UQAM Urban Forest Research Chair, its partners, and its collaborators at the University of Sherbrooke and Concordia University have established a large Urban Forest Observatory in Montreal using permanent plots along gradients of urbanization and human development.
This page is a window on monitoring and inventory measures (see interactive map), and an invitation to collaborate with other groups. For more information, please see this article.
First installed in 2021 to monitor pollen, we are now measuring a wide range of variables and organisms, from microorganisms (microbiota) linked to tree leaves, roots and soil, to insects in the ambient air. We are also interested in trophic relationships, such as between predators like cats and birds, and the defoliation of trees by herbivorous insects. As human health is at the heart of our concerns, we try to link these variables to health, such as allergies. Finally, these are also urban forest monitoring plots, and we have identified and measured all trees, public and private, within 200m of the center of the plots, that's nearly 35,000 trees!
