Welcome to the 2020 Canadian Botanical Association Virtual Meeting!
June 1-2, 2020
The organization committee wants to thank every person who participated in the 2020 CBA annual meeting. All of you made it a success!
We had more than 380 registrations, with people participating from 11 countries, 5 American states and all of the provinces and one territory of Canada!
schedule at a glance
Overview, scientific committee, themes
Take part in the competition for the best oral or poster presentation
Discover the Cindy Ross award
All you need to be good!
Your support will help to make this a memorable and successful event!
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Short and complete program are now available
Short and complete program are now available
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Opening word
10h00 - 10h15 (EDT - HAE) |
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Keynote speaker
10h15 - 11h00 (EDT - HAE) |
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Adaptation Ecology
11h00 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) |
Sub-boreal communities and Acadian forests
11h00 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Phylogeny and genetics
12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) |
Climat change
12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Posters (A) - Genetics and biological interactions
13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) |
Posters (B) - Microorganisms and cryptogams
13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) |
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Keynote speaker
15h00 - 15h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Posters (E) - Cataloging and citizen science
15h45 - 16h00 (EDT - HAE) |
Posters (F) - Biodiversity
15h45 - 16h00 (EDT - HAE) |
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Collections and citizen science
16h00 - 17h30 (EDT - HAE) |
Socio-Ecology and landscape
16h00 - 17h30 (EDT - HAE) |
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Poster session Monday 17h30 - 18h00 (EDT - HAE) |
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Keynote speaker
10h00 - 10h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Evolution
10h45 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) |
Ecological monitoring
10h45 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Biotic interactions
12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) |
Lichen Ecology
12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) |
Poster (C) - Habitats: challenges and understanding
13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) |
Poster (D) - Forest management and sylviculture
13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) |
Section meeting : teaching 14h15 - 15h00 |
NSERC presentation on funding research and scholarships 14h15 - 15h00 |
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CBA Annual general meething (AGM) 16h45 - 17h45 (EDT - HAE) Awards 17h45 - 18h15 (EDT - HAE) |
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Short and complete program are now available
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Opening word 10h00 - 10h15 (EDT - HAE) Heading North, virutally : sharing science during a pandemic Nicole Fenton 10:00 |
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Keynote speaker 10h15 - 11h00 (EDT - HAE) A shifting foundation - changes in Canada's northern forests in response to permafrost thaw Jennifer Baltzer 10:15 |
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Adaptation Ecology 11h00 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) Plant species coexistence in Baie-James, Québec: a hierarchy of community assembly processes Marc-Frédéric Etienne Indorf 11:00 Root-microbe interactions—using a collection of Arabidopsis genotypes to test intraspecific differences in root microbiome assembly and subsequent plant fitness Christian Norton 11:15 Arctic and red foxes as ecosystem engineers in subarctic woodland and tundra heath communities John Markham 11:30 |
Sub-boreal communities and Acadian forests 11h00 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) Chad Roderick Simmons 11:00 Plant community assembly on the coastal Barrens of Nova Scotia Amy Heim 11:15 Towards a new seaweed harvesting industry in eastern Canada: Vertebrata lanosa, aka 'Sea Truffle' David Garbary 11:30 |
