Prévost, Marcel

Marcel Prévost is a forest engineering graduate from Laval University (B. Sc., 1979, M. Sc., 1982, Ph. D., 1988). His graduate studies in forest management and silviculture focused on forest hydrology, notably on the modelling of spring snowmelt and runoff in a watershed. In 1987, he joined the Direction de la recherche forestière as a researcher in silviculture of natural forests to study the effect of site preparation on soil properties and on black spruce establishment and growth. Around the same time, he became interested in wetland forestry and the effects of various silvicultural interventions on the environment, mainly by studying the impact of drainage of forested peatlands on soil water, tree growth and runoff water quality. From 1995 until his retirement in 2020, his research work focused on the silviculture of temperate mixedwood and boreal mixedwood forests. He studied the tending of young stands, the regeneration of high-quality stands and the rehabilitation of degraded stands.

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