Background Conservation practitioners are often interested in developing land use plans
that increase landscape connectivity, which is defined as the degree to which the landscape …

Caribou (Rangifer tarandus) have experienced dramatic declines in both range and
population size across Canada over the past century. Boreal caribou (R. t. caribou), 1 of the 12 …

High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential, which is key for
resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles …

Wetlands in southern Ontario are at risk of degradation and alteration due to human activities.
This is a concern because wetlands provide essential habitat for species from a range of …

High intra-specific genetic diversity is associated with adaptive potential which is key for
resilience to global change. However, high variation may also support deleterious alleles …

Small, isolated populations are prone to inbreeding, increasing the proportion of homozygous
sites across the genome that can be quantified as runs of homozygosity (ROH). Caribou (…

Purpose of Review We asked how the concept of landscape extent is used in conservation
planning. To narrow the scope of our review, we focused on four iconic species depicted on …

The series is named in honour of the founding president of Trent, Professor Thomas HB
Symons. Professor Symons is an obvious choice to represent this series because of his …

Scale is a critical factor in biodiversity assessments; assessments at inappropriate scales can
compromise assessments and drive poor management outcomes. A key dataset for many …

Northern and southern flying squirrels are sympatric in Ontario due to climate change. In this
area of range overlap hybridization occurs. I investigated potential species barriers in this …