012). A crucial step toward realism: responses to climate change from an evolving metacommunity perspective. EVOLUTIONARY APPLICATIONS 5 (2), 154-167. (Published).
• BERNARD-VERDIER M*, NAVAS ML, VELLEND M, VIOLLE C, FAYOLLE A, GARNIER E. (2012). Community assembly along a soil depth gradient: contrasting patterns of plant trait convergence and divergence in a Mediterranean rangeland. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 100 (6), 1422-1433. (Published).
• McLEOD K*, SCASCITELLI M*, VELLEND M. (2012). Detecting small?scale genotype–environment interactions in apomictic dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) populations. JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY 25 (8), 1667-1675. (Published).
• NORBERG J, URBAN MC, VELLEND M, KLAUSMEIER CA, LOEUILLE N. (2012). Eco-evolutionary responses of biodiversity to climate change. NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE 20 (10), 747-751. (Published).
• DRUMMOND EBM*, VELLEND M. (2012). Genotypic diversity effects on the performance of Taraxacum officinale populations increase with time and environmental favorability. PLOS ONE 7 (2), e30314. (Published).
• SCHWARTZ MW, + 28 co-authors, VELLEND M, ZELLMER S. (2012). Managed relocation: integrating the scientific, regulatory, and ethical challenges. BIOSCIENCE 62 (8), 732-743. (Published).
• KRAFT NJB*, COMITA LS, CHASE JM, SANDERS NJ, SWENSON NG, CRIST TO, STEGEN JC, VELLEND M, et al. (2011). Disentangling the drivers of ? diversity along latitudinal and elevational gradients. SCIENCE 333 (6050), 1755-1758. (Published).
• ANDERSON MJ, CRIST TO, CHASE JM, VELLEND M, et al. (2011). Navigating the multiple meanings of ? diversity: a roadmap for the practicing ecologist. ECOLOGY LETTERS 14 (1), 19-28. (Published).
• ADAMS RI*, VELLEND M. (2011). Species diversity of grasses promotes genotypic diversity of clover populations in simulated communities. OIKOS 120 (10), 1584-1594. (Published).
• CHASE JM, KRAFT NJB*, SMITH KG, VELLEND M, INOUYE BD. (2011). Using null models to disentangle variation in community dissimilarity from variation in ?-diversity. ECOSPHERE 2 (2), art24. (Published).
• HARRISON S, VELLEND M, DAMSCHEN EI. (2011). ‘Structured’ beta diversity increases with climatic productivity in a classic dataset. ECOSPHERE 2 (1), art11. (Published).
• VELLEND M. (2010). Conceptual synthesis in community ecology. QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY 85 (2), 183-206. (Published).
• BJORKMAN AD*, VELLEND M. (2010). Defining historical baselines for conservation: ecological changes since European settlement on Vancouver Island, Canada. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 24 (6), 1559-1568. (Published).
• VELLEND M, DRUMMOND EBM*, TOMIMATSU H*. (2010). Effects of genotype identity and diversity on the invasiveness and invasibility of plant populations. OECOLOGIA 162 (2), 371-381. (Published).
• VELLEND M, DRUMMOND EBM*, MUIR JL*. (2009). Ecological differentiation among genotypes of dandelions (Taraxacum officinale). WEED SCIENCE 57 (4), 410-416. (Published).
• JOHNSON MTJ, VELLEND M, STINCHCOMBE JR. (2009). Evolution in plant populations as a driver of ecological changes in arthropod communities. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 364 (1523), 1593-1605. (Published).
• RICHARDSON DM, + 20 co-authors, VELLEND M. (2009). Multidimensional evaluation of managed relocation. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES USA 106 (24), 9721-9724. (Published).
• LILLEY PL*, VELLEND M. (2009). Negative native–exotic diversity relationship in oak savannas explained by human influence and climate. OIKOS 118 (9), 1373-1382. (Published).
• TOMIMATSU H*, KEPHART SR, VELLEND M. (2009). Phylogeography of Camassia quamash in western North America: postglacial colonization and transport by indigenous peoples. MOLECULAR ECOLOGY 18 3918-3928. (Published).
• HUGHES AR, INOUYE BD, JOHNSON MTJ, UNDERWOOD N, VELLEND M. (2008). Ecological consequences of genetic diversity. ECOLOGY LETTERS 11 (6), 609-623. (Published).
• VELLEND M. (2008). Effects of diversity on diversity: consequences of competition and facilitation. OIKOS 117 (7), 1075-1085. (Published).
• VELLEND M, BJORKMAN AD*, McCONCHIE A*. (2008). Environmentally biased fragmentation of oak savanna habitat on southeastern Vancouver Island, Canada. BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION 141 (10), 2576-2584. (Published).
• COUVREUR M, VERHEYEN K, VELLEND M, LAMOOT I, COSYNS E, HOFFMAN M, HERMY M. (2008). Epizoochory by large herbivores: merging data with models. BASIC & APPLIED ECOLOGY 9 (3), 204-212. (Published).
• VAN DER VEKEN S, HERMY M, VELLEND M, KNAPPEN A, VERHEYEN K. (2008). Garden plants get a head start on climate change. FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY & THE ENVIRONMENT 6 (4), 212-216. (Published).
• VELLEND M, LITRICO I. (2008). Sex and space destabilize intransitive competition within and between species. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON B 275 (1645), 1857-1864. (Published).
• URBAN MC, + 11 co-authors, VELLEND M, WADE MJ. (2008). The evolutionary ecology of metacommunities. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 23 (6), 311-317. (Published).
• VELLEND M, LILLEY PL*, STARZOMSKI BM*. (2008). Using subsets of species in biodiversity surveys. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY 45 (1), 161-169. (Published).
• VELLEND, M., HARMON, L.J., LOCKWOOD, J.L., MAYFIELD, M.M., HUGHES, A.R., WARES, J.P., & SAX, D.F. (2007). Effects of exotic species on evolutionary diversification. TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION 22 481-488.
• VELLEND, M., VERHEYEN, K., JACQUEMYN, H., KOLB, A., VAN CALSTER, H., PETERKEN, G. & HERMY, M. (2007). Extinction debt persists for more than a century following habitat fragmentation. ECOLOGY 87 542-548.
• VELLEND, M., VERHEYEN, K., FLINN, K.M. + 11 others. (2007). Homogenization of forest plant communities and weakening of species-environment relationships via agricultural land use. JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY 95 565–573. (Published).
• VELLEND, M., KNIGHT, T.M. & DRAKE, J.M. (2006). Antagonistic effects of seed dispersal and herbivory on plant migration. ECOLOGY LETTERS 9 319-326. (Published).
• VERHEYEN, K., FASTENAEKELS, I., VELLEND, M., DE KEERSMAEKER, L. & HERMY, M. (2006). Landscape factors and regional differences in recovery rates of herb layer richness in Flanders (Belgium). LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY 21 1109-1118. (Published).
• VELLEND, M. (2006). The consequences of genetic diversity in competitive communities. ECOLOGY 87 304-311. (Published).
• SRIVASTAVA, D.S. & VELLEND, M. (2005). Biodiversity-ecosystem function research: is it relevant to conservation?. ANNUAL REVIEW OF ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION & SYSTEMATICS 36 267-294. (Published).

