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Journal Articles

Knaggs, M., Haché, S., Nielsen, S.E., Pankratz, R.F. & Bayne, E. 2020. Avian response to wildfire severity in a northern boreal region. Forests 11(12): 1330.

DOI: 10.3390/f11121330

Riva, F. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. A functional perspective on the analysis of land use and land cover data in ecology. Ambio (online first).

DOI: 10.1007/s13280-020-01434-5

Silva, J.A., Nielsen, S.E., McLoughlin, P.D., Rodgers, A.R., Hague, C. & Boutin, S. 2020. Comparison of pre-fire and post-fire space use reveals varied responses by woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in the Boreal Shield. Canadian Journal of Zoology 98:751–760.

DOI: 10.1139/cjz-2020-0139

Nielsen, S.E., Dennett, J.M. & Bater, C.W. 2020. Predicting occurrence, abundance, and fruiting of a cultural keystone species to inform landscape values and priority sites for habitat enhancements. Forests 11(7), 783.

DOI: 10.3390/f11070783

Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Tree regeneration on industrial linear disturbances in treed peatlands is hastened by wildfire and delayed by loss of microtopography. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50: 936-945.

DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2019-0451

Riva, F., Pinzon, J., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Composite effects of cutlines and wildfire result in fire refuges for plants and butterflies in boreal treed peatlands. Ecosystems 23:485–497.

DOI: 10.1007/s10021-019-00417-2

Souliere, C.M., Coogan, S.C.P., Stenhouse, G.B. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Harvested forests as a surrogate to wildfires in relation to grizzly bear food-supply in west-central Alberta. Forest Ecology and Management Volume 456 (117685), 1-13.

DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117685

Jean, S.A., Pinno, B.D. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Early regeneration dynamics of pure black spruce and aspen forests after wildfire in boreal Alberta, Canada. Forests 11, 333.

DOI: 10.3390/f11030333

Silva, J.A., Nielsen, S.E., Lamb, C.T., Hague, C. & Boutin, S. 2019. Modelling lichen abundance for woodland caribou in a fire-driven boreal landscape. Forests 10, 962.

DOI: 10.3390/f10110962

Kearney, S.P., Coops, N.C., Stenhouse, G.B., Nielsen, S.E., Hermosillae T., White, J.C. & Wulder, M.A. 2019. Grizzly bear selection of recently harvested forests is dependent on forest recovery rate and landscape composition. Forest Ecology and Management 449(1):117459.

DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117459

Stevenson, C.J., Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen, S.E. 2019. High precision altimeter demonstrates simplification and depression of microtopography on seismic lines in treed peatlands. Forests 10(4):295.

DOI: 10.3390/f10040295

Hart, S.J., Henkelman, J., McLoughlin, P.D., Nielsen, S.E., Truchon-Savard, A. & Johnstone, J.F. 2019. Examining forest resilience to changing fire frequency in a fire‐prone region of boreal forest. Global Change Biology 25:869-884.

DOI: 10.1111/gcb.14550

Jean, S.A., Pinno, B.D. & Nielsen, S.E. 2019. Trembling aspen root suckering and stump sprouting response to above ground disturbance on a reclaimed boreal oil sands site in Alberta, Canada. New Forests 50:771–784.

DOI: 10.1007/s11056-018-09698-2

Riva, F., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Distribution of cranberry blue butterflies (Agriades optilete) and their responses to forest disturbance from in situ oil sands and wildfires. Diversity 10(4):112

DOI: 10.3390/d10040112

Stralberg, D., Wang, X., Parisien, M.A., Robinne, F.N., Solymos, P., Mahon, C.L., Nielsen, S.E. & Bayne, E.M. 2018. Wildfire-mediated vegetation change in boreal forests of Alberta, Canada. Ecosphere 9:3, e02156.

DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2156

Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen S.E. 2018. Fire and forest recovery on seismic lines in sandy upland jack pine (Pinus banksiana) forests. Forest Ecology and Management 421: 32-39.

DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2018.01.027

Dawe, C.A., Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen, S.E. 2017. Effects of linear disturbances and fire severity on velvet leaf blueberry abundance, vigor, and berry production in recently burned jack pine forests. Forests 8(10): 398.

DOI: 10.3390/f8100398

Nielsen, S.E., DeLancey, E.R., Reinhardt, K. & Parisien, M.A. 2016. Effects of lakes on wildfire activity in the boreal forests of Saskatchewan, Canada Forests 7: 265.

DOI: doi:10.3390/f7110265

Glasier J.R.N., Nielsen S.E. & Acorn J.H. 2014. The real "fire ants": colony size and body size of workers influence the fate of boreal sand hill ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) after wildfires in Alberta, Canada. The Canadian Entomologist, 1-9.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/tce.2014.54

Nielsen S.E. & Haney A. 2003. Vegetation composition, dynamics, and management of a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem. Environmental Management 31: 810-821.

DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-0055-9

Nielsen S.E., Kirschbaum C.D. & Haney A. 2003. Restoration of Midwest oak barrens: Structural manipulation or process-only? Conservation Ecology 7(2): 10.

Nielsen S.E. & Haney A. 1998. Gradient responses for understory species in a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem of Northeast Wisconsin. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 86: 149-166.

Book Chapters

Research Reports

Thesis

Silva, J.A. 2020. Fire, lichens, and woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in Canada’s Boreal Shield. MSc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

McLellan, C.R. 2018. Food availability and grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) selection of post-fire and thinned forests in the mountain national parks of Canada. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Knaggs, M.D. 2018. Effects of burn severity and time since fire on songbird communities in the northern boreal forest. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Glasier, J.R.N. 2012. Community ecology of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the central sand hills of Alberta, and a key to the ants of Alberta. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

DOI: doi:10.7939/R3M05B

Outreach

Filicetti, A. & Nielsen, S.E. 2017. Fire: a seismic restoration tool? Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #2.

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