Publications: January - December 2003

BIRD, D.M.

Love, O.P., Shutt, L.J., Silfies, J., Bortolotti, G.R., Smits, J.E. and Bird, D.M. 2003. Effects of dietary PCB exposure on adrenocortical function in captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius). Ecotoxicology 12:199-208.

Love, O.P., Bird, D.M. and Shutt, L.J. 2003. Corticosterone levels during post-natal development in captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius). General and Comparative Endocrinology 130:135-141.

Love, O.P., Bird, D.M. and Shutt, L.J. 2003. Plasma corticosterone in American kestrel siblings: effects of age, hatching order, and hatching asynchrony. Hormones and Behavior 43: 480-488.

Love, O.P., Shutt, L.J., Silfies, J., and Bird, D.M. 2003. Repeated handling results in reduced corticosterone levels in developing and adult captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius). Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76(5): 753-761.

Tittlemier, S.A., J.A. Duffe, A.D. Dallaire, D.M. Bird, and R.J. Norstrom. 2003. Reproductive and morphological effects of halogenated dimethyl bipyrroles on captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22(7): 1497-1506.

Coleman, J.L. and D.M. Bird. 2003. Urban sharp-shinned hawk productivity in Quebec. Bird Trends 9:13-16.

Bortolotti, G.R., J.E. Smits, and D.M. Bird. 2003. Iris colour of American kestrels varies with age, sex, and exposure to PCBs. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76(1): 99-104.

BOUCHER, S.

Boucher S. 2003. The New World species of Cerodontha (Xenophytomyza) Frey (Diptera: Agromyzidae). Zootaxa 178: 1-8.

BROWN, P.

Brown, P. "Economics, Stewardship, and the Transportation Sector" in Kurani, K.S. and D. Sperling (eds.) Transportation, Energy, and Environmental Policy: Managing Transitions: VIII Biennial Asilomar Conference September 2001(Transportation Research Board: Washington, DC, 2003). Pages 16-41.

BUDDLE, C.M.

Buddle, C.M., S.E. Walker, and A.L. Rypstra. 2003. Cannibalism and density-dependent mortality in the wolf spider Pardosa milvina. Canadian Journal of Zoology 18: 1293-1297.

Buddle, C.M., and H.E.J. Hammond. 2003. Comparison of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and spiders (Araneae) collected in pan and pitfall traps. The Canadian Entomologist 135: 609-611.

*Graham, A.K., C.M. Buddle, and J.R. Spence. 2003. Habitat affinities of spiders living near a freshwater pond. Journal of Arachnology 31: 78-89.

*Buddle, C.M., and A.L. Rypstra. 2003. Factors initiating emigration of two wolf spider species (Araneae: Lycosidae) in an agroecosystem. Environmental Entomology 32: 88-95.

*Balfour, R.A., C.M. Buddle, A.L. Rypstra, S.E. Walker, and S.D. Marshall. 2003. Ontogenetic shifts in competitive interactions and intraguild predation between two wolf spider species. Ecological Entomology 28: 25-30.

CÔTÉ, B.

Côté B., F. Courchesne, J.W. Fyles, W.H. Hendershot & N. Bélanger. 2003. A cyclical but asynchronous pattern of fine root and woody biomass production in a hardwood forest of southern Quebec and its relationships with annual variation of temperature and nutrient availability. Plant and Soil 250: 49-57.

DRISCOLL, B.T.

Juck, D., B. T. Driscoll, T. C. Charles, and C. W. Greer. 2003. Effect of experimental contamination with the explosive hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine on soil bacterial communities. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 43:255-262.

Morissette, D. C., B. T. Driscoll, and S. Jabaji-Hare. 2003. Molecular cloning, characterization, and expression of a cDNA encoding an endochitinase gene from the mycoparasite Stachybotrys elegans. Fungal Genetics and Biology 39:276-285.

Chenier M. R., D. Beaumier, R. Roy, B. T. Driscoll, J. R. Lawrence, and C. W. Greer. 2003. Impact of seasonal variations and nutrient inputs on nitrogen cycling and degradation of hexadecane by replicated river biofilms. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69:5170-5177.

