Welcome

Our research is focused on the causes and consequences of biodiversity change. Important human causes include habitat loss and fragmentation from land cover change, climate change, and pollution. We also study how biodiversity change impacts ecosystems and the costs and benefits that arise. 

We translate our research into knowledge for conservation and policy. We are particularly focused on the restoration of ecological connectivity in human-dominated landscapes.  We are applying this to the design of ecosystem networks for cities, like Montreal.

We are also supporting collaboration and training in biodiversity science via the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, a large research network of 120 researchers and ~500 graduate students, we founded in 2009.

Lab News
On twitter @bio_diverse

• In press: Martins et al. (2018) Complementary crops and landscape features sustain wild bee communities. Ecological Applications.
  
• In Science Gilarranz et al. (2017) Effects of network modularity on the spread of perturbation impact in experimental metapopulations.
  

           Read the excellent Perspective piece

• In Nature Isbell, F., Gonzalez et al. (2017) Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales.
  
• Thompson, P. L. & Gonzalez, A. (2017) Dispersal governs the reorganization of ecological networks under environmental change. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1: 0162 
  

            Explore results with Shiny app here
            Press release: here

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