Melanie Percy tracking in Banff National Park, Alberta
Melanie was researching the activity and movements of large carnivores in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park as part of her M.Sc. thesis. Email: percy@ualberta.ca
Office:
B-217, Biological Sciences Building
E-mail address:
sbayley@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-4615
Fax: (780) 492-9234
Current Graduate Students
Danielle Cobbaert - Ph.D. student in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Effects of phosphorus on the ecosystem state of Alberta's shallow lakes" Email: cobbaert@ualberta.ca
Glynnis Hood - Ph.D. candidate in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Elk and beaver interactions in Elk Island National Park, Alberta" Email: ghood@ualberta.ca
Sheena Majewski - M. Sc. student in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Benthic algae assemblages in riverine marshes of Jasper National Park" Email: majewski@ualberta.ca
Marsha Trites - M.Sc. student in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Vegetation, environmental gradients, and peat accumulation in saline wetlands in boreal Alberta" Email: mtrites@ualberta
Joe van Humbeck - M.Sc. student in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Factors affecting submerged aquatic vegetation in boreal shallow water wetlands in Alberta". Email: joevanh@shaw.ca
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Graduated Students
David A. Locky.
2005 - Ph.D.
in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Boreal plains peatlands: Characterization,
plant diversity, biogeography, and impacts from logging" Home
page. Email: dave@locky.ca
Heather Wray. 2005 - M.Sc.
in Environmental Biology and Ecology - Nitrogen cycling along a moisture
gradient in northern Alberta peatlands. Email: heatwray@yahoo.ca
Heather Whitehouse. 2004
- M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Classification
and biodiversity of boreal peatland communities surrounding wetland ponds
in north-central Alberta, Canada" Email: hew@ualberta.ca
John I. (Ivor) Norlin. 2003 - M.Sc.
in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Zoolplankton assemblages in
shallow eutrophic ponds" Email: bobby_ivor@hotmail.com
Melanie Percy. 2003 - M. Sc. in Environmental Biology
and Ecology - "Temporal and spatial activity patterns of large
carnivores in the Bow Valley of Banff National Park"
Email: percy@ualberta.ca
Markus N. Thormann. 2001 - Ph.D. Environmental Biology and Ecology - " The fungal communities of decomposing plants in southern boreal peatlands of Alberta, Canada" Homepage Email: MThorman@NRCan.gc.ca
Kelly A. Menchenton. 2001 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - " Waterbird habitat use of wetland pools in the western boreal forest of Alberta, Canada"
Danah L. Duke. 2001 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Wildlife use of corridors in the Central Canadian Rockies: multivariate use of habitat characteristics and trends in corridor use" Email: dlduke@telusplanet.net
Julie K. Guimond. 2001 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - " The effects of river connectivity on floodplain wetland ecology in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada" Email: julieg@scientist.com
Cliff G. Nietvelt. 2001 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Herbivory interactions between beaver (Castor canadensis) and elk (Cervus elaphus) on willow (Salix spp.) in Banff National Park, Alberta" Email: cliff_nietvelt@pch.gc.ca
Randi L. Mewhort. 2000 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Nitrogen dynamics and ecological characteristics in marshes and fens in boreal Alberta, Canada"
Farida S. Bishay. 1998 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "The use of constructed wetlands to treat oil sands wastewater, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada"
Jay S. White. 1997 - M.Sc. in Environmental Biology and Ecology - "Adaptive management and nutrient retention in a northern prairie wetland restored with agro-industrial and municipal wastewater at Frank Lake, Alberta" Email: jay.white@aquality.ca
Markus N. Thormann. 1995 - M.Sc. in Plant Ecology - "Primary productivity and decomposition in fens and marshes in the boreal region of Alberta, Canada" Homepage Email: MThorman@NRCan.gc.ca
Anthony R. Szumigalski. 1995 -
M.Sc. in Plant Ecology - "Production and decomposition of vegetation along
a wetland gradient in central Alberta"
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Staff
Agnes Wong - Research Assistant - Assisting in field and laboratory work with the HEAD project. Email: agnesw@ualberta.ca
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Research Projects
Research in Banff National Park, Alberta
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Julie and Sheena's projects were part of a collaboration with Jasper National Park on the impacts of transportation corridors on riverine wetlands.