DUNPHY, G.B.

Dunphy, G.B., Oberholzer, U., Whiteway, M., Zakarian, R.J. and Boomer, I. 2003.Virulence of Candida albicans mutants toward larval Galleria mellonella (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Galleridae). Canadian Journal of Microbiology 49: 514-524.

Zakarian, R.J., Dunphy, G.B., Rau, M.E. and Albert, P.J. 2003. Kinases, intracellular calcium, and apolipophorin-III influence the adhesion of larval hemocytes of the lepidopterous insect, Galleria mellonella. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 53: 158-171.

Society of Invertebrate Pathology. Vermont. Adenylyl cyclase and protein kinase A affect hemocyte-mediated responses of Malacosoma disstria to Xenorhabdus nematophila and Bacillus subtilis. Vladsilav Gulii and G. B. Dunphy.

FYLES, J.

See Côté, B.

HENDERSHOT, W.H.

MacDonald, J.D., Hendershot, W.H. 2003. Spatial variability of trace metals in podzols of northern forest ecosystems: Sampling implications. Can. J. Soil Sci. 83:581-587.

MacDonald, D., Taillon, K., Johnson, D., Hale B., Hendershot, W. 2003. Modeling the effect of trace metal emissions on boreal forest soils. J. Human Ecol. Risk Assess. 9:723-747.

Johnson, D., MacDonald, D., Hendershot W., Hale B. 2003. Metals in northern forest ecosystems: role of vegetation in sequestration and cycling, and implications for ecological risk assessment. J. Human Ecol. Risk Assess. 9:749-766.

See Côté, B.

HUMPHRIES, M.

Humphries, M.M., D.W. Thomas, & D.L. Kramer. 2003. The role of energy availability in mammalian hibernation: a cost-benefit approach. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 76:165-179.

Humphries, M.M., D.L. Kramer, & D.W. Thomas. 2003. The role of energy availability in mammalian hibernation: an experimental test in free-ranging eastern chipmunks. Physiological & Biochemical Zoology 76:180-186.

Humphries, M.M., D.W. Thomas, & J.R. Speakman. 2003. Temperature, hibernation energetics, and the cave and continental distributions of little brown bats. In Functional and Evolutionary Ecology of Bats (eds. Zubaid, A., G.F. McCracken and T.H. Kunz). Oxford Press, Oxford.

LEWIS, D.

Doran, B. R. and D. J. Lewis. 2003. The species composition and seasonal distribution of mosquitoes in vernal pools in suburban Montreal, Quebec. Journal of the American Mosquito Control Association 19(4): 339-346.

Schwab, A. E., D. J. Lewis and M. E. Rau. 2003. The impact of selective oviposition and infection with Plagiorchis elegans on Aedes aegypti pre-imago population dynamics at optimal food availability. Journal of Medical Entomology 40(6): 830-840.



MEHUYS, G.

Langlois, J., D.W. Johnson, and G.R. Mehuys. 2003. Adsorption and recovery of dissolved organic phosphorus and nitrogen by mixed-bed ion-exchange resin. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:889-894.

Langlois, J.L. and G.R. Mehuys. 2003. Intra-storm study of solute chemical composition of overland flow water in two agricultural fields. J. Environ. Qual. 32:2301-2310.



NIVEN, D.F.

*Ekins, A., and Niven, D.F. 2003. Transferrin-dependent expression of TbpA by Histophilus ovis involves a poly G tract within tbpA. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 220:95-98.

*Bahrami, F., Ekins, A., and Niven, D.F. 2003. Iron acquisition by Actinobacillus suis: identification and characterization of transferrin receptor proteins and encoding genes. Vet. Microbiol. 94: 79-92.

O'Reilly, T., and Niven, D.F. 2003. Levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in extracellular body fluids of pigs may be growth-limiting for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Haemophilus parasuis. Can. J. Vet. Res. 67: 229-231.

RAU, M.E.

