Agriculture Biodiversity + Conservation Lab

Dr. Paul Galpern, Dr. Mindi Summers
and their students and trainees
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Agriculture Biodiversity + Conservation Lab

Dr. Paul Galpern, Dr. Mindi Summers and their students and trainees at the Department of Biological Sciences University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Agriculture

We study the sustainable intensification of agriculture, and explore whether changes to landscape management can lead to mutually beneficial solutions for food, farmers, biodiversity, and climate.

Learn more about our research on agricultural sustainability, messy fields, “win-win-wins,” precision farming, remote sensing, and agrivoltaics in the Canadian Prairies

Biodiversity

We love bees, beetles and other invertebrates, and research the ecosystem services supplied by these species.

Conservation

We study the theory and the practice of conservation at landscape scales, with a focus on prairie, mountain, and urban ecosystems in western Canada.

Learn more about our research in landscape ecology, climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecological methods, collaborative science in cities, and our transdisciplinary studies of how people use city parks and streets

The ABC Lab is a collective project of Dr. Paul Galpern, Dr. Mindi Summers, and their students and trainees at University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Image content created by past or present lab members is credited; other images are licensed or are in the public domain; Lab logo and beetle line drawing by Tobyn Neame; Built with Quarto; Last content update: March 2025