Tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity a key priority for McGill and Quebec

The Fonds de recherche du Québec announced its latest rounds of funding earlier this month in support of research, training, and initiatives to tackle major societal challenges—including climate change and biodiversity loss.

Classified as: agricultural practices, agriculture, biodiversity, FRQSC, Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, Fonds de recherche du Québec – santé (FRQS), Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation, Fonds de recherche du Québec - Nature et technologies (FRQNT), polymer
Published on: 30 Jun 2022

with Jean-Claude Poissant, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, and Francis Scarpaleggia, Member of Parliament, Lac-Saint-Louis

Monday, June 12, 2017

9:30 a.m.

 

Macdonald Campus – McGill University

Macdonald Stewart Building, Room MS2-022

21111 Lakeshore Road

 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec H9X 3V9

 

RSVP by June 9

Classified as: agricultural practices, agriculture, Sustainability, waste water
Published on: 9 Jun 2017

Shipping and mining in the Arctic. The spread of invasive microbial pathogens around the world. Changing agricultural practices. Use of genomic-modification tools. Those are among the 14 most significant issues that could affect the science and management of invasive species over the next two decades, according to an international team of ecologists, who published their findings in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution.

Classified as: ecology, invasive species, evolution, pathogens, Arctic, genomic modification, microbial, agricultural practices, Ricciardi
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Published on: 4 May 2017
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