2024
Publications and Other Works by R. F. Diffendal, Jr., Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
2023
Coupling dendroecological and remote sensing techniques to assess the biophysical traits of Juniperus virginiana and Pinus ponderosa within the Semi-Arid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills, R. Allen, Anastasios Mazis, Brian Wardlow, P. Cherubini, J. Hiller, David A. Wedin, and Tala Awada
Connecting distinct realms along multiple dimensions: A meta-ecosystem resilience perspective, David G. Angeler, Jani Heino, Juan Rubio-Ríos, and J. Jesús Casas
Trade-Offs between Temperature and Fitness in Euschistus heros (Fabricius) (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae): Implications for Mass Rearing and Field Management, Ana Paula Frugeri Barrufaldi, Rafael Hayashida, William Wyatt Hoback, Leon G. Higley, Jose Romario de Carvalho, and Regiane Cristina de Oliveira
Drought Influences Annual Survival of Painted Turtles in Western Nebraska, Allyson N. Beard and Larkin Powell
The ecology of human-caused mortality for a protected large carnivore, John F. Benson, Kyle D. Dougherty, Paul Beier, Walter M. Boyce, Bogdan Cristescu, Daniel J. Gammons, David K. Garcelon, J. Mark Higley, Quinton E. Martins, Anna C. Nisi, Seth P. D. Riley, Jeff A. Sikich, Thomas R. Stephenson, T. Winston Vickers, Greta M. Wengert, Christopher C. Wilmers, Heiko U. Wittmer, and Justin A. Dellinger
Functional connectivity varies across scales in a fragmented landscape, Kate I. T. Bird, Daniel R. Uden, and Craig R. Allen
Boundary spanning in the context of stakeholder engagement in collaborative water management, Mark E. Burbach, Weston M. Eaton, and Jodi L. Delozier
Foundational conditions enabling participatory river management in watersheds of two regulatorily disparate states: A mixed methods study, M. E. Burbach, S. Kennedy, W. M. Eaton, and K. J. Brasier
The influence of place attachment on farmers’ succession plans: A mixed methods Study, M. E. Burbach, S. M. Kennedy, and S. J. Kunert
Biological Case Against Downlisting the Whooping Crane and for Improving Implementation under the Endangered Species Act, Andrew J. Caven, Hillary L. Thompson, David M. Baasch, Barry K. Hartup, Amanda M. Hegg, Stephanie M. Schmidt, Irvin Louque, Craig R. Allen, Carter G. Crouch, Craig A. Davis, Joel G. Jorgensen, Jane E. Austin, Bethany L. Ostrom, Richard D. Beilfuss, George W. Archibald, and Anne E. Lacy
Drought stress prediction and propagation using time series modeling on multimodal plant image sequences, Sruti Das Choudhury, Sinjoy Saha, Ashok Samal, Anastasios Mazis, and Tala Awada
Global projections of flash drought show increased risk in a warming climate, Jordan I. Christian, Elinor R. Martin, Jeffrey B. Basara, Jason C. Furtado, Jason A. Otkin, Lauren E. L. Lowman, Eric D. Hunt, Vimal Mishra, and Xiangming Xiao
How resilience is framed matters for governance of coastal social-ecological systems, Sarah Clement, Javad Jozaei, Michael Mitchell, Craig R. Allen, and Ahjond S. Garmestani
Response of lake metabolism to catchment inputs inferred using high-frequency lake and stream data from across the northern hemisphere, Jessica R. Corman, Jacob A. Zwart, Jennifer Klug, Denise A. Bruesewitz, Elvira de Eyto, Marcus Klaus, Lesley B. Knoll, James A. Rusak, Michael J. Vanni, María Belén Alfonso, Rocio Luz Fernandez, Huaxia Yao, Kari Austnes, Raoul-Marie Couture, Heleen A. de Wit, Jan Karlsson, and Alo Laas
What is the Priestley–Taylor wet-surface evaporation parameter? Testing four hypotheses, Richard D. Crago, Jozsef Szilagyi, and Russell J. Qualls
Diversity, distribution, and methodological considerations of haemosporidian infections among Galliformes in Alaska, Faith De Amaral, Robert E. Wilson, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, and Ravinder Sehgal
