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Papers

Publications from the Integrated Fisheries Ecology Lab. Lab members are shown in bold.

Papers

Lab members are shown in bold. Code and data for most papers are shared openly on GitHub.

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, September 2025 Ecological Applications, September 2023 Fish and Fisheries, November 2023 Fisheries Research, October 2024 Global Change Biology, January 2022

2026

  • Groundfish with diverse life histories increase in size and abundance with proximity to spatial protections
    Wilson KL, Frid A, Anderson SC
    Ecology Letters (in review)
  • Recruitment as an emergent property of ecological and evolutionary processes: implications for compensation and harvest management of fish
    Post JR, Wilson KL, Ward HGM, Arlinghaus R
    Fish and Fisheries (in review)
  • Prioritizing coho conservation and First Nation's fisheries access through Haíłzaqv monitoring
    Steel J, Johnson S, Atlas W, Reid M, Housty W, Adams M, Wilson KL, Whitney C, Peel Z, Peel K, Kern D, Ban NC
    North American Journal of Fisheries Management (accepted)
  • From reflection to action: twenty years of Canada's Wild Salmon Policy
    Price MHH, Adams MS, Braun DC, Cleveland MC, Connors K, Dennert AM, Hill A, Holt CA, Hunt BPV, Hwang J, Irvine JR, Knox G, Lerner JE, MacDuffee M, McLaskey AK, Peacock SJ, Pestal G, Porter M, Rosenberger A, Sainsbury NC, Saunders M, Sloat MR, Whitney CK, Wilson KL, Wong J, Wor C, Yehle K, Connors BM
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (accepted)
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  • What does priority mean in a context of decreasing abundance? Upholding Nuxalk salmon rights
    Beveridge R, Gavenus E, Wilson KL, Steel J, Atlas W, Satterfield T
    FACETS (accepted)Open access
  • Weaving Indigenous and Western knowledge systems across a continuum of knowledge and decision making spaces
    Ban NC, Watkins HV, Forrest RE, Frid A, Holt CA, Hall SJ, Service CN, Ramirez L, Curtis DL, Wilson KL, Ignace L, Reid AJ, Moffat K, Neasloss MR, burton nm
    Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 81: 101644
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2025

  • Co-producing knowledge with Indigenous Peoples: challenges and solutions
    Grimm J, Jarvis-Cross M, Bailey M, Ban NC, Bartlett M, Cadman R, Cannon SE, Cookie SJ, Cyr K, Dubos V, Duncan A, Gazing Wolf J, Harrison HL, Iyer A, Kirkwood AE, Lingrui Meng R, Moore N, Morphet ME, Sainsbury NC, Semeniuk CAD, Sherwood L, Deondre Smiles N, Smith E, Timmer B, Vanderhoop CA, Wilson KL, Bateman A, Krkosek M
    Trends in Ecology and Evolution 41: 6–9
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  • A safe operating space for salmon watersheds under rapid climate change
    Moore JW, Ulaski ME, Wilson KL, Martin TG, Kuiper SD, Peacock S, Braun D, Naman S, Pitman KJ, Reid A, Rosenfeld J, Sainsbury N, Wilson SM, Zdasiuik B
    Fish and Fisheries 26: 1213–1228Open access
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  • Using fisheries risk assessment to inform precautionary and collaborative management in a declining coho salmon fishery
    Wilson KL, Atlas WI, Whitney CK, Reid M, Service CN, Connors BM, Adams MS
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 82: 1–18Open access
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  • Barriers and opportunities for the effective management of cumulative effects in salmon ecosystems
    Ulaski ME, Moore JW, Carlson D, Taddei KF, Kriese K, Griggs J, Murray C, Adams MS, Wilson KL, Reid A, Sainsbury N, Cannon S, Griggs E, Martin T
    FACETS 10: 1–25Open access
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  • Ecological approaches to understanding dynamic interactions between recreational angler behaviour and fishes
    Post JR, Wilson KL, Johnston FD, Sass GG, Askey PA, Ward HGM, Allen MS
    Book chapter in Understanding Recreational Fishers: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approaches for Fisheries Management
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2024

