Peer-Reviewed publications
Ainley, D.G., G. Ballard, S. Ackley, L.K. Blight, J.T. Eastman, S.D. Emslie, A. Lescroël, S. Olmastroni, S.E. Townsend, C.T. Tynan, P. Wilson, and E.J. Woehler. 2007. Paradigm lost: Or, is top-down forcing no longer significant in the Antarctic marine ecosystem? Antarctic Science 19(3):283-290.
Ainley, D.G., G. Ballard, L.K. Blight, S. Ackley, J.T. Eastman, S.D. Emslie, A. Lescroël, S. Olmastroni, S.E. Townsend, C.T. Tynan, P. Wilson, and E.J. Woehler. 2010. Impacts of cetaceans on the structure of Southern Ocean food webs. Marine Mammal Science 26:482-498.
Ainley, D.G. and L.K. Blight. 2009. Ecological repercussions of historical fish extraction from the Southern Ocean. Fish and Fisheries 10:13-38.
Ban, N.C., L.K. Blight, S.J. Foster, S.K. Morgan and K. O’Donnell. 2008. Pragmatism before prescription for managing global fisheries. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:521.
Blight, L.K. 2011. Egg production in a coastal seabird, the Glaucous-winged Gull (Larus glaucescens) declines during the last century. PLoS ONE 6(7): e22027. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022027.
Blight, L.K. and D.G. Ainley. 2008. Southern Ocean not so pristine. Science: 321:1443.
Blight, L.K. D.G. Ainley, S.F. Ackley, G. Ballard, T. Ballerini, R.L. Brownell Jr., C.-H. C. Cheng, M. Chiantore, D. Costa, M. C. Coulter, P. Dayton, A.L. DeVries, R. Dunbar, S. Earle, J.T. Eastman, S.D. Emslie, C.W. Evans, R.A. Garrott, S. Kim, G. Kooyman, A. Lescroël, M. Lizotte, M. Massaro, S. Olmastroni, P.J. Ponganis, J. Russell, D.B. Siniff, W.O. Smith, Jr., B.S. Stewart, I. Stirling, J. Willis, P. Wilson, and E.J. Woehler. 2010. Fishing for data in the Ross Sea. Science 330:1316.
Blight, L.K., D.F. Bertram, T.D. Williams, and L. Cowen. 2010. Inter-annual variation in egg neglect and incubation routine of the Rhinoceros Auklet Cerorhinca monocerata during the 1998-1999 El Niño/La Niña events. (In press, Marine Ornithology.)
Blight, L.K. and A.E. Burger. 1997. Plastic particles in seabirds from the Eastern North Pacific. Marine Pollution Bulletin 35:323-325.
Blight, L.K., M.D. Fairbarns, N.A. Page, P. Shepherd and R.G. Vennesland. 2010. Conservation strategies for a disappearing plant: pink sand-verbena reintroduction on the west coast of British Columbia. In Bondrup-Nielsen et al. (Eds) Ecosystem-based management: beyond boundaries. Proc 6th Int Conf Sci Manag Protect Areas Assoc, 2007. Sci & Mgmt of Protected Areas Assoc, Wolfville, NS.
Blight, L.K., J.L. Ryder and D.F. Bertram. 1999. Predation on Rhinoceros Auklet eggs by a native population of Peromyscus. Condor 101:871-876.
Blight, L.K., J.L. Smith and J.M. Cooper. 2006. COSEWIC Status report on Black-footed Albatross (Phoebastria nigripes). Report for the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Ottawa, Ontario. Posted version (cited as COSEWIC 2006) available at http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/status/showDocument_e.cfm?id=1418
Blight, L.K. and S. Stevens. 2000. Melanism in King Penguins Aptenodytes patagonicus. Marine Ornithology 28:83.
Blight, L.K. and E.J. Woehler. 2008. First record of a broad-billed prion Pachyptila vittata at Coronation Island, South Orkney Islands. Marine Ornithology 36:193.
Burger, A.E., L.K. Blight, A.D. Lawrence and J.D. Austin. 1997. Radar census of Marbled Murrelets at 14 watersheds in Clayoquot Sound, Vancouver Island. Pacific Seabird (Abstract) 24:11.
Drever, M.C., L.K. Blight, K.A. Hobson and D.F. Bertram. 2000. Predation on seabird eggs by Keen’s mouse (Peromyscus keeni): using stable isotopes to decipher the diet of a terrestrial omnivore on a remote offshore island. Canadian Journal of Zoology 78: 2010-2018.
Erickson, W., K. Paige, R. Thompson and L. Blight. 2007. Effectiveness evaluation for wildlife in British Columbia under the Forest and Range Practices Act. Proceedings of the Monitoring the Effectiveness of Biological Conservation conference, 2-4 November 2004, Richmond, BC. Available at http://www.forrex.org/events/mebc/papers.html
Kleiber, D, L.K. Blight, I.R. Caldwelland A.C.J. Vincent. 2011. The importance of Syngnathidae in the diet of marine animals. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 21:205-223.
