Anne C.S. McIntosh (formerly Fiala)

Forest Ecologist, PhD Candidate
Department of Renewable Resources
751 General Services Building
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1
amcintos"at"ualberta.ca

To download my CV click HERE.

I was a co-instructor of FOR 322: Forest Ecosystems at the University of Alberta in Fall 2011 and plan to also teach in Fall 2012.

I am currently working on a NSERC CGS and Izaak Walton Killam scholarship-funded PhD in the Department of Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta with Dr. Ellen Macdonald. I am investigating the effects of simulated mountain pine beetle attack on the vegetation and below-ground processes in lodgepole pine forests of the upper foothills of western Alberta.

I spent three months in Fall/Winter 2010/2011 in Umea, Sweden comparing below-ground properties and processes between Swedish and Canadian forest species after I received a Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement Scholarship. You can read more about my experiences by checking out my blog: http://www.canadianneinsweden.blogspot.com.

Visit the Canopy Database Project website at: http://canopy.evergreen.edu to learn more about what I did before I started my PhD.

Publications

McIntosh, A.C.S., Macdonald, S.E., Gundale, M.J. In press. Tree species versus regional controls on ecosystem properties and processes: an example using introduced Pinus contorta in Swedish boreal forests. Canadian Journal of Forest Research.

McIntosh, A.C.S., Gray, A.N., Garman, S.L.. In press. Estimating canopy cover from standard forest inventory measurements in western Oregon. Forest Science.

McIntosh, A.C.S., Gray, A.N., Garman, S.L., 2009. Canopy structure on forest lands in western Oregon: differences among forest types and stand ages. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-794. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 35 p.PDF

Nadkarni, N.M., McIntosh, A.C.S., & Cushing, J.B.. 2008. A framework to categorize forest structure concepts. Forest Ecology and Management, 256: 872?882.PDF

McIntosh, A.C.S., Cushing, J.B., Nadkarni, N.M., & Zeman, L.. 2007. Database design for ecologists: composing core entities with observations. Ecological Informatics 2:224-236 PDF

Cushing, J.B., Nadkarni, N.M., Finch, M., Fiala, A.C.S., Murphy-Hill, E., Delcambre, L., and Maier, D. 2007. Component-based end-user database design for ecologists. Journal of Intelligent Information Systems. 29(1): 7-24.PDF

Fiala, A.C.S., Garman, S. L., & Gray, A.N. 2006. Comparison of five canopy cover estimation techniques in the western Oregon Cascades. Forest Ecology and Management. 232: 188-197.

Fiala, A.C.S. 2003. Master of Science Thesis. Forest canopy structure in western Oregon: characterization, methods for estimation, prediction, and importance to avian species. Oregon State University. 335 pp." PDF