Magnus Bein and Matthew Osmond are Biology M.Sc. Candidates in the Claire de Mazancourt and Michel Loreau lab(s), McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
Matthew is working on an analytical treatment of evolutionary rescue: can a population evolve as fast as the environment is changing, how large of an abrupt stress can a population withstand, how does interspecific competition affect these processes. The hope is to match this theory with experiments taking place on yeast-salt tolerance in the Bell, Gonzalez, and Pelletier labs.
Magnus is fascinated with apparent paradoxes that reveal the poetic nature of living communities. He is researching how ecosystems maintain both stability in a sporadic environment and enhanced function despite limitation of resources.
Eco-Theoretic Cafe 
Magnus, in 2004 and 2005 you authored “Growing Mattick’s Wood” papers jointly for the District of Saanich and the Mattick’s Wood Strata Corporation. I am looking for an original e-copy of the first report: Growing Mattick’s Wood – Ecological Restoration and Vegetation Enhancement in Natural State Covenant Sites”. Saanich has given me an original copy of the 2005 follow-up report. If you still have the report, would you please email to lcrogers@telus.net ? Much thanks for the work you did here … Coleen Rogers, Garden Committee Chair, Mattick’s Wood Strata Council