Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure
Happy to share our open access publication that was produced as part of Kristen Hirsh-Pearson’s thesis research that was published in FACETS: Canada’s human footprint reveals large intact areas juxtaposed against areas under immense anthropogenic pressure Our data can be found under the data availability statement in the information section of the article and is…
Most species’ declines can be attributed to habitat loss, but there is more to extinction risk than just habitat loss
CSL student Juan Pablo Ramírez-Delgado led an international team to measure the relationship between habitat fragmentation, matrix condition and the change in the risk of extinction of 4,426 terrestrial mammals. The resulting paper, just published in Nature Communications, revealed that the effects of habitat fragmentation on the risk of species extinction are mediated by the…
UNBC PhD candidate Jose Aragon is part of an international research team recognized for its work supporting the United Nations sustainable development goals in South America
Aragon collaborated on a project funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) that received a Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Sustainable Development Goal Award. The award, in the intergovernmental category, was presented to project partners United Nations Development Program Colombia, United Nations Development Program Ecuador and United Nations Development Program Peru. “Conservation is…
Tropical forests are home to over half of the world’s vertebrate species
What do a jaguar, a ring-tailed lemur and a ruby-throated hummingbird have in common? They are all among the 62 percent of terrestrial vertebrate species that call tropical forests home, according to a study by CSL researchers published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Tropical forests play a central role in biodiversity conservation and…
Oscar Venter receives a NRESi Distinguished Scholar Award
Oscar Venter was recently awarded the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Natural Resource and Environmental Studies Institute for his achievements in 2020. Oscar had an extremely prolific year in 2020 with 20 published peer-reviewed contribution Dr. Venter and collaborators published in a variety of upper echelon journals in 2020, including the likes of: Global Change…
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