A new ecosystem
for scientific progress
What weβre creating
a space where scientists, managers and policy-makers COLLABORATE TO develop research questions that advance knowledge and inform sustainable resource management.
We bring together diverse perspectives, skillsets and tools to tackle pressing environmental concerns, in the Great Lakes and beyond.
We conduct synthesis-driven research to understand the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystems in the Great Lakes basin. We integrate knowledge across scales, scientific traditions, and applications. Our goal is to bring a global perspective to local applications.
We create spaces for the collaborative development of questions and solutions in ecosystem management. We seek a diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and applications in biodiversity science.
A new perspective published in Nature Ecology & Evolution brings together ideas from food-web, community and animal-movement ecology to propose a common framework for understanding dynamic hotspots.
For decades, yellow perch have been an important part of Lake Erieβs ecosystem, supporting both commercial and recreational fisheries. But in recent years, yellow perch productivity in the lakeβs central basin has declined.
The Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM) is pleased to celebrate Dr. Tim Fernandes as he begins an exciting new chapter in his career as a Research Scientist with the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR).
Researchers from the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM) at the University of Guelph recently led discussions on an emerging ecological concept at the annual meeting of the International Association for Great Lakes Research (IAGLR) and Southern Canadian Aquatic Sciences (SCAS) in Winnipeg.
In a new synthesis paper recently published in Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, researchers from the CEM examine the ecological structures and processes that help ecosystems withstand disturbances while continuing to provide the benefits that people and wildlife depend on.
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Dr. Ward, whose paper, published in Ecology Letters, was selected as one of the top three within the University of Guelphβs College of Biological Sciences.