DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska

Papers in Natural Resources

2009

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER WORKS BY R. F. DIFFENDAL, JR., Robert F. Diffendal

Probabilistic movement model with emigration simulates movements of deer in Nebraska, 1990–2006, Charles J. Frost, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Andrew J. Tyre, Kent M. Eskridge, David M. Baasch, Justin R. Boner, Gregory M. Clements, Jason M. Gilsdorf, Travis C. Kinsell, and Kurt C. Vercauteren

Panarchy: Discontinuities Reveal Similarities in the Dynamic System Structure of Ecological and Social Systems, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, and Lance Gunderson

Characterizing the Seasonal Dynamics of Plant Community Photosynthesis Across a Range of Vegetation Types, Lianhong Gu, Wilfred M. Post, Dennis D. Baldocchi, T. Andrew Black, Andrew E. Suyker, Shashi Verma, Timo Vesala, and Steve C. Wofsy

Albedo estimates for land surface models and support for a new paradigm based on foliage nitrogen concentration, David Y. Hollinger, S. V. Ollinger, A. D. Richardson, T. P. Meyers, D. B. Dail, M. E. Martin, N. A. Scott, T. J. Arkebauer, D. D. Baldocchi, K. L. Clark, P. S. Curtis, K. J. Davis, A. R. Desai, D. Dragoni, M. L. Goulden, L. Gu, G. G. Katul, S. G. Pallardy, K. T. Pawu, H. P. Schmid, P. C. Stoy, Andrew E. Suyker, and Shashi Verma

Tree canopy effect on grass and grass/legume mixtures in eastern Nebraska, Michael El. L. Perry, Walter A. Schacht, Gregory A. Ruark, and James R. Brandle

Avian Foraging Patterns in Crop Field Edges Adjacent to Woody Habitat, Heidi L. Puckett, James R. Brandle, Ron J. Johnson, and Erin E. Blankenship

Retrieval of Foliar Information about Plant Pigment Systems from High Resolution Spectroscopy, Susan L. Ustin, Anatoly A. Gitelson, Stéphane Jacquemoud, Michael Schaepman, Gregory P. Asner, John A. Gamon, and Pablo Zarco-Tejada

Nutrient Uptake and Mineralization during Leaf Decay in Streams – A Model Simulation, J. R. Webster, J. D. Newbold, Steven A. Thomas, and P. J. Mulholland

2008

Parasites as probes for prehistoric human migrations? (galley proofs), Adauto Araújo, Karl J. Reinhard, Luiz F. Ferreira, and Scott L. Gardner

Remediating Explosive-Contaminated Groundwater by in situ Redox Manipulation (ISRM) of Aquifer Sediments, H.K. Boparai, Steven Comfort, Patrick J. Shea, and J.E. Szecsody

A bioenergetic model for zebrafish Danio rerio (Hamilton), C. J. Chizinski, B. Sharma, Kevin L. Pope, and R. Patinos

A bioenergetic model for zebrafish Danio rerio (Hamilton), C. J. Chizinski, B. Sharma, K. L. Pope, Kevin L. Pope, and R. Patinos

Lifestyle of Shellmound Builders in Brazil (galley proofs), Sabine Eggers, C. C. Petronilho, K. Brandt, J. Filippini, and Karl J. Reinhard

A Simple Morphological Predictor of Bite Force in Rodents, Patricia W. Freeman and Cliff A. Lemen

Power laws, Discontinuities and Regional City Size Distributions, Ahjond S. Garmestan; Craig R. Allen; and nC~ol,in M. Gallagher

A Tick From a Prehistoric Arizona Coprolite (Galley Proofs), Keith L. Johnson, Karl J. Reinhard, Luciana Sianto, Adauto Araújo, Scott L. Gardner, and John J. Janovy

Parasite Pathoecology of Chacoan Great Houses: The Healthiest and Wormiest Ancestral Puebloans, Karl J. Reinhard

Chinese Liver Flukes in Latrine Sediments From Wong Nim’s Property, San Bernardino, California: Archaeoparasitology of the Caltrans District Headquarters (Galley Proofs), Karl J. Reinhard, Adauto Araújo, Luciana Sianto, Julia G. Costello, and Karen Swope

Pathoecology and the Future of Coprolite Studies in Bioarchaeology, Karl J. Reinhard and Vaughn M. Bryant Jr.

