Stephanie Rivest, PhD
@Stephinscience
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Community ecologist interested in conservation, functional traits, & urban landscapes! Currently a postdoc at U de M, the IRBV, & Montreal Botanical Gardens.
Montreal, QC
Joined March 2022
It's the right time of year to start seeing Round-lobed Hepatica! Native to Eastern North America, this forest understorey species can have flowers that vary from pink, to blue, to white 😍
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RT @InsectDiversity: We're excited to share the first 2025 issue of Insect Conservation and Diversity!. Explore what's inside Volume 18, Is….
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Thanks @InsectDiversity for featuring my photo as your cover this year!🦋. 📸: European Common Blue butterflies, Polyommatus icarus, show off their mud-puddling abilities in Montréal, Quebec.
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Can't get over this Dun Skipper's cute little face from this past summer (Euphyes vestris)😂
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RT @hkharouba: Thank you to @MaximLarrivee and @riva_ecology for the great meeting on butterfly conservation and modelling! Can’t wait to g….
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At #ESA2024 and interested in learning about the composition of urban plant communities (and the role that traits play)? Come see my talk tomorrow at 10 am in COS059! 🌿🌳
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RT @simjoly: Later today, Sufia Khader will present her project on the clonal structure and conservation of the rare plant Polemonium vanbr….
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RT @uOttawa: In a world-first, an international team of scientists demonstrated that Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) flew at leas….
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Happy Tuesday from the humble black-capped chickadee!🌞
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RT @InsectDiversity: More #OpenAccess work from The Ecology and Conservation of #UrbanInsects Special Issue!. @stephinscience & @hkharouba….
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Butterflies. nature's role model for re-inventing yourself 😅 ft. female European Common Blue in Montreal
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City nature challenge in 1 week! Get your cameras ready. 👀👀.
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Flight period length may help to explain some of this variation! Butterflies with longer flight periods were more common in urban areas. like this painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui)! 3/3 . All images: S. Rivest
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Butterflies are present in cities! But the communities are species-poor, homogenized, and contain more non-native butterflies than surrounding rural areas. 🏙️🦋 2/3
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New paper in @InsectDiversity with @hkharouba & @uOttawa on the impacts of urbanization on butterfly community composition! Read it here. @RoyEntSoc . 🧵1/3
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RT @csbq_qcbs: 🌿 Discover the hidden treasures of urban greenspaces in #Montreal! 🌳 Join researchers, community partners, and residents in….
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Excited to have finally arrived at the @IRBV_Montreal & Jardin Botanique de Montréal for my postdoc on urban plant communities 🌱🌻 Research updates to come soon. Thanks @simjoly for the warm welcome!
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RT @ESABulletin: From the Photo Gallery:. Some of these #wildflowers are native to Canada, and some aren't; an @ESAEcology study shows that….
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