Published scientific literature
Raincoast is a team of scientists and conservationists that undertake primary research and publishes peer-reviewed science to inform our conservation objectives. As an evidence-based, conservation science organisation (science ENGO), that operates a research lab, research field station and a research/sailing vessel, we are unique in Canada.
Investigate. Inform. Inspire.
Raincoast’s in-house scientists, collaborating graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and professors make us unique among conservation groups. We work with First Nations, academic institutions, government and other NGOs to gather information and build support for decisions that protect marine and terrestrial ecosystems, their components and processes. We conduct applied, process-oriented, and hypothesis-driven research that has immediate and relevant utility for the conservation debate and the collective body of scientific knowledge.
Peer-reviewed science publications
Large diversity in new keystones list challenges predominant belief
Letter in Science identifies the contradiction between protecting economic growth and biodiversity in Canada’s Fraser River Estuary
A ‘supersized’ ecological niche for humans
Marine mammals in a changing Arctic Ocean
Southern Resident killer whales not getting enough to eat since 2018
New research proves that nutrients from the sea can increase terrestrial plant growth and reproduction
Fly with care: avoiding disturbance when using drones to study cetaceans
Nearly 40 years of predator reduction efforts have not enhanced moose harvests, study says
Bold, sustained action can revitalize wild Pacific salmon in the lower Fraser River
New research on ecotypes clarifies how they can illuminate our understanding of adaptation and evolution
Vanishing goats? Not on the watch of the Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation
Contributions of Indigenous Knowledge to ecological and evolutionary understanding
