/channels/taxonomy/term/1416/all en /channels/channels/news/what-areas-should-canada-protect-save-species-risk-extinction-347665 <p>At the recent COP 15 conference in Montreal, Canada committed to protecting 30% of its land by 2030, but which areas are most crucial to protect for at-risk species such as the spotted turtles?</p> <p>In <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2022.2307" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">a new study</a> published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University researchers overlayed maps of species at risk to find hotspots where many species live together. They found that hotspots often overlap.</p> Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:14:41 +0000 webfull 188877 at /channels /channels/channels/news/setting-targets-wetland-restoration-mitigate-climate-change-effects-watershed-hydrology-344810 <p>How much wetland we should protect or restore is not a simple question, such that conservation targets are often set according to political agendas, then standardized globally. However, given their key regulating hydrological functions, wetlands represent nature-based solutions to the anticipated, exacerbating effect of climate change on drought and flood events, which will vary at the regional scale. </p> Tue, 10 Jan 2023 16:46:20 +0000 webfull 185892 at /channels /channels/channels/news/three-dimensions-flower-344271 <p>To better understand the evolution of flowers, a research team in biology from Université de Montréal , the Montréal Botanical Garden, and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University (Daniel Schoen, Biology) have succeeded in using photogrammetry to quickly and precisely build, in three dimensions, a model of a flower from two-dimensional images.</p> <p>Photogrammetry is commonly used by geographers to reconstruct the topography of a landscape. However, this is the first time that scientists have used the technique to design 3D models of flowers in order to better study them.</p> Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:08:59 +0000 webfull 185301 at /channels /channels/channels/event/organelles-without-borders-how-liquid-droplets-organize-cell-339950 <p>We welcome you to another IN-PERSON and online public lecture!</p> Fri, 17 Jun 2022 17:40:37 +0000 webfull 180580 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mcgill-crcs-awarded-2020-2022-cycle-and-nfrf-transformation-results-336153 <p>On January 12, the Federal Government announced more than $295 million for science, research, and engineering in Canada through the Canada Research Chairs (CRC) 2020-2 cycle, the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) 2020 Transformation results, and the Tri-agency Scholarships and Fellowships.</p> <p>Read the full story on the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Newsroom or the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Reporter.</p> <p>Below is a list of all CRCs awarded in the 2020-2022 Cycle and ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Co-PIs and Collaborators NFRF-T 2021-2027:</p> Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:00:45 +0000 webfull 176170 at /channels /channels/channels/news/cfi-invests-39-m-mcgill-research-331980 <p><a href="/newsroom/channels/news/cfi-invests-39-m-mcgill-research-332318">Read the story on ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Newsroom</a></p> <p>Each ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ recipient will also receive matching funds from the Quebec government for their research endeavours, contributing to the total project funding noted below. </p> <p><b>Complete list of CFI JELF-funded projects: </b></p> <p>Oana Maria Balmau: Efficient Storage Systems for Real Time Edge Computing </p> <p>CFI funding: $100,000</p> <p>Total project funding: $317,032</p> <p> </p> Wed, 11 Aug 2021 20:34:04 +0000 webfull 172191 at /channels /channels/channels/news/ctv-news-some-dinosaurs-were-flying-there-were-birds-new-research-suggests-323691 <p>Biologists now have a better idea of the origin of birds and the evolution of flight, two iconic events in the history of life on earth, thanks to work by a group of international scientists including a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ professor. In updating the evolutionary tree, the team’s findings show some dinosaurs could fly before they evolved into birds, and many others were experimenting with powered flight.</p> Thu, 13 Aug 2020 23:28:36 +0000 webfull 162476 at /channels /channels/channels/news/frqs-fund-new-structural-biology-centre-mcgill-university-321519 <p>The health sciences research arm of the Quebec government [Fonds de recherche du Québec – santé (FRQS)] today announced it will provide $2 million to assist in the establishment of the Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale (CRBS) at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University. The new centre will become the premiere Structural Biology facility in Quebec and a leading centre in Canada, and aims to facilitate structural biology and biophysics for the broader scientific community for the next wave of scientific breakthroughs</p> Wed, 08 Apr 2020 20:27:52 +0000 webfull 159987 at /channels /channels/channels/news/fossilized-wing-gives-clues-about-labradors-biodiversity-during-cretaceous-320712 <p>A fossilised insect wing discovered in an abandoned mine in Labrador has led palaeontologists from ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University and the University of GdaÅ„sk to identify a new hairy cicada species that lived around 100 million years ago.</p> <p><i>Maculaferrum blaisi</i>,<i> </i>described in a study published in <i><a href="https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app006692019.html">Acta Palaeontologica Polonica</a></i>, is the first hemipteran insect (true bug) to be discovered at the Redmond Formation, a fossil site from the Cretaceous period near Schefferville, Labrador.</p> Fri, 21 Feb 2020 15:11:45 +0000 webfull 159038 at /channels /channels/channels/news/are-humans-changing-animal-genetic-diversity-worldwide-301878 <p>Human population density and land use is causing changes in animal genetic diversity, according to researchers at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University.</p> <p>The findings reported in the journal <em>Ecology Letters</em>, show that environmental changes caused by humans are leading to changes in genetic variation in thousands of species of birds, fish, insects, and mammals. The evidence for human impacts was most clear for insects and fish species.</p> Tue, 22 Oct 2019 13:05:15 +0000 webfull 154628 at /channels /channels/channels/news/mapping-global-biodiversity-change-301788 <p>A new study, published in Science, which focuses on mapping biodiversity change in marine and land ecosystems shows that loss of biodiversity is most prevalent in the tropic, with changes in marine ecosystems outpacing those on land. The research, led by scientists from the University of St Andrews, in collaboration with leading universities across Europe, the USA and Canada, including ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ, aimed at reaching a consensus about variation in biodiversity change.</p> Thu, 17 Oct 2019 18:04:45 +0000 webfull 154542 at /channels /channels/channels/news/big-data-reveals-extraordinary-unity-underlying-lifes-diversity-301363 <p>The diversity of life is staggering. From microscopic algae to elephants, life has devised countless ways to thrive in every environment on the planet. But while biologists have tended to focus on the many varied forms that species have evolved, the age of ‘big data’ offers an unprecedented view of some surprisingly common features shared by all creatures, great and small.</p> Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:32:38 +0000 webfull 154054 at /channels /channels/channels/event/earth-day-pop-exhibition-296234 <p>Rare Treasures of the Natural World in ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Special Collections & Archives</p> Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:09:09 +0000 webfull 148359 at /channels /channels/channels/news/male-guppies-grow-larger-brains-response-predator-exposure-287497 <p><span>Male guppies exposed to predators in the wild or in captivity have heavier brains than those living in relatively predator-free conditions, according to new research published in the journal <em>Functional Ecology</em>.</span></p> <p>Behavioural ecologists at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University in Montreal sampled guppies from two rivers in northern Trinidad. In each river, guppies live both above a waterfall, a location that only guppies and a few other small species of fish have managed to colonize, and below the fall, where many predators including pike cichlids live.</p> Tue, 05 Jun 2018 00:48:19 +0000 webfull 138364 at /channels /channels/channels/news/borrowing-leaf-biology-preserve-threatened-languages-283334 <p>One of the world’s 7,000 languages vanishes every other week, and half – including scores of indigenous North American languages -- might not survive the 21st century, experts say. To preserve as much linguistic diversity as possible in the face of this threat, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University scientists are proposing to borrow a leaf from conservation biology.</p> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:12:41 +0000 webfull 133563 at /channels