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Taxonomic changes in mountain zooplankton communities over a 50-year period reveal a loss of calanoid copepods
DownloadSpring 2020
Historical species datasets are key to evaluating community responses to long-term environmental change. Yet, ecological studies related to assessing species diversity are often dominated by spatial scales, with less attention dedicated to temporal applications. The main goal of my research was...
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Fall 2017
Multiple novel and rapidly changing environmental factors (i.e. anthropogenic stressors) are increasingly affecting ecological communities, and their functional roles in ecosystems. Consequently, freshwater biodiversity has declined worldwide; however, the functional impacts of this loss should...
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A Functional Approach Reveals Zooplankton Responses to Environmental Change in Mountain Lakes
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Concern is increasing over the future cumulative impacts of multiple stressors on freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem function, especially in alpine environments where climatic warming increases with elevation. Here, consideration of individual species traits enables translation of changes in...
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Cumulative Impacts of Multiple Stressors on Aquatic Communities: Novel Fish Predators in Warming Mountain Lakes
DownloadFall 2015
Novel anthropogenic perturbations (i.e. stressors) often mediate the effects of each other, generating “ecological surprises”. While the cumulative impact of certain stressors on individual organisms and populations is becoming better understood, little is known about how their net effects...
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2014-06-13
Fu, L., Marey, H.S., Hashisho, Z.
The rapid expansion of oil sands activities and massive energy requirements to extract and upgrade the bitumen have led to a need for more comprehensive understanding of their potential environmental impacts, particularly on air quality. There are many oil sands developments and natural sources...
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Responses of aquatic invertebrate assemblages to an iron treatment aimed at reducing internal phosphorus loading
DownloadSpring 2013
This mesocosm study investigates changes in aquatic invertebrate assemblages in response to iron application, a remediation treatment that inhibits internal phosphorus loading in culturally-eutrophied freshwaters. To determine the effects of ferric chloride application on aquatic invertebrates, I...
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Climate Change Impacts on Stoichiometry, Phytoplankton, and Zooplankton in Alpine Lake Food Webs
DownloadFall 2013
The main hypothesis of this study was that warmer and drier conditions affect fishless alpine lakes by increasing (1) phosphorus (P)-availability, (2) P-limited autotrophs versus mixotrophic phytoflagellates, and (3) fast-growing P-limited cladocerans versus slower-growing nitrogen (N)-rich...
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Effects of Stocked Trout, Native Small-bodied Fish, and Winter Surface Aeration on Zooplankton in Small Boreal Foothills Lakes
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Trout are commonly stocked into Alberta lakes to enhance angling opportunities. Many of these lakes contain native fish and require aeration to prevent trout winterkill. I assessed effects of trout and native fish on zooplankton abundance, biomass, size, community composition, and vertical...
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2011
Skinner, W., Flannigan, M., Shabber, A.
An empirical scheme for predicting the meteorological conditions that lead to summer forest fire severity for Canada using the multivariate singular value decomposition (SVD) has been developed for the 1953-2007 period. The levels and sources of predictive skill have been estimated using a...