Our goal...

The long-term objective of our research program is to advance scientific understanding of the dynamics of coupled social-ecological systems and, based on this new understanding, to propose better approaches to environmental management, restoration and protection.

We work at the scale of regional landscapes. We view landscapes as complex mosaics of interacting components, linked via processes occuring across multiple scales of space and time. We work in marine, coastal and terrestrial environments.

Applications of our research include understanding the impacts of human disturbance on ecological communities, development of new ecological indicators for ecosystem monitoring and the creation of decision support systems for the management of parks and protected areas. We work in close collaboration with non-academic partners from government and industry sectors.

Our research is founded in complex systems science and we work actively to advance the field of ecological complexity.

What is ecological complexity?

You are invited to peruse our Research page for more information on current research in the lab.

Director:
Dr. Lael Parrott

News!

Announcing a new program in Modelling Forest Complexity. This inter-university program, directed by Christian Messier (UQAM) and co-directed by Lael Parrott (UdeM), will form 100 undergraduate and post-graduate students over the next five years. For more information see the program web site.

Featured projects

3D Metrics toolbox for analysing 3 dimensional and spatiotemporal data in Matlab. Click here for more information.

3MTSim: A multi-agent model to assist the integrated management of human activities in the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park and the proposed St. Lawrence Estuary Marine Protected Area in Quebec. Click here to access the project web page.

GeoSearch : Rodolphe Gonzales, MSc student, in collaboration with Jeffrey Cardille (UdeM, Geography) unveil the website for this integrated scientific data management and visualisation system. Click here to see more.

Interactive exploration of the Mont St. Hilaire food web. Click here for more info.

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