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Frédéric Guichard

ResearcherBiologyMcGill University

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Frédéric Guichard

Researcher

Biology

McGill University

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
3 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 1 recent paper, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 6 research grants (6 NSERC), most recently in 2023.

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Research

coastal habitats ecosystem functions food webs foundation species meta-ecosystems mussel bed ecosystems nonlinear dynamics seagrass ecosystems

Latest papers

Darwin's finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system.
Journal of evolutionary biology · 2026
Resource-use plasticity governs the causal relationship between traits and community structure in model microbial communities.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025 · senior author
Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change.
Ecology · 2024

All 13 publications

Latest funding

Ecosystem engineers and the cycling of matter: integrating food web and meta-ecosystem theories
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$78,000
The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$120,000
The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems
NSERC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$240,000

All 13 grants and awards

13 publications.

Darwin's finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system.

Carrión PL, Beausoleil MO, Raeymaekers JAM, De León LF, Chaves JA, Sharpe DMT, Huber SK, Herrel A, Gotanda KM, Koop JAH, Knutie SA, Clayton DH, Podos J, Barrett RDH, Guichard F, Hendry AP

Journal of evolutionary biology2026

DOI: 10.1093/jeb/voaf138 PMID: 41247098

Resource-use plasticity governs the causal relationship between traits and community structure in model microbial communities.

McGuinness B, Weber SC, Guichard F

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2419275122 PMID: 40680027

Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change.

Arumugam R, Guichard F, Lutscher F

Ecology2024

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.4240 PMID: 38400588

Coupled phase-amplitude dynamics in heterogeneous metacommunities.

Milne R, Guichard F

Journal of theoretical biology2021Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2021.110676 PMID: 33753122

Converting Ecological Currencies: Energy, Material, and Information Flows.

Marleau JN, Peller T, Guichard F, Gonzalez A

Trends in ecology & evolution2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2020.07.014 PMID: 32919798

Causes of maladaptation.

Brady SP, Bolnick DI, Angert AL, Gonzalez A, Barrett RDH, Crispo E, Derry AM, Eckert CG, Fraser DJ, Fussmann GF, Guichard F, Lamy T, McAdam AG, Newman AEM, Paccard A, Rolshausen G, Simons AM, Hendry AP

Evolutionary applications2019

DOI: 10.1111/eva.12844 PMID: 31417611

Meta-ecosystem processes alter ecosystem function and can promote herbivore-mediated coexistence.

Marleau JN, Guichard F

Ecology2019Senior author

DOI: 10.1002/ecy.2699 PMID: 30932180

Regular patterns link individual behavior to population persistence.

Guichard F

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017First author

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1709063114 PMID: 28696324

Fidelity drive: a mechanism for chaperone proteins to maintain stable mutation rates in prokaryotes over evolutionary time.

Xue JZ, Kaznatcheev A, Costopoulos A, Guichard F

Journal of theoretical biology2015Senior author

DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.09.017 PMID: 25245370

Non-equilibrium spatial dynamics of ecosystems.

Guichard F, Gouhier TC

Mathematical biosciences2014First author

DOI: 10.1016/j.mbs.2014.06.013 PMID: 24984261

Ecosystem engineers and the cycling of matter: integrating food web and meta-ecosystem theories

Principal investigatorNSERC2023Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Guichard, Frédéric

Keywords: theoretical ecology; nonlinear dynamics; spatial patterns; ecosystem functions; food webs; meta-ecosystems; coastal habitats; mussel bed ecosystems; seagrass ecosystems; foundation species

$78,000

The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Accelerator Supplements

Principal investigators: Guichard, Frédéric

$120,000

The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems

Principal investigatorNSERC2017Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Guichard, Frédéric

$240,000

NSERC CREATE: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainability

Co-investigatorNSERC2015Collaborative Research and Training Experience

Principal investigators: Hendry, Andrew

$1,650,000

NSERC CHONe 2 - Conservation Strategies in Canada's Changing Oceans

Co-investigatorNSERC2014Strategic Network Grants Program

Principal investigators: Snelgrove, Paul

$5,128,480

Optimizing future networks of marine protected areas in response to global change by combining genetic connectivity and biophysical models

Co-investigatorNSERC2012Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: Fortin, MarieJosee

$307,000

Non-equilibrium theory of ecosystem function: from phase dynamics to coastal ecosystems

Principal investigatorNSERC2012Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Guichard, Frédéric

$165,000

Variability across scales in coastal ecosystems

Principal investigatorNSERC2007Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Guichard, Frédéric

$96,250

Outboard engines for coastal research vessel

Co-investigatorNSERC2007Research Tools and Instruments - Category 1 (<$150,000)

Principal investigators: Johnson, Ladd

$20,401

Ecosystem function in changing environments: an integrative approach to modeling the control of genetic biodiversity and secondary productivity by hydrodynamic circulation

Co-investigatorNSERC2006Strategic Projects - Group

Principal investigators: Johnson, Ladd

$599,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Frédéric Guichard

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Darwin's finches and climate change: insights from a resilient system.

Resource-use plasticity governs the causal relationship between traits and community structure in model microbial communities.

Early warning indicators capture catastrophic transitions driven by explicit rates of environmental change.

Coupled phase-amplitude dynamics in heterogeneous metacommunities.

Converting Ecological Currencies: Energy, Material, and Information Flows.

Causes of maladaptation.

Meta-ecosystem processes alter ecosystem function and can promote herbivore-mediated coexistence.

Regular patterns link individual behavior to population persistence.

Fidelity drive: a mechanism for chaperone proteins to maintain stable mutation rates in prokaryotes over evolutionary time.

Non-equilibrium spatial dynamics of ecosystems.

Ecosystem engineers and the cycling of matter: integrating food web and meta-ecosystem theories

The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems

The emergence of functions in meta-ecosystems

NSERC CREATE: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, and sustainability

NSERC CHONe 2 - Conservation Strategies in Canada's Changing Oceans

Optimizing future networks of marine protected areas in response to global change by combining genetic connectivity and biophysical models

Non-equilibrium theory of ecosystem function: from phase dynamics to coastal ecosystems

Variability across scales in coastal ecosystems

Outboard engines for coastal research vessel

Ecosystem function in changing environments: an integrative approach to modeling the control of genetic biodiversity and secondary productivity by hydrodynamic circulation

Frequent collaborators

Andrew Gonzalez