Recent Preprints

Tracking interlinked microbial and geochemical succession over decades in landfilled municipal solid waste

Kimber E. Munford, Daniel S. Gregoire, Laura A. Hug

bioRxiv, 2026. doi:10.64898/2026.02.10.705041

Drought-driven acidification mobilizes legacy uranium across a contaminated wetland landscape

Kimber E. Munford, Spencer Gilbert-Parkes, Susan Glasauer, Nathan Basiliko, Shaun A. Watmough

bioRxiv, 2026. doi:10.2139/ssrn.6499592


Publications

2025

The Impacts of Ethanol and Freeze–Thaw Cycling on Arsenic Mobility in a Contaminated Boreal Wetland

Joseph Radford, Kimber E. Munford, Nadia C.S. Mykytczuk, Susan Glasauer

Soil Systems, 9(2), 337. doi:10.3390/soilsystems9020037

2024

Effects of large-scale restoration on understory plant communities in an industrial landscape

Kimber E. Munford, William Humphrey, Patrick A. Levasseur, Peter Beckett, Shaun A. Watmough

Botany, 102(9), 366-378. doi:10.1139/cjb-2024-0015

Below ground chemical and microbial community responses of wood ash addition to a hardwood forest in central Ontario

Edward Smith, Nathan Basiliko, M. Catherine Eimers, Kimber E. Munford, Paul Hazlett, Shaun A. Watmough

Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 54(11), 1328-1338. doi:10.1139/cjfr-2024-0075

2023

How arsenic contamination influences downslope wetland plant and microbial community structure and function

Kimber E. Munford, Spencer Gilbert-Parkes, Nadia C.S. Mykytczuk, Nathan Basiliko, Kurt M. Yakimovich, Alexandre Poulain, Shaun A. Watmough

The Science of the Total Environment, 876, 162839. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.162839

2022

Shifts in soil phosphorus fractions during seasonal transitions in a riparian floodplain wetland

Jacob Coppolino, Kimber E. Munford, Merrin L. Macrae, Susan Glasauer

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10-2022. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2022.983129

2021

Native plants facilitate vegetation succession on amended and unamended mine tailings

Kimber E. Munford, Asma Asemaninejad, Nathan Basiliko, Nadia C.S. Mykytczuk, Susan Glasauer, Samantha McGarry, Shaun A. Watmough

International Journal of Phytoremediation, 24(9), 963-974. doi:10.1080/15226514.2021.1987382

Paper Birch (Betula papyrifera) Nutrient Resorption Rates on Nutrient-Poor Metal-Contaminated Soils and Mine Tailings

Kimber E. Munford, Maria Casamatta, Nathan Basiliko, Susan Glasauer, Nadia C.S. Mykytczuk, Shaun A. Watmough

Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 232(1). doi:10.1007/s11270-020-04975-3

2020

Structure of microbial communities in amended and unamended acid-generating mine wastes along gradients of soil amelioration and revegetation

Asma Asemaninejad, Kimber E. Munford, Shaun A. Watmough, Daniel Campbell, Susan Glasauer, Nathan Basiliko, Nadia Mykytczuk

Applied Soil Ecology, 155, 103645. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2020.103645

Edaphic factors influencing vegetation colonization and encroachment on arsenical gold mine tailings near Sudbury, Ontario

Kimber E. Munford, Shaun A. Watmough, Maxime Rivest, Alexandre Poulain, Nathan Basiliko, Nadia C.S. Mykytczuk

Environmental Pollution, 264, 114680. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2020.114680

2016

Seasonal Nearshore Occurrence of the Neurotoxin β N methylamino L alanine (BMAA) in Lake Winnipeg, Canada

Eva Pip, Kimber E. Munford

Environment and Pollution, 5(1), 110-118. doi:10.1016/10.5539/ep.v5n1p110