List of works - Nicola Koper

A guide to developing resource selection functions from telemetry data using generalized estimating equations and generalized linear mixed models

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

A lack of hemosporidian parasites in some grassland songbirds reveals a research need in the Northern Great Plains

scientific article published in 2022

A multi-scaled analysis of avian response to habitat amount and fragmentation in the Canadian dry mixed-grass prairie

article

A resilient system: North American mixed-grass prairie responds rapidly to livestock exclusion

scientific article published in March 2020

Ability to alter song in two grassland songbirds exposed to simulated anthropogenic noise is not related to pre-existing variability

scientific article published on 3 March 2017

An Appraisal of the Use of Hydrogen-Isotope Methods to Delineate Origins of Migratory Saw-whet Owls in North America

scientific article published in May 2013

An urban wildlife habitat experiment: conservation implications of altering management regimes on animals and plants along urban and rural rights-of-way

scientific article published in 2019

Assessing the Breeding Success of the Western Grebe ( Aechmophorus occidentalis ) After 40 Years of Environmental Changes at Delta Marsh, Manitoba

scientific article published in March 2014

Behavior of adult and young grassland songbirds at fledging

scholarly article

Cattle Grazing Intensity and Duration Have Varied Effects on Songbird Nest Survival in Mixed-Grass Prairies

scientific article published in November 2016

Chestnut-collared longspurs reduce parental care in the presence of conventional oil and gas development and roads

scientific article published in February 2019

Comparison of impacts of oil infrastructure on grassland songbirds between landscape-scale noise addition and noise removal experiments

scientific article published in 2023

Confronting collinearity: comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation

scientific article published in 2009

Conventional oil and natural gas infrastructure increases brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) relative abundance and parasitism in mixed-grass prairie

scientific article

Corrigendum to “One step ahead of the plow: Using cropland conversion risk to guide Sprague's pipit conservation in the northern Great Plains” [Biol. Conserv. 191 (2015) 739–749]

scientific article published in February 2016

Cumulative impacts of roads and energy infrastructure on grassland songbirds

scholarly article

Design and Analysis of Rangeland Experiments Along Continuous Gradients

scientific article published in November 2008

Diel fledging patterns among grassland passerines: Relative impacts of energetics and predation risk

scientific article published in 2018

Diel patterns of predation and fledging at nests of four species of grassland songbirds

scientific article published in 2021

Direct effects of cattle on grassland birds in Canada

scientific article published on 11 March 2014

Disentangling effects of noise from presence of anthropogenic infrastructure: Design and testing of system for large‐scale playback experiments

scientific article published on 22 May 2015

Ecological release and insular shifts in avian morphological traits in the Caribbean

scientific article published on 30 April 2021

Effects of Natural Habitat Loss and Edge Effects on Wild Bees and Pollination Services in Remnant Prairies

scientific article

Effects of Twice-Over Rotational Grazing on Songbird Nesting Success in Years With and Without Flooding

scientific article published in 2018

Effects of Water Depth, Cover and Food Resources on Habitat use of Marsh Birds and Waterfowl in Boreal Wetlands of Manitoba, Canada

scientific article published in March 2012

Effects of Weather and Land Management on the Western Prairie Fringed-orchid (Platanthera praeclara) at the Northern Limit of its Range in Manitoba, Canada

scientific article published in October 2015

Effects of ambient noise on detectability and localization of avian songs and tones by observers in grasslands

scientific article

Effects of conventional oil wells on grassland songbird abundance are caused by presence of infrastructure, not noise

scientific article published in February 2018

Effects of shallow natural gas well structures and associated roads on grassland songbird reproductive success in Alberta, Canada.

scientific article

Environmental Constraints on Growth of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) in Northern Climates

scientific article published in 2000

Estimated Avian Nest Loss Associated with Oil and Gas Exploration and Extraction in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

article

Fringe effects: detecting bull trout ( Salvelinus confluentus ) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed

scientific article published in August 2021

Generalized estimating equations and generalized linear mixed‐effects models for modelling resource selection

scientific article published on 28 April 2009

Grassland Bird Responses to Three Edge Types in a Fragmented Mixed-Grass Prairie

scientific article published in 2012

Grazing Intensity Influences Ground Squirrel and American Badger Habitat Use in Mixed-Grass Prairies

scientific article published in May 2014

Grazing and Songbird Nest Survival in Southwestern Saskatchewan

scientific article published in July 2013

Habitat selection and nest survival in two Great Plains shorebirds

scientific article published in 2020

Host dispersal and landscape conversion are associated with the composition of haemosporidian parasites of the golden-winged warbler

