Echiverri, L.F.I., Macdonald, S.E. & Nielsen, S.E. 2022. Neighboring edges: Interacting edge effects from linear disturbances in treed fens. Applied Vegetation Science 25:e12645.

Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen, S.E. 2022. Effects of wildfire and soil compaction on recovery of narrow linear disturbances in upland mesic boreal forests. Forest Ecology and Management 510 (2022): 120073.

Hecker, L.J., Edwards, M.A. & Nielsen, S.E. 2021. Assessing the nutritional consequences of switching foraging behavior in wood bison. Ecology & Evolution 11:16165–16176.

Routh, M.R. & Nielsen, S.E. 2021. Dynamic patterns in winter ungulate browse succession in the Boreal Plains of Alberta. Forest Ecology and Management 492: 119242.

Riva, F. & Nielsen, S.E. 2021. A functional perspective on the analysis of land use and land cover data in ecology. Ambio 50:1089–1100.

Nielsen, S.E., Dennett, J.M. & Bater, C.W. 2020. Predicting occurrence, abundance, and fruiting of a cultural keystone species to inform landscape values and priority sites for habitat enhancements. Forests 11(7), 783.

Filicetti, A.T. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Tree regeneration on industrial linear disturbances in treed peatlands is hastened by wildfire and delayed by loss of microtopography. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50: 936-945.

Echiverri, L.F.I., Macdonald, S.E. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Disturbing to restore? Effects of mounding on understory communities on seismic lines in treed peatlands. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 50(12): 1340-1351.

Nielsen, S.E., Dennett, J.M. & Bater, C.W. 2020. Landscape patterns of rare vascular plants in the Lower Athabasca region of Alberta, Canada. Forests 11(6): 699.

Hillman, A.C. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Quantification of Lichen Cover and Biomass Using Field Data, Airborne Laser Scanning and High Spatial Resolution Optical Data—A Case Study from a Canadian Boreal Pine Forest. Forests 11(6): 682.

McClelland, C.J.R., Coops, N.C., Kearney, S.P., Burton, A.C., Nielsen, S.E. & Stenhouse, G.B. 2020. Variations in grizzly bear habitat selection in relation to the daily and seasonal availability of annual plant-food resources. Ecological Informatics 58: 101116.

Riva, F., Pinzon, J., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Composite effects of cutlines and wildfire result in fire refuges for plants and butterflies in boreal treed peatlands. Ecosystems 23:485–497.

Belanger, R.J., Edwards, M.A., Carbyn, L.N. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Evaluating trade-offs between forage, biting flies, and footing on habitat selection by wood bison (Bison bison athabascae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 98: 254–261.

Wei, S., Li, L., Lian, J., Nielsen, S.E., Wang, Z., Mao, L., Ouyang, X., Cao, H. & Ye, W. 2020. Role of the dominant species on the distributions of neighbor species in a subtropical forest. Forests 11(352): 1-11.

Jean, S.A., Pinno, B.D. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Early regeneration dynamics of pure black spruce and aspen forests after wildfire in boreal Alberta, Canada. Forests 11, 333.

Crisfield, V.E., Dennett, J.M., Denny, C.K., Mao, L., Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Species richness is a surrogate for rare plant occurrence, but not conservation value, in boreal plant communities. Biodiversity & Conservation 29: 99–114.

Bateman, T.J. & Nielsen, S.E. 2020. Direct and indirect effects of overstory canopy and sex-biased density dependence on reproduction in the dioecious shrub Shepherdia canadensis (Elaeagnaceae). Diversity 12(1): 37.

Silva, J.A., Nielsen, S.E., Lamb, C.T., Hague, C. & Boutin, S. 2019. Modelling lichen abundance for woodland caribou in a fire-driven boreal landscape. Forests 10, 962.

Franklin, C.M.A., Nielsen, S.E. & Macdonald, S.E. 2019. Understory vascular plant responses to retention harvesting with and without prescribed fire. Canadian Journal of Forest Research (in press).

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.

Filicetti, A.T., Cody, M. & Nielsen S.E. 2019. Caribou conservation: restoring trees on seismic lines in Alberta, Canada. Forests 10(2):185.

Dennett, J.M. & Nielsen, S.E. 2019. Detectability of species of Carex varies with abundance, morphology, and site complexity. Journal of Vegetation Science 30(2):352-361.

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.

MacDonald, Z.J., Anderson, I.D., Acorn, J.H. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. The theory of island biogeography, the sample‐area effect, and the habitat diversity hypothesis: complementarity in a naturally fragmented landscape of lake islands. Journal of Biogeography 45:2730–2743.

Zhang, J., Qian, H., Girardello, M., Pellissier, V., Nielsen, S.E. & Svenning, J-C. 2018. Trophic interactions among vertebrate guilds and plants shape global patterns in species diversity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285:20180949.

