• Gait speed as predictor of transition into cognitive impairment: Findings from three longitudinal studies on aging 

  Hoogendijk, Emiel O.; Rijnhart, Judith J.M.; Skoog, Johan; Robitaille, Annie; van den Hout, Ardo; Ferrucci, Luigi; Huisman, Martijn; Skoog, Ingmar; Piccinin, Andrea M.; Hofer, Scott M.; Terrera, Graciela Muniz (Experimental Gerontology, 2020)

  Objectives Very few studies looking at slow gait speed as early marker of cognitive decline investigated the competing risk of death. The current study examines associations between slow gait speed and transitions between ...
• Watershed, climate, and stable isotope data (oxygen-18 and deuterium) for 50 boreal lakes in the oil sands region, northeastern Alberta, Canada, 2002–2017 

  Gibson, J.J.; Yi, Y.; Birks, S.J. (Data in brief, 2020)

  Watershed data, climate and stable data collected over a 16-year period from a network of 50 lakes in northeastern Alberta, are provided to allow for broader incorporation into regional assessments of environmental impacts, ...
• Nutritional Factors, Physical Health and Immigrant Status Are Associated with Anxiety Disorders among Middle‐Aged and Older Adults: Findings from Baseline Data of The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) 

  Davison, Karen M.; Lin, Shen (Lamson); Tong, Hongmei; Kobayashi, Karen M.; Mora‐Almanza, Jose G.; Fuller‐Thomson, Esme (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020)

  The main purpose of this study was to compare the lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders among foreign-born and Canadian-born adults in middle and later life. Using baseline data of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on ...
• Comparison of isotopic mass balance and instrumental techniques as estimates of basin hydrology in seven connected lakes over 12 years 

  Haig, H.A.; Hayes, N.M.; Simpson, G.L.; Yi, Y.; Wissel, B.; Hodder, K.R.; Leavitt, P.R. (Journal of Hydrology X, 2020)

  Mass-balance models using stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen provide useful estimates of the water balance of lakes, particularly in the absence of instrumental data. However, isotopic mass balances are rarely compared ...
• Living Alone Among Older Adults in Canada and the U.S. 

  Lee, Sharon M.; Edmonston, Barry (Healthcare, 2019)

  Increasing proportions of people, including older adults, live alone. Studying living arrangements of the elderly is important because these affect and reflect general well-being of the elderly and inform communities’ ...
• Perspectives on ethnic and racial disparities in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias: Update and areas of immediate need 

  Babulal, Ganesh M.; Quiroz, Yakeel T.; Albensi, Benedict C.; Arenaza-Urquijo, Eider; Astell, Arlene J.; Babiloni, Claudio; Bahar-Fuchs, Alex; Bell, Joanne; Bowman, Gene L.; Brickman, Adam M.; Chetelat, Gael; Ciro, Carrie; Cohen, Ann D.; Dilworth-Anderson, Peggye; Dodge, Hiroko H.; Dreux, Simone; Edland, Steven; Esbensen, Anna; Evered, Lisbeth; Ewers, Michael; Fargo, Keith N.; Fortea, Juan; Gonzalez, Hector; Gustafson, Deborah R.; Head, Elizabeth; Hendrix, James A.; Hofer, Scott M.; Johnson, Leigh A.; Jutten, Roos; Kilborn, Kerry; Lanctot, Krista L.; Manly, Jennifer J.; Martins, Ralph N.; Mielke, Michelle M.; Morris, Martha Clare; Murray, Melissa E.; Oh, Esther S.; Parra, Mario A.; Rissman, Robert A.; Roe, Catherine M.; Santos, Octavio A.; Scarmeas, Nikolaos; Schneider, Lon S.; Schupf, Nicole; Sikkes, Sietske; Snyder, Heather M.; Sohrabi, Hamid R.; Stern, Yaakov; Strydom, Andre; Tang, Yi; Terrera, Graciela Muniz; Teunissen, Charlotte; van Lent, Debora Melo; Weinborn, Michael; Wesselman, Linda; Wilcock, Donna M.; Zetterberg, Henrik; O’Bryant, Sid E. (Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 2019)

  Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRDs) are a global crisis facing the aging population and society as a whole. With the numbers of people with ADRDs predicted to rise dramatically across the world, the scientific ...
• Isotopic tracing of hydrologic drivers including permafrost thaw status for lakes across Northeastern Alberta, Canada: A 16-year, 50-lake assessment 

  Gibson, J.J.; Yib, Y.; Birks, S.J. (Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2019)

  Study region Surveys of stable isotopes of water in 50 boreal lakes were conducted during 2002–2017 as a component of Alberta’s Oil Sands acid sensitivity program in northeastern Alberta. Study focus Using an isotope ...
• Supporting resurgent Indigenous-led governance: A nascent mechanism for just and effective conservation 

  Artelle, Kyle A.; Zurba, Melanie; Bhattacharyya, Jonaki; Chan, Diana E.; Brown, Kelly; Housty, Jess; Moola, Faisal (Biological Conservation, 2019)

  Substantial increases in the pace, scale, and effectiveness of conservation will be required to abate the ongoing loss of global biodiversity and simultaneous ecological degradation. Concurrently, the need for conservation ...
• Laboratory Intercomparison of Radiometers Used for Satellite Validation in the 400– 900 nm Range 

  Vabson, Viktor; Kuusk, Joel; Ansko, Ilmar; Vendt, Riho; Alikas, Krista; Ruddick, Kevin; Ansper, Ave; Bresciani, Mariano; Burmester, Henning; Costa, Maycira; D’Alimonte, Davide; Dall’Olmo, Giorgio; Damiri, Bahaiddin; Dinter, Tilman; Giardino, Claudia; Kangro, Kersti; Ligi, Martin; Paavel, Birgot; Tilstone, Gavin; Van Dommelen, Ronnie; Wiegmann, Sonja; Bracher, Astrid; Donlon, Craig; Casal, Tânia (Remote Sensing, 2019)

