Published Peer Reviewed Publications:

Cairns, N.A., A.S., Cicchino, K.A., Stewart, J.D. Austin and S.C. Lougheed. 2021. Cytonuclear discordance, reticulation and cryptic diversity in one of North America's most common frogs. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Taylor, R.S., Bramwell, A.C., Clemente-Carvalho, R., Cairns, N.A., Bonier, F., Dares, K. and Lougheed, S.C., 2021. Cytonuclear discordance in the crowned-sparrows, Zonotrichia atricapilla and Zonotrichia leucophrys. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 162, p.107216.

Rutherford P.L. and N.A. Cairns. 2020. Sex differences in morphology and habitat use of the smooth green snake. Journal of North American Herpetology. 2020(1):1-7.

Cicchino, A.S., Cairns, N.A., Bulté, G. and Lougheed, S.C., 2020. High and dry: Trade-off in arboreal calling in a treefrog mediated by local environment. Behavioral Ecology, 31(1), pp.132-139.

Cairns, N.A., P.L. Rutherford and D.J. Hoysak. 2019. Morphology, reproduction, habitat use and hibernation of the red-bellied snake (Storeria occipitomaculata) near its northern range limit. The Canadian Field-Naturalist. 132(2):150.

Cairns, N.A., L.J. Stoot, G .Blouin‐ Demers and S.J. Cooke. 2017. Using behavioral observations to develop escape devices for freshwater turtles entrapped in fishing nets. Journal of Fish & Wildlife Management. 8: 4-14.

Gutowsky, L.F.G., L.J. Stoot, N.A. Cairns, J.D. Thiem, J.W. Brownscombe, A.J. Danylchuk, G. Blouin-Demers and S.J. Cooke. 2017. Biologgers reveal post-release behavioural impairments of freshwater turtles following interactions with fishing nets. Animal Conservation. 20: 350-359.

Cicchino A.S., N.A. Cairns, and S.C. Lougheed. 2017. Reproductive phenology of temperate, female frogs: missing data in a changing world. Herpetological Review. 48: 10-15

Midwood, J.D., N.A. Cairns, L.J. Stoot, S.J. Cooke and G. Blouin Demers. 2015. Bycatch ‐mortality can cause extirpation in four freshwater turtle species. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 25:71-­80

Stoot, L.J., N.A. Cairns, F. Morin, F. Cull, J.T. Taylor, J.D. Jeffrey, J.W. Mandelman, T.D. Clark, and S.J. Cooke. 2014.Use of portable blood physiology point-of-care devices for basic and applied research on vertebrates. Conservation Physiology. 2:1-21.

LeDain, M.R.K., S.M. Larocque, L. Stoot, N.A. Cairns, G. Blouin-Demers, and S.J. Cooke. 2013. An assessment of strategies for facilitating recovery of freshwater turtles exhausted from submergence in fishing nets using blood physiology and reflex impairment. Chelonian Conservation and Biology. 12:172-177.

Stoot L.J., N.A. Cairns, G. Blouin-Demers, and S.J. Cooke. 2013. Physiological disturbances and reflex impairment associated with the incidental capture of freshwater turtles in a commercial fyke-net fishery. Endangered Species Research,21: 13–23, 2013.

Nguyen V.M., S.M. Larocque, L.J. Stoot, N.A. Cairns, G. Blouin-Demers and S.J. Cooke. 2013. Perspectives of fishers on turtle bycatch and conservation strategies in a small-scale inland commercial fyke net fishery. Endangered Species Research. 22:11-22.

Cairns N.A., L.J. Stoot, G. Blouin-Demers and S.J. Cooke. 2013. Refinement of bycatch reduction devices to exclude freshwater turtles from commercial fishing nets. Endangered Species Research. 22:251-261.

Notes:

Cairns, N.A., 2021. An observation of scavenging in prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus viridis). The Canadian Herpetologist 11:15.

Cairns K.A., J. Babineau and N.A. Cairns. 2017 Phrynosoma hernandesi (Greater Short-Horned Lizard). Predation. Herpetological Review. 48(4):853

Rutherford, P.L. N.A. Cairns and N.C. Gushulak. 2010. Heterodon nasicus: Diet and prey size. Herpetological Review. 41: 236-237.

Technical Reports:

Lougheed, S.C, L. Peiwen, R. Clemente-Carvalho, Y. Chen, M.K. Hickox and N.A. Cairns. 2020. Using Next Generation Sequencing Data to Test for Distinctiveness of Disjunct Regional Populations of Western and Boreal Chorus Frogs in Canada. Report to Environment and Climate Change Canada. 41 pp.

Didiuk, A., N.A. Cairns and T. Fleming. 2020. Marking of smoothgreen snakes with disposable medical cautery units. Technical Report, Canadian Wildlife Service Prairie Region. 18 pp.

Cairns, N.A., S. Pruss. 2018 Surveys for greater short-horned lizard (Phrynosoma hernandesi) in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan, Canada. Project Summary for Park Canada. Parks Canada.

Midwood, J.D., N.A. Cairns, L.J. Stoot, S.J. Cooke and G. Blouin-Demers. 2013. Modelling the long-term effects of a small-scale freshwater fyke-net fishery on turtle populations relative to use of various bycatch reduction strategies. Project Summary for the Species at Risk Research Fund for Ontario (SARRFO). Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

Popular Publications:

Cairns, N.A., 2020. Life, Change and Philopatry on Bearpaw Shale. Post on the Canadian Herpetological Society's Drift Fence blog, available at: http://canadianherpetology.ca/blog/blog_post.html?id=3

Cairns, N.A., T.J. Clark, J. Janelle, S. Pruss. 2018. Third time’s the charm: Monitoring horned lizards in Canada’s toughest lizard habitat. The Canadian Herpetologist. 8:26-29.

Heisler L., A. Fortney, N.A. Cairns, A. Crosby, C. Sheffield and R. Poulin. 2014. Herpetofauna Observed During the Royal Saskatchewan Museum Bioblitz. The Canadian Herpetologist. 3:10-13.

Cairns, N. and P.L., Rutherford. 2007. Prairie skinks in the Manitoba sandhills: determining a habitat suitability model. The Boreal Dip Net, 11:5-6.