Scientific Publications

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Frazer, L.N., M. Krkosek, & A. Morton. Critical thresholds in sea lice epidemics: evidence, sensitivity, and subcritical estimation. (In review)

Williams, R., M. Krkosek, E. Ashe, T. A. Branch, S. Clark, P. Hammond, E. Hoyt, D. Noren, D. Rosen & A. Winship. Conflicting conservation objectives for predators and prey: estimating prey requirements of killer whales for salmon in the Pacific Northwest. PLoS ONE (In press)

2011

Ashander, J., M. Krkosek, & M. Lewis. 2011. Aquaculture-induced changes to dynamics of a migratory host and specialist parasite: a case study of pink salmon and sea lice. Theoretical Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s12080-011-0122-4

Connors, B., C. Lagasse, & L. Dill. 2011. What's love got to do with it? Ontogenetic changes in drivers of dispersal in a marine ectoparasite. Behavioral Ecology. 22(3), 588-593.

Krkosek, M., & R. Hilborn. 2011. Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestations and the productivity of pink salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 68(1), 17-29.

Krkosek, M., B. Connors, A. Morton, M. Lewis, L. Dill, & R. Hilborn. 2011. Effects of parasites from salmon farms on wild salmon populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 108, 14700-14704.

Krkosek, M., B. Connors, P. Mages, S. Peacock, H. Ford, J. Ford, A. Morton, J. Volpe, R. Hilborn, L. Dill, & M. Lewis. 2011. Fish farms, parasites, and predators: Implications for salmon population dynamics. Ecological Applications. 21, 897-914.

Krkosek, M., R. Hilborn, R. Peterman, & T. Quinn. 2011. Cycles, stochastcity, and density dependence in pink salmon population dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 278, 2060-2068.

Morton, A., A. McConnell, R. Routledge, & M. Krkosek. 2011. Sea lice dispersion and salmon survival in relation to fallowing and chemical treatment on salmon farms. ICES Journal of Marine Science. 68, 144-156.

2010

Connors, B., M. Krkosek, J. Ford, & L. Dill. 2010. Coho salmon productivity in relation to direct and trophic transmission of sea lice from salmon aquaculture. Journal of Applied Ecology. 47, 1372-1377.

Connors B.M., Hargreaves, B., Jones, S.R.M., and L.M. Dill. 2010. Predation intensifies parasite exposure in a salmonid food chain. Journal of Applied Ecology.  47(6), 1365-1371

Krkosek, M. 2010. Host density thresholds and disease control for fisheries and aquaculture. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 1, 21-32. (Invited Article for 1st Issue)

Krkosek, M. 2010. Sea lice and salmon in Pacific Canada: Ecology and policy. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 8, 201-209.  

Krkosek, M. & M. Lewis. 2010. An R0 theory for source-sink dynamics with application to Dreissena competition. Theoretical Ecology. 3, 24-43.

Krkosek, M., A. Bateman, S. Proboscsz, & C. Orr. 2010. Dynamics of outbreak and control of salmon lice on two salmon farms in the Broughton Archipelago. Aquaculture Environment Interactions. 1, 137-146.

Lewis, M.A., M. Krkosek, & M.J. Wonham. 2010. Dynamics of emerging wildlife disease. In S. Sivaloganathan (Ed) Mathematical Biology, Fields Institute Communications, American Mathematical Society.

Losos, C., J. Reynolds, & L. Dill. 2010. Sex-selective predation by threespine sticklebacks on sea lice: A novel cleaning behaviour. Ethology. 116.10, 981-989.

McConnell, A., R. Routledge, & B. Connors. 2010. The effect of artificial light on marine invertebrate and fish abundance in an area of active salmon farming. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 419:147-156

2009

Dill, L.M., Losos, C., Connors. B.M., & P Mages. 2009. Comment on Beamish et al. (2005) “A proposed life history strategy for the salmon louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis in the subarctic Pacific”. Aquaculture 286: 154-155.

Keller, R., M.A. Lewis, D.M. Lodge, J. F. Shogren, & M. Krkosek. 2009. Putting bioeconomic research into practice. In Bioeconomics of Invasive Species: Integrating ecology, economics, policy and management. Editors: R. Keller, D.M. Lodge, M. A. Lewis and J. F. Shogren. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 

Krkosek, M., A. Morton, J. Volpe, & M. Lewis. 2009. Sea lice and salmon population dynamics: Effects of exposure time for migratory fish. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 276, 2819-2828.  

2008

Connors, B.M., M. Krkosek, & L.M. Dill. 2008. Sea lice escape predation on their host. Biology Letters. 4: 455-457.

Connors, B.M., E. Juarez-Colunga, & L.M. Dill. 2008. Effects of varying salinities on Lepeophtheirus salmonis survival on juvenile pink and chum salmon. Journal of Fish Biology. 72: 1825-1830.

Ford, J.S. & R.A. Myers. 2008. A global assessment of salmon aquaculture impacts on wild salmonids. PLoS Biology. 6(2): e33.

Krkosek, M., J. Ford, A. Morton, S. Lele, & M. Lewis. 2008. Response to comment on 'Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon.' Science. 322, 1790-1791.  

Krkosek, M., J.S. Ford, A. Morton, S. Lele, & M.A. Lewis. 2008. Sea lice and pink salmon declines: A response to Brooks and Jones. Reviews in Fisheries Science. 16: 413-420.

Morton, A., R. Routledge, & M. Krkosek. 2008. Sea lice infestation of juvenile salmon and herring associated with fish farms off the east central coast of British Columbia. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 28, 523-532.

2007

Krkosek, M., J.S. Ford, A. Morton, S. Lele, R.A. Myers, & M.A. Lewis. 2007. Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon. Science. 318: 1772-1775.

Krkosek, M., A. Gottesfeld, B. Proctor, D. Rolston, C. Carr-Harris, & M.A. Lewis. 2007. Effects of host migration, diversity, and aquaculture on disease threats to wild fish populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 274: 3141-3149.

2006

Krkosek, M., M.A. Lewis, A. Morton, N. Frazer, & J. Volpe. 2006. Epizootics of wild fish induced by farm fish. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA. 103: 15506-15510.

Krkosek, M., M.A. Lewis, J. Volpe, & A. Morton. 2006. Fish farms and sea lice infestations of wild juvenile salmon in the Broughton Archipelago - A rebuttal to Brooks. Reviews in Fisheries Science. 14: 1-11.

Morton A. & R. Williams. 2006. Response of the sea louse, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, infestation levels on juvenile wild pink, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, and chum, O. keta, salmon to arrival of parasitized wild adult pink salmon. Canadian Field Naturalist. 120(2): 199-204.

Morton, A.B. & R. Routledge. 2006. Mortality rates for juvenile pink and chum salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha and keta) infested with sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) in the Broughton Archipelago. Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin. 11:2, 146-152.

Morton A. & R.D. Routledge. 2006. Fulton's condition factor: Is it a valid measure of sea lice impact on juvenile salmon? North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 26(1): 56-62.

2005

Blaylock, R.B., R.M. Overstreet, & A. Morton. 2005. The pathogenic copepod Phrixocephalus cincinnatus (Copepoda: Pennellidae) in the eye of arrowtooth flounder, Atherestes stomias, and rex sole, Glyptocephalus zachirus, from British Columbia. Bulletin of the European Association of Fish Pathologists. 25(3): 116-123.

Ford, J.K.B., G.A. Ellis, D.R. Matkin, et al. 2005. Killer whale attacks on minke whales:Prey capture and antipredator tactics. Marine Mammal Science. 21(4): 603-618.

Krkosek, M., M.A. Lewis, & J.P. Volpe. 2005. Transmission dynamics of parasitic sea lice from farm to wild salmon. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B. 272: 689-696.

Krkosek, M., A. Morton, & J.P. Volpe. 2005. Non-lethal assessment of juvenile pacific salmon for parasitic sea lice infections and fish health. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 134: 711-716.

Morton, A. & R.D. Routledge. 2005. Mortality rates for juvenile pink, Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, and chum, O. keta, salmon infested with sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis, in the Broughton. Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin. 11(2): 146-152.

Morton, A., R.D. Routledge, & R. Williams. 2005. Temporal patterns of sea louse infestation on wild Pacific salmon in relation to the fallowing of Atlantic salmon farms. North American Journal of Fisheries Management. 25(3): 811-821.

2004 and previous

Morton, A., R.D. Routledge, C. Peet, et al. 2004. Sea lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infection rates on juvenile pink (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) and chum (Oncorhynchus keta) salmon in the nearshore marine environment of British Columbia, Canada. Canadian Journal of Fisheries And Aquatic Sciences. 61(2): 147-157.

Morton, A. & H. Symonds. 2002. Displacement of Orcinus orca (L.) by high amplitude sound in British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Marine Science. 59: 71-80.

Morton, A. & J. Volpe. 2002. Description of escaped farmed Atlantic salmon Salmo salar captures and their characteristics in one Pacific salmon fishery area in British Columbia, Canada, in 2000. Alaska Fisheries Research Bulletin. 9(2): 102-110.

Morton, A. 2000. Occurrence, photo-identification and prey of pacific white-sided dolphins (Lagenorhyncus obliquidens) in the Broughton Archipelago, Canada 1984-1998. Marine Mammal Science. 16(1): 80-93.

Morton, A. 1990. A quantitative comparison of the behaviour of resident and transient forms of the killer whale off the central British Columbia coast. Report of the International Whaling Commission. (Special issue 12): 245-248.

Morton, A. 1986. Sound and behavioral correlation in captive Orcinus orca. In: Kirkevold, B.C. and Lockhard, J.S. (eds.) Behavioral Biology of Killer Whales. Alan R. Liss, Inc. New York, pp. 303-333.

 

Theses

Connors, B. 2011. Causes and consequences of dispersal in a marine parasite. Doctoral thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University

Adams, M. 2009. Factors mediating coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) distribution and abundance in freshwater systems of the Broughton Archipelago, B.C. Honours Thesis, School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria.

Silvergeiter, M.P. 2009. Multiscale analysis of nest site selction and fledgling success by marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in British Columbia.  Masters Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

McConnell, A. 2008. Honours Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

Krkosek, M. 2008. Effects of Salmon Aquaculture on Sea Lice & Salmon Population Dynamics. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta.

Losos, C. 2008. Behavioural interactions of sea lice, threespine stickleback, and juvenile pacific salmon. Masters Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

Mages, P. 2008. The effects of sea lice on juvenile pink salmon predation susceptibility. Masters Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University.

Ford, J. 2006. Demonstration of an impact of salmon farming on survival of wild salmonids in the North Atlantic and Pacific, using population dynamics data. Masters Thesis, Department of Biological Sciences, Dalhousie University.