/newsroom/taxonomy/term/1117/all en /newsroom/virginie-millien Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:55:20 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288462 at /newsroom /newsroom/rowan-barrett Fri, 19 Aug 2022 21:08:19 +0000 lawrence.chiang@mail.mcgill.ca 288318 at /newsroom /newsroom/andrew-hendry Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:54:35 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 286029 at /newsroom /newsroom/jesse-shapiro Tue, 21 Dec 2021 21:59:44 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 283747 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/secret-lives-canada-lynx-331256 <p>Using a Fitbit and a spy mic, scientists have discovered new insight into the behaviour of the elusive Canada lynx. A <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13605">new study</a> by researchers from ƻ����Ժ, University of Alberta, and Trent University provides a first look at how miniaturized technology can open the door to remote wildlife monitoring.</p> Fri, 28 May 2021 20:14:01 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 267988 at /newsroom /newsroom/andrew-gonzalez Wed, 23 Dec 2020 20:51:46 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 254373 at /newsroom /newsroom/fiona-soper Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:31:51 +0000 frederique.mazerolle@mcgill.ca 196643 at /newsroom /newsroom/anna-hargreaves Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 152856 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/male-guppies-grow-larger-brains-response-predator-exposure-287497 <p><span>Male guppies exposed to predators in the wild or in captivity have heavier brains than those living in relatively predator-free conditions, according to new research published in the journal <em>Functional Ecology</em>.</span></p> <p>Behavioural ecologists at ƻ����Ժ in Montreal sampled guppies from two rivers in northern Trinidad. In each river, guppies live both above a waterfall, a location that only guppies and a few other small species of fish have managed to colonize, and below the fall, where many predators including pike cichlids live.</p> Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:48:51 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 43306 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/nature-how-warp-speed-evolution-transforming-ecology-284360 <p>Even for the most common processes, such as changes in population size or food chains, ecologists must take evolution into consideration, researchers say. “Everybody realized rapid evolution was occurring everywhere,” says evolutionary ecologist Andrew Hendry of ƻ����Ժ.</p> <p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-01400-y">Nature</a></p> Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:08:56 +0000 nathan.menezes@mail.mcgill.ca 32914 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/scientists-scan-horizon-future-invasive-species-challenges-268002 <p><span>Shipping and mining in the Arctic. The spread of invasive microbial pathogens around the world. Changing agricultural practices. Use of genomic-modification tools. Those are among the 14 most significant issues that could affect the science and management of invasive species over the next two decades, according to an international team of ecologists, who published their findings in the journal <em>Trends in Ecology and Evolution</em>.</span></p> Thu, 04 May 2017 14:11:54 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 28130 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/taking-stock-worlds-lakes-264815 <p>The total shoreline of the world’s lakes is more than four times longer than the global ocean coastline. And if all the water in those lakes were spread over the Earth’s landmass, it would form a layer some four feet (1.3 metres) deep.<br />  <br /></p> Thu, 15 Dec 2016 02:04:57 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 26501 at /newsroom /newsroom/kushalappa-ajjamada Thu, 06 Jul 2023 11:18:07 +0000 Anonymous 22594 at /newsroom /newsroom/martin-j-lechowicz Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 24050 at /newsroom /newsroom/catherine-potvin Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 23622 at /newsroom