The Broadwater Formation (Pliocene) of Nebraska and Southeastern Wyoming, Robert F. Diffendal Jr. and James B. Swinehart
Spot-fire distance increases disproportionately for wildfires compared to prescribed fires as grasslands transition to Juniperus woodlands, Victoria M. Donovan, Dillon T. Fogarty, and Dirac L. Twidwell Jr
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawn survival and the influence of landscape characteristics on fawn predation risk in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA, Adam C. Edge, Jacalyn P. Rosenberger, Cheyenne J. Yates, Andrew R. Little, Charlie H. Killmaster, Kristina L. Johannsen, David A. Osborn, John C. Kilgo, Karl V. Miller, and Gino J. D’Angelo
Invertebrate metrics based on few abundant taxa outperform functional and taxonomic composition as indicators of agricultural impacts in Atlantic rainforest streams, Rafael Feijó‑Lima, Steven A. Thomas, Flavia Tromboni, Eugenia Zandonà, Eduardo F. Silva‑Junior, and Timothy P. Moulton
Revisiting the carbon–biodiversity connection, John Gamon
Combining cosmic-ray neutron sensor and fallout 137Cs to explore the connection of soil water content with soil redistribution in an agroforestry hillslope, Leticia Gaspar, Trenton E. Franz, Arturo Catalá, Iván Lizaga, María Concepción Ramos, and Ana Navas
Understanding the soil water dynamics during excess and deficit rainfall conditions over the core monsoon zone of India, Mangesh M. Goswami, Milind Mujumdar1, Bhupendra Bahadur Singh, Madhusudan Ingale, Naresh Ganeshi, Manish Ranalkar, Trenton E. Franz, Prashant Srivastav, Dev Niyogi, R Krishnan, and S N. Patil
Early Career Aquatic Scientists Forge New Connections at Eco-DAS XV, Olivia J. Graham, Alia Al-Haj, Eleanor C. Arrington, Emily R. Arsenault, Carolina C. Barbosa, Kadir Bice, Evie Brahmstedt, S. River D. Bryant, Xun Cai, Stacy Calhoun-Grosch, Joshua Culpepper, Katherine Dale, Derek J. Detweiler, Katlin D. Doughty, Kyle A. Emery, Kara Gadeken, Laura Griffiths, Atefeh Hosseini, Catriona Jones, Hadis Miraly, Alexander W. Mott, Karla Münzner, Igor Ogashawara, Carly R. Olson, Joseph S. Rabaey, Walter A. Rich, Phoenix A. Rogers, Meredith Evans Seeley, Lorena Selak, Qipei Shangguan, Kelsey J. Solomon, Xinyu Sun, Spencer J. Tassone, Audrey Thellman, John Tracey, Jilian Xiong, and Tianfei Xue
Identifying untapped legal capacity to promote multi‑level and cross‑sectoral coordination of natural resource governance, Nicola Harvey; Utrecht University, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Emory University; Craig R. Allen; Anoeska Buijze; and Marleen van Rijswick
A Review of User Perceptions of Drought Indices and Indicators Used in the Diverse Climates of North America, R. R. Heim Jr, D. Bathke, B. Bonsal, E. W. Cooper, T. Hadwen, K. Kodama, D. McEvoy, M. Muth, J. W. Nielsen-Gammon, H. R. Prendeville, and R. P. Ramirez
Mass spectrometry of the white adipose metabolome in a hibernating mammal reveals seasonal changes in alternate fuels and carnitine derivatives, Frazer I. Heinis, Sophie Alvarez, and Matthew T. Andrews
An examination of scenarios to increase waterfowl hunting participation, M. P. Hinrichs, J. Nawrocki, M. P. Gruntarod, M. P. Vrtiska, and M. A. Pegg
Multiple‑point statistical modeling of three‑dimensional glacial aquifer heterogeneity for improved groundwater management, Nafyad Serre Kawo, Jesse T. Korus Dr., and Mats Lundh Gulbrandsen
TAPS Program Evaluation – Non-Producers, Stephanie M. Kennedy and Mark E. Burbach
TAPS Program Evaluation – Producers, Stephanie M. Kennedy and Mark E. Burbach
Impact of Eastern Redcedar encroachment on water resources in the Nebraska Sandhills, Yaser Kishawi, Aaron R> Mittelstet, Troy E. Gilmore, Dirac Twidwell, Tirthankar Roy, and Nawaraj Shrestha
Panta Rhei benchmark dataset: socio-hydrological data of paired events of floods and droughts, Heidi Kreibich, Elliot Wickham, and et al.
