Publications
2026
Exposure to warmer water and prenatal cortisol independently alter transcriptional plasticity during early development in Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Authors: Finerty, C., Heath, D.D., *Warriner, T., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Pitcher, T. E., & Love, O.P.2026 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 83: 1-15
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Submerging Technologies in Aquatic Systems: Exploring the Application of Paired Tracking and Imaging Tools for Investigating Species Ecology in Aquatic Environments
Authors: *Cyr, K., Montgomery, F., Semeniuk, C.A.D.2026 Animal Biotelemetry
Addressing Challenges in Pairing Electronic Tracking with Imaging Devices for the Study of Fishes
Authors: *Cyr K., Forbes R.A.S., Montgomery F., Cooke S.J., King B.G.C., English G., Burliuk C., LeClaire T., Wieler E., Gutowsky L.F.G., Drebert Y., Fisher J.A.D., and Semeniuk C.A.D.2026 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
Co-producing knowledge with Indigenous Peoples: challenges and solutions for academic institutions
Authors: Grimm, J., Jarvis-Cross, M., Bailey, M., Ban, N. C., Bartlett, M., Cadman, R., Cannon, S. E., Cooke, S. J., Cyr, K., Dubos, V., Duncan, A., Wolf, J. G., Harrison, H. L., Iyer, A., Kirkwood, A. E., Meng, R. L., Moore, N., Morphet, M. E., Sainsbury, N. C., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Sherwood, L., Smiles, N.D., Smith, E., Timmer, B., Vanderhoop, C.A., Wilson, K.L., Bateman A., Krkošek, M.2026 Trends in Ecology & Evolution 41(1): 6-9
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2025
Long-term monitoring of Arctic birds at the East Bay Island Field Station, within the Qaqsauqtuuq Migratory Bird Sanctuary, 1996–2023
Authors: Gilchrist, H.G., Hennin, H., Buttler, E.I., Provencher, J.F., Nakoolak, J., Smith, P.A., Janssen, M., Forbes, M.R., Semeniuk, C.A.D. Allard, K. and Bêty, J., Love, O.P.2025 Arctic Science 11: 1-33
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Genetic and Environmental Basis of Transcriptional Thermal Plasticity of Brook Charr Fry – special issue on Genes, Genetics, and Genomics in Fish Conservation and Fisheries
Authors: *Banousse, G.; Semeniuk, C.A.D; Garant, D.; Jeffrey, J.; Islam, SKS; Bernier, N.; Jeffries, K.; Audet, C.2025 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 82: 1-15
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2024
An interspecific foraging association with polar bears increases foraging opportunities for avian predators in a declining Arctic seabird colony
Authors: Barnas, A.F., *Simone, C.A., *Geldart, E.A., Love, O.P., *Jagielski, P.M., Gilchrist, H.G., Richardson, E., *Dey, C., & Semeniuk, C. A. D.2024 Ecology and Evolution 14(3): e11012
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Behavioral transcriptomic effects of triploidy and probiotic therapy (Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Lactococcus mixture) on juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Authors: *Frank, C.E., Sadeghi, J., Heath, D.D., & Semeniuk, C.A.D.2024 Genes, Brain and Behavior 23(3) e12898
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On increasing equity and inclusion of early-career professionals for conferences and conference networking in Canadian fisheries and aquatic science societies
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D., *Church, K.D.W., Felix Eissenhauer, F., Grimm, J., Hechler, R.M., Howell, B.E., Ivanova, S.V., Klemet-N'Guessan,S., Madliger, C.L., Reid, J., Thompson- Kumar, K.A. Arismendi, I., Penaluna, B.E., Kirkwood, A.E., Febria, C.M.2024 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(11): 1606-1620
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2023
Agent decision-making: The Elephant in the Room-Enabling the justification of decision model fit in social-ecological models
Authors: Wijermans, N., Scholz, G., Chappin, É., Heppenstall, A., Filatova, T., Polhill, J. G., Semeniuk, C.A.D., & Stöppler, F.2023 Environmental Modelling & Software 105850
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2022
Conspecific nest attendance behaviours of common eiders (Somateria mollissima) in response to polar bear (Ursus maritimus) foraging activity: error or intent?
