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Publications

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Publications
Irena Creed
University of Toronto
Under Review

Zarrinabadi E, Lobb DA, Goharrokhia M, Enanga E, Mistry P, Badiou P, Creed IF. 2025.

Soil degradation mobilizes soil nutrients placing Canadian Prairie wetlands at risk.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
Under Review

Fendereski F, Creed IF, Trick CG. 2025.

Climate-driven alterations in wetlandscape properties intensify phytoplankton blooms in Lake Winnipeg.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
Under Review

Mistry P, Creed IF, Trick CG, Lobb DA.

Rewetting wetlands results in amplification of Natural Climate Solutions.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
Under Review

Mohammady S, Creed IF, Trick CG, Lobb DA.

Decoding the drivers of long-term phytoplankton biomass: A 40-year examination of local vs. global controls in the Lake Winnipeg Watershed.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
Under Review

Dallosch M, Fendereski F, Creed IF, Trick CG.

Gatekeeper wetland functions serve as gatekeepers of nutrient loading to Lake Winnipeg.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2025

Ma S, Mistry P, Creed IF, Badiou P, Bansal S. 2025.

Factors regulating the potential for freshwater mineral soil wetlands to function as natural climate solutions.

Wetlands 45:11

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2025

Fendereski F, Ma S, Mohammady S, Spence C, Trick CG, Creed IF. 2025.

Tracking changes in wetlandscape properties of the Lake Winnipeg Watershed using Landsat inundation products (1984-2020).

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 136:104376

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Erratt K, Nwaishi F, Lee TS, Allison A, Carney VA, Bartlett K, Creed IF. 2024.

Aquatic Condition Index: Optimization of a rapid wetland assessment tool for evaluating urban wetland health.

Urban Ecosystems 27:2299-2307.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Ma S, Creed IF, Badiou P. 2024.

New perspectives on temperate inland wetlands as natural climate solutions under different CO2-equivalent metrics.

Nature npj Climate and Atmospheric Science 7:222.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Fendereski F, Creed IF, Trick CG. 2024.

Remote sensing of chlorophyll-a in clear vs. turbid waters in large lakes.

Remote Sensing 16:3553.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Mohammady S, Erratt KJ, Creed IF. 2024.

Tracking phytoplankton biomass amid wildfire interference using Landsat 8 OLI.

Remote Sensing 16:3605.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Mistry P, Creed IF, Trick CG, Enanga E, Lobb DA. 2024.

Technical Note: Comparison of radiometric techniques for estimating recent organic carbon sequestration rates in inland wetland soils.

Biogeosciences 21:4699-4715.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2024

Erratt KJ, Mohammady S, Lee TS, Carney V, Sanderson K, Lesage CL, Nwaishi FC, Creed IF. 2024.

Expert-assisted statistical learning techniques for assessing wetland conditions in urban landscapes.

Ecological Indicators 169:112932

Pascal Badiou
Lauren Bortolotti
James Paterson
Ducks Unlimited Canada
2024

Even a small wetland could have big climate impacts

The Narwhal (also printed in the Winnipeg Free Press weekend addition)

Pascal Badiou
Lauren Bortolotti
James Paterson
Ducks Unlimited Canada
2024

Salinity causes widespread restriction of methane emissions from small inland waters

Nature Communications

Pascal Badiou
Lauren Bortolotti
James Paterson
Ducks Unlimited Canada
2024

On the Relationship Between Aquatic CO2 Concentration and Ecosystem Fluxes in Some of the World’s Key Wetland Types

Wetlands (springer.com)

Sara Knox
McGill University & University of British Columbia
2024

Soued, C., M. J. Bogard, K. Finlay, L. E. Bortolotti, P. R. Leavitt, P. Badiou, S. H. Knox, S. Jensen, P.Mueller, H. K. Bogard,S. C. Lee,D. Ng, B. Wissel, C.N. Chan, B. Page, P. Kowal.

Salinity causes widespread restriction of methane emissions from inland waters.

2024. Nature Communications, 15 (717)

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2023

Lane CR, Creed IF, Golden HE, Leibowitz SG, Mushet DM, Rains MC, Wu Q, D’Amico E, Alexander LC, Ali GA, Basu NB, Bennett MG, Christensen JR, Cohen MJ, Covino TP, DeVries B, Hill RA, Jencso K, Lang MW, McLaughlin DL, Rosenberry DO, Rover J, Vanderhoof MK. 2023.

Vulnerable waters are essential to watershed resilience.