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Phylogeny and genetics 12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) Phylogenetic structure of spectral signatures among Quebec's temperate trees Florence Blanchard 12:15 Phylogeny and evolution of the southern African Pteronia L. (Asteraceae) Anifat Olayemi Bello 12:30 Fine-scaled molecular and morphological data reveal hidden diversity in common Navicula species (Naviculaceae) Andreanne J. Bouchard 12:45 Association genetics of acetophenone defence against spruce budworm in mature white spruce Mebarek Lamara 13:00 Molecular data support infrageneric nomenclature adjustments in Crataegus L. (Maleae, Rosaceae) Timothy Dickinson 13:15 Wide heterogeneity in the nuclear frequency and composition of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal fungal pseudo-dikaryons Vasilis Kokkoris 13:30 |
Climat change 12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) Biodiversity gradients and trophic interactions in the western Canadian subarctic Kirsten Reid 12:15 Reproductive failures of High-Arctic plants experiencing climate extremes Zoe Panchen 12:30 Probability of spring frosts, not growing degree-days, drives onset of spruce bud burst in plantations at the boreal-temperate forest ecotone Benjamin Marquis 12:45 Inconsistent adaptation despite strong genetic differentiation across a steep elevational gradient in growing season length Christopher Eckert 13:00 Climate change effects on floral traits and carbon dynamics of cucumber: Potential consequences for a plant-pollinator mutualism Sarah J. McDonald 13:15 Do species need to adapt to persist outside their ranges for multiple generations? Regan L. Cross 13:30 |
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Posters (A) - Genetics and biological interactions 13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) Olusola Helen Adekanmbi 13:45 Are the friends of my friends also my friends? Synthesizing co-occurrence data on bryophytes, lichens and vascular plants to prioritize host-cyanobacteria research Mélanie Jean 13:48 Rhizosphere microbiome and potential of range expansion of exotic invasive guinea grass, Megathyrsus maximus in the Lower Rio Grande Valley Vanessa Elizabeth Thomas 13:51 Belowground biotic and abiotic heterogeneity and above ground growth in agricultural fields Mandip Tamang 13:54 Genetics and conservation significance of geographically disjunct populations of Abronia umbellata (Nyctaginaceae) Alyson Van Natto 13:57 Investigating the impact of asexuality on species' range limits using de novo transcriptome assembly with a wetland plant Hana C. Thompson 14:00 Genetic differentiation and structure of boreal populations of Crossocalyx hellerianus (Nees ex Lindenb.) Meyl. in North America Nuwan Sameera Liyanage 14:03 Hybridization in four Physalis L. species in Nigeria Sekinat Okikiola Azeez 14:06 |
Posters (B) - Microorganisms and cryptogams 13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) Widespread infection of the hair lichen genus Bryoria by a previously unknown fungal pathogen Spencer Goyette 13:45 Position of lichen-inhabiting Tremella spp. within the phylogeny of Tremellales Samantha Katelyn Pedersen 13:48 Characterizing grape yeast communities in Nova Scotia vineyards Adele Bunbury-Blanchette 13:51 Soil nematode and fungal community response to four different brassicas in a vineyard Corynne O'Farrell 13:54 Weed be good together: Do arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi form symbiosis with Cannabis sativa L.? Christina Horst 13:57 Investigating the effect of arbuscular mycorrhizae on Crocanthemum canadense (L.) Britt. (Cistaceae) propagated in tissue culture Kendra Delta Sampson 14:00 Forsstroemia trichomitria in Canada: overcoming search effort challenges to improve confidence in status assessment Jennifer Doubt 14:03 Are cyanobacteria associated with feather-mosses influenced by canopy composition? Juanita Carolina Rodríguez Rodríguez 14:06 |
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Keynote speaker 15h00 - 15h45 (EDT - HAE) Boreal Ethnobotany: From Ethics, Research, to Humility Alain Cuerrier 15:00 |
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Posters (E) - Cataloging and citizen science 15h45 - 16h00 (EDT - HAE) A lichen catalogue of the Prairie provinces of Canada Amelia Deneka 15:45 MorphoBank: An online tool to visually display phenetic data Timothy Dickinson 15:48 Under-use of citizen science data for botanic research: What are we waiting for? Mariano Feldman 15:51 Using topic modeling to identify topic content and gaps in invasibility research Raytha A. Murillo 15:54 |
Posters (F) - Biodiversity 15h45 - 16h00 (EDT - HAE) Anna Crofts 15:45 Plant diversity and distribution of Bedrock Meadows - biodiversity hotspots in the temperate rainforest belt of Interior Pacific Northwest Ricarda Pätsch 15:48 Vulnerability of cultural keystone species to cumulative impacts of anthropogenic and natural disturbances Maxime Thomas 15:51 Culturally important plants, traditional knowledge, and environmental change in Eeyou Istchee Allison Ford 15:54 The vascular flora of "Mars": ongoing floristic work at the Mars Desert Research Station, Utah Paul Sokoloff 15:57 |
