Welcome

Our research is focused on the causes and consequences of biodiversity change. Important causes include habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, and emergent diseases. We also study how biodiversity change impacts ecosystems and the many benefits we get from them. 

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 committed to improving opportunities for collaboration and training in biodiversity science via the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science a large research network we founded in 2009.

Lab News
On twitter @bio_diverse

• Out now in Nature Isbell, F., Gonzalez et al. (2017) "Linking the influence and dependence of people on biodiversity across scales".
• Gonzalez et al. (2016) Estimating local biodiversity change: a critique of papers claiming no net loss of local biodiversity. Ecology is now a ISI Hot Paper ​ 
• ​Blog piece about connectivity conservation for our new paper in Conservation Biology
• Out now: 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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