Evaluating chloroplast DNA in prehistoric Texas coprolites: medicinal, dietary, or ambient ancient DNA? (Galley Proofs), Karl J. Reinhard, Sérgio M. Chaves, John G. Jones, and Alena M. Iñiguez

Phylotyping and Functional Analysis of Two Ancient Human Microbiomes, Raúl Y. Tito; Simone Macmil; Graham Wiley; Fares Najar; Lauren Cleeland; Chunmei Qu; Ping Wang; Frederic Romagne; Sylvain Leonard; Agustín Jiménez Ruiz; Karl Reinhard; Bruce A. Roe; and Cecil M. Lewis, Jr.

A test of the cross-scale resilience model: Functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems, Donald A. Wardwell, Craig R. Allen, Garry D. Peterson, and Andrew J. Tyre

Estimation of Net Ecosystem Carbon Exchange for the Conterminous United States by Combining MODIS and AmeriFlux Data, Jingfeng Xiao, Qianlai Zhuang, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Beverly E. Law, Andrew D. Richardson, Jiquan Chen, Ram Oren, Gregory Starr, Asko Noormets, Siyan Ma, Shashi Verma, Sonia Wharton, Steven C. Wofsy, Paul V. Bolstad, Sean P. Burns, David R. Cook, Peter S. Curtis, Bert G. Drake, Matthias Falk, Marc L. Fischer, David R. Foster, Lianhong Gu, Julian L. Hadley, David Y. Hollinger, Gabriel G. Katul, Marcy Litvak, Timothy A. Martin, Roser Matamala, Steve McNulty, Tilden P. Meyers, Russell K. Monson, J. William Munger, Walter C. Oechel, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Hans Peter Schmid, Russell L. Scott, Ge Sun, Andrew E. Suyker, and Margaret S. Torn

2007

Interactions Across Spatial Scales among Forest Dieback, Fire, and Erosion in Northern New Mexico Landscapes, Craig D. Allen

Parasite findings in archeological remains: Diagnosis and interpretation, Adauto Arajuo, Karl J. Reinhard, and Luiz Fernando Ferreira

Dental wash: a problematic method for extracting microfossils from teeth (galley proofs), Célia H. C. Boyadjian, Sabine Eggers, and Karl J. Reinhard

The trade-off between tooth strength and tooth penetration: Predicting optimal shape of canine teeth, Patricia W. Freeman and Cliff A. Lemen

Departures from Gibrat’s Law, Discontinuities and City Size Distributions, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Colin M. Gallagher, and John Mittelstaedt

Ground Water Dependence of Endangered Ecosystems: Nebraska’s Eastern Saline Wetlands, F. Edwin Harvey, Jerry F. Ayers, and David C. Gosselin

Linking flux network measurements to continental scale simulations: ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange capacity under non-water-stressed conditions, Katherine B. Owen, John Tenhunen, Markus Reichstein, Quan Wang, Eva Falge, Ralf Geyer, Xiangming Xiaos, Paul Stoy, Christof Ammann, Altaf Arain, Marc Aubinet, Mika Aurela, Christian Bernhofer, Bogdan Chojnicki, Andre Granier, Thomas Gruenwald, Julian Hadley, Bernard Heinesch, David Hollinger, Alexander Knohl, Werner Kutsch, Annalea Lohila, Tilden Meyers, Eddy Moors, Christine Moureaux, Kim Pilegaard, Nobuko Saigusa, Shashi Verma, Timo Vesala, and Chris Vogel

Hunter-gatherer Use of Small Animal Food Resources: Coprolite Evidence, Karl J. Reinhard, J. R. Ambler, and C. R. Szuter

Comment on Reinterpreting the Pollen Data from Dos Cabezas, Karl J. Reinhard, Vaughn M. Bryant, and Sheila Dorsey Vinton