Franklin, C.M.A., Macdonald, S.E. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Combining aggregated and dispersed tree retention harvesting for conservation of vascular plant communities. Ecological Applications 28(7): 1830–1840.

Roberts, D., Ciuti, S., Barber, Q.E., Willier, C. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Accelerated seed dispersal along linear disturbances in the Canadian oil sands region. Scientific Reports 8:4828.

Dennett, J.M., Gould, A.J., Macdonald, S.E. & Nielsen S.E. 2018. Investigating detection success: lessons from trials using decoy rare plants. Plant Ecology 219: 577–589.

Mao, L., Dennett, J., Bater, C.W., Tompalski, P., Coops, N.C., Farr, D., Kohler, M., White B., Stadt, J.J. & Nielsen S.E. 2018. Using airborne laser scanning to predict plant species richness and assess conservation threats in the oil sands region of Alberta’s boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management 409: 29-37.

Mao, L., Bater, C.W., Stadt, J.J., White, B., Tompalski, P., Coops, N.C. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Environmental landscape determinants of maximum forest canopy height of boreal forests. Journal of Plant Ecology rtx071: 1-7.

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.

Lamb, C.T., Mowat, G., McLellan, B.N., Nielsen, S.E. & Boutin, S. 2017. Forbidden fruit: human settlement and abundant fruit create an ecological trap for an apex omnivore. Journal of Animal Ecology 86(1): 55–65.

Denny, C.K. & Nielsen, S.E. 2017. Spatial heterogeneity of the forest canopy scales with the heterogeneity of an understory shrub based on fractal analysis. Forests 8(5): 146.

Laskin, D.N., Montaghi A, Nielsen, S.E. & McDermid, G.J. 2016. Estimating understory temperatures using MODIS LST in mixed cordilleran forests. Remote Sensing 8: 658.

Pedersen, J.L.M., Macdonald, S.E., Nielsen, S.E. 2016. Reproductive ecology of the distylous species Houstonia longifolia: Implications for conservation of a rare species. Botany 94: 983–992.

Barber, Q.E., Bater, C.W., Braid, A.C.R., Coops, N.C., Tompalski, P. & Nielsen, S.E. 2016. Airborne laser scanning for modelling understory shrub abundance and productivity. Forest Ecology and Management 377: 46-54.

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.

Braid, A.C.R., Manzer, D. & Nielsen, S.E. 2016. Wildlife habitat enhancements for grizzly bears: Survival rates of planted fruiting shrubs in forest harvests. Forest Ecology and Management 369: 144-154.

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.

Schoenecker, K.A., Nielsen, S.E., Zeigenfuss, L.C. & Pague, C.A. 2015. Selection of vegetation types and density of bison in an arid ecosystem. Journal of Wildlife Management 79(7): 1117-1128.

Nijland W., Coops, N.C., Macdonald, S.E., Nielsen, S.E., Bater, C. & Stadt, J.J. 2015. Comparing patterns in forest stand structure following variable harvests using airborne laser scanning data. Forest Ecology and Management 354: 272-280.

van Rensen, C.K., Nielsen, S.E., White, B., Vinge, T. & Lieffers, V.J. 2015. Natural regeneration of forest vegetation on legacy seismic lines in boreal habitats in Alberta’s oil sands region. Biological Conservation 184: 127–135.

Nijland W., Nielsen S.E., Coops N.C., Wulder M.A. & Stenhouse G.B. 2014. Fine-spatial scale predictions of understory species using climate-and LiDAR-derived terrain and canopy metrics. Journal of Applied Remote Sensing 8(1): 083572-083572.

Johnson, K.M. & Nielsen, S.E. 2014. Demographic effects on fruit set in the dioecious shrub Canada buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis). PeerJ 2: e526.

Zhang J., Nielsen S.E., Grainger T.N., Kohler M., Chipchar T. & Farr D.R. 2014. Sampling plant diversity and rarity at landscape scales: Importance of sampling time in species detectability. PloS ONE 9(4): e95334.

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.

Teichman K.J., Nielsen S.E. & Roland J. 2013. Trophic cascades: linking ungulates to shrub-dependent birds and butterflies. Journal of Animal Ecology 82: 1288-1299.

Nijland W., Coops N.C., Coogan S.C.P., Bater C.W., Wulder M.A., Nielsen S.E., McDermid G. & Stenhouse G.B. 2013. Vegetation phenology can be captured with digital repeat photography and linked to variability of root nutrition in Hedysarum alpinum. Applied Vegetation Science 16(2): 317–324.

Coogan S.C.P., Nielsen S.E. & Stenhouse G.B. 2012. Spatial and temporal heterogeneity creates a "brown tide" in root phenology and nutrition. ISRN Ecology, Article ID 618257: 1-10.

Coops N.C., Hilker T., Bater C.W., Wulder M.A., Nielsen S.E., McDermid G. & Stenhouse G. 2012. Linking ground-based to satellite derived phenological metrics in support of habitat assessment. Remote Sensing Letters 3(3): 191-200.

