Selected Recent Publications

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  • Long, Z. and E.E. Prepas. 2012. Scale and landscape perception: the case of refuge use by Boreal Toads (Anaxyrus boreas boreas) Can. J. Zool. 90:1015-1022.
  • MacDonald, R.L., J.M. Burke, H.Y.H. Chen, and E.E. Prepas. 2012. Relationship between aboveground biomass and percent cover of ground vegetation in Canadian Boreal Plain riparian forests. For. Sci. 58: 47-53.
  • Li, X., M.H. Nour, D.W. Smith, and E.E. Prepas. 2010. Neural networks modelling of nitrogen export: model development and application to unmonitored Boreal Forest watersheds. Environ. Tech. 31(5):495-510.
  • ·         Long, Z.L., E.E. Prepas, and M.J. Lannoo. 2010. Assessment of intracoelomic implantation and waistband harness radiotransmitter attachment on woord frogs (Lithobates sylvaticus) and boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas boreas). Herpetol. Rev. 41: 315-318.
  • Chen, H., J.M. Burke, T. Mosindy, P.M. Fedorak, and E.E. Prepas.  2009.  Cyanobacteria and microcystin-LR in a complex lake system representing a range of nutrient concentrations and thermal mixing regimes: Lake of the Woods, Ontario, Canada. J. Plankton Res. 31: 993-1008.
  • Pelster, D.E., R.K. Kolka, and E.E Prepas.  2009.  Overstory vegetation influence nitrogen and dissolved organic carbon flux from the atmosphere to the forest floor: Boreal Plain, Canada. For. Ecol. Manage. 259: 210-219.
  • Godin, P., J.S. Russell, J.D. MacDonald, G. Putz, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Development of opinion-based generic reforestation regimes and their application in vegetation management and water modelling in the Upper and Lower Foothills of Alberta. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):23-33.
  • Kiniry, J.R., J.D. MacDonald, A.R. Kemanian, B. Watson, G. Putz, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Plant growth simulation for landscape-scale hydrological modelling. Hydrol. Sci. J. Special issue: Advances in Ecohydrological Modelling with SWAT. 53:1030-1042.
  • Li, X., M.H. Nour, D.W. Smith, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Modelling nitrogen composition in streams on the Boreal Plain using genetic adaptive general regression neural networks. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):109-125.
  • Li, X., M. Nour, D.W. Smith, E.E. Prepas, G. Putz, and B. Watson.  2008.  Incorporating water quantity and quality modelling into forest management. For. Chron. 84:338-348.
  • MacDonald, J.D., J.R. Kiniry, G. Putz, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  A multi-species, process based vegetation simulation module to simulate successional forest regrowth after forest disturbance in daily time step hydrological transport models. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):127-143.
  • Nour, M.H., D.W. Smith, M. Gamal El-Din, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Effect of watershed subdivision on water-phase phosphorus modelling: An artificial neural network modelling application. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):95-108.
  • Nour, M.H., D.W. Smith, M. Gamal El-Din, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Towards a generic neural network model for the prediction of daily streamflow in ungauged boreal plain watersheds. J. Environ.Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):79-93.
  • Pelster, D., J.M. Burke, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Runoff and inorganic nitrogen export from Boreal Plain watersheds six years after wildfire and one year after harvest. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):51-61.
  • Pelster, D., J.M. Burke, K. Couling, S.H. Luke, D.W. Smith, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Water and nutrient inputs, outputs and storage in Canadian boreal forest wetlands: a review. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):35-50.
  • Prepas, E.E., J.M. Burke, G. Putz, and D.W. Smith.  2008.  Dissolved and particulate phosphorus concentration and export patterns in headwater streams draining Boreal Plain watersheds one year after experimental forest harvest and post-harvest silvicultural activities. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1): 63-77.
  • Prepas, E.E., G. Putz, D.W. Smith, J.M. Burke, and J.D. MacDonald.  2008.  The FORWARD Project: Objectives, framework and initial integration into a Detailed Forest Management Plan in Alberta. For. Chron. 84:330-337.
  • Russell, J.S., D.W. Smith, G. Putz, and E.E. Prepas.  2008.  Science and the industrial planning process in the western Canadian boreal forest: a case study. J. Environ. Eng. Sci. 7 (Suppl. 1):1-12.
  • Chen, H., J.M. Burke, W.P. Dinsmore, E.E. Prepas, and P.M. Fedorak.  2007.  First assessment of cyanobacterial blooms and microcystin-LR in the Canadian portion of Lake of the Woods. LakeReserv. Manage. 23:169-178
  • Couling, K., E.E. Prepas, and D.W. Smith.  2007.  Improved estimation of wetland cover in western Canadian boreal forest watersheds. Lake Reserv. Manage. 23:245-254.
  • Luke, S.H., N.J. Luckai, J.M. Burke, and E.E. Prepas.  2007.  Riparian areas in the Canadian boreal forest and linkages with water quality in streams. Environ. Rev. 15:79-97.
  • Zurawell, R.W., J.I. Goldberg, C.F.B. Holmes, and E.E. Prepas.  2007.  Tissue distribution and oral dose effects of microcystin in the freshwater pulmonate snail Lymnaea stagnalis jugularis (Say). J. Toxicol. Environ. Health Part A. 70:620-626.