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The Gonzalez Lab

Welcome to the first edition of our 2023 newsletter. Every month we will share our latest research findings, articles in the media, talks we have given, updates about the team, and our work linking science to policy.

BIODIVERSITY NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
 

COP15: all parties agree to a final text of the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

December last year saw a landmark moment for biodiversity. After intense and dramatic negotiations, the parties at COP15 adopted the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, a strategic plan for biodiversity with four goals and 23 targets to be achieved by 2050. This was a "Paris moment” for biodiversity - a vision for transforming society and setting us onto a pathway for the recovery of biodiversity and the lasting protection of the many social, cultural, and economic benefits we get from nature. Now we have to implement this strategic vision. A new monitoring framework to guide the regular assessment and reporting of progress was also agreed upon. The Gonzalez Lab with Habitat, QCBS, and GEO BON will support the implementation of the monitoring framework. We will support the mobilization of data and other forms of knowledge, indicator development (e.g. on connectivity), models, forecasts, and conservation planning. Our strong partnerships with the Quebec and Canadian governments will offer us many opportunities to respond to this need for knowledge mobilization and co-production in the coming years. You can read the final text of the GBF below.
 Kunming-Montreal GBF 

BIODIVERSITY NEWS FROM CANADA
 

Canada and Quebec commit to protecting 30% of their land and marine ecosystems by 2030

At COP15, Prime Minister Trudeau pledged to protect 30 percent of Canada’s marine and terrestrial ecosystems by 2030. The same commitment was made for QuΓ©bec by Premier Legault and for the city of Montreal by Mayor Plante. This is a key target for the Global Biodiversity Framework. It is remarkable to see such strong alignment across political scales.

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LAB UPDATES
 

Read our latests posts

9 things I learned (or relearned) during my first field season in the mangroves

You thought sponges are soft and innocent, like Spongebob? Nope! One species is commonly known as β€œfire sponge” and can cause contact dermatitis if you touch it with bare skin. Bivalves? They have…

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A glimpse into undergraduate research in the Gonzalez Lab

You might know what ecology means, but do you know what an ecologist does? I’m Sam, a senior undergraduate student in Biology at McGill University working in the Gonzalez lab, and I’d like to tell you…

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How can cities help protect nature and human health?

By bringing different communities together and creating collaborations between researchers and stakeholders, we can translate science into action and create better urban environments for everyone.

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News from our lab members

Thu, Jan 19

Welcome Dr. Wenyuan Zhang to the Gonzalez Lab!

Transferring findings from ecological studies to conservation practices is an attractive challenge to me. Therefore, I come to work with Andy Gonzalez and Laura Pollock as a postdoc, aiming to…

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Wed, Jan 18

Welcome Dr. Ágnes VÑri to the Gonzalez Lab!

I joined the Gonzalez lab, as I got a post-doc position in the ResNet project, that is partly supervised by Elena Bennett and partly by Andy Gonzalez – which fantastically complements each other.

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Tue, Jan 10

Congratulations Dr. Song!

As a postdoc in the Gonzalez Lab, Chuliang worked to forecast the dynamics of ecological systems under under incomplete information about the entire system. Chuliang is currently a postdoc at Princeton…

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Gonzalez lab in the media
These grassroots projects add up to 'powerful force' in the biodiversity fight

These grassroots projects add up to 'powerful force' in the biodiversity fight.
COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter?

COP15: Why does the UN biodiversity conference matter?
Saving nature is the goal at COP15 in Montreal. Will Quebec step up?

Saving nature is the goal at COP15 in Montreal. Will Quebec step up?
DΓ©couverte Episode on Biodiversity

DΓ©couverte Episode on Biodiversity

Listen to
Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel - Episode on COP15

Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel - Episode on COP15

Recently published

Metapopulation persistence can be inferred from incomplete surveys. C. Song, M.J. Fortin, A. Gonzalez - Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2022

Monitor biodiversity for action. A. Gonzalez, M.C. LondoΓ±o - Science, 2022

Integrating land use and climate change models with stakeholder priorities to evaluate habitat connectivity change: a case study in southern QuΓ©bec V. Lucet and A. Gonzalez - Landscape Ecology 2022

Generalism drives abundance: A computational causal discovery approach C. Song, B.I. Simmons, MJ. Fortin, A. Gonzalez - PLoS Computational Biology 2022

Upcoming things we are excited about…

On February 20th Prof. Gonzalez will be giving a talk to AI for Good on applications of artificial intelligence for detecting and attributing biodiversity change.

Keep an eye out for our next newsletter to learn more about how Artificial Intelligence can help us in biodiversity conservation.
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