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​There is power in numbers. Bringing researchers together to concentrate on one question is one of the most powerful ways to do science. Although individual research programs can focus on specific species, ecosystems or genes, there is an urgent need to discover the broad generalities that underlie these specific results.  Synergisms happen when researchers with complementary expertise focus on the same problem, resulting in new approaches and conceptual insights. Powerful analyses result when researchers pool published data, allowing conclusions that transcend any one study.  We support “working groups”: meetings where researchers work intensively on some of the most important questions in ecology and evolution.
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Earth's Ecosystems in a time of Global Change: Six Ecologists discuss challenges and solutions.  Watch this video of six panelists from the two CIEE-CESAB working groups 'FISHGLOB' and 'REDBIO' discussing Earth's ecosystems in a time of global change.  The panelists include Bastien Mérigot (Montpellier University), Nicolas Loeuille (Sorbonne Université), Shawn Leroux (Memorial University of Newfoundland), William Cheung (University of BC), Nancy Shackell (Bedford Institute of Oceanography), and Isabelle Gounand (Sorbonne Université), moderated by CIEE-ICEE Director Diane Srivastava. This event was sponsored by the Embassy of France in Vancouver, the University of British Columbia, CIEE-ICEE and FRB-CESAB.  Watch here.


Does participation in working groups catalyze the academic impact of researchers?  A new NSERC-funded study by CIEE and UBC Sociology discovers that working group participation accelerates the H-index of researchers. However, female researchers benefit less than their male counterparts despite similar rates of participation. These results provide a strong rationale for funding synthesis centres, but suggest that synthesis centres must also enact equity, diversity and inclusiveness policies beyond simple participation requirements. Full report here.
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Funded Working Groups for 2023:

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The regional extent of genetic adaptation in Daphnia pulicaria to freshwater salinization
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Shelley E. Arnott - Queen's University
Alison Derry –  Université du Québec à Montréal
Kathryn Cottingham - Dartmouth College







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Power and peril in multi-species monitoring programs

Easton White - University of New Hampshire
Joe Bennett - Carleton University





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Ecological consequences of diminishing winters

​Emily Studd (Thompson Rivers University)
Timothy Fernandes (University of Toronto Mississauga)





Previously Funded Working Groups:
2008-2013

Title

Year



An interim scientific assessment of the present and projected effectiveness of the Canadian Species at Risk Act

The Future of Scientific Field Research Stations in Canada


Predicting Ecological Change:
Multi-Scale Analysis of Plankton Diversity and Dynamics

Thermal scaling and body size: the next frontier in climate change ecological theory

2008



2010



2011



2013


Organizers


Arne Mooers (SFU), Dan Doak (U of Wyoming) and David M. Green (McGill)


Albrecht Schulte-Hostedde (Laurentian Univ), Frank Phelan (Queen’s Univ), Mark Forbes (Carleton Univ), Art Weis (U of Toronto)

Jeremy Fox (U of Calgary), Andrew Gonzales (McGill U), Bill Nelson (Queen’s U)


Mary I. O’Connor (UBC), Hamish Greig (U. Canterbury), Benjamin Gilbert (U of Toronto)

2014

Title


The terra incognita of community ecology: understanding continental-scale variation of ecological networks 2014

Forecasting groundfish biodiversity change in the Newfoundland shelf

Canada’s phylogenetic diversity in a changing world

Organizers


Timothée Poisot (U de Montreal) and Dominique Gravel (Sherbrooke)


Fred Guichard, Andrew Gonzalez, Patrick Thompson and Eric Pedersen (McGill University)

Jana Vamosi (U. of Calgary), Jeremy Kerr (U. of Ottawa)

2015

Title


Understanding recent biodiversity change across spatial and temporal scales



Adaptation versus maladaptation in response to environmental change


Organizers


Mary I. O’Connor (UBC); Andrew Gonzalez (McGill U); Jon Chase (iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Germany); Mark Vellend (Sherbrooke U)

Andrew Hendry(McGill University); Rowan Barrett (McGill University); Alison Derry (Université du Québec à Montréal); Gregor Fussmann (McGill University)

2016

Title


Canadian protected areas in a changing climate:
A cross-ecosystem approach to designing effective networks of protected areas


Genomic data in ecology, evolution and conservation:
the impacts of missing data in genotyping-by-sequencing datasets


Diversity and structure of coastal eelgrass communities along environmental and human disturbance gradients

Testing the conservation value of phylogenetic diversity Understanding recent biodiversity change across spatial and temporal scales.


Organizers


Cassidy C. D’Aloia (U of Toronto), Ilona R. Naujokaitis-Lewis (Environment Canada, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton U)

Jean-Sébastien Moore, Anne-Laure Ferchaud, Laura Benestan, Louis Bernatchez (Université Laval) and Thierry Gosselin (Independent consultant)

Julia K. Baum and Josephine C. Iacarella (University of Victoria)

Arne Mooers (SFU) and Caroline Tucker (U of North California)



2017

Title


Determining marine hotspots in Arctic Canada using tracking data from multiple species

The evolution of microbial metabolic and genomic diversity at multiple scales

Functional response of understory plants to climate, soil and disturbance regimes across Canadian boreal forest ecosystems

Organizers


Mark Mallory (Acadia), Marie Auger-Méthé (Dalhousie) and David Yurkowski (Manitoba). 