Authors: Simone, C., Geldart, E., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Love, O.P., Gilchrist, H.G., and Barnas. A.F.2022 Canadian Field Naturalists 136: 247-253
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Technoscience and the modernization of freshwater fisheries assessment and management
Authors: Cooke, S.J., Docker, M.F., Mandrak, N.E., Young, N., Heath, D.D., Jeffries, K.M. Howarth, A., Brownscombe, J.W., Livernois, J., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Venturelli, P.A., Danylchuk, A.J., Lennox, R.J., Jarić, I., Fisk, A.T., Vandergoot, C.S., Britton, J.R., Muir, A.M.2022 Environmental Technology & Innovation 28:102865
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Innovating transcriptomics for practitioners in freshwater fish management and conservation: best practices across diverse resource-sector users
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D., Jeffries, K.M., Li, T., Bettles, C.M., Cooke, S.J., Dufour, B., Halfyard, E., Heath, J.W., Keeshig, K., Mandrak, N.E., Muir, A., Postma, L., Heath, D.D.2022 Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 32: 921-939
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2021
2020
Rearing conditions differentially affect behavioural phenotypes of male ‘jack’ and ‘hooknose’ chinook salmon and their sisters in both fresh and salt water
Authors: Church, K.D., Janisse, K., Nguyen-Dang, L., Heath, J.W., Heath, D.D., & Semeniuk, C.A.D.2020 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
The role of conservation physiology in mitigating social-ecological traps in wildlife-provisioning tourism: a case study of feeding stingrays in the Cayman Islands. In: Conservation Physiology: Applications for Wildlife Conservation and Management
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D. Edited by Madliger, C.L., Franklin, C.E., Love, O.P., and Cooke, S.J.2020 Oxford University Press.
Mimicking transgenerational signals of future stress: thermal tolerance of juvenile chinook salmon is more sensitive to elevated rearing temperature than exogenously increased egg cortisol
Authors: Warriner, T.R., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Pitcher, T.E., Heath, D.D., Love, O.P.2020 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 8:368
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2019
Domestic-wild hybridization to improve aquaculture performance in Chinook salmon
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D., Capelle, P.M., Dender, M.G.E., Devlin, R.H., Dixon, B., Drown, J., Heath, J.W., Hepburn, R., Higgs, D.M., Janisse, K., Lehnert, S.J., Love, O.P., Mayrand, J., Mickle, M., Pitcher, T.E., Neff, B., Semple, S.L., Smith, J.L., Toews, S., Venney, C., Wellband, K., and Heath, D.D.2019 Aquaculture 511: 734255
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The effects of variation in acclimation- and growth-maximizing behavioural types of outcrossed Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) on growth and survival in captivity
Authors: Mayrand, J.L., Heath, D.D., Heath, J.W., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2019 Applied Animal Behaviour Science 216: 52-62
Life in captivity: varied behavioural responses to novel setting and food types in first-generation hybrids of farmed and wild juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Authors: Janisse, K., Capelle, P.M., Heath, J.W., Dender, M.G., Heath, D.D., Semeniuk, C.A.D.2019 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (in press)
2018
Validating fin tissue as a non-lethal proxy to liver and muscle tissue for stable isotope analysis of yellow perch (Perca flavescens)
Authors: McCloskey, M., Yurkowski, D.J., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2018 Isotopes in Environmental and Health Studies 54: 196-208
Phenotypic integration of behavioural and physiological traits is related to variation in growth among stocks of Chinook salmon
Authors: Dender, M.G., Capelle, P.M., Love, O.P., Heath, D.D., Heath, J.W., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2018 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75: 2271-2279
Forecasting the outcome of multiple effects of climate change on northern common eiders
Authors: Dey, C.J., Semeniuk, C.A., Iverson, S.A., Richardson, E., McGeachy, D., and Gilchrist, H.G.2018 Biological Conservation 220: 94-103
Adaptive phenotypic integration benefits a key performance trait in salmonid aquaculture