  An intercomparison of radiance and irradiance ocean color radiometers (The Second Laboratory Comparison Exercise—LCE-2) was organized within the frame of the European Space Agency funded project Fiducial Reference Measurements ...
• Field Intercomparison of Radiometers Used for Satellite Validation in the 400–900 nm Range 

  Vabson, Viktor; Kuusk, Joel; Ansko, Ilmar; Vendt, Riho; Alikas, Krista; Ruddick, Kevin; Ansper, Ave; Bresciani, Mariano; Burmester, Henning; Costa, Maycira; D’Alimonte, Davide; Dall’Olmo, Giorgio; Damiri, Bahaiddin; Dinter, Tilman; Giardino, Claudia; Kangro, Kersti; Ligi, Martin; Paavel, Birgot; Tilstone, Gavin; Van Dommelen, Ronnie; Wiegmann, Sonja; Bracher, Astrid; Donlon, Craig; Casal, Tânia (Remote Sensing, 2019)

  An intercomparison of radiance and irradiance ocean color radiometers (the second laboratory comparison exercise—LCE-2) was organized within the frame of the European Space Agency funded project Fiducial Reference Measurements ...
• Fire Exclusion Destroys Habitats for At-Risk Species in a British Columbia Protected Area 

  Hoffman, Kira M.; Wickham, Sara B.; McInnes, William S.; Starzomski, Brian M. (Fire, 2019)

  Fire exclusion and suppression has altered the composition and structure of Garry oak and associated ecosystems in British Columbia. The absence of frequent low severity ground fires has been one of the main contributors ...
• Implications of Cardioprotective Assumptions for National Drinking Guidelines and Alcohol Harm Monitoring Systems 

  Sherk, Adam; Gilmore, William; Churchill, Samuel; Lensvelt, Eveline; Stockwell, Tim; Chikritzhs, Tanya (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2019)

  The existence and potential level of cardioprotection from alcohol use is contested in alcohol studies. Assumptions regarding the risk relationship between alcohol use and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) are critical when ...
• Border and Migration Controls and Migrant Precarity in the Context of Climate Change 

  Bates-Eamer, Nicole (Social Sciences, 2019)

  Climate change impacts natural and human systems, including migration patterns. But isolating climate change as the driver of migration oversimplifies a complex and multicausal phenomenon. This article brings together the ...
• Improving Mountain Pine Beetle Survival Predictions Using Multi-Year Temperatures Across the Western USA 

  Bone, Christopher; Nelson, Michael France (Forests, 2019)

  Global climate change has led to an increase in large-scale bark beetle outbreaks in forests around the world, resulting in significant impacts to forest ecosystems, timber economies, and forest-dependent communities. As ...
• Weather Awareness: On the Lookout for Wildfire in the Canadian Rocky Mountains 

  Walsh, Kristen Anne; Sanseverino, Mary; Higgs, Eric S. (Mountain Research and Development, 2017)

  Mountains are crucial places in which to observe, experience, and learn about rapid weather and climate shifts, felt to varying degrees in different contexts. Fire lookout observers, immersed in the mountain environments ...
• Diabetes and Diabetes Care among Nonobese Japanese-Americans: Findings from a Population-Based Study 

  Kobayashi, Karen; Chan, Keith Tsz-Kit; Roy, Adity; Khan, Mushira Mohsin; Fuller-Thomson, Esme (Advances in Preventive Medicine, 2019)

  Objectives. The objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to determine the prevalence of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans and to determine the adjusted odds of diabetes among nonobese Japanese-Americans compared ...
• Corridors best facilitate functional connectivity across a protected area network 

  Stewart, Frances E.C.; Darlington, Siobhan; Volpe, John P.; McAdie, Malcolm; Fisher, Jason T. (Scientific Reports, 2019)

  Biologging data allow animal ecologists to directly measure species’ fine-scale spatiotemporal responses to environments, such as movement – critical for our understanding of biodiversity declines in the Anthropocene. ...
• Grizzly Bear Noninvasive Genetic Tagging Surveys: Estimating the Magnitude of Missed Detections 

  Fisher, Jason T.; Heim, Nicole; Code, Sandra; Paczkowski, John (PLoS ONE, 2016)

  Sound wildlife conservation decisions require sound information, and scientists increasingly rely on remotely collected data over large spatial scales, such as noninvasive genetic tagging (NGT). Grizzly bears (Ursus arctos), ...
• Estimates of landscape composition from terrestrial oblique photographs suggest homogenization of Rocky Mountain landscapes over the last century 

  Fortin, Julie A.; Fisher, Jason T.; Rhemtulla, Jeanine M.; Higgs, Eric S. (Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 2018)

  While orthogonal (i.e., aerial or satellite) imagery has become the more conventional source of land cover data because it can yield spatially accurate land cover maps, terrestrial oblique photographs present a valuable, ...
• Wolverine behavior varies spatially with anthropogenic footprint: implications for conservation and inferences about declines 

  Stewart, Frances E.C.; Heim, Nicole A.; Clevenger, Anthony P.; Paczkowski, John; Volpe, John P.; Fisher, Jason T. (Ecology and Evolution, 2016)

  Understanding a species’ behavioral response to rapid environmental change is an ongoing challenge in modern conservation. Anthropogenic landscape modification, or “human footprint,” is well documented as a central cause ...

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