Reinterpreting the Pollen Data from Dos Cabezas, Karl J. Reinhard, Vaughn M. Bryant, and Sheila D. Vinton

Soil carbon and tree litter dynamics in a red cedar–scotch pine shelterbelt, Thomas J. Sauer, Cynthia A. Cambardella, and James R. Brandle

2006

Monitoring Sustainability in Tropical Forests: How Changes in Canopy Spatial Pattern Can Indicate Forest Stands for Biodiversity Surveys, Naikoa Aguilar and Geoffrey Henobry

Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative hypotheses, Craig R. Allen, A. S. Garmestani, T. D. Havlicek, P. A. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. A. Stow, and B. E. Weeks

ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF TWO NATIVE INVASIVE WOODY SPECIES AND TWO DOMINANT WARM-SEASON GRASSES IN THE SEMIARID GRASSLANDS OF THE NEBRASKA SANDHILLS, Kathleen D. Eggemeyer, Tala Awada, David A. Wedin, F. Edwin Harvey, and Xinhua Zhou

An experimental approach to modeling the strength of canine teeth, Patricia W. Freeman and Cliff A. Lemen

Puncturing ability of idealized canine teeth: edged and non-edged shanks, Patricia W. Freeman and Cliff A. Lemen

Assistance With Wildlife Damage Problems in Nebraska, Scott E. Hygnstrom, John M. Hobbs, James G. Bruner, James Weverka, Dallas R. Virchow, and Dennis M. Ferraro

Planning for robust reserve networks using uncertainty analysis, Atte Moilanen, Michael C. Runge, Jane Elith, Andrew Tyre, Yohay Carmel, Eric Fegraus, Brendan A. Wintle, Mark Burgman, and Yakov Ben-Haim

Planning for robust reserve networks using uncertainty analysis, Atte Moilanen, Michael Runge, Jane Elith, Andrew Tyre, Yohay Carmel, Eric Fegraus, Brendan A. Wintle, Mark A. Burgman, and Yakov Ben-Haim

A multi-site analysis of random error in tower-based measurements of carbon and energy fluxes, Andrew D. Richardson, David Y. Hollinger, George C. Burba, Kenneth J. Davis, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Gabriel G. Katul, J. William Munger, Daniel M. Ricciuto, Paul C. Stoy, Andrew E. Suyker, Shashi Verma, and Steven C. Wofsy

Price elasticity reconsidered: Panel estimation of an agricultural water demand function, Karina Schoengold, David L. Sunding, and Georgina Moreno

Technical documentation for the approximate point locations and year of collection for over 50,000 specimens in the University of Michigan Herbarium's Michigan Flora database, Rachel A. Simpson

Bat House Construction and Installation, Stephen Vantassel, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Ron J. Johnson, and Dennis Ferraro

2005

Vertical movement of water in a High Plains Aquifer induced by a pumping well, Xunhong Chen, YanFeng Yin, J. W. Goeke, and Robert F. Diffendal

SELECTIVE BREEDING FOR HIGH ENDURANCE RUNNING INCREASES HINDLIMB SYMMETRY, Theodore Garland Jr. and Patricia W. Freeman

Objective Threshold Determination for Nighttime Eddy Flux Filtering, Lianhong Gu, Eva M. Falge, Tom Boden, Dennis D. Baldocchi, T.A. Black, Scott R. Saleska, Tanja Suni, Shashi Verma, Timo Vesala, Steve C. Wofsy, and Liukang Xu

Apparent soil electrical conductivity: applications for designing and evaluating field-scale experiments, C. K. Johnson, Kent M. Eskridge, and D. L. Corwin

Pervasiveness of Phytoliths in Prehistoric Southwestern Diet and Implications for Regional and Temporal Trends for Dental Microwear, Karl J. Reinhard and Dennis R. Danielson

Freshwater Mussel Survey of the 39-Mile District - Missouri National Recreational River, South Dakota and Nebraska, Jeff Shearer, Doug Backlund, and Stephen K. Wilson

