Kevin Devito, PhD

Email

kdevito@ualberta.ca

Phone

(780) 242-0928

Address

1-277 Centennial Ctr For Interdisciplinary SCS II

11335 Saskatchewan Drive NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 2H5

Associate member  Canadian Rivers Institute, University of New Brunswick, 2004-

Research Background

Landscape eco-hydrology, forest and wetland hydrology and biogeochemistry, ground-surface water interactions, land use and climate impacts, hydrogeology frameworks, influence of climate and geology on the susceptibility of boreal ecosystems to disturbance, watershed management.

The long-term objective of my research is to increase our understanding and model the interaction of climate, geology and landscape position on boreal forest- wetland-aquatic ecosystem and predict their susceptibility to land use changes. This research has provided a fundamental understanding of how water, and chemistry of interest, moves through the surrounding boreal environment, how land use activities may intersect or impact water movements, and how boreal ecosystems recover from land use or reclamation activities.

Current Research Interests

My current research focuses on the Utikuma Region Study Area (URSA), located on the Boreal Plain, Alberta. At URSA, my students and I have collaborated in a number of long term (>10 years) studies investigating trends in regional climate and hydrogeology in conjunction with local scale eco-hydrologic studies of forest-wetland-aquatic systems located on a variety of landforms and landscape positions representative of the Boreal Plain. These systems also serve as natural analogues for designing, and benchmarks for evaluating, reclamation strategies on oil sands mining leases. My Students, collaborators and I are also involved in parallel and complimentary studies looking at the influence of landform configuration on the development of wetland and forest ecosystems in constructed watersheds in the Oil Sands near Fort McMurray. I am participating in 4 related research areas:

1)  Impact of large-scale disturbance (wildfire, forest harvest) on landscape hydrologic connectivity and boreal ecosystem processes.

2)   Distribution and processes maintaining perched / isolated peatland wetlands in sub-humid Boreal Landscapes.

3)    Classifying the role of riparian transitions in different landscapes of the Western Boreal Forest.

4)    Effective design criteria to sustain forest and wetland ecosystems on constructed watersheds, Oil Sands, Fort McMurray.

Publications from Dr. Devito's Research Group

*Names in bold are students or staff

Syntheses:

Devito, K. J., O’Sullivan, A. M., Peters, D. L., Hokanson, K. J., Kettridge, N.,& Mendoza, C. A. (2023). Runoff threshold responses in continental Boreal catchments: Nexus of subhumid climate, low-relief, surficial geology, and land cover. Water Resources Research, 59, e2023WR034752. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR034752

Devito K, C Mendoza, C Qualizza. (2012). Conceptualizing water movement in the Boreal Plains. Implications for watershed reconstruction. Synthesis report prepared for the Canadian Oil Sands Network for Research and Development, Environmental and Reclamation Research Group. 164 pp. URL = http://hdl.handle.net/10402/era.30206

Carey SK, D Tetzlaff, J Seibert, C Soulsby, J Buttle, H Laudon, J McDonnell, K McGuire, D Caissie, J Shanley, M Kennedy, K Devito, JW Pomeroy.2010. Inter-comparison of hydro-climatic regimes across Northern catchments: synchronicity, resistance and resilience.Hydrological Processes24:3591-3602.DOI:10.1002/hyp.7880 .

Devito KJ, I Creed, T Gan, C Mendoza, R Petrone, U Silins,B Smerdon. 2005. A framework for broad scale classification of hydrologic response units on the Boreal Plain: Is topography the last thing to consider? Invited Commentaries,HP Today, Hydrol. Process.,19:1705-1714.

Price J, B Branfireun, JM Waddington, KJ Devito. 2005. Advances in Canadian Wetland Hydrology, 1999-2003.Hydrol. Process.,19: 201-214.

Review of Labs Research:

Johnson EA, K Miyanishi. 2008. Creating new landscapes and ecosystems: the Alberta oil sands.Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci.1134:120-145.

