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Thursday, September 17, 2020

Five new additions to the lab this year

This year we welcome - via zoom - five new lab members! Sean Patterson is an MSc student. He will be looking at road and traffic effects on porcupine populations. Porcupines have only one baby per year so we predict that road kill has a big effect on their populations. Alec Medd is also... More

Monday, September 7, 2020

Conservation Science faculty position at Carleton

Carleton is advertising a faculty position in Conservation Science. The closing date is October 1st. Here is the link to the ad: https://carleton.ca/biology/employment-opportunities/#sect1.2 Please distribute this far and wide, especially to landscape ecologists :)... More

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Small crop fields and biodiversity: The Conversation

The Conversation is a news outlet that provides a link between research and the public. Articles in The Conversation are written by researchers in collaboration with an editor to make them engaging to the public and other media. This week The Conversation published an article about our work showing that agricultural landscapes with small... More

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Skate to Pub, and SLOSS

Last week was the lab's annual skate to the pub. As you can see, it was a fabulous day. The ice was so good even a Brazilian gave it a go!    On the way Arrived At the pub   Meanwhile, I was over here in Germany on sabbatical, running a workshop on "SLOSS... More

Tuesday, January 28, 2020

No-fly sabbatical in Europe

Five years ago I gave up flying. I had discovered that air travel was by far the biggest part of my personal carbon footprint - four times as big as heating my house with gas (which we've now stopped doing) and ten times as big as the small amount of driving I do. To... More

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Tree of Life at Convocation

This fall I had the honour of giving the convocation address. Here's what I said:   "Mr. Vice-Chancellor, Chair of the Board of Governors, colleagues, graduates, and cheering section: President Bacon has asked me to speak about sustainability and to give you some advice. He's given me just 5 minutes. This won't be easy... More

Thursday, September 26, 2019

4 new MSc students join the lab this fall

This fall we welcome four new MSc students to the lab. Kayla Attinello will test the "space for time" assumption that is common throughout ecology, especially landscape ecology. For example, if forest bird diversity is lower in a landscape with less forest than in a landscape with more forest (space), can we conclude that... More

Thursday, September 26, 2019

2 Brazilian PhD students to spend the winter in the lab

Two Brazilian students will spend part of their PhD's with us in the lab this winter, thanks to scholarships from the Brazilian Government. Tainá Assis is studying at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research. She is researching how the community of small mammals is changing due to the advancing agricultural frontier in the... More

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Blast from the past

Indian researcher, Hari Sridhar (see photo), has posted an interview about my 1985 (!) paper in Ecology on his blog site called "Reflections on Papers Past: Revisiting old papers in ecology and evolution through interviews with their authors" Here is the link to the interview:... More

Friday, April 12, 2019

A year in publications – 2018

Last year the Fahrig lab published 9 journal articles on amphibians, bats, birds, and insects, and more. Here are some of our results. Landscape context is more important than wetland buffers for farmland amphibians. Bat and bat prey abundance are higher at organic than conventional fields. Habitat specialist birds disperse farther than habitat... More

Friday, April 12, 2019

How big is a landscape?

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

And another Mexican visits the lab

Visiting PhD student Marisela Martínez Ruíz is spending 3 months in the lab to hone her landscape ecology know-how. Marisela works on raptors (birds of prey). During her MSc Marisela studied forest falcons in the rain forest. For her PhD she moved to the dry forest of western Mexico where she is studying habitat... More

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