Stilianos Louca, Dr. Laura Parfrey and Dr. Michael Doebeli from the University of British Columbia

Alison Munson (Laval), Bright Kumordzi (Laval) and Isabelle Aubin (Canadian Forest Service)


2018

Title


Data and theory synthesis to resolve the effects of evolution on the predictability of range expansion

Canadian aquatic ecosystems under threat: A meta-ecosystem approach to the protection of aquatic diversity and ecosystem services

Incorporating phenotypic variation of thermal tolerance to improve projections of climate responses in Canada

organizers


Jennifer Williams (UBC), Tom Miller (RiceU)


Éric Harvey (U of Toronto), Marie-Josée Fortin (U of Toronto)


Jennifer Sunday (McGill University)


2019

Title


Responses of freshwater zooplankton to road salt pollution: A global perspective


Forecasting boreal vegetation dynamics: Understory plants, state changes, and biome shifts 


How does life deal with uncertainty in fluctuating environments?


organizers


Shelley Arnott (Queen's), 
Bill Hintz (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)


Steven Cumming  (Laval), Josie Hughes (Carleton), Stephen Mayor, (Ontario Forest Research Institute), Jennifer Baltzer (Wilfred Laurier)

Joey Bernhardt (UBC), Jennifer Sunday, (McGill), Mary O'Connor (UBC), Andrew Gonzalez (McGill)


2020

title


Creating a unified approach to evaluate regime shift detection methods

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Vulnerabilities of Canadian wetlands in a Changing Climate

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Forecasting in the Anthropocene: Addressing uncertainty in complex-systems using theory, modelling and applied science
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RED-BIO - Dynamic resource  landscapes, eco-evolutionary feedbacks ​and the emergence of meta-food webs

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FISHGLOB -Fish biodiversity under global change – a worldwide assessment from scientific trawl surveys
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Synthesizing fifty years of ecological change in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence

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GrassSyn - Biodiversity of Brazilian grasslands and savannas: patterns and drivers, ecosystem services, and strategies for conservation and restoration ​

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organizers


Eric Pedersen (Concordia University), Jessica Burnett  (United States Geological Survey, Denver),
Gavin Simpson (U of Regina), Christie Bahlai (Kent State University)

Courtney Robichaud (U of Waterloo), Scott Davidson (U of Waterloo), Rebecca Rooney (U of Waterloo), Maria Strack (U of Waterloo)
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Korryn Bodner (U of Toronto), Carina Rauen Firkowski (U of Toronto), Marie-Josée Fortin (U of Toronto
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Eric Harvey (Université de Montréal), 
Isabelle Gounand (Institut d’écologie et des sciences de l’environnement de Paris)

Co-organized by FRB-CESAB
Sponsored in part by Consulate General of France in Vancouver and UBC

Maria Lourdes D Palomares (UBC),
Bastien Merigot  (Université de Montpellier)

Co-organized by FRB-CESAB
Sponsored in part by Consulate General of France in Vancouver and UBC

Nicolas Rolland (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Guillaume Blanchet (Université de Sherbrooke)
This working group has ten graduate student participants selected competitively, as well as two established researchers (above) who will lead the group. Co-organized by Bios2, an NSERC-CREATE program.
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Madhur Anand (U of Guelph), Milena Rosenfield (U of Guelph) 
Project led by Gerhard Ernst Overbeck and co-funded by SinBiose, the Brazilian synthesis centre; CIEE funded the participants from Canadian universities (listed above).

2021

Title

organizers


Global distributions of native and exotic earthworms​

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Developing tools for the robust monitoring of human activity for effective management and species conservation in Canadian protected areas

Determining fungal conservation targets in Canada 

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Assembling, predicting and refining a predator-prey metaweb for Canada

Increasing diversity among early career grant recipients in ecology and evolution: a rubric to assess and support Canadian funding programs


Erin Cameron (St. Mary's University), Helen Phillips  (St. Mary's University)


Christopher Beirne (University of BC), Alys Granados (University of BC), Cole Burton (University of BC)
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Allison Walker (Acadia University), Alfredo Justo (New Brunswick Museum), Greg Thorn (Western University)
Gavin Kernaghan (Mount Saint Vincent University)

Laura Pollock (McGill), Timothée Poisot (Université de Montréal)

Catherine Sun (University of BC), Alys Granados (University of BC), Cole Burton (University of BC)
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2022

title


Ecological Impacts of the 2021 Heat Dome 
​Symposium and Working Group





Designing Canada’s Biodiversity Observation Network
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Species ranges, diversity and life history of Neotropical  birds

Ecological Applications and Transfer of Fisheries Acoustic Technologies (eatFAT) 2.0

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organizers


Working Group organization: Diane Srivastava (UBC)
Funding partners: UBC and Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies
Symposium organizers: Courtney Collins (UBC), Josef Garen (UBC), Margaret Slein (UBC), Diane Srivastava (UBC)

Andrew Gonzalez (McGill University, Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science )

Jill Jankowski (University of BC), Jenny Muñoz (University of BC, Gustavo Londoño (Universidad Icesi)

Dak de Kerckhove (Ontario Ministry of Northern Development, Mines, Natural Resources and Forestry), 
Alexander Ross (Lakehead University), Michael Rennie (Lakehead University)

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