Publications

Stefano Mezzini, R. Marcus, D. Desai, M.J. Noonan (2026). Environmental variability shapes biodiversity and protected area priorities in Canada. Communications Earth & Environment.
S. McComb, K. Beckett, T. Akerman, P. Arcese, D. Bedford, P. Dunwiddie, J. Fisher, T. Golumbia, E. Gonzales, Robyn Irvine, A. James, E. Long, J. Martin, S. Michel, W. Pelkey, T. Sylvester, S. Thomas, N. Thomas, T. Martin (2025). Decision analysis rooted in Indigenous and Western scientific knowledge identifies cost-effective strategies for managing hyperabundant deer to restore keystone places. People and Nature.
Nicole Hill, Ayla Pearson, Andrea Kortello (2025). bisonpicsuite: A set of R packages to estimate wood bison population parameters from remote camera data. Journal of Open Source Software.
K.M. Gaynor, E.I.F. Wooster, A.R. Martinig, J.R. Green, A. Chhen, S. Cuadros, R. Gill, G. Khanal, N. Love, R. Marcus, C.L. Mills, K. Wrensford, N.S. Wright, Stefano Mezzini, J. Marley, M.J. Noonan (2025). The Human Shield Hypothesis: Does Predator Avoidance of Humans Create Refuges for Prey?. Ecology Letters.
Seb Dalgarno, J. Boulanger, Ayla Pearson, Joe Thorley, T. Hegel, B. Nobert, D. Hervieux (2025). bbousuite: A set of R packages to facilitate analysis of boreal caribou survival and recruitment data. Journal of Open Source Software.
D.K. Weststrate, A. Chhen, Stefano Mezzini, K. Safford, M.J. Noonan (2025). How climate change and population growth will shape attendance and human-wildlife interactions at British Columbia parks. Journal of Sustainable Tourism.
V. DeNicola, Stefano Mezzini, P. Bursać, P. Minasandra, F. Cagnacci (2025). Effects of vasectomy on breeding-related movement and activity in free-ranging white-tailed deer. Movement Ecology.
Stefano Mezzini, C.H. Fleming, E.P. Medici, M.J. Noonan (2025). How resource abundance and resource stochasticity affect organisms' range sizes. Movement Ecology.
Joe Thorley, R. Fisher, D. Fox, C. Schwarz (2025). ssdtools v2: An R package to fit Species Sensitivity Distributions. Journal of Open Source Software.
C.C. Day, E.L. Landguth, D. Hausleitner, Andrea Kortello, ..., K.A. Zeller (2024). Genetic connectivity of wolverines in western North America. Scientific Reports.
Andrea Kortello, D. Hausleitner, G. Mowat, M. Barrueto, N. Heim, L. Larson, M. Lucid, A. Clevenger (2024). How to find a wolverine: Factors affecting detection at wolverine (Gulo gulo) bait stations in western Canada. Ecosphere.
D. Hausleitner, Andrea Kortello, M. Barrueto, W. Harrower, J. Krebs (2024). Guidelines for Winter Recreation near Wolverine Dens in Montane Western North America. Journal of Ecosystems and Management.
Robyn Irvine, Joe Thorley (2024). Relative efficiency of hunting methods during an incomplete Sitka black-tailed deer eradication on Haida Gwaii, Canada. Ecological Solutions and Evidence.
C.A.C. Gushulak, Stefano Mezzini, K.E. Moir, G.L. Simpson, L. Bunting, B. Wissel, D.R. Engstrom, K.R. Laird, A. St. Amand, B.F. Cumming, P.R. Leavitt (2024). Impacts of a century of land‐use change on the eutrophication of large, shallow, prairie Lake Manitoba in relation to adjacent Lake Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada). Freshwater Biology.
A.P. Christie, W.H. Morgan, N. Salafsky, T.B. White, Robyn Irvine, N. Boenisch, R.M. Chiaravalloti, K. Kincaid, A.M. Rezaie, H. Yamashita, W.J. Sutherland (2023). Assessing diverse evidence to improve conservation decision‐making. Conservation Science and Practice.
J.A. Bjorndahl, C.A.C. Gushulak, Stefano Mezzini, G.L. Simpson, H.A. Haig, P.R. Leavitt, K. Finlay (2022). Abrupt changes in the physical and biological structure of endorheic upland lakes due to 8‐m lake‐level variation during the 20th century. Limnology & Oceanography.
