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Research
Latest papers
Where Is All the Plastic? How Microplastic Partitions across Environmental Compartments within a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm.
Environmental science & technology · 2025
Urban-use pesticides in stormwater ponds and their accumulation in biofilms
Science of the Total Environment · 2024 · senior author
Bioconcentration of glyphosate in wetland biofilms.
The Science of the total environment · 2021 · senior author
Latest funding
- $118,000
From controlling invasions to promoting diversity in wetland restoration
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $520,161
Restoring Urban Meadow: The Meadoway
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $999,440
pELAstic: a whole-ecosystem experiment to understand the fate and effects of microplastics
NSERC · 2020 · Co-investigator
3 publications.
Where Is All the Plastic? How Microplastic Partitions across Environmental Compartments within a Large Pelagic In-Lake Mesocosm.
Rochman CM, Langenfeld D, Cable RN, Covernton GA, Hermabessiere L, McNamee R, Veneruzzo C, Munno K, Omer M, Paterson MJ, Rennie MD, Rooney R, Duhaime MB, Jeffries KM, McMeans B, Orihel D, Hoffman MJ, Provencher JF
Urban-use pesticides in stormwater ponds and their accumulation in biofilms
Izma G, Raby M, Prosser R, Rooney R
Bioconcentration of glyphosate in wetland biofilms.
Beecraft L, Rooney R
From controlling invasions to promoting diversity in wetland restoration
Principal investigators: Rooney, Rebecca
Keywords: phragmites australis; diversity resistance; priority effects; biological control; ecosystem services; carbon amendments; equalizing mechanisms; invasive species; wetland ecology; ecological restoration
Restoring Urban Meadow: The Meadoway
Principal investigators: Rooney, Rebecca RC
Keywords: carbon storage; climate change adaptation; climate change mitigation; ecological restoration; ecosystem services; plants and pollinators; restoration ecology; turfgrass conversion; urban green space; urban heat island
pELAstic: a whole-ecosystem experiment to understand the fate and effects of microplastics
Principal investigators: Rochman, Chelsea CM
Keywords: aquatic ecology; assemblage; bioaccumulation; community; ecotoxicology; fate and transport; food web; freshwater; microplastic
Ecosystem- and community-level effects of biological invasion
Principal investigators: Rooney, Rebecca
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ryan Prosser and Rebecca Rooney: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Bailey McMeans: 1 shared paper
- Diane Orihel and Rebecca Rooney: 1 shared paper
- Bailey McMeans and Rebecca Rooney: 1 shared paper
- Biology
- Biology (Mississauga)
- Biology/Environmental Studies
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