Naveen, R., S.C. Forrest, R.G. Dagit, L.K. Blight, W.Z. Trivelpiece and S.G. Trivelpiece. 2000. Censuses of penguin, blue-eyed shag, and southern giant petrel populations in the Antarctic Peninsula region, 1994-2000. Polar Record 36: 323-334.
Naveen, R., S.C. Forrest, R.G. Dagit, L.K. Blight, W.Z. Trivelpiece and S.G. Trivelpiece. 2001. Zodiac landings by tourist ships in the Antarctic Peninsula region, 1989-99. Polar Record 37: 121-132.
Woehler, E.J., L.K. Blight and I. Bullock. 2010. Ornithological observations at Eckener Point, Antarctica. Polar Record 46:279-281.
Other publications
Ainley, D.G., S.F. Ackley, K. Arrigo, G. Ballard,J.P. Barry, L.K. Blight, P. Broady, B. Davidson, P. Dayton, A.L. DeVries, K. Dugger, J.T. Eastman, S.D. Emslie, C. Evans, R.A. Garrott, G. Hofmann, S. Kim, G. Kooyman, S.S. Jacobs, G. Lauriano, A. Lescroël, D.R. MacAyeal, M. Massaro, S. Olmastroni, P.J. Ponganis, E. Robinson, D.B. Siniff, W.O. Smith, I. Stirling, P. Wilson. 2008. CCAMLR please be careful: Letter to Drs Reid, Watters and Jones in regard to “Disappearance of toothfish from McMurdo Sound”. Submission to the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR), Hobart, and the CCAMLR Working Groups on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management, and Fish Stock Assessment. 7 pp.
Blight, L.K. 2008. Journeys to Antarctica. The Reading Room: Cosmopolitics. 3(2):24-28.
Blight, L.K. 2007. UK trip to attend Aberdeen symposium on snake pipefish (Entelurus aequoreus). Project Seahorse newsletter 5(1). Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia.
Blight, L.K. 2006. Antarctic Site Inventory. Newsletter for the Canadian Antarctic Research Network 22:7.
Blight, L.K. 2004. Gap assessment and options report: oil spill preparedness and sea otters in British Columbia. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection and Sea Otter Recovery Team. Victoria and Nanaimo, BC. ix + 70 pp.
Blight, L.K. 2004. Sea otter oil spill response plan for Canada’s Pacific Coast. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection and Sea Otter Recovery Team. Victoria and Nanaimo, BC. vi + 42 pp.
Blight, L.K. 2003. Identified Wildlife Management Strategy: Dromedary Jumping Slug. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Victoria, BC. iii + 22 pp.
Blight, L.K. 2003. Identified Wildlife Management Strategy: Oregon Forestsnail. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Victoria, BC. iii + 18 pp.
Blight, L.K. 2003. Identified Wildlife Management Strategy: Puget Oregonian Snail. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Victoria, BC. iii + 15 pp.
Blight, L.K. and K. Berry. 2011. Surveying colonial seabirds in the Georgia Basin. BC Coastal Waterbirds Survey Newsletter. (In press).
Burger, A.E., L.K. Blight and G. Carrow. 1998. Radar inventory of Marbled Murrelets in Clayoquot Sound in 1996 and 1997. Forest Renewal BC, Inventory Division, and Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Nanaimo, BC.
Burger, A.E., L.K. Blight, A.D. Lawrence and J.D. Austin. 1996. Radar censusing of Marbled Murrelets at 14 watersheds in Clayoquot Sound. Forest Renewal BC, Inventory Division, and Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, Nanaimo, BC.
Burger, A.E., B.R. Smart, L.K. Blight, and J. Hobbs. 2004. Standard methods for identifying and ranking nesting habitat of Marbled Murrelets in British Columbia. Part three: low-level aerial survey methods. Pp. 25-37 in A. Burger (Ed.). Standard methods for identifying and ranking nesting habitat of Marbled Murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus) in British Columbia using air photo interpretation and low-level aerial surveys. BC Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, Victoria and BC Ministry of Forests, Nanaimo. Available at: http://wlapwww.gov.bc.ca/wld/documents/fia_docs/mamu_standard.pdf
Fairbarns, M.D., C. Webb, L.K. Blight, N.A. Page, T. Kaye and J. McIntosh. 2007. Recovery Strategy for the Pink Sand-verbena (Abronia umbellata) in Canada (Final). Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series. Parks Canada Agency, Ottawa. v + 21 pp. Available at: http://www.sararegistry.gc.ca/plans/showDocument_e.cfm?id=1121
Fuchs, M.A., Reader, B., Bennett, R., Blight, L.K., Bryce, C., Costanzo, B., Dunn, M., Ennis, T., Fairbarns, M., Feldman, R., Fleming, T., Fraser, D.F., Gibbard, H.J., Gillespie, T., Hebda, R.J., Junck, C., MacDougall, A., Maslovat, C., Meagher, M.D., Pollard, A., Polster, D., Robinson, A., Sirk, G.P., Stewart, K. 2002. National Recovery Strategy for Garry Oak and Associated Ecosystems and their Associated Species at Risk in Canada: Phase I. Draft: August 2002. Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team, Victoria, BC. Available at www.goert.ca. x + 191 pp.
