Publications

Ground beetle dynamics: natural enemies of pea leaf weevil, Sitona lineatus, in pulse agroecosystems in central Alberta

The effect of habitat connectivity on genetic rescue potential in the alpine butterfly Parnassius smintheus Doubleday (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae)

The influence of larval diet and microsporidian infection on life history traits of the forest tent caterpillar, Malacosoma disstria Hübner (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae)

Climate change drives genetic and species diversity change in the alpine tundra of the Rocky Mountains

Effects of oil well drilling noise on parental breeding behavior of chestnut-collared longspurs (Calcarius ornatus)

Environmental, genetic, and social influences on sex ratio in the boreal ant Formica podzolica

Survival consequences of sampling strategies in Black-capped Chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

Winter responses in wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) to seasonal dynamics in water and factors influencing forage availability in wetlands

Bridging the gap between pest control and conservation through effective management of Columbian ground squirrels Urocitellus columbianus in a national park

Identifying genetic structure and divergence between Zonotrichia leucophrys subspecies and habitat ecotypes

On the population health and persistence of long-toed salamanders, Ambystoma macrodactylum, in the Bow River Corridor

The Lansing Effect in Lemna turionifera (Lemnoideae) and Potential Contributing Factors

What doesn’t kill you may not make you stronger: Sub-lethal effects of parasites and pollutants on energetic condition in river otter and mink

How crop type and distance to semi-natural habitat influences ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) abundance and species richness in central Alberta agroecosystems

Simulated impacts of black bear predation on neonatal loss in boreal caribou

Uptake of waterborne selenite, and its toxic effects, in the water flea (Daphnia magna), Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

A critical evaluation of Black-throated Green Warbler (Setophaga virens) response to habitat fragmentation in space and time

Development of dynamic indicators of resilience in wild rodent Peromyscus maniculatus

Does habitat availability decline towards the range edge of Rhinanthus minor?

Don't Let It Loose - Encouraging Albertans to C.A.R.E. about their Aquarium Pets

H. A. Kostash Youth Mentorship Program

Is there an association between male Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) horn morphology and their reproductive success?

Let's Try Fishing

Outdoor Bound Mentored Hunt Program

The rise and fall of jelly fungi: Exploring a microecosystem of aspen branches in boreal Alberta

Beyond mountain pine beetle: soil carbon storage a decade after tree mortality and the possible influence of soil fungi

Edge effects on parasitoid hymenopteran biodiversity in southern Alberta canola fields

Effects of introduced cicer milkvetch on plant growth, carbon and nitrogen cycling, and soil microbial communities and activities on the Canadian dry mixedgrass prairie

The role of snow and terrain on functional plant composition in an alpine environment

Bottom-up mechanisms affecting wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) summer habitat selection

Intraspecific variation in diurnal hypothermia in over-wintering black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

Investigating the role of fungal and host stress volatiles in the attraction of low-density mountain pine beetle populations

Population Dynamics of Recolonizing American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in the Beaver Hills Biosphere

Taxonomic, morphological and genetic relationship in two foundational prairie rough fescue grass species, Festuca hallii and F. campestris

Temporal scaling and shifting: Variation in survival trajectories in Lemna minor

Using ABHuntLog to Assess Economic Values of Hunting for the Métis Nation within Alberta

2024 Lake Sturgeon Citizen Scientist Mark/Recapture Project - North Saskatchewan River

2nd Annual NTCC Angling Fair

4H Pheasant Raising Project

Applications of environmental DNA and environmental RNA for the biomonitoring of two freshwater salmonids in Alberta, Arctic grayling (Thymallus arcticus) and Westslope cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii lewisi)

Water boatman community response along a pond consolidation gradient in the northwest Prairie Pothole Region

Adaptable Outdoors' Adaptive Shore Fishing/Kayak Fishing for All

Advancing Alberta Bat Conservation Through Outreach, Education, and Improved Management

AHEIA Teachers' Workshop

AHEIA's Conservation Angling Student Training (CAST) Program

AHEIA's Outdoor Women's Program

AHEIA's Outdoor Youth Seminar

AHEIA's Provincial Hunting Day Initiatives

AHEIA's Youth Hunter Education Camps

Alberta Standard Trapping Course - MD of Ranchland

Altered behaviour and transmission ecology of fluke-infected zombie ants

ALUS Wetaskiwin-Leduc 

American Kestrels - Using nestboxes and technology to increase awareness and promote conservation

Archery 3D Range Completion and Fly Fishing Equipment Greening

Assessing and Improving CWD Surveillance as a Component of Big Game Management in Alberta

Assessing the potential for competition between feral horses, cattle and elk in the upper foothills of Alberta

