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*student or post doc
2023
2019
2018
*student or post doc
2023
- Shipley, O., B. C. McMeans, A.C. Besser, E. Bloomfield*, S. Newsome. Energy channeling and food chain length impact body condition in a northern lake predator. Freshwater Biology (in press)
- Reeve, C, J. A. Robichaud, T. Fernandes*, A. E. Bates, A. J. Bramburger, J. W. Brownscombe, C. M. Davy, H. A. L. Henry, B. C. McMeans, E. R. D. Moise, S. Sharma, P. A. Smith, E. K. Studd*, A. O’Sullivan, A. O. Sutton, P. H. Templer and S. J. Cooke. Accepted. Applied Winter Biology: Threats, Conservation, and Management of Biological Resources during Winter in Cold Climate Regions. Conservation Physiology (in press)
- Savard, P., T. Fernandes*, A. Dao*, B. C. McMeans, and C. Lazar. 2023. Seasons influence the native gut microbiome of lake trout Salvelinus namaycush. Applied Microbiology 3(1), 276-287
- Bloomfield, E.*, M. Guzzo*, T. Middel, M. Ridgway, and B. C. McMeans. Accepted. Seasonality can affect interactions between fishes of different thermal guilds. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
- O’Connor, R., B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, M. M. Guzzo*, J. Young, K. S. McCann. In press. On the seasonal stability of zooplankton in a large temperate lake. Ecology
- Gutgesell, M., B. C. McMeans, M. M. Guzzo*, V. deGroot, A. T. Fisk, T. B. Johnson, and K. S. McCann. In press. Subsidy accessibility drives asymmetric food web responses. Ecology
- Gutgesell, M., K. S. McCann, G. Gellner, K. Cazelles, C. Greyson-Gaito, C. Bieg, M. M. Guzzo*, C. Warne, C. Ward, R. O’Connor, A. Scott, B. Graham, E. J. Champagne, B. C. McMeans. 2022. On the dynamic nature of omnivory in a changing world. BioScience biab144, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab144
- Fernandes, T.*, B. Shuter, P. Ihssen and B. C. McMeans. 2022. The woes of winter warming: shorter winters reduce the reproductive response in a temperate freshwater fish. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2020-0412
- Cavaliere, E., I. B. Fournier, V. Hazuková, G. Rue, S. Sadro, S. A. Berger, J. B. Cotner, H. A. Dugan, S. E. Hampton, N. R. Lottig, B. C. McMeans, T. Ozersky, S. M. Powers, M. Rautio, C. M. O’Reilly. 2021. The Lake Ice Continuum Concept: influence of winter conditions on ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 126(11) e2020JG006165
- Versteeg, E.*, T. Fernandes*, M. Guzzo*, F. Leberge, T. Middel, M. Rigway and B. C. McMeans. 2021. Brain size is seasonally plastic in a freshwater top predator. Ecology and Evolution 11(21): 14950–14959
- McMeans, B. C., P. Cott, T. Johnson, P. Blanchfield, M. Guzzo*, and R. Cunjak. In press. Winter as a critical period for Canadian fishes. Chapter in: Canadian Freshwater Fish. Editor: S. J. Cooke AFS Books
- Jansen, J., S. MacIntyre, D. Barrett, Y. Chin, A. Cortés, A. Forrest, A. R. Hrycik, R. Martin, B. C. McMeans, M. Rautio, and R. Schwefel. 2021. Winter limnology: how do hydrodynamics and biogeochemistry shape ecosystems under ice? Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences 126(6): e2020JG006237
- Sutton, A. O., E. Studd*, T. Fernandes*, A. Bates, A. Bramburger, S. J. Cooke, B. Hayden, H. A. Henry, M. Humphries, R. Martin, B. C. McMeans, E. Moise, A. M. O’Sullivan, S. Sharma, P. H. Templer. Frozen out: unanswered questions about winter biology. Environmental Reviews Accepted
- Studd, E. K.*, A. E. Bates, A. J. Bramburger, T. Fernandes*, B. Hayden, H. A. Henry, M. M. Humphries, R. Martin*, B. C. McMeans, E. D. Moise, A. M. O’Sullivan, S. Sharma, B. J. Sinclair, A. O. Sutton, P. H. Templer and S. J. Cooke. Nine maxims for the ecology of cold-climate winters. BioScience. biab032, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biab032.
