News

26 April 2013

Noémie Gagnon Lupien completes her master’s degree

Congratulations to Noémie Gagnon Lupien for the completion of her master’s thesis on the impact of the common reed (Phragmites australis) on bird assemblages and behavior in fresh water marshes in southern Québec. The PHRAGMITES group wishes her every success in all her future projects.

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3 April 2013

PHRAGMITES Group workshop 2013: updated programme

Please note certain changes to the workshop programme which will be held next 22 April at Laval University (click here for the updated programme). A record-breaking crowd is expected (over 90 guests) for this highly anticipated event! 

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Marie-Andrée Tougas-Tellier wins a prize

Marie-Andrée Tougas-Tellier, a master’s student at Laval University under the supervision of Claude Lavoie and Jean Morin, won a prize for giving the best master’s level presentation at the annual workshop of the Centre de recherche en aménagement et développement (CRAD) held 22 March 2013. Marie-Andrée described the impacts of climate change on the future […]

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The PHRAGMITES Group at the UPA

Claude Lavoie (Laval University) was invited on 12 March 2013 by the Union des producteurs agricoles (Montérégie region) to give a one hour presentation on the invasive common reed, its impacts on agriculture as well as methods to control its expansion. More than 60 agricultural producers and agronomists attended the conference held at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu. This was the […]

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8 February 2013

8th PHRAGMITES Group workshop: record number of registrations

We are pleased to invite you to the 8th annual workshop of the PHRAGMITES Research Group, a team dedicated to studying the invasive strain of the common reed. The workshop will be help on Monday 22 April 2013 at Laval University, in Québec City. On the programme: common reed control along roads, the filtering capabilities […]

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24 October 2012

Retirement of Pierre Dumont

Pierre Dumont, ichthyologist and member of the PHRAGMITES Group, has recently taken a well-earned retirement following close to 35 years of service as a biologist at the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec. During these years, Pierre worked on many dossiers concerning the Saint-Laurence River and the Great Lakes, in particular […]

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10 October 2012

New workshop planned by the PHRAGMITES Group to share recent research on the common reed

This workshop will present research related to climate change, the effectiveness of anti-reed shrub hedges and the filtering capabilities of reeds. The workshop may also include presentations by some organisations who have recently undertaken reed control operations. Finally, research results on other invasive plants which share many characteristics with the common reed, such as japanese […]

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20 October 2011

7th workshop of the PHRAGMITES Group a great success

The 7th workshop of the PHRAGMITES Group, research group dedicated to the study of the invasive strain of the common reed and composed of researchers from Université Laval, McGill University, Université de Montréal, was held at the Biodiversity Center of the Institut de recherche en biologie végétale (IRBV) at the Montreal Botanical Gardens on the […]

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20 September 2011

New support from MTQ for the PHRAGMITES Group

The Ministère des Transports du Québec (MTQ) has maintained, through the participation of many of its regional offices, its partnership with the PHRAGMITES Group thanks to a new 92 400$ research contract. This contract will allow the group to pursue and finalise the monitoring of the experimental shrub plantations in the roadway right of ways […]

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New support from the CWS for the PHRAGMITES Group

The Canadian Wildlife Service (CWS, Environment Canada) continues its partnership with the PHRAGMITES Group by way of a 24 500$ research grant. This grant will permit the group to finalise certain research projects on the reproduction of the common reed, especially in the wetlands of the Saint-Laurence River. The CWS’s contribution to the group’s projects […]

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