How are animal populations changing in Québec?

This is a Shiny dashboard that allows you to interact with data about the size of animal populations in Québec, and to summarise population trends with an index of biodiversity change. I made this dashboard as a prototype in collaboration with Biodiversité Québec.

Pool diversity shapes unique island communities

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

Publications

  • Lawlor J, Banville F, Forero-Muñoz N-R, Hébert K, Martínez-Lanfranco JA, Rogy P, et al. Ten simple rules for teaching yourself R. PLoS Comput Biol 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. Assessing the representation of species included within the Canadian Living Planet Index. FACETS. 7(): 1121-1141.
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  • Crystal-Ornelas, R., Edwards, B., Hébert, K., Hudgins, E. J., Sánchez-Reyes, L. L., Scott, E. R., … Braga, P. H. P. (2022, July 13). Not just for programmers: How GitHub can accelerate collaborative and reproducible research in ecology and evolution.
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  • Hébert, K., Millien, V. and Lessard, J.-P. (2021), Source pool diversity and proximity shape the compositional uniqueness of insular mammal assemblages worldwide. J Biogeogr, 48: 2337-2349.
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  • Kirk, D. A., Hébert, K., Lindsay, K. F., & Kreuzberg, E. (2020). Defining specialism and functional species groups in birds: First steps toward a farmland bird indicator. Ecological Indicators, 114, 106133.
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  • Kirk, D. A., Hébert, K., & Goldsmith, F. B. (2019). Grazing effects on woody and herbaceous plant biodiversity on a limestone mountain in northern Tunisia. PeerJ, 7, e7296.
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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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Pollen cores to pushing boundaries: who is Margaret B. Davis?

I only recently found out Margaret Davis has been using pollen cores to reconstruct past forest communities since the 1950s (!), in order to understand how ecological communities can respond to changing environments. Find out more in this short blog post I wrote for The Beagle, the Québec Centre for Biodiversity Science's blogging platform.