Canadian Forest Service employee directory
Lucie Royer
Research Scientist, Population Dynamics
Laurentian Forestry Centre
1055 Du P.E.P.S. Street, P.O. Box 10380
Québec,
Quebec,
G1V 4C7
Tel: (418) 564-6840
Profile
- Joined the Canadian Forest Service in 1998
Areas of interest:
- Optimal allocation of the sexes
- Differential mortalities of the sexes during development
- Population dynamics
- Heterogeneous landscapes
- Climate change
- Insect-plant relationship
- Competition
- Parasitism
Current graduate student advisory committee:
- Dorthea Grégoire. Impact of thinning and previous damage by the balsam wooly adelgid on the performance of spruce budworm and balsam fir sawfly, University of New Brunswick (co-supervisor: Dan Quiring)
Current research
- Effect of pest feeding on host susceptibility to other pests (Collaborative Research and Development Grant: « Développement d’outils d’aide à la décision, de lutte directe et de prévention contre les ravageurs entomologiques forestiers dans un contexte de changements environnementaux » Consortium iFOR)
- Ecological factors affecting hemlock looper densities
- Ecological factors affecting balsam fir sawfly densities
- Humber River Basin – Ecosystem Based Management framework: Modeling natural disturbance risks
Education
- Training in Chemical Ecology/Electrophysiology (1989), New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, USA
- Ph.D. in Chemical Ecology/Ecology/Behaviour/Physiology (1993), Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, Canada
- Post-Doctoral position in Ecology/Behaviour/Entomology (1996), Macdonald College of McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Canada
- Training in Scanning and Transmission Electronic Microscopy (1995), Université de Rennes, France
Affiliations
- Research Associate at University of New Brunswick (since 2002)
- Adjunct Professor at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College (since 2008)
- Entomological Society of Canada
- Acadian Entomological Society