Peer-reviewed publications
Journal articles
*Links to Data and R code are provided for most contributions led by the lab.
Swain, M., Leroux, S.J., Buchkowski, R. [2023]. Strong above-ground impacts of a non-native ungulate do not cascade to impact below-ground functioning in a boreal ecosystem. Journal of Animal Ecology 92: 2016-2027. Data & R Code.
Buchkowski, R.W., Leroux, S.J., Yan, Y., Entem, A., Schmelzer, I, and Fenichel, E.P. [2023]. The effects of moose browsing on balsam fir and forest recovery vary with bioclimatic and human use across the island of Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 53: 688-699. Data & R Code.
Harvey, E., Marleau, J., Gounand, I., Leroux, S.J., Firkowski, C., Altermatt, F., Blanchet, G., Cazelles, K., Chu, C., D’Aloia, C., Donelle, L., Gravel, D., Guichard, F., McCann, K., Ruppert, J., Ward, C., & Fortin, M.-J. [2023]. A general meta-ecosystem model to predict ecosystem function at landscape extents. Ecography e06790.
Basquill, S. and Leroux, S.J. [2023]. Predicting ecosystem pattern across landscapes. Oikos e09873.
Zhang, B., Leroux, S.J., Bowden, J.J., Hargan, K.E., Hurford, A., and Moise, E.R.D. [2023]. Species distribution model identifies influence of climatic constraints on severe defoliation at the leading edge of a native insect outbreak. Forest Ecology and Management 544: 121166.
Osakpolor, S.E., Manfrin, A., Leroux S.J., & Schafer, R.E. [2023]. Cascading impacts of changes in subsidy quality on recipient ecosystem functioning. Ecology 104: e4023.
Schmitz, O.J., Sylven, M., Atwood, T.B., Bakker, E.S., Berzaghi, F., Brodie, J.F., Cromsigt, J.P.G.M., Davies, A.B., Leroux, S.J., Schepers, F.J., Smith, F.A., Stark, S., Svenning, J.-C., Tilker, A., Ylanne, H. [2023]. Trophic rewilding can expand natural climate solutions. Nature Climate Change 13:324-333.
Petersen, T.K., Kolstad, A., Kouki, J., Leroux S.J., Potvin, L., Tremblay, J.-P., Wallgren, M., Widemo, F., Cromsigt, J., Courtois, C., Austrheim, G., Gosse, J., den Herder, M., Hermanutz, L., Speed, J. [2023]. Airborne laser scanning reveals uniform responses of forest structure to moose (Alces alces) across the boreal forest biome. Journal of Ecology 111:1396-1410.
Balluffi-Fry, J., Leroux, S.J., Champagne, E., & Vander Wal, E. [2022]. In defense of elemental currencies: can ecological stoichiometry stand as a framework for herbivore nutritional ecology? Oecologia 199:27-38.
Vernier, P.R., Leroux, S.J., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K., Suarez Estaben, A., Krawchuk, M.A. & Schmiegelow, F. [2022]. Comparing global and regional maps of intactness in the boreal region of North America: Implications for conservation planning in one of the world’s remaining wilderness areas. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 5:843053.
Richmond, I., Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Heckford, T., Rizzuto, M., Balluffi-Fry, J., Kennah, J., & Wiersma, Y. [2022]. Individual snowshoe hares manage risk differently: Integrating stoichiometric distribution models and foraging ecology. Journal of Mammalogy 103:196-208.
Edwards, M., Lisgo, K, Leroux, S., Krawchuk, M., Cumming, S. & Schmiegelow, F. [2022]. Conservation planning integrating natural disturbances: estimating minimum reserve sizes for an insect disturbance in the boreal forests of eastern Canada. PLoS One 17:e0268236.
