个人简介
Rebecca Rooney carries out research in wetland ecology and is a world expert on biomonitoring and wetland assessment.
Rebecca Rooney examines how human-caused and natural ecological disturbances influence wetland communities, including birds, invertebrates and plants. She tackles fundamental questions around how communities assemble and what defines them, including the relative importance of biological interactions, environmental conditions, and landscape factors. She is keenly interested in the role of rare species and novelty in ecological processes.
Her research supports the implementation of wetland policy, invasive species management, and the protection of species at risk. Her results improve the design of restored and reclaimed wetlands, provide tools for evaluating their integrity, and identifies the most successful techniques for invasive species control.
Wetland ecology
Aquatic plants
Biomonitoring and ecosystem assessment
Community Ecology
Restoration Ecology
Landscape Ecology
International Association for Great Lakes Research, Board Member
Society of Wetland Scientists, Canadian Chapter Treasurer
Society for Ecological Restoration
Ecological Society of America
IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management
Ontario Phragmites Working Group
Great Lakes Phragmites Collaborative, Phragmites Adaptive Management Framework Technical Team
2011 PhD Ecology, University of Alberta
2006 MSc Entomology, University of Manitoba
2003 BSc Environmental Science, Carleton University
研究领域
Research in the Rooney lab seeks answers to questions like:
Wetland ecology and limnology – what ecosystem functions do wetlands and lakes serve and how are they measured? what makes a wetland or lake healthy? How are stresses propagated through these systems? What influences processes like competition, dispersal, or the movement/storage of nutrients within aquatic ecosystems?
Wetland communities– how do communities respond to stress and disturbance? How do they assemble and change in response to a changing environment? What can the composition of a community tell us about the quality of environmental variables, including surrounding land uses?
Restoration ecology – how can constructed or novel ecosystems better resemble natural ones? What design principles can be incorporated? How is naturalness measured? How do you maximize desirable ecosystem services and what trade-offs does this practice create?
Landscape ecology – how does the spatial arrangement or pattern of habitat types within a landscape influence ecosystem processes? What is the role of scale? What does a healthy or undisturbed landscape look like? Can you evaluate the condition of whole landscapes to achieve certain management goals, like maximizing the diversity of wetland types?
Dr. Rooney is a new professor at the University of Waterloo and is actively seeking grad students. If you share her research interests, please get in touch.
Professor Rooney is interested primarily in wetlands and lakes. Her work is usually policy-relevant and applied, for example Professor Rooney developed wetland assessment tools for marshes in Grassland, Parkland and Boreal ecozones. She is presently working on invasive wetland plants, evaluating the success of different restoration practices and monitoring for “off-target” effects in sensitive coastal marsh habitats. Fully 75% of plant species at risk are considered threatened by invasive species. Professor Rooney is therefore also exploring the interactions between invasive species and species at risk, especially Phragmites australis, which is considered one of the greatest dangers to coastal marshes. Professor Rooney also looks at disturbed wetlands in urban and industrial areas and how those habitats and their surrounding landscapes could be restored or reclaimed. For example, she wrote several papers on wetland reclamation on Alberta’s oil sands mine leases.
Assessment methods for oil sands reclamation marshes
This video shows Dr. Rooney and her team carrying out wetland sampling methods related to reclamation monitoring in the Alberta oil sands. The video was created to help consultants and industry implement wetland assessment tools she helped develop and demonstrates her commitment to applied research and knowledge mobilization. If you are interested in her research, it is a great illustration of what to expect during field work.
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Rooney, R.C., D.T. Robinson and R. Petrone. 2015. Megaproject reclamation and climate change. Nature Climate Change. 5: 963-966.
Rooney, R.C. et al. (2015). Replacing natural wetlands with stormwater management facilities: biophysical and perceived social values. Water Research. 73: 17-28. DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.035
Rooney, R.C. and E.T. Azeria. (2014). The strength of cross-taxon congruence in species composition varies with the size of regional species pools and the intensity of human disturbance. Journal of Biogeography. 42: 439-451. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12400
Raab, D., R.C. Rooney, and S.E. Bayley. (2013). A visual obstruction method to estimate wet meadow aboveground biomass in marshes of the Boreal Plains, Canada. Wetlands. 34: 363-367. DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0503-0
Rooney, R.C., C. Carli, and S. E. Bayley. (2013). River connectivity affects submerged and floating aquatic vegetation in floodplain wetlands. Wetlands. 33: 1165-1177.
Wilson, M.J., S. E. Bayley, and R. C. Rooney. (2013). A plant-based index of biological integrity in permanent marsh wetlands yields consistent scores in dry and wet years. Aquatic Conservation. 23: 698-709.
Orihel, D. M. et al. (2012). High microcystin concentrations occur only at low nitrogen-to-phosphorus ratios in nutrient-rich Canadian lakes. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 69: 1457-1462. – recognized as most read paper of 2012
Rooney, R. C., S. E. Bayley, I. F. Creed, and M. J. Wilson (2012). The accuracy of land-cover based wetland assessments is influenced by landscape extent. Landscape Ecology. 27: 1321-1335.
Rooney, R. C., S. E. Bayley, and D. W. Schindler. (2012). Oil sands mining and reclamation cause massive loss of peatland and stored carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 4933-4937.
Rooney, R. C., and S. E. Bayley. (2012). Community congruence of plants, invertebrates and birds in natural and constructed shallow open-water wetlands: do we need to monitor multiple assemblages? Ecological Indicators 20: 42-50.
Orihel, D. M. and R. C. Rooney. (2012). A field-based technique for sediment incubation experiments. Journal of Limnology 71: 233-235
Rooney, R. C. and S. E. Bayley. (2012). Development and testing of an index of biotic integrity based on submersed and floating vegetation and its application to assess reclamation wetlands in Alberta's oil sands area, Canada. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 184: 749-761
Rooney, R. C. and S. E. Bayley. (2011). Plant community, environmental, and land-use data from oil sands reclamation and reference wetlands, Alberta, 2007-2009 (data paper). Ecology 92: 2003
Rooney, R. C. and S. E. Bayley. (2011). Relative influence of local- and landscape-level habitat quality on aquatic plant diversity in shallow open-water wetlands in Alberta’s boreal zone: direct and indirect effects. Landscape Ecology 26: 1023-1034
Rooney, R. C. and S. E. Bayley. (2011). Setting appropriate reclamation targets and evaluating success: aquatic vegetation in natural and post-oil-sands mining wetlands in Alberta, Canada. Ecological Engineering 37: 569-579
Rooney, R. C. and S. E. Bayley. (2010). Quantifying a stress gradient: an objective approach to variable selection, standardization and weighing in ecosystem assessment. Ecological Indicators 10: 1174-1183
Rooney, R. C. and C. L. Podemski. (2010). Freshwater rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) farming affects sediment and pore-water chemistry. Marine and Freshwater Research 61: 513-526
Rooney, R. C. and C. L. Podemski (2009). Effects of an experimental rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) farm on invertebrate community composition. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66: 1949-1964
Rooney, R. C. and M. J. Paterson (2009). Ecosystem effects of rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) invasions in inland lakes: a literature review. Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences #2845, Fisheries and Oceans Canada: 33 pp.
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