Selected Publications:

Leader, Samantha, Nicholas Kettridge, David Hannah, Carl Mendoza, Kevin Devito. 2024. Multi-Year Climate Memory in Shallow Lake Water Levels. Journal of Hydrology, 642 (2024) 131764, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131764

Orlova, Julia; Fariba Amiri; Alyssa K. Bourgeois; Jim M. Buttle; Erin Cherlet; Chad W. Cuss; Kevin J. Devito; Monica B. Emelko; William C. Floyd; David E. Foster; Ryan H.S. Hutchins; Rob Jamieson; Mark S. Johnson; Hannah J. McSorley; Uldis Silins; Suzanne E. Tank; Lauren M. Thompson; Kara L. Webster; Chris H.S. Williams; David Olefeldt. (2024). Composition of Stream Dissolved Organic Matter across Canadian Forested Ecozones Varies in Three Dimensions Linked to Landscape and Climate. Water Resour Research, DOI: 10.1029/2023WR035196

Leader,S. ,N. Kettridge, D. Hannah, C. Mendoza, K.J. Devito. Diverse Response of Shallow Lake Water Levels to Decadal Weather Patterns in a Heterogeneous Glacial Plains Landscape. (2024), Hydrological Processes, doi: 10.1002/hyp.15125, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hyp.15125

Butt, Sundas Arooj; Fiorella Barraza; Kevin Devito; Lukas Frost; Muhammad Babar Javed; Tommy Noernberg; Andrii Oleksandrenko; William Shotyk. Spatio-temporal variations in the dissolved trace elements in peat bog porewaters impacted by dust inputs from open-pit mining activities in the Athabasca Bituminous Sands (ABS) region. (2024). Environmental Pollution , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123470

Jones,E, L Chasmer, KJ Devito, and C Hopkins. Shortening fire return interval predisposes west-central Canadian boreal peatlands to more rapid vegetation growth and transition to forest cover.  (2024). Global Change Biology , GCB-23-2017.R2, DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17185

Shotyk, William; Barraza, Fiorella; Butt, Sundas; Chen, Na; Cuss, Chad; Devito, Kevin; Frost, Lukas; Grant-Weaver, Iain; Javed, Muhammad Babar; Noernberg, Tommy; Andrii Oleksandrenko. Trace elements in peat bog porewaters: indicators of dissolution of atmospheric dusts and aerosols from anthropogenic and natural sources. Accepted 27 July 2023. Environmental Science: Water Research and Technology, DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D3EW00241A

Leonard, R., P. Moore, S. Krause, L. Chasmer, K.J. Devito, G. R. Petrone, C. Mendoza, J.M. Waddington, N. Kettridge. 2022 Forest Stand Complexity Controls Ecosystem-Scale Evapotranspiration Dynamics: Implications for Landscape Flux Simulations". 25 Nov. 2022. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14761

Dennett, J, CN Willier, KJ Devito, CW Bater, SE Nielsen. 2022. The extent and magnitude of edge effects on woody-vegetation in road-bisected treed peatlands in boreal Alberta, Canada. Ecohydrology, http://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2455

O’Sullivan, A, KJ Devito, L D’Orangeville, AR Curry. 2022 The Waterscape Concept. Rethinking boundaries in ecosystems. WIREs Water, https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1598

Goodbrand, A, A Anderson, KJ Devito, U Silins. 2022. Untangling the streamflow response to forest harvest in Alberta foothills watersheds: the nexus of teleconnections, summer-dominated precipitation and storage. Hydrological Processes. doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14479

Peters, DL, W Dillon, KJ Devito, WA Monk, RR Shrestha, DJ Baird. 2022. Changes in Geographical Runoff Generation in Regions Affected by Climate and Resource Development:  A Case Study of the Athabasca River. J Hydrology: Regional Studies, 39 (2022) 100981. doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100981

Pugh,E, D Olefeldt, S Leader, K Hokanson, KJ Devito. 2021. Characteristics of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Boreal Lakes: High Spatial and Inter-annual variability controlled by Landscape Attributes and Wet-dry Periods. Water Resources Research, 57(11)doi: 10.1029/2021WR030021 . http://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030021

Hokanson K, Rostron B, Devito KJ, Mendoza CA. 2021. Landscape controls of surface water-groundwater interactions on shallow outwash lakes: Long-term groundwater signal overrides interannual variability due to evaporative effects. Hydrogeology Journal, HYJO-D-21-00044, 10.1007/s10040-021-02422-z