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Collections and citizen science 16h00 - 17h30 (EDT - HAE) Heading North at the National Herbarium of Canada Jennifer Doubt 16:00 Archival Fieldwork: new Arctic plant biodiversity data from backlogged herbarium specimens
Paul Sokoloff 16:15 Vascular plant biodiversity of Victoria Island (Northwest Territories/Nunavut, Canada): a new collections-based baseline based on 100+ years of floristic exploration Jeffery M. Saarela 16:30 Unravelling major phylogenetic relationships in Schoenus (Cyperaceae, tribe Schoeneae) Tammy L. Elliott 16:45 Canadensys: where are we now? Carole Sinou 17:00 Exploring phytobiomes in our rapidly changing world: data, synthesis and new questions Laura Super 17:15 |
Socio-Ecology and landscape 16h00 - 17h30 (EDT - HAE) No place to hide: Rare plant detection through remote sensing Carlos Cerrejón 16:00 Reproduction and fire interact to constrain tree range expansion in subarctic treeline forests Carissa Brown 16:15 A broad-scale test of whether constraints on dispersal contribute to the northern range limit of a Pacific coastal dune plant Michael Dungey 16:30 Julia Morarin 16:45 Boreal sentinels: Forest biodiversity early warning system/So nipukt kelo't keliket nipuket mimajuaqn André Arsenault 17:00 Hierarchies of Habitat: Diapensia lapponica on the Avalon Peninsula Heather Baehre 17:15 |
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Poster session Monday 17h30 - 18h00 (EDT - HAE) |
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Keynote speaker 10h00 - 10h45 (EDT - HAE) Clade-specific phylogenetic community structure challenges the assumption of uniform clade responses to assembly processes in an island system Julissa Roncal 10:00 |
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Evolution 10h45 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) Micro- and macroevolutionary patterns in colour variation in a wind-pollinated plant lineage Dylan Longert 10:45 Recent advances in the phylogeny and genomics of subfamily Cercidoideae (Leguminosae) Warren Cardinal-McTeague 11:00 Conservation on the periphery: genetic diversity of the Endangered sedge, Trichophorum planifolium Tyler Smith 11:15 Ecology trumps phylogeny in the rapid radiation of Trichophoreae (Cyperaceae) Léveillé-Bourret Étienne 11:30 |
Ecological monitoring 10h45 - 11h45 (EDT - HAE) Tree-related microhabitats and deadwood dynamics in boreal old-growth forests Maxence Martin 10:45 The offsite impacts of mining on plant diversity in boreal areas Xiangbo Yin 11:00 Assessing atmospheric deposition of pollutants across the nation using moss: Canada's first Bryomonitoring survey
Phaedra Cowden 11:15 Addressing knowledge gaps on carbon deposition to tree-rings in Silver fir using intra-annual d13C and xylogenesis data and ecophysiological modelling Fabio Gennaretti 11:30 |
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Biotic interactions 12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) Examining anthocyanin localization in relation to the endoplasmic reticulum during programmed cell death in lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis) leaves Georgia Denbigh 12:15 Investigating the inhibitory effects of anthocyanin extracts from Aponogeton madagascariensis leaves on human ovarian cancer cells Alice Rollini 12:30 Sexual fluids in Cycas revoluta, sago palm
Patrick von Aderkas 12:45 Nitrogen in Pinus ponderosa and Pinus contorta germinants in the first growing season after wildfire or clearcutting: the effect of mycorrhization Naomi Yamaoka 13:00 Effects of nutrient addition and herbivory on plant communities depend on severity of degradation Tara Mulloy 13:15 Effects of smooth pigweed (Amaranthus hybridus) on five different cover crop species used in Southern Ontario vineyards. Heather VanVolkenburg 13:30 |
Lichen Ecology 12h15 - 13h45 (EDT - HAE) Thriving at the edge of life: how do chlorolichens produce biomass in a world of nitrogen limitation? Carmen Allen 12:15 Marketplaces of microbial dealmaking: symbiont give-and-take in lichens Toby Spribille 12:30 Fertility metrics and genetic variability of the boreal felt lichen in Newfoundland and Labrador Katherine Flores 12:45 Does bacterial community structure shift across host lichen species? Marta Alonso-García 13:00 Metagenome-derived predictions of the input of three fungal symbionts to a lichen symbiosis Gulnara Tagirdzhanova 13:15 Cleistogamy and zygomorphy: revisiting Darwin's hypothesis Simon Joly 13:30 |
