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André Desrochers is a Quebec scientist with expertise in ornithology and ecology. As of 2015, he has worked for almost thirty years in these research areas. Since the mid-1990s, he also worked to promote environmental conservation through various organizations. After studies in biology at Laval University, Quebec and in zoology at the University of Alberta in Canada, he obtained a doctorate in zoology at the University of Cambridge in the UK. After three post-doctoral internships – in zoology at the University of Cambridge for the first (1991), the other two at Laval University, including one in the biology department (1992–1993) and the other in the plant sciences department (1993–1994) – he was a visiting scholar at the department of ecology and systematic of the University of Helsinki, Finland (2001–2002) and at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in the United States (2008–2009). He is a fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union. His work focuses primarily on impacts of forestry practices on the behavior, ecology and rapid evolution of birds and mammals. Statistical modeling is a recurring theme in his work. His areas of expertise are: urban planning; spatial analysis; animal ecology (birds, mammals); forestry and wildlife; landscape ecology; protection of species of fauna and flora Specifically, his works are grouped into three sub-disciplines of ecology: habitat fragmentation; winter landscape ecology; peatland bird ecology He has published over 120 scientific articles and reports which have been cited over 4000 times in the scientific literature. Regarding books, he participated in the drafting of fifteen books, alone or in collaboration with other authors. Besides this research, he also serves on the technical committee of the Boreal Avian Modelling Project (BAM), an international research project. He currently teaches at Laval University Québec, and is director of graduate studies in forestry. Since 2000, he has devoted most of his work at the fr, Université Laval research and teaching forest, the largest one of its kind in the World.