  • Estimating age-at-maturity for individual Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) from back-calculated growth trajectories
    Stewart ND, Wilson KL, Hanke A
    Fisheries Research 278: 107102
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2023

  • Re-imagining the precautionary approach to make collaborative fishery management inclusive of Indigenous knowledge systems
    Frid A, Wilson KL, Walkus J, Forrest RE, Reid M
    Fish and Fisheries 24: 940–958Open access
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  • The role of spatial structure in at-risk metapopulation recoveries
    Wilson KL, Sawyer A, Potapova A, Bailey CJ, LoScerbo D, Sweeney-Bergen EK, Hodgson EE, Pitman KJ, Seitz K, Law L, Warkentin L, Wilson SM, Atlas WI, Braun DC, Sloat M, Tinker MT, Moore JW
    Ecological Applications 33: e2898Open access
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2022

  • Stressor-response functions as generalizable models for context dependence
    Rosenfeld JR, Gonzalez P, Jarvis L, Enders E, Bayly M, Paul AJ, MacPherson L, Moore JW, Sullivan M, Ulaski M, Wilson KL
    Trends in Ecology and Evolution 37: 1032–1035
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  • Quantifying regional patterns of collapse in British Columbia Central Coast chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) populations since 1960
    Atlas WI, Wilson KL, Whitney CK, Moody JE, Service CN, Reid M, Sloat MR
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79: 2072–2086
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  • Matching of resource use and investment according to waterbody size in recreational fisheries
    Kaemingk MA, Arlinghaus R, Birdsong MH, Chizinski CJ, Lyach R, Wilson KL, Pope KL
    Fisheries Research 254: 106388
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  • Fish length back-calculation from scales: advancing methodology and correction of bias
    Bailey CJ, Wilson KL, More O'Ferrall M, Moore JW
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79: 1780–1797
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  • Marine and freshwater regime changes impact a community of migratory Pacific salmonids in decline
    Wilson KL, Bailey CJ, Davies TD, Moore JW
    Global Change Biology 28: 72–85Open access
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2021

  • Hotspots for rockfishes, structural corals, and large-bodied sponges along the central coast of Pacific Canada
    Frid A, McGreer M, Wilson KL, Du Preez C, Blaine T, Norgard T
    Scientific Reports 11: 21944Open access
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  • Assessing conservation status with extensive but low-resolution data: application of frequentist and Bayesian models to Endangered Athabasca River rainbow trout
    Post JR, Ward HGM, Wilson KL, Sterling GL, Cantin A, Taylor EB
    Conservation Biology 36: e13783
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  • Phenological mismatch, carryover effects, and marine survival in a wild steelhead trout Oncorhynchus mykiss population
    Wilson SM, Buehrens T, Fisher J, Wilson KL, Moore JW
    Progress in Oceanography 193: 102533
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  • Mixed-stock fishing methods and low salmon returns intensify barriers and costs to access for Indigenous fishers
    Steel JR, Atlas WI, Wilson KL, Ban NC, Wilson J, Housty WG, Moore JW
    FACETS 6: 592–613Open access
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  • Portfolio simplification arising from a century of change in salmon population diversity and artificial production
    Price MHH, Moore JW, Connors BM, Wilson KL, Reynolds JD
    Journal of Applied Ecology 58: 1477–1486
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2020

  • Social-ecological feedbacks drive spatial exploitation in a northern freshwater fishery: a halo of depletion
    Wilson KL, Foos A, Barker O, Farineau A, De Gisi J, Post JR
    Journal of Applied Ecology 57: 206–218
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2019

