Lenore Fahrig
Professor
Department of Biology
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Lenore Fahrig Professor Degrees: B.Sc. (Queen's), M.Sc. (Carleton), Ph.D. (Toronto)
Research Interest
What is the minimum amount of habitat required in a landscape for persistence of a population, and what determines that minimum? What are the effects of roads on distribution and persistence of populations, which species are most vulnerable to roads, and what road patterns are least damaging to wildlife populations, and how can population-level effects of roads be mitigated? How can agricultural landscapes be structured to reduce pest populations while maintaining high biodiversity without compromising agricultural output? Under what circumstances does the breaking apart (fragmentation) of habitat affect population persistence? How does landscape heterogeneity affect population persistence and species richness? How does dispersal behaviour of an organism affect its response to landscape structure? What is the role of connectivity (the degree to which a landscape permits movement of organisms across it) in population persistence?
