The Fortin Lab focuses on conservation biology issues. We investigate how ecological processes and environmental factors affect species persistence, species dispersal, and species range dynamics.
Our research is at the interface of several disciplines (spatial ecology, conservation, forest ecology, disturbance ecology, community ecology, landscape genetics, spatial epidemiology, spatial statistics, spatially-explicit modeling, and network theory) where the most important challenging problems lie.
Lab News
- 2026: Congratulations to Marie-Josee Fortin for being recommended for the Killam Prize in Natural Sciences (https://eeb.utoronto.ca/2025/09/marie-josee-fortin-awarded-the-2025-romanowski-medal-by-the-royal-society-of-canada/)
- 2025: Congratulations to Marie-Josee Fortin for being
awarded the 2025 Romanowski Medal by the Royal Society of Canada (https://eeb.utoronto.ca/2025/09/marie-josee-fortin-awarded-the-2025-romanowski-medal-by-the-royal-society-of-canada/)