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Integrating multiple disciplines to understand effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication

scholarly article published in February 2018

Interactions between ecological disturbances: burning and grazing and their effects on songbird communities in northern mixed-grass prairies

scientific article published in 2014

Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity?

Landscape openness, not patch size or grassland amount, drives area sensitivity of songbirds in northern tall-grass prairies

scientific article published in 2022

Management practices benefit endangered Poweshiek skipperling (<i>Oarisma poweshiek</i>) in Manitoba tall grass prairie

scientific article published in 2024

Managing urban and rural rights-of-way as potential habitats for grassland birds

scientific article published in 2017

Measuring habitat fragmentation: An evaluation of landscape pattern metrics

scientific article published on 21 May 2014

Noise Source and Individual Physiology Mediate Effectiveness of Bird Songs Adjusted to Anthropogenic Noise.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Noise from four types of extractive energy infrastructure affects song features of Savannah Sparrows

scientific article published in February 2018

Noisy anthropogenic infrastructure interferes with alarm responses in Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis).

scientific article

Nonlinear effects of distance to habitat edge on Sprague’s pipits in southern Alberta, Canada

scientific article published on 16 June 2009

Northern Saw-Whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) Migratory Behavior, Demographics, and Population Trends in Manitoba

scientific article published in March 2012

Northern prairie songbirds are more strongly influenced by grassland configuration than grassland amount

scholarly article

Oil Infrastructure has Greater Impact than Noise on Stress and Habitat Selection in Three Grassland Songbirds

scientific article published in 2022

One step ahead of the plow: Using cropland conversion risk to guide Sprague's Pipit conservation in the northern Great Plains

scientific article published in November 2015

Optimizing Repeat-Visit, Call-Broadcast Nocturnal Surveys for Yellow Rails ( Coturnicops noveboracensis )

scientific article published in March 2014

Overcoming confusion and stigma in habitat fragmentation research

scientific article published on 13 March 2024

Perceptibility of Prairie Songbirds Using Double-Observer Point Counts

scientific article published in March 2015

Physical footprint of oil and gas infrastructure, not anthropogenic noise, reduces nesting success of some grassland songbirds

scientific article published in December 2016

Population-size estimators and unequal catchability in painted turtles

scientific article published in 1998

Progress in Research on Grassland Bird Conservation and Ecology

scientific article published in 2011

Quantifying the influences of grazing, climate and their interactions on grasslands using Landsat TM images

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Recent declines in northern tall-grass prairies and effects of patch structure on community persistence

Reduced human activity during COVID-19 alters avian land use across North America

scientific article published on 24 September 2021

Research design considerations to ensure detection of all species in an avian community

scientific article published on 15 December 2015

Residuals cannot distinguish between ecological effects of habitat amount and fragmentation: implications for the debate

scientific article published in 2007

Review of Conservation Challenges and Possible Solutions for Grassland Birds of the North American Great Plains

scientific article published in 2023

Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) nesting close to energy infrastructure alarm call at a lower frequency

Shallow gas development and grassland songbirds: The importance of perches

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Spatiotemporal variation in mechanisms driving regional-scale population dynamics of a Threatened grassland bird.

scientific article

Stocking Rates and Vegetation Structure, Heterogeneity, and Community in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie

scientific article published in July 2015

The Importance of Vegetation Structure and Artificial Cover for Prairie Skinks (Plestiodon septentrionalis) on Exurban Land

scientific article published in 2014

The final frontier: early-stage genetic introgression and hybrid habitat use in the northwestern extent of the Golden-winged Warbler breeding range

scientific article published in 2017

Twice-Over Rotational Grazing and Its Impacts on Grassland Songbird Abundance and Habitat Structure

scientific article published in March 2012

Urban Rights-of-Way as Reservoirs for Tall-Grass Prairie Plants and Butterflies

scientific article published on 24 November 2015

Urban rights-of-way as extensive butterfly habitats: A case study from Winnipeg, Canada

scientific article published in 2017

Use of nonlinear regression techniques for describing concentration‐response relationships of plant species exposed to contaminated site soils

scientific article published in December 2000

Using information criteria to select the correct variance-covariance structure for longitudinal data in ecology

scientific article published on 18 January 2010

Variation in song structure of house wrens living in urban and rural areas in a Caribbean small island developing state

scientific article published on 19 October 2020

Who's “hooting”? Motivations and scientific attitudes of Manitoban citizen science owl surveyors

scientific article published in 2018

List of works by Nicola Koper

A guide to developing resource selection functions from telemetry data using generalized estimating equations and generalized linear mixed models

A lack of hemosporidian parasites in some grassland songbirds reveals a research need in the Northern Great Plains

A multi-scaled analysis of avian response to habitat amount and fragmentation in the Canadian dry mixed-grass prairie

A resilient system: North American mixed-grass prairie responds rapidly to livestock exclusion

Ability to alter song in two grassland songbirds exposed to simulated anthropogenic noise is not related to pre-existing variability

An Appraisal of the Use of Hydrogen-Isotope Methods to Delineate Origins of Migratory Saw-whet Owls in North America

An urban wildlife habitat experiment: conservation implications of altering management regimes on animals and plants along urban and rural rights-of-way

Assessing the Breeding Success of the Western Grebe ( Aechmophorus occidentalis ) After 40 Years of Environmental Changes at Delta Marsh, Manitoba

Behavior of adult and young grassland songbirds at fledging

Cattle Grazing Intensity and Duration Have Varied Effects on Songbird Nest Survival in Mixed-Grass Prairies

Chestnut-collared longspurs reduce parental care in the presence of conventional oil and gas development and roads

Comparison of impacts of oil infrastructure on grassland songbirds between landscape-scale noise addition and noise removal experiments

Confronting collinearity: comparing methods for disentangling the effects of habitat loss and fragmentation

Conventional oil and natural gas infrastructure increases brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) relative abundance and parasitism in mixed-grass prairie

Corrigendum to “One step ahead of the plow: Using cropland conversion risk to guide Sprague's pipit conservation in the northern Great Plains” [Biol. Conserv. 191 (2015) 739–749]

Cumulative impacts of roads and energy infrastructure on grassland songbirds

Design and Analysis of Rangeland Experiments Along Continuous Gradients

Diel fledging patterns among grassland passerines: Relative impacts of energetics and predation risk

Diel patterns of predation and fledging at nests of four species of grassland songbirds

Direct effects of cattle on grassland birds in Canada

Disentangling effects of noise from presence of anthropogenic infrastructure: Design and testing of system for large‐scale playback experiments

Ecological release and insular shifts in avian morphological traits in the Caribbean

Effects of Natural Habitat Loss and Edge Effects on Wild Bees and Pollination Services in Remnant Prairies

Effects of Twice-Over Rotational Grazing on Songbird Nesting Success in Years With and Without Flooding

Effects of Water Depth, Cover and Food Resources on Habitat use of Marsh Birds and Waterfowl in Boreal Wetlands of Manitoba, Canada

Effects of Weather and Land Management on the Western Prairie Fringed-orchid (Platanthera praeclara) at the Northern Limit of its Range in Manitoba, Canada

Effects of ambient noise on detectability and localization of avian songs and tones by observers in grasslands

Effects of conventional oil wells on grassland songbird abundance are caused by presence of infrastructure, not noise

Effects of shallow natural gas well structures and associated roads on grassland songbird reproductive success in Alberta, Canada.

Environmental Constraints on Growth of Painted Turtles (Chrysemys picta) in Northern Climates

Estimated Avian Nest Loss Associated with Oil and Gas Exploration and Extraction in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin

Fringe effects: detecting bull trout ( Salvelinus confluentus ) at distributional boundaries in a montane watershed

Generalized estimating equations and generalized linear mixed‐effects models for modelling resource selection

Grassland Bird Responses to Three Edge Types in a Fragmented Mixed-Grass Prairie

Grazing Intensity Influences Ground Squirrel and American Badger Habitat Use in Mixed-Grass Prairies

Grazing and Songbird Nest Survival in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Habitat selection and nest survival in two Great Plains shorebirds

Host dispersal and landscape conversion are associated with the composition of haemosporidian parasites of the golden-winged warbler

Integrating multiple disciplines to understand effects of anthropogenic noise on animal communication

Interactions between ecological disturbances: burning and grazing and their effects on songbird communities in northern mixed-grass prairies

Is habitat fragmentation bad for biodiversity?

Landscape openness, not patch size or grassland amount, drives area sensitivity of songbirds in northern tall-grass prairies

Management practices benefit endangered Poweshiek skipperling (<i>Oarisma poweshiek</i>) in Manitoba tall grass prairie

Managing urban and rural rights-of-way as potential habitats for grassland birds

Measuring habitat fragmentation: An evaluation of landscape pattern metrics

Noise Source and Individual Physiology Mediate Effectiveness of Bird Songs Adjusted to Anthropogenic Noise.

Noise from four types of extractive energy infrastructure affects song features of Savannah Sparrows

Noisy anthropogenic infrastructure interferes with alarm responses in Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis).

Nonlinear effects of distance to habitat edge on Sprague’s pipits in southern Alberta, Canada

Northern Saw-Whet Owl (Aegolius acadicus) Migratory Behavior, Demographics, and Population Trends in Manitoba

Northern prairie songbirds are more strongly influenced by grassland configuration than grassland amount

Oil Infrastructure has Greater Impact than Noise on Stress and Habitat Selection in Three Grassland Songbirds

One step ahead of the plow: Using cropland conversion risk to guide Sprague's Pipit conservation in the northern Great Plains

Optimizing Repeat-Visit, Call-Broadcast Nocturnal Surveys for Yellow Rails ( Coturnicops noveboracensis )

Overcoming confusion and stigma in habitat fragmentation research

Perceptibility of Prairie Songbirds Using Double-Observer Point Counts

Physical footprint of oil and gas infrastructure, not anthropogenic noise, reduces nesting success of some grassland songbirds

Population-size estimators and unequal catchability in painted turtles

Progress in Research on Grassland Bird Conservation and Ecology

Quantifying the influences of grazing, climate and their interactions on grasslands using Landsat TM images

Recent declines in northern tall-grass prairies and effects of patch structure on community persistence

Reduced human activity during COVID-19 alters avian land use across North America

Research design considerations to ensure detection of all species in an avian community

Residuals cannot distinguish between ecological effects of habitat amount and fragmentation: implications for the debate

Review of Conservation Challenges and Possible Solutions for Grassland Birds of the North American Great Plains

Savannah sparrows (Passerculus sandwichensis) nesting close to energy infrastructure alarm call at a lower frequency

Shallow gas development and grassland songbirds: The importance of perches

Spatiotemporal variation in mechanisms driving regional-scale population dynamics of a Threatened grassland bird.

Stocking Rates and Vegetation Structure, Heterogeneity, and Community in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie

The Importance of Vegetation Structure and Artificial Cover for Prairie Skinks (Plestiodon septentrionalis) on Exurban Land

The final frontier: early-stage genetic introgression and hybrid habitat use in the northwestern extent of the Golden-winged Warbler breeding range

Twice-Over Rotational Grazing and Its Impacts on Grassland Songbird Abundance and Habitat Structure

Urban Rights-of-Way as Reservoirs for Tall-Grass Prairie Plants and Butterflies

Urban rights-of-way as extensive butterfly habitats: A case study from Winnipeg, Canada

Use of nonlinear regression techniques for describing concentration‐response relationships of plant species exposed to contaminated site soils

Using information criteria to select the correct variance-covariance structure for longitudinal data in ecology

Variation in song structure of house wrens living in urban and rural areas in a Caribbean small island developing state

Who's “hooting”? Motivations and scientific attitudes of Manitoban citizen science owl surveyors