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Chancellor's Professor of Biology, Carleton University

Lenore Fahrig is Chancellor’s Professor of Biology and co-director of the Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory (GLEL) at Carleton University. Lenore is a highly cited researcher with over 44,000 citations (Google Scholar). She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (RSC), recipient of the RSC Miroslaw Romanowski medal for Environmental Science, and recipient of the Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award from the US Association for Landscape Ecology.
Lenore and her students research the effects of landscape structure on biodiversity and the abundance, distribution and persistence of wildlife populations. Study species include frogs and toads, turtles, birds, mammals, insects, other arthropods, plants and lichens. Landscape structure includes the amounts of various kinds of land cover in a landscape (e.g., forest, wetland, roads, crop fields), and the spatial arrangement of these cover types.

Experience

  • –present
    Chancellor's Professor of Biology, Carleton University

Education

  • 1988 
    University of Toronto, PhD / Ecology

Honours

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Romanowski Medal for Environmental Science, Distinguished Landscape Ecologist Award