Poster (C) - Habitats: challenges and understanding 13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) Can Crataegus douglasii be found in Québec? Timothy Dickinson 13:45 Végétation d'habitats rares naturels et anthropiques : contribution à la biodiversité régionale et origine des colonisateurs Nils Ambec 13:48 Warmer autumn temperatures affect wetland plant growth Melissa Aline Laplante 13:51 Sensitivity of the growth of conifer and hardwood species to climatic forcing in the boreal mixedwood of Eastern Canada Emmanuel A. Boakye 13:54 Crop Assessment of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) and Spruce Grouse (Falcipennis canadensis) from North Central BC: A Botanical Pandora's Box Hugues B. Massicotte 13:57 Effects of landscape fragmentation on boreal bryophyte diversity Enrique Hernandez-Rodríguez 14:00 A 23 000 km transect: new Arctic plant & lichen collections from the Canada C3 Expedition Jeffery M. Saarela 14:03 Patterns and biases in an Arctic herbarium specimen collection: Implications for phenological research Zoe Panchen 14:06 |
Poster (D) - Forest management and sylviculture 13h45 - 14h15 (EDT - HAE) Résilience des écosystèmes forestiers à divers stades de développement en réponse à différents traitements de coupe Marion Noualhaguet 13:45 How different harvesting methods influence forest dynamics in the boreal mixedwood of western Quebec, Canada Kobra Maleki 13:48 Factors influencing forest productivity and forest structure along a wet boreal climosequence in eastern Canada. André Arsenault 13:51 Factors influencing facilitation between boreal tree species during the regeneration process in post-mining sites Supun Madhumadhawa Pawuluwage 13:54 Comment le mélange d'espèces et le type de sol modifient-ils la vulnérabilité des écosystèmes forestiers nordiques québécois aux changements climatiques? Raphaël Chavardès 13:57 Le mélèze peut-il limiter la paludification? Andréane Garant 14:00 Differences in paper birch physiological strategies in a northern boreal common garden experiment Jenna Rabley 14:03 Effet de la densité de la plantation et de la préparation mécanique du terrain sur le sous-bois, le sol et les arbres Amira Fetouab 14:06 |
Section meeting : teaching 14h15 - 15h00 |
NSERC presentation on funding research and scholarships 14h15 - 15h00 |
Poster session Tuesday 15h00 - 16h15 (EDT - HAE) |
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CBA Annual general meething (AGM) 16h45 - 17h45 (EDT - HAE) |
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Awards 17h45 - 18h15 (EDT - HAE) |
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A wide range of lodging options is available in Rouyn-Noranda. From charming bed and breakfasts to luxury hotels, urban studios or student residences, everyone will find something that suits their needs and budget!
Student residences from the Cégep
Located very close to the UQAT campus, the cégep residences include little apartments with 3-4 single bedrooms, living room, kitchen and bathroom.
Contact:
Address: 737, 747, 757, 767 rue Tardif Est, Rouyn-Noranda (Québec) J9X 5R5 https://www.cegepat.qc.ca/etudiants/services-etudiants/logements/logements-2/comment-reserver/
Student residences from UQAT
Located very close to the UQAT campus, these residences offer single rooms and two bedroom apartments.
Contact: Martin Gibson, directeur Courriel : martin.gibson@uqat.ca
Telephone Rouyn-Noranda (principal) : 819 762-0971 ext 4395
Telephone Val-d'Or (secondaire) : 819 874-8728 ext 4395
https://www.uqat.ca/services/residences-etudiantes/reservation-saison-estivale/
More information regarding reservations for both student residences will be available soon.
Complexe hôtelier DeVille
http://devillehotelier.com/
In the heart of downtown Rouyn-Noranda, the Deville Hotel hosts a concept of accommodation focused on the comfort of its guests, close to the main points of interest of the sector. We offer many services to our guests, from lunch and parking included in each rental, to meeting rooms and catering. The Deville Hotel Hub is the largest hotel complex in the city thanks to its affiliation with the Best Western Plus Hotel, connected by an internal footbridge. The complex has 100 bedrooms, for a total of 158 beds.
Contact:
95, avenue Horne
Rouyn-Noranda (Québec)
J9X 4S4
Telephone: 819 762-0725 (toll free 1 888 828-0725)
reservation@devillehotelier.com
Hôtel Albert
http://hotelalbert.ca/
At Best Western Plus Hotel Albert, we offer our guests a peaceful and comfortable experience in the heart of Rouyn-Noranda's vibrant downtown. Completely renovated with Canadian furniture, our hotel will immerse you in a uniquely elegant and modern environment.
