Our Publications

• CAHR Terms of Reference
• CAHR Workplan Presentation at the National Science Managers Workshop

CAHR Completion Reports:

2011 - 2012

• Productive capacity of rock structures introduced into coastal environments relative to the substrates they replace and implications for habitat compensation.
• The effect of habitat scale in mitigation and compensation decisions by habitat managers: increasing the opportunity for achieving successful compensation objectives.
• Cumulative effects at multiple scales: case studies of the development of habitat-population assessment tools using Fraser River salmon.

2010 - 2011

• Evaluating the effects of habitat compensation on salmonid population parameters within the Granite Canal Hydroelectric Project area.
• Evaluating long-term effectiveness of the artificial reefs in Colville Bay, PEI, as habitat compensation.
• Assessing the Impacts of Productive Capacity in Pacific Coastal Habitats.
• Habitat compensation and mitigation in nearshore fish communities: determining the value of habitat components.

2009 - 2010

• Cumulative effects of anthropogenic activity on Placentia Bay marine food webs.
• The impact of water diversion on fish habitat and lake ecosystem function.
• Moving from local to national: using a regional case study in waterfront development, compensation and cumulative impact assessment to inform national aquatic habitat management.
• Maintaining kelp bed stability in the face of invasions, climate change and overfishing.
• Habitat compensation and mitigation effects of amour stone breakwaters for Atlantic Wolfish (Anarhichas lupus).

2008 - 2009

• Defining vulnerable marine ecosystems for the purposes of advice provision.
• Investigation of habitat-population models for assessing the impact of multiple habitat factors on salmon reproductive success.
• Methods for measuring the cumulative effects of multiple stressors on fish habitat and fishes in Canada: literature review, synthesis and tools.
• Refinement of tools to map sensitivity of benthic habitat to disturbance: application to the Gully MPA.
• Measuring habitat loss or alteration associated with coastal developments: a national approach.
• Characterization of benthic habitats (including eelgrass beds) and communities in the Manicouagan MPA
• Productive capacity of rock structures introduced into coastal environments relative to the substrates they replace and implications for habitat compensation.

IGS Completion Reports:

2008 - 2009

• Understanding the impacts of various fishing gears on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VMEs) and biodiversity.
• Identification of existing information in known and predicted VMEs.
• Developing a predictive model to locate and map ecologically and biologically significant areas (EBSAs) and VMEs.

CAHR Related Publications:

• Braun D.C. and J.D. Reynolds. 2011. Relationships between habitat characteristics and breeding population densities in sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 68:758-767.

• Braun, D.C., and J.D. Reynolds. 2011. Cost-effective variable selection in habitat surveys. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 3:388-396.

