PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Mahoney, S. P., Lewis, K. P., Mawhinney, K., McCarthy, C., Taylor, S., Anions, D., Fifield,D. A., and Schaefer, J. A. In press. Effects of snowmachine disturbance on the energetics and habitat selection of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Canadian Wildlife Biology and Management.
Lewis, K. P., Gullage, S., Fifield, D. A., Jennings, D., and Mahoney, S.P. 2017. Manipulations of Black Bear and Coyote affect caribou calf survival. Journal of Wildlife Management. PDF
Bastille-Rousseau, G., Schaefer, J. A., Lewis, K. P., Mumma, M., Ellington, H., Rayl, N., Mahoney, S. P., and Murray, D. L. 2016. Shifting interactions between climate, predators, and density-dependence explain three decades of variation in neonatal caribou survival. Journal of Animal Ecology. 85(2)445-456 PDF
Mahoney, S. P., K. P. Lewis, J. N. Weir, S. F. Morrison, J. G. Luther, J.A. Schaefer, D. Pouliot, and R. Laifovic. 2016. Woodland caribou calf mortality in Newfoundland: Insights into the role of climate, predation and population density over three decades of study. Population Ecology. 58:91-103. PDF
Trant, A. T., K. P. Lewis, B. Cranston, J. Wheeler, R. G. Jameson, J. Jacobs, L. Hermanutz, B. M. Starzomski. 2015. Complex changes in plant communities across a subarctic alpine treeline in Labrador, Canada. Arctic 68:500-512. PDF Appendix
Lewis, K. P. and B. M. Starzomski. 2015. Bird communities and vegetation associations across a treeline ecotone in the Mealy Mountains, Labrador, an understudied part of the Boreal forest. Canadian Journal of Zoology 93(6): 477-486. PDF
Cuyler, C, White, R. G., Lewis, K., Soulliere, C., Gunn, A., and Russell, D. E. 2012. Are warbles and bots connected to pregnancy and what is the energy cost to west Greenland caribou? Rangifer, Special Issue No. 20. 243-257. PDF
Harper, K. A., R. K. Danby, D. L. De Fields, K. P. Lewis, A. Trant, B. M. Starzomski, R. Savidge,
and L. Hermanutz. 2011. Tree spatial pattern within the forest-tundra ecotone: a comparison of sites across Canada. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 479-489. PDF
Munier, A, L. Hermanutz, J. D. Jacobs, and K. P. Lewis. 2010. The interacting effects of temperature, ground disturbance and herbivory on seedling establishment at treeline: implications for treeline advance with climate warming. Plant Ecology 310:19-30. PDF
Lewis, K. P. 2006. Power analyses, sample sizes and the software to easily calculate them. BioScience 56:607-612. PDF
McLaren, B. E., B. A. Roberts, N. Djan-Chékar, and K. P. Lewis. 2004. Managing the effects of overabundant moose on the Newfoundland landscape. Alces 40: 45-59. PDF
Lewis, K. P. 2004. How important is the statistical approach for categorical data? An example using artificial nests? Oikos 104: 305-315. PDF
Anderson, D. W., S. H. Newman, P. R. Kelly, S. K. Herzog, and K. P. Lewis. 2000. An experimental soft-release of oil-spill rehabilitated American coots (Fulica americana): I. Lingering effects on survival, condition and behaviour. Environmental Pollution 107: 285-294. PDF
Lewis, K. P. and W. A. Montevecchi. 1999. Predation on different sized quail eggs in an artificial nest study in Newfoundland. Canadian Journal of Zoology 77:1170-1173. PDF
Technical Reports
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Lewis, K. P., Gullage, S. E., Fifield, D. A., Jennings, D. H., and Mahoney, S. P. 2014. Experimental manipulations of black bear (Ursus americanus) and eastern coyote (Canis
latrans) to improve caribou calf survival in southern Newfoundland 2008–2013. Technical Bulletin No. 010. Sustainable Development and Strategic Science. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL.
Lewis, K. P. and S. P. Mahoney. 2014. Caribou survival and fate in Newfoundland: a summary and analysis of the patterns and causes of caribou survival and mortality in Newfoundland during a period of rapid population decline: 2003-2012. Technical Bulletin No. 009, Sustainable Development and Strategic Science. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL.
Fifield, D. A., K. Unger, and K. P. Lewis. 2013. Spatial ecology of black bear (Ursus americanus), coyote (Canis latrans thamnos) and lynx (Lynx canadensis) in Newfoundland. Technical Bulletin No. 008, Sustainable Development and Strategic Science. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL.
Fifield, D. A. and K. P. Lewis. 2013. Noninvasive genetic sampling and predator density estimates for black bear (Ursus americanus) and coyote (Canis latrans thamnos) in Newfoundland 2009-2011. Technical Bulletin No. 006, Sustainable Development and Strategic Science. Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s, NL.
Fifield, D. A., K. P. Lewis, and S. E. Gullage. 2013. Application of distance sampling to determine calving ground abundance and aggregation of parturient females in the Middle Ridge herd, June 2012. Technical Bulletin No. 005, Sustainable Development and Strategic Science, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s NL.
Trindade, M.T, F. N. Norman, K. P. Lewis, S. P. Mahoney, J. W. Weir, and C. E. Soulliere. 2011. Caribou Calf Mortality Study: A summary and analysis of the patterns and causes of caribou calf morality in Newfoundland during a period of rapid population decline: 2003-2007. Sustainable Development and Strategic Science, Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John’s NL.
Fifield, D. A., K. P. Lewis, C. Gjerdrum, G. J. Robertson, R. Wells. 2009. Offshore Seabird Monitoring Program. Environment Studies Research Funds Report No. 183. St. John’s. 68 p.
Lewis, K. P., D. A. Fifield, and E. L. Jedrey. 2003. A survey of the avifauna of the Main River. Parks and Natural Areas Division, Newfoundland Department of Tourism, Culture, and Recreation.
Lewis, K. P., D. Ballam, P. Thomas. 2003. Species at risk and federal properties: on combining federal properties with species of special interest in a spatially explicit manner. Canadian Wildlife Service, Internal Report, Canadian Wildlife Service, Environment Canada, St. John’s NL.