McClaren, E.L., B. Wijdeven, L.K. Blight, R. Dawson, D. Doyle, F. Doyle, W. Erickson, J. Gray, T. Johnson, B. Johnston, D. Marquis, T. Mahon, S. Muise, P. Schempf, W. Wall, L. Wilhelm and L. Williams. 2006. Draft National Recovery Strategy for the Northern Goshawk laingi subspecies (2007-2012). Recovery of Nationally Endangered Wildlife Committee, Environment Canada, Ottawa, ON. viii + 46 pp.
Smith, J.L., N. Parker, K.H. Morgan, L.K. Blight, M. Chutter, P. Hodum, T. Mawani, D. Cunnington. 2008. Recovery Strategy for the Short-tailed Albatross (Phoebastria albatrus) and Pink-footed Shearwater (Puffinus creatopus) in Canada (Final). Species at Risk Act Recovery Strategy Series. Environment Canada, Ottawa. vii + 40 pp.
Selected Presentations
Ainley, D.G., G. Ballard, S. Ackley, L.K. Blight, J.T. Eastman, S.D. Emslie, A. Lescroël, S. Olmastroni, S.E. Townsend, C.T. Tynan, P. Wilson, and E.J. Woehler. 2007. Paradigm lost, or is top-down forcing no longer significant in the Antarctic marine ecosystem? Poster presentation, 6th International Penguin Conference, Hobart, Tasmania.
Ainley, D.G. and L.K. Blight. 2007. Climate effects on Southern Ocean top predator populations: fisheries depletion is part of the story. Invited keynote address, Pacific Seabird Group Special International Meeting, Lugang, Taiwan, 4 – 7 October.
Blight, L.K. 2011. Stable isotope analysis and reproductive changes reveal 150-year diet shifts by Glaucous-winged gulls Larus glaucescens in North America’s Pacific Northwest. Poster presentation, Advances in Stable Isotope Techniques and Applications workshop, 12 – 15 June, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
Blight, L.K. 2010. Long-term declines in glaucous-winged gull egg and clutch size: using historical ecology in seabird research. Poster presentation, 1st World Seabird Conference, Victoria, Canada, 7 – 12 September.
Blight, L.K. 2010. Are long-term declines in glaucous-winged gull egg and clutch size a response to environmental change? Oral presentation, Oceans Past III, History of Marine Animal Populations conference, 14–18 November, Dublin, Ireland.
Blight, L.K. 2008. Are syngnathid aggregations a substitute prey source in rapidly changing marine ecosystems? Poster presentation, Zoological Society of London Scientific Meeting: “Seahorses and pipefish in the North Sea”, London, UK, 12 February.
Blight, L.K. 2007. What is the role of seahorses and pipefish in seabird diets? Poster presentation, Pacific Seabird Group annual meeting. Asilomar, California.
Blight, L.K. 2000. An experimental test of egg neglect patterns in Rhinoceros Auklets (Cerorhinca monocerata). Oral presentation, Pacific Seabird Group annual meeting, Napa, California.
Blight, L.K. 1999. Depredation of Rhinoceros Auklet eggs by native Peromyscus. Oral presentation, American Ornithologists’ Union annual meeting, Ithaca, New York.
Blight, L.K., C. Ames, P. Arcese, J. Bennett and S.L. Hazlitt. 2009. Applied ecology and evolution in the Arcese Lab. Faculty of Forestry Alumni Reception, Forest Sciences Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
Blight, L.K. and P. Arcese. 2011. Long-term population changes in the Glaucous-winged Gull Larus glaucescens: sentinel for a century of ecosystem change. Oral presentation (invited), Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference, 25 – 27 October, Vancouver, BC, Canada. [Abstract submitted.]
Blight, L.K., M.D. Fairbarns, N.A. Page and P. Shepherd. 2006. Back from the grave? Reintroduction of pink sand-verbena, an extirpated plant. Poster presentation, BC Parks and Protected Areas Research Forum, Victoria, British Columbia.
Blight, L.K., M.D. Fairbarns, N.A. Page, P. Shepherd and R.G. Vennesland. 2007. Conservation strategies for a disappearing plant: pink sand-verbena reintroduction on the west coast of British Columbia. Poster presentation, Science and Management of Protected Areas Association (SAMPAA) conference, 21-26 May, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Fleming, T.A. and L.K. Blight. 2003. Garry oak ecosystems: restoration and invasive shrub removal. Oral presentation, SAMPPA conference, Victoria, British Columbia.
Gedan, K., L.K. Blight and P. Arcese. 2011. Using historical ecology to set targets for management and restoration. Oral presentation, International Marine Conservation Congress, 14 – 18 May, Victoria, BC, Canada.
Shepherd, P., B. Reader and L.K. Blight. 2006. Meeting the challenges of Canada’s Species at Risk Act: Parks Canada’s Pacific Species at Risk Program. Poster presentation, Society for Conservation Biology annual meeting, San Jose, California.