Contact
Beatrix Beisner, Professeur agrégé
Département des sciences biologiques , Université du Québec à Montréal
http://www.bio.uqam.ca/professeurs/beisner_b.html
Formation
Postdoctorat, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Wisconsin, États-Unis), 2002
Ph.D., University of British Columbia (Colombie-Britannique, Canada), 2000
M.Sc., University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), 1995
B.Sc., University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada), 1992
Recherche
La professeure Beisner se spécialise dans l'étude du plancton et des espèces envahissantes (ou
exotiques). Elle étudie la structure des communautés dans l'espace et le temps, l'effet de
l'introduction d'espèces exotiques sur cette structure ainsi que l'effet du brassage de l'eau.
Most recent publications
Livres:
Cuddington, K.L. and B.E. Beisner (Eds). 2005. Ecological Paradigms Lost: Routes to Theory Change. Elsevier
Academic Press, San Diego, CA. 435 pp. (www.ecologicalparadigmslost.com)
Messier, C., L-A Giraldeau, B.E. Beisner (Eds). 2006. L’écologie en ville : 25 leçons d’écologie de terrain.
FIDES, Montréal, QC.
Articles:
Lévesque, S., Beisner, B.E. and Peres-Neto, P.R. 2010. Meso-Scale Distributions of Lake Zooplankton
Reveal Spatially and Temporally Varying Trophic Cascades. Journal of Plankton Research. Advance
Access published June 7, 2010, doi:10.1093/plankt/fbq064
Maezo, M.J, H. Fournier and B.E. Beisner. 2010. Potential and realized interactions between two
aquatic invasive species: Eurasian watermilfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum) and rusty crayfish
(Orconectes rusticus). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 67: 684-700.
Longhi, M.L. and Beisner, B.E. 2010. Patterns of taxonomic and functional diversity in lake
phytoplankton. Freshwater Biology, doi:10.111/j.1365-2427.2009.02266.x.
Vogt, R.J., B.E. Beisner and Y.T. Prairie. 2010. Functional diversity is positively associated with
biomass production in lake diatom communities. Freshwater Biology, 55:1636-1646.
Beisner, B.E. and Peres-Neto, P. 2009. Seasonal trophic dynamics affect zooplankton community
variability. Freshwater Biology, 54:2351-2363.
Longhi, M.L. and Beisner, B.E. 2009. Environmental factors controlling the vertical distribution of
phytoplankton in lakes. Journal of Plankton Research 31: 1195-1207.
Romanuk, T.N., Beisner, B.E., Hayward, A., Jackson, L.J., Post, J.R. and McCauley, E. 2009. Processes
Governing Riverine Fish Species Richness are Scale-Independent, Community Ecology, 10:17-24.
Lévesque, S. and Beisner, B.E. 2008. Assessing the horizontal spatio-temporal structure of lake
zooplankton: new perspective using variography. Proceedings of the International Association of
Theoretical and Applied Limnology 30:279-282.
Finlay, K., Beisner, B.E., Patoine, A., and Pinel-Alloul, B. 2007. Regional ecosystem variability drives
the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down factors of zooplankton size spectra. Can. J. Fish.
Aquat. Sci, In press.
Barnett, A.J. and Beisner, B.E. 2007. Zooplankton biodiversity and primary productivity: explanations
invoking resource abundance and distribution. Ecology, In press.
Barnett, A.J., K. Finlay and Beisner, B.E. 2007. Functional diversity of crustacean zooplankton:
Towards a trait-based classification. Freshwater Biology, In press.
Beisner, B.E., Peres-Neto, P.R., Lindström, E., Barnett, A., and Longhi, M.L. 2006. The role of
environmental and spatial processes in structuring lake communities from bacteria to fish. Ecology,
87:2985-2991.
Romanuk, T.N., Beisner, B.E., Martinez, N.D. and Kolasa, J. 2006. Non-omnivorous generality
promotes population stability. Biology Letters 2:374-377.
Hovius, J.T., Beisner, B.E., and McCann, K.S. 2006. Epilimnetic rotifer community responses to
Bythotrephes longimanus invasion in Canadian Shield lakes. Limnology and Oceanography, 51:10041012.