Conservation Biology

The existence of many species is threatened by loss of suitable habitat, its fragmentation, or a shift in suitable habitat due to climate change. How can we quantify the minimum habitat requirements in the face of global change? More generally, how are stationary and non-stationary distribution patterns affected by habitat loss and human intervention? How can we measure and predict the effect of human intervention?

Selected publications (the full list is here)

• J. MacDonald, F. Lutscher, Y. Bourgault (2024) Climate change fluctuations can

  increase population abundance and range size. Ecology Letters 27(6), e14453

• S.M.J. Portalier, J.N. Candeau, F. Lutscher (2024) Climate Change affects the outbreak frequency of a boreal forest defoliator through phenological mismatch. Ecological Modelling 493, 110724

• S.M.J. Portalier, J.N. Candeau, F. Lutscher (2022) A temperature-driven model of phenological mismatch provides insights into the potential impacts of climate change on consumer-resource interactions. Ecography 8: e06259

• E. Crone, L. Brown, J. Hodgson, F. Lutscher, C. Schultz (2019) Faster movement in habitat matrix promotes faster range shifts in heterogeneous landscapes. Ecology 100(7): e02701

• S.J. Leroux, M. Larrivee, V. Boucher-Lalonde, A. Hurford, J. Zuloaga, J.T. Kerr, F. Lutscher (2013) Mechanistic models for the spatial spread of species under climate change. Ecological Applications 23: 815-828

• W.F. Fagan, F. Lutscher (2006) Average dispersal success: linking home range, dispersal, and metapopulation dynamics to reserve design. Ecological Applications 16(2): 820-828