• Archaeological and Contemporary Evidence Indicates Low Sea Otter Prevalence on the Pacific Northwest Coast During the Late Holocene 

  Slade, Erin; McKechnie, Iain; Salomon, Anne K. (Ecosystems, 2021-08-17)

  The historic extirpation and subsequent recovery of sea otters (Enhydra lutris) have profoundly changed coastal social-ecological systems across the northeastern Pacific. Today, the conservation status of sea otters is ...
• Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia, Canada 

  Henson, Lauren; Balkenhol, Niko; Gustas, Robert; Adams, Megan; Walkus, Jennifer; Housty, William; Stronen, Astrid; Moody, Jason; Reece, Donald; vonHoldt, Brigett; McKechnie, Iain; Koop, Ben; Darimont, Chris (Ecology and Society, 2021)

  Landscape genetic analyses of wildlife populations can exclude variation in a broad suite of potential spatiotemporal correlates, including consideration of how such variation might have similarly influenced people over ...
• A synthetic review of terrestrial biological research from the Alberta oil sands region: 10 years of published literature 

  Roberts, David R.; Bayne, Erin M.; Beausoleil, Danielle; Dennett, Jacqueline; Fisher, Jason T.; Hazewinkel, Roderick O.; Sayanda, Diogo; Wyatt, Faye; Dubé, Monique G. (Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management, 2022-03)

  In the past decade, a large volume of peer-reviewed papers has examined the potential impacts of oil and gas resource extraction in the Canadian oil sands (OS). A large proportion focuses on terrestrial biology: wildlife, ...
• Knowledge sharing for shared success in the decade on ecosystem restoration 

  Ladouceur, Emma; Shackelford, Nancy; Bouazza, Karma; Brudvig, Lars; Bucharova, Anna; Conradi, Timo; Erickson, Todd E.; Garbowski, Magda; Garvy, Kelly; Harpole, W. Stanley; Jones, Holly P.; Knight, Tiffany; Nsikani, Mlungele; Paterno, Gustavo; Suding, Katharine; Temperton, Vicky M.; Török, Péter; Winkler, Daniel E.; Chase, Jonathan M. (Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022-03)

  The Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to provide the means and incentives for upscaling restoration efforts worldwide. Although ecosystem restoration is a broad, interdisciplinary concept, effective ecological restoration ...
• Documenting 6,000 years of Indigenous fisheries and settlement as seen through Vibracore sampling on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada 

  Duffield, Seonaid; Walkus, Jennifer; White, Elroy; McKechnie, Iain; Mackie, Quentin; McLaren, Duncan (American Antiquity, 2022-01)

  This article highlights the utility of vibracore technology to sample deep shell midden deposits on the Central Pacific Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Analysis of six core samples and 21 radiocarbon dates revealed that ...
• The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim 

  Bullen, Cameron D.; Campos, Alberto A; Gregr, Edward J.; McKechnie, Iain; Chan, Kai M.A. (Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2021-08-08)

  Aim The global decline of megafauna is believed to have had significant and widespread ecological impacts. One such extinction of likely important consequence is the 18th century extinction of the Steller’s sea cow ...
• Participatory sustainable waste management project in Brazil 

  Tremblay, Crystal; Amyot, Sarah (Manchester University Press, 2019-01)
• The European Semester in the North and in the South: Domestic Politics and the Salience of EU-Induced Wage Reform in Different Growth Models 

  D'Erman, Valerie J.; Schulz, Daniel F.; Verdun, Amy; Zagermann, Dennis (JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022)

  Macro-economic policy coordination remains a challenge in the EU. The European Semester was designed to help facilitate more coordination. In the area of wage policies, it encourages Germany and the Netherlands to support ...
• Assessing the Outcomes of Community-University Engagement Networks in a Canadian Context 

  Tremblay, Crystal; Spilker, Robyn; Nagel, Rhianna; Robinson, Jennifer Claire; Brown, Leslie (Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 2018)

  Inter-organizational networks are proliferating as a tool for community-university engagement (CUE). Focusing on three Canadian inter-organizational networks that bring communities and universities together, Community Based ...
• The European Semester as Goldilocks: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination and the Recovery and Resilience Facility 

  Vanhercke, Bart; Verdun, Amy (Journal of Common Market Studies, 2022)

  How and why did the European Semester end up as the main institutional vehicle of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF)? To what extent did this new set-up change the power balance among key actors (for example, ...
• Social Learning and Paulo Freire Concepts for Understanding Food Security Cases in Brazil 