Costello, D., S. Tiegs, L. Boyero, C. Canhoto, K.A. Capps, M. Danger, P.C. Frost, M.O. Gessner, N.A. Griffiths, H.M. Halvorson, K.A. Kuehn, A.M. Marcarelli, T.V. Royer, D.M., Mathie, R. Albariño, C. Arango, J. Aroviita, C. Baxter, B. Bellinger, A. Bruder, F. Burdon, M. Callisto, M. Castillo, A. Camacho, F. Colas, J. Cornut, V. Crespo-Pérez, W. Cross, J. A. Derry, M. Douglas, A. Elosegi, E. de Eyto, V. Ferreira, C. Ferriol, T. Fleituch, J.J. Follstad Shah, A. Frainer, E. Garcia, P. García, D. Giling, R. Gonzales, M. Graça, H. Grossart, F. Guérold, L. Hepp, S. Higgins, T. Hishi, C. Iñiguez-Armijos, T. Iwata, A. Kirkwood, A. Koning, S. Kosten, H. Laudon, P. Leavitt, A. da Silva, S.J. Leroux, C. LeRoy, P. Lisi, F. Masese, P.B. McIntyre, B. McKie, A. Medeiros, M. Miliša, Y. Miyake, R. Mooney, T. Muotka, J. Nimptsch, R. Paavola, I. Pardo, I.Y. Parnikoza, C. Patrick, E. Peeters, J. Pozo, B. Reid, J. Richardson, J. Rincón, G. Risnoveanu, C. Robinson, A. Santamans, G. Simiyu, A. Skuja, J. Smykla, R. Sponseller, F. Teixeira-de Mello, S. Vilbaste, V.D. Villabueva, J. Webster, S. Woelfl, M. Xenopoulos, A. Yates, C. Yule, Y. Zhang, J. Zwart. [2022]. Global patterns and controls of nutrient immobilization on decomposing cellulose in riverine ecosystems. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 36:e2021GB007163.
Ballufi-Fry, J., Leroux, S.J., Wiersma, Y., Richmond, I., Heckford, T., Rizzuto, M., Kennah, J. & Vander Wal, E. [2022]. Integrating plant stoichiometry and feeding experiments: state-dependent forage choice and its implications on body mass. Oecologia 198:579-591. Data & R Code.
Galiana, N., Lurgi, M., Bastazini, V.A.G., Bosch, J., Cagnolo, L., Cazelles, K., Claramut-Lopez, B., Emer, C., Fortin, M.-J., Grass, I., Hernandex-Castellano, C., Jauker, F., Leroux, S.J., McCann, K., McLeod, A., Montoya, D., Mulder, C., Osorio-Canadas, S., Reverte, S., Rodrigo, A., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Traveset, A., Vazquez, D., Wood, S.A., Gravel, D., Roslin, T., Thuiller, W., Montoya, J.M. [2022]. Ecological network complexity scales with area. Nature Ecology & Evolution 6:307-314.
Heckford, T., Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Rizzuto, M., Ballufi-Fry, J., Richmond, I., Wiersma, Y. [2022]. Spatially explicit correlates of plant functional traits inform landscape patterns of resource quality. Landscape Ecology 37:59-80. Data & R Code.
Bodner K, Firkowski CR, Bennett J, Brookson C, Dietze M, Green S, Hughes J, Kerr J, Kunegel-Lion M, Leroux SJ, McIntire E, Molnar P, Simpkins C, Tekwa E, Watts A, Fortin MJ. (2021). Ten simple rules for bridging the divide between ecological forecasts and environmental decision-making. Ecophere 12:e03869.
McLeod, A.*, Leroux, S.J.*, Gravel, D., Chu, C., Cirtwill, A., Fortin, M.-J., Galiana, N., Poisot, T., Wood, S. [2021]. Sampling and network properties of spatial food webs. Oikos 130:2250-2259. Data & R Code.
Rizzuto, M., Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Richmond, I., Heckford, T., Balluffi-Fry, J., Wiersma, Y. [2021]. Food stoichiometry predicts the home range size of a small terrestrial herbivore. Oecologia 197:327-338. Data & R Code.
McLeod, A., & Leroux, S.J. [2021]. Incongruent drivers of network, species, and interaction persistence in food webs. Oikos 130:1726-1738. Data & R Code.
Leroux, S.J., Charron, L., Hermanutz, L., & Feltham, J. [2021]. Interactive effects of spruce budworm and moose herbivory on balsam fir recruitement and regeneration. Functional Ecology 35:1448-1459.
McLeod, A., & Leroux, S.J. [2021]. Incorporating abiotic controls on animal movements in metacommunities. Ecology 102:e03365. Data & R Code.
Richmond, I., Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Heckford, T., Rizzuto, M., Balluffi-Fry, J., Kennah, J., & Wiersma, Y. [2021]. Temporal variation and its drivers in the elemental traits of four boreal plant species. Journal of Plant Ecology 14:398-413.
