Genetic diversity indicators in Quebec: a subnational and temporal analysis of genetic diversity status and trends
Project Description
This K2A project is focused on the exchange of knowledge between basic research and end users, with a specific purpose of informing policy, decision making, and action for conserving genetic diversity. This project will leverage a group of QCBS participants and stakeholder involvement to implement a novel research direction which has been highlighted through sustained dialogue with end user partners, who have expressed a need for new methods and tools for genetic diversity indicators. The K2A project will work on two new research directions: the first implementation of genetic diversity indicators at a sub-national level (in Quebec), and the first temporal calculation of genetic indicators in order to understand rates of change in indicator values, including hindcasting indicator values on a decadal scale. This will require integrating three of the QCBS research axes: Observe and monitor, Detect changes, and Support decisions. It will require integration of these different axes, and it will require communication and hand-in-hand work with the end users
Principal Investigator
- Fanie Pelletier, Université de Sherbrooke
Collaborators
- Dany Garant, Université de Sherbrooke
- Andrew Gonzalez, McGill University
- Laura Pollock, McGill University
Student members
- Isaac Eckert, McGill University
- Pier-Alexandre Grenier, Université du Québec en Outaouais
- April Kowalchuk-Reid, McGill University
- Olivia Rahn, McGill University
- Cameron So, McGill University
Other participants on this project
- Sean Hoban, The Morton Arboretum
- Carolyne Houle, Université de Sherbrooke
- Katie Millette, GEO BON
- Katherine Hebert, McGill
