A5018505863- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine animal studies overview
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Forest Management and Policy
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
Hakai Institute
2019-2025
Tula Foundation
2019-2024
Victoria Heart Institute Foundation
2023
The sunflower sea star, P. helianthoides , has collapsed across most of its range, in both shallow and deep waters.
Abstract While marine kelp forests have provided valuable ecosystem services for millennia, the global ecological and economic value of those is largely unresolved. Kelp are diminishing in many regions worldwide, efforts to manage these ecosystems hindered without accurate estimates that provide human societies. Here, we present a estimate potential three key - fisheries production, nutrient cycling, carbon removal by six major forest forming genera ( Ecklonia, Laminaria, Lessonia,...
Lynn C. Lee⇑ Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, Marine Conservation Area and Haida Heritage Site, 60 Second Beach Road, Skidegate, British Columbia, Canada lynn.lee2{at}canada.ca
As the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration begins, there remains insufficient emphasis human and social dimensions of restoration. The potential that restoration holds for achieving both ecological goals can only be met through a shift toward people‐centered strategies. Toward this end, paper synthesizes critical insights from special issue “Restoration whom, by whom” to propose actionable ways center humans in ecosystem restoration, with aim generating fair sustainable initiatives. These...
Disease outbreaks as a driver of wildlife mass mortality events have increased in magnitude and frequency since the 1940s. Remnant populations, composed individuals that survived events, could provide insight into disease dynamics species recovery. The sea star wasting (SSWD) epidemic led to rapid >90% decline sunflower Pycnopodia helianthoides . We surveyed biomass density P. on central British Columbia coast before, during after arrival SSWD by conducting expert diver surveys shallow...
Abstract Marine biodiversity is a key indicator of ecosystem health and can be assessed using variety methods, including environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling. However, the ecology eDNA in physically dynamic nearshore environments remains uncertain, particularly with regards to how stratifies depth. Here, we paired sampling dive surveys at six sites Knight Inlet, British Columbia, Canada. samples were collected from surface, midwater column bottom (8–25 m depth) each site, while focused on...
Abstract Kelp forests offer substantial carbon fixation, with the potential to contribute natural climate solutions (NCS). However, be included in national NCS inventories, governments must first quantify kelp-derived stocks and fluxes leading sequestration. Here, we present a blueprint for assessing sequestration capacity of kelp which data synthesis Bayesian hierarchical modelling enable estimates forest production, storage, export from limited data. Applying this Canada’s extensive...
Food availability is among the strongest determinants of fitness. For many systems, ecosystem-wide collapse in food can result from overgrazing with cascading ecological impacts. Yet, mechanisms through which responsible consumers persist food-poor environments and their role suppressing productivity recovery remain uncertain. This study examines how abundance, quality, deprivation, reintroduction shape plastic energetic traits nutritional assimilation an invertebrate herbivore. To evaluate...
Gregarines are a large group of apicomplexan parasites that infect wide range invertebrate hosts, including diverse and speciose groups, such as annelids arthropods. Marine eugregarines represent the majority gregarine diversity, but remain poorly understood, especially their deepest phylogenetic relationships. To expand knowledge marine eugregarine diversity evolutionary history, we surveyed invertebrates, with particular focus on annelids, across multiple locations in British Columbia,...
ABSTRACT Many challenges arise when monitoring organisms with cryptic life‐histories. For example, some life‐stages are hard to identify or sample due their microscopic nature, which creates unknowns surrounding an organism's population dynamics. Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a non‐invasive sampling technique used monitor species traditional survey methods challenging. Generally, eDNA has been quantify the presence/absence of in various habitats. However, recent advances high‐throughput...
Primary producers’ growth rates are ideal bioindicators of changing climate due to their sensitivity environmental conditions. On the Central Coast British Columbia, we assessed Nereocystis luetkeana, a canopy-forming annual kelp, by assessing baseline variability in and response conditions over 600 individuals across three sites (2016–2019). Optimal for blades stipes (∼13–14 cm/day) occurred within narrow range local Growth decreased at temperatures > 10 °C, below 1 µm/L nitrate...