Welcome

We study the causes and consequences of biodiversity change. Several key questions motivate what we do:
  • How fast  is biodiversity changing: where and why?
  • How does biodiversity change impact ecosystems?
  • What are the costs and benefits to human society, and what can we do to prevent irreversible loss of biodiversity?
With the support of the Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation we translate this research into knowledge for conservation and policy in Canada. We are particularly focused on the restoration of ecological connectivity in human-dominated landscapes. 

We recently started a spin-off company (Eco2Urb) that is applying our science to the design of ecological networks for cities, like Montreal.

I also support 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
  • Thrilled to announce that GEO BON, the global organization for biodiversity monitoring, is moving its headquarters to Montreal and will be hosted by the QCBS. I will take on the challenge of being the co-Chair for the next 6 years. Press release here and here. 
  • Congratulations to Dr. Katie Millette and Dr Alessandra Loria for defending their PhDs!
  • New papers from the lab:
Fugère V., et al. (2020) Community rescue in experimental phytoplankton communities facing severe herbicide pollution. Nature Ecology & Evolution (LEAP publication #2)

Gonzalez, A., Germain, R., Srivastava, D. et al. (2020) Scaling‐up biodiversity‐ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters (open access).