Peller, T., Andrews, S., Leroux, S.J., Guichard, F. [2021]. From Marine Metacommunities to Meta-ecosystems: Examining the Nature, Scale and Significance of Resource Flows in Benthic Marine Environments. Ecosystems 24:1239-1252.
McLeod, A., & Leroux, S.J. [2021]. The multiple meanings of omnivory: empirical analysis, modular theory, and whole food web models. Journal of Animal Ecology 90:447-459. Data & R Code.
Noonan, M., Leroux, S.J. & Hermanutz, L. [2021]. Evaluating boreal forest restoration strategies after moose (Alces alces) overbrowsing. Forest Ecology & Management 482:118827.
Leroux, S.J. [2021]. Frugivore zoogeochemistry in a tropical forest ecosystem. Functional Ecology 35:304-305.
Andrews, S., Leroux, S.J., Fortin, M.-J. [2020]. Modelling the spatial-temporal distributions and associated determining factors of a keystone pelagic fish. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77:2776-2789.
Ballufi-Fry, J., Leroux, S.J., Wiersma, Y., Heckford, T., Rizzuto, M., Richmond, I., Vander Wal, E. [2020]. A multi-scale test of plant elemental variation selection by moose reveals individual-based trade-offs of forage quantity and quality. Ecology and Evolution 10:13847-13859.
Leroux, S.J., Wiersma, Y.F., Vander Wal, E. [2020]. Herbivore impacts on carbon cycling in boreal forests. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 35:1001-1010.
Schmitz, O. & Leroux, S.J. [2020]. Food webs and ecosystems: Linking species interactions to the Carbon cycle. Annual Reviews in Ecology, Evolution, & Systematics 51:271-295.
McLeod, A., Leroux, S.J., Chu, C. [2020]. Effects of species traits, motif profiles, and environment on spatial variation in multi-trophic antagonistic networks. Ecosphere 11:e03018. Data & R Code.
Schiesari, L., Prado, P., Leibold, M., Albert, C., Brancalion, P., Cabeza, M., Coutinho, R., Diniz Filho, J.A., Fournier, B., Howeth, J., Lahr, D., Leroux, S., Lewinsohn, T., Martins, A., Matias, M., Morsello, C., Pardini, R., Peres-Neto, P., Pillar, V., Siqueira, T., & Vazquez, D. [2019]. Towards an applied metaecology. Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation 17:172-181.
Albouy, C., Archambault, P., Appeltans, W., Araujo, M.B., Cazelles, K., Cirtwill, A.R., Fortin, M.-J., Leroux, S.J., Pellissier, L., Poisot, T., Stouffer, D., Wood, S. & Gravel, D. [2019]. The marine food web is globally connected. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:1153-1161.
Rizzuto, M., Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Wiersma, Y., Heckford, T., Ballufi-Fry, J. [2019]. Patterns and potential drivers of intraspecific variability in the body elemental composition of a terrestrial consumer, the snowshoe hare. Ecology & Evolution 9:14453-14463. Data & Code.
Leroux, S.J. [2019]. On the prevalence of uninformative parameters in statistical models applying model selection in applied ecology. PLoS One 14:e0206711. Data.
Buchkowski, R.W., Leroux, S.J. & Schmitz, O.J. [2019]. Microbial and animal nutrient limitation change the distribution of nitrogen within coupled green and brown food chains. Ecology 100:e02674.
D'Aloia, C., Naujokaitis-Lewis, I., Blackford, C., Chu, C., Curtis, J., Darling, E., Guichard, F., Leroux, S., Martensen, A., Rayfield, B., Sunday, J., Xuereb, A. & Fortin, M.-J. [2019]. Coupling permanent and dynamic conservation actions for climate-adaptive networks of protected areas. Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 7:27.
Montagano, L., Leroux, S.J., Giroux, M.-A., Lecomte, N. [2019]. The strength of ecological subsidies across ecosystems: a latitudinal gradient of direct and indirect impacts on food webs. Ecology Letters 22:265-274. Data.
Tiegs, S., + ~150 authors including Leroux, S.J. [2019]. Global ecosystem functioning gauged through crowdsourcing. Science Advances 5:eaav0486.