Occupancy and abundance of a West African mangabey species (Cercocebus atys Audebert, 1797) in forest patch habitat, Kellie Laity, April Conway, Sonia M. Hernandez, John P. Carroll, and Dessalegn Ejigu
GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality, Moritz K. Lehmann
Author Correction: GLORIA - A globally representative hyperspectral in situ dataset for optical sensing of water quality, Moritz K. Lehmann and et al.
Labile carbon and soil texture control nitrogen transformation in deep vadose zone, Lidong Li, Jordan Shields, Daniel D. Snow, Michael Kaiser, and Arindam Malakar
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) fawn survival and the influence of landscape characteristics on fawn predation risk in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, USA, Andrew R. Little, A. C. Edge, J. P. Rosenberger, C. J. Yates, C. H. Killmaster, and K. L. Johannsen et al.
How Land Surface Characteristics Influence the Development of Flash Drought through the Drivers of Soil Moisture and Vapor Pressure Deficit, LAUREN E. L. LOWMAN, JORDAN I. CHRISTIAN, and Eric Hunt
Convergence and transdisciplinary teaching in quantitative biology, Robert Mayes, Joseph Dauer, and David Owens
Slow-Release Lanthanum Effectively Reduces Phosphate in Eutrophic Ponds without Accumulating in Fish, C. McCright, J. McCoy, N. Robbins, and S. Comfort
How do land use and land cover changes after farmland abandonment affect soil properties and soil nutrients in Mediterranean mountain agroecosystems?, Estela Nadal-Romero, Makki Khorchani, Leticia Gaspar, José Arnáez, Erik Cammeraat, Ana Navas, and Teodoro Lasanta
Revisiting the definition of field capacity as a functional parameter in a layered agronomic soil profile beneath irrigated maize, Paolo Nasta, Trenton E. Franz, Justin P. Gibson, and Nunzio Romano
Habitat fragmentation reduces survival and drives source–sink dynamics for a large carnivore, Anna C. Nisi, John F. Benson, Richard King, and Christopher C. Wilmers
The search behavior of terrestrial mammals, M. Noonan, C. Martinez-Garcia, C. H. Fleming, and A. R. Little Et. al
Spatiotemporal patterns of wolves and sympatric predators and prey relative to human disturbance in northwestern Greece, M. Petridou, J. F. Benson, O. Gimenez, and K. Kati
Using seasonal climate scenarios in the ForageAhead annual forage production model for early drought impact assessment, M. Podebradska, B. K. Wylie, M. J. Hayes, D. J. Bathke, Y. A. Bayissa, S. P. Boyte, J. F. Brown, and B. D. Wardlow
Dual Activation of Peroxymonosulfate Using MnFe2O4/g‑C3N4 and Visible Light for the Efficient Degradation of Steroid Hormones: Performance, Mechanisms, and Environmental Impacts, Kitipong Poomipuen, Chainarong Sakulthaew, Chanat Chokejaroenrat, Athaphon Angkaew, Kanidrawee Techauay, Thapanee Poompoung, Kanokwan Teingtham, Piyaporn Phansak, Piyangkun Lueangjaroenkit, and Daniel D. Snow
Drought affects sex ratio and growth of painted turtles in a long-term study in Nebraska, Larkin A. Powell, Ellen P. Dolph, and Charrissa R. Neil
Drought affects sex ratio and growth of painted turtles in a long-term study in Nebraska, Larkin Powell, Ellen Dolph, and Charrissa R. Neil
