Stralberg, D., Arseneault, D., Baltzer, J.L., Barber, Q.E., Bayne, E.M., Boulanger, Y., Brown, C.D., Cooke, H.A., Devito, K., Edwards, J., Estevo, C.A., Flynn, N., Frelich, L.E., Hogg, E.H., Johnston, M., Logan, T., Matsuoka, S.M., Moore, P. Morelli, T.L., Morissette, J.L., Nelson, E.A., Nenzén, H. Nielsen, S.E., Parisien, M., Pedlar, J.H., Price, D.T., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Slattery, S.M., Sonnentag, O., Thompson, D.K. & Whitman, E. 2020. Climate‐change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long? Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 18(5): 261-270.

Stralberg, D., Carroll, C. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Toward a climate-informed North American protected areas network: Incorporating climatechange refugia and corridors in conservation planning. Conservation Letters 13(4): e12712.

Laskin, D.N., McDermid, G.J., Nielsen, S.E., Marshall, S.J., Roberts, D.R. & Montaghi, A. 2019. Advances in phenology are conserved across scale in present and future climates. Nature Climate Change 9:419–425.

Wang, Y., Pedersen, J.L.M., Macdonald, S.E., Nielsen, S.E. & Zhang, J. 2019. Experimental test of assisted migration for conservation of locally range-restricted plants in Alberta, Canada. Global Ecology and Conservation 17:e00572.

Stralberg, D., Carroll, C., Pedlar, J.H., Wilsey, C.B., McKenney, D.W. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Macrorefugia for North American trees and songbirds: Climatic limiting factors and multi-scale topographic influences. Global Ecology and Biogeography 2018: 1–14.

Stralberg, D., Wang, X., Parisien, M.A., Robinne, F.N., Solymos, P., Mahon, C.L., Nielsen, S.E. & Bayne, E.M. 2018. Wildfire-mediated vegetation change in boreal forests of Alberta, Canada. Ecosphere 9:3, e02156.

Zhang, J., Nielsen, S.E., Chen, Y., Georges, D., Qin, Y., Wang, S., Svenning, J.C. & Thuiller, W. 2017. Extinction risk of North American seed plants elevated by climate and land-use change. Journal of Applied Ecology 54: 303-312.

Chen, Y., Zhang, J., Jiang, J. Nielsen, S.E., & He, F. 2017. Assessing the effectiveness of China’s protected areas to conserve current and future amphibian diversity. Diversity and Distributions 23: 146–157.

Carroll, C., Roberts, D.R., Michalak, J.L., Lawler, J.L., Nielsen, S.E. Stralberg, D., Hamann, A., Mcrae, B.H. & Wang, T. 2017. Scale-dependent complementarity of climatic velocity and environmental diversity for identifying priority areas for conservation under climate change Global Change Biology 23:4508–4520.

Barber, Q.E., Nielsen, S.E. & Hamann, A. 2016. Assessing the vulnerability of rare plants using climate change velocity, habitat connectivity, and dispersal ability: a case study in Alberta, Canada. Regional Environmental Change 16: 1433–1441.

Zhang, J., Nielsen, S.E., Mao, L., Chen, S. & Jens-Christian S.  2016. Regional and historical factors supplement current climate in shaping global forest canopy height. Journal of Ecology 104: 469–478.

Chai, S., Jian, Z., Nixon, A., & Nielsen, S.E. 2016. Using risk assessment and habitat suitability models to prioritise invasive species for management in a changing climate. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0165292.

Zhang, J., Nielsen, S.E., Stolar, J., Chen, Y. & Thullier, W. 2015. Gains and losses of plant species and phylogenetic diversity for a northern high-latitude region. Diversity and Distributions 21(12): 1441–1454.

Hamann A., Roberts D.R., Barber Q.E., Carroll C. & Nielsen S.E. 2015. Velocity of climate change algorithms for guiding conservation and management. Global Change Biology 21(2): 997-1004.

Roberts D.R., Nielsen S.E. & Stenhouse G.B. 2014. Idiosyncratic responses of grizzly bear habitat to climate change based on projected changes in their food resources. Ecological Applications 24: 1144-1154.

Nielsen S.E., Cattet M.R.L., Boulanger J., Cranston J., McDermid G.J., Shafer A.B.A., Stenhouse G.B. 2013. Environmental, biological and anthropogenic effects on grizzly bear body size: temporal and spatial considerations. BMC Ecology 13: 31.

Chai, S-L., Nixon, A., Zhang, J. & Nielsen, S.E. 2014. Predicting invasive species response to climate change: Prioritization and mapping of new potential threats to Alberta’s Biodiversity. Prepared for the Biodiversity Management and Climate Change Adaptation Project/Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute. Edmonton, AB. 60 pages.

Kuntzemann, C.E. 2021. Peatlands reduce fire severity and promote fire refugia in boreal forests. MSc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Barber, Q.E. 2015. Assessing the vulnerability of rare plants using climate change velocity, habitat connectivity and dispersal ability. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Pedersen, J.L.M. 2015. Mitigating the impacts of climate change on rare plants through assisted migration. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.