Research in Elk Island National Park, Alberta
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Research at Duck Mountain, Manitoba, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and Utikuma Lake, Alberta
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Society of Wetland Scientist's meeting in Quebec City, Quebec, 2000
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Locky,
D.A., Bayley, S.E, and D.H. Vitt. In press. The vegetational ecology of
black spruce swamps, fens, and bogs in southern boreal Manitoba. Canada. Wetlands.
Bayley,
S.E, M.N. Thormann, and A.R. Szumigalski. In press. Nitrogen mineralization
and decomposition in western boreal bog and fen peat. Écoscience.
Hebblewhite, M. , C.A. White,
C.G. Nietvelt, J.A. McKenzie, T.E. Hurd, J.M. Fryxell, S.E. Bayley, and P.C.
Paquet. 2005. Human activity mediates a trophic cascade caused by wolves. Ecology
86: 2135-2144.
Whitehouse,
H.E. and S.E. Bayley. 2005. Vegetational
patterns and biodiversity of peatland plant communities surrounding mid-boreal
wetland ponds in Alberta. Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 83: 621-637.
Norlin, J.I., S.E. Bayley,
and L.C.M. Ross. 2005. Submerged macrophytes, zooplankton, and the predominance
of low over high chlorophyll states in western boreal, shallow-water wetlands.
Freshwater Biology 50: 2135-2144.
Thormann, M.N., S.E. Bayley,
and R.S. Currah. 2004. Microcosm tests of the effects of temperature
and microbial species number on the decomposition of sedge and bryophyte litter
from southern boreal peatlands. Canadian Journal of Microbiology 50: 793-802.
Thormann, M.N., R.S. Currah, and S.E. Bayley. 2004. Pattern of distribution
of microfungi in decomposing bog and fen plants. Canadian Journal of Botany
82: 710-720.
Bayley, S.E. and R.L. Mewhort. 2004. Ecological and functional differences
betweens marshes and fens in the southern boreal region of Alberta, Canada. Wetlands
24: 277-294.
Bayley, S.E. and C.M. Prather. 2003. Do wetland lakes exhibit alternative
stable states? Submersed aquatic vegetation and chlorophyll in western boreal
shallow lakes. Limnology and Oceanography 48: 2335-2345.
Thormann, M.N., Currah, R.S., and S.E. Bayley. 2003. Succession of microfungal assemblages in decomposing peatland plants. Plant and Soil 250: 323-333.
Thormann, M.N., Currah, R.S., and S.E. Bayley.
2002. The relative ability of fungi from Sphagnum fuscum
to decompose selected carbon substrates. Canadian Journal of Microbiology
48: 204-211.
Thormann, M.N., R.S. Currah, and S.E. Bayley. 2001. Microfungi isolated
from Sphagnum fuscum from a southern boreal bog in Alberta, Canada.
The Bryologist 114: 448-459.
Vitt, D.H., L.A. Halsey, C. Campbell, S.E. Bayley, and M.N. Thormann. 2001 Spatial patterning of net primary production in wetlands of continental Canada. Ecoscience 8: 499-505.
Thormann, M.N., S.E. Bayley, and R.S. Currah. 2001. Comparison of decomposition of belowground and aboveground plant litters in peatlands of boreal Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 79: 9-22.
White, J.S. and S.E. Bayley. 2001. Nutrient retention in a northern prairie marsh (Frank Lake, Alberta) receiving municipal and agro-industrial wastewater. Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 126: 63-81.
Campbell, I.D., C. Campbell, D.H. Vitt, D. Kelker, L.D. Laird, D. Trew, B. Kotak, D. LeClair, and S. Bayley. 2000. A first estimate of organic carbon storage in Holocene lake sediments in Alberta. Journal of Paleolimnology 24: 395-400.
