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 Professor Peter LafleurB.Sc., Brandon University Research and Teaching Interests:
Selected Recent Publications: Moore, T.R., A. De Young, J.L. Bubier, E.R. Humphreys, P.M. Lafleur & N.T. Roulet, 2011. A multi-year record of methane flux at the Mer Bleue bog, southern Canada. Ecosystems, 14: 646-657 (doi: 10.1007/s10021-011-9435-9). Humphreys, E.R. & P.M. Lafleur, 2011. Does earlier snowmelt lead to greater CO2 sequestration at two low-Arctic tundra? Geophysical Research Letters, 38: doi:10.1029/2011GL047339. Dagg, J. & P.M. Lafleur, 2011. Vegetation community, foliar nitrogen and temperature effects on tundra CO2 exchange across a soil moisture gradient. Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research, 43: 189-197. Grant, R.F, E.R. Humphreys, P.M. Lafleur, & D.D. Dimitrov, 2011. Ecological controls on net ecosystem productivity of a mesic arctic tundra under current and future climates. Journal of Geophysical Research - biogeosciences, 116, G01031, doi:10.1029/2010JG001555. Loranty, M.M., S.J. Goetz, E.B. Rastetter, A.V. Rocha, G.R. Shaver, E.R. Humphreys, & P.M. Lafleur, 2011. Scaling an instantaneous model of tundra NEE to the Arctic landscape, Ecosystems, 14: 76-93. Wu. J., N.T. Roulet, T. R. Moore, P. Lafleur & E. Humphreys, 2011. Dealing with microtopography of an ombrotrophic bog for simulating ecosystem-level CO2 exchanges. Ecological Modelling, 222: 1038-1047. Dimitrov, D.D., R.F. Grant, P.M. Lafleur & E.R. Humphreys, 2010. Modelling the effects of hydrology on ecosystem respiration at Mer Bleue bog, Journal of Geophysical Research – biogeosciences, 115, G04043, doi:10.1029/2010JG001312. Migliavacca, M., M. Reichstein, A. Richardson, R. Colombo, M. Sutton, N. Carvalhais, A. Cescatti, G. Lasslop, M. Mahecha, L. Montagnani, D. Papale, E. Tomelleri, S. Zaehle, G. Wohlfahrt, A. Arain, A. Arneth, A.T. Black, S. Dore, D. Gianelle, C. Helfter, D. Hollinger, W. Kutsch, B. Law, P.M. Lafleur, Y. Nouvellon, C. Rebmann, H. da Rocha, M. Rodeghiero, R. Olivier, M-T. Sebastià, G. Seufert, J-F. Soussana, M.K. van der Molen, 2011. Semi-empirical modeling of abiotic and biotic factors controlling ecosystem respiration across eddy covariance sites. Global Change Biology, 17: 390-409. Chen, B., N.C. Coops, D. Fu, H.A. Margolis, B.D. Amiro, A.G. Barr, T.A. Black, M.A. Arain, C. P.-A. Bourque, L.B. Flanagan, P.M. Lafleur, J.H. McCaughey & S.C. Wofsy, 2010. Assessing eddy-covariance flux tower location bias across the Fluxnet-Canada Research Network based on remote sensing and footprint modelling. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 151: 87-100. St.-Hilaire, F., J. Wu, N.T. Roulet, S. Frolking, P.M. Lafleur, E.R. Humphreys, & V. Arora, 2010. McGill Wetland Model: Evaluation of a peatland carbon simulator: developed for global assessments. Biogeosciences, 17: 13517-3530. Sulman, B.N., A.R. Desai, N. Saliendra, P.M. Lafleur, L.B. Flanagan, O. Sonnentag, D.S. MacKay, A.G. Barr & G. van der Kamp, 2010. Carbon fluxes at northern fens and bogs have opposite responses to inter-annual fluctuations in water table. Geophysical Research Letters, 37, L19702, doi:10.1029/2010GL044018. Teklemariam, T., P.M. Lafleur, T.R. Moore, N.T. Roulet & E.R. Humphreys, 2010. The direct and indirect effects of inter-annual meteorological variability on ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange at a temperate ombrotrophic bog. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 150: 1402-1411. Yi, C., D. Ricciuto, R. Li, P. Lafleur, & 147 others, 2010. Climate control of terrestrial carbon exchange across biomes and continents. Environmental Research Letters, 5(3), doi: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/3/034007. Dagg, J. & P.M. Lafleur, 2010. Applications of plot-scale NDVI in predicting carbon dioxide exchange and leaf area index in heterogeneous sub-arctic tundra. Accepted in Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing (IPY Special Issue), 36(S1), in press. Dimitrov, D.R. Grant, P.M. Lafleur, & E.R. Humphreys, 2010. Modeling peat thermal regime of an ombrotropic peatland with hummock-hollow microtopography. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74: 1406-1425. Dimitrov, D. R. Grant, P.M. Lafleur, & E.R. Humphreys, 2010. Modeling subsurface hydrology of Mer Bleue. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 74: 680-694. Lund, M. Lafleur, P.M., Roulet, N.T., Lindroth, A., Christensen, T., Aurela, M., Chojnicki, B., Flanagan, L., Humphreys, E.R., Laurila, T., Oechel, W., Olejnik, J., Rinne, J., Schubert, P. & Nilsson, M., 2010. Variability in exchange of CO2 across twelve northern peatland and tundra sites. Global Change Biology, in press Dec. 2009. Waddington J.M., W. Quinton, J.S. Price, P.M. Lafleur, 2009. Advances in Canadian Wetland Hydrology, 2003-2007. Canadian Journal of Water Resources, 34: 139-148. Lafleur, P.M. 2009. Connecting Atmosphere and Wetland: Trace gas exchanges. Geography Compass, 3: 560-585. Connolly J., N.T. Roulet, J.W. Seaquist, N.M. Holden, P.M. Lafleur, E.R. Humphreys, B. Heumann & S.M. Ward, 2009. Using MODIS derived ƒPAR with ground based flux tower measurements to derive the light use efficiency for two Canadian peatlands. Biogeosciences, 6: 225-234. |
Peter Lafleur’s research is located in the fields of climatology and hydrometeorology. His specific research interest is the atmosphere-ecosystem exchange of carbon dioxide and water in peatland and tundra environments. Current projects include ecosystem carbon measurement and modeling at the eastern peatland station of the Fluxnet Canada Research Network and investigation of carbon exchange variation between tundra types in the central North West Territories. Prof. Lafleur currently teaches courses in microclimatology, global climate systems, hydrometeorology, and field based research.