Bruno Cremella, PhD student

Department of Applied Geomatics, University of Sherbrooke

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My main interests are the physiology, ecology and evolution of lake phytoplankton. More specifically,

• Their diversity in response to light, temperature and nutrients,
• The drivers behind dispersion patterns and phylogeographical clusters, and
• The relationships between species life histories and niches.

My main questions are related to solving the Plankton Paradox:

• Why are there so many species in such a homogeneous ecosystem?
• Can we differentiate the niches occupied by the species or functional groups in the lakes?
• Can we extract physiological data for phytoplankton taxons using large-scale phytoplankton data?

PhD project start and finish dates: May 2018 to May 2022 (approximately)

Supervisor: Yannick Huot (Université de Sherbrooke)

LakePulse survey sampling 680 lakes across Canada

Summer 2018: I will be sampling with the Purple Team in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Brittish Columbia.