2016
Closing the water balance with cosmic-ray soil moisture measurements and assessing their relation to evapotranspiration in two semiarid watersheds, A. P. Schreiner-McGraw, E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro, and Trenton E. Franz
Quantification and Mapping of Surface Residue Cover for Maize and Soybean Fields in South Central Nebraska, Vivek Sharma, Suat Irmak, Ayse Kilic, Vasudha Sharma, John E. Gilley, George Meyer, Stevan Z. Knezevic, and D. B. Marx
Avian interactions with renewable energy infrastructure: An update, Jennifer A. Smith and James F. Dwyer
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam: Source of Cooperation or Contention?, Meron Teferi Taye, Tsegaye Tadesse, Gabriel B. Senay, and Paul Block
Coastal development and precipitation drive pathogen flow from land to sea: evidence from a Toxoplasma gondii and felid host system, Elizabeth VanWormer, Tim E. Carpenter, Purnendu Singh, Karen Shapiro, Wesley W. Wallender, Patricia A. Conrad, John L. Largier, Marco P. Maneta, and Jonna A. K. Mazet
Integrated Analysis of Productivity and Biodiversity in a Southern Alberta Prairie, Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Craig A. Emmerton, Haitao Li, Enrica Nestola, Gilberto Z. Pastorello, and Olaf Menzer
Seasonal Variation in the NDVI–Species Richness Relationship in a Prairie Grassland Experiment (Cedar Creek), Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Rebecca A. Montgomery, Philip A. Townsend, Arthur I. Zygielbaum, Keren Bitan, David Tilman, and Jeannine Cavender-Bares
Interannual Variability in Dry Mixed-Grass Prairie Yield: A Comparison of MODIS, SPOT, and Field Measurements, Donald C. Wehlage, John A. Gamon, Donnette Thayer, and David V. Hildebrand
Acoustic Detection Reveals Fine-Scale Distributions of Myotis lucifugus, Myotis septentrionalis, and Perimyotis subflavus in Eastern Nebraska, Jeremy A. White, Cliff Lemen, and Patricia Freeman
Spatiotemporal patterns of water table fluctuations and evapotranspiration induced by riparian vegetation in a semiarid area, Weifeng Yue, Tiejun Wang, Trenton E. Franz, and Xunhong Chen
Metapopulation viability of an endangered shorebird depends on dispersal and human-created habitats: piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) and prairie rivers, Sara L. Zeigler, Daniel H. Catlin, Mary Bomberger Brown, Lauren R. Dinan, James D. Fraser, Kelsi L. Hunt, and Joel G. Jorgensen
Mesoscale Climatology and Variation of Surface Winds over the Chukchi–Beaufort Coastal Areas, Jing Zhang, Fuhong Liu, Wei Tao, Jeremy Krieger, Martha Shulski, and Xiangdong Zhang
2015
Remote sensing of drought: Progress, challenges and opportunities, A. AghaKouchak, A. Farahmand, F. S. Melton, J. Teixeira, M. C. Anderson, Brian D. Wardlow, and C. R. Hain
Fitting measured evapotranspiration data to the FAO56 dual crop coefficient method, R G. Allen, Ayse Kilic, Andrew Suyker, and Jane A. Okalebo
EEFlux: A Landsat-based Evapotranspiration mapping tool on the Google Earth Engine, Richard Allen, Charles Morton, Baburao Kamble, Ayse Kilic, Justin Huntington, David Thau, Noel Gorelick, Tyler Erickson, Rebecca Moore, Ricardo Trezza, Ian C. Ratcliffe, and Clarence Robison
A mixed-methods approach to assessing success in transitioning water management institutions: a case study of the Platte River Basin, Nebraska, Christina Hoffman Babbitt, Mark E. Burbach, and Lisa Pennisi
Soil respiration is determined by substrate availability, not microbial biomass: insights from a long-term incubation, Hannah E. Birge, Richard T. Conant, Ronald F. Follett, Michelle L. Haddix, Sherri J. Morris, Sieglinde S. Snapp, Matthew D. Wallenstein, and Eldor A. Paul
Ectoparasitism shortens the breeding season in a colonial bird, Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Parent-Offspring Resemblance in Colony-Specific Adult Survival of Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown, Erin A. Roche, and Mary Bomberger Brown
