Peer Reviewed Publications
Fausak L, A Joseph, AC Reinesch, S Kylstra, O Diaz, AD Watkinson, L Lavkulich. 2024. Impacts of wetting and drying processes on ultramafic and mafic tailing minerals amended with topsoil. Environmental Chemistry 21, EN23037.
Watkinson AD, MA Naeth, S Pruss. 2022. Variability in sagebrush cover due to method of determination and its implications for habitat restoration. Ecological Restoration 40:87-91.
Watkinson AD, M Juckers, L D’Andrea, P Beckett, G Spiers. 2022. Ecosystem recovery of the Sudbury technogenic barrens 30 years post-restoration. Eurasian Soil Science 55:663-672.
Watkinson AD, MA Naeth, S Pruss. 2021. Nutrient loading Artemisia cana seedlings in greenhouse increases nitrogen tissue content and post-outplanting survival. Restoration Ecology 5(3):e13590.
Kylstra S, AD Watkinson, L Fausak, L Lavkulich. 2021. Irrigation water demand model as a comparative tool for assessing the effects of land use changes for agricultural crops in Fraser Valley, Canada. Agricultural Sciences 12:888-906.
Watkinson AD, J Virgl, VS Miller, MA Naeth, J Kim, K Serben, C Shapka, S Sinclair. 2021. Effects of dust deposition from diamond mining on sub-arctic plant communities and barren-ground caribou forage. Journal of Environmental Quality 50:990-1003.
Fausak L, AD Watkinson, K Dy, L Lavkulich. 2021. Assessment of metal contamination in soil and vegetation along the Arbutus Greenway in Vancouver, British Columbia. Plant and Soil 464:593-604.
Watkinson AD, MA Naeth, SD Pruss. 2021. Modeling Artemisia cana landscape cover as a function of planting density and age to inform restoration of sagebrush habitats. Rangeland Ecology & Management 76:22-29.
Watkinson AD, MA Naeth, S Pruss. 2020. Storage time, light exposure, and physical scarification effects on Artemisia cana seed germination. Native Plants Journal 21(1):4-13.
Watkinson AD, A Lock, P Beckett, G Spiers. 2016. Developing manufactured soils from industrial by-products for use as growth substrates in mine reclamation. Restoration Ecology 25(4):587-594.
Other Publications
Juckers M, AD Watkinson, L D’Andrea, P Beckett and G Spiers. 2013. Sudbury Ontario: an outdoor laboratory for experiential learning and land reclamation. Canadian Reclamation Magazine pp 43-45.
Theses & Dissertations
Kotsopoulos S, K Turnbull, C Cormack, L Cartwright, S Hayes, B Ford, R Shachak, AD Watkinson. 2024. The Meadoway: Native meadow creation in underutilized transmission line corridors. Under review with Botany.
Watkinson AD. 2020. Restoration of sagebrush grassland for Greater Sage-grouse habitat in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan. PhD Thesis, Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB. 124 pp.
Watkinson AD. 2014. Developing Manufactured Soils for Successive Revegetation of Mined Lands in the Boreal Forest Ecosystem. MSc Thesis, Department of Biology, Laurentian University. Sudbury, ON. 152 pp.