• Spatial and dietary niche variation associated with diverse resource availability, competitive environment, and landscape heterogeneity; ecology and conservation of bear-salmon systems in coastal British Columbia 

  Service, Christina Nicole (2019-04-24)

  The niche concept provides a tractable measure of the ecological roles and requirements of organisms, which can inform our understanding of the patterns of biodiversity, and subsequently, direct conservation policy. Although ...
• Prescription before diagnosis: the dynamics of public policy construction in the BC Liberal New Era, 2001-2005 

  Abbott, George Malcolm (2019-04-24)

  The BC Liberal New Era was an intense and often controversial period in the province's political history. One day after being sworn into office with a massive majority, Premier Gordon Campbell announced a 25 percent ...
• Nature soundscapes and cognitive performance in an office environment 

  Pittman, Maxwell (2019-04-23)

  Research suggests that interacting with nature has positive psychological, physiological, and cognitive benefits. Views to nature, interacting with nature, and other visual nature stimuli have been widely studied. However, ...
• Uncovering regional variability in disturbance trends between parks and greater park ecosystems across Canada (1985–2015) 

  Bolton, Douglas K.; Coops, Nicholas C.; Hermosilla, Txomin; Wulder, Michael A.; White, Joanne C.; Ferster, Colin J. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  We assess the protective function of Canada’s parks and protected areas (PPAs) by analyzing three decades of stand-replacing disturbance derived from Landsat time series data (1985–2015). Specifically, we compared rates ...
• Decision-making as a social process 

  Johnson, Trudy Lynn Elizabeth (2019-04-11)

  North American social psychology has evolved within a culture that values an individualistic ideology. Therefore, when investigating social phenomena, the social psychologist rarely looks past the individual(s) involoved ...
• Seasonal and Diurnal Characteristics of Land Surface Temperature and Major Explanatory Factors in Harris County, Texas 

  Liu, Weibo; Feddema, Johannes; Hu, Leiqiu; Zung, Ashley; Brunsell, Nathaniel (Sustainability, 2017)

  The effects of biophysical and meteorological factors on land surface temperature (LST) have been well studied in previous research. However, less attention has been paid to examine how building materials influence the ...
• Winter Sentinel-1 Backscatter as a Predictor of Spring Arctic Sea Ice Melt Pond Fraction 

  Scharien, Randall K.; Segal, Rebecca; Nasonova, Sasha; Nandan, Vishnu; Howell, Stephen E. L.; Haas, Christian (Geophysical Research Letters, 2017)

  Spring melt pond fraction (fp) has been shown to influence September sea ice extent and, with a growing need to improve melt pond physics in climate and forecast models, observations at large spatial scales are needed. We ...
• Adaptive capacity: From assessment to action in coastal social-ecological systems 

  Whitney, Charlotte K.; Bennett, Nathan J.; Ban, Natalie C.; Allison, Edward H.; Armitage, Derek; Blythe, Jessica L.; Burt, Jenn M.; Cheung, William; Finkbeiner, Elena M.; Kaplan-Hallam, Maery; Perry, Ian; Turner, Nancy J.; Yumagulova, Lilia (Ecology and Society, 2017)

  Because of the complexity and speed of environmental, climatic, and socio-political change in coastal marine social-ecological systems, there is significant academic and applied interest in assessing and fostering the ...
• Generalized Structured Component Analysis with Uniqueness Terms for Accommodating Measurement Error 

  Hwang, Heungsun; Takane, Yoshio; Jung, Kwanghee (Frontiers in Psychology, 2017)

  Generalized structured component analysis (GSCA) is a component-based approach to structural equation modeling (SEM), where latent variables are approximated by weighted composites of indicators. It has no formal mechanism ...
• Characterizing the Water Balance of the Sooke Reservoir, British Columbia over the Last Century 

  Werner, Arelia T.; Prowse, Terry D.; Bonsal, Barrie R. (Climate, 2015)

  Infrastructure such as dams and reservoirs are critical water-supply features in several regions of the world. However, ongoing population growth, increased demand and climate variability/change necessitate the better ...
• Insights on fostering the emergence of robust conservation actions from Zimbabwe's CAMPFIRE program 

