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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Friday Discussion this Week – Zombie Ideas in Ecology

This week we will discuss a paper called "Is the notion that species interactions are stronger and more specialized in the tropics a zombie idea?" by Moles and Ollerton in Biotropica (2016) Zombie ideas are ideas that are dead - killed by data - but they "still wander the world feasting on scientists' brains".... More

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Road Castle Group Meets in Our Lab

Last week we hosted the 'Road Castle Group' meeting in our lab. This is a small group of international researchers from Australia, Canada, and the Netherlands who publish on the ecological effects of roads and especially on how we can improve research on road ecology and road mitigation. We are called the 'Road Castle... More

Friday, January 22, 2016

Article on Ewen Eberhardt’s road work

Here's a link to an article in the Great Lakes Echo, about Ewen Eberhardt's road kill study. Ewen did his MSc in the lab and now works for the Canadian Wildlife Service. Here's the link: article on Ewen Eberhardt's... More

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Gen travels the globe by bike

Look what doing an MSc in our lab can inspire you to do! Gen Perkins finished up her MSc in August 2015, documenting the (lack of) effect of urban cats on urban bird populations. Great news for cat lovers. Two days later she and partner Michel took off on a bicycle trip from the... More

Friday, October 30, 2015

Justin Travis visiting from Scotland

Professor Justin Travis is visiting the lab this week from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Dr. Travis does research on the evolution of dispersal and range boundaries, in response to land use change and climate change. He will be here as external examiner on Amanda Martin's PhD defense. He will also be presenting... More

Friday, October 23, 2015

Sabbatical Visit by Angela Lausch

Angela Lausch, a researcher at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, is spending her sabbatical year 2015-16 in our lab. Dr. Lausch works on integrating biological information across spatial scales. She begins with measurements of plant traits, e.g. water stress, in the lab. She uses hyper-spectral imagery, taken... More

Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Brazilian student camera-traps a wolf

Brazilian PhD student, Igor Coelho, on exchange in the lab through the Brazilian "PhD Sandwich" program, is an expert at camera-trapping mammals. Here are a couple of photos from his work in the Brazilian Cerrado.     And last weekend on our lab camping trip in Algonquin Park, Igor got this shot of a... More

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Article on our bat woman

  An article highlighting recent MSc graduate, Liv Monck-Whipp. Liv's research found that bats are more abundant in agricultural landscapes with a high diversity of crop... More

Monday, July 13, 2015

Roads to hoe: farming, biodiversity and roadkill

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Monday, July 6, 2015

Meet Graduate Student Sara Collins

Sara Collins is a PhD supervised by Lenore Fahrig. In her own words: My research is on the influence of Agricultural Landscape Structure on Aquatic Biodiversity and Water Quality in Farmland.  Agricultural intensification is a primary driver of biodiversity declines across taxa, and land use change for agriculture has been identified as the... More

Monday, July 6, 2015

Meet Graduate Student Liv Monck-Whipp

Liv Monck-Whipp is a Masters student supervised by Lenore Fahrig. In her own words: I am a Master's student working with Dr. Lenore Fahrig on the Farmland Biodiversity Project. My research is around the relevance of landscape heterogeneity to bat diversity and abundance in agricultural Eastern Ontario. As agriculture represents a significant... More

Monday, June 15, 2015

Friday Discussion in the Fahrig Lab

Every Friday we discuss a recent paper in Landscape and Conservation Ecology. Find out what paper we are discussing now by emailing  lenore.fahrig@carleton.ca.... More

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