Role of social determinants of health in differential respiratory exposure and health outcomes among children, Jagadeesh Puvvula, Jill A. Poole, Yeongjin Gwon, Eleanor G. Rogan, and Jesse E. Bell
Changing blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) populations in Orlando, Florida, United States, Amanda Roe, Russell J. Barnes, Leon G. Higley, and Neal H. Haskell
Impacts of algal blooms and microcystins in fish on small-scale fishers in Winam Gulf, Lake Victoria: implications for health and livelihood, Amber F. Roegner, Jessica R. Corman, Lewis M. Sitoki, Zachary A. Kwena, Zachary Ogari, Jared Babu Miruka, Ame Xiong, Chelsea Weirich, Christopher Mulanda Aura, and Todd Rex Miller
Developing a Slow-Release Permanganate Composite for Degrading Aquaculture Antibiotics, Chainarong Sakulthaew, Chanat Chokejaroenrat, Sidaporn Panya, Apisit Songsasen, Kitipong Poomipuen, Saksit Imman, Nopparat Suriyachai, Torpong Kreetachat, and Steven Comfort
Towards a global sustainable development agenda built on social–ecological resilience, Murray W. Scown, Robin K. Craig, Craig R. Allen, Lance Gunderson, David G. Angeler, Jorge H. Garcia, and Ahjond Garmestani
Sexual Selection as a Tool to Improve Student Reasoning of Evolution, SARAH K. SPIER and Joseph Dauer
Panarchy theory for convergence, Shana M. Sundstrom, David G. Angeler, Jesse Bell, Michael J. Hayes, Jennifer Hodbod, Babak Jalalzadeh‑Fard, Rezaul Mahmood, Elizabeth VanWormer, and Craig R. Allen
A thermodynamics-based versatile evapotranspiration estimation method of minimum data requirement for water resources investigations, Jozsef Szilagyi and Richard D. Crago
Communication in the science-policy interface: Evidence from a boundary organization in Nebraska, USA, Sechindra Vallury, Brian C. Chaffin, Samantha L. Hamlin, and Craig R. Allen
Development of a Benchmark Eddy Flux Evapotranspiration Dataset for Evaluation of Satellite-Driven Evapotranspiration Models Over the CONUS, John M. Volk, Justin Huntington, Forrest S. Melton, Richard Allen, Martha C. Anderson, Joshua B. Fisher, Ayse Kilic, Gabriel Senay, Gregory Halverson, Kyla Knipper, Blake Minor, Christopher Pearson, Tianxin Wang, Yun Yang, Steven Evett, Andrew N. French, Richard Jasoni, and William Kustas
Reimagining large river management using the Resist–Accept–Direct (RAD) framework in the Upper Mississippi River, Nicole K. Ward, Abigail J. Lynch, Erik A. Beever, Joshua Booker, Kristen L. Bouska, Holly Embke, Jeffrey N. Houser, John F. Kocik, Joshua Kocik, David J. Lawrence, Mary Grace Lemon, Doug Limpinsel, Madeline R. Magee, Bryan M. Maitland, Owen McKenna, Andrew Meier, John M. Morton, Jeffrey D. Muehlbauer, Robert Newman, Devon C. Oliver, Heidi M. Rantala, Greg G. Sass, Aaron Shultz, Laura M. Thompson, and Jennifer L. Wilkening
Can upscaling ground nadir SIF to eddy covariance footprint improve the relationship between SIF and GPP in croplands?, Genghong Wu, Kaiyu Guan, Chongya Jiang, Hyungsuk Kimm, Guofang Miao, Xi Yang, Carl J. Bernacchi, Xiangmin Sun, Andrew E. Suyker, and Caitlin E. Moore
2022
Public search interests related to COVID-19: Insights from Google Search Trends in Bangladesh, M. Ahamad, M. Ahmed, and Daniel R. Uden
