Lab Alumni

M.Sc. Students

  • William Allison – Performance of the line-intercept transect in the coral reef habitat: accuracy, precision, errors and their control
  • David Benoit – Assessing the impacts of imperfect detection in stream fish communities through multispecies occupancy modeling.
  • Jenn Bontje – Species co-occurrence improves predictions of species at risk
  • Georgina Braoudakis – Assessing fish and zooplankton species composition patterns in lentic waterbodies
  • Jun Cheng – Spatial criteria used in IUCN Assessment overestimate area of occupancy for freshwater taxa
  • Abby Daigle – Hydroacoustic assessment of fish community size spectra & refinement of hydroacoustic estimates of size
  • Bronwyn Dalziel – Temporal changes in vegetation and bird communities of Tommy Thompson Park
  • Jeanette Davis – Measured and predicted responses of a fish community to the restoration of a degraded urban coastal wetland
  • Brad Doyle – Phylogenetic structuring of lake fish communities
  • Scott Gibson – Assessing the relative influence of in-stream habitat, watershed and regional factors across multiple spatial extents, on southern Ontario stream-fish assemblages
  • Monica Granados – Detecting changes in fish communities in response to habitat rehabilitations: a comparison of multimetric and multivariate approaches
  • Claire Hirst – Minimizing the influence of sampling variation in ordination and in the field for lake fish communities
  • McKayla Jarvie – Evaluating stream fish community responses to environmental change through biological indices
  • Gabrielle Malcolm – An objective method to quantify the location criterion used to classify Species at Risk in Canada
  • Pamela MacRae – A comparative approach to quantify the influence of smallmouth bass predation and habitat complexity on the structure of littoral fish communities
  • Julianne Mayo – Fish-habitat interactions in a small freshwater lake and the evaluation of a visual census sampling method for the quantification of vertical, littoral zone habitat structure and fish distribution
  • Trevor Middel – Hydroacoustic assessment of Lake Trout populations
  • Keenan Munno – Microplastic retention by type in several species of fish from the Great Lakes.
  • Julian Olden – Predictive models for freshwater fish community composition
  • Nathalie St-Jacques – Flexibility and foraging behaviour of the White Sucker
  • Meg St. John – The benthic invertebrate community of lakes previously impaired by mining-related acidification near Wawa, Ontario
  • Sapna Sharma – Spatial and temporal assessment of fish habitat and environmental-nearshore fish community relationships in the eastern Lake Erie basin
  • Darren Smith – Patterns in the temperature selection and occupancy of Brook Trout in Algonquin Park
  • Les Stanfield – Understanding the factors that influence headwater stream flow response to storm events
  • Adeena Zahid – The dynamics of ecology, demography, dispersal, habitat selection, and life history in a crayfish Cambarus bartonii population in Ontario

Ph.D. Students

  • David Benoit – Fish community dynamics and spatial overlap in lakes across Ontario, Canada
  • Jean-Bernard Caron – Taphonomy and community analysis of the Middle Cambrian greater phyllopod bed, Burgess Shale
  • Ruben Cordero – Patterns of species co-occurrence, null models, and the influence of biotic and abiotic factors: a species pairwise approach.
  • Liset Cruz-Font – Behavioural ecology of Lake Trout: From movement ecology to bioenergetics
  • Brie Edwards – Temporal change in crayfish communities and links to a changing environment
  • Karl Lamothe – Quantifying the resistance and resilience of freshwater ecosystems to anthropogenic disturbance
  • Lauren Lawson – Understanding the impacts of freshwater salinization and urbanization on aquatic biodiversity
  • Zhice Liang – Lake fish biodiversity in China (visiting international student)
  • Alex Mills – Challenges to conventional explanations of habitat specificity in migrant birds
  • Maggie Neff – Abiotic conditions in contrasting environments: an examination of Precambrian Shield lotic communities
  • Pedro Peres-Neto – The distribution of fishes across stream landscapes: analytical approaches and ecological patterns
  • Mark Poesch – Conservation by consensus: Reducing uncertainties from methodological choices in conservation-based models
  • Ian Richter – Developing predictive stream fish productivity models using metabolic theory of ecology and a size-based approach.
  • Caren Scott – Lake benthic algal productivity and extracellular release
  • Sapna Sharma – The effects of climate change on the northward range expansion of smallmouth bass and the consequential impacts on native fish populations
  • Kris Vascotto – An examination of the ecology of the cisco in Ontario lakes
  • Steve Walker – Beyond geometric models: multivariate statistical ecology with likelihood functions
  • Lifei Wang – Species distribution modeling: Implications of modeling approaches, biotic effects, sample size, and detection limit
  • Yingming Zhao – Climate and dynamics of walleye populations in North America

Post-doctoral Fellows

  • Omar Alminagorta – Stream benthic invertebrates & parallel coordinates analysis
  • Karen Alofs – Climate change implications to lake fish communities
  • David Benoit – Characterizing fish guilds to predict riverine fish passage
  • Satyendra Bhavsar – Sport fish contaminants modelling
  • Michelle Bowman – Bioassessment of anthropogenic impairment to benthic communities
  • Linda Campbell – Temporal analysis of sport fish contaminants
  • Cindy Chu – Lake ecosystem health
  • Dak de Kerckhove – Fish community size structure
  • Norine Dobiesz – Managing fisheries in a changing environment
  • Chris Edge – Connectivity and spatial-temporal variability in urban fish communities
  • Mateus Ferrareze – Community dynamics in Brazilian reservoirs
  • Fúlvio Aurélio de Morais Freire – Crustacean ecology in Brazilian freshwaters
  • Sarah Gewurtz – Sport & juvenile fish contaminant modeling
  • Nilima Ghandi – Fish contaminants in the Great Lakes
  • Daisuke Goto – Ecopath model of Lake Simcoe food web
  • Henrique Giacomini – Theoretical ecology of fish communities
  • Tammy Karst-Riddoch – Analysis of temporal relationships in fish contaminants
  • Jaewoo Kim – Quantifying of lakes and regional trends in morphology
  • Svitlana Kovalshyna – Urban aquatic ecology
  • Charlie Loewen – Community ecology of alpine zooplankton & urban ponds
  • Stephanie Melles – Watersheds classifications and lake fish mercury levels
  • Maggie Neff – Trends in environmental contaminants in Areas of Concern
  • Riku Paavola – Stream community concordance and ecosystem recovery
  • Angela Strecker – Spatial and temporal relationships in Lake Huron fish communities
  • Lifei Wang – Ontario lake ecosystems and mercury in fish
  • Xuefeng Wang – Marine community ecology in South China Sea
  • Theo Willis
    • Karen Wilson – Benthic invertebrate community responses to invasive species