@BESS_NEO

Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services & Sustainability; McGill CREATE; multidisciplinary & multicultural training experience; environmental scientists; Latin America

 Canada
mcgill.ca/bess/
Joined June 2015
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Thanks to all our trainees for the great talks in our last official @BESS_NEO symposium. Thanks to our director @EcoEvoEvoEco and our previous coordinator @fjvost.
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Another great publication from our @BESS_NEO trainees. Congratulations @jibarraisassi
Javier Ibarra-Isassi@jibarraisassi9 Feb 2021
Happy to share a paper that is part of my PhD thesis @biologyatCU @BESS_NEO @csbq_qcbs! In this study, we found that shade-growing practices mitigate biodiversity loss due to their environmental similarities with neighbouring forest patches. Check it 👇 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
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New species of Ichthyosaur discovered by our trainee Dirley Cortés in collaboration with the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany. phys.org/news/2020-07-specie…

New species of Ichthyosaur discovered in museum collection

Hauffiopteryx altera (Latin for different from) has been identified as a new species of Ichthyosaurs by researchers from McGill University and the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany.

phys.org
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Update on increased support for students, trainees and research support personnel funded through NSERC research grants nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Media-Medi…
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In light of the current #coronavirus pandemic, Mitacs is offering a one-time call for proposals to support postdoctoral fellows in helping #Canada fight #COVID19 and support future economic recovery. Learn more 👉 ow.ly/Tg0y50zfvVP #innovation #cdnbiz
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📣 We're excited to announce the COVID-19 Resources Canada portal ➡️ a central hub designed to help those involved in #COVID19 🇨🇦 R&D to locate #cdnsci resources, expertise, reagents and equipment in a timely manner. Please RT to spread the word covid19resources.ca (1/3)⤵️

COVID-19 Resources Canada

An online national platform where we can join efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

covid19resources.ca
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Congratulations @LeaBlondl a @BESS_NEO student for her recent publication. – at Montréal, Québec
Léa Blondel@LeaBlondl9 Feb 2020
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What’s rheotaxis? How does it vary? We just published a study looking at this in @Genes_MDPI ! mdpi.com/2073-4425/11/2/180

Asymmetric Isolation and the Evolution of Behaviors Influencing Dispersal: Rheotaxis of Guppies...

Populations that are asymmetrically isolated, such as above waterfalls, can sometimes export emigrants in a direction from which they do not receive immigrants, and thus provide an excellent opport...

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Congratulations to our BESS former student @marisolitka21 for her recent publication link.springer.com/article/10… – at Montréal, Québec

Trophic shifts in a native predator following the introduction of a top predator in a tropical lake

Biological Invasions - Some of the most dramatic and well-studied impacts of introduced predators involve their ecological effects on native prey communities. However, how native predators respond...

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First day of #Galapagos bird banding for Team Pinzon 2020. Training session for new team members. It was raining at our usual field site so we had to improvise at a new location.
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Just 12 hours until @csbq_qcbs annual conference. We start tomorrow with a workshop to co-design a plan to protect and restore Quebec's #biodiversity and ecosystems. More than 115 participants from gov, NGOs, researchers + 3 panels of talks on ecology, economy and governance.
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Disruptive selection in finches by @beausoleilmo trainee of the @BESS_NEO program in the @RedpathMuseum. Congratulations Marco! royalsocietypublishing.org/d… – at Montréal, Québec

Temporally varying disruptive selection in the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis)

Abstract. Disruptive natural selection within populations exploiting different resources is considered to be a major driver of adaptive radiation and the p

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The second edition of #mees2019 was a success. A day full of Eco-Evo presentations!
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I am really excited for the second edition of our symposium tomorrow. A great example of how grass-roots interest has led to a new annual tradition. . Our awesome supporters: @BioMcGill @RedpathMuseum @CSEE_SCEE @csbq_qcbs @PGSS_McGill @BESS_NEO @GRIL_Limnologie
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study find no correlations between test scores, grades, amount of previous research experience, or faculty interview ratings with productivity during grad school. journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

Predictors of Student Productivity in Biomedical Graduate School Applications

Many US biomedical PhD programs receive more applications for admissions than they can accept each year, necessitating a selective admissions process. Typical selection criteria include standardized...

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Description of a fossil whale from Panama. A publication of our BESS student Dirley Cortes palaeo-electronica.org/conte…

Pliocene whale from Panama

Shark-cetacean trophic interactions during the late Pliocene in the Central Eastern Pacific (Panama)

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Do not forget to attend the Montreal Eco-evolutionary symposium on December 2 registration is still open @GRIL_Limnologie @BESS_NEO @McGillBGSA @CSEE_SCEE @PGSS_McGill @csbq_qcbs @RedpathMuseum @BioMcGill #MEES2019 mtlecoevosymposium.weebly.co…
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Congratulations to our BESS student Andrew Sellers for his recent publication on how marine upwelling affects herbivory onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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New workshop to BESS students: survival skills for the #anthropocene @BioMcGill 's van receiving CPR
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With all this buzz about #scicomm we decided to organize a workshop with @alinacfisher! #BESSscicomm
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The zebra mussel continues to spread in N. America, 30 years after introduction. It can transform lakes & rivers, but not all systems are similarly vulnerable. We are studying how impacts of zebra & quagga mussel invasions are mediated by the environment: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricc…
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