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Fall 2018

Banting, Allison

Fishless mountain lakes hold important ecological and conservation value. As such, managers are establishing conservation goals (e.g., non-native fish removal) to restore the naturalness to many of these lakes. Managers who are recovering native coldwater fish populations threatened by climate...

Fall 2014

Forsch, Katryna B C

Prior to mining oil sands, soil is salvaged for reclamation and forest stands are harvested for their merchantable timber. Harvest operations leave large amounts of residual woody debris, which has been historically burned or mulched. Woody debris has significant ecological effects and can be...

Fall 2019

Lalonde, Ryan

Fine fluid tailings (FFT) are a by-product created during the extraction of bitumen from oil sands mining operations. Over 975 million m3 of FFT are currently being stored in tailings ponds in the Athabasca oil sands region (AOSR) of Alberta, Canada. These tailings cause industrial and...

Spring 2019

Amos, Jared J. H.

While pollination in agricultural areas has been well studied, pollinators in forests have received much less attention, particularly in the boreal forest. Bees, especially native bees, and hoverflies are the two most important groups of pollinators providing crucial ecological and economical...

Fall 2012

Bodeux, Brett B

The loss of mature forest habitat from forest harvesting represents a substantial threat to the diversity of nocturnal boreal forest moth assemblages. In this study, I used spatial patterns of species diversity to quantify the effects of aggregated green tree retention harvesting on the diversity...

1999

Genoway, Pola Theresa.

1998

Erickson Harmon, Denise Sigrid Christina.

Spring 2016

Hedlin, Erik M

A long term project being conducted on a population of Peregrine Falcons (Falco peregrinus) breeding near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada, has chronicled a steady decline in annual productivity over 30 years. By documenting the direct effects of summer rainfall on nestling mortality, a recent study...

Spring 2014

López Alfaro, Claudia Viviana

Dynamics in wildlife populations emerge from the interactions between individuals and their environment. Constraints between individual nutrition and food availability are therefore fundamental to understanding how species adapt to environmental variability and to identify mechanisms controlling...

Spring 2017

Hoffman, Elizabeth H

Industrial activities such as surface mining are responsible for disturbing large areas of forest land. Reclamation methods must facilitate the development of soil, of a diverse natural understory plant community, and of a tree canopy. In my thesis research, I examined the response of vegetation...