Avian responses to fire and salvage logging following mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks in the Canadian Rockies

Bearspaw School NASP Program Expansion

Bighorn Sheep Ecology and Disease Risk

Bighorn Sheep Ecology and Disease Risk

Birdhouses

Coalhurst High School Archery Program

Community Bird Box Program

Connect to Conserve: Bridging the Gap to Conservation Science

Connecting People to Birds and the Boreal Forest

Conservation is Cool - Unplugged Summer Camp

Conservation Program for Students

COTTUS: Conserving Our Threatened Teleosts in the Upper St. Mary

Determining Overfishing Risk to Alberta Walleye Fisheries

Differences in cognition, boldness, and parental care in coyotes may influence human-wildlife conflict, including exposure to a zoonotic tapeworm

Dodds Lake Stocking

East Slopes Native Trout Recovery

Eco Hut Outdoor Education Program

Effects of the Expanding Feral Horses on Predator-Prey Dynamics in the Upper Foothills: Implications for elk

Evaluating Amphibian Resistance and Resilience to Severe Wildfire

Expanding Access to Outdoor Conservation for African-descent Youth and Families

Experiential Learning and Habitat Management of Fescue Grasslands - A ''Coordinated Distributed Experiment'' for Undergradulate Ecology Labs

Fungarium Enhancement and Website Development for the Purposes of Educating Albertans in the Conservation of Habitat for the Preservation of Macrofungi in Alberta

Future Leaders: Conservation Education and  Youth Action

Grassland Species at Risk Conservation through Stewardship and Implementation of Best Management Practices on Private Lands in Alberta

Grassland Species at Risk Conservation through Stewardship and Implementation of the Best Management Practices on Private Lands in Alberta

Grazing Schools for Women: Promoting habitat and improved livestock grazing stewardship in south and central Alberta

H.A. Kostash School Youth Mentorship Program

Habitat Selection of Feral Horses and Cattle in Alberta's Foothills: Implications for Biodiversity?

Implementing Responsible Headwaters Use and Riparian Habitat Improvement for Westslope Cutthroat and Bull Trout

Inspiring and Empowering Youth: Integrating fishing and archery into middle school career and technology foundations classes

Introduction to Trapping and Winter Clothing

Invasive Plant Program

Invasive Species Education Program

Kids Can Catch - Ice Fishing Event

Kids Can Catch Events 2024-25

Kids Can Catch in Hinton

Kids Can Catch, Yellowhead County

Kids Can Catch

Kids Can Catch 

Lacombe Annual Kids Can Catch - June 2024

LakeKeepers: Community-Based Monitoring of Alberta's Lakes

LFGA Archery Community Recruitment and Education Program

Local habitat features and landscape connectivity of the Ord’s kangaroo rat

Mosh Pits and Raves: Using ARUs to update sharp-tail grouse lek status in NW Alberta

MULTISAR West - Habitat Protection and Conservation of Multiple Species

National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP)

Native and Invasive Species Education at Leighton Art Centre

New Boat Dock on Inter Lake Conservation Site

NLFF NSR Recapture Study

Optimizing Invasive Wild Pig Control and Disease Prevention through Movement and Behaviour Analysis

Optimizing Invasive Wild Pig Control and Disease Prevention through Movement and Behaviour Analysis

Outdoor Bound! Mentored Hunt Program

Piikani Nation-led Project: Restoring habitat for westslope cutthroat trout, bull trout, and lake sturgeon in the Eastern Slopes, Porcupine Hills and Old Man River of Alberta, Canada

Pollinator community responses to weed control in restored grasslands in the Aspen Parkland

Population Dynamics of Recolonizing American Black Bears (Ursus americanus) in the Beaver Hills Biosphere

Population structure and the conservation significance of elytral colour pattens in the Big Sand Tiger beetle (Cicindela formosa)

Predicting changes in Alberta’s lichens under climate change scenarios: a census of algal symbionts as keystone species

Promoting Watershed Conservation and Stewardship Across the Athabasca Watershed

Pronghorn Antelope Migration Corridor Enhancement

Pronghorn Antelope Migration Corridor Enhancement

Pronghorn Winter Survival and Migration

Raven River Tributary Riparian Protection

Recovering Natural and Community Assets in the Oldman Watershed

Red Deer Woodchucks Outdoor Education Camps

Response to Endangered Sage Grouse to Oil and Gas Reclamation in Critical Habitat in Southeast Alberta

Restoring Habitat for Mule Deer, Elk and Moose in the Central Parkland of Alberta

Restoring Habitat for Pronghorn, Mule Deer, and Greater Sage Grouse at Manyberries Creek Conservation Site - Reseed 1

Riparian and Ecological Enhancement Program

Riparian Education Program (AKA: Pond Days)

