Bianca Fréchette

Université du Québec à Montréal

frechette.bianca [at] uqam.ca (frechette[dot]bianca[at]uqam[dot]ca)

Thèmes de recherche
Publications
Étudiants

Palynologie continentale (pollen et spores)
Relation pollen-végétation-climat
Paléoclimatologie (Holocène et dernier interglacaire)
Toundra arctique et domaines bioclimatiques du Québec
Statistiques multivariables

Falardeau, J., de Vernal, A., Fréchette, B., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Archambault, P., Fritz, M., Gallagher, C.P., Tanski, G., 2023. Impacts of stronger winds and longer ice-free summers on Canadian Beaufort Sea shelf ecosystems since the late 1990s. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 294, 108520.

Accès libre To, A., de Vernal, A., Moros, M., Fréchette, B., Limoges, A., 2025. Climate and ocean changes in the western Hudson Strait over the last 6000 years. Quaternary Science Reviews 354, 109229.

Accès libre Wu, X., Lemay-Tougas, M., de Vernal, A., Garneau, M., Fréchette, B., Audet, T., Hillaire-Marcel, C., 2023. Multi-proxy reconstruction of climate changes in the Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada, during the Middle and Late-Holocene. The Holocene 33(11), 1346-1361.

Miller, G. H., Wolfe, A. P., Axford, Y., Briner, J. P., Bueltmann, H., Crump, S., Francis, D., Fréchette, B. et al., 2022. Last interglacial lake sediments preserved beneath Laurentide and Greenland Ice sheets provide insights into Arctic climate amplification and constrain 130 ka of ice‐sheet history. Journal of Quaternary Science 37(5), 979-1005.

Accès libre Crump, S.E., Fréchette, B., Power, M., Cutler, S., de Wet, G., Raynolds, M.K., Raberg, J.H., Briner, J.P., Thomas, E.K., Sepúlveda, J., Shapiro, B., 2021. Ancient plant DNA reveals High Arctic greening during the Last Interglacial. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(13), e2019069118.

Fréchette, B., Richard, P.J.H., Lavoie, M., Grondin, P., Larouche, A.C., 2021. Histoire postglaciaire de la végétation et du climat des pessières et des sapinières de l’est du Québec et du Labrador méridional. Gouvernement du Québec, ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction de la recherche forestière. Mémoire de recherche forestière 186, 170 p.

Fréchette, B., Richard, P.J.H., Lavoie, M., Grondin, P., Larouche, A.C., 2021. Histoire postglaciaire de la végétation et du climat des pessières et des sapinières de l’est du Québec et du Labrador méridional — Suppléments. Gouvernement du Québec, ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction de la recherche forestière. Suppléments du Mémoire de recherche forestière 186, 91 p.

Wu, X., de Vernal, A., Fréchette, B., Moros, M., Perner, K., 2022. The signal of climate changes over the last two millennia in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, eastern Canada. Quaternary Research 106, 28-43.

Accès libre Richard, P., Fréchette, B., Grondin, P., Lavoie, M., 2020. Histoire postglaciaire de la végétation de la forêt boréale du Québec et du Labrador. Le Naturaliste canadien 144(1), 63-76.

Accès libre van Bellen, S., de Vernal, A., To, A., Ouellet‐Bernier, M.-M., Roy, N. and ClimHuNor Members (incl. E. Boucher, B. Fréchette, M. Garneau, C. Hillaire-Marcel), 2020. A database of Holocene temperature records for north‐eastern North America and the north‐western Atlantic. Geoscience Data Journal 7(1), 38-43.

Fréchette, B., Richard, P. J., Grondin, P., Lavoie, M., Larouche, A. C., 2018. Histoire postglaciaire de la végétation et du climat des pessières et des sapinières de l'ouest du Québec. Gouvernement du Québec, ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction de la recherche forestière. Mémoire de recherche forestière 179, 165 p.

Fréchette, B., Richard, P. J., Grondin, P., Lavoie, M., Larouche, A. C., 2018. Histoire postglaciaire de la végétation et du climat des pessières et des sapinières de l'ouest du Québec - Suppléments. Gouvernement du Québec, ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction de la recherche forestière. Suppléments du Mémoire de recherche forestière 179, 84 p.

Roy, N., Bhiry, N., Woollett, J., Fréchette, B., 2018. Vegetation History since the Mid-Holocene in Northeastern Iceland. Écoscience 25 (2), 109-123. DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2018.1443419

Asselin, M., Grondin, P., Lavoie, M., Fréchette, B., 2016. Fires of the last millennium led to landscapes dominated by early successional species in Québec's Clay Belt Boreal Forest, Canada. Forests 7 (9), art. no. 205.

Briner, J.P., McKay, N.P., Axford, Y., Bennike, O., Bradley, R.S., de Vernal, A., Fisher, D., Francus, P., Fréchette, B., Gajewski, K., Jennings, A., Kaufman, D.S., Miller, G., Rouston, C., Wagner, B., 2016. Holocene climate change in Arctic Canada and Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews 147, 340-364.

Hoogakker, B.A.A., Smith, R.S., Singarayer, J.S., Marchant, R., Prentice, I.C., Allen, J.R.M., Anderson, R.S., Bhagwat, S.A., Behling, H., Borisova, O., Bush, M., Correa-Metrio, A., De Vernal, A., Finch, J.M., Fréchette, B., Lozano-Garcia, S., Gosling, W.D., Granoszewski, W., Grimm, E.C., Grüger, E., Hanselman, J., Harrison, S.P., Hill, T.R., Huntley, B., Jiménez-Moreno, G., Kershaw, P., Ledru, M.-P., Magri, D., McKenzie, M., Müller, U., Nakagawa, T., Novenko, E., Penny, D., Sadori, L., Scott, L., Stevenson, J., Valdes, P.J., Vandergoes, M., Velichko, A., Whitlock, C., Tzedakis, C., 2016. Terrestrial biosphere changes over the last 120 kyr. Climate of the Past 12 (1), 51-73.

Lapointe E., L., Talbot, J., Fortier, D., Fréchette, B., Strauss, J., Kanevskiy, M., Shur, Y., 2017. Middle to late Wisconsinan climate and ecological changes in northern Alaska: Evidences from the Itkillik River Yedoma. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. Article in Press.

Richerol, T., Fréchette, B., Rochon, A., Pienitz, R., 2016. Holocene climate history of the Nunatsiavut (northern Labrador, Canada) established from pollen and dinoflagellate cyst assemblages covering the past 7,000 years. The Holocene 26, 44-60.

Blarquez, O., Ali, A.A., Girardin, M.P., Grondin, P., Fréchette, B., Bergeron, Y., Hély, C., 2015. Regional paleofire regimes affected by non-uniform climate, vegetation and human drivers. Scientific Reports 5, art. no. 13356.

Gibb, O. T., Steinhauer, S., Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A., & Hillaire-Marcel, C., 2015. Diachronous evolution of sea surface conditions in the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay since the last deglaciation. The Holocene 25 (12), 1882-1897.

Hessler, I., Harrison, S.P., Kucera, M., Waelbroeck, C., Chen, M.-T., Anderson, C., de Vernal, A., Fréchette, B., Cloke-Hayes, A., Leduc, G., Londeix, L., 2014. Implication of methodological uncertainties for mid-Holocene sea surface temperature reconstructions. Climate of the Past 10, 2237-2252.

Refsnider, K.A., Miller, G.H., Fogel, M., Fréchette, B., Bowden, R., Andrews, J.T., Farmer, G.L., 2014. Subglacially precipitated carbonates record geochemical interactions and pollen preservation at the base of the Laurentide Ice Sheet on central Baffin Island, eastern Canada Arctic. Quaternary Research 81, 94-105.

de Vernal, A., Hillaire-Marcel, C., Rochon, A., Fréchette, B., Henry, M., Solignac, S., Bonnet, S. 2013, Dinocyst-based reconstructions of sea ice cover concentration during the Holocene in the Arctic Ocean, the northern North Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 79, pp. 111-121.

de Vernal, A., Rochon, A., Fréchette, B., Henry, M., Radi, T., Solignac, S. 2013, Reconstructing past sea ice cover of the Northern Hemisphere from dinocyst assemblages: Status of the approach, Quaternary Science Reviews, vol. 79, pp. 122-134.

Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A. 2013, Evidence for large-amplitude biome and climate changes in Atlantic Canada during the last interglacial and mid-Wisconsinan periods, Quaternary Research (United States), vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 242-255.

Refsnider, K.A., Miller, G.H., Fréchette, B., Rood, D.H. 2013, A chronological framework for the Clyde Foreland Formation, Eastern Canadian Arctic, derived from amino acid racemization and cosmogenic radionuclides, Quaternary Geochronology, vol. 16, pp. 21-34.

Carcaillet, C., Richard, P.J.H., Bergeron, Y., Fréchette, B., Ali, A.A. 2010, Resilience of the boreal forest in response to Holocene fire-frequency changes assessed by pollen diversity and population dynamics, International Journal of Wildland Fire, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 1026-1039.

Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A., 2009. Relationship between Holocene climate variations over southern Greenland and eastern Baffin Island and synoptic circulation pattern, Climate of the Past, 5, 347-359. GEOTOP publication n°2009-0013.

Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A., Richard, P.J.H., 2008. Holocene and Last Interglacial cloudiness in eastern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45, 1221-1234,doi:10.1139/E08-053. GEOTOP publication n°2008-0027.

Fréchette, B., de Vernal, A., Guiot, J., Wolfe, A.P., Miller, G.H., Fredskild, B., Kerwin, M.W., Richard, P.J.H, 2008. Methodological basis for quantitative reconstruction of air temperature and sunshine from pollen assemblages in Arctic Canada and Greenland. Quaternary Science Reviews, 27, 1197-1216, doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2008.02.016.

Fréchette, B., Wolfe, A.P., Miller, G.H., Richard, P.J.H., de Vernal, A., 2006. Vegetation and climate of the last interglacial on Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 236, 91-106.

CAPE Last Interglacial Project Members, 2006. Last interglacial Arctic warmth confirms polar amplification of climate change, Quaternary Science Reviews, 25, 1383-1400.

Otto-Bliesner, B.L., Marshall, S.J., Overpeck, J.T., Miller, G.H., Hu, A., CAPE Last Interglacial Project Members, 2006. Simulating Arctic climate warmth and icefield retreat in the last interglaciation, Science, 311, 1751-1753.

Carcaillet, C., Bergeron, Y., Richard, P.J.H., Fréchette, B., Gauthier, S., Prairie, Y.T., 2001. Change of fire frequency in the eastern Canadian boreal forest during the Holocene : Does vegetation composition or climate trigger the fire regime? Journal of Ecology, 89(6), 930-646.

Carcaillet, C., Bouvier, M., Fréchette, B., Larouche, A.C., Richard, P.J.H., 2001. Comparison of pollen-slide and sieving methods in lacustrine charcoal analyses for local and regional fire history, The Holocene, 11, 467-476.

Wolfe, A.P., Fréchette, B., Richard, P.J.H., Miller, G.H., Forman, S.L., 2000. Paleoecological assessment of an over 90,000-year sequence from Fog Lake, Baffin Island, Arctic Canada, Quaternary Science Reviews, 19, 1677-1699.

Fréchette, B., Bouchard,M.A., Richard, P.J.H., 1996. Le till pollinifère de la péninsule du Nunavik, Québec septentrional. Géographie physique et Quaternaire, 50, 331-340.