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Designs and practices promoting the protection of farmland birds - Recommendations guide
2025-09-19 15:03:31
BiodiversityWildlife
QuébecOiseaux works to conserve and protect birds that are vulnerable or in decline. One of our organization’s priorities is the issue of declining bird populations associated with agricultural environments (farmland birds), which...
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Cetab+ floral blend
2025-09-19 14:59:59
BiodiversityFloraInsects and pollinators
A recipe for forage plants with long and abundant flowering to promote biodiversity in uncultivated areas.
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The exceptional ones: Native plants of interest for biodiversity-friendly landscaping
2025-09-19 14:56:15
BiodiversityFloraInsects and pollinators
In the following fact sheets, we will present plants that, based on our experience and observations, are among the most interesting species to plant on farms to attract pollinators and other beneficial...
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How to promote farmland birds in agricultural environments
2025-09-19 14:38:18
BiodiversityWildlife
Farmland birds are defined as bird species that use agricultural areas almost exclusively as nesting habitats (Lamoureux and Dion, 2019). They therefore include birds, including certain raptors, that nest on the ground...
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How to encourage bats in agricultural environments
2025-09-19 14:35:04
BiodiversityWildlife
Eight species of bats (order Chiroptera) are found in Quebec. Three of them are migratory (the red bat, the silver bat, and the gray bat) and five are resident (the little brown...
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How to promote amphibians and reptiles in agricultural environments
2025-09-19 14:32:00
BiodiversityWildlife
In Quebec, amphibians are represented by Anura (frogs, tree frogs, and toads) and Urodela (salamanders, newts, and caecilians). They are closely linked to aquatic or humid environments, as well as to moist...
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How to promote pollinators in agricultural environments
2025-09-19 14:22:22
BiodiversityInsects and pollinators
Pollinators are organisms that help transfer pollen from one flower to another, ensuring plant fertilization and seed and fruit production. Bees are the most abundant and effective insects for pollinating crops worldwide....
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Development of an agricultural corridor for biodiversity - Montérégie
2025-09-19 13:50:36
Biodiversity
The objectives are to reforest and enrich the agricultural corridor with a variety of species to promote biodiversity, as well as to increase the amount of wooded areas with a view to...
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Ecological diagnosis on the farm
2025-09-17 14:51:01
Biodiversity
A step to be taken upstream to maximize the ecological benefits of biodiversity developments.
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Biodiversity Special Report - Bovins Québec
2025-09-17 14:38:53
Biodiversityregenerativepractices
Few people know this, but the pastures where cattle are raised in Quebec are environments rich in biodiversity. Sustainable soil management (pasture rotation, grazing management, pasture regeneration, etc.) helps preserve plant species,...
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Take a walk on the wild side: Wild plants are better at repelling insect pests than domesticated varieties
2025-09-11 15:18:01
BiodiversityInsects and pollinators
This document is a research brief: the results suggest that tomato domestication has reduced how well plants deploy their defense response in attracting helpful predators compared with their wild relatives.
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Northern BC: Finding our farm pollinators
2025-09-11 13:28:47
BiodiversityInsects and pollinators
This document is a research brief: understanding the pollinator community allows for producers to best manage the land for maintaining and enhancing pollination services for their crops.
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Bees Like Diversity: Polycultures Can Support Many Kinds of Pollinators
2025-09-11 13:20:33
BiodiversityInsects and pollinators
This document is a research brief: this study shows that pollinators are vulnerable to the resource simplification caused by monoculture agriculture, and on-farm resource diversification can allow pollinator communities to flourish.
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How to better protect the meadow pipit and the meadow lark in hayfields
2025-09-11 10:58:44
BiodiversityWildlife
Field birds are species adapted to survive, feed, and reproduce mainly in open grassy environments: hayfields, pastures, agricultural fallow land, and certain large-scale crops. Hay producers play a critical role in the...
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Bat roost
2025-09-11 10:22:20
BiodiversityWildlife
As prolific hunters, bats play an important role in controlling insects and can reduce the amount of insecticides used in agriculture. Their decline therefore represents a real threat to the integrity of...
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Best practices for conserving species and their habitats
2025-09-11 10:22:06
BiodiversityConservation
Natural environments are valuable habitats for maintaining the wildlife and plant species found in Quebec. Each of these species plays an important role in our ecosystems. Species and natural environments provide us...
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Can crop diversity be the key to weathering climate change?
2025-09-04 14:47:54
BiodiversityClimate changeCover cropsEcosystemsFood systemsintercroppingResearchsoil
Techniques that replace or reduce the use of pesticides
2025-07-11 15:00:04
Fertilization and inputsSoil health and fertilityBiodiversity
Website : Agrobonsens means cultivating your fields using techniques that replace or reduce the use of pesticides. Here you’ll find the techniques used on Quebec farms and everything you need to know to...
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Biodiversity Quebec
2025-05-23 04:00:18
BiodiversityWildlife
Biodiversité Québec is an integrated scientific monitoring system. It allows for better observation, analysis, and reporting of the status and changes in biodiversity for better management and conservation of ecosystems in Quebec....
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Flower bands
2025-05-23 03:38:16
BiodiversityFloraInsects and pollinators
In this sheet you will find the following information adapted to Quebec: Technical description, Implementation, Costs, Subsidies, Contacts. Flower strips are exactly what you’d expect: strips of vegetation filled with flowering plants...
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Good practices favorable to biodiversity on the farm
2025-05-23 03:27:32
Soil health and fertilityBiodiversityCompostInsects and pollinatorsManure
Good practices favorable to biodiversity on the farm
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