Analysis of the resilience of your woodlands

Our team assesses the functional diversity of your urban and natural forests to help you better understand their vulnerability to various stressors such as exotic diseases, insects, heat waves, droughts and floods.

With our functional diversity analysis tool, our team can identify the functional traits of each species and thus understand their vulnerabilities and resilience. Based on these results, we develop planting and forest management strategies to ensure long-term resilience to current and future threats.

There are three elements to assessing ecosystem resilience:

  • Each species has different ecological functions and ways of reacting to stress. They are then grouped by "functional group". The higher the functional diversity, the less vulnerable the forest will be to different stressors (exotic diseases, high winds, etc.).

  • Biotic threats: analysis of vulnerability to various insects and diseases such as emerald ash borer, Asian longhorned beetle, etc.

    Climatic threats: analysis of tree vulnerability to icy conditions, drought, extreme heat, etc.

  • The identification of areas susceptible to development allows for the strengthening and implementation of conservation measures in forests near urban areas.

Do you want to understand the diversity and vulnerability of your forests? Improve their resilience?