/channels/taxonomy/term/4161/all en /channels/channels/news/not-so-sweet-after-all-are-candy-striped-spiders-threat-ecosystems-across-north-america-347859 <div class="bl-tpl">For years, pollinator declines have been a pressing issue for ecosystem health and food security in the face of climate change and human impacts on the environment. Even in their sleep, pollinating insects cannot catch a break – for fear they’ll be taken down by a small, but mighty predator: the candy-striped spider. Research published in <i>Ecology </i>took a closer look into this spider’s behaviour and found that the result of their stealth attacks could have substantial impacts on ecosystems.</div> Wed, 19 Apr 2023 15:48:18 +0000 webfull 189095 at /channels /channels/channels/news/fossil-discovery-reveals-complex-ecosystems-existed-earth-much-earlier-previously-thought-345984 <p>About 250 million years ago, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction killed over 80 per cent of the planet's species. In the aftermath, scientists believe that life on earth was dominated by simple species for up to 10 million years before more complex ecosystems could evolve. Now this longstanding theory is being challenged by a team of international researchers – including scientists from ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ and Université du Québec à Montréal.</p> Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:36:53 +0000 webfull 187130 at /channels /channels/channels/event/department-natural-resource-sciences-invited-seminar-series-digging-deeper-understand-how-soils-333582 <p>Dr.</p> Wed, 22 Sep 2021 19:40:58 +0000 webfull 173325 at /channels /channels/channels/event/department-natural-resource-sciences-invited-seminar-series-climate-change-research-and-action-must-333349 <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> Wed, 15 Sep 2021 19:10:08 +0000 webfull 173063 at /channels /channels/channels/news/radio-canada-protection-des-ecosystemes-urbains-284487 <p>Partout au monde, l’extension des villes transforme le paysage et fragmente les écosystèmes. Selon l’écologue montréalais Andrew Gonzalez, 70% des forêts de la planète sont à moins d’un kilomètre d’activité humaine, elles sont donc interrompues par des routes, ou des villes. Ce scientifique cherche à présent le meilleur moyen pour reconnecter les forêts urbaines.</p> <p><a href="http://ici.radio-canada.ca/tele/decouverte/site/segments/reportage/57378/ecosysteme-urbain">Radio-Canada</a></p> Mon, 05 Feb 2018 17:52:10 +0000 webfull 134778 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257865 <p><em><strong>By Katherine Gombay, </strong><strong><a href="//www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/">ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</em></p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:27:40 +0000 webfull 115267 at /channels /channels/news/nearing-limits-life-earth-257977 <h3>Failure to find active microbes in coldest Antarctic soils has implications for search for life on Mars</h3> <p>Natural Resource Sciences professor Lyle Whyte and postdoctoral fellow Jackie Goordial talk about their research which suggests that it is unlikely that it is unlikely that there is any microbial life to be found on Mars.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:32:49 +0000 webfull 115343 at /channels /channels/news/protecting-life%E2%80%99s-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 ƽÌØÎå²»ÖÐ 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 15:39:46 +0000 webfull 128150 at /channels