Hokanson, KJ, C Thompson, K Devito, C Mendoza. 2021. Hummock-scale controls on groundwater recharge rates and the potential for developing local groundwater flow systems in water-limited environments. Accepted 27 August 2021, Journal of Hydrology, HYDROL4079. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2021.126894

van der Velde, Y., Temme, A. J. A. M., Nijp, J. J., Braakhekke, M. C., van Voorn, G. A. K., Dekker, S. C., Dolman, A. J., Wallinga, J., Devito, K. J., Kettridge, N., Mendoza, C. A., Kooistra, L., Soons, M. B., & Teuling, A. J. (2021). Emerging forest–peatland bistability and resilience of European peatland carbon stores. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118(38), [e2101742118]. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101742118

Kettridge N, Lukenbach M, Hokanson K, Devito KJ, Petrone R, Mendoza C, J Waddington. 2021. Regulation of peatland evaporation following wildfire; the complex control of soil tension under dynamic evaporation demand. Hydrological Processes, 35(4)DOI: 10.1002/hyp.14132

Hokanson, K J, E S Peterson, K J Devito, C A Mendoza. 2020. Forestland-peatland hydrologic connectivity in water-limited environments: hydraulic gradients often oppose topography. Environ. Res. Lett. 15 (2020) 034021. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab699a. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab699a

Chasmer, L, C Mahoney, K Millard, K Nelson, D Peters, M Merchant, C Hopkinson, B Brisco, O Niemann, K Devito, D Cobbaert. 2020a. Remote Sensing of Boreal Wetlands 1: Data Use for Policy and Management. Remote Sensing Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 1320; doi:10.3390/rs12081320.

O’Sullivan, AM, K J Devito, J Ogilvie, T Linnansaari, T Pronk, S Allard, and RA Curry. 2020. Effects of topographic resolution and geologic setting on spatial statistical river temperature models. Water Resources Research, 56(12). DOI: 10.1029/2020WR028122

Bechtold M., G. De Lannoy, R. H. Reichle, D. Roose, N. Balliston, I. Burdun, K. Devito, M. Grygoruk, J. Kurbatova, T. M. Munir, E. A. Zarov. 2020. Assimilation of L-band Brightness Temperatures into a Global Land Surface Model to Improve Hydrological Simulation over Northern Peatlands. Remote Sensing of Environment, 246:111805. doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2020.111805

Stralberg, D, D Arseneault, J Baltzer, Q Barber, E Bayne, Y Boulanger, C Brown, H Cooke, K Devito, K, J Edwards, C Estevo, N Flynn, L Frelich, T Hogg, M Johnston, T Logan, S Matsuoka, P Moore, T Morelli, J Morissette, H Nenzén, E Nelson, S Nielsen, M-A Parisien, J Pedlar, D Price, F Schmiegelow, S Slattery, O Sonnentag, D Thompson, E Whitman. 2020. Climate-change refugia in boreal North America: what, where, and for how long? Front Ecol Environ 2020; doi:10.1002/fee.2188

Little- Devito, M., CA Mendoza, L Chasmer, N Kettridge, KJ Devito. 2019. Opportunistic Wetland Formation on Reconstructed Landforms in a Sub-humid Climate: Influence of Site and Landscape-scale Factors. Wetlands Ecology and Management, 27:587-608. doi:10.1007/s11273-019-09679-y

Lukenbach, MC, CJ Spencer, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, SM Landhäusser, SK Carey. 2019. Evaluating How Landform Design And Soil Covers Influence Groundwater Recharge In A Reclaimed Soft Tailings Deposit. Water Resources Research , 55, 6464–6481. https://doi.org/10.1029/ 2018WR024298

Depante, M, M Morison, R Petrone, K Devito, N Kettridge, M Waddington. 2019. Hydraulic redistribution and hydrological controls on aspen transpiration and establishment in peatlands following wildfire. Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.13522

O'Sullivan AM, A Curry, K Devito. 2019. Landscape scale influences on spatial variability of river temperature. Catena, 177:70-83. 10.1016/j.catena.2019.02.006

