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Nancy Shackelford
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Latest papers
Biodiversity in changing environments: An external-driver internal-topology framework to guide intervention.
Ecology · 2024
Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity.
Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2023 · senior author
Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory.
Trends in ecology & evolution · 2023
Latest funding
- $92,834
Shifting settler student experiences through active witnessing of Indigenous resurgence in a colonial space
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $24,995
Wetlands as reflections of past and future values
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $112,000
Using restoration to test community assembly in a heavily invaded ecosystem
NSERC · 2021 · Principal investigator
9 publications.
Biodiversity in changing environments: An external-driver internal-topology framework to guide intervention.
Suding KN, Collins CG, Hallett LM, Larios L, Brigham LM, Dudney J, Farrer EC, Larson JE, Shackelford N, Spasojevic MJ
Testing the hierarchy of predictability in grassland restoration across a gradient of environmental severity.
Bertuol-Garcia D, Ladouceur E, Brudvig LA, Laughlin DC, Munson SM, Curran MF, Davies KW, Svejcar LN, Shackelford N
Restoration ecology through the lens of coexistence theory.
Hallett LM, Aoyama L, Barabás G, Gilbert B, Larios L, Shackelford N, Werner CM, Godoy O, Ladouceur ER, Lucero JE, Weiss-Lehman CP, Chase JM, Chu C, Harpole WS, Mayfield MM, Faist AM, Shoemaker LG
Ecosystem restoration, regeneration and rewilding.
Shackelford N, McDougall C
Application of modern coexistence theory to rare plant restoration provides early indication of restoration trajectories.
Aoyama L, Shoemaker LG, Gilbert B, Collinge SK, Faist AM, Shackelford N, Temperton VM, Barabás G, Larios L, Ladouceur E, Godoy O, Bowler C, Hallett LM
Author Correction: Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts.
Shackelford N, Paterno GB, Winkler DE, Erickson TE, Leger EA, Svejcar LN, Breed MF, Faist AM, Harrison PA, Curran MF, Guo Q, Kirmer A, Law DJ, Mganga KZ, Munson SM, Porensky LM, Quiroga RE, Török P, Wainwright CE, Abdullahi A, Bahm MA, Ballenger EA, Barger N, Baughman OW, Becker C, Lucas-Borja ME, Boyd CS, Burton CM, Burton PJ, Calleja E, Carrick PJ, Caruana A, Clements CD, Davies KW, Deák B, Drake J, Dullau S, Eldridge J, Espeland E, Farrell HL, Fick SE, Garbowski M, de la Riva EG, Golos PJ, Grey PA, Heydenrych B, Holmes PM, James JJ, Jonas-Bratten J, Kiss R, Kramer AT, Larson JE, Lorite J, Mayence CE, Merino-Martín L, Miglécz T, Milton SJ, Monaco TA, Montalvo AM, Navarro-Cano JA, Paschke MW, Peri PL, Pokorny ML, Rinella MJ, Saayman N, Schantz MC, Parkhurst T, Seabloom EW, Stuble KL, Uselman SM, Valkó O, Veblen K, Wilson S, Wong M, Xu Z, Suding KL
Drivers of seedling establishment success in dryland restoration efforts.
Shackelford N, Paterno GB, Winkler DE, Erickson TE, Leger EA, Svejcar LN, Breed MF, Faist AM, Harrison PA, Curran MF, Guo Q, Kirmer A, Law DJ, Mganga KZ, Munson SM, Porensky LM, Quiroga RE, Török P, Wainwright CE, Abdullahi A, Bahm MA, Ballenger EA, Barger N, Baughman OW, Becker C, Lucas-Borja ME, Boyd CS, Burton CM, Burton PJ, Calleja E, Carrick PJ, Caruana A, Clements CD, Davies KW, Deák B, Drake J, Dullau S, Eldridge J, Espeland E, Farrell HL, Fick SE, Garbowski M, de la Riva EG, Golos PJ, Grey PA, Heydenrych B, Holmes PM, James JJ, Jonas-Bratten J, Kiss R, Kramer AT, Larson JE, Lorite J, Mayence CE, Merino-Martín L, Miglécz T, Milton SJ, Monaco TA, Montalvo AM, Navarro-Cano JA, Paschke MW, Peri PL, Pokorny ML, Rinella MJ, Saayman N, Schantz MC, Parkhurst T, Seabloom EW, Stuble KL, Uselman SM, Valkó O, Veblen K, Wilson S, Wong M, Xu Z, Suding KL
Threats to biodiversity from cumulative human impacts in one of North America's last wildlife frontiers.
Shackelford N, Standish RJ, Ripple W, Starzomski BM
The role of landscape connectivity in resistance, resilience, and recovery of multi-trophic microarthropod communities.
Shackelford N, Standish RJ, Lindo Z, Starzomski BM
Shifting settler student experiences through active witnessing of Indigenous resurgence in a colonial space
Principal investigators: Shackelford, Nancy
Wetlands as reflections of past and future values
Principal investigators: Shackelford, Nancy
Keywords: socio-ecological system; wetland restoration; value systems; land governance; ecological integrity
Using restoration to test community assembly in a heavily invaded ecosystem
Principal investigators: Shackelford, Nancy
Keywords: restoration science; plant ecology; ecosystem function; functional traits; climate change
Using restoration to test community assembly in a heavily invaded ecosystem
Principal investigators: Shackelford, Nancy
Leveraging native species restoration and remote sensing techniques for large-scale dust mitigation enhancement
Principal investigators: Shackelford, Nancy A
Keywords: ecocultural goals; ecological restoration; hydroelectricity; mitigation; native biodiversity; reservoir revegetation; spatial modeling; UAV
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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