The Finding of Echinostoma (Trematoda: Digenea) and Hookworm Eggs in Coprolites Collected From a Brazilian Mummified Body Dated 600–1,200 Years Before Present, L. Sianto, Karl J. Reinhard, M. Chame, S. Chaves, S. Mendonça, M. L. C. Gonçalves, A. Fernandes, L. F. Ferreira, and A. Araújo

Description of a database support tool for retrospective georeferencing of natural history museum specimen collections, Rachel A. Simpson and Jeremy B. Young

Evaluating the Simulation of a Simple Hydrology Model Using Long-Term Soil Moisture Measurements in the Nebraska Sand Hills, V. Sridhar, Kenneth Hubbard, and David A. Wedin

The Use of Pricing and Markets for Water Allocation, David Zilberman and Karina Schoengold

2004

Lewis and Clark State Park Signs, Robert F. Diffendal and Les Howard

Propane exploders and Electronic Guards were ineffective at reducing deer damage in cornfields, Jason M. Gilsdorf, Scott E. Hygnstrom, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Erin E. Blankenship, and Richard M. Engeman

Evaluation of a deer-activated bio-acoustic frightening device for reducing deer damage in cornfields, Jason M. Gilsdorf, Scott E. Hyngstrom, Kurt C. VerCauteren, Greg M. Clements, Erin E. Blankenship, and Richard M. Engeman

Response of Nebraska Sand Hills Natural Vegetation to Drought, Fire, Grazing, and Plant Functional Type Shifts as Simulated by the Century Model, Jennifer Mangan, Jonathan T. Overpeck, Robert S. Webb, Carol Wessman, and Alexander Goetz

2003

Parasitism, the Diversity of Life, and Paleoparasitology, Adauto Adauto Araújo, Ana M. Jansen, Françoise Bouchet, Karl J. Reinhard, and Luiz F. Ferreira

Parasite Remains in Archaeological Sites, Françoise Bouchet, Niéde Guidon, Katharina Dittmar, Stephanie Harter, Luiz F. Ferreira, Sérgio A.M. Chaves, Karl J. Reinhard, and Adauto Araújo

Inca Expansion and Parasitism in the Lluta Valley: Preliminary Data, Santoro Calagero, Karl J. Reinhard, and Sheila D. Vinton

Paleopharmacology and Pollen: Theory, Method, and Application, Sérgio A.M. Chaves and Karl J. Reinhard

Lewis and Clark and the Geology of Nebraska and Parts of Adjacent States, Robert F. Diffendal and Anne P. Diffendal

Techniques of DNA-studies on Prehispanic Ectoparasites (Pulex sp., Pulicidae, Siphonaptera) from Animal Mummies of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru, Katharina Dittmar, U. Mammat, M. Whiting, Sonia Guillén, Karl J. Reinhard, and T Goldmann

Using Earth Science Research Projects to Develop Collaboration Between Scientists at a Research University and K-12 Educators: Insights for Future Efforts, David C. Gosselin, Richard Levy, and Ronald J. Bonnstetter

Enterobius vermicularis: Ancient DNA from North and South American Coprolites, Alena M. Iñiguez, Karl J. Reinhard, Adauto Araújo, Luiz F. Ferreira, and Ana Carolina P. Vicente

Pathoecology of Chiribaya Parasitism, Elizabeth Martinson, Karl J. Reinhard, Jane E. Buikstra, and Katharina Dittmar de la Cruz

In-Field Labeling of Western Corn Rootworm Adults (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with Rubidium, Timothy M. Nowatzki, Bradley Niimi, Kelli J. Warren, Sean Putnam, Lance J. Meinke, David C. Gosselin, F. Edwin Harvey, Thomas E. Hunt, and Blair Siegfried

Louse Infestation of the Chiribaya Culture, Southern Peru: Variation in Prevalence by Age and Sex, Karl J. Reinhard and Jane E. Buikstra

A Case of Megacolon in Rio Grande Valley as a Possible Case of Chagas Disease, Karl J. Reinhard, Thomas M. Fink, and Jack Skiles