ARIMA-based forecasting of the effects of wildfire on the increasing tree cover trend and recurrence interval of woody encroachment in grazing land, Mazbahul Ahamad
A new adaptive cycle for Ecology and Society, Craig Allen, Patricia Balvanera, and Katrina Brown
Joint effects of climate, tree size, and year on annual tree growth derived from tree-ring records of ten globally distributed forests, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira, Valentine Herrmann, Christine R. Rollinson, Bianca Gonzalez, Erika B. Gonzalez-Akre, Neil Pederson, M. Ross Alexander, Craig D. Allen, Raquel Alfaro-Sánchez, Tala Awada, Jennifer L. Baltzer, Patrick J. Baker, Joseph D. Birch, Sarayudh Bunyavejchewin, Paolo Cherubini, Stuart J. Davies, Cameron Dow, Ryan Helcoski, Jakub Kašpar, James A. Lutz, Ellis Q. Margolis, Justin T. Maxwell, Sean M. McMahon, Camille Piponiot, Sabrina E. Russo, Pavel Šamonil, Anastasia E. Sniderhan, Alan J. Tepley, Ivana Vašíčková, Mart Vlam, and Pieter A. Zuidema
Scales of coercion: Resilience, regimes, and Panarchy, D. Angeler and C. Allen
Listening to the silent struggles of bipolar disorder through sonification of iMoodJournal data, David G. Angeler, Harris A. Eyre, and Michael Berk
Adaptation, Transformation and Resilience in Healthcare Comment on “Government Actions and Their Relation to Resilience in Healthcare During the COVID-19 Pandemic in New South Wales, Australia and Ontario, Canada”, David G. Angeler, Harris A. Eyre, Michael Berk, Craig R. Allen, William Hynes, and Igor Linkov
Panarchy suggests why management mitigates rather than restores ecosystems from anthropogenic impact, David G. Angeler and Ran Hur
The role of rare avian species for spatial resilience of shifting biomes in the Great Plains of North America, D. Angeler, C. Roberts, D. Twidwell Jr., and C. Allen
Enhanced Photo-Fenton Activity Using Magnetic Cu0.5Mn0.5Fe2O4 Nanoparticles as a Recoverable Catalyst for Degrading Organic Contaminants, A. Angkaew, C. Sakulthaew, M. Nimtim, S. Imman, T. Satapanajaru, N. Suriyachai, T. Kreetachat, S. Comfort, and C. Chokejaroenrat
Enhanced Photo-Fenton Activity Using Magnetic Cu0.5Mn0.5Fe2O4 Nanoparticles as a Recoverable Catalyst for Degrading Organic Contaminants, Athaphon Angkaew, Chainarong Sakulthaew, Matura Nimtim, Saksit Imman, Tunlawit Satapanajaru, Nopparat Suriyachai, Torpong Kreetachat, Steven Comfort, and Chanat Chokejaroenrat
Collateral damage from agricultural netting to open-country bird populations in Thailand, Rongrong Angkaew, Philip D. Round, Dusit Ngoprasert, and Larkin A. Powell
Mind the gaps for the best practices: Enhancing the management of Lake Victoria fisheries resources, Christopher Mulanda Aura, Amber Roegner, Horace Owiti, Dorothy Birungi, Kathryn J. Fiorella, Jessica R. Corman, Robert Kayanda, Patrick Mbullo, Chrisphine S. Nyamweya, Geofrey Mchau, Miles Daniels, and Richard Oginga Abila
Anoxia tolerance in four forensically important calliphorid species, M. Authement, L. Higley, and W. Hoback
Selecting soil hydraulic properties as indicators of soil health: Measurement response to management and site characteristics, D. K. Bagnall, C.L.S. Morgan, G. Mac Bean, D. Liptzin, and Andrew E. Suyker Et al.
