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About Marie-Josée Fortin
- Marie-Josée Fortin (born October 21, 1958) is the Canada Research Chair in spatial ecology at the University of Toronto.
- In 2016, she was elected to the Royal Society of Canada.
- Fortin is currently a Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Toronto.
- Fortin completed her BSc in 1983, as well as her MSc in 1986 at the University of Montréal.
- In 1992 she graduated with her PhD at the State University of New York, followed by her Postdoctoral Fellow from 1992-1994 at Université Laval.Fortin focuses her current research on four subject areas: spatial ecology, spatial and landscape statistics, conservation, as well as disturbance ecology.
- These subjects include disciplines such as spatially-explicit modeling, spatial epidemiology, forest ecology, network theory, landscape genetics and geography.
- This research focuses on the maintenance of biodiversity within ecosystems and appropriate conservation strategies for species affected by land use and climate change.
- This includes the analyses of how environmental factors and ecological processes affect the movement, persistence, and range dynamics of species at the landscape and geographical range in both forested and aquatic environments.
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