(September 2014 - September 2016)
Thesis: The joint effect of herbicide drift and competition on plant populations
Co-supervised by Dr. Céline Boutin, the project is taking place at the National Wildlife Research Centre of Environment Canada. The overall goal is to improve environmental risk assessment for the impact of herbicides on non-target plants. In the current toxicity tests required for herbicides, it is only individual plants that are sprayed and assessed for adverse effects. However herbicides may be impacting interactions that occur between plants in nature, and therefore competition studies may more accurately predict the effect of an herbicide.
