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Research
Latest papers
Rebuilding the species pool within a phylogenetic framework.
Trends in ecology & evolution · 2026
The Bug-Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems.
Ecology and evolution · 2025
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces.
Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025
Latest funding
- $38,000
Computer-Assisted Mathematical Proofs in Nonlinear Dynamics and Fluids
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $120,000
The assembly and maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic communities
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
- $24,950
Predicting changes in carbon cycling services provided by soil arthropods
NSERC · 2022 · Principal investigator
18 publications.
Rebuilding the species pool within a phylogenetic framework.
Yuan S, Zhao Y, Lessard JP, Martin TE, Matthews TJ, Si X
The Bug-Network (BugNet): A Global Experimental Network Testing the Effects of Invertebrate Herbivores and Fungal Pathogens on Plant Communities and Ecosystem Function in Open Ecosystems.
Kempel A, Adamidis GC, Anadón JD, Atkinson J, Auge H, Avtzis D, Bachelot B, Bashirzadeh M, Bota JL, Classen A, Constantinou I, Crawley M, de Bellis T, Dostal P, Ebeling A, Eisenhauer N, Eldridge DJ, Encina G, Estrada C, Everingham S, Fanin N, Feng Y, Gaspar M, Gooriah L, Graff P, Montalván EG, Montalván PG, Hartke TR, Huang L, Jochum M, Kaljund K, Karmiris I, Koorem K, Korell L, Laine AL, le Provost G, Lessard JP, Liu M, Liu X, Liu Y, Llancabure J, Loïez S, Loydi A, Marrero H, Gockel S, Montoya A, Münzbergová Z, Niu Y, Ott D, Oyarzabal M, Panitsa M, Papatheodorou E, Piper FI, Püssa K, Rand K, Saiz H, Sanders NJ, Schädler M, Scherber C, Semchenko M, Sepp SK, Shah MA, Shaheen I, Stein C, Stewart J, Tang Z, Tschan G, van Nouhuys S, Vandegehuchte ML, Vernon M, V R S, Wang J, Xiao Y, Xystrakis F, Yang J, Yang S, Zografou K, Allan E
Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces.
Sinno S, MacInnis G, Lessard JP, Ziter CD
Marine fishes experiencing high-velocity range shifts may not be climate change winners.
Chaikin S, Riva F, Marshall KE, Lessard JP, Belmaker J
Heterogeneous dispersal networks to improve biodiversity science.
Savary P, Lessard JP, Peres-Neto PR
The evolution of plasticity at geographic range edges.
Usui T, Lerner D, Eckert I, Angert AL, Garroway CJ, Hargreaves A, Lancaster LT, Lessard JP, Riva F, Schmidt C, van der Burg K, Marshall KE
Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants.
Gibb H, Bishop TR, Leahy L, Parr CL, Lessard JP, Sanders NJ, Shik JZ, Ibarra-Isassi J, Narendra A, Dunn RR, Wright IJ
Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries.
Schmidt C, Muñoz G, Lancaster LT, Lessard JP, Marske KA, Marshall KE, Garroway CJ
The importance of eco-evolutionary dynamics for predicting and managing insect range shifts.
Wellenreuther M, Dudaniec RY, Neu A, Lessard JP, Bridle J, Carbonell JA, Diamond SE, Marshall KE, Parmesan C, Singer MC, Swaegers J, Thomas CD, Lancaster LT
Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity.
La Richelière F, Muñoz G, Guénard B, Dunn RR, Economo EP, Powell S, Sanders NJ, Weiser MD, Abouheif E, Lessard JP
Computer-Assisted Mathematical Proofs in Nonlinear Dynamics and Fluids
Principal investigators: Lessard, Jean-Philippe
Keywords: navier-stokes equations; infinite dimensional dynamical systems; computer-assisted proofs; fluid mechanics; mackey-glass equation; delay differential equations; chaotic dynamics; gross-pitaevskii; traveling waves; bose-einstein condensate
The assembly and maintenance of biodiversity in multitrophic communities
Principal investigators: Lessard, Jean-Philippe
Keywords: biodiversity change; community assembly; trophic interactions; functional traits; phylogenetic relationships; ecological specialization; environmental gradients; climate change; range expansion; morphological matching
Predicting changes in carbon cycling services provided by soil arthropods
Principal investigators: Lessard, Jean-Philippe JP
Rigorously Verified Numerics for High Dimensional Dynamics
Principal investigators: Lessard, Jean-Philippe
Rigorously Verified Numerics for High Dimensional Dynamics
Principal investigators: Lessard, JeanPhilippe
Interaction between forest tent caterpillar and forest composition: Role of predation in outbreak dynamics and effects on litter, soils and tree regeneration
Principal investigators: Lafleur, Benoit
The role of climate, biotic interactions and dispersal limitations in determining the distribution of species amid global warming
Principal investigators: Lessard, Jean-Philippe
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ehab Abouheif and Jean-Philippe Lessard: 1 shared paper
- Colin Favret and Jean-Philippe Lessard: 1 shared paper
- Anna Hargreaves and Jean-Philippe Lessard: 1 shared paper
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- Department of Biology
- Biological Sciences
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