Livres

• Vellend, M. (2025). The Second Science: The evolution of everything from cells to cellphones. Princeton University Press. (Submitted).
• VELLEND, M. (2016). The theory of ecological communities. Princeton University Press, Monographs in Population Biology. (Published).

Chapitres de livre

• Vellend, M. (2018). Are local losses of biodiversity causing degraded ecosystem function?. Kareiva, P., Marvier, M. & Silliman, B.. Effective conservation science: data not dogma (Pages 27-31). Oxford University Press. (Published).
• VELLEND M. (2012). The community concept. GIBSON D. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Ecology (NA). Oxford University Press. (Published).
• VELLEND M, CORNWELL WK*, MAGNUSON-FORD K*, MOOERS AO. (2010). Measuring phylogenetic biodiversity. MAGURRAN AE, McGILL BJ. Biological diversity: frontiers in measurement and assessment (193-206). Oxford University Press. (Published).
• VELLEND M, ORROCK JL. (2009). Genetic and ecological models of diversity: lessons across disciplines. LOSOS JB, RICKLEFS RE. The Theory of Island Biogeography Revisited (439-461). Princeton University Press. (Published).

Autres contributions

Gestion d'évènements

• Co-organizer. (2017) Symposium: "The tension between science and advocacy in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology" (Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution). (Seminar).
• Co-organizer. (2014) Symposium: "Biodiversity change across scales during the Anthropocene" (Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution conference). (Seminar).
• Co-organizer. (2014) Symposium: "Effects of community diversity and composition on evolutionary change" (Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution conference). (Seminar).