- Bunt, C. M., B. Jacobson, T. Fernandes*, L. Ridgway, and B. C. McMeans. Winter and summer site fidelity and seasonal habitat preferences of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in a temperate regulated reservoir. Hydrobiologia doi.org/10.1007/s10750-021-04582-1
- arsden, J.E., P. J. Blanchfield, J. L. Brooks, T. Fernandes*, A. T. Fisk, M.H. Futia, B. L. Hlina, S. V. Ivanova, T. B. Johnson, N. V. Klinard, C. C. Krueger, S. M. Larocque, J. K. Matley, B. C. McMeans, L. M. O’Connor, G. D. Raby, S. J. Cooke. Using telemetry data to explore the winter biology of freshwater fish. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 31: 115–134
- Yang, B.*, M. Wells, B. C. McMeans, H. Dugan, J. Rusak, , G. Weyhenmeyer, J. Brentrup, A. Hrycik, R. Pilla, J. Austin, P. Blanchfield, C. Carey, M. Guzzo*, N. Lottig, M. Mackay, T. Middel, D. Pierson, J. Want and J. Young. A New Thermal Classification of Ice-Covered Lakes. Geophysical Research Letters 48: e2020GL091374
- Fernandes, T.* and B. C. McMeans. Spotty at Best: Brook Trout Exploit Large, Breeding Spotted Salamanders in the Early Spring. Ecology. 102(1): e03202
- Wilkinson, S.*, T. Brown, B. C. McMeans. Highly Branched Isoprenoids: a novel tracer of diatom-based energy pathways in freshwater food webs. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72: 425-431
- Jarvis, L.*, B. C. McMeans, H. Giacomini, C. Chu. Species-specific preferences drive the differential effects of lake factors on fish productivity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.77(10): 1625-1637
- McMeans, B. C., K. S. McCann, M. Guzzo*, T. Bartley*, C. Bieg, P. Blanchfield, T. Fernandes*, H. Giacomini, T. Middel, M. Rennie, M. Ridgway, B. Shuter. Winter in water: Differential responses and the maintenance of biodiversity. Ecology Letters. 23(6): 922-938
2019
- Fernandes, T.* and B.C. McMeans. Coping with the cold: energy storage strategies for surviving winter in freshwater fishes. Ecography 42(12): 2037-2052 (E4 Early Researcher Award finalist)
- Yopak, K., B.C. McMeans, C. Mull, K.W. Feindel, K.M. Kovacs, C. Lydersen, A.T. Fisk, and S.P. Collin. A small brain and a big nose: Comparative brain morphology of the Greenland and Pacific Sleeper Sharks. Scientific Reports 9, Article number: 10022
- Pool, T., V. Elliott, G. Holtgrieve, M. Arias, I. Altman, L. Kaufman, K. McCann, E.D. Fraser, L. Tudesque, M. Chevalier, G. Grenouillet, C. Ratha, S. Lek, B.C. McMeans, M. Cooperman, C. Phen, L. Hannah, B. Miller, G. Bo, S. Nam. Fish assemblage composition within the floodplain habitat mosaic of a flood-pulse lake (Tonle Sap, Cambodia). Freshwater Biology 64:2026–2036
- Edwards, J.E., F. Broell, P.G. Bushnell, S.E. Campana, J.S. Christiansen, B.M. Devine, J.J. Gallant, S.M. Grant, K.J. Hedges, E. Hiltz, M.A. MacNeil, B.C. McMeans, J. Nielsen, K. Præbel, G.B. Skomal, J.F. Steffensen, R.P. Walter, Y.Y. Watanabe, D.L. VanderZwaag, and N.E. Hussey. Advancing our understanding of long-lived species: A case study on the Greenland shark. Frontiers in Marine Science 6: Article 87
- McMeans, B.C., T. Kadoya, G. Holtgrieve, S. Lek, H. Kong, K. Winemiller, V. Elliott, T. Pool, N. Rooney, and K. S. McCannn. Consumer trophic positions respond variably to seasonally fluctuating environments. Ecology 100(2): e02570
- Bartley T. J.*, K. S. McCann, C. Bieg, K. Cazelles, M. Granados, M. M. Guzzo, A. S. MacDougall, T. D. Tunney, and B. C. McMeans. Food web rewiring in a changing world. Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 345-354
- Ives, J., B. C. McMeans, K. S. McCann, A. T. Fisk, T. B. Johnson, D. B. Bunnell, and A. M. Muir. Mechanisms and function of food webs in freshwater lakes: the Laurentian Great Lakes as a model. Freshwater Biology 64(1): 1-23
2018
- Peng, B., K. S. McCann, G. Grenouillet, S. Nam, B. C. McMeans, E. Fraser, and S. Lek. Evidence of decline in one of the world’s largest freshwater fisheries. Scientific Reports 8: 8947
