/newsroom/taxonomy/term/814/all en /newsroom/virginie-millien Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:55:20 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 288462 at /newsroom /newsroom/bernhard-lehner Fri, 17 Jan 2020 19:16:46 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 197004 at /newsroom /newsroom/anna-hargreaves Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 152856 at /newsroom /newsroom/article/multidisciplinary-framework-derive-global-river-reach-classifications-high-spatial-resolution <p><em>New paper by Camille Ouellet Dallaire and Bernhard Lehner (Æ»¹ûÒùÔº Department of Geography), Roger Sayre (US Geological Survey, Reston, VA) and Michele Thieme (World Wildlife Fund, Washington, DC)</em></p> <p>Source: <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad8e9">Environmental Research Letters</a> Published January 25, 2019</p> <p> </p> Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:41:06 +0000 Newsroom 137030 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/climate-change-much-greater-diversity-species-need-rethink-conservation-paradigms-287098 <p>A team of researchers believe that Quebec’s protected areas are poised to become biodiversity refuges of continental importance. They used ecological niche modeling to calculate potential changes in the presence of 529 species in about 1/3 of the protected areas in southern Quebec almost all of which were under 50 km2 in size. Their results suggest that fifty - eighty years from now (between 2071–2100) close to half of the protected regions of southern Quebec may see a species turnover of greater than 80 %.</p> Tue, 08 May 2018 19:13:57 +0000 katherine.gombay@mcgill.ca 39582 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/borrowing-leaf-biology-preserve-threatened-languages-283334 <p>One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, Æ»¹ûÒùÔº scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.</p> Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:53:52 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 32765 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/protecting-lifes-tangled-ecological-webs-268045 <p>Ecosystems are a complex web of interactions. These ecological networks are being reorganized by extinctions and colonization events caused by human impacts, such as climate change and habitat destruction. In a paper published this week in <em>Nature Ecology & Evolution</em>, researchers from Æ»¹ûÒùÔº and University of British Columbia have developed a new theory to understand how complex ecological networks will reorganize in the future.</p> Tue, 09 May 2017 13:31:04 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 28600 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/measuring-protection-worlds-rivers-263979 <p>To  what extent are the world’s rivers protected?  </p> <p><span>In 2010, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), an international treaty for the conservation of biodiversity, </span><a href="https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/">set a 17% target</a><span> for the protection of ‘inland waters,’ including rivers. But there was a problem: there was no good way to measure progress toward that target.  </span></p> Fri, 04 Nov 2016 18:16:17 +0000 priya.pajel@mail.mcgill.ca 26365 at /newsroom /newsroom/anthony-ricciardi Tue, 26 Feb 2019 16:59:44 +0000 Anonymous 22664 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