JOHN WILMSHURST - Grasslands Ecologist, Western and Northern Service Centre, Parks Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba
John Wilmshurst is the grassland ecologist for Parks Canada based in their Winnipeg, Manitoba office. He has received his MSc and PhD from the University of Guelph studying the foraging ecology of large herbivores and spent 18 months with Agriculture Canada in Lethbridge, Alberta studying range ecology in his post-doctoral research. In addition to his work on this project, his current research projects include a long-term study of the conservation biology of plains rough fescue (Festuca hallii) prairies, factors influencing the population trajectories of large mammals (sheep and bison), remote sensing of biophysical features of grassland landscapes and he has developed an ecosystem model of key interactions with Species at Risk for Grasslands National Park using the TELSA simulator (www.essa.com).
John sits on the steering committee of the Grasslands National Park Grazing Experiment with responsibilities in project management and coordination as well as sitting on the committees of several graduate students working on the project.
John can be contacted at john.wilmshurst@pc.gc.ca
LIST OF RECENT SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS
Bradley, M., and J. F. Wilmshurst. 2005. The fall and rise of bison populations in Wood Buffalo National Park: 1971 to 2003. Canadian Journal of Zoology 83:1195-1205.
Davidson, A., Wang, S., and Wilmshurst, J.F. 2006. Remote sensing of grassland-shrubland vegetation water content in the shortwave optical domain. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 8:225-236.
Fryxell, J. M., J. F. Wilmshurst, and A. R. E. Sinclair. 2004. Predictive models of movement by Serengeti grazers. Ecology 85:2429-2435.
Fryxell, J. M., J. F. Wilmshurst, A. R. E. Sinclair, D. T. Haydon, R. D. Holt, and P. A. Abrams. 2004. Landscape scale, heterogeneity, and the viability of Serengeti grazers. Ecology Letters 8:328-335.
He, Y., X. Guo, and J. F. Wilmshurst. 2006. Studying mixed grassland ecosystems II: Optimum pixel size. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 32:108-115.
Packer, C., R. Hilborn, A. Mosser, B. Kissiu, M. Borner, G. Hopcraft, J. Wilmshurst, S. Mduma, and A. R. E. Sinclair. 2004. Large-scale ecological change, group territoriality and non-linear population dynamics in Serengeti lions. Science 307:365-366.
Wilmshurst, J. F., R. Greer, D. Henry, and C. J. Krebs. 2006. Correlated cycles of snowshoe hare and Dall's sheep lambs. Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:736-743.