Contact:
84, avenue Principale
Rouyn-Noranda, Québec
J9X 4P2
Telephone: 1 819 762-3545
reception@bestwesternalbert.com
Motel le Mistral
https://www.motelmistral.com/en-ca
Located at the entrance to the city of Rouyn-Noranda, Motel Mistral has 48 rooms in total, including classic rooms, bachelors, two studios and a large apartment.
Book your room at the Mistral Motel before May 1, 2020 to take advantage of a preferential rate. Motel le mistral offers us rooms with two double beds, regardless of the number of occupants, for a rate of 115$ per night, Mention that you come for the conference of the botanical association to benefit from the discount.
Contact:
903 Larivière Rouyn-Noranda, Québec
J9X 4K6
Telephone: 819 762-0884
info@motelmistral.com
Gîte le Passant B&B
http://lepassant.com/EngMain.htm
We welcome you to our home while visiting our beautiful region, the heart of the vast spaces of Abitibi-Temiscamingue. We are located in the mining center of Quebec known as the national copper capital. This lush region is known for its quality of life. Your visit will be tranquil and peaceful as you relax in one of our large, warmly decorated rooms, or indulge in the luxury of our suite with a panoramic view.
Contact:
Michel Bellehumeur, propriétaire
489 Rue Perreault E, Rouyn-Noranda, QC J9X 3C7
6XQV+8X Noranda, Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Telephone (819) 762-9827
Fax: (819) 762-3820
lepassant@cablevision.qc.ca
B&B les Matins Tranquilles
https://lesmatinstranquilles.blogspot.com/
Located by the Osisko lake, close to the main points of interest of Rouyn-Noranda, the Gîte offers you a relaxing place in the heart of the town. A complimentary kitchen is available for the visitors who stay for more than one day. Shared bathroom and water closet. The Gîte is completely non-smoker. Les Matins Tranquille offers single rooms or group locations (max. 8 persons/group).
Contact:
Hôtesse Doris Gervais
411 rue Perreault Est
Rouyn-Noranda, Québec
J9X 3C5
Telephone: 819 797 0924
doris.gervais64@gmail.com
Habitation tri-logis
https://tri-logis.ca/espaces-a-louer/studios
Furnished studios available with single or double occupancy. Many locations available in downtown Rouyn-Noranda (see table below).
| Le Central | Le chic urbain | Le contemporain | Le citadin |
| 28, rue Gamble O. | 155, av.Principale | 300, av. Principale | 45-A, rue Perreault E. |
Contact:
Société immobilière Tri-Logis inc.
151, avenue Principale
Rouyn-Noranda (Québec) J9X 4P6
Telephone: 819 762-3435
Fax : 819 762-3443
info@tri-logis.ca
You can get to Rouyn-Noranda by plane by arriving at the Rouyn-Noranda Regional Airport, which is located a short 20 minutes drive/taxi to UQAT. http://www.ville.rouyn-noranda.qc.ca/en/page/airport/
Alternatively, the closest airports are:
Flight companies with service to Rouyn-Noranda airport:
There is a bus compagnie that connect Rouyn-Noranda to Montreal and North Bay. https://autobusmaheux.com/
Do you wish to have an organised transport from Montréal, Timmins (Ontario) or Val d'Or airports to Rouyn-Noranda? Contact us and, according to demand, we might be able to accommodate you!
The conference will take place online in a secured virtual conference hall (find the conference hall button on the website). The talks will be presented live through securised Zoom links and the posters will be visible online in a poster room for the duration of the conference.
Everyone needs to register for the conference (talks and poster presenters, as well as people who just want to attend the event). Registration is free and an automated email will be sent with a username and password to log into the securized conference page on June 1 and 2.
*** Note that the registration token is different than the communication submission token. It is the registration token you need to login the conference hall.
Given the particular situation of this year's meeting, we decided to waive registration fees. However, we strongly encourage you to become a member of the CBA as a way to encourage our association! https://www.cba-abc.ca/membership/
The conference is scheduled to take place on the two full days of June 1-2. Scheduling has been optimized to ensure that people from all the time zones in Canada can attend talks within somewhat reasonable hours. Given the large number of presentations, there will be 1-2 concurrent Zoom sessions going on at all times. The schedule is available here. Specific Zoom links associated with the "rooms" will be provided the day before the conference in the securised conference hall. Participants will be able to navigate between the two "rooms" according to their interests, as they would in an in-person conference.