J.T. Fisher, S. Murray, M. Barrueto, K. Carroll, A.P. Clevenger, D. Hausleitner, W. Harrower, N. Heim, K. Heinemeyer, A.L. Jacob, T.S. Jung, Andrea Kortello, A. Ladle, R. Long, P. MacKay, M.A. Sawaya (2022). Wolverines (Gulo gulo) in a changing landscape and warming climate: A decadal synthesis of global conservation ecology research. Global Ecology and Conservation.
B.T. Burgess, Robyn Irvine, M.A. Russello (2022). Population genomics of Sitka black-tailed deer supports invasive species management and ecological restoration on islands. Communications Biology.
N. Salafsky, Robyn Irvine, J. Boshoven, J. Lucas, K. Prior, J.‐F. Bisaillon, B. Graham, P. Harper, A.Y. Laurin, A. Lavers, L. Neufeld, R. Margoluis (2022). A practical approach to assessing existing evidence for specific conservation strategies. Conservation Science and Practice.
Robyn Irvine, K. Prior, S.J. Cooke, N. Salafsky (2022). A more nuanced analysis of evidence-based decision-making by Canada's protected area managers: a comment on Lemieux et al. (2021). FACETS.
W.G. Warnock, Joe Thorley, S.K. Arndt, T.J. Weir, J. Tyler, M.D. Neufeld, J.A. Burrows, G.F. Andrusak (2021). Kootenay Lake kokanee (Oncorhynchus nerka) collapse into a predator pit. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
B.M.F. Sjodin, E.E. Puckett, Robyn Irvine, J. Munshi-South, M.A. Russello (2021). Global origins of invasive brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in the Haida Gwaii archipelago. Biological Invasions.
D.R. Fox, R.A. Van Dam, R. Fisher, G.E. Batley, A.R. Tillmanns, Joe Thorley, C.J. Schwarz, D.J. Spry, K. McTavish (2021). Recent Developments in Species Sensitivity Distribution Modeling. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.
M. Lucid, S. Cushman, L. Robinson, Andrea Kortello, D. Hausleitner, G. Mowat, S. Ehlers, S. Gillespie, L.K. Svancara, J. Sullivan, A. Rankin, D. Paetkau (2020). Carnivore contact: A species fracture zone delineated amongst genetically structured North American marten populations (Martes americana and Martes caurina). Frontiers in Genetics.
B.M.F. Sjodin, Robyn Irvine, A.T. Ford, G.R. Howald, M.A. Russello (2020). Rattus population genomics across the Haida Gwaii archipelago provides a framework for guiding invasive species management. Evolutionary Applications.
G. Mowat, A.P. Clevenger, Andrea Kortello, D. Hausleitner, M. Barrueto, L. Smit, C. Lamb, B. Dorsey, P.K. Ott (2019). The sustainability of wolverine trapping mortality in Southern Canada. The Journal of Wildlife Management.
Andrea Kortello, D. Hausleitner, G. Mowat (2019). Mechanisms influencing the winter distribution of wolverine Gulo gulo luscus in the southern Columbia Mountains, Canada. Wildlife Biology.
Seb Dalgarno (2018). shinyssdtools: A web application for fitting Species Sensitivity Distributions (SSDs). Journal of Open Source Software.
L.C. Lee, Joe Thorley, J. Watson, M. Reid, A.K. Salomon (2018). Diverse knowledge systems reveal social-ecological dynamics that inform species conservation status. Conservation Letters.
R.R. Ramey, Joe Thorley, A.S. Ivey (2018). Local and population-level responses of Greater sage-grouse to oil and gas development and climatic variation in Wyoming. PeerJ.
Robyn Irvine, Joe Thorley, L. Porto (2017). When Do Mountain Whitefish (Prosopium williamson) Spawn? A Comparison of Estimates Based on Gonadosomatic Indices and Spawner and Egg Counts. The Open Fish Science Journal.
Joe Thorley, G.F. Andrusak (2017). The fishing and natural mortality of large, piscivorous Bull Trout and Rainbow Trout in Kootenay Lake, British Columbia (2008–2013). PeerJ.
Seb Dalgarno, J.E. Mersey, Z. Gedalof, M. Lemon (2017). Species-environment associations and predicted distribution of Black Oystercatcher breeding pairs in Haida Gwaii, British Columbia, Canada. Avian Conservation and Ecology.