Kettridge, N, MC Lukenbach, KJ Hokanson, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, CA Mendoza, MWaddington. 2019. Severe wildfire exposes remnant peat carbon stocks to increased post-fire drying. Scientific Reports – Nature, 0.1038/s41598-019-40033-7

Montgomery,J, B Brisco, L Chasmer, K Devito, D Cobbaert, C Hopkinson. 2019. SAR and Lidar Fusion Approaches to Boreal Wetland Ecosystem Monitoring. 2019. Remote Sensing 2019, 11, 161; doi:10.3390/rs11020161 PDF Version: http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/2/161/pdf

Hokanson, KJ, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito. 2019. Interactions between regional climate, surficial geology, and topography: Characterizing shallow groundwater systems in subhumid, low-relief landscapes. Water Resources Research, 55, 284–297. DOI: 10.1029/2018WR023934

Thompson, C.,  K. J. Devito, C.A. Mendoza. 2018. Hydrologic Impact of Aspen Harvesting Within the Sub-Humid Boreal Plains of Alberta. Hydrological Processes.  DOI: 10.1002/hyp.13301

 Chasmer L, K Devito, C Hopkinson, R Petrone. 2018. Remote sensing of ecosystem trajectories as a proxy indicator for watershed water balance.2018. Ecohydrology, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1987

Hokanson,KJ, PA Moore, MC Lukenbach, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, RM Petrone, CA Mendoza, JM Waddington. 2018. A Hydrogeological Landscape Framework to Identify Peatland Wildfire Smoldering Hotspots. Ecohydrology Letters. doi:10.1002/eco.1942

Leonard, RM, , N Kettridge, KJ Devito, R Petrone, C Mendoza, M Waddington, S Krause. 2018.  Disturbance Impacts on Thermal Hot Spots and Hot Moments at the Peatland-Atmosphere Interface. Geophysical Research Letters, 45, 185–193. https:// doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075974

Kettridge N, Lukenbach MC, Hokanson K, Hopkinson C, Devito KJ, Petrone RM, Mendoza CA,Waddington JM. 2017. Low evapotranspiration enhances the resilience of peatland carbon stocks to fire. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(18): 9341–9349, DOI: 10.1002/2017GL074186

Mullan-Boudreau, G, W. Shotyk, L. Davies, K Devito, D Froese, T Noernberg, and R Pelletier. 2017. Reconstructing Past Rates Of Atmospheric Dust Deposition In The Athabasca Bituminous Sands Region Using Peat Cores From Bogs. Land Degradation & Development, 28: 2468–2481. DOI: 10.1002/ldr.2782

Dixon, S.J.;  Kettridge, N.; Moore, P.A.; Devito, K.J.; Tilak, A.S.; Petrone, R.M.; Mendoza, C.A.; Waddington, J.M. 2017. Peat depth as a control on moss water availability under evaporative stress. Hydrological Processes, 31(23):4107-4121.10.1002/hyp.11307.

Melnik, K., S.M. Landhäusser. K.J. Devito. 2018. The role of microtopography in the expression of soil propagule banks on reclamation sites. Restration Ecology, 26 (S2):S200-S210, DOI: 10.1111/rec.12587

Devito, KJ, KJ Hokanson, P Moore, N Kettridge, A Anderson, L Chasmer, C Hopkinson, MC Lukenbach, CA Mendoza, J Morissette, DL Peters, R Petrone, U Silins, B Smerdon, JM Waddington. 2017 Landscape controls on long-term runoff in sub-humid heterogeneous Boreal Plain catchments. Hydrological Processes. 31(15)2737-2751, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11213

Lukenbach MC, KJ Hokanson, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, RM Petrone, CA Mendoza, G Granath, JM Waddington. 2017. Post-Fire Ecohydrological Conditions at Peatland Margins in Different Hydrogeological Settings of the Boreal Plain. Journal of Hydrology, 548, 741-753. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.03.034

Thompson C, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito. 2017. Potential Influence of Climate Change on Ecosystems within the Boreal Plains of Alberta. Hydrological  Processes. 31:2110–2124, DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11183

Ketcheson SJ, Price JS, Carey SK, Petrone RM, Mendoza CA, Devito KJ. 2016. Constructing fen peatlands in post-mining oil sands landscapes: challenges and opportunities from a hydrological perspective . Earth-Science Reviews, 161:130-139

