Centre de la science de la biodiversité du Québec / Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science

Killam for Chapman

Annie — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:03:55 +0000

QCBS symposium
Save the date! The 2012 QCBS symposium will take place from December 12 to 14, 2012 at the Coeur des Sciences, UQAM. See other upcoming events in biodiversity

Congratulations!
to Colin Chapman for the Killam Research Fellowships

QCBS researchers in the news
… at a TEDx conference
… in Les Années-Lumières
… in Le Code Chastenay

CC-suivi and connection

Annie — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:37:33 +0000

Establishing priorities about biodiversity monitoring
The team of the CC-Suivi project, which includes a number of QCBS researchers as well as the MDDEP and MRNF, collected the perspectives from 800 actors about the key priorities for monitoring biodiversity in the context of climate change.

BAM! Biodiversity Articles Mapper
The Biodiversity Articles Mapper is a mapping tool for geo-located scientific articles. This project originated from a collaboration between the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science (QCBS) and Zoological Record at Thomson Reuters. Access BAM!

Ecosystem services and biodiversity
The Montérégie Connection project, launched by several QCBS members to investigate the link between ecosystem services, biodiversity and connectivity is well under way. Visit the website regularly for project news, opportunities, and the long list of partners.

Blog Le Beagle

glaroc — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:03:13 +0000

CC-suivi and Connections

Annie — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:27:25 +0000

Share your perspective about biodiversity monitoring
The team of the CC-Suivi project, which includes a number of QCBS researchers as well as the MDDEP and MRNF, invites you to share your perspective about the key priorities for monitoring biodiversity in the context of climate change, though a brief anonymous survey. Click here to complete the survey.

Ecosystem services and biodiversity
Several QCBS members have launched a project to investigate the connections between ecosystem services, biodiversity, and landscape connectivity in the Montérégie. Visit the project website…

Biodiversity and organizations
The QCBS is part of the initiative: Towards biodiversity assessments for business: developing a coordinated approach in Québec. Read more (.pdf)…

QCBS symposium 2011

Annie — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:22:21 +0000

QCBS symposium
The annual QCBS symposium, held on 7-9 December, was a great success! Thanks to all who contributed and participated. View presentations from the symposium.

Au revoir Dr. Dansereau
The QCBS team is extremely saddened by the news of Pierre Dansereau’s death. He played a fundamental role in crafting ecology science in Québec and worldwide. Read his bio here, or listen to the documentary ‘An Ecology of Hope’ .

QCBS researchers in the news
… in La Presse
… in Les Affaires
… on the BBC
… in Le Code Chastenay
… in MediaPlanet

Features

Annie — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:01:54 +0000

Call for action by QCBS researchers
Concerted action on marine protected areas (MPAs) in Canada, by Frederic Guichard, McGill University, Read more…,

Perspectives on biodiversity
Outlook on biodiversity, by the French Society of Ecology. Read more …

Tom Lovejoy’s editorials in the International Herald Tribune… Read more…

Book release
New book “Numerical Ecology with R” from QCBS member Pierre Legendre. Read more…

Biodiversity workshop for business

Philippe — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:06:17 +0000

Call for more concerted action on marine protected areas (MPAs) in Canada by Frederic Guichard, Associate Professor, McGill University, Read more…,

Evening lecture on the topic: Is the biologist profession at risk? on June 2, 2011 by Pierre Yves Robidoux, President of the Association of Biologists of Quebec (ABQ).

Engaging the Canadian Business Community in Support of the Nagoya Biodiversity Compact. Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat co-hosts with QCBS and other partners a Biodiversity Workshop for Quebec-Based Companies. More…

Save the date! The QCBS annual symposium will be held 7-9 December 2011 in Montréal. More details will be provided soon.

New book by Pierre Legendre

Annie — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:10:15 +0000

Daniel Borcard, Francois Gillet and Pierre Legendre recently published the book “Numerical Ecology with R“. Pierre Legendre is a professor at Universié de Montréal and a QCBS member. He also is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Ecology/Environment.

From the publisher: “Numerical Ecology with R provides a long-awaited bridge between a textbook in Numerical Ecology and the implementation of this discipline in the R language. After short theoretical overviews, the authors accompany the users through the exploration of the methods by means of applied and extensively commented examples. Users are invited to use this book as a teaching companion at the computer. The travel starts with exploratory approaches, proceeds with the construction of association matrices, then addresses three families of methods: clustering, unconstrained and canonical ordination, and spatial analysis. All the necessary data files, the scripts used in the chapters, as well as the extra R functions and packages written by the authors, can be downloaded from a web page accessible through the Springer web site (http://www.bio.umontreal.ca/numecolR/).”

Launch of the Centre sur la Biodiversité

Annie — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:45:02 +0000

We have just released our QCBS members’ guide that summarizes the activities of the Centre in two pages. This guide offers a quick overview of the functioning of the Centre, of funding opportunities, of communication tools, etc. Download it here

The Centre sur la Biodiversité de l’Université de Montréal will be launched March 10. Look at the invitation…

In its weekly science program, Les années lumière, Radio Canada highlighted the QCBS first annual symposium, focusing on the questions of biodiversity and economics. Listen to the story…

Booklet and slides for presentations of the 2010 QCBS symposium are available.

The CCA Report of the Expert Panel on Biodiversity Science, was released November 18. See the video or read more…

Features

Annie — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:16:04 +0000

Outlook and debates on biodiversity, by the French Society of Ecology. Read more …

The QCBS director’s view on biodiversity… Read more…

New book by QCBS member Pierre Legendre. Read more…

Tom Lovejoy’s editorials on biodiversity in the International Herald Tribune… Read more…

Video showing fine scale, transient systems such as hurricanes and typhoons. On our blog…