Publications

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Moisan, M-A., Lajoie, G., Constant, P., Martineau, C. and Maire, V. How tree traits modulate tree methane fluxes: A review. 2024. Science of the Total Environment. 940:173730. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.173730

Wang, Z., Lajoie, G. et al. 2024. Host specificity of plant‐associated bacteria is negatively associated with genome size and host abundance along a latitudinal gradient. Ecology Letters. 27:e14447. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14447

Marquis, B. and Lajoie, G. 2024. Experimental exposure to winter thaws reveals tipping point in yellow birch bud mortality and phenology in the northern temperate forest of Québec, Canada. Climate Change Ecology. 7:100087. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecochg.2024.100087

Lajoie, G. and Kembel, S.W. 2023. Data-driven identification of major axes of functional variation in bacteria. Environmental Microbiology. 25:2580-2591. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.16487

Demarquest, G. and Lajoie, G. 2023. Bacterial endophytes of sugar maple leaves vary more idiosyncratically than epiphytes across a large geographic area. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 97:fiad079. https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiad079

Park, J., Davis, K.M., Lajoie, G. and Parfrey, L.W. 2022. Alternative approaches to identify core bacteria in Fucus distichus microbiome and assess their distribution and host-specificity. Environmental Microbiome. 17:55. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40793-022-00451-z

Lajoie, G. and Parfrey, L.W. 2022. Beyond specialization: re-examining routes of host influence on symbiont evolution. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 37:590-598. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2022.03.006

Lajoie, G. and Kembel, S.W. 2021. Plant-bacteria associations are phylogenetically structured in the phyllosphere. Molecular Ecology. 30: 5572-5587. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.16131

Lajoie, G. and Kembel, S.W. 2021. Host neighborhood shapes bacterial community assembly and specialization on tree species across a latitudinal gradient. Ecological Monographs. 91: e01443. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1443

Rivest, S., Lajoie, G., Watts, D. and Vellend, M. 2021. Earlier spring reduces potential for gene flow via reduced flowering synchrony across an elevational gradient.  American Journal of Botany. 108: 538-545. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1627

Lajoie, G., Maglione, R. and Kembel, S.W. 2020. Adaptive matching between phyllosphere bacteria and their tree hosts in a neotropical forest. Microbiome. 8: 70. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz089

Malaterre, C., Dussault, A.C., Rousseau-Mermans, S., Barker, G., Beisner, B.E., Bouchard, F., Desjardins, E., Handa, I.T., Kembel, S., Lajoie, G., Maris, V., Munson, V., Munson, A., Odenbaugh, J., Poisot, T., Shapiro, B.J., Suttle, C.A. 2019. Functional diversity: An epistemic roadmap. BioScience. 69: 800-811. https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biz089

Lajoie, G. and Kembel, S.W. 2019. Making the most of trait-based approaches for microbial ecology. Trends in Microbiology, 27: 814-823. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tim.2019.06.003

Lajoie, G. and Vellend, M. 2018. Characterizing the contribution of plasticity and   genetic differentiation to community-level trait responses to environmental change. Ecology and Evolution, 8: 3895-3907. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3947

Houle D., Lajoie G. and Duchesne L. 2016. Major losses of nutrients following a severe drought in a boreal forest. Nature Plants, 2: 16187. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.187

Lajoie G. and Vellend M. 2015. Understanding context dependence in the contribution of intraspecific variation to community trait-environment matching. Ecology, 96: 2912-2922. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0156.1

Vellend M., Lajoie G., Bourret A., Múrria C., Kembel S.W., and Garant D. 2014. Drawing ecological inferences from coincident patterns of population- and community-level biodiversity. Molecular Ecology, 23: 2890-2901. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12756