Sylvie Quideau

Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept

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Professor, Faculty of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sci - Renewable Resources Dept

Email: squideau@ualberta.ca

Courses

REN R 341 - Soil Formation and Landscape Processes

Soil formation, with emphasis on landscape processes as factors in soil development; pedogenic processes and their relation to environmental issues; soils; vegetation, and geological associations; kinds and distribution of soils in Canada; soil classification; field examination and computer-assisted learning of soils and their landscape. Field trips. Prerequisite: REN R 210. Not to be taken if credit received for REN R 441.

Fall Term 2025

REN R 442 - Soil Biogeochemistry

Introduction to the main components of the soil biota; the metabolic and molecular diversity of microbial populations and their role in soil processes; the microbiology and biochemistry of decomposition of organic matter in soil; biogeochemical cycling of N, P, S, Si, base cations and metals; and the application of soil microbiology to selected environmental problems. Prerequisite: REN R 210.

Fall Term 2025

REN R 541 - Advanced Soil Formation, Classification and Landscape Processes

Soil classification with a focus on soil genesis as influenced by soil forming factors and processes. Spatial variability of soil types within landscapes in association with vegetation, parent geological materials, hillslope hydrology and microclimate. Soils as components of ecosystems and their relation to environmental issues. Distribution of soils in Canada. Field trips. Requires payment of additional student instructional support fees. Refer to the Tuition and Fees page in the University Regulations section of the Calendar. Not to be taken if credit received for REN R 341, REN R 441 or REN R 741.

Fall Term 2025

REN R 542 - Soil Biogeochemistry

Fall Term 2025

REN R 603 - Graduate Research Skills

Prepares graduate students to function in a research environment. Focuses on the development of communication and presentation skills, the publication process, and proposal preparation. The grade is credit/no credit.

Fall Term 2025

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Early season fires in boreal black spruce forests produce pyrogenic carbon with low intrinsic recalcitrance

Soucémarianadin, L., S.A. Quideau, R.E. Wasylishen, and A.D. Munson

Ecology. 2015 January; 96

A multi-SIR method for characterizing community level physiological profiles in organic forest soils with low bulk density

Swallow, M.J.B., and S.A. Quideau

Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2015 January; 79

Decadal soil and stand response to fire, harvest, and salvage-logging disturbances in the western boreal mixedwood forest of Alberta (Canada)

Kishchuk, B.E., E. Thiffault, M. Lorente, S.A. Quideau, T. Keddy, and D. Sidders

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2015 January; 45

Carbon and nitrogen in the silt-size fraction and its HCl-hydrolysis residues from coarse-textured Canadian boreal forest soils

Preston, C.M., C.E. Norris, G.M. Bernard, D.W. Beilman, S.A. Quideau and R.E. Wasylishen

Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 2014 January; 94

Soils and palaeosols as archives of natural and anthropogenic environmental changes

Zaccone, C., S.A. Quideau and D. Sauer

European Journal of Soil Science. 2014 January; 65

Pyrogenic carbon stocks and storage mechanisms in podzolic soils of fire-affected Quebec black spruce forests

Soucémarianadin, L., S.A. Quideau, and M.D. MacKenzie

Geoderma. 2014 January; 217

Long-term soil response to variable-retention harvesting in the EMEND (Ecosystem Management Emulating Natural Disturbance) experiment, northwestern Alberta

Kishchuk, B.E., S.A. Quideau, Y. Wang, and C.E. Prescott

Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 2014 January; 94

Nutrient uptake and growth of fireweed (Chamerion angustifolium) on oil sands reclamation soils

Pinno, B., S.M. Landhäusser, M.D. MacKenzie, S.A. Quideau, and P.S. Chow

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2014 January; 44

Linkages between the forest floor microbial community and resource heterogeneity within mature lodgepole pine forests

McIntosh, A.C.S., S.E. Macdonald, and S.A. Quideau

Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2013 January; 63

Long-term effects of organic amendments on the recovery of plant and soil microbial communities following disturbance in the Canadian boreal forest

Hahn, A.S., and S.A. Quideau

Plant and Soil. 2013 January; 363

Microbial response to fertilization in contrasting soil materials used during oil sands reclamation

Quideau, S.A., S.D. Gupta, M.D. MacKenzie, and S. Landhäusser

Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2013 January; 77

Influence of stand composition on predatory mite (Mesostigmata) assemblages from the forest floor in western Canadian boreal mixedwood forests

Diaz-Aguilar, I., S.A. Quideau, H.C. Proctor, B.E. Kishchuk, and J.R. Spence

Forest Ecology and Management. 2013 January; 309

Trophic ecology of mesostigmatan mites in harvested and control mixedwood boreal forests determined using 15N stable isotopes

Diaz-Aguilar, I., and S.A. Quideau

Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2013 January; 67

Trembling aspen seedling establishment, growth, and response to fertilization on contrasting soils used in Oilsands reclamation

Pinno, B.D., S.M. Landhäusser, M.D. MacKenzie, S.A. Quideau, And P.S. Chow

Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 2012 January; 92

Spring wheat genotypes differentially alter soil microbial communities and wheat breadmaking quality in organic and conventional systems

Nelson, A.G., S. A. Quideau, B. Frick, D. Niziol, J. Clapperton and D. Spaner

Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 2011 January; 91

The soil microbial community and grain micronutrient concentration of historical and modern hard red spring wheat cultivars grown organically and conventionally in the Black soil zone of the Canadian prairies

Nelson, A.G., S.A. Quideau, B. Frick, P.J. Hucl, D. Thavarajah, M.J. Clapperton, and D.M. Spaner

Sustainability. 2011 January; 3

Recreating a functional forest soil in reclaimed oilsands in northern Alberta: An approach for measuring success in ecological restoration

Rowland, S.M., C.E. Prescott, S.J. Grayston, S.A. Quideau, and G.E. Bradfield

Journal of Environmental Quality. 2009 January; 38

Microbial community structure and function: The effect of silvicultural burning and topographic variability in northern Alberta

Swallow, M., S.A. Quideau, M.D. MacKenzie, and B. E. Kishchuk

Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2009 January; 41

Chemical composition of forest floor and consequences for nutrient availability after wildfire and harvesting in the boreal forest

Thiffault, E., K.D. Hannam, S.A. Quideau, D. Paré, N. Bélanger, S.-W. Oh, and A.D. Munson

Plant Soil. 2008 January; 308

Forest floor quality declines following clearcutting in trembling aspen- and white spruce-dominated stands of the boreal mixedwood forest

Hannam, K.D., S. A. Quideau, B. E. Kishchuk, S.-W. Oh, and R. E. Wasylishen

Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2005 January; 35

Distribution, accumulation, and fluxes of soil carbon in four monoculture lysimeters at the San Dimas Experimental Forest, CA

Feng, X., J.C. Peterson, S. A. Quideau, R.A. Virginia, R.C. Graham, L.J. Sonder, and O.A. Chadwick

Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta. 1999 January; 63