  • Life-history variation along environmental and harvest clines of a northern freshwater fish: plasticity and adaptation
    Wilson KL, De Gisi J, Cahill CL, Barker OE, Post JR
    Journal of Animal Ecology 88: 717–733
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  • Comparing three methods to estimate the average size at first maturity: a case study on a Curimatid exhibiting polyphasic growth
    Hashiguti DT, Soares BE, Wilson KL, Raiol RDO, Montag LFA
    Ecology of Freshwater Fish 28: 266–273
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  • Landscape scale social and ecological outcomes of dynamic angler and fish behaviours: processes, data, and patterns
    Carruthers TR, Dabrowska K, Haider W, Parkinson E, Varkey D, Ward HGM, McAllister MK, Godin T, Van Poorten B, Askey P, Wilson KL, Hunt L, Clarke A, Newton E, Walters CJ, Post JR
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76: 970–988
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  • The future of recreational fisheries: advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice
    Brownscombe JW, Hyder K, Potts W, Wilson KL, Pope KL, Danylchuk AJ, Cooke SJ, Clarke A, Arlinghaus R, Post JR
    Fisheries Research 211: 247–255
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2018

  • Multiple challenges confront a high-effort inland recreational fishery in decline
    Cahill CL, Mogensen S, Wilson KL, Cantin A, Paul A, Sinnatamby RN, Christensen P, Reilly J, Winkel L, Farineau A, Post JR
    Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 1357–1368
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  • Growing the biphasic framework: techniques and recommendations for fitting emerging growth models
    Wilson KL, Honsey A, Moe B, Venturelli P
    Methods in Ecology and Evolution 9: 822–833
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  • Decoupling the effects of density and environmental variability on fish growth
    Matthias BG, Ahrens RNM, Allen MS, Tuten T, Siders ZA, Wilson KL
    Fisheries Research 198: 209–219
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2017

  • Trophic state indicators are a better predictor of Florida Bass condition compared to temperature in Florida's freshwater bodies
    Boucek R, Barrientos C, Bush M, Gandy D, Wilson KL, Young J
    Environmental Biology of Fishes 10: 1181–1192
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2016

  • Fishing quality and angling effort relationships in an experimentally stocked, spatially structured fishery
    Mee JA, Post JR, Ward HGM, Wilson KL, Newton E, Cantin A
    Ecological Applications 26: 1693–1707
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  • Understanding and managing social-ecological feedbacks in spatially structured recreational fisheries: the overlooked behavioral dimension
    Ward HGM, Allen MS, Camp EV, Cole NW, Hunt LM, Matthias B, Post JR, Wilson KL, Arlinghaus R
    Fisheries 41: 524–535
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  • Supply-demand equilibria and the size-number trade-off in spatially structured recreational fisheries
    Wilson KL, Cantin A, Ward HGM, Newton ER, Mee JA, Varkey DA, Parkinson EA, Post JR
    Ecological Applications 26: 1086–1097
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2015

  • Combining samples from multiple gears helps to avoid fishy growth curves
    Wilson KL, Matthias BG, Barbour AB, Ahrens RNM, Tuten T, Allen MS
    North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35: 1121–1131
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  • Nonlinear and density-dependent fish habitat selection across physiochemical gradients in an invasive macrophyte habitat
    Wilson KL, Allen MS, Ahrens RNM, Netherland MD
    Environmental Biology of Fishes 98: 1525–1539
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  • How to navigate fisheries education and employment
    Carlson AK, Dunmall KM, Boucek RE, Cole NW, Kerns JA, Krogman RM, Lloyd MC, Nguyen VM, Wendt TR, White SL, Wilson KL
    Fisheries 40: 196–197
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2014

  • The death of immortality
    Wilson KL, Barbour AB
    Nature 512: 226 (short fiction)
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  • Use of underwater video to assess freshwater fish populations in dense submersed aquatic vegetation
    Wilson KL, Allen MS, Ahrens RNM, Netherland MD
    Marine and Freshwater Research 66: 10–22
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  • Trade-offs in experimental designs for estimating post-release mortality in containment studies
    Rogers MW, Barbour AB, Wilson KL
    Fisheries Research 151: 130–135
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