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Fall 2021
Streams provide essential ecosystem services including nutrient cycling and uptake, organic matter processing and ecosystem production and respiration. Stream ecosystem functioning provides an integrated metric of biological structures and processes that can respond to anthropogenic land use...
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Climate change implications for distribution, phenology and conservation of Olive-sided Flycatchers (Contopus cooperi) and Western Wood-Pewees (C. sordidulus) in northwestern North America
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Northwestern North America is predicted to experience some of the world’s greatest human-caused climate change. Understanding the impacts of associated changes will be imperative to the conservation and management of northern-breeding birds. In particular, long distance migrants and aerial...
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Data associated with "Vegetative growth drives the negative effects of an invasive species on resident community diversity and is not limited by plant-soil feedbacks: a temporal assessment"
Data associated with "Vegetative growth drives the negative effects of an invasive species on resident community diversity and is not limited by plant-soil feedbacks: a temporal assessment"
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Holden, Emily M, Salimbayeva, Karina, Brown, Charlotte, Stotz, Gisela C., Cahill, James F.
Many pathways of invasion have been posited, but ecologists lack an experimental framework to identify which mechanisms are dominant in a given invasion scenario. Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are one such mechanism that tend to initially facilitate, but over time attenuate, invasive species’...
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Data associated with "Vegetative growth drives the negative effects of an invasive species on resident community diversity and is not limited by plant-soil feedbacks: a temporal assessment"
Data associated with "Vegetative growth drives the negative effects of an invasive species on resident community diversity and is not limited by plant-soil feedbacks: a temporal assessment"
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Holden, Emily M., Salimbayeva, Karina, Brown, Charlotte, Stotz, Gisela C., Cahill, James F.
Many pathways of invasion have been posited, but ecologists lack an experimental framework to identify which mechanisms are dominant in a given invasion scenario. Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are one such mechanism that tend to initially facilitate, but over time attenuate, invasive species’...
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Detection probability of the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus): Implications for developing habitat use models
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As old-growth forest ecosystems become increasingly scarce in North America, the need to accurately and efficiently survey, monitor, and model old-growth specialists and keystone species, such as the Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus), becomes increasingly important. Little is known about...
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Ecology and Human Flourishing: Theological Insights from an Urban Community Garden in Western Canada
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This three-part dissertation addresses the perceived indifference of a large segment of the Christian community to the ecological crisis of our time and suggests how they can experience heartfelt love and commitment toward God’s creation. It is premised on the belief of the American poet and...
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Effects of clear-cutting and wildfires on succession of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in western Alberta
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I studied how carabid beetle assemblages in lodgepole pine stands have responded after clear- cut harvest and wildfires on an actively managed landscape ~20 km south of Hinton, Alberta. This work builds on and expands the focus of a previous study (Niemelä et al. 1993) conducted 23-24 years...
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Evidence-based tool surpasses expert opinion in predicting probability of eradication of aquatic non-indigenous species
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Drolet, David, Locke, Andrea, Lewis, Mark A, Davidson, Jeff
The main objective of evidence-based management is to promote use of scientific data in the decision-making process of managers, with data either complementing or replacing expert knowledge. It is expected that this will increase the efficiency of environmental interventions. However, the...
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Feather mite ecology and morphology: exploring how obligate ectosymbionts of birds are impacted by life on hosts
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Feather mites (Acariformes: Sarcoptiformes: Analgoidea and Pterolichoidea) are a group of small arachnids that inhabit the feathers of nearly every species of bird. Life as ectosymbionts has shaped the morphology and ecology of feather mites, whose entire life cycles (from egg to adult) are...
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From species to genes: ecological and evolutionary mechanisms structuring diversity in space and time
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My Ph.D. thesis addresses three foundational questions in conservation biology: i) what is biodiversity and how is it best measured? ii) how does variation in habitat configuration, habitat composition, and environmental conditions affect emergent patterns of species diversity? and iii) how do...