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The Gonzalez Lab

Welcome to our Fall Newsletter 🍁

Highlights from this month:
GBiOS: a global biodiversity observing system to guide conservation effort; New IPBES Invasive Alien Species Report; Unconventional ways to make our cities greener.

BIODIVERSITY NEWS FROM
AROUND THE WORLD
 

Tue, Aug 29

GBiOS: A Global Observation System to Monitor Earth's Biodiversity

In the face of an unprecedented biodiversity crisis, GBiOS offers a glimmer of hope by proposing an interconnected global network to monitor biodiversity changes and guide conservation efforts.

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Mon, Sep 25

Alarming Impact of Invasive Alien Species in Landmark IPBES Assessment

Discover the hidden threat within our ecosystems as the IPBES unveils a groundbreaking Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species (IAS).

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Sat, Sep 30

Prof Andy Gonzalez Representing GEO BON at 10th IPBES Plenary

He was there on behalf of GEO BON to support the process leading to the approval of two new knowledge assessments.

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LAB UPDATES
 

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From Garbage to Herbage: Thinking Outside the Box to Make our Cities Greener, Examples from Montreal.

Montreal has many hidden green gems. No, not jade or emerald. Montreal’s gems are its many greenspaces of different shapes and sizes that create a beautiful and dynamic patchwork that supports biodiversity and human wellbeing. Many of these spaces go beyond conventional parks. Discover how they are pushing the frontiers of urban ecology and redefining good urbanism.

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News from our lab members

The Gonzalez Lab at the ESA 2023 in Portland

The 2023 ESA annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, saw over 4000 attendees from a broad spectrum of institutions. Both Prof. Andy and Flavio (PhD candidate) attended the conference to present the lab’s work to this large audience.

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The Gonzalez Lab at the GEO BON Conference 2023

The GEO BON Global Conference 2023 brought together experts and stakeholders from around the world to discuss the theme of Monitoring Biodiversity For Action. A packed four day schedule saw people talk about science, policy, indigenous rights, finance and conservation.

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Congratulations Dr. Oehri!

Dr. Oehri will join the lab of Gabriela Schaepman-Strub at University of Zurich, Switzerland, as a postdoctoral researcher, where she continues to work on strengthening national and international science-society-policy collaborations that enable transformative change towards sustainable futures in human-transformed landscapes!

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Welcome Samara to the Gonzalez Lab!

Samara just started her my MSc in the Gonzalez lab, co-supervised by Dr. Laura Pollock. She will be examining connectivity in Quebec and working to understand how species traits combine to create movement eco-profiles that can be used to better support prioritizations of connectivity.

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Gonzalez Lab in the media

Global collaboration is key to avoiding extinction

Expert: Weather extremes influence the rise and fall of insect populations

Taking the global pulse of biodiversity monitoring: Q&A with Andrew Gonzalez

Recently published

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. A. Gonzalez, P. Vihervaara, P. Balvanera, et al. - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023

A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change. A. Gonzalez, J.M. Chase, M.I. O'Connor - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023

Neglected consequences of spatio-temporal heterogeneity and dispersal: Metapopulations, the inflationary effect, and real-world consequences for public health. N. Kortessis, G. Glass, A. Gonzalez, et al - bioRxiv, 2023

Ecosystem connectivity and configuration can mediate instability at a distance in metaecosystems. C. P. Tadiri, J. O. NegrΓ­n Dastis, M. E. Cristescu, A. Gonzalez, & G. F. Fussmann - Functional Ecology, 2023

Prioritizing global conservation of migratory birds over their migration network. W. Zhang, J. Wei, Y. Xu - One Earth, 2023

Currently listening to…

Nature Insight Podcast: Aliens on Your Doorstep: Invasive Species and You

Professor Helen Roy, one of the co-chairs of the IPBES Assessment Report on Invasive Alien Species, speaks about her enthusiasm for addressing the risks and her optimism about our chances to reduce biological invasions and their very damaging impacts.
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