Alain Paquette

The paper investigates how urbanization affects insectivory in birds by analyzing community composition, prey availability, and foraging behavior across urban gradients.

The paper examines how season and city characteristics influence urban bioaerosol composition, finding that sampling period explains more variation than vegetation cover or socioeconomic factors.

The paper describes the Montreal Urban Observatory, which monitors urban forest ecosystems to study biodiversity, ecosystem function, and human health, revealing disparities in tree diversity between public and private spaces.

The paper investigates how self-pruning in tree crowns is influenced by species strategies and neighbor interactions, finding that shade-tolerant species prune deeper and neighbor effects vary by strategy.

This study groups native tree species by functional traits to guide urban planners in creating more resilient forests in southern Brazil.

The paper examines how urban tree diversity affects bird predation on insect herbivores despite declining bird diversity with urbanization.