- Johnson, L., R. Moccia, M. Gutgesell, B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, and K. S. McCann. Evidence for asymmetric assimilation of an anthropogenic resource subsidy in a freshwater food web. Food Webs e00084
- Bieg, C., K. S. McCann, B. C. McMeans, N. Rooney, G. Holtgrieve, S. Lek, N.P. Bun, K., KC and E. Fraser. Linking humans to food webs: A foundation for the classification of global fisheries. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 16(7): 1–9 doi:10.1002/fee.1933
- MacDougall, A., E. Harvey, J. McCune, K. A. Nilsson, J. Bennett, J. Firn, T. Bartley*, J. Grace, J. Kelly, T. Tunney, B. C. McMeans, S. Matsuzaki, T. Kadoya, E. Esch, K. Cazelles, N. Lester, K. S. McCann. Environmentally dependent species interactions and the regulation of freshwater fish diversity. Nature Communications. 9: 973
- Olin, J., B. C. McMeans, O. Shipley. Stable isotope fractionation between maternal and embryo tissues in the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo). Environmental Biology of Fishes. 101(3): 489-499
2017
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2016
- McMeans, B. C., K. S. McCann, T. D. Tunney, A. T. Fisk, A. Muir, N. Lester, B. Shuter, and N. Rooney. The adaptive capacity of lake food webs: from individuals to ecosystems. Ecological Monographs 86(1): 4-19 PDF
- Steeves, H., B. C. McMeans, C. Field, C. Stewart, M. T. Arts, A. T. Fisk, C. Lydersen, K. Kovacs, A. MacNeil. Non-parametric spatio-temporal variability in the fatty acid profiles among Greenland Sharks. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 98(3): 627-633
- Morris, A., D. Muir, K. Solomon, R. Letcher, M. McKinney, A. Fisk, B. C. McMeans, C. Teixeira, X. Wang, M. Duric. Current use pesticides in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 35(7):1695-707
- McCann, K. S., G. Gellner, B. C. McMeans, G. Holtgrieve, N. Rooney, L. Hannah, M. Cooperman, and S. Nam. Food webs and the sustainability of indiscriminate fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(4): 656-665 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., M. T. Arts, C. Dubetz, M. Ikonomou. Diet, size and location as determinants of n-3 highly unsaturated fatty acid contents in farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Aquaculture Research 48(7): 3728-3741
- McMeans, B. C., K. S. McCann, M. Humpries, N. Rooney, and A. T. Fisk. Food web structure in temporally-forced ecosystems. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30: 662-672 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., A.-M. Koussoroplis, M. T. Arts, and M. J. Kainz. Terrestrial dissolved organic matter supports growth and reproduction of Daphnia magna when algae are limiting. Journal of Plankton Research 37(6): 1201-1209 PDF
- Beaudry, M. C., N. E. Hussey, B. C. McMeans, A. M. McLeod, S. P. Wintner, G. Cliff, S. F. J. Dudley, and A. T. Fisk. Comparative organochlorine accumulation in two ecologically similar shark species (Carcharodon carcharias and Carcharhinus obscurus) with divergent uptake based on different life history. Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry 34(9): 2051-2060 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., A.-M. Koussoroplis, and M. J. Kainz. Effects of seasonal seston and temperature changes on lake zooplankton fatty acids. Limnology and Oceanography 60: 573-583 PDF
- Braune, B., J. Chetelat, M. Amyot, T. Brown, M. Evans, A. T. Fisk, A. Gaden, C. Girard, A. hare, J. Kirk, I. Lehnherr, R. Letcher, L. Loseto, R. Macdonald, B. C. McMeans, D. Muir, A. Poulain, K. Reimer, and G. Stern. Mercury in the marine environment of the Canadian Arctic: A review of recent data. Science of the Total Environment 509-510: 67-90 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., M. T. Arts, and A. T. Fisk. Impacts of food web structure and feeding behavior on mercury exposure in Greenland Sharks (Somniosus microcephalus). Science of the Total Environment 509-510: 216-225 PDF
2014
