Rescan's terrestrial group specializes in environmental issues related to vegetation, soil, wildlife and resource management. The environmental scientists at Rescan have a broad range of expertise in the biological sciences, including population, community and behavioral ecology, ecophysiology, conservation biology, biometrics and mathematical modeling of animal and plant populations. We have experience working in arctic and sub-arctic tundra biomes, boreal and temperate deciduous forests, coastal and interior wetlands and tropical-subtropical biomes around the world.

Rescan encourages the active participation of local community experts in field studies, research and monitoring projects. We strive to facilitate and integrate the professional transfer of knowledge in all our projects.

Services include:

• Environmental and ecological field surveys, baseline studies and monitoring
• Environmental and ecological impact and risk assessments

Expertise in:

• Community structure and species diversity
• Habitat and resource use and community interactions
• Species distribution, abundance and taxonomic identification
• Population dynamics of rare species, species at risk and invasive species
• Ecological land classification and vegetation mapping
• Animal population and habitat modeling
• Literature reviews

Experimental design and analyses of field studies

Professional educational instruction in environmental issues related to vegetation, wildlife and resource management

Rescan has developed in-house Geographic Information System (GIS) expertise as a support tool for the services we offer. Spatial data, geographic analysis and derived maps are used in a variety of projects to provide insightful solutions to complex environmental issues. Our GIS capacities include: GPS data collection, translation and mapping, habitat mapping and 3D spatial data rendering among others.