Publications – Melissa Todd

Melissa conducts applied field research into the response of vertebrate and invertebrate wildlife species, communities and habitats to disturbance in coastal forests: from bugs to bears. 

Her research fills scientific knowledge gaps to improve the success of wildlife and wildlife habitat conservation in forest land use policy, planning and management in coastal B.C.

Position Title: Research Wildlife Ecologist

Contact: B.C. Government Directory

Current research projects

• Wildlife response to alternative silviculture systems
• Population, habitat, and spatial ecology of forest-dwelling coastal amphibians
• Molecular detection of cryptic species
• Coastal forest furbearer response to cumulative disturbance and climate change
• Wildlife response to drought in coastal forests
• Habitat ecology of dead wood in managed forests

Publications

• Research Gate

Listed in order of publication date:

• 2021 to present
• 2016 to 2020
• 2012 to 2015

2021 to present:

2022:

• Millard-Martin, B., M. Todd, C.J. Johnson, and A.L. McEwan.  2022.  Efficacy of visual encounter surveys for coastal tailed frog detection.  Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 13(1): 272-285. 
   
• Klees van Bommel, J., C. Sun, A.T. Ford, M. Todd, and A.C. Burton.  2022.  Coexistence or conflict:  Black bear habitat use along an urban-wildland gradient.  PLoS ONE 17(11): e0276448.  

2021:

• Mosher, C.M., C.J. Johnson, B.W. Murray, and Melissa Todd.  2021.  Environmental Influences on the larval density and age-class distribution of Ascaphus truei near the northern extent of its range.  Ichthyology & Herpetology 109 (4): 1015-1025. 

• McEwan, A.L., C.J. Johnson, M. Todd, and P. Govindarajulu. 2021. Resource selection and movement of the coastal tailed frog in response to forest harvesting. For. Ecol. Manag. 497 (2021) 119448
   
• Breault, D.N., C.J. Johnson, M. Todd, and M.P. Gillingham. 2021. Resource use by an apex mesocarnivore, Pacific marten, in a highly modified forested island ecosystem. For. Ecol. Manag. 492 (2021) 119167 
   
• Breault, D.N., C.J. Johnson, M. Todd, S.S. Verenitch, and M.P. Gillingham. 2021. Spatial and temporal variability in the diet of Pacific marten (Martes caurina) on Haida Gwaii: an apex predatory in a highly modified ecosystem. Can. J. Zool. 99 (6): 459–469 (2021).

2016 to 2020

2020:

• Canuti, M., M. Todd, P. Monteiro, K. Van Osch, R. Weir, H. Schwantje, A.P. Britton, and A.S. Lang.  2020. Ecology and infection dynamics of multi-host amdoparvoviral and protoparvoviral carnivore pathogens.  Pathogens 9(2): 124

2017:

• F. L. Waterhouse, F.I. Doyle, L. Turney, B. Wijdeven, M. Todd, C. Bergman, and R.G. Vennesland.  2017.  Spring and winter home ranges of the Haida Gwaii Northern Saw-whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus brooksi). J. Rapt. Res. 51(2):153-164

2016:

• Mahalle, L., C. Dymond, S. Berch, C. Bulmer, S. Tedder, B. Titus, and M. Todd. 2016. Using life cycle assessment to evaluate the sustainability of British Columbia's forest-based economy. Prov. B.C., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 101.

2012 to 2015

2015:

• D'Anjou, B., F.L. Waterhouse, M. Todd, and P. Braumberger. 2015. A systematic review of stand level forest management for enhancing and recruiting Spotted Owl habitat in British Columbia. Prov. B.C., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 091

2014:

• Gyug, L.W., R.J. Higgins, M.A. Todd, J.M. Meggs, and B. Staffan Lindgren.  2014.  Dietary dependence of Williamson’s Sapsucker nestlings on ants associated with dead and decaying wood In British Columbia.  Can. J. For. Res. 44: 628-637

2013:

• Mahalle, L., S. Berch, C. Dymond, S. Tedder, B. Titus, and M. Todd. 2013. Life Cycle Sustainability Analysis Sub-project of the Woody Biomass Innovative Project: A Preliminary Assessment. Prov. B.C. Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 076.

2012:

• Berch, S.M., M. Curran, C. Dymond, K. Hannam, M. Murray, S. Tedder, B. Titus, and M. Todd. 2012. Criteria and guidance considerations for sustainable tree stump harvesting in British Columbia. Scand. J. For. Res. 27(8):709-723.
• Mah, S., K. Astridge, C. DeLong, C. Wickland, M. Todd, L. McAuley, P. LePage, D. Coates, B. Heemskerk, A. Banner, and E. Hall. 2012. A Landscape-level Species Strategy for Forest Management in British Columbia: Exploration of Development and Implementation Issues. Prov. B.C., Victoria, B.C. Tech. Rep. 067.