Activités de collaboration internationale

• Collaborator. United Kingdom. Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity (University of York). Collaboratively supervise Ph.D. and Postdoctoral projects.
• Research Network Member. Belgium. "forestREplot": Synthetic research projects analyzing long-term vegetation changes in temperate forests. http://www.forestreplot.ugent.be/.
• Working Group Member. Denmark. ARCFUNC: Functional biogeography of Arctic plant biodiversity.
• Working Group Member. Canada. Working group on maladaptation. Funded by the Quebec Center for Biodiversity Science (QCBS).
• Working Group Member. Germany. "Biodiversity Changes": An international collaboration aimed at reconciling different views on how biodiversity has changed over time. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (sDiv).
• Working Group Member. Canada. "Understanding recent biodiversity change across spatialand temporal scales", Canadian Institute for Ecology &Evolution (CIEE)/Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS).
• Working Group Member. Germany. International collaboration on "Scaling tundra shrub expansion from site to biome" at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research.
• Workshop Member. United States of America. Conservation Paleobiology Workshop, Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca, New York.
• Working Group Member. United States of America. Working Group, "A synthesis of patterns, analyses, and mechanisms of ?-diversity along ecological gradients", at the National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis (NCEAS).
• Working Group Member. United Kingdom. Working Group, "Biological diversity in a changing world", Royal Society of London.
• Working Group Member. Japan. Working Group on " Ecosystem Management applying to ecosystem adaptability science", Tohoku University.
• Working Group Member. United States of America. Working group on "Managed Relocation", funded by NSF and other foundations.

