conservation

Bringing environmental policymakers together to focus on the future sparks empathy for nature and later generations, �鶹��ý��վ study finds

claire.loewen@mcgill.ca — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 15:19:03 +0000

When environmental policymakers are invited to imagine the future together, they don’t just think differently, they feel differently, too.

Virginie Millien

shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:55:20 +0000

Bernhard Lehner

shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca — Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:16:46 +0000

Anna Hargreaves

laurie.devine@mcgill.ca — Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000

Classifying the world's rivers

Newsroom — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:41:06 +0000

New paper by Camille Ouellet Dallaire and Bernhard Lehner (�鶹��ý��վ Department of Geography), Roger Sayre (US Geological Survey, Reston, VA) and Michele Thieme (World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC)

Source: Environmental Research Letters Published January 25, 2019

Climate change = a much greater diversity of species + a need to rethink conservation paradigms

katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca — Tue, 08 May 2018 19:13:57 +0000

A team of researchers believe that Quebec’s protected areas are poised to become biodiversity refuges of continental importance. They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes in the presence of 529 species in about 1/3 of the protected areas in southern Quebec almost all of which were under 50 km2 in size. Their results suggest that fifty - eighty years from now (between 2071–2100) close to half of the protected regions of southern Quebec may see a species turnover of greater than 80 %.

Borrowing a leaf from biology to preserve threatened languages

priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:53:52 +0000

One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, �鶹��ý��վ scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.

Protecting life’s tangled ecological webs

christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca — Tue, 09 May 2017 13:31:04 +0000

Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers from �鶹��ý��վ and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.

Measuring protection of the world’s rivers

priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca — Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:16:17 +0000

To what extent are the world’s rivers protected?

In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, set a 17% target for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.

Anthony Ricciardi

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Martin J. Lechowicz

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Catherine Potvin

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