Bater C.W., Coops N.C., Wulder M.A., Hilker T., Nielsen S.E., McDermid G. & Stenhouse G.B. 2011. Using digital time-lapse cameras to monitor species-specific understorey and overstorey phenology in support of wildlife habitat assessment. Environmental Monitoring & Assessment 180: 1-13.

Bater C.W., Coops N.C., Wulder M.A., Nielsen S.E., McDermid G. & Stenhouse G.B. 2011. Design and installation of a camera network across an elevation gradient for habitat assessment. Instrumentation Science & Technology 39: 231-247.

Nielsen S.E., McDermid G., Stenhouse G.B. & Boyce M.S. 2010. Dynamic wildlife habitat models: Seasonal foods and mortality risk predict occupancy-abundance and habitat selection in grizzly bears. Biological Conservation 143: 1623-1634.

Nielsen S.E., Johnson C., Heard D.C. & Boyce M.S. 2005. Can models of presence-absence be used to scale abundances? Two case studies considering extremes in life history. Ecography 28: 197-208.

Nielsen S.E., Munro R.H.M., Bainbridge E., Boyce M.S. & Stenhouse G.B. 2004. Grizzly bears and forestry II: distribution of grizzly bear foods in clearcuts of west-central Alberta, Canada. Forest Ecology and Management 199: 67-82.

Nielsen S.E. & Haney A. 2003. Vegetation composition, dynamics, and management of a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem. Environmental Management 31: 810-821.

Nielsen S.E., Kirschbaum C.D. & Haney A. 2003. Restoration of Midwest oak barrens: Structural manipulation or process-only? Conservation Ecology 7(2): 10.

Nielsen S.E. & Haney A. 1998. Gradient responses for understory species in a bracken-grassland and northern-dry forest ecosystem of Northeast Wisconsin. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 86: 149-166.

Nielsen, S.E., Aldridge, C.L., Hanser, S.E., Leu, M., Knick, S.T. 2011. Occurrence of non-native invasive plants: The role of anthropogenic features. Pp. 357–386 in ​Hanser, S.E., Leu, M., Knick, S.T. & Aldridge, C.L. (editors), Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation and Management: Ecoregional Assessment Tools and Models for the Wyoming Basins. Allen Press, Lawrence, KS.

Leu, M., Hanser, S.E., Aldridge, C.L., Nielsen, S.E., Cade, B.S. & Knick, S.T.  2011. A sampling and analytical approach to develop spatial distribution models for sagebrush-associated species. Pp. 88–111 in Hanser, S.E., Leu, M., Knick, S.T. & Aldridge, C.L. (editors), Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation and Management: Ecoregional Assessment Tools and Models for the Wyoming Basins. Allen Press, Lawrence, KS.

Rawleigh, G., Hecker, L.J., Dewart, L.T., Epperson, D.M, Edwards, M.A. & Nielsen, S.E. 2021. Ronald Lake Wood Bison Research Program: Semi-Annual Progress Report 2021. Report to the Ronald Lake Bison Herd Technical Team, May 1, 2021. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H1. 22 pp.

Boutin, S., Nielsen, S.E., Bayne, E. 2018. Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs Final Report. University of Alberta. 65 pp.

Nielsen, S.E., Dennett, J., Denny, C., Kohler, M. & Farr, D. 2017. Terrestrial vascular plant monitoring project for the Lower Athabasca (2012-2016). 166 pages.

Nielsen, S.E. 2016. Fruiting shrubs of the Lower Athabasca: Distribution, ecology and a digital atlas. A report to the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA). 29 February 2016. Edmonton, Alberta. 81 pgs.

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.

Riva, F. 2019. Responses in butterflies to loss and fragmentation of boreal forests from in situ oil sands. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Dennett, J.M. 2018. Search and rescue: detection and mitigation of rare vascular plant species. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Franklin, C.M.A. 2018. Effectiveness of retention harvesting for biodiversity conservation: evidence for understory vegetation and wildlife. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Willier, C.N. 2017. Changes in peatland plant community composition and stand structure due to road induced flooding and desiccation. M.Sc. 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.

Teichman, K.J. 2013. Trophic cascades: Linking ungulates to shrub-dependent birds and butterflies. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Coogan, S.C.P. 2012. Getting to the root of the matter: Grizzly bears and alpine sweetevtch in west-central Alberta, Canada. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Roberts, D. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Seismic lines may spread seeds. Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #8.

Willier, C. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Why did the water cross under the road? Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #7.

Dennett, J. & Nielsen, S.E. 2018. Testing rare plant translocations. Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #6.

Nielsen, S.E. & Dennett, J. 2017. Interpreting the rankings of rare plants. Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #4.

Nielsen, S.E. & Dennett, J. 2017. Putting rare plants on the map. Alberta Biodiversity Conservation Chairs outreach note #3.