Dawn Bazely
Faculty of Pure & Applied Science
Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Faculty of Pure & Applied Science
Lumbers Building, 206B
Tel: 416-736-2100 x22663
E-mail: dbazely@yorku.ca
Research Interests
Ecology and Plant Population Biology, Restoration Ecology
Selected Publications
Myers, J. and Bazely, D.R. 2003. Ecology and Control of Introduced Plants: Evaluating and responding to invasive plants. Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation Series, Cambridge University Press.
McLachlan, S.M., and Bazely, D.R. 2001. Recovery patterns of understory herbs and their use as indicators of deciduous forest regeneration. Conservation Biology: 15: 98–110.
McLachlan, S.M., and Bazely, D.R. 2003. Evaluating the success of deciduous forest restoration in southwestern Ontario, Canada. Biological Conservation. 113: 159–169
Biography
Dawn Rose Ann Bazely is Associate Professor in Biology at York University. She received both her B.Sc. in Biogeography and Environmental Studies and M.Sc. in Botany from the University of Toronto. She completed her Ph.D. in Zoology at Oxford University, UK. Her main area of research is plant–animal interactions. This has included studies of the effect of grazing by lesser snow geese on sub-arctic salt-marshes, foraging behaviour in sheep, plant anti-herbivore defenses and the effects of deer grazing and browsing in Carolinian forests in southern Ontario. She has done field-based research in Scotland, Sweden, Newfoundland and throughout southwestern Ontario.
Bazely is currently a reviewer for journals such as Biological Conservation, Natural History Journal of the Cleveland Museum, American Naturalist, and the Canadian Journal of Botany. She has published over forty articles, chapters, monographs and technical reports.
A trained ecologist, Bazely teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in plant ecology, biological science, population biology, ecology and evolution, ecosystem health. She has supervised over thirty undergraduate students, twelve Master’s students, two Ph.D. candidates and co-supervised three Ph.D. candidates. She has been on countless graduate supervisory committees and examining committees. Bazely was recently awarded the Faculty of Pure and Applied Science, York University, Excellence in Teaching Award.