- Lu, Z., A. T. Fisk, K. Kovacs, C. Lydersen, M. A. McKinney, G. T. Tomy, B. Rosenburg, B. C. McMeans, D. C. G. Muir, and C. S. Wong. Temporal and spatial trends of PCB chiral signatures in the Greenland Shark (Somniosus microcephalus) and its Arctic food web. Environmental Pollution 186: 216-225 PDF
- Hussey, N. E., M. A. MacNeil, B. C. McMeans, J. A. Olin, F. J. S. Dudley, G. Cliff, S. P. Wintner, S. Fennessy, and A. T. Fisk. Rescaling the trophic framework of marine food webs. Ecology Letters 17(2): 239-250. PDF
2013
- McMeans, B. C., N. Rooney, M. T. Arts and A. T. Fisk. Food web structure of a coastal Arctic marine ecosystem and implications for stability. Marine Ecology Progress Series 482: 17-28 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., M. T. Arts, C. Lydersen, K. Kovacs, H. Hop, S. Falk-Petersen and A. T. Fisk. The role of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) in an Arctic ecosystem: assessed via stable isotopes and fatty acids. Marine Biology 160(5): 1223-1238 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., M. A. Arts, S. Rush and A. T. Fisk. Seasonal patterns in fatty acids of Calanus hyperboreus (Copepoda, Calanoida) from Cumberland Sound, Baffin Island, Nunavut. Marine Biology 159(5): 1095-1105 PDF
- Marcoux, M., B. C. McMeans, A. T. Fisk, and S. H. Ferguson. Composition and temporal variation in the diet of the threatened population of belugas in Cumberland Sound. Marine Ecology Progress Series 471: 283-291 PDF
- McKinney, M. A., B. C. McMeans, G. T. Tomy, B. Rosenber, S. H. Ferguson, A. Morris, D. C. G. Muir and A. T. Fisk. Transfer of persistent organic pollutants in a changing arctic. Environmental Science and Technology 46 (18): 9914–9922 PDF
- Hussey, N., J. A. Olin, M. Kinney, B. C. McMeans, and A. T. Fisk. Lipid extraction effects on stable isotope values (d13C and d15N) of elasmobranch muscle tissue. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 434: 7-15 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., M. T. Arts, and A. T. Fisk. Similarity between predator and prey fatty acid profiles is tissue dependent in Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus): implications for diet reconstruction. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 429: 55-63 PDF
- MacNeil, M. A., B. C. McMeans, N. Hussey, P. Vecsei, J. Svavarsson, K. Kovacs, C. Lydersen, M. Treble, G. B. Skomal, M. Ramsey, and A. T. Fisk. Biology of Somniosus microcephalus. Journal of Fish Biology (Special edition on elasmobranchs) 80(5): 991-1018 PDF
- Hussey, N., M. A. MacNeil, J. Olin, B. C. McMeans, M. Kinney, D. Chapman, A. T. Fisk. Stable isotopes and elasmobranchs: tissue types, methods, applications and assumptions. Journal of Fish Biology (Special edition on elasmobranchs) 80(5): 1449-1484 PDF
2010 and earlier
- McMeans, B. C., J. Svavarsson, S. T. Dennard, and A. T. Fisk. 2010. Diet and resource use among Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) and teleosts sampled in Icelandic waters, using δ13C, δ15N and total mercury. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 67(9): 1428-1438 PDF
- McMeans, B. C., J. A. Olin, and G. W. Benz. 2009. Stable isotope comparisons between embryos and mothers of a placentatrophic shark species. Journal of Fish Biology 75: 2464-2474 PDF
- Dennard, S. T., B. C. McMeans, and A. T. Fisk. 2009. Preliminary assessment of Greenland halibut diet in Cumberland Sound using stable isotopes. Polar Biology 32(6): 941-945.
- McMeans, B. C., K. Borgå, W. Bechtol, D. Higginbotham, and A. T. Fisk. 2007. Essential and non-essential element concentrations in two sleeper shark species collected in arctic waters. Environmental Pollution 148(1): 281-290.
- Benz, G. W., K. Nagasawa, A. Yamaguchi, B. C. McMeans, and A. McElwain. 2006. New host and ocean records for Driocephalus cerebrinoxius (Sphyriidae, Siphonostomatoida) and a reconsideration of phylogeny within Sphyriidae. Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria 36(1): 1-9.