Validity and reliability of drought reporters in estimating soil water content and drought impacts in central Europe, Lenka Bartošová, Milan Fischer, Jan Balek, Monika Bláhová, Lucie Kudláčková, Filip Chuchma, Petr Hlavinka, Martin Možný, Pavel Zahradníček, Nicole Wall, Michael Hayes, Christopher Hain, Martha Anderson, Wolfgang Wagner, Zdeněk Žalud, and Miroslav Trnka
Feasibility assessment on use of proximal geophysical sensors to support precision management, Sophia M. Becker, Trenton E. Franz, Olufemi P. Abimbola, Dean D. Steele, J. Paulo Flores, Xinhua Jia, Thomas F. Scherer, Daran Rudnick, and Christopher M.U. Neale
Exploring Old Data with New Tricks: Long-Term Monitoring Indicates Spatial and Temporal Changes in Populations of Sympatric Prairie Grouse in the Nebraska Sandhills, Danielle J. Berger, Jeffrey J. Lusk, Larkin A. Powell, and John P. Carroll
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Readiness Assurance Testing as Part of Team-Based Ecology Instruction, Danielle Berger and Larkin Powell
Field performance of the GaugeCam image-based water level measurement system, F. Birgand, K. Chapman, A. Hazra, T. Gilmore, R. Etheridge, and A. M. Staicu
The future of social science integration in rangelands research, M. W. Brunson, L. Huntsinger, Gwendwr Rhiannon Meredith, and N. Sayre
Longitudinal assessment of an integrated approach to large-scale common-pool water resource management: A case study of Nebraska’s Platte River basin, M. Burbach, W. Eaton, B. Quimby, C. Babbitt, and J. L. Delozier
When to prepare: "Water" you thinking about drought?, O. G. Campbell, C. Schwartz, and Deborah J. Bathke
Extraction, analysis, and occurrence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in wastewater and after municipal biosolids land application to determine agricultural loading, Justin Caniglia, Daniel D. Snow, Tiffany Messer, and Shannon Bartelt-Hunt
Remotely detected aboveground plant function predicts belowground processes in two prairie diversity experiments, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Anna K. Schweiger, John Gamon, Hamed Gholizadeh, Kimberly Helzer, Cathleen Lapadat, Michael D. Madritch, Philip A. Townsend, Zhihui Wang, and Sarah E. Hobbie
Legacy and Emerging Contaminants in Water and Wastewater, P. Chakraborty and Daniel D. Snow
Open-Source Software for Water-Level Measurement in Images With a Calibration Target, K. W. Chapman, T. Gilmore, C. D. Chapman, F. Birgand, A. Mittelstet, M. Harner, M. Mehrubeoglu, and J. E. Stranzl Jr.
Nutrient and sediment dynamics change following a major flood event on a large, grassland river, M. Chen, M. Guenther, and J. Corman
A Pivotal New Approach to Groundwater Quality Assessment, M. L. Cherry, T. Gilmore, T. Messer, Y. Li, and J. Westrop
FlowerPhenoNet: Automated Flower Detection from Multi-View Image Sequences Using Deep Neural Networks for Temporal Plant Phenotyping Analysis, S. D. Choudhury, S. Guha, A. Das, A. K. Das, A. K. Samal, and T. N. Awada
Evaluation of Long-Term Degree-Days Estimated with Several Methods for Corn in Nebraska, USA, S. Dai, M. Shulski, H. Yang, and R. Elmore
Using a structured decision-making tool in the classroom to promote information literacy in the context of decision-making, J. Dauer, A. Sorensen, and P. Jimenez
Fire and human management of late Holocene ecosystems in southern Africa, Benjamin Davies, Mitchell J. Power, David R. Braun, Matthew J. Douglass, Stella G. Mosher, Lynne J. Quick, Irene Esteban, Judith Sealy, John Parkington, and J. Tyler Faith
Blue catfish population characteristics and dispersal along a Great Plains river gradient, Q. J. Dean, J. P. Werner, Mark A. Pegg, and M. J. Hamel
Fossils on the Floor Mosaics in the Rotunda of the Nebraska State Capitol Second Edition, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
The Human Health Implications of Antibiotic Resistance in Environmental Isolates from Two Nebraska Watersheds, L. Donner, Z. Staley, J. Petali, J. Sangster, X. Li, W. Mathews, and Daniel D. Snow
Targeted grazing and mechanical thinning enhance forest stand resilience under a narrow range of wildfire scenarios, V. M. Donovan, C. P. Roberts, D. T. Fogarty, David A. Wedin, and D. Twidwell