Cheryl Pearce

Professor Emeriti

Research Interests

Conservation and management of natural resources; wildlife habitat in fragmented landscapes; wetland vegetation dynamics in the tundra; analysis of natural resources with remote sensing and GIS; songbird habitat in tropical landscapes; spatial patterns of forests and wetlands in southern Ontario; invasion of introduced trees into river systems in the northern Great Plains.

Publications (past 7 years)

Refereed Journals

Lindgren, C., Pearce, C.M. and Allison, K. 2009. 'The biology of invasive alien plants in Canada. II. Tamarix ramosissima Ledeb., T. chinensis Lour. and hybrids' Canadian Journal of Plant Sciences 90(1): 111-124

Pearce, C.M. and Smith, D.G. 2007 'Invasive saltcedar (Tamarix): its spread from the American Southwest to the Northern Great Plains' Physical Geography 28: 1-24

Rood, S., Mahoney, J., Pearce, C.M. and Smith, D.G. 2007 'Floods, fires, and Ice: Disturbance ecology of riparian cottonwoods' Canadian Journal of Botany 85: 1019-1032

Pearce, C.M., M.B. Green and Baldwin, M. 2007 'Habitat models for waterbirds in fragmented wetland systems: a log-linear approach' Urban Ecosystems 10(3): 239-254

Smith, D.G., Jol, J.M., Smith, N.D., Kostaschuk, R.A. and Pearce, C.M. 2005 'Wave-dominated William River Delta: its geomorphology and radar stratigraphy, Lake Athabasca, Canada' Special Publication, Delta Sedimentology  ed L. Goisan and J. Batacheria - Society of Petrologists, Economists, and Mineralogists (SEPM) 295–320

Pearce, C.M. and Smith, D.G. 2003 'Saltcedar: distribution, abundance, and dispersal mechanisms, northern Great Plains' Wetlands 23(2): 215-228.

Chapters in Books

Pearce, C.M. and Smith, D.G. 2009 'Rivers as conduits for long-distance dispersal of introduced weeds: example of Russian Olive (Elaeagnus angustifolia) in the northern Great Plains of North America' In Invasive Plants on the Move: Controlling Them in North America ed T.R. VanDevender, F.J. Espinosa-Garcia, B.L. Harper-Lore and T. Hubbard (The University of Arizona Press and The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ) 410-427

Smith, D.G. and Pearce, C.M. 2009 'Increased saltcedar (Tamarix) seed production and regional invasion from large reservoirs during severe droughts in the northern Great Plains: a proposed model' In Invasive Plants on the Move: Controlling Them in North America ed. T.R. VanDevender, F.J. Espinosa-Garcia, B.L. Harper-Lore and T. Hubbard (The University of Arizona Press and The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, AZ) 316-333

Supervised Graduate Students and Theses Titles

MSc Students Year Title
W. DeYoung 2006 LANDSAT Image Data in a GIS Model to Identify Significant Woodlands in Southwestern Ontario
L. Wagner 2006 An examination of the invasion pattern and site peferences of the invasive shrub, European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), in London, Ontario
M. Baldwin 2000 An investigation of wetland fragmentation on avian associations in the Upper Thames River Watershed
R. Pither 1997 An investigation into the use of satellite data and geographic information systems for developing habitat models of rare bird species in Southwestern Ontario
D. Pagurek 1995 Mapping and analysing forest and corridor landscape components: development of methodology using image processing, spatial statistics, and a geographic information system
B. Graham 1995 Modelling distributions of rare Carolinian tree species in Southwestern Ontario
S. Bird 1993 Stream channel and riparian zone response to the development of lateral sediment wedge in the Queen Charlottte Islands, B.C.
D. Boyes 1991 Using remote sensing and a geographic information system to model the potential effects of hydrological modification on vegetation patterns in the MacKenzie Delta, N.W.T.
W. Skelly 1990 Microwave backscatter modelling of forested terrain: A theoretical approach to image interpretation

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