Diagnosing Ancient Diphyllobothriasis from Chinchorro Mummies, Karl J. Reinhard and Otto Urban

Ecomorphology of Bats: Comparative and Experimental Approaches Relating Structural Design to Ecology, Sharon M. Swartz, Patricia W. Freeman, and Elizabeth F. Stockwell

2002

Field Guide to the Geology of the Harlan County Lake Area, Harlan County, Nebraska — with a History of Events Leading to Construction of Harlan County Dam, Robert F. Diffendal, Duane R. Mohlman, Richard G. Corner, F. Edwin Harvey, K. J. Warren, Scott Summerside, Roger K. Pabian, and Duane A. Eversoll

Seasonality of ecosystem respiration and gross primary production as derived from FLUXNET measurements, Eva Falge, Dennis Baldocchi, John Tenhunen, Marc Aubinet, Peter Bakwin, Paul Berbigier, Christian Bernhofer, George Burba, Robert Clement, Kenneth J. Davis, Jan A. Elbers, Allen H. Goldstein, Achim Grelle, Andre Granier, Jon Gundmundsson, David Hollinger, Andrew S. Kowalski, Gabriel Katul, Beverly E. Law, Yadvinder Malhi, Tilden Meyers, Russell K. Monson, J. William Munger, Walt Oechel, Kyaw Tha Paw U, Kim Pilegaard, Ullar Rannik, Corinna Rebmann, Andrew E. Suyker, Riccardo Valentini, Kell Wilson, and Steve Wofsy

Phase and amplitude of ecosystem carbon release and uptake potentials as derived from FLUXNET measurements, Eva Falge, John Tenhunen, Dennis Baldocchi, Marc Aubinet, Peter Bakwin, Paul Berbigier, Christian Bernhofer, Jean-Marc Bonnefond, George Burba, Robert Clement, Kenneth J. Davis, Jan A. Elbers, Matthias Falk, Allen H. Goldstein, Achim Grelle, Andre Granier, Thomas Grunwald, Jon Gundmondsson, David Hollinger, Ivan A. Janssens, Petri Keronen, Andrew S. Kowalski, Gabriel Katul, Beverly E. Law, Yadvinder Malhi, Tilden Meyers, Russell K. Monson, Eddy Moors, J. William Munger, Walt Oechel, KyawTha Paw U, Kim Pilegaard, Ullar Rannik, Corinna Rebmann, Andrew E. Suyker, Halldor Thorgeirsson, Giampiero Tirone, Andrew Turnipseed, Kell Wilson, and Steve Wofsy

Vadose Zone Processes and Chemical Transport, H. M. Gaber, Steven Comfort, Patrick J. Shea, and Thomas A. Machacek

Novel Algorithms for Remote Estimation of Vegetation Fraction, Anatoly A. Gitelson, Yoram J. Kaufman, Robert Stark, and Don Rundquist

Pre-/Post-Knowledge Assessment of an Earth Science Course for Elementary/Middle School Education Majors, David C. Gosselin and Joy L. Macklem-Hurst

Call parameters and facial features in bats: a surprising failure of form following function, Amanda Goudy-Trainor and Patricia W. Freeman

Structural and Geomorphological Evolution of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), Anhui Province, China, Pei-Hua Huang, Robert F. Diffendal, and Ming-Qing Yang

Quality Control for USDA NRCS SM–ST Network Soil Temperatures: A Method and a Dataset, Q. Steven Hu, Song Feng, and Garry Schaefer

Prairie Dogs and the Prairie Ecosystem, Scott E. Hygnstrom and Dallas R. Virchow

Environmental controls over carbon dioxide and water vapor exchange of terrestrial vegetation, B. E. Law, E. Falge, L. Gu, D. D. Baldocchi, P. Bakwin, P. Berbigier, K. Davis, A. J. Dolman, M. Falk, J. D. Fuentes, A. Goldstein, A. Granier, A. Grelle, D. Hollinger, I. A. Janssens, P. Jarvis, N. O. Jensen, G. Katul, K. Mahli, G. Matteucci, T. Meyers, R. Monson, W. Munger, W. Oechel, R. Olson, K. Pilegaard, K. T. Paw U, H. Thorgeirsson, R. Valentini, Shashi Verma, T. Vesala, K. Wilson, and S. Wofsy