  Bonatti, Michelle; Borba, Juliano; Löhr, Katharina; Tremblay, Crystal; Sieber, Stefan (Agriculture, 2021-08)

  Food insecurity is a wicked, complex, and critical problem. Although evidence supporting a wide range of assertions regarding the outcomes of social learning is still being investigated, its potential to improve food ...
• Water governance in two urban African contexts: agency and action through participatory video 

  Tremblay, Crystal; Harris, Leila M. (Research For All, 2022-02)

  This paper describes and critically examines the process and outcomes of a community-based participatory video (PV) research project on issues related to water governance with residents of underserved and informal settlements ...
• Complex 3D Migration and Delayed Triggering of Hydraulic Fracturing-Induced Seismicity: A Case Study Near Fox Creek, Alberta 

  Gao, Dawei; Kao, Honn; Wang, Bei; Visser, Ryan; Schultz, Ryan; Harrington, Rebecca M. (Geophysical Research Letters, 2022-01-28)

  Earthquakes resulting from hydraulic fracturing (HF) can have delayed triggering relative to injection commencement over a varied range of time scales, with the majority of M ≥ 4 mainshocks occurring near/after well ...
• Capturing the value of biosurveillance “big data” through natural capital accounting 

  Castle, David; Hebert, Paul D.N.; Clare, Elizabeth L.; Hogg, Ian D.; Tremblay, Crystal (Big Earth Data, 2021-07-30)

  Global biodiversity is in crises. Recognition of the scale and pace of biodiversity loss is leading to rapid technological development in biodiversity science to identify species, their interactions, and ecosystem dynamics. ...
• Marine subsidy promotes spatial and dietary niche variation in an omnivore, the Keen’s mouse (Peromyscus keeni) 

  Davidson, Katie H.; Starzomski, Brian M.; El-Sabaawi, Rana; Hocking, Morgan D.; Reynolds, John D.; Wickham, Sara B.; Darimont, Chris T. (Ecology and Evolution, 2021-12-06)

  Marine-derived resource subsidies can generate intrapopulation variation in the behaviors and diets of terrestrial consumers. How omnivores respond, given their multiple trophic interactions, is not well understood. We ...
• Medication adherence in renal transplant recipients: A latent variable model of psychosocial and neurocognitive predictors 

  Paterson, Theone S. E.; O'Rourke, Norm; Shapiro, R. Jean; Thornton, Wendy Loken (PLoS ONE, 2018)

  Objective: Estimates indicate that 20-70% of renal transplant recipients are medication non-adherent, significantly increasing the risk of organ rejection. Medication adherence is negatively impacted by lower everyday ...
• Impact of Once- Versus Twice-Daily Tacrolimus Dosing on Medication Adherence in Stable Renal Transplant Recipients: A Canadian Single-Center Randomized Controlled Trial 

  Paterson, Theone S. E.; Demian, Maryam; Shapiro, Rebecca Jean; Thornton, Wendy Loken (Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease, 2019)

  Background: Prevalence of immunosuppressant nonadherence in renal transplant recipients is high despite negative clinical outcomes associated with nonadherence. Simplification of dosing has been demonstrated to improve ...
• Mental health and social connectedness across the adult lifespan in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic 

  Gregory, Madeline A.; Legg, Nicole K.; Senay, Zachary; Barden, Jamie-Lee; Phiri, Peter; Rathod, Shanaya; Turner, Brianna J.; Paterson, Theone S. E. (Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 2021)

  The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has had profound consequences on collective mental health and well-being, and yet, older adults appear better off than younger adults. The current study examined mental health ...
• Accuracy of a self-administered online cognitive assessment in detecting amnestic mild cognitive impairment 

  Paterson, Theone S. E.; Sivajohan, Brintha; Gardner, Sandra; Binns, Malcolm A.; Stokes, Kathryn A.; Freedman, Morris; Levine, Brian; Troyer, Angela K. (Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 2022)

  Objectives: Our aim was to validate the online Brain Health Assessment (BHA) for detection of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) compared to gold-standard neuropsychological assessment. We compared the diagnostic ...
• The Impact of Memory Change on Everyday Life Among Older Adults: Association with Cognition and Self-Reported Memory 

  Shaikh, Komal T.; Tatham, Erica L.; Vandermorris, Susan; Paterson, Theone S. E.; Stokes, Kathryn; Freedman, Morris; Levine, Brian; Rich, Jill B.; Troyer, Angela K. (Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2021)

  Objectives: Many older adults experience memory changes that can have a meaningful impact on their everyday lives, such as restrictions to lifestyle activities and negative emotions. Older adults also report a variety of ...

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