MacSween, J., Leroux, S.J. & Oakes, K.D. [2019]. Cross-ecosystem effects of a large terrestrial herbivore on stream ecosystem functioning. Oikos 128:135-145. Data.
Schmitz, O.J., Wilmers, C.C., Leroux, S.J., Doughty, C.E., Atwood, T.B., Galetti, M., Davies, A.B. & Goetz, S.J. [2018]. Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle. Science 362:eaar3213.
Leroux, S.J. [2018]. Ecological, evolutionary, and geographical correlates of variation in consumer elemental composition. Functional Ecology 32:2282-2284.
Yalcin, S. & Leroux, S.J. [2018]. An empirical test of the relative and combined effects of land-cover and climate change on species range shifts. Global Change Biology 24:3849-2861. Data and R Code.
Galiana, N., Lurgi, M., Claramunt, B., Fortin, M.-J., Leroux, S.J., Cazelles, K., Gravel, D. & Montoya, J.M. [2018]. The spatial scaling of species interaction networks. Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:782-790.
Leroux, S.J., Vander Wal, E., Wiersma, Y.F., Charron, L, Ebel, J.D., Ellis, N.M., Hart, C., Kissler, E., Saunders, P.W., Moudra, L., Tanner, A.L. & Yalcin, S. [2017]. Stoichiometric distribution models: ecological stoichiometry at the landscape scale. Ecology Letters. 20:1495-1506. Data and R code.
Tanner, A.L., Leroux, S.J. & Saunders, P. [2017]. Road characteristics best predict the probability of vehicle collisions with a non-native, hyperabundant ungulate. EcoScience 1:1-11. Data and R code.
Yalcin, S. & Leroux, S.J. (2017). Diversity and suitability of existing methods and metrics for quantifying species range shifts. Global Ecology and Biogeography 26:609-624. Data.
Ellis, N. & Leroux, S.J. (2017). Moose directly slow plant regeneration but have limited indirect effects on soil stoichiometry and litter decomposition rates in disturbed maritime boreal forests. Functional Ecology 31:790-801. Data and R code.
Leroux, S.J., Albert, C.H., Lafuite, A.-S., Rayfield, B., Wang, S., Gravel, D. (2017). Structural uncertainty in models projecting the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity. Ecography 40:36-47.
Brudvig, L., Leroux, S.J., Albert, C.H., Bruna, E., Davies, K., Ewers, R.M., Levey, D., Pardini, R. & Resasco, J. (2017). Evaluating conceptual models of landscape change. Ecography 40:74-84.
Yin, D., Leroux S.J. & He, F. (2017). Methods and models for identifying habitat loss thresholds. Ecography 40:131-143.
Ebel, J.D. Leroux, S.J., Robertson, M.J. & Dempson, J.B. (2016). Whole body-element composition of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar influenced by migration direction and life stage in three distinct populations. Journal of Fish Biology 89:2365-2374. Data and R code.
Poisot, T., Gravel, D., Leroux, S., Wood, S.A., Fortin, M.-J., Baiser, B., Cirtwill, A.R., Araujo, M.B. & Stouffer, D.B. (2016). Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses. Ecography 39:402-408.
Leroux, S.J. & Schmitz, O. (2015). Predator-driven elemental cycling: the impact of predation and risk effects on ecosystem stoichiometry. Ecology and Evolution 5:4976-4988.
Leroux, S.J., Brimacombe, C., Khair, S., Benidickson, J. & Findlay, C.S. (2015). Legislative correlates of the size and number of protected areas in Canadian jurisdictions. Biological Conservation 191:375-382. Data & R code.
Ebel, J.D., Leroux, S.J., Robertson, M.J. & Dempson, J.B. (2015). Ontogenetic differences in Atlantic salmon phosphorous concentration and its implications for cross-ecosystem fluxes. Ecosphere 6:136. Data & R code.
Tanner, A.L. & Leroux, S.J. (2015). Effect of roadside vegetation cutting on moose browsing. PLoS ONE 10:e0133155. Data and R code.
Strong, J.S. & Leroux, S.J. (2014). Impact of non-native terrestrial mammals on the structure of the terrestrial mammal food web of Newfoundland, Canada. PLoS ONE 9:106264. Data.
