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Thursday, June 11, 2015

From crops to roadkill: Lenore Fahrig aims to reduce human impact on biodiversity

By Kristy Strauss When Lenore Fahrig would go visit her parents in Merrickville, Ontario – about an hour drive outside Ottawa – she noticed something strange. As she drove the usual route along the Rideau River on the bustling Old Highway 16, and then on the quiet County Road 2, she noticed there seemed... More

Monday, January 12, 2015

Road ecology: balancing human needs with ecology

As of 2015, Dr. Fahrig has published 148 journal articles and has co-written three books and collaborated with many other researchers for various projects and have had their work included in 30 book chapters. One of her significant works is the collaboration for the production of the book Road Ecology: Science and Solutions. This... More

Thursday, June 26, 2014

NSERC awards a Discovery Accelerator Supplements Program grant to Dr. Lenore Fahrig

For the second time in her career, Dr. Lenore Fahrig has been awarded a Discovery Accelerators Supplements (DAS) Program award for her research project titled Predicting the scale of landscape context effects: How big is a landscape? The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's DAS Program awards additional resources to 125... More

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity

With over twenty-thousand citations in her name, Dr. Fahrig’s work continues to show significance in the field of landscape, habitat and ecological research. Among her publications, her review titled, “Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Biodiversity” (2003), has become one her most significant work with over three-thousand citations (by... More

Saturday, January 4, 2014

Current Landscape Ecology Reports names Fahrig as editor-in-chief

Current Landscape Ecology Reports journal has appointed Dr. Fahrig as the editor-in-chief. Landscape Ecology publishes research done by the International Association for Landscape Ecology. As it continues to develop, the journal focuses on bringing together works that engage further understanding of ecological issues by exploring primitive and... More

Monday, April 8, 2013

Want to know about Amphibian Conservation 101?

A great resource by two GLEL graduate students! Check out this plain-language brochure on amphibian conservation. Download a copy... More

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Collaboration on Habitat Loss and Fragmentation

Dr. Lenore Fahrig collaborated with a former postdoctoral associate, Heather Bird Jackson, on the subject of Habitat Loss and Fragmentation and their contribution to advancing knowledge in the ecological field was recognized and included in the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Biodiversity. The encyclopedia is a 7-volume series known to... More

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