Donnelly M, K Devito, C Mendoza, R Petrone. M Spafford. 2016. AlPac Catchment Experiment (ACE).  The Forestry Chronicle, 92 (1) : 23-26, 10.5558/tfc2016-007

Spencer, SA, K Devito, E McDonald. 2016. Terrestrial and Riparian Organisms, Lakes and Streams (TROLS). The Forestry Chronicle, 92 (1) : 50-52, 10.5558/tfc2016-015

Devito K, C Mendoza, RM Petrone, N Kettridge, JM Waddington. 2016. Utikuma Region Study Area (URSA) – Part 1:  Hydrogeological and ecohydrological studies. The Forestry Chronicle, 92: 57-61

Plach JM, J- Ferone, Z Gibbons, B Smerdon, A Mertens, C Mendoza, R Petrone; KJ Devito. 2016. Influence of glacial landform hydrology on phosphorus budgets of shallow lakes on the Boreal Plains. Journal of  Hydrology, 535:191-203.

Kettridge N, Tilak AS, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, C Mendoza, JM Waddington. 2016. Moss and peat hydraulic properties are optimized to maximise peatland water use efficiency. Ecohydrology,9(6):1039-1051 doi: 10.1002/eco.1708.

Schneider R, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, E Bayne. 2016. Moving beyond bioclimatic envelope models: integrating upland forest and peatland processes to predict ecosystem transitions under climate change in the western Canadian boreal plain. Ecohydrology, 9(6):899-908. DOI: 10.1002/eco.1707

Lukenbach, MC, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, RM Petrone, JM Waddington. 2015. Hydrogeological controls on post-fire moss recovery in peatlands.  Journal of Hydrology, 530:405-418 doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.09.075.

Hokanson, KJ, MC Lukenbach, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, RM Petrone, JM Waddington. 2016 . Groundwater connectivity Controls Peat Burn Severity In The Western Boreal Plain. Ecohydrology, 9 (4): 574-584, DOI: 10.1002/eco.1657

 Thompson C, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, RM Petrone. 2015. Climatic controls on groundwater-surface water interactions within the Boreal Plains of Alberta: Field observations and numerical simulations. J. Hydrology ,527:734-746.

Lukenbach MC, KJ Hokanson, PA Moore, KJ Devito, N Kettridge, DK Thompson, BM Wotton, RM Petrone, and JM Waddington. 2015. Hydrological Controls of Deep burning in a northern forested peatland, Hydrological Processes, 29(18):4114-4124. DOI 10.1002/hyp.10440

Petrone RM, LE Chasmer, C Hopkinson, U Silins, SM Landhäuser, N Kjlun, KJ Devito. 2015. Effects of harvesting and drought on CO2 and H2O fluxes in an aspen-dominated western boreal plain forest: early chronosequence recovery. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 45(1): 87-100, 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0253.

Hill AR, KJ Devito, P Vidon. 2014. Long-term nitrate removal in a stream riparian zone. Biogeochemistry. 121(2): 425-439. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-014-0010-2.

Sutherland G, LE Chasmer, RM Petrone, SM Brown, N Kljun, KJ Devito. In press^.Evaluating the use of spatially varying vs. bulk average 3D vegetation structural inputs to modelled evapotranspiration within heterogeneous land cover types. accepted 7 Feb 2014, ECO-13-0095EcoHydrology. 10.1002/eco.1477

Kettridge N, RE Humphrey, JE Smith, MC Lukenbach, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, JM Waddington. 2014. Burned and unburned peat water repellency: Implications for peatland evaporation following wildfire. J Hydrology, 513:315-341. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.019.

Olefeldt D, KJ Devito, MR Turetsky. 2013. Sources and fate of terrestrial dissolved organic carbon in lakes of a Boreal Plains region recently affected by wildfire. Biogeosciences, 10: 6247-6265. DOI: 10.5194-2013.

Brown, SM, RM Petrone, L Chasmer, C Mendoza, MS Lazerjan, SM Landhäuser, U Silins, J Leach, KJ Devito. 2013. Atmospheric and soil moisture controls on evapotranspiration from above and within a Western Boreal Plain aspen forest . Hydrol. Process., 28(15): 4449–4462 . DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9879.