Legagneux, P., Gauthier, G., Lecomte, N., Schmidt, N.M., Reid, D., Cadieux, M.-C., Berteaux, D., Bety, J., Krebs, C.J., Ims, R.A., Yoccoz, N.G., Morrisson, R.I.G., Leroux, S.J., Loreau, M. & Gravel, D. (2014). Climate and body-size shape the structure and functioning of arctic food webs. Nature Climate Change 4:379-383.
Leroux, S.J. & Rayfield, B. (2014). Methods and tools for addressing natural disturbance dynamics in conservation planning for wilderness areas. Diversity and Distributions 20:258-271.
Leroux, S.J., Larrivee, M., Boucher-Lalonde, V., Hurford, A., Zuloaga, J., Kerr, J.T. & Lutscher, F. (2013). Mechanistic models for the spatial spread of species under climate change. Ecological Applications 23:815-828.
Faculty of 1000 'Recommended'. B. Brook: Faculty of 1000 Biology, 11 July, 2013 (http://f1000.com/prime/718150969)
Loreau, M., Daufresne, T., Gonzalez, A., Gravel, D., Guichard, F., Leroux, S., Loeuille, N., Massol, F., & Mouquet, N. (2013). Unifying sources and sinks in ecology and Earth sciences. Biological Reviews 88:365-379
Leroux, S.J. & Kerr, J.T.K. (2013). Land-use development in and around protected areas at the wilderness frontier. Conservation Biology 27:166-176. Data.
Leroux, S.J., Hawlena, D. & Schmitz, O.J. (2012). Predation risk, stoichiometric plasticity and ecosystem elemental cycling. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 279:4183-4191.
Long, Z.T., Leroux, S.J., Faninger, T. & Loreau, M. (2012). Interactive effects of enrichment and the manipulation of intermediate hosts on infection prevalence and food web structure. Ecological Modelling 228:1-7.
Leroux, S.J. & Loreau, M. (2012). Dynamics of reciprocal pulsed subsidies in local and meta-ecosystems. Ecosystems 15:48-59.
Leroux, S.J. & Loreau, M. (2010). Consumer-mediated recycling and cascading trophic interactions. Ecology 91:2162-2171.
Leroux, S.J., Krawchuk, M., Schmiegelow, F., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K., Anderson, L.G., Petkova, M. (2010). Global protected areas do not follow the expected gradient of naturalness defined by the IUCN protected area categories. Biological Conservation 143:609-616.
Leroux, S.J. & Loreau, M. (2009). Disentangling the multiple effects of predators in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning research. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:695-698.
Leroux, S.J. & Loreau, M. (2008). Subsidy hypothesis and strength of trophic cascades across ecosystems. Ecology Letters 11(11):1147-1156.
Faculty of 1000 'Recommended'. J. Emmett Duffy: Faculty of 1000 Biology, 16 Oct. 2008 (http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1123099)
Leroux, S.J. & Schmiegelow, F.K.A. (2007). Biodiversity concordance and the importance of endemism. Conservation Biology 21:266-268.
Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Cumming, S.G., Lessard, R.B. & Nagy, J. (2007). Accounting for system dynamics in reserve design. Ecological Applications 17:1954-1966.
Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Lessard, R.B. & Cumming, S.G. (2007). Minimum Dynamic Reserves: a conceptual framework for reserve size. Biological Conservation 138:464-473.
Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A. & Nagy, J. (2007). Comparing the potential spatial overlap of heritage sites and protected areas in a boreal region of northern Canada. Conservation Biology 21:376-386.
Book chapters
Leroux, S.J. & Loreau, M. (2015). Theoretical perspectives on bottom-up and top-down interactions in ecosystems. In Trophic ecology: bottom-up and top-down interactions across aquatic and terrestrial systems (T. Hanley & St. Pierre, K., eds). Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-27.
Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K.A., Leroux, S.J. & Krawchuk, M.A. (2015). Catalyzing large landscape conservation in Canada's boreal systems: The BEACONs project experience. In Conservation Catalysts (J.N. Levitt ed.). Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge Massachusetts, pp.97-122.
Krawchuk, M.A., Leroux, S.J., Schmiegelow, F.K.A., Cumming, S.G., Lisgo, K., Soucier, F. & Vernier, P. (2012). Conservation and climate change in Canada’s Boreal region. In Conservation and climate disruption: Landscape science and practice in a changing climate. (Chester, C.C., Hilty, J.A. & Cross, M.S.. eds). Island Press, pp. 69-79.