2015 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report for the Lower Platte River, Nebraska, Mary Bomberger Brown, Lauren R. Dinan, and Joel G. Jorgensen
NASA Uncertainty Quantification Challenge: An Optimization-Based Methodology and Validation, Anirban Chaudhuri, Garrett Waycaster, Nathaniel Price, Taiki Matsumura, and Raphael Haftka
Métodos cuantitativos para la conservación de los vertebrados, Michael J. Conroy, John P. Carroll, Juan Carlos Senar, and Jeffrey J. Thompson
Review of A Garden of Marvels: How We Discovered that Flowers Have Sex, Leaves Eat Air, and Other Secrets of Plants, by Ruth Kassinger, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Comparison of four EVI-based models for estimating gross primary production of maize and soybean croplands and tallgrass prairie under severe drought, Jinwei Dong, Xiangming Xiao, Pradeep Wagle, Geli Zhang, Yuting Zhou, Cui Jin, Margaret S. Torn, Tilden P. Meyers, Andrew E. Suyker, Junbang Wang, Huimin Yan, Chandrashekhar Biradar, and Berrien Moore III
Mammalian Records from Southwestern Kansas and Northwestern Oklahoma, including the First Record of Crawford’s Desert Shrew (Notiosorex crawfordi) from Kansas, Cody A. Dreier, Keith Geluso, Jennifer D. Frisch, Brittney N. Adams, Alyx R. Lingenfelter, Anthony E. Bridger, Patricia Freeman, Cliff Lemen, Jeremy A. White, Brett R. Andersen, Hans W. Otto, and Curtis J. Schmidt
Community Structure and Biogeochemical Impacts of Microbial Life on Floating Pumice, J. J. Elser, M. Bastidas Navarro, J. R. Corman, H. Emick, M. Kellom, C. Laspoumaderes, Z. M. Lee, A. T. Poret-Peterson, E. Balseiro, and B. Modenutti
Combined analysis of soil moisture measurements from roving and fixed cosmic ray neutron probes for multiscale real-time monitoring, Trenton E. Franz, Tiejun Wang, William Avery, Catherine E. Finkenbiner, and Luca Brocca
Reviews and Syntheses: optical sampling of the flux tower footprint, John A. Gamon
The need for a common basis for defining light-use efficiency: Implications for productivity estimation, Anatoly A. Gitelson and John A. Gamon
Productivity, absorbed photosynthetically active radiation, and light use efficiency in crops: Implications for remote sensing of crop primary production, Anatoly A. Gitelson, Yi Peng, Timothy J. Arkebauer, and Andrew E. Suyker
Soil processes drive seasonal variation in retention of 15N tracers in a deciduous forest catchment, Christine L. Goodale, Guinevere Fredriksen, Marissa S. Weiss, Carmody K. McCalley, Jed P. Sparks, and Steven A. Thomas
Integrating geoscience into undergraduate education about environment, society, and sustainability using place-based learning: Three examples, David Gosselin, Steven Burian, Tim Lutz, and Julie Maxson
Are Preserved Farms Actively Engaged in Agriculture and Conservation?, Paul D. Gottlieb, Brian J. Schilling, Kevin Sullivan, J. Dixon Esseks, Lori Lynch, and Joshua M. Duke
Using video to examine formative assessment practices as measures of expertise for mathematics and science teachers, Amelia Wenk Gotwals, Joanne Philhower, Dante Cisterna, and Steven Bennett
Space Use, Daily Movements, and Roosting Behavior of Male Wild Turkeys During Spring in Louisiana and Texas, John T. Gross, Andrew R. Little, Bret A. Collier, and Michael J. Chamberlain
A global perspective on wetland salinization: ecological consequences of a growing threat to freshwater wetlands, Ellen R. Herbert, Paul Boon, Amy J. Burgin, Scott C. Neubauer, Rima B. Franklin, Marcelo Ardón, Kristine N. Hopfensperger, Leon P.M. Lamers, and Peter Gell
Joint leaf chlorophyll content and leaf area index retrieval from Landsat data using a regularized model inversion system (REGFLEC), Rasmus Houborg, Matthew McCabe, Alessandro Cescatti, Feng Gao, Mitchell Schull, and Anatoly A. Gitelson
Density Dependent Double Brooding in Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in the Northern Great Plains, USA, Kelsi L. Hunt, Lauren R. Dinan, Meryl J. Friedrich, Mary Bomberger Brown, Joel G. Jorgensen, Daniel H. Catlin, and James D. Fraser
