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Food for Thought Lecture Series

In case you missed the broadcasts, the videos from this year’s lectures are now available on the Food for Thought webpage and on our Macdonald YouTube channel.

Degradation of Quebec forests is a costly mistake

Joshua Sterlin, PhD student in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University, along with co-authors Corey Lesk and Daniel Horen Greenford, responded to a recent opinion piece in the Montreal Gazette, warning that an increase in cutting of Quebec’s public forests would have a detrimental effect on forests, the industry, the climate and the regions. The Montreal Gazette

Tracking Arctic animal movement

Research on animal tracking data in Arctic regions is beginning to help scientists understand individual species' responses to the impact of human activities on our environment. A recently-published study—co-authored by Kyle Elliott, Canada Research Chair (Tier II) Chair in Arctic Ecology and Assistant Professor (Natural Resource Sciences), and graduate students Allison Patterson and Don-Jean Leandri-Breton—has introduced an open-source data archive that hosts more than 15 million location data points across 96 species to show distinct climate change responses across species. Read more in Science Magazine