New flora of Quebec
Project Description
The objective of this Knowledge-to-Action (K2A) Research Group is to catalyze the transition to an organized and sustainable structure by establishing a collaboration between university researchers at the CSBQ, the Quebec Ministry of the Environment (MELCCFP), and FloraQuebeca, thereby creating a network that will then be able to more easily access other sources of funding. The specific objectives of this K2A are to: • Establish a permanent editorial committee bringing together researchers, professionals, and qualified amateur botanists; • Collectively define the project vision through targeted consultations (e.g., format, number of volumes, content, iconography, ecological data, etc.); • Organize four writing workshops to obtain a prototype presentable to publishers and funders; • Develop a manual of editorial standards and procedures based on these workshops; • Initially create a relational database of morphological traits (using, for example, DELTA or LUCID) to generate automated keys and descriptions.
Principal Investigator
- Étienne Léveillé-Bourret, Université de Montréal
Collaborators
- Jacques Brisson, Université de Montréal
- Mark Vellend, Université de Sherbrooke
Student members
- Xavier St-Amant, Université de Sherbrooke
Other participants on this project
- Luc Sirois, UQAR
- Alain Cuerrier, IRBV
- Stéphanie Pellerin, IRBV
- Guillaume de Lafontaine, UQAR
- Julian Starr, Ottawa University