The poster presenter will do a short talk (3 min) on Zoom to present their poster in blocs that are programmed in the schedule, in both Zoom rooms. The poster sessions are moments where people are invited to look in more details to the poster and comment and ask questions about the poster on an interactive part of the website where comment and question can be posted and replied.
Note that the Zoom conference rooms are limited to 300 people. The "doors" of the rooms will open 30 minutes in advance. We ask that you leave the conference rooms if you are no longer interested in a block in order to make room for other people.
We ask you to get familiar with zoom prior to the event with this test https://zoom.us/test. For further information on Zoom, see below.
To attend the presentations, both talks and posters on Zoom, participants can enter the virtual conference hall and the presentation rooms with a computer or smartphone via the internet or via telephone using the number and code provided. All participants should stay muted all the time, even during the question period. It will be possible to interact via chat with the moderator (Zoom host). Participants can activate their camera if they wish to do so (it is always nice to see a few faces), but it is not necessary.
Participants with questions should send them to the moderator using the chat. Be as clear as you can while keeping the question relatively short. The moderator will be in charge of sorting the questions and communicating them to the speaker to reduce connectivity issues. If time doesn't allow your question to be asked, you can contact the speaker directly to discuss it around an email coffee break.
Your microphone will be preset in mute mode. Before it is your turn to present, make sure that you know how to unmute it yourself, but do this only for the period you are presenting.
All sessions will be moderated by two conference volunteers (meeting hosts). One of them will keep track of the schedule and will time presentations, while the other will announce presenters and their titles and be in charge of the questions.
For all talks (keynotes and other talks), there will be a few minutes for questions. The speakers do not have to manage the question period, the host will be managing the questions. Participants will send their question to the moderators through the chat. The moderator will be in charge of sorting the questions received and communicating them to the speaker to reduce connectivity issues. The participants that cannot have their question asked because of time limitations will be invited to contact you by email.
Presentations will be given with the Zoom software. If you are not familiar with how it works, it is highly recommended that you test its functions by clicking here: https://zoom.us/test
Since presenters will be based out of their homes in most cases and that the quality and speed of internet connexions vary, here are a few different scenarios for presenters
Please let us know ahead of time which of the three options you will use during the meeting by contacting us at abc-cba2020@uqat.ca by early May.
Once you have done tests on Zoom and become aware of the three presentation options, if you want to do some tests prior to the meeting with us, someone from the organizing committee may schedule a meeting with you.
Because online interactions limit our abilities to perceive subtleties in people's body language or intonations, please be particularly mindful of the way you communicate with each other. Please take a moment to review the following code of conduct.
All attendees, speakers, sponsors and volunteers at our conference are required to agree with the following code of conduct. Organisers will enforce this code throughout the event. We expect cooperation from all participants to help ensure a safe environment for everybody.
Our conference is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, religion (or lack thereof), or technology choices. We do not tolerate harassment of conference participants in any form. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate for any conference venue (this includes virtual conference spaces), including talks, poster comments sections, conference related emails, Zoom, Twitter and other online media. Conference participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the conference at the discretion of the conference organisers.
If you are being harassed, notice that someone else is being harassed, or have any other concerns, please reach out to conference organisers immediately at abc-cba2020@uqat.ca. We will be happy to help participants experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the conference. Please do not hesitate to reach out.
Your support will help to make this a memorable and successful event!
For over 50 years the Canadian Botanical Association (CBA/ABC) has brought together researchers, professors and pro-fessionals working in a broad range of botanical fields, including physiology, genetics, taxonomy and phylogeny, mycolo-gy, plant development, and ecology. During the annual meeting, 80-120 motivated and engaged members gather to share insights on the latest research across these broad fields and hear inspiring presentations by world experts in botanical re-search, plants being at the base of almost all ecosystems.
With the theme: Heading north: botany in Canada's boreal biomes, this edition of the annual meeting of the CBA/ABC will be held in Rouyn-Noranda from May 31st to June 4th 2020 represents an opportunity for the region to charm visitors from across Canada with its economic opportunities and tourism offers, along with allowing participants to experience the natu-ral beauty of the boreal forest of Abitibi-Témiscamingue and become familiar with the proximity of the First Nations.