Accountability in Networked Governance: Learning from a case of landscape-scale forest conservation, Theresa Jedd and R. Patrick Bixler
Evaluating Recreationists’ Awareness and Attitudes Toward Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) at Lake McConaughy, Nebraska, USA, Joel G. Jorgensen and Mary Bomberger Brown
Professional Development at the Local Level: Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Critical Colleagueship, Tara Kintz, John Lane, Amelia Gotwals, and Dante Cisterna
Sturgeon in the Sacramento–San Joaquin Watershed: New Insights to Support Conservation and Management, A. Peter Klimley, Eric D. Chapman, Joseph J. Cech Jr., Dennis E. Cocherell, Nann A. Fangue, Marty Gingras, Zachary Jackson, Emily A. Miller, Ethan A. Mora, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Andrea M. Schreier, Alicia Seesholtz, Kenneth J. Sulak, Michael J. Thomas, David Woodbury, and Megan T. Wyman
Revision of Nationwide Design Flood Levels (In Hungarian), T. Kramer, Jozsef Szilagyi, and J. Jozsa
Response of a Stoichiometrically Imbalanced Ecosystem to Manipulation of Nutrient Supplies and Ratios, Zarraz M. Lee, Laura Steger, Jessica R. Corman, Marc Neveu, Amisha T. Poret-Peterson, Valeria Souza, and James J. Elser
The Problem of Low Agreement among Automated Identification Programs for Acoustical Surveys of Bats, Cliff Lemen, Patricia W. Freeman, Jeremy A. White, and Brett R. Andersen
In-Service Teachers' Attitudes, Knowledge and Classroom Teaching of Global Climate Change, Shiyu Liu, Gillian Roehrig, Devarati Bhattacharya, and Keisha Varma
Neural network analysis on the effect of heat fluxes on greenhouse gas emissions from anaerobic swine waste treatment lagoon, N. Lovanh, J. Loughrin, M. Rysz, A. I. Quintanar, B. T. Oh, and Rezaul Mahmood
Investigating Diurnal and Seasonal Climatic Response to Land Use and Land Cover Change Over Monsoon Asia with the Community Earth System Model, Rezaul Mahmood
Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Regional Climate Over the Loess Plateau During 2001-2009 – Part II., Rezaul Mahmood
Land Use/Land Cover Changes and Regional Climate Over the Loess Plateau During 2001-2009 – Part I. Observed Evidences, Rezaul Mahmood
Twentieth Century Droughts and Agriculture: Examples from Impacts on Soybean Production in Kentucky, USA, Rezaul Mahmood
Evaluating the complementary relationship of evapotranspiration in the alpine steppe of the Tibetan Plateau, Ning Ma, Yinsheng Zhang, Jozsef Szilagyi, Yanhong Guo, Jianqing Zhai, and Haifeng Gao
Modeling actual evapotranspiration with routine meteorological variables in the data-scarce region of the Tibetan Plateau: Comparisons and implications, Ning Ma, Yinsheng Zhang, Chong-Yu Xu, and Jozsef Szilagyi
The Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index (AWSSI), Barbara E. Mayes Boustead, Steven D. Hilberg, Martha Shulski, and Kenneth Hubbard
How climate change has affected the spatio-temporal patterns of precipitation and temperature at various time scales in North Korea, Won-Ho Nam, Eun-Mi Hong, and Guillermo A. Baigorria
Modeling gross primary production of maize and soybean croplands using light quality, temperature, water stress, and phenology, Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson, Andrew E. Suyker, and Xiangming Xiao
Variation in Avian Vocalizations during the Non-Breeding Season in Response to Traffic Noise, Amy I. Oden, Mary Bomberger Brown, Mark E. Burbach, James R. Brandle, and John E. Quinn
Fish-protection devices at unscreened water diversions can reduce entrainment: evidence from behavioural laboratory investigations, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Dennis E. Cocherell, Timothy D. Mussen, Ali Ercan, Hossein Bandeh, M. Levent Kavvas, Joseph J. Cech Jr., and Nann A. Fangue
An Anomaly-Based Method for Identifying Signals of Spring and Autumn Low-Temperature Events in the Yangtze River Valley, China, Weihong Qian, Yun Cheng, Man Jiang, and Qi Hu
The