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S. Ellen Macdonald

S. Ellen Macdonald

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
48
Citations
9009
World Ranking
4222
National Ranking
288

Overview

S. Ellen Macdonald is affiliated with the University of Alberta in Canada and has contributed extensively to the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research portfolio includes significant work in subfields such as Nature and Landscape Conservation, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Insect Science, and Atmospheric Science.

Their main research topics cover Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies, Forest Management and Policy, Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies, Fire effects on ecosystems, Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology, Forest ecology and management, and Climate change and permafrost. This range reflects a broad ecological focus with an emphasis on forest and wetland ecosystems and their responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances.

Frequent publication venues for their work include Forest Ecology and Management, Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Journal of Ecology, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Restoration Ecology, representing diverse outlets in ecological and environmental sciences.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by S. Ellen Macdonald include:

  • Natural Disturbance-Based Forest Management: Moving Beyond Retention and Continuous-Cover Forestry (2021), Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Estimating retention benchmarks for salvage logging to protect biodiversity (2020), Nature Communications
  • Disturbing to restore? Effects of mounding on understory communities on seismic lines in treed peatlands (2020), Canadian Journal of Forest Research
  • Wildlife forage cover and composition on pipeline corridors in Alberta: Implications for wildlife conservation (2020), Forest Ecology and Management
  • Above- and belowground drivers of intraspecific trait variability across subcontinental gradients for five ubiquitous forest plants in North America (2022), Journal of Ecology

S. Ellen Macdonald has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including Laureen F. I. Echiverri, Scott E. Nielsen, Charles A. Nock, Yves Bergeron, and Timo Kuuluvainen. Their research partnerships highlight a multidisciplinary approach to forest and ecological conservation topics.

Best Publications

  • Edge Influence on Forest Structure and Composition in Fragmented Landscapes

    Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Philip J. Burton;Jiquan Chen

  • Forest restoration following surface mining disturbance: challenges and solutions

    S. Ellen Macdonald;Simon M. Landhäusser;Jeff Skousen;Jennifer Franklin

  • Ecology of and control strategies for Calamagrostiscanadensis in boreal forest sites

    Victor J. Lieffers;S. Ellen Macdonald;Edward H. Hogg

  • Understory plant communities of boreal mixedwood forests in western Canada: Natural patterns and response to variable-retention harvesting

    S. Ellen Macdonald;Treena E. Fenniak

  • Ecophysiological adaptations of black spruce ( Picea mariana ) and tamarack ( Larix laricina ) seedlings to flooding

    M. Anisul Islam;S. Ellen Macdonald

  • The reduction of organic-layer depth by wildfire in the North American boreal forest and its effect on tree recruitment by seed

    David F. GreeneD.F. Greene;S. Ellen MacdonaldS.E. Macdonald;Sybille HaeusslerS. Haeussler;Susy DomenicanoS. Domenicano

  • Importance of mixedwoods for biodiversity conservation: Evidence for understory plants, songbirds, soil fauna, and ectomycorrhizae in northern forests

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  • A generalized logistic model of individual tree mortality for aspen, white spruce, and lodgepole pine in Alberta mixedwood forests

    Xiaohong Yao;Stephen J Titus;S Ellen MacDonald

  • Structure and composition of edges next to regenerating clear-cuts in mixed-wood boreal forest

    Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald

  • Structure and composition of riparian boreal forest: new methods for analyzing edge influence

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  • Effects of reforestation methods on genetic diversity of lodgepole pine: an assessment using microsatellite and randomly amplified polymorphic DNA markers

    B. R. Thomas;S. E. Macdonald;M. Hicks;D. L. Adams

  • Boreal mixedwood stand dynamics: Ecological processes underlying multiple pathways 1

    Yves Bergeron;Norman C. Kenkel;Albanie L. Leduc;S. Ellen Macdonald

  • Naturally Saline Boreal Communities as Models for Reclamation of Saline Oil Sand Tailings

    Brett G. Purdy;S. Ellen Macdonald;Victor J. Lieffers

  • Edge influence on vegetation at natural and anthropogenic edges of boreal forests in Canada and Fennoscandia

    Karen A. Harper;Karen A. Harper;S. Ellen Macdonald;Michael S. Mayerhofer;Shekhar R. Biswas

  • THE INTERACTION BETWEEN MASTING AND FIRE IS KEY TO WHITE SPRUCE REGENERATION

    Vernon S. Peters;S. Ellen Macdonald;Mark R. T. Dale

  • Eighty years of change: vegetation in the montane ecoregion of Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada

    Jeanine M Rhemtulla;Ronald J Hall;Eric S Higgs;S Ellen Macdonald

  • Abundance and species composition of amphibians, small mammals, and songbirds in riparian forest buffer strips of varying widths in the boreal mixedwood of Alberta

    Susan J Hannon;Cynthia A Paszkowski;Stan Boutin;Jordan DeGroot

  • Release in radial growth in the trunk and structural roots of white spruce as measured by dendrochronology

    S.T. Urban;V.J. Lieffers;S.E. Macdonald

  • The influence of canopy patch mosaics on understory plant community composition in boreal mixedwood forest.

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  • Factors influencing size inequality in peatland black spruce and tamarack: evidence from post-drainage release growth

    S. Ellen Macdonald;Fengyou Yin

  • Predictors of moss and liverwort species diversity of microsites in conifer-dominated boreal forest

    Suzanne E. Mills;S. Ellen Macdonald

  • Population differentiation for phenotypic plasticity in the Stellaria longipes complex

    S. Ellen Macdonald;C. C. Chinnappa

  • Factors influencing bryophyte assemblage at different scales in the western Canadian Boreal forest

    Suzanne E. Mills;S. Ellen Macdonald

  • Sex- and Habitat-Specific Responses of a High Arctic Willow, Salix arctica, to Experimental Climate Change

    Michael H. Jones;S. Ellen MacDonald;Gregory H. R. Henry

Frequent Co-Authors

Scott E. Nielsen
Scott E. Nielsen University of Alberta
Victor J. Lieffers
Victor J. Lieffers University of Alberta
Janusz J. Zwiazek
Janusz J. Zwiazek University of Alberta
Yves Bergeron
Yves Bergeron Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
John R. Spence
John R. Spence University of Alberta
Edward W. Bork
Edward W. Bork University of Alberta
Sylvie A. Quideau
Sylvie A. Quideau University of Alberta
Christian Messier
Christian Messier University of Quebec at Montreal
David M. Reid
David M. Reid University of Calgary
Simon M. Landhäusser
Simon M. Landhäusser University of Alberta

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