In order to offer a complete and enriching experience through field trips and workshops, the quality of guest speakers, or the food services offered, significant expenses are expected for this event. We are seeking your financial support in this major national meeting to help us reduce registration costs and thus maximize participation. By supporting this event, you will contribute directly to the advancement of knowledge related to plants, since an event of this scale allows a vital net-working between researchers. In this respect, we offer you a detailed visibility plan on the following page. Please note that If no financial contribution is possible, you can still contribute on duty such as preparing for lunch/coffee breaks, accommo-dation, transportation, material resources, donation for the auction, etc.
To know our team
1 Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT)
2 Centre d’étude sur les forêts (CEF)
3 University of Ottawa
4 University of Alberta
5 University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, for her article “Broadleaf Litter Controls Feather Moss Growth in Black Spruce and Birch Forests of Interior Alaska” by Mélanie Jean, April Melvin, Michelle Mack, and Jill Johnstone, published in ECOSYSTEMS (2020) 23: 18–33.
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, for his article “Hsp70 plays a role in programmed cell death during the remodelling of leaves of the lace plant (Aponogeton madagascariensis)” by Nathan Rowarth, Adrian Dauphinee, Georgia Denbigh, and Arunika Gunawardena, published in JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY (2020) 71:907–918
Hayley Paquette (MSc Project), Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, for her article “The calicioids of Forillon National Park, Quebec, Canada“ by Hayley Paquette, Niels van Miltenburg, Steven Selva, and Troy McMullin, published in OPUSCULA PHILOLICHENUM (2019) 18: 58-73.
Jenna Rabley, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Amos, Québec, for her poster “Differences in paper birch physiological strategies in a northern boreal common garden experiment”
Gulnara Tagirdzhanova, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, for her presentation “Metagenome-derived predictions of the input of three fungal symbionts to a lichen symbiosis”
Pr Yves Bergeron, Institut de recherche sur les forêts, Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, as a recognition of cumulative, lifetime contributions to Canadian botany.
Dr. Timothy Dickinson, University of Toronto & Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Université de Montréal, for meritorious service to CBA/ABC
The CBA offers multiple opportunities for student awards! Check on their website: https://www.cba-abc.ca/awards.htm for more information on how to apply and what the eligibility criteria are.
Application deadline: April 15, 2020 (last day for “early bird” registration)
These awards are given for the best oral and poster presentation during the meeting. Students need to be present at the meeting in Rouyn-Noranda to be eligible. All students who wish to compete for this award must indicate this by checking the appropriate box on the abstract submission form.
Value: $150-500.
Application deadline: April 15, 2020 (last day “early bird” registration).
These awards provide funds to assist travel costs for graduate (Macoun Travel Bursary) or undergraduate (Winterhalder Travel Award) students members of CBA and presenting talks or posters in the oral and poster presentation competitions at the annual CBA-ABC meeting. No student may receive more than one travel bursary while registered for the same degree. Procedures for application are outlined here.
Note: at least $4000.00 will be awarded to students who attend the 2020 meeting, apportioned by the number of applications and the distance travelled by each student.
Application deadline: March 31, 2020.
These awards are given to students for a paper they have published in 2019:
Tragically lost in 2018, the CBA/ABC is eternally grateful for the many ways she contributed to its success. She was a distinguished academic, earning awards for research, service, and teaching. Most importantly, she was a wonderful person.
Plan - $500 annually to students or early career scientists to support travel for research, education, and science communication projects.
The CBA-ABC is a registered charity and all donations are tax deductible. A tax receipt will be issued upon the receipt of funds.
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The boreal forest forms a circumpolar belt between 45° and 70°N and is the second largest forested biome globally. It is important in climate regulation and the global carbon cycle and is one of the few remaining terrestrial biomes where large-scale ecological processes are largely unimpeded. The boreal biome is floristically simple but forest dynamics and ecosystem processes arise from complex interactions amongst a range of factors including climate, physiography, permafrost, large natural disturbances, and species ecology. Boreal forests occupy latitudes that are warming 3-4 times faster than the global average; this rapid warming has already been shown to be having marked impacts on permafrost conditions, though the implications of this for forest dynamics remain poorly understood. This is an important shortcoming given that much of the boreal forest occurs in these rapidly changing permafrost zones. Here, I will overview some recent efforts to understand the impacts of permafrost thaw on northern forests. Results will span biological scales of organization from leaf- to landscape-level responses to ongoing thaw. These changes will be discussed in the context of the current and future functioning of high latitude boreal forests.
Jacques Cayouette was born in Lévis, Québec in 1944. Following his studies at the Collège de Lévis (1955-1963), he was awarded from Laval University master's degrees in pastoral theology (1969) and plant ecology (1979), and a Ph.D. in plant cytology (1984). He taught botany at Laval in the late 1970s, and since 1984 has been employed as a botanical research scientist at the Ottawa Research and Development Centre, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. His expertise includes systematics of Canadian grasses and sedges, especially the genera Poa, Bromus, Carex and Eriophorum, with specialization on natural hybridization within these genera. Dr. Cayouette has studied plants of naturally open habitats, notably those of arctic-alpine, shoreline, and alvar environments. He participates in protection of native plant germplasm as a member of a Québec government advisory committee. He has contributed to new editions of Flora of North America, Québec Flore laurentienne, and Flore nordique du Québec et du Labrador. One of his main interests is the history of the botanical exploration of Québec and Labrador, with a notable contribution to the book À la Découverte du Nord (2014) for which he was awarded the Lawson Medal in 2019. He also co-authored four volumes of Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019) which document from 1000-1935 the discovery and the uses of plants in New France, early British regimes in Canada and Confederation beginnings mainly in Québec.
Ethnobotany, since its inception in 1895, has been a dynamic field of research in Canada, especially through the work of Nancy Turner. Recently, with Indigenous self-determination and land claims being at the forefront of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, ethnobotany needs to reflect upon its next steps. What should be the future goals of ethnobotany? Ford, Hunn, Nabhan, Wolverton, and others spoke of the different phases of ethnobiology. Amid those different phases, decolonisation and indigenisation of the field are essential. First, a brief account of two projects done in Eastern Canada will be illustrated, while documenting ethics and what it means from the standpoint of Indigenous and local people. Often, ethics prove to be a Western concept not fully aligned with Indigenous worldviews. We will draw from the diabetes and the traditional medicine project to camp ethics in a more respectful space, and move forward with a new paradigm where Indigenous people play a central role in ethnobotany. The presentation will end with the concept of biocultural design as an interesting approach to research on biodiversity and conservation. In Nunatsiavut, such a project was co-designed with Inuit people. Although Nunatsiavut is known as a Subarctic region, the southerly community of Rigolet is positioned at the edge of the Boreal forest. Community engagement and leadership came both from the politics in place and from the youth who saw biocultural design as a foundational basis for a regrowth of traditional knowledge.
Julissa Roncal, Sander Bennett Boisen, Michael Burzynski
Memorial University of Newfoundland
The ability to infer community assembly processes from phylogenetic distance patterns of its taxa is challenging due to strong assumptions such as the binary evolution (convergence or conserved) of all traits of all taxa in a community, and that assembly processes influence all lineages in a similar fashion. We relax these two assumptions by examining clade-specific phylogenetic structure in six plant habitat pools present within the island of Newfoundland, Canada. We hypothesized that the phylogenetic structure of plant habitats is clade-specific and contingent on phylogenetic scale, with clustering at shallow nodes of the habitat phylogenetic tree, and evenness at deep nodes because traits tend to be convergent with time. By studying habitat types, we moved
beyond the traditional community plot of phylogenetic community ecology. One habitat showed no significant phylogenetic structuring, two habitats showed contrasting phylogenetic patterns of evenness and clustering according to our expectation, while two others showed the opposite. These results demonstrate that clade-specific patterns of phylogenetic distance can detect shifts in assembly processes across phylogenetic scales, or that different lineages may vary in their response to the same assembly process. Members of a phylogenetically clustered and shallow clade were all stress-tolerant strategists as inferred from three leaf traits, suggesting that environmental filtering is shaping the assembly from the regional into the habitat pool at least for some clades. Pairwise phylogenetic similarity between habitats was not indicative of habitat pairs with shared patterns of clade-specific clustering and evenness, and thus cannot be used to find common assembly forces among communities.