The Montérégie Connection: Understanding How Ecosystems Can Provide Resilience to the Risk of Ecosystem Service Change

Elena M. Bennett (1) , Cecile H. Albert (2) , Aaron Ball (3) , Jeffrey Cardille (1) , Karine Dancose (4) , Sylvestre Delmotte (1) , Andrew Gonzalez (5) , Hsin Hui-Huang (1) , Martin J. Lechowicz (6) , Katie Liss (1) , Rebekah Kipp (1) , Dorothy Maguire (1) , Shauna Mahajan (7) , Matthew Mitchell (8) , Kyle Teixeira-Martins (5) , Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne (1) , Delphine Renard (9) , Jeanine Rhemtulla (10) , Lucie Taliana (1) , Marta Terrado (11) , Carly Ziter (12)

1 McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada]
2 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
3 Queen's University [Kingston, Canada]
4 UdeS - Université de Sherbrooke
5 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science
6 Department of Biology [Montréal]
7 World Wildlife Fund, Washington
8 UBC - University of British Columbia
9 UC Santa Barbara - University of California [Santa Barbara]
10 Forest Sciences Centre
11 BSC-CNS - Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputacion
12 Concordia University [Montreal]

The Montérégie Connection project aimed to help the community of this agricultural region just southeast of Montreal to improve management of multiple ecosystem services by developing and empirically testing a modeling framework that quantitatively linked landscape connectivity, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in this region. We will use this framework to build scenarios and other practical decision support tools with communities to help them grapple with the challenges of environmental management in the face of local, regional, and global change. We focused especially on how forest connectivity and forest corridors might help the local landscape maintain biodiversity and provide the desired ES in the face of these changes.

Mots clés: Ecosystem change; Montérégie; Biodiversity; Forest characteristic

Domaines: Sciences de l'environnement

Elena M. Bennett, Cecile H. Albert, Aaron Ball, Jeffrey Cardille, Karine Dancose, et al.. The Montérégie Connection: Understanding How Ecosystems Can Provide Resilience to the Risk of Ecosystem Service Change. Atlas of Ecosystem Services: Drivers, Risks, and Societal Responses, Springer International Publishing, 2019, 978-3-319-96228-3. ⟨hal-02010820⟩