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Eliana Molina

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eliana.molina@uqat.ca

Formation académique

  • M.Sc. Forests and Environmental Conservation (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009).
  • Forest Engineer (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2006).

Projet de recherche : Characterization of mid-term changes of mixedwood forest mosaic in Abitibi northwestern, Quebec.

The mixedwood forest in Quebec plays a prominent environmental and economic role; it is the support of cycles of carbon and water. And, it is one of the main economic motors of Québec's regions, with forestry and wood processing industry. Despite its importance, during the last 7 decades in Abitibi northwest, Quebec, mixedwood forest landscape has changed from mature forest matrix to fragmented landscape with a growing quantity of young strands. Therefore, the proportion of hardwood forest communities has increased, with a diminution of conifer dominance. This landscape pattern is closely related with changes in natural and anthropogenic disturbances regimes, principally harvesting and likely climate change. Effects of these variations in disturbance regimes are reflected in forest processes in all scales, such as landscape diversity and complexity, forest distribution, composition and structure. Nevertheless, our understanding about the spatial and temporal variations of landscape and characteristic to the second growth mixedwood stands is still fragmentary. The principal objective is characterizing the mid-term changes of mixedwood forest mosaic in Abitibi northwest, and elucidating relationships between these changes and dynamics of natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes. This objective is developed through hierarchical analyses (Regional landscape, Landscape and Stand) with emulation tools and remote sensing analysis.

Eliana successfully defended her doctoral thesis on October 30, 2019

Eliana Molina, Maxence Martin, Miguel Montoro Girona, Osvaldo Valeria, Jorge Andres Ramirez. Long-Term Impacts of Forest Management Practices under Climate Change on Structure, Composition, and Fragmentation of the Canadian Boreal Landscape. 2022. Forests 13(8):1292
DOI : 10.3390/f13081292    

Eliana Molina, Osvaldo Valeria, Louis De Grandpré, Jorge Andres Ramirez, Dominic Cyr, Yan Boulanger. Projecting future aboveground biomass and productivity of managed eastern Canadian mixedwood boreal forest in response to climate change 2021. For. Ecol. Manage. 119016
DOI : 10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119016    

Eliana Molina. La dynamique du paysage forestier boréal mixte en réponse aux feux et à l'aménagement forestier sous l'influence des changements climatiques. 2020. Thèse de doctorat en sciences de l'Environnement, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. 140 p.
     

Eliana Molina, Louis De Grandpré, Osvaldo Valeria. Twenty-Eight Years of Changes in Landscape Heterogeneity of Mixedwood Boreal Forest Under Management in Quebec, Canada. 2018. Can. J. Remote Sensing 44(1):26-39
DOI : 10.1080/07038992.2017.1396447    

voir les plus récentes

 Eliana Molina Dynamique du paysage forestier boréal mixte en réponse aux incendies et à l'aménagement forestier et sous l'influence des changements climatiques Soutenance thèse (2019-10-30)  

 Eliana Molina, Osvaldo Valeria, Louis De Grandpré. L'évolution du paysage forestier à l'échelle régionale dans le nord-ouest de la région de l’Abitibi (Québec) au cours des 25 dernières années 14e colloque de la Chaire AFD. Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Rouyn-Noranda, Québec. (2012-11-29)