  Biggs, Duan; Ban, Natalie C.; Castilla, Juan Carlos; Gelcich, Stefan; Mills, Morena; Gandiwa, Edson; Etienne, Michel; Knight, Andrew T.; Marquet, Pablo A.; Possingham, Hugh P. (Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019)

  One strategy to address threats to biodiversity in the face of ongoing budget constraints is to create an enabling environment that facilitates individuals, communities and other groups to self-organise to achieve conservation ...
• Stable isotope data (oxygen-18 and deuterium) from surveys of lakes, wetlands, rivers, and input waters across the South Athabasca Oil Sands region, Alberta, 2007–2009 

  Gibson, J.J.; Birks, S.J.; Moncur, M.C. (Data in Brief, 2019)

  Oxygen-18 and deuterium analyses of water samples are provided from a regional survey of lakes, wetlands, soil waters, groundwaters, and snowpack samples collected in the Southern Athabasca Oil Sands (SAOS) region, Alberta, ...
• Evaluating anthropogenic threats to endangered killer whales to inform effective recovery plans 

  Lacy, Robert C.; Williams, Rob; Ashe, Erin; Balcomb III, Kenneth C.; Brent, Lauren J. N.; Clark, Christopher W.; Croft, Darren P.; Giles, Deborah A.; MacDuffee, Misty; Paquet, Paul C. (Scientific Reports, 2017)

  Understanding cumulative effects of multiple threats is key to guiding effective management to conserve endangered species. The critically endangered, Southern Resident killer whale population of the northeastern Pacific ...
• Impacts of climate change and intensive lesser snow goose (Chen caerulescens caerulescens) activity in high Arctic pond complexes - Banks Island, Northwest Territories 

  Campbell, Thomas Kiyoshi Fujiwara (2019-02-05)

  Rapid increases in air temperature in Arctic and subarctic regions are driving significant changes to surface water. These changes and their impacts are not well understood in sensitive high Arctic ecosystems. This thesis ...
• A powerful landscape: First Nations small-scale renewable energy development in British Columbia 

  Cook, Dana (2019-02-05)

  Action on climate change will require an increase in renewable energy projects to support electrification in the transition away from burning fossil fuels. Indigenous peoples throughout Canada are developing community-owned ...
• Cumulative effects of climate and landscape change drive spatial distribution of Rocky Mountain wolverine (Gulo gulo L.) 

  Heim, Nicole; Fisher, Jason T.; Clevenger, Anthony; Paczkowski, John; Volpe, John (Ecology and Evolution, 2017)

  Contemporary landscapes are subject to a multitude of human‐derived stressors. Effects of such stressors are increasingly realized by population declines and large‐scale extirpation of taxa worldwide. Most notably, cumulative ...
• Mismeasured mortality: Correcting estimates of wolf poaching in the United States 

  Treves, Adrian; Artelle, Kyle A.; Darimont, Chris T.; Parsons, David R. (Journal of Mammalogy, 2017)

  Measuring rates and causes of mortalities is important in animal ecology and management. Observing the fates of known individuals is a common method of estimating life history variables, including mortality patterns. It ...
• Environmentalism in an age of reconciliation: exploring a new context of indigenous and environmental NGO relationships 

  Gordon, Charlie (2019-01-29)

  As Canada’s courts recognize and redefine the scope of Aboriginal title and rights in the country, alliances between Indigenous communities and environmental groups are playing an increasingly central role in the fight to ...
• Evaluation of MODIS-Aqua Atmospheric Correction and Chlorophyll Products of Western North American Coastal Waters Based on 13 Years of Data 

  Carswell, Tyson; Costa, Maycira; Young, Erika; Komick, Nicholas; Gower, Jim; Sweeting, Ruston (Remote Sensing, 2017)

  There is an increasing need for satellite-derived accurate chlorophyll-a concentration (chla) products to improve fisheries management in coastal regions. However, the methods used to derive these products have to be ...
• Effects of Small-Scale Gold Mining Tailings on the Underwater Light Field in the Tapajós River Basin, Brazilian Amazon 

  de Lucia Lobo, Felipe; Costa, Maycira; Márcia Leão de Moraes Novo, Evlyn; Telmer, Kevin (Remote Sensing, 2017-08)

  Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining (ASGM) within the Amazon region has created several environmental impacts, such as mercury contamination and changes in water quality due to increased siltation. This paper describes ...

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