The Geomatics and Landscape Ecology Research Laboratory (GLEL) is a Carleton University Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) laboratory founded in 2004. The focus of the GLEL is to advance habitat modeling/mapping and species conservation science through a synergistic integration of the research experience in Geomatics and Landscape Ecology of its founding members

Dr. Lenore Fahrig (Department of Biology)
Dr. Doug King (Geography and Environmental Studies)
Dr. Kathryn Lindsay (Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada)
Dr. Scott Mitchell (Geography and Environmental Studies)

More details here (presented to the CRSS, April 2005).

What is Landscape Ecology?
What is Geomatics?
 

Geomatics
Landscape Ecology
Road Ecology

Pisaric, M.F.J., D.J. King, A.J.M. MacIntosh and R. Bemrose. 2008. Impact of the 1998 ice storm on the health and growth of sugar maples (Acer saccharum Marsh) dominated forests in Gatineau Park, Quebec. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 135: 530-539. [PDF]

Dillabaugh, K. A. and D. J. King. 2008. Riparian marshland composition and biomass mapping using Ikonos imagery. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 34: 143-158. [PDF]

Eigenbrod, F., S. J. Hecnar, and L. Fahrig. 2008. Accessible habitat: an improved measure of the effects of habitat loss and roads on wildlife populations. Landscape Ecology. 23: 159-168. [PDF]

Eigenbrod, F., S. J. Hecnar, and L. Fahrig. 2008. The relative effects of road traffic and forest cover on anuran populations. Biological Conservation . 141: 35-46 [PDF]

McGregor, R.L., D.J. Bender, and L. Fahrig. 2008. Do small mammals avoid roads because of the traffic? Journal Applied Ecology.45: 117-123. [PDF]

Vanderkam, R.P.D., Y.F. Wiersma and D.J. King. 2007. Heuristic algorithms vs. linear programming for designing conservation reserve networks: Evaluation of solution optimality and processing time. Biological Conservation 137: 349-358. [PDF]

The GLEL website (and the Ottawa Breeding Bird Count website) are currently undergoing some renovations. If you find a broken link, please feel free to email the current webmaster Cassandra and let her know.

Two GLEL Graduate students have published a brochure on amphibian conservation. Download a copy here!

The 2008 Season of the Ottawa Breeding Bird Count is wrapping up! Check it out!