Area of Study / Keywords

Forest ecology boreal forest forest disturbance sustainable forest management plant biodiversity

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About

Job/Research Area: Professor (Forest ecology and plant biodiversity)

1983B.Sc. (with distinction) Environmental Biology, University of Calgary

1988Ph.D. Plant Ecology, University of Calgary. 

Awards

• University Cup (University of Alberta) (2019)
• IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organisations) Scientific Achievement Award (2019)
• Ed and Peggy Tyrchniewicz Award for Innovation in Teaching (2015)
• Canadian Institute of Forestry Scientific Achievement Award (2014)
• Izaak Walton Killam Annual Professor (2007/08)
• Faculty of Agricultural, Life & Environmental Sciences - Teacher of the Year (2004, 2008, 2009, 2010)
• Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, Dept. of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta (1999) 

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Research

Major Responsibilities/Research Interests: The influence of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the ecology and plant biodiversity of the boreal forest (see EMEND projects). Regeneration processes and successional dynamics of boreal mixedwood forest. Restoration ecology in northern ecosystems.

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Teaching

RenR 322/721 Forest ecosystems: Fall 2014 - 2020

RenR 299 Spring Field School: Annually 1989-2021 

No longer accepting new graduate students. 

Harper, K.A., L. Gray, S.E. Macdonald, D. Lesiur, D. DeFields, P. Dodonov, C.M.A. Franklin, S. R. Haughian, L. Mascarúa López, A. Heathcote, K. Jager, R. Yang, C. Angelidis, A. Lanza Braga, W. Butler, S. Coley, J.M.E. Kornelson, L. Murphy, J. Pelton, E. Viotto Recco, R. de Oliveira Xavier, I. Wilson, M.C. Ribeiro, D. Maria da Silva Matos, Y. Bergeron.

Ecology. 2023 May; 10.1002/ecy.4098

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Echiverri, L.F.I., S.E. Macdonald, S.E. Nielsen.

Restoration Ecology. 2023 March; 31 (3):e13813 10.1111/rec.13813

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Zhang, W.-Q., K. Fleurial, M. Moawad, R. Vassov, S.E. Macdonald, S.E., J.J. Zwiazek

Restoration Ecology. 2023 March; 10.1111/rec.13874

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Bartels, S.F., S.E. Macdonald.

Journal of Applied Ecology. 2023 February; 60 10.1111/1365-2664.14366

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Hesketh, A.V., Loesberg, J.A., Bledsoe, E.K., Karst, J., Macdonald, S.E.

Ecology. 2022 December; 103 (11) 10.1002/ecy.3805

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Errington, R.C., S.E. Macdonald, N.A. Melnycky, J.S. Bhatti.

Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine Research. 2022 November; 54 10.1080/15230430.2022.2082263

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Cardou, F., A. Munson, L. Boisvert-Marsh, M. Anand, A. Arsenault, W. Bell, Y. Bergeron, I. Boulangeat, S. Delagrange, N. Fenton, D. Gravel, B. Hamel, F. Hébert, J. Johnstone, B. Kumordzi, S.E. Macdonald, A. Mallik, A. McIntosh, J. McLaren, C. Messier, D. Morris, J.W. Shipley, L. Sirois, N. Thiffault, I. Aubin.

Journal of Ecology. 2022 October; 110 10.1111/1365-2745.13894

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Echiverri, L.F.I., S.E. Macdonald, S.E. Nielsen.

Applied Vegetation Science . 2022 September; 25:e12645 10.1111/avsc.12645

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Dokis-Jansen, K.L., B.L. Parlee, Łutsël K’e Dene First Nation, D.S Hik, B. Gendreau-Berthiaume, S.E. Macdonald, C. Stinn.

Arctic. 2022 August; 74 (3):290-305 10.14430/arctic73160

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Kuuluvainen, T., P. Angelstam, L. Frelich, K. Jogiste, M. Koivula, Y. Kubota, B. Lafleur, S. E. Macdonald.

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change . 2021 December; 10.3389/ffgc.2021.629020

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Robinne, F.-N., J.J. Stadt, C.W. Bater, C. Nock, S.E. Macdonald, and S.E.Nielsen

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution . 2021 January; 8

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Echiverri, L., S.E. Macdonald.

Forest Ecology & Management . 2020 October; 474 (article 118358 )

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Thorn, S., A. Chao, K.B. Georgiev, J. Müller, C. Bässler, J.L. Campbell, J. Castro, Y.-H., Chen, C.-Y. Choi, T. Cobb, D.C. Donato, E. Durska, E. Macdonald, H. Feldhaar, J.B. Fontaine, P.J. Fornwalt, R.M.H. Hernández, R.L. Hutto, M. Koivula, E.-J. Lee, D. Lindenmayer, G. Mikusiński, M.K. Obrist, M. Perlik, J. Rost, K. Waldron, B. Wermelinger, I. Weiß, M. Żmihorski, A.B. Leverkus.

Nature Communications . 2020 October; 11 (4762)

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Bartels, S., B. Gendreau-Berthiaume, S.E. Macdonald.

Science of the Total Environment . 2019 December; 696 (article 133877)

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Bartels, S.F., R. James, R. Caners, S.E. Macdonald. 2019.

Journal of Applied Ecology . 2019 February; 56

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Franklin, C., S.E. Macdonald, and S.E. Nielsen.

Ecological Applications . 2018 July; 28 (7):1830-1840

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Bergeron, J.A.C., J. Pinzon, S. Odsen, S. Bartels, S.E. Macdonald, J.R. Spence

Oikos. 2017 January; 12

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Stockdale, C. , M. Flannigan, S.E. Macdonald

Environmental Revoews. 2016 January; 24 (3):233-243

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Gendreau-Berthiaume, B., S.E. Macdonald, J.J. Stadt

Ecological Applications. 2016 January; 26 (5):1486-1502

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Macdonald, S.E., S. Landhäusser, J. Skousen, J. Frouz, S. Quideau, S. Hall, J. Franklin, D. Jacobs.

New Forests. 2015 January; 46

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Harper, Karen A., S. Ellen Macdonald, Michael S. Mayerhofer, Shekhar R. Biswas, Per-Anders Esseen, Kristoffer Hylander, Katherine J. Stewart, Azim U. Mallik, Pierre Drapeau, Bengt-Gunnar Jonsson, Daniel Lesieur, Jari Kouki and Yves Bergeron

Journal of Ecology. 2015 January; 103

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Fedrowitz, K., J. Koricheva, S.C. Baker, D.B. Lindenmayer, B. Palik, P. Rosenbald, W. Beese, J.F. Franklin, J. Kouki, E. Macdonald, C. Messier, A. Sverdrup-Thygeson, L. Gustafsson

Journal of Applied Ecology. 2014 January; 51

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Bergeron, Y., H.Y.H. Chen, N.C. Kenkel, A.L. Leduc, and S.E. Macdonald

Forestry Chronicle. 2014 January; 90

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Lilles, E., B. Purdy, S.E. Macdonald and S. Chang

Canadian Journal of Soil Science. 2012 January; 92

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Cavard, Xavier, S.E. Macdonald, Y. Bergeron and H. Chen

Environmental Reviews. 2011 January; 19

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Burton, P.J. and S.E. Macdonald

Silva Fennica. 2011 January; 45 (5):843-863

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Gärtner, S.M., V.J. Lieffers and S. E. Macdonald

Environmental Reviews. 2011 January; 19: