Meg Krawchuk - Publications

Refereed contributions.

Krawchuk, M.A., Cumming, S.G., and Flannigan, M.D. 2008. Predicted changes in fire weather suggest increases in lightning fire initiation and future area burned in the mixedwood boreal forest. Climatic Change. In press.

Gillies, C., Hebblewhite, M., Nielsen, S., Krawchuk, M.A., Aldridge, C., Frair, J., Saher, J., Stevens, C., and Jerde, C. 2006. Application of mixed models to the study of resource selection by animals. Journal of Animal Ecology 75: 837-1044.

Krawchuk M.A., Cumming, S.G., Flannigan, M.D., and Wein, R.W. 2006. Biotic and abiotic regulation of lightning fire initiation in the mixedwood boreal forest. Ecology 87:458-468.

Taylor, P.D., and Krawchuk, M.A. 2005. Scale and sensitivity of songbird occurrence to landscape structure in a harvested boreal forest. Avian Conservation and Ecology - Écologie et conservation des oiseaux 1(1): 5. [online] URL: http://www.ace-eco.org/vol1/iss1/art5/.

Starzomski, B.M., Cardinale, B.J., Dunne, J.A., Hillery, M.J., Holt, C.A., Krawchuk, M.A., Lage, M., McMahon, S., and Melnychuk, M.C. 2004. Contemporary visions of progress in ecology, and thoughts for the future. Ecology and Society 9(1): 14. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol9/iss1/art14.

Krawchuk, M.A., and Taylor, P.D. 2003. Changing importance of amount and configuration of habitat among levels of spatial scale for three species of insects. Oikos 103:153-161.

Krawchuk, M.A., and Taylor, P.D. 1999. Roosting behaviour by Fletcherimyia fletcheri (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) in Sarracenia purpurea (Sarraceniacea). The Canadian Entomologist. 131:829-830.

Krawchuk, M.A., and Brooks, R.J. 1998. Basking behaviour as a measure of reproductive cost and energy allocation in the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta. Herpetologica. 54:112-121.

Brooks, R.J., Krawchuk, M.A., Stevens, C., and Koper, N. 1997. Testing the precision and accuracy of age estimation using lines in scutes of Chelydra serpentina and Chrysemys picta. Journal of Herpetology. 31:521-529.

Krawchuk, M.A., Koper, N., and Brooks, R.J. 1997. Observations of a possible cleaning symbiosis between painted turtles, Chrysemys picta, and snapping turtles, Chelydra serpentina, in central Ontario. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 111:315-317.

Refereed contributions in review or accepted pending revisions.

Krawchuk M.A., Moritz, M.A., Parisien, M-A., Van Dorn, J., and Hayhoe, K. Global pyrogeography: Macro-scaled models for understanding the current and future distribution of fire. Submitted to Global Change Biology.

Krawchuk, M.A., and S.G. Cumming. Disturbance history affects the spatial distribution of lightning fire initiation in the mixedwood boreal forest: Observations and simulations of the interaction between forest management and wildfire. In review, Ecosystems (accepted pending moderate revisions).

Arienti, M.C., Cumming, S.G., Krawchuk, M.A., and Boutin, S. Disturbing forest disturbances: do anthropogenic linear features increase lightning fire ignitions in the Canadian western boreal forest? In review, International Journal of Wildland Fire. Non-refereed contributions.

Myers, R.L., Johnson, D., and Krawchuk, M.A. 2007. Fire management assessment of the Songshan Nature Reserve, China. The Nature Conservancy Technical Report.

Waller, E.K., Parisien, M-A., Krawchuk, M.A., and Moritz, M.A. 2007. Quantifying expected area burned for carbon accounting protocols. Project report for Winrock International.

Krawchuk, M.A. 2007. The potential distribution of fire regime classes in China: Spatial analogues as tools for conservation planning. Internal report for The Nature Conservancy Global Fire Initiative; contributed to the China Blueprint project.

Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Lisgo, K., Cumming, S.G., Harrison, S.G., Krawchuk, M.A., Leroux, S., Rudyk, S., Young, L. 2005. The Canadian BEACONs Project. Internal report for the Canadian Boreal Initiative. Krawchuk, M.A., and McPherson, A.M. 2001. A literature review on landscape connectivity, and for a selected group of animals, habitat and connectivity needs to maintain viable populations. Parks Canada internal report.

Krawchuk, M.A., Mullie, A., and Taylor, P.D. 2001. Assessment of habitat use by birds and insects in the Gros Morne Greater Ecosystem: the influence of habitat structure on animal incidence and distribution. Parks Canada internal report.

Krawchuk, M.A., and Taylor, P.D. 2001. Passerine birds. In: Ensuring the ecological integrity of the Greater Gros Morne Ecosystem: an independent panel evaluation of potential threats to Gros Morne National Park from adjacent commercial forestry activities. Parks Canada internal report.