Effect of Time of Temperature Observation and Estimation of Daily Solar Radiation for the Northern Great Plains, USA, Rezaul Mahmood and Kenneth Hubbard

Crab Louse Infestation in Pre-Columbian America, F. M. Rick, G. C. Rocha, K. Dittmar, C. E. A. Coimbra Jr., Karl J. Reinhard, F. Bouchet, L. F. Ferreira, and A. Araújo

Energy Balance Closure at FLUXNET Sites, Kell Wilson, Allen Goldstein, Eva Falge, Marc Aubinet, Dennis Baldocchi, Paul Berbigier, Christian Bernhofer, Reinhart Ceulemans, Han Dolman, Chris Field, Achim Grelle, Andreas Ibrom, B.E. Law, Andy Kowalski, Tilden Meyers, John Moncrieff, Russ Monson, Walter Oechel, John Tenhunen, Shashi Verma, and Riccardo Valentini

2001

Field-Scale Remediation of a Metolachlor-Contaminated Spill Site Using Zerovalent Iron, Steven Comfort, Patrick J. Shea, Thomas A. Machacek, H. Gaber, and B.-T. Oh

Gap filling strategies for defensible annual sums of net ecosystem exchange, Eva Falge, Dennis Baldocchi, Richard Olson, Peter Anthoni, Marc Aubinet, Christian Bernhofer, George Burba, Reinhart Ceulemans, Robert Clement, Han Dolman, Andre Grainer, Thomas Grunwald, David Hollinger, Niels-Otto Jensen, Gabriel Katul, Petri Keronen, Andrew Kowalski, Chun Ta Lai, Beverly E. Law, Tilden Meyers, Jon Moncrieff, Eddy Moors, J. William Munger, Kim Pilegaard, Ullar Rannik, Corinna Rebmann, Andrew E. Suyker, John Tenhunen, Kevin Tu, Shashi Verma, Timo Vesala, Kell Wilson, and Steve Wofsy

Gap filling strategies for long term energy flux data sets, Eva Falge, Dennis Baldocchi, Richard Olson, Peter Anthoni, Marc Aubinet, Christian Bernhofer, George Burba, Reinhart Ceulemans, Robert Clement, Han Dolman, Andre Granier, Patrick Gross, Thomas Grunwald, David Hollinger, Niels-Otto Jensen, Gabriel Katul, Petri Keronen, Andrew Kowalski, Chun Ta Lai, Beverly E. Law, Tilden Meyers, John Moncrieff, Eddy Moors, J. William Munger, Kim Pilegaard, Ullar Rannik, Corinna Rebmann, Andrew E. Suyker, John Tenhunen, Kevin Tu, Shashi Verma, Timo Vesala, Kell Wilson, and Steve Wofsy

EVOLUTION OF A SCIENTIFIC MEETING: EIGHTY ANNUAL MEETINGS OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAMMALOGISTS, 1919–2000, Hugh H. Genoways and Patricia W. Freeman

Geochemical Evolution of Ground Water in the Great Plains (Dakota) Aquifer of Nebraska: Implications for the Management of a Regional Aquifer System, David C. Gosselin, F. Edwin Harvey, and Carol D. Frost

Comparison of Instream Methods for Measuring Hydraulic Conductivity in Sandy Streambeds, Matthew K. Landon, David L. Rus, and F. Edwin Harvey

Do species and functional groups differ in acquisition and use of C, N and water under varying atmospheric CO₂ and N availability regimes? A field test with 16 grassland species, Peter B. Reich, David Tilman, Joseph Craine, David Ellsworth, Mark G. Tjoelker, Johannes M. N. Knops, David A. Wedin, Shahid Naeem, Dan Bahauddin, Jenny Goth, Wendy Bengtson, and Tali D. Lee