*Zakikhani, M., J. M. Smith, and M. E. Rau. 2003. Effects of Plagiorchis elegans (Digenea: Plagiorchiidae) infection of Biomphalaria glabrata (Pulmonata: Planorbidae) on a challenge infectioin with Schistosoma mansoni (Digenea: Schistosomatidae). Journal of Parasitology 89 (1), pp. 70-75.

Schwab, A. E., D. J. Lewis, and M. E. Rau. 2003. The impact of selective oviposition and infection with Plagiorchis elegans on Aedes aegypti pre-imago population dynamics at optimal food availability. Journal of Medical Entomology, 40 (6), pp. 830 - 840.

Zakarian, R. J., Dunphy, G. B., Rau, M. E. and Albert, P. J. 2003. Kinases, intracellular calcium , and apolipophorin-III influence the adhesion of larval hemocutes of the lepidopterous insect, Galleria mellonella (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology. 53:158-171.

STRACHAN, I.B.

Strachan, I.B. 2003. World Survey of Climatology, General Climatology 1C: Classification of Climates: O.M. Essenwanger, Book Review. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 115(3-4):231-232.

TITMAN, R.D.

Walde, A.D., J.R. Bider, C. Daigle, D. Masse J-C. Bourgeois, J. Jutras and R.D. Titman. 2003. Ecological Aspects of a Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta, Population at the Northern Limit of its Range in Québec. Canadian Field-Naturalist 117.

Brodeur, S., J-P.L. Savard, M. Robert, P. Laporte, P. Lamothe, R.D. Titman, S. Marchand, S. Gilliland and G. Fitzgerald. 2002. Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) population structure in eastern Nearctic. J. Avian Biol. 33(2):127-137. (appeared in 2003)

WHALEN, J.K.

Whalen, J.K., Hu, Q., and Liu, A. 2003. Compost applications increase water-stable aggregates in conventional and no-tillage systems. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 67:1842-1847.

Whalen, J.K. and Costa, C. 2003. Linking spatio-temporal dynamics of earthworm populations to nutrient cycling in temperate agricultural and forest ecosystems. Pedobiologia 47:801-806.

Whalen, J.K., Willms, W.D. and Dormaar, J.F. 2003. Soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in modified rangeland communities. Journal of Range Management. 56:665-672.

Whalen, J.K. and Janzen, H.H. 2003. Isotopic labelling of earthworms: response to comments by Schmidt et al. (2003). Soil Biology and Biochemistry 35:1265-1265.

*Carefoot, J.P. and Whalen, J.K. 2003. Phosphorus concentration in subsurface water as influenced by cropping systems and fertilizer sources. Canadian Journal of Soil Science 83:203-212.

WHEELER, T.A.

Wheeler, T.A. 2003. A new brachypterous species of Elachiptera (Diptera: Chloropidae) from freshwater wetlands in eastern North America. Zootaxa 360: 1-6.

Wheeler, T.A. and J. Forrest. 2003. The Chloropidae (Diptera) of the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. Insect Systematics and Evolution 34: 265-280.

WHYTE, L.G.

Margesin, R., Labbé, D., Schinner, F., Greer, C.W., and Whyte, L.G. 2003. Characterization of hydrocarbon-degradative microbial populations in contaminated and pristine alpine soils. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 69:3085-3092.

Greer, C.W., Fortin, N., Roy, R., Whyte, L.G., and Lee, K. 2003. Indigenous sediment microbial activity in response to nutrient enrichment and plant growth following a controlled oil spill on a freshwater wetland. Bioremed. J. 7:69-80.

Omelon, C.R., Whyte, L.G., Andersen, D.T., Pollard, W.H. and Ferris, F.G. 2003. High Arctic cryptoendolithic microorganisms in a polar desert environment. 8th International Conference on Permafrost. Zurich, Switzerland, July 21-25, 2003.

Whyte, L.G., Labbé, D., Goalen, B., Buchko J., Nahir, M., Billowits. M, and Greer, C.W. 2003. In-Situ Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils in the High Arctic. ARCSACC Conference - Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated sites in Arctic and Cold Climates. Edmonton, Alberta, May 4-6, 2003. p. 245-256 in Conference Proceedings.

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