See, Hear, Do - Promoting Bat and Bat Habitat Conservation in Waterton Biosphere Reserve

Snake Conservation through Monitoring and Education

Snow Goose Festival 2024 - A Celebration of Spring Migration

Songbird Nesting Box Program 2024

Species identification accuracy and repeatability of photo-based vegetation monitoring

SPFGA Outdoor Woman's Program

St. Joseph High School Outdoor Education Archery

Testing the ability of distribution models to map rare plant communities in Waterton Lakes National Park

The 3Ws of Alberta's New Science Curriculum - Water, Wildlife and Wetlands

Tracing the Social Network of an Umbrella Species: Uncovering communication dynamics to inform grizzly bear conservation and management

Trailblazer Advanced Camp

Turkey Surveys and Population Augmentation

Urban ecology of invasive mosquito species Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) in Calgary, Alberta

Using neural networks and satellite imagery to find early warning signals of, and uncover land use patterns associated with, cyanobacterial blooms

Waterfowl Nesting Box Workshop

Watershed Restoration and Education Project

White-tailed and Mule Deer Response to Winter Severity and Hunting

Wildlife and Native Habitat Enhancement in Red Deer County and Lacombe County via ALUS (2024)

Wildlife Monitoring, Conservation, and Public Engagement at Beaverhill Lake

WILDRescue

Willow Creek Outdoor Adventure

Women in Conservation Provincial Program Development

Women's & Youth Archery League

Women's & Youth Shotgun League

Women's and Family Range Days

Women's Mentored Pheasant Hunt

YRC Winter Outreach Camp

Climate-driven wood degradation: Sources of fungal variation in fire and bark beetle-killed three boreal forest tree species

Determinants and consequences of birth phenology on individual fitness in mountain goats

Development and evaluation of predictive habitat models for the endangered, endemic land snail, Oreohelix cooperi, in Cypress Hills Park, Alberta

Effects of Vairimorpha ceranae on winter (diutinus) worker honey bee (Apis mellifera) physiology

Effects of field border type and flower abundance on native bee diversity, movement and survival along highways

Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of amphibian road underpasses: A case study from Waterton Lakes National Park

Food abundance and caching behaviour in black-capped chickadees (Poecile atricapillus)

How low is low-impact? Assessing disturbance severity and edge effects of low-impact seismic lines on bryophyte communities in Alberta’s boreal peatlands

Influence of bottom-up and top-down factors on seasonal migration and habitat selection of northern wood bison (Bison bison athabascae) population

Investigating water acquisition by white spruce in the boreal transition zone and the role of ectomycorrhizal fungi in isotope fractionation

Investigation of microbial transmission at the wildlife-livestock interface: Strain-level insights into the gut microbiome of bighorn sheep

Not all mosquitoes are bloodsuckers: Assessing the western limits of the range of Wyeomyia smithii, the non-biting pitcher plant mosquito

Revisiting wolf-bison interactions in Wood Buffalo National Park

Role of harvest edges in sustaining avian biodiversity across dynamic forest landscapes

The effect of intercropping canola and field pea on beneficial arthropod biodiversity in Alberta agroecosystems

Assessing fungal biodiversity, dispersal, and community composition 30 years following forest disturbance

Assessing the role of forest understory structure in boreal bird-habitat selection using LiDAR

Biodiversity assessment of Villa bee flies to support conservation of Alberta’s threatened prairies

Comparing the detection accuracy of point counts and passive acoustic monitoring of bird species

Does increased predation risk favour reduced sampling behavior? A field experiment in blackcapped chickadees

Effects of tire-wear particles on development of rainbow and brown trout

Field and analytical models of critical habitat of at-risk stream fishes for recovery strategies

How does bison ecosystem engineering affect forage in mountain meadows?

Management tools for native rangeland conservation: evaluating the effects of adaptive multipaddock grazing on nest success and habitat quality for declining grassland birds in Southern Alberta

Managing for disease regulation: Linking agriculture land use, rodent populations and disease regulation

Quantifying abundance patterns and long-distance dispersal rates of plant communities along their elevational range limits

Quantifying and scaling tree methane flux in the boreal forest of Alberta

Quantifying the spread of honeybee (Apis mellifera) viruses to other pollinators

The effect of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) disturbance on spider and rove beetle communities

The relationship between harvest pressure and the genetic spatial structure of large carnivore populations in Alberta

The role of plant roots in structuring small-scale differences in diversity and function of soil communities in grasslands

Understanding the impacts of wildfire ash on Alberta salmonoid species

What grass is in the gut? Using DNA metabarcoding to identify grazing induced diet shifts in Melanoplus bivittatus (Orthoptera: Acrididae)