White, J.S., S.E. Bayley, and P.J. Curtis. 2000. The role of sediment in phosphorus storage of a northern prairie wetland receiving municipal and agro-industrial wastewater. Ecological Engineering 14(1-2) 127-138.
Thormann, M. N., Currah, R. S., and S.E. Bayley. 1999. The mycorrhizal status of the dominant vegetation along a peatland gradient in southern boreal Alberta, Canada. Wetlands 19: 438-450.
Thormann, M. N., Szumigalski, A. R., and S. E. Bayley, 1999. Above ground peat and carbon accumulation potentials along a bog-fen-marsh wetland gradient in southern boreal Alberta, Canada. Wetlands 19:305-317.
White, J.S. and S.E. Bayley. 1999. Restoration of a Canadian prairie wetland using agricultural and municipal wastewater: Adaptive management and cooperative conservation at Frank Lake, Alberta. Environmental Management 24(1) 25-37.
Gignac, L.D., B.J. Nicholson, and S.E. Bayley. 1998. The utilization of bryophytes in bioclimatic modeling: predicted northward migration of peatlands in the Mackenzie River Basin, Canada, as a result of global warming. The Bryologist 101(4): 572-587.
Thormann, M.N., S.E. Bayley, and A.R. Szumigalski, 1998. Effects of hydrologic changes on aboveground production and water chemistry in two boreal peatlands in Alberta: Implications for global warming. Hydrobiologia 362: 171-183.
Thormann, M.N. and S.E. Bayley, 1997. Response of aboveground net primary plant production to nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization in peatlands in southern boreal Alberta, Canada. Wetlands 17: 502-513.
Thormann, M.N. and S.E. Bayley, 1997. Aboveground plant production and nutrient content of the vegetation in six peatlands in Alberta, Canada. Plant Ecology (formerly Vegetatio) 131: 1-16.
Thormann, M.N. and S.E. Bayley, 1997. Aboveground net primary production along a bog-fen-marsh gradient in southern boreal Alberta, Canada. Ecoscience 4: 374-384.
Thormann, M.N. and S.E. Bayley, 1997. Decomposition along a moderate-rich fen-marsh peatland gradient in boreal Alberta, Canada. Wetlands 17: 123-137.
Banff Bow Valley Study. 1996. Banff -Bow Valley: At the Crossroads. Technical Report of the Banff-Bow Valley Task Force. 432 pp. (R. Page, S.E. Bayley, J.D. Cook, J.E. Green, and J.R. Ritchie). Prep. For the Honourable Sheila Copps, Minister of Canadian Heritage. Ottawa ON.
Ecological Outlooks Project. 1996. A Cumulative Effects Assessment and Futures Outlook of the Banff Bow Valley. Green, J., C. Pacas, L. Cornwell & S. Bayley (eds). Prepared for the Banff Bow Valley Study. Dept of Canadian Heritage. Ottawa. ON.
Szumigalski, A.R. and S.E. Bayley, 1996. Net above ground primary production along a bog-rich fen gradient in central Alberta, Canada. Wetlands 16: 467-476.
Szumigalski, A.R. and S.E. Bayley, 1996. Decomposition along a bog-rich fen gradient in central Alberta, Canada. Canadian Journal of Botany 74: 573-581.
Bayley, S.E., J.S. White, and S.T. Urban. 1995. An assessment of agricultural waste water on Frank Lake under winter ice cover and spring melt conditions. Final report of Phase II to Ducks Unlimited and CAESA.
Bayley, S.E., D.W. Schindler, B.R. Parker, M.P. Stainton, and K.G. Beaty.
1992. Effects of forest fire and drought on acidity of a base-poor boreal forest
stream: similarities between climatic warming and acidic
precipitation. Biogeochemistry 17: 191-204.
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Student Summer Job Opportunities - Summer 2005
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