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Tuesday, January 17, 2017

South America, Secret Santa, Sustainable Ag, Siam Kitchen, and Adiós

December was a busy time in the lab. The month opened with the Landscape Ecology Latin American Congress in Temuco, Chile. GLEL-ers Fernanda Teixeira, Gen Perkins, Sandra Martins de Freitas, and Ludmila Rattis came from various corners of the western hemisphere to re-connect with each other and to meet researchers from 15 Latin American... More

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

New review shows most effects of fragmentation per se are positive

Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 2017 will publish a new review of effects of fragmentation per se. Surprisingly this review shows that, when significant, effects of habitat fragmentation independent of habitat loss are more likely to be positive than negative. Read the pre-print here:... More

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Royal Society of Canada inducts a landscape ecologist

This November, Lenore will be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Carleton's PR people have done a great job highlighting this historic event. See: And also: Not to mention: http://science.carleton.ca/node/149... More

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Five new MSc students join the lab

This fall the lab welcomes five new MSc students! Claire Farrell will study how the spatial pattern of clearcutting affects the distribution of Whip-poor-wills and Nighthawks. Kellie Heney will compare the success rate of turtles nesting along roads vs. away from roads. Lauren Hepburn will study the relationship between environmental variables and... More

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Inaugural issue of Current Landscape Ecology Reports

The long-awaited new Springer journal Current Landscape Ecology Reports (CLER to those in the know) has published its first dozen papers. Lenore is the editor-in-chief, and the journal boasts a stellar crew of editors and advisors. For the first two years access will be free, so go have a look:... More

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Spanish scientist Lluis Brotons to Spend 5 months in the lab

Lluis Brotons, senior scientist at the Centre for Mediterranean Forest Research in Solsona, Spain, will spend 5 months in the GLEL starting next week. Lluis works on understanding and predicting the impacts of global change such as climate or land use change, and the interactions between, them on ecological communities. Should make for some... More

Tuesday, August 23, 2016

Labour Day Weekend Canoe-camping

Once again, hardy lab members and friends will be taking canoes to the wilderness of Algonquin Park. This year's fall trip is on Labour Day weekend. Bring... More

Friday, July 29, 2016

Story about Gen’s amazing journey

The Carleton PR people have just published a story on Gen's amazing bike trip from Jasper National Park to the southern tip of South America. Read it here:... More

Friday, July 29, 2016

German forest ecologists to visit the lab

Sebastian Seibold and Jörg Müller, forest ecologists from the Technische Universität München will visit the lab for Friday discussion on August 12th. Sebastian is lead author on a paper testing the habitat amount hypothesis for dead wood beetles in a forested region of Germany. Come and hear about their... More

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Spring Camping 2016

This year's lab spring camping trip will be 2 weeks from now, on Lac Vert, a favourite. It's a short paddle, with no portages and camping on a beautiful island in a beautiful lake. If the blackflies are bad we can always distract ourselves with fond memories of lab activities earlier in the year... More

Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Roads, fences, and wildlife passages with Jochen Jaeger

This Friday the lab will host a visit from Jochen Jaeger, from Concordia University. Jochen will lead an all-day workshop, to develop a research agenda on mitigating road-kill impacts on Québec highways. We will spend the morning brainstorming and then discuss the results for Friday Discussion. Following that, a quick wrap-up and we'll be... More

Thursday, April 14, 2016

For the Record – Fahrig Lab Publications in 2015

In 2015 the Fahrig lab published 12 journal papers - on mammals, birds, spiders, bees, plants, and more. We published on road impacts and mitigation, on farmland heterogeneity, and on forest and wetland loss and fragmentation. We published data papers, modelling papers, meta-analyses, papers on how to design studies, and papers on how to... More

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