Authors: Dender, M.G.E., Capelle, P.M., Love O.P., Heath, D.D., Heath, J.W., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2018 Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (in press)
Prenatal stress differentially affects performance and survival across life-history stages depending on the postnatal environment
Authors: Capelle, P.M., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Sopinka, N.M., Heath, J.W., and Love, O.P.2018 Functional Ecology (in revision)
2017
Increasing nest predation will be insufficient to maintain polar bear body condition in the face of sea-ice loss
Authors: Dey, C.J., Richardson, E., McGeachy, D., Iverson, S.A.. Gilchrist, H.G., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2017 Global Change Biology 23: 1821-1831
The effects of paternal reproductive tactic and rearing environment on juvenile variation in growth as mediated through aggression and foraging behaviours of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)
Authors: Forest, A.R., Dender, M.G.E., Pitcher, T.E., and Semeniuk, C.A.D.2017 Ethology 123: 329-341
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Differential female preference for individual components of a reproductive male round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) pheromone
Authors: Farwell, M., Hughes, G., Smith, J.L., Clelland, E., Loeb, S.J., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Scott, A.P., Li, W., and Zielinski, B.2017 Journal of Great Lakes Research 43: 379-386
2016
Latitudinal variation in ecological opportunity and intra-specific competition indicates differences in niche variability and diet specialization of Arctic marine predators
Authors: Yurkowski, D.J, Ferguson, S., Choy, E., Loseto, L., Brown, T., Muir, D., Semeniuk, C.A.D., and A. Fisk2016 Ecology and Evolution 6: 1666-1678
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Prenatal stress exposure generates higher early survival and smaller size without impacting developmental rate in a Pacific salmon
Authors: Capelle, P.M., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Sopinka, N.M., Heath, J.W., and Love, O.P.2016 Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology 325: 641-650
Spatial and temporal variation of an ice-adapted predator’s feeding ecology in a changing Arctic marine ecosystem
Authors: Yurkowski, D.J., Ferguson, S.H., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Brown, T.M., Muir, D.C.G., and Fisk, A.T.2016 Oecologia 180: 631-644
Influence of sea ice phenology on the movement ecology of ringed seals across their latitudinal range
Authors: Yurkowski, D.J., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Harwood, L.A., Rosing-Asvid, A., Dietz, R., Brown, T.M., Clackett, S., Grgicak-Mannion, A., Fisk, A.T., and Ferguson, S.H.2016 Marine Ecology Progress Series 562: 237-250
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2015
Behaviour of Perch
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D., Magnhagen, C., and Pyle, G.2015 Biology of Perch, CRC Press Chapter 9: 230-250
Assessing baseline stress physiology as an integrator of environment quality in a wild avian population: implications for use as a conservation biomarker
Authors: Madliger, C.L., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Harris, C.M., and Love, O.P.2015 Biological Conservation 192: 409-417
2014
Spatial and temporal variation of an ice-adapted predator’s feeding ecology in a changing Arctic marine ecosystem
Authors: Yurkowski, D. J., Ferguson, S. H., Semeniuk, C. A. D., Brown, T. M., Muir, D. C., and Fisk, A. T.2014 Oecologia 1-14
2013
Heterogeneity among rural resident attitudes toward wolves
Authors: Sponarski, C.C., Semeniuk, C.A.D., Glikman, J.A., Bath, A.J., and Musiani, M.2013 Human Dimensions of Wildlife 18 239-248
2012
2011
The role of agent-based models in wildlife ecology and management: The importance of accommodating individual habitat-selection behaviours and spatially explicit movement for conservation planning
Authors: McClane, A.J., Semeniuk, C.A.D.* and D. Marceau.2011 Ecological Modelling 222 1544-1556
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2010
2009
2008
A multi-attribute trade-off approach for advancing the management of marine wildlife tourism: a quantitative assessment of heterogeneous visitor preferences
Authors: Semeniuk, C.A.D., Haider, W., Beardmore, B. and Rothley, K.D.2008 Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 19 194-208
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