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Alison is a professor in forest ecology at Université Laval, Faculté de foresterie de géographie et de géomatique. Her research focuses on soil-plant relationships in different environments, including the urban environment for the past few years. She takes a functional ecology approach via plant traits to understand the feedback of traits on soil carbon stabilization. She is active in urban ecology and forestry as co-holder of the Chair on urban trees and their environment, with the City of Quebec.

As part of the DREAM-QC project, Alison is working on the acclimation and phenology of planted seedlings, and with Louis Bernier on the microbiota associated with the leaves and rhizosphere of sugar maple, red oak and late cherry. She is also working with postdoctoral fellow Anne Ola on stand carbon balance and the effects of silvicultural treatments on this balance via modeling.