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Sandra J. Walde

Sandra J. Walde

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
4350
World Ranking
7199
National Ranking
451

Overview

Sandra J. Walde is affiliated with Dalhousie University in Canada and focuses their research on environmental science and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their academic work explores various subfields, including nature and landscape conservation and genetics.

Their research has prominently addressed topics such as genetic diversity and population structure, fish ecology and management studies, and fish biology, ecology, and behavior.

The scientist's publication record includes contributions to peer-reviewed journals, with a noted paper titled "Multiple drainage reversal episodes and glacial refugia in a Patagonian fish revealed by sequenced microsatellites" published in 2020 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Daniel E. Ruzzante
  • Annie P. Simons
  • Gregory R. McCracken
  • Evelyn Habit

Publications have been primarily featured in venues such as the Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Spatial Density Dependence in Parasitoids

    Sandra J. Walde;William W. Murdoch

  • Prey Exchange Rates and the Impact of Predators on Prey Populations in Streams

    Scott D. Cooper;Sandra J. Walde;Barbara L. Peckarsky

  • Relative Importance of Substrate Particle Size and Detritus to Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Microdistribution

    Joseph M. Culp;Sandra J. Walde;Ronald W. Davies

  • Climate control on ancestral population dynamics: insight from Patagonian fish phylogeography

    Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde;John C. Gosse;Victor E. Cussac

  • Across the southern Andes on fin: glacial refugia, drainage reversals and a secondary contact zone revealed by the phylogeographical signal of Galaxias platei in Patagonia

    Tyler S. Zemlak;Evelyn M. Habit;Sandra J. Walde;Miguel A. Battini

  • Phylogeography of the Percichthyidae (Pisces) in Patagonia: roles of orogeny, glaciation, and volcanism

    Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde;Victor E. Cussac;Merel L. Dalebout

  • Changes in the distribution of native fishes in response to introduced species and other anthropogenic effects

    Evelyn Habit;Priscila Piedra;Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde

  • Nonbreeding-Season Drivers of Population Dynamics in Seasonal Migrants: Conservation Parallels Across Taxa

    Anna M. Calvert;Sandra Joan Walde;Philip D. Taylor

  • Invertebrate Predation and Lotic Prey Communities: Evaluation of In Situ Enclosure/Exclosure Experiments

    Sandra J. Walde;Ronald W. Davies

  • Pollen availability for predaceous mites on apple: spatial and temporal heterogeneity.

    J. A. Addison;J. M. Hardman;Sandra Joan Walde

  • Phylogeography and phenotypic diversification in the Patagonian fish Percichthys trucha: the roles of Quaternary glacial cycles and natural selection

    Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde;Patricio J. Macchi;Marcelo Alonso

  • Surviving historical Patagonian landscapes and climate: molecular insights from Galaxias maculatus

    Tyler S. Zemlak;Evelyn M. Habit;Sandra J. Walde;Cecilia Carrea

  • Native and introduced fish species richness in Chilean Patagonian lakes: inferences on invasion mechanisms using salmonid-free lakes

    Evelyn Habit;Jorge Gonzalez;Daniel Eduardo Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde

  • Trophic polymorphism, habitat and diet segregation in Percichthys trucha (Pisces: Percichthyidae) in the Andes

    Daniel E. Ruzzante;Sandra J. Walde;Victor E. Cussac;Patricio J. Macchi

  • Regulation of an Insect Population Under Biological Control

    William W. Murdoch;Robert F. Luck;Susan L. Swarbrick;Sandra Walde

  • REFUGE DYNAMICS AND METAPOPULATION DYNAMICS : AN EXPERIMENTAL TEST

    William W. Murdoch;Susan L. Swarbrick;Robert F. Luck;Sandra Walde

  • Immigration and the dynamics of a predator-prey interaction in biological control

    Sandra J. Walde

  • HOW QUALITY OF HOST – PLANT AFFECTS A PREDATOR – PREY INTERACTION IN BIOLOGICAL - CONTROL

    Sandra Joan Walde

  • A Refuge for Red Scale Under Control by Aphytis: Structural Aspects

    William W. Murdoch;Robert F. Luck;Sandra J. Walde;John D. Reeve

  • Latitudinal and ecological correlates of morphological variation in Galaxias platei (Pisces, Galaxiidae) in Patagonia

    Daniela Milano;Daniela Milano;Daniel E. Ruzzante;Victor E. Cussac;Victor E. Cussac;Patricio J. Macchi

  • The effect of intraspecific interference on Kogotus nonus (Plecoptera) foraging behaviour

    Sandra J. Walde;Ronald W. Davies

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel E. Ruzzante
Daniel E. Ruzzante Dalhousie University
Philip D. Taylor
Philip D. Taylor Acadia University
William W. Murdoch
William W. Murdoch University of California, Santa Barbara
Robert F. Luck
Robert F. Luck University of California, Riverside
Hal Whitehead
Hal Whitehead Dalhousie University
Ian D. Jonsen
Ian D. Jonsen Macquarie University
Barbara L. Peckarsky
Barbara L. Peckarsky University of Wisconsin–Madison
Sara J. Iverson
Sara J. Iverson Dalhousie University
Marty L. Leonard
Marty L. Leonard Dalhousie University
John C. Gosse
John C. Gosse Dalhousie University

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