Ecosystems 26:1-28.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2023

Leibowitz SG, Hill RA, Creed IF, Compton JE, Golden HE, Weber MH, Rains MC, Jones Jr. CE, Lee EH, Christensen JY, Bellmore RA, Lane CR. 2023.

National hydrologic connectivity classification links wetlands with stream water quality.

Nature Water 1:370-380

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2023

Zarrinabadi E, Lobb DA, Enanga E, Badiou P, Creed IF. 2023.

Agricultural activities lead to sediment infilling of wetlandscapes in the Canadian Prairies: Assessment of soil erosion and sedimentation fluxes.

Geoderma 436:116525.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2023

Bansal S, Creed IF, Tangen BA, Bridgham SD, Desai AR, Krauss KW, Neubauer SC, Noe GB, Rosenberry DO, Trettin C, Wickland KP, Allen ST, Arias-Ortiz A, Armitage AR, Baldocchi D, Banerjee K, Bastviken D, Berg P, Bogard M, Chow AT, Conner WH, Craft C, Creamer C, DelSontro T, Duberstein JA, Eagle M, Fennessy MS, Finkelstein SA, Göckede M, Grunwald S, Halabisky M, Herbert E, Jahangir MMR, Johnson OF, Jones MC, Kelleway JJ, Knox S, Kroeger KD, Kuehn KA, Lobb D, Loder AL, Ma S, Maher DT, McNicol G, Meier J, Middleton BA, Mills C, Mistry P, Mitra A, Mobiian C, Nahlik AM, Newman S, O’Connell JL, Oikawa P, Post van der Burg M, Schutte CA, Song C, Stagg CL, Turner J, Vargas R, Waldrop MP, Wallin MB, Wang ZA, Ward EJ, Willard DA, Yarwood S, Zhu X. 2023.

Practical guide to measuring wetland carbon pools and fluxes.

Wetlands 43:105

Christian von Sperber
McGill University
2023

von Sperber C., Pistocchi C., Weiler M. and Tamburini F. (2023)

Oxygen isotope ratios of phosphates in the soil-plant system: Limitations and future developments.

European Journal of Soil Science 74, e13434.

Sara Knox
McGill University & University of British Columbia
2023

Darian Ng. 2023.

Characterization and prediction of methane spatial heterogeneity within and beyond a flux tower footprint.

MSc Thesis, UBC

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2023

Pendea, IF; Kanavilhi, N; Kurissery, S; Chmura, GL 2023.

Carbon Stocks and Recent Rates of Carbon Sequestration in Nutrient-Rich Freshwater Wetlands from Lake Simcoe Watershed (Southern Canada).

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences, 128, e2023JG007561

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2023

Qi X, Chmura GL. 2023.

Invasive Spartina alterniflora marshes in China: a blue carbon sink at the expense of other ecosystem services.

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2022

Clare S, Creed IF. 2022

The essential role of wetland restoration practitioners in the science-policy-practice process.

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 28:256.

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2022

Lee TS, Randall LA, Kahal NL, Kinas H, Carney VA, Rudd H, Baker TM, Sanderson K, Creed IF, Moehrenschlager A, Duke D. 2022.

A framework to identify priority wetland habitats and movement corridors for urban amphibian conservation.

Ecological Solutions and Evidence 3:e12139

Irena Creed
University of Toronto
2022

Creed IF, Badiou P, Enanga EM, Lobb DA, Pattison-Williams JK, Lloyd-Smith P, Gloutney M. 2022.

Can restoration of freshwater mineral soil wetlands deliver nature-based climate solutions to agricultural landscapes?

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:932415.

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2022

Comer-WarnerS, Ullah S, Ampuero Reyes W, Krause S, Chmura GL. 2022.

Methane emissions from Spartina alterniflora are higher than from invasive Phragmites australis and other elevation zones in a St. Lawrence Estuary Salt Marsh.

Environmental Research: Ecology

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2022

Saintilan N, Chmura GL., (20 additional authors) 2022.

Constraints on the adjustment of tidal marshes to accelerating sea level rise.

Science 377:523-527

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2022

Ampuero Reyes W, Chmura GL. 2022.

Contribution of belowground biomass to salt marsh soil volume.

Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 275.

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2022

Pendea IF, Chmura GL. 2022.

Reconstruction of wetland development across a postglacial chronosequence based on palynomorph and carbon/nitrogen modern analogues.

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 305.

Gail Chmura
McGill University
2022

Council of Canadian Academies. 2022.

Nature-Based Climate Solutions, Ottawa (ON): The Expert Panel on Canada’s Carbon Sink Potential.

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