Macrae ML, K Devito, M Strack, JM Waddington. 2013. Effect of water table drawdown on peatland nutrient dynamics: implications for climate change. Biogeochemistry, 112 (1): 661-676. DOI: 10.1007/s10533-012-9730-3.

Smerdon B, C Mendoza, KJ Devito. 2012. The impact of gravel extraction on groundwater dependent wetlands and lakes in the Boreal Plains, Canada. Environmental Earth Sciences, 67:1249-1259. DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1568-4.

Carrera-Hernandez JJ, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, BD Smerdon. 2012. Reclamation for aspen revegetation: understanding soil moisture dynamics through unsaturated flow modelling.  Can J Soil Sci. 92(1): 103-116. DOI: 10.4141/cjss2010-035.

Carrera-Hernandez JJ, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, BD Smerdon. 2011. Effects of aspen harvesting on groundwater recharge and water table dynamics in a subhumid climate. Water Resour. Res., 47, W05542. DOI:10.1029/2010WR009684

Kettridge N, RE Humphrey, JE Smith,MC Lukenbach, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, JM Waddington². 2011. Burned and unburned peat hydrophobicity: Implications for peatland evaporation following wildfire.J Hydrology,HYDROL15723, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.03.019

Redding TE,KJ Devito. 2011.Aspect and soil texture control of snowmelt runoff on forested Boreal Plain hillslopesHydrology Research , 42.4:250-267.

Mwale D,TY Gan, KJ Devito,U Silins,C Mendoza, R Petrone . 2011. Regionalization of Runoff Variability of Alberta, Canada by Wavelet, Independent Component and Empirical Orthogonal Function Analyses.J. Hydrologic Engineering,16(2) 93-107. DOI: 10.1061  

Redding TE,KJ Devito. 2010 Mechanism and pathways of lateral flow on aspen-forested, luvisolic soils, Western Boreal Plain, Alberta, CanadaHydrol Process., 24:2995-3010. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7710. 1085

Brown SM, Petrone RM, Mendoza CA, Devito KJ. 2010. Surface vegetation controls on evapotranspiration from a sub-humid Western Boreal Plain wetland. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7569,24(2010): 1072-1085

Krezek, CC, JM Buttle, FD Beall, RD Moore, IF Creed, PK Sibley, U Silins, KJ Devito, CA Mendoza. "HydroEcological Landscapes and Processes Project: A National-scale Forest Hydrology Initiative"Streamline Watershed Management Bulletin12(September 2008): 33-38. (Unrated Journal).

Solondz DS,Petrone RM, Devito KJ. 2008. Forest Floor Carbon Dioxide Fluxes within an Upland Forested Peatland - Pond Complex in the Western Boreal Plain.Eco-hydrology, 1(4):361-376 DOI:10.1002/eco.30.

Sass, GZ, IF Creed, SE Bayley, KJ Devito. 2008b. Inter-annual variability in trophic status of shallow lakes on the Boreal Plain: is there a climate signal? Water. Resour. Res. 44: W08443, doi:10.1029/2007WR006310.

Bladon KD, U Silins,  M Wagner,  M Stone, MB Emelko, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, S Boon. 2008. Wildfire impacts on nitrogen concentration and production from headwater streams in southern Alberta's Rocky Mountains.Can. J. For. Res.38: 2559-2371.

Creed, IF,GZ Sass, MB Wolniewicz,KJ Devito. 2008. Incorporating hydrologic dynamics into buffer strip design on the sub-humid Boreal Plain of Alberta. Forest Ecol. Manag. 256(11):1984-1994. doi: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.021

Smerdon BD, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito. 2008. Influence of subhumid climate and water table depth on groundwater recharge in shallow outwash aquifers,Water Resour. Res.44: W08427, doi:10.1029/2007WR005950.

Redding TE, KJ Devito.2008. Lateral flow thresholds for aspen forested hillslopes on the Western Boreal Plain, Alberta, Canada.Hydrological Processes22:4287-4300, DOI:10.1002/hyp.7038.