• Cote, D., R.S. Gregory, C.J. Morris, B.H. Newton, and D.C. Schneider. 2012. (In Press) Elevated habitat quality reduces variance in fish community composition. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 00:000-000. (Accepted 2012/11/14).
• Dutil, J.-D., Proulx, S., Chouinard, P.-M., and Borcard. D. 2011. A hierarchical classification of the seabed based on physiographic and oceanographic features in the St. Lawrence. Can.Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2916: vii + 72 p.
• Feehan, C., R.E. Scheibling, and J.S. Lauzon-Guay. 2012. Aggregative feeding behaviour in sea urchins leads to destructive grazing in a Nova Scotia kelp bed. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 444: 69-83.
• DFO. 2009. Does eelgrass (Zostera marina) meet the criteria as an ecologically significant species? DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Sci. Advis. Rep. 2009/018.
• Hague, M.J., M.R. Ferrari, J.R. Miller, D.A. Patterson, G.L. Russels, A.P. Farrell, and S.G. Hinch. 2010. Modelling the future hydroclimatology of the lower Fraser River and its impacts on the spawning migration survival of sockeye salmon. Global Change Biology, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02225.x
• Johnson. J.E., D.A. Patterson, E.G. Martins, S.J. Cooke, and S.G. Hinch. 2012. Quantitative methods for analyzing cumulative effects on fish migration success: a review. Journal of Fish Biology. 81: 600-631.
• Kenchington, E., F. J. Murillo, A. Cogswell, and C. Lirette. 2011. Development of Encounter Protocols and Assessment of Significant Adverse Impact by Bottom Trawling for Sponge Grounds and Sea Pen Fields in the NAFO Regulatory Area. NAFO Scientific Council Research Document 11/75.
• Kenchington, E., H. Link, V. Roy, P. Archambault, T. Siferd, M. Treble, and V. Wareham. 2011. Identification of Mega- and Macrobenthic Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) in the Hudson Bay Complex, the Western and Eastern Canadian Arctic. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2011/071. vi + 52 p.
• Lauzon-Guay, J.-S. and R.E. Scheibling. 2010. Spatial dynamics, ecological thresholds and phase shifts: modeling grazer aggregation and gap formation in kelp beds. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 403: 29-41.
• Lévesque, M., P. Archambault, C. W. McKindsey, S. Vaz, and D. Archambault. 2010. Predictive benthic habitat suitability model for the Estuary and the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence (2006). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2893: vii + 20 pp
• Mark, S., L. Provencher, E. Albert, et C. Nozeres. 2010. Cadre de suivi écologique de la zone de protection marine Manicouagan (Québec) : bilan des connaissances et identification des composantes écologiques à suivre. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2914 : xi + 121p.
• Martins E.G., S.G. Hinch, D.A. Patterson, M.J. Hague, S.J. Cooke, K.M. Miller, D. Robichaud, K.K. English, and A.P. Farrell. 2012. High river temperature reduces survival of sockeye salmon approaching spawning grounds and exacerbates female mortality. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 69: 330-342.
• Martins, E. G., S.G. Hinch, D.A. Patterson, M.J. Hague, S.J. Cookes, K.M. Miller, M.F. Lapointe, K.K English, and A.P. Farrell. 2010. Effects of river temperature and climate warming on stock-specific survival of adult migrating Fraser River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka). Global Change Biology, no. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02241.x
• Minns, C. K., R.G. Randall, K.E. Smokorowski, K.D. Clarke, A. Velez-Espino, R.S. Gregory, S. Courtenay, and P. LeBlanc. 2011. Direct and indirect estimates of the productive capacity of fish habitat under Canada's Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat: where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going? Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science. 68: 2204-2227.
• Renkawitz, M.D., R.S. Gregory, D.C. Schneider. 2011. Habitat dependant growth of three species of bottom settling fish in a coastal fjord. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 409:79-88
• Ryan, M.A., S. Killen, R.S. Gregory and P.V.R. Snelgrove. 2012. Predators and distance between habitat patches modify gap crossing behaviour of juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua, L. 1758). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 422:81-87.
• Scheibling, R.E., C. Feehan, and J.-S. Lauzon-Guay. 2010. Disease outbreaks associated with recent hurricanes cause mass mortality of sea urchins in Nova Scotia. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 408: 109-116.
• Scheibling, R.E. and J.-S. Lauzon-Guay. 2010. Killer storms: North Atlantic hurricanes and disease outbreaks in sea urchins. Limnology and Oceanography. 55: 2331-2338.
• Stanley R., P.V.R. Snelgrove, B. deYoung, R.S. Gregory. 2012. Dispersal patterns, active behaviour, and flow environment during early life history of coastal cold water fishes. PLoS ONE 7(9):e46266. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0046266
• Thistle, M.E., D.C. Schneider, R.S. Gregory, and N.J. Wells. 2010. Fractal measures of habitat fragmentation: maximum densities of juvenile cod occur at intermediate eelgrass complexity. Mar. Ecol. Progr. Ser. 405:39-56.
• Thompson, W.J., Sutherland, T.F., Cook, N.A., and Macdonald, J.S. 2009. Bibliography for environmental assessments associated with port developments at Fraser River Delta and Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columba. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2857: v + 216p.
• Warren, M.A., R.S. Gregory, B.J. Laurel, and P.V.R. Snelgrove. 2010. Increasing density of juvenile Atlantic (Gadus morhua) and Greenland cod (G. ogac) in association with spatial expansion and recovery of eelgrass (Zostera marina) in a coastal nursery habitat. J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol. 394:154-160.