Présentations

• Tadhg Carroll. (2023). Adaptive community dynamics. Invited presentation/discussion (via Zoom). Logan, United States of America
• (2023). The Second Science: Evolutionary systems and the diversity of life and culture. Seminar, Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity. York, United Kingdom
• (2022). Do the values of biodiversity scientists bias biodiversity science?. Seminar, Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale (GRÉEA). Montréal, Canada
• (2022). Non-climatic constraints on plant distribution shifts in response to climate warming. ArcticHub (Multi-country group of Arctic vegetation researchers; Presentation online). Denmark
• (2022). The Second Science: Evolutionary systems and the diversity of life and culture. Departmental Seminar, McGill University. Montréal, Canada
• (2021). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Departmental seminar, Texas Tech University (Videoconference). United States of America
• (2021). Do the values of biodiversity scientists bias biodiversity science?. Loyola Sustainability Research Institute, Concordia University (Videoconference). Montreal, Canada
• (2021). Have we entered the sixth mass extinction? A view from home. Partnership Group for Science and Engineering, "Bacon & Eggheads" (Videoconference). Ottawa, Canada
• (2021). Réponses des plantes aux changements environnementaux le long d'un gradient d'altitude dans le parc national du Mont Mégantic. Departmental Seminar (Midi-foresterie), Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Videoconference). Canada
• (2020). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. MIT Quantitative Ecology Meeting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Boston, United States of America
• (2020). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Forum of Chinese Forest Biodiversity Monitoring Network (CForBio), Chinese Academy of Sciences (Videoconference). China
• (2020). The trouble with biodiversity. Workshop of Community Ecology, Universidade Estadual Paulista (Videoconference). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMRTIHuIF78. Brazil
• (2019). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Joshua Lederberg – John von Neumann Symposium, Towards Quantitative Biology, The Rockefeller University. New York, United States of America
• (2019). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Departmental Seminar, University of Calgary (Videoconference). Calgary, Canada
• (2019). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Departmental Seminar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Videoconference). Chapel Hill, United States of America
• (2019). La vie mystérieuse des arbres : communication, coopération et compétition. Programmation culturelle, Bibliothèques de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2019). Les conséquences écologiques des changements climatiques. Université du Troisième Âge (Continuing Education), Université de Sherbrooke. Chambly, Canada
• (2018). Biodiversity change during the Anthropocene. Atwood Colloquium in Ecology & Evolution, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada
• (2018). Non-climatic constraints on geographic range shifts under climate warming. Departmental Seminar, University of Maine. Orono, Maine, United States of America
• (2018). The Canadian Airborne Biodiversity Observatory. Canadian Society for Ecology & Evolution. Guelph, Canada
• (2018). The trouble with biodiversity. The Guelph Conference in Environmental Philosophy. Guelph, Canada
• (2017). Climate change and shifting ecosystems of Mont Mégantic. St-Francis River Naturalists' Club Meeting. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2017). Climate change and the influence of biotic interactions on range limits. Departmental Seminar, Carleton University. Ottawa, Canada
• (2017). Testing for impacts of climate change on forest plant communities using legacy data. Aarhus University, Denmark (Symposium). Aarhus, Denmark
• (2017). The tension between science and advocacy in ecology, evolution, and conservation biology. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Victoria, Canada
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. University of Maine (Working Group). Bangor, United States of America
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. Simon Fraser University (Finlayson Biodiversity Speaker). Burnaby, Canada
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, University of Colorado, Boulder. Boulder, United States of America
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, Brown University. Providence, RI, United States of America
• (2017). The trouble with biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Canada
• (2016). Le rôle des facteurs non climatiques déterminant les limites des distributions des espèces de l’érablière. Departmental Seminar, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. Rouyn-Noranda, Canada
• (2016). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Seminar, Institut de recherche en biologie végétale. Montreal, Canada
• (2016). The trouble with biodiversity. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. St. John's, Canada
• (2015). Eco-evolutionary responses to environmental change. Ecological Society of America. Baltimore, United States of America
• (2015). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change. Departmental Seminar, University of Maryland. College Park, United States of America
• (2015). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Departmental Seminar, University of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia
• (2015). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Departmental Seminar, Bishop's University. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2015). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Cornell University, Sesquicentennial Colloquium Series. Ithaca, United States of America
• (2014). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Deparmental Seminar, Penn State University. State College, United States of America
• (2014). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, Queen's University. Kingston, Canada
• (2014). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar. Brisbane, Australia
• (2014). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Departmental Seminar, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, United Kingdom
• Isla Myers-Smith. (2014). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Montreal, Canada
• (2014). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Invited Seminar, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research. Leipzig, Germany
• (2013). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, Dalhousie University. Halifax, Canada
• (2013). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, Rice University. Houston, United States of America
• (2013). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, Macdonald Campus of McGill University. St-Anne de Bellevue, Canada
• (2013). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Workshop on Biodiversity in a Changing World, Université de Montréal. Montreal, Canada
• (2013). Patterns and consequences of local-scale plant biodiversity change over time. Departmental Seminar, Université Laval. Quebec, Canada
• (2012). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of Minnesota. Minneapolis, United States of America
• (2012). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Deparmental Seminar, McGill University. Montreal, Canada
• (2012). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, Syracuse University. Syracuse, United States of America
• (2012). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of Calgary. Calgary, Canada
• (2012). Interesting stuff I've done in working groups: beta diversity, climate change, ecosystem function, and all things eco-evo. Departmental Seminar, Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2012). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, Michigan State University. East Lansing, United States of America
• (2012). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Departmental Seminar, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. Trois-Rivières, Canada
• (2012). L’importance des forêts anciennes pour la conservation de la biodiversité. Assemblée générale, Regroupement du Bois-Beckett. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2011). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of Texas, Austin. Austin, United States of America
• (2011). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada
• (2011). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona. Tuscon, United States of America
• (2011). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Invited Lecture I, Tartu University. Tartu, Estonia
• (2011). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of California Davis. Davis, United States of America
• (2011). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Invited Lecture II, Tartu University. Tartu, Estonia
• (2011). The place of traits and phylogeny in community ecology. Community Phylogenetics Workshop, Université du Québec à Montréal. Montreal, Canada
• (2010). A tale of two research programs. Biodiversity Lunchtime Internal Seminar Series, University of British Columbia. Vancouver, Canada
• (2010). Integrating ecology and genetics: patterns, experiments, and ideas. Departmental Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara, United States of America
• (2010). L'influence de l'histoire du paysage et de la diversité génétique sur les populations et communautés végétales. Job Seminar, Université de Sherbrooke. Sherbrooke, Canada
• (2010). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Special Symposium: "Ecosystem Management applying to ecosystem adaptability science", Tohoku University. Sendai, Japan
• (2010). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Special Symposium: Biological Diversity in a Changing World (Royal Society of London). London, United Kingdom
• (2009). Landscape history and the diversity and distributions of plants. Evening Lecture, Nature Vancouver. Vancouver, Canada
• (2009). The ecological consequences of genetic diversity. Conference, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Halifax, Canada
• (2009). The interplay of ecology and evolution in plant populations and communities. Departmental Seminar, Guelph University. Guelph, Canada
• (2008). Landscape history and plant biodiversity. Invited Lecture, Canadian Wildlife Service. Delta, Canada
• (2008). Relative roles of species sorting and evolution for determining biodiversity under climate change. Conference, Ecological Society of America. Milwaukee, United States of America
• (2008). The structure of community ecology. Conference, Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution. Vanc, Canada