Education

Postdoctoral Researcher, Biology, Trent University, 2006-2008
Ph.D., Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, 2006
M.Sc., Zoology, University of Guelph, 2002
Advanced Diploma, Marine Geomatics, College of Geographic Sciences, 2000
B.Sc., Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, 1999

Research Expertise

• Landscape ecology
• Spatial statistics
• Aquatic ecology
• Limnology
• Malacology

Selected Publications

• Spooner,  D.E., Xenopoulos, M.A., Schneider, C., and D.A. Woolnough. 2010. Co-extinction of host-affiliate fish mussel relationships in rivers from climate change and water withdrawal. Global Change Biology. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02372.x

• Downing, J.A., VanMeter, P. and D.A. Woolnough. 2010. Suspects and evidence: a review of the causes of decline and extirpation in freshwater mussels. Animal Biodiversity and Conservation. 33(2): 151-182.

• Zanatta, D.T., and D.A. Woolnough ( in press). Confirmation of Obovaria olivaria, Olive Hickorynut mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae), in the MIssissagi River, Ontario Canada. North Eastern Naturalist. Manuscript No: NEN-896.
• Woolnough, D.A., J.A. Downing, and T.J. Newton. 2009. Fish movement and habitat use depends on water body size and shape. Ecology of Freshwater Fish. 18: 83-91.
• Newton, T.J., D.A. Woolnough, and D.L. Strayer. 2008. Using landscape ecology to understand freshwater mussel populations. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 27 (2):224-239.
• Zanatta, D.T., G.L. Mackie, J.L. Metcalfe-Smith and D.A. Woolnough. 2002. A refuge for native freshwater mussels (Bivalvia: Unionidae) from impacts of the exotic zebra mussel ( Dreissena polymorpha) in Lake St. Clair. J. Great Lakes Res. 28(3): 479-489.