A. Thorne, A.I. MacDonald, Joe Thorley (2016). The abundance of large, piscivorous Ferox Trout (Salmo trutta) in Loch Rannoch, Scotland. PeerJ.
A. Arihafa, Seb Dalgarno, E. Neale (2015). An estimate of above-ground carbon stock in tropical rainforest on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Pacific Conservation Biology.
Robyn Irvine, Joe Thorley, R. Westcott, D. Schmidt, D. DeRosa (2015). Why Do Fish Strand? An Analysis of Ten Year of Flow Reduction Data from the Columbia and Kootenay Rivers, Canada. River Research and Applications.
A.L. Heuberger, F.M. Robison, Sarah Lyons, C.D. Broeckling, J.E. Prenni (2014). Evaluating plant immunity using mass spectrometry-based metabolomics workflows. Frontiers in Plant Science.
A.F. Youngson, S.B. Piertney, Joe Thorley, I.A. Malcolm, C. Soulsby (2011). Spatial association of nest construction by brown trout Salmo trutta. Journal of Fish Biology.
K.H. Knopff, A. Adams Knopff, Andrea Kortello, M.S. Boyce (2010). Cougar kill rate and prey composition in a multiprey system. The Journal of Wildlife Management.
Andrea Kortello, S.J. Ham (2009). Movement and habitat selection by Argia vivida (Hagen) (Odonata, Coenagrionidae) in fuel-modified forest. Journal of Insect Conservation.
Robyn Irvine, T. Oussoren, J.S. Baxter, D.C. Schmidt (2009). The effects of flow reduction rates on fish stranding in British Columbia, Canada. River Research and Applications.
Andrea Kortello, T.H. Hurd, D.L. Murray (2007). Interactions between cougars (Puma concolor) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) in Banff National Park, Alberta. Ecoscience.
S. Chadwick, B. Knights, Joe Thorley, A. Bark (2007). A long-term study of population characteristics and downstream migrations of the European eel Anguilla anguilla (L.) and the effects of a migration barrier in the Girnock Burn, north-east Scotland. Journal of Fish Biology.
Joe Thorley, A.F. Youngson, R. Laughton (2007). Seasonal variation in rod recapture rates indicates differential exploitation of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, stock components. Fisheries Management and Ecology.
Robyn Irvine, D.C. Schmidt, L.R. Hildebrand (2007). Population Status of White Sturgeon in the Lower Columbia River within Canada. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society.
Robyn Irvine, L.J. Jackson (2006). Spatial variance of nutrient limitation of periphyton in montane, headwater streams (McLeod River, Alberta, Canada). Aquatic Ecology.
Joe Thorley, D. Eatherley, A. Stephen, I. Simpson, J. Maclean, A. Youngson (2005). Congruence between automatic fish counter data and rod catches of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in Scottish rivers. ICES Journal of Marine Science.
A.F. Youngson, I.A. Malcolm, Joe Thorley, P.J. Bacon, C. Soulsby (2004). Long-residence groundwater effects on incubating salmonid eggs: low hyporheic oxygen impairs embryo development. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.
Robyn Irvine, E.E. Crone, L.J. Jackson, E.A. MacIsaac (2004). Does scale affect ecological model predictions? A test with lake resposes to fertilization. Ecological Applications.
S. Stefanni, Joe Thorley (2003). Mitochondrial DNA phylogeography reveals the existence of an Evolutionarily Significant Unit of the sand goby Pomatoschistus minutus in the Adriatic (Eastern Mediterranean). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.
J.M. LaMontagne, Robyn Irvine, E.E. Crone (2002). Spatial patterns of population regulation in sage grouse (Centrocercus spp.) population viability analysis. Journal of Animal Ecology.
G. Pritchard, L.D. Harder, Andrea Kortello, R. Krishnaraj (2000). The response of larval growth rate to temperature in three species of coenagrionid dragonflies with some comments on Lestes disjunctus (Odonata: Coenagrionidae, Lestidae) . International Journal of Odonatology.
Joe Thorley, R.D.M. Page (2000). RadCon: phylogenetic tree comparison and consensus. Bioinformatics.
G. Pritchard, Andrea Kortello (1997). Roosting, perching, and habitat selection in Argia vivida hagen and Amphiagrion abbreviatum (selys) (Odonata: Coenagrionidae), two damselflies inhabiting geothermal springs. The Canadian Entomologist.