Stephanie Rivest, PhD

Ecologist interested in insects, plants, and urban landscapes 🦋🌼
Assistant professor at Lakehead University 👩‍🎓

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Happy Earth Day! #EarthDayEveryDay #cosmos #angiosperm #flower

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

A quiet moment from last winter with a Dark-eyed Junco at the Montreal Botanical Garden 🪶 #birds #junco #biodiversity #winter @EspacePourLaVie @IRBV_Montreal

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

It's the right time of year to start seeing Round-lobed Hepatica! Native to Eastern North America, this forest understorey species can have flowers that vary from pink, to blue, to white 😍

[Insect Conservation and Diversity @InsectDiversity]

We're excited to share the first 2025 issue of Insect Conservation and Diversity!

Explore what's inside Volume 18, Issue 1⬇️
https://t.co/zsvyVWi3k9

@RoyEntSoc @WileyEcolEvol

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Thanks @InsectDiversity for featuring my photo as your cover this year!🦋

📸: European Common Blue butterflies, Polyommatus icarus, show off their mud-puddling abilities in Montréal, Quebec.

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Can't get over this Dun Skipper's cute little face from this past summer (Euphyes vestris)😂

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Join the conversation 😊 https://t.co/hnP1lR9Yhk via @ConversationCA and @hkharouba

[Heather Kharouba @hkharouba]

Thank you to @MaximLarrivee and @riva_ecology for the great meeting on butterfly conservation and modelling! Can’t wait to get started on all the great projects. Also shout out to @Stephinscience for great project ideas!

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

At #ESA2024 and interested in learning about the composition of urban plant communities (and the role that traits play)? Come see my talk tomorrow at 10 am in COS059! 🌿��

[Simon Joly (@simjoly.bsky.social) @simjoly]

Later today, Sufia Khader will present her project on the clonal structure and conservation of the rare plant Polemonium vanbruntiae. #Evol2024

📌 5:45, poster session 1, room 220DE
📷 : @Stephinscience

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

@chrisvanswaay Just curious, what location is being represented here in the graph? Are these European populations?

[Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa @uOttawa]

In a world-first, an international team of scientists demonstrated that Painted Lady butterflies (Vanessa cardui) flew at least 4,200 km over the ocean from West Africa to French Guiana, South America.

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Happy Tuesday from the humble black-capped chickadee!🌞

[Insect Conservation and Diversity @InsectDiversity]

More #OpenAccess work from The Ecology and Conservation of #UrbanInsects Special Issue!

@stephinscience & @hkharouba report on taxonomic & functional homogenization of #butterfly communities along an urban gradient: https://t.co/1bwpeQALty #UrbanEcology

Photo credits: S.Rivest

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Butterflies... nature's role model for re-inventing yourself 😅 ft. female European Common Blue in Montreal

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

City nature challenge in 1 week! Get your cameras ready...👀👀

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Flight period length may help to explain some of this variation! Butterflies with longer flight periods were more common in urban areas... like this painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui)! 3/3

All images: S. Rivest

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

New paper in @InsectDiversity with @hkharouba & @uOttawa on the impacts of urbanization on butterfly community composition! Read it here... https://t.co/FRHBw0RrDr @RoyEntSoc

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[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

Butterflies are present in cities! But the communities are species-poor, homogenized, and contain more non-native butterflies than surrounding rural areas. 🏙️🦋 2/3

[Stephanie Rivest, PhD @Stephinscience]

First time at the @csbq_qcbs symposium! Having a great time 😃