
A new ecosystem
for scientific progress

What we’re 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.
As northern lakes heat up, Canada’s lake trout are losing their individuality — and with it, a key source of ecological resilience. A new study in Ecology led by Cassandra Kotsopoulos at the University of Guelph examined lake trout across 52 boreal lakes in Ontario.
We are excited to welcome Dr. Carling Bieg to the Centre for Ecosystem Management! Dr. Bieg is a theoretical ecologist who studies how ecological systems respond to global change across scales of space, time, and the ecological hierarchy.
Staff from the Quantitative Fisheries Center and Centre for Ecosystem Management recently came together for their annual meeting set against the lush green backdrop of the Arboretum Centre (University of Guelph).
We’re excited to welcome our newest postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Megan Szojka, to the Centre for Ecosystem Management (CEM)!
Freshwater ecosystems are under growing pressure from human activities like development, climate change, and pollution. But how do we know when fish are most at risk—and how can we use that knowledge to better protect them?
A new study co-authored by the Centre for Ecosystem Management’s Dr. Kevin McCann reveals that agricultural land use—especially nutrient runoff and the loss of streamside vegetation—is reshaping how energy flows through stream food webs.
One of the core activities of the Centre is to host postdoctoral fellows and working groups tackling applied biodiversity science challenges in the Great Lakes region. We provide space, support, and knowledge transfer activities relating to biodiversity science.