Stelsa Fortin, Yan Boucher, Yves Bergeron, Martin Simard, Dominique Arseneault, Hugo Asselin, Martin Barrette, Victor Danneyrolles, Sylvie Gauthier, François Girard, Martin-Philippe Girardin, Marc-André Parisien, Nelson Thiffault, Osvaldo Valeria. (2026). Ecological factors shaping post-fire resilience in mature black spruce forests of eastern North America Journal of Ecology. e70260. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.70260 lien

Stefan F. Hupperts, Frank Berninger, Han Y. H. Chen, Nicole J. Fenton, Mélanie Jean, K. Köster, M. Larjavaara, Michelle C Mack, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, A. Prokushkin, J. Pumpanen, M. Seedre, Martin Simard, M. J. Gundale. (2025). A meta-regression of 18 wildfire chronosequences reveals key environmental drivers and knowledge gaps in the boreal nitrogen balance Global Change Biology. e70398. 10.1177/09596836251378033 lien

Louis De Grandpré, Maryse Marchand, Daniel Kneeshaw, David Paré, Dominique Boucher, Stéphane Bourassa, David Gervais, Martin Simard, Jacob M. Griffin, Deepa Pureswaran. (2022). Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks. Community Ecology. 5:463. 10.1038/s42003-022-03407-8 lien

Benjamin Marquis, Philippe Duval, Yves Bergeron, Martin Simard, Nelson Thiffault, Francine Tremblay. (2021). Height growth stagnation of planted spruce in boreal mixedwoods: Importance of landscape, microsite, and growing-season frosts. For. Ecol. Manage.. 479:118533. 10.1016/j.foreco.2020.118533 lien

Benjamin Marquis, Yves Bergeron, Martin Simard, Francine Tremblay. (2021). Disentangling the effect of topography and microtopography on near‑ground growing‑season frosts at the boreal‑temperate forest ecotone (Québec, Canada) New Forests. 52:1079-1098. 10.1007/s11056-021-09840-7 lien

Benjamin Marquis, Yves Bergeron, Martin Simard, Francine Tremblay. (2020). Probability of Spring Frosts, Not Growing Degree-Days, Drives Onset of Spruce Bud Burst in Plantations at the Boreal-Temperate Forest Ecotone. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11:1031. 10.3389/fpls.2020.01031 lien

Yves Bergeron, Benjamin Marquis, Martin Simard, Francine Tremblay. (2020). Growing-season frost is a better predictor of tree growth than mean annual temperature in boreal mixedwood forest plantations. Global Change Biology. 26: 6537-6554. 10.1111/gcb.15327 lien

Yves Bergeron, Nicole J. Fenton, Martin Simard, Benoit Lafleur, David Paré, Osvaldo Valeria, Alain Leduc. (2018). Ecosystem management in paludified boreal forests: enhancing wood production, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration at the landscape level. Forest Ecosystems. 5:27. 10.1186/s40663-018-0145-z lien

Anne Cotton-Gagnon, Louis De Grandpré, Martin Simard, Daniel Kneeshaw. (2018). Salvage logging during spruce budworm outbreaks increases defoliation of black spruce regeneration. For. Ecol. Manage.. 430:421-430. 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.08.011 lien

Caroline Margaret Preston, Yves Bergeron, Guy M. Bernard, Roderick E. Wasylishen, Martin Simard. (2017). Charcoal in Organic Horizon and Surface Mineral Soil in a Boreal Forest Fire Chronosequence of Western Quebec: Stocks, Depth Distribution, Chemical Properties and a Synthesis of Related Studies. Frontiers in earth science. 5 art 98. 10.3389/feart.2017.00098 lien

Sébastien Renard, Cécile Leroy, Sylvie Gauthier, Yves Bergeron, Alain Leduc, Nelson Thiffault, Nicole J. Fenton, David Paré, Benoit Lafleur, Martin Simard. (2016). Silviculture to sustain productivity in black spruce paludified forests. For. Ecol. Manage.. 375:172-181. 10.1016/j.foreco.2016.05.037 lien

Igor Drobyshev, Yves Bergeron, Annika Hofgaard, Martin Simard. (2010). Does Soil Organic Layer Thickness Affect Climate–Growth Relationships in the Black Spruce Boreal Ecosystem? . Ecosystems. 13(4):556-574. 10.1007/s10021-010-9340-7 lien

Yves Bergeron, Nicole J. Fenton, David Paré, Martin Simard, Benoit Lafleur. (2010). Contrasting effects of season and method of harvest on soil properties and the growth of black spruce regeneraation in the boreal forested peatlands of eastern Canada. Silva Fennica. 44(5):799-813.  lien

Martin Simard, Yves Bergeron, Pierre Bernier, Lakhdar Guérine, David Paré. (2009). Paludification dynamics in the boreal forest of the James Bay Lowlands: effect of time since fire and topography. Can. J. For. Res.. 39(3): 546-552. 10.1139/X08-195 lien

Yves Bergeron, Nicole J. Fenton, Martin Simard. (2009). Emulating natural disturbances: the role of silviculture in creating even-aged and complex structures in the black spruce boreal forest of eastern North America. Journal of Forest Research. 14:258-267. 10.1007/s10310-009-0134-8 

Martin Simard, Yves Bergeron, Nicolas Lecomte, Pierre Bernier, David Paré. (2007). Forest productivity decline caused by successional paludification of Boreal soils. Ecological applications. 17(6):1619-1637.. 10.1890/06-1795.1 lien

Nicolas Lecomte, Martin Simard, Yves Bergeron, Nicole J. Fenton. (2006). Fire severity and long-term ecosystem biomass dynamics in coniferous boreal forests of eastern Canada. Ecosystems. 9:1215-1230..  

Yves Bergeron, Nicolas Lecomte, Martin Simard. (2006). Effects of fire severity and initial tree composition on stand structural development in the coniferous boreal forest of northwestern Québec, Canada. Ecoscience. 13(2):143-151..  

Yves Bergeron, Nicolas Lecomte, H. Asnong, Alain Larouche, Martin Simard, Pierre J.H. Richard. (2005). Effects of fire severity and initial tree composition on understorey vegetation dynamics in a boreal landscape inferred from chronosequence and paleoecological data. J. Veg. Sci.. 16:665-674..