/newsroom/taxonomy/term/11049/all en /newsroom/channels/news/what-areas-should-canada-protect-save-species-risk-extinction-347605 <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? 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, ���ϲ����� University researchers overlayed maps of species at risk to find hotspots where many species live together. They found that hotspots often overlap.</p> Wed, 05 Apr 2023 13:57:28 +0000 claire.loewen@mcgill.ca 298476 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/expert-international-day-biological-diversity-may-22-322306 <p>May 22 is <a href="https://www.un.org/en/events/biodiversityday/">International Day for Biological Diversity</a>. As the global community is called to re-examine its relationship to the natural world, one thing is certain: despite all our technological advances we are completely dependent on healthy and vibrant ecosystems for our water, food, medicines, clothes, fuel, shelter and energy, just to name a few. The 2020 theme “Our solutions are in nature” emphasizes hope, solidarity and the importance of working together at all levels to build a future of life in harmony with nature.</p> Thu, 21 May 2020 14:22:52 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 212049 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/adaptation-competition-and-predation-may-not-be-driving-force-scientists-thought-320738 <p>Species adapt to their local climates, but how often they adapt to their local communities remains a mystery. To find answers, researchers at ���ϲ����� University and the University of British Columbia examined over 125 studies testing local adaptation in over 100 species of plants and animals in an article published in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1086/707323"><i>The American Naturalist</i></a>.</p> Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:44:41 +0000 shirley.cardenas@mcgill.ca 199491 at /newsroom /newsroom/anna-hargreaves Thu, 19 Dec 2019 19:35:06 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 152856 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/mega-experiment-shows-species-interactions-stronger-towards-tropics-and-lowlands-294854 <p>An international research team led by a ���ϲ����� University researcher used a simple experiment that mimics how plants and animals interact with each other—leaving seeds out for 24 hours to see how many get eaten. Seven thousand seed beds were deployed across a huge geographic scale, with 70 sites cutting across 18 mountains from Alaska to the equator.</p> Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:47:05 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 145346 at /newsroom