Sass GZ,IF Creed, SE Bayley, KJ Devito. 2007. Understanding variation in trophic status of lakes on the Boreal Plain: A 20 year retrospective using Landsat TM Imagery.Remote Sensing  Environm.,109:127-141.

Smerdon BD, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito. 2007. Simulations of fully coupled lake-groundwater exchange in a subhumid climate with an integrated hydrologic model.Water Resour. Res., 43: W01416, doi:10.1029/2006WR005137.

Petrone R, U Silins, KJ Devito. 2007. Spatial Evapotranspiration from a Riparian Pond Complex in the Western Boreal Forest, Alberta.Hydrological Process.,21: 1391-1401

Westbrook CJ, KJ Devito, CJ Allan. 2006. Soil N Cycling in a Heterogeneous Boreal Landscape.For. Ecol. Manage.,234:227-237.

Macrae  ML,IF Creed, E Mcdonald, KJ Devito. 2006. Relation of soil nitrogen distribution and Surface and Ground Water Nitrogen concentrations in a Partially Harvested Boreal Plain Aspen Catchment.Can. J. For. Res.,36:2090-2103.

Redding TE, KJ Devito.2006.Particle densities of wetlands soils in northern Alberta.Can. J. Soil Sci.,86:57-60.

Squires MM, D Mazzucchi,KJ Devito. 2006. Carbon burial and infill rates in small western boreal lakes: Physical factors affecting carbon storage.Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 63(4): 711-720 doi:10.1139/F05-252.

Smerdon, BD,KJ Devito, CA Mendoza. 2005. Interaction of groundwater and shallow lakes on outwash sediments in the sub-humid Boreal Plains region. J. Hydrology,314:246-262.

Redding TE, KD Hannam, SA Quideau, KJ Devito. 2005. Particle density of aspen, spruce and pine forests floors on the boreal plain or northern Alberta, Canada.Soc. Soil Sci. Amer. J.,  69: 1503-1506. [SCI= 2,  IF=1.834, Agr. Soil Sci. Rank 3 of 29 (top 10%)]

Macrae ML, Redding T,Creed IF,Bell W,Devito KJ. 2005. Soil, surface water and groundwater phosphorus relationships in a partially harvested Boreal Plain aspen catchment. For. Ecol. Manage., 206: 315-329.

Devito KJ, IF Creed,C Fraser.2005. Controls on runoff from a partially harvested aspen forested headwater catchment, Boreal Plain, Canada.Hydrol. Process., 19: 3-25.

Ferone J-M,KJ Devito. 2004. Shallow groundwater-surface water interactions in pond-peatland complexes along a Boreal Plain topographic gradient.J. Hydrology, 292: 75-95.

Westbrook CJ,KJ Devito. 2004. Gross nitrogen transformations in uncut and cut boreal conifer and peatland forest soils.Biogeochemistry,68: 33-50.

Carmosini N,KJ Devito,  EE Prepas. 2003.. Net Nitrogen Mineralization and Nitrification in mature and logged Trembling Aspen Forest Soils on the Boreal Plain.Can. J. For. Res.,  33 (11): 2262-2268.

Carmosini N, KJ Devito, EE Prepas. 2002. Gross nitrogen transformations in harvested and mature aspen-conifer mixed forest soils from the Boreal Plain.Soil Biol. Biochem., 34(12): 1949-1951.

Schiff SL, KJ Devito,  RJ Elgood,PM McCrindle, J Spoelstra, PJ Dillon. 2002. Two adjacent catchments: dramatically different nitrate export.Water Resour. Res.,38: 1278-1292 .

Devito KJ, IF Creed, RL Rothwell, EE Prepas. 2000. Landscape controls on phosphorous loading to boreal lakes: implications for the potential impacts of forest harvesting.Can.J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.,57(10): 1977-1984.

Devito KJ,D Fitzgerald, A Hill, R Aravena. 2000. Nitrate dynamics in relation to lithology and hydrologic flow path in a river riparian zone.J. Environ. Qual.,29: 1075-1084.

Hill AR, KJ Devito, S Campagnolo, K Sanugadas. 2000. Subsurface denitrification in a forest riparian zone: interactions between hydrology and supplies of organic carbon and nitrate. Biogeochemistry,51: 193-223.

Evans, J.E., E.E. Prepas, K.J.Devito, and B.G.Kotak. 2000. Phosphorous dynamics in shallow subsurface waters in an uncut and cut subcatchment of a lake on the Boreal Plain.Can.J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.,57 (Suppl. 2) : 60-72.

Devito KJ ,CJ Westbrook,S Schiff. 1999. Nitrogen mineralization and nitrification in upland and peatland forest soils in two Canadian Shield catchments.Can. J. For. Res.,29(11): 1793-1804.

Devito KJ, AR Hill.1999. Sulphate mobilization and pore water chemistry in relation to groundwater hydrology and summer drought in two conifer swamps on the Canadian Shield.Water, Air Soil Pollut.,113: 97-114.

Devito KJ, AR Hill, PJ Dillon. 1999. Episodic sulphate export from wetlands in acidified headwater catchments: prediction at the landscape scale.Biogeochemistry, 44: 187-203.

Devito, KJ, AR Hill. 1997. Sulphate dynamics in relation to groundwater - surface water interactions in forested wetlands of the Canadian Shield. Hydrol. Process.,11:485-500.

Devito KJ, JM Waddington, BA Branfireun. 1997. Flow reversals in peatlands influenced by local groundwater systems. Hydrol. Process.,11:103-110.

Hill AR, KJ Devito 1997. Hydrologic-chemical interactions in headwater forest wetlands.InTrettin,CC, MF Jurgensen, DF Grigal, MR Gale and J Jeglum (ed.),  Northern Forested Wetlands: Ecology and Management,  CRC/Lewis Publisher; Boca Raton, FL. pp 217-233.

Devito KJ, AR Hill, N Roulet. 1996. Groundwater-Surface water interactions in headwater forested wetlands of the Canadian Shield. J. Hydrology, 181(1):127-147.

Curry RA, KJ Devito 1996. The hydrogeology of reproductive habitats of brook char (Salvelinusfontinalis): implications to shoreline and upland forestry and development practices.Can. J. For. Res.,26:767-772

Devito KJ. 1995. Sulphate mass balances of Precambrian Shield wetlands: the influence of catchment hydrogeology.Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci., 52: 1750-1760.

Devito KJ, PJ Dillon. 1993. The influence of hydrologic condition and peat oxia on phosphorous and nitrogen dynamics of a conifer peatland.Water Resour Res., 29(8): 2675-2685.

Devito KJ, PJ Dillon. 1993. The importance of runoff and winter anoxia to the P and N dynamics of a beaver pond. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.,50: 2222-2234.

Devito KJ, PJ Dillon, BD LaZerte. 1989. Phosphorous and nitrogen retention in five Precambrian shield wetlands.Biogeochemistry,8:185-204.

Manuals, Technical and Data Reports:

Carrera-Hernandez JJ, CA Mendoza, KJ Devito, RM Petrone, BD Smerdon.  "Effects of aspen harvesting on groundwater recharge and water table dynamics in the Western Boreal Forest".  63 pages. Alberta-Pacific Forest Products, Report, April 2011.

Devito KJ, Mendoza CA, Silins U, Petrone R, Gan T, Creed I. 2006. Appendix B: A framework for classifying and assessing potential water resources: Comparison with Ft. McMurray. 16 pp. InAppendices to the Guideline for Westland Establishment on Reclaimed Oil Sands Leases Revised (2007) Edition.Cumulative Environmental Management Association. Edmonton, AB.http://www.cemaonline.ca

Devito KJ, Mendoza CA. 2006. Appendix C: Maintenance and dynamics of natural wetlands in western boreal forests: Synthesis of current understanding from the Utikuma Research Study Area, 35 pp. InAppendices to the Guideline for Westland Establishment on Reclaimed Oil Sands Leases Revised (2007) Edition.Cumulative Environmental Management Association. Edmonton, AB.http://www.cemaonline.ca

Devito KJ, CJD Fraser, IF Creed. 2005 Climate and runoff characteristics of a Boreal Plain headwater catchment, Lac La Biche, AB, Canada: implication for forest management. Sustainable Forest Management-NCE report. http://129.128.45.107/english/home/index.htm