Publications

  • Katherine Hébert, Maximiliane Jousse, Janaína de Andrade Serrano, Dirk N. Karger, F. Guillaume Blanchet, Laura J. Pollock. (2024). Biodiversity indicators miss local and short-term change: A blank space waiting to be filled. EcoEvoRxiv.
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  • Pedro Henrique Pereira Braga, Katherine Hébert, Emma J. Hudgins, Eric R. Scott, Brandon P. M. Edwards, Luna L. Sánchez Reyes, Matthew J. Grainger, Vivienne Foroughirad, Friederike Hillemann, Allison D. Binley, Cole B. Brookson, Kaitlyn M. Gaynor, Saeed Shafiei Sabet, Ali Güncan, Helen Weierbach, Dylan G. E. Gomes, Robert Crystal-Ornelas. (2023). Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(6): 1364-1380.
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  • Katherine Hébert & Dominique Gravel. (2023). The Living Planet Index's ability to capture biodiversity change from uncertain data. Ecology 104(6): e4044.
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  • Jake Lawlor, Francis Banville, Norma-Rocio Forero-Muñoz, Katherine Hébert, Juan Andrés Martínez-Lanfranco, Pierre Rogy, A Andrew M MacDonald. (2022). Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R. PLoS Computational Biology 18(9): e1010372.
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  • Jessica Currie, Joseph B. Burant, Valentina Marconi, Stephanie A. Blain, Sandra Emry, Katherine Hébert, Garland Xie, Nikki A. Moore, Xueqi Wang, Andrea Brown, Lara Grevstad, Louise McRae, Stefano Mezzini, Patrick Pata, and Robin Freeman. (2022). Assessing the representation of species included within the Canadian Living Planet Index. FACETS. 7: 1121-1141.
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  • Katherine Hébert, Virginie Millien, and Jean-Philippe Lessard. (2021), Source pool diversity and proximity shape the compositional uniqueness of insular mammal assemblages worldwide. Journal of Biogeography, 48: 2337-2349.
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  • David Anthony Kirk, Katherine Hébert, Kathryn Freemark Lindsay, Elena Kreuzberg. (2020). Defining specialism and functional species groups in birds: First steps toward a farmland bird indicator. Ecological Indicators, 114, 106133.
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  • David Anthony Kirk, Katherine Hébert, Frank Barrie Goldsmith. (2019). Grazing effects on woody and herbaceous plant biodiversity on a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia. PeerJ, 7, e7296.
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How well do we capture biodiversity change when our data are uncertain?

This is the first chapter of my Ph.D., in which we track how uncertainties in population abundance data can impact our ability to capture biodiversity change.

Sharing is caring, and that goes for code too!

I have loved GitHub ever since I figured out how to use it (and that took... a while). I love sharing code, working collaboratively, and reading and using code other people share. I had the very cool experience of co-writing a paper entirely on GitHub (!) with many brilliant people about how GitHub can accelerate research in ecology and evolution.

Species pool diversity shapes unique island communities.

How does regional pool diversity shape unique mammal communities on islands globally? Find out in this Journal of Biogeography blog post I wrote about my very first first-author article!

Workshops & Tutorials

These are workshops and tutorials I have developed with friends to share what we have learned about programming and statistics.

Introduction to GitHub & GitHub Actions

by Pedro Henrique Pereira Braga & Katherine Hébert

A demonstration of GitHub Actions, which can automate workflows to build, test, and publish content in your repositories, including some tips about how to implement and troubleshoot actions that perform R code testing, Rmarkdown document rendering, and website publishing.

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Introduction to Shiny Apps

by Katherine Hébert, Andrew Macdonald, Jake Lawlor, Vincent Bellavance

This practical training covers the basics of Shiny app development. You’ll learn the principles of reactive programming, how to create interactive options and displays for your users, and how to layout and style your Shiny app.

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Data Visualization

by Alex Arkilanian & Katherine Hébert

General principles of visualization and graphic design, and techniques of tailored visualization.

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Science Communication

by Gracielle Higino & Katherine Hébert

An overview of basic concepts of effective science communication and how social media can boost your research and extend your network.

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Linking Community Ecology And Evolutionary Biology To Your Programming Skills

by Pedro Henrique P. Braga & Katherine Hébert

A quick dive into the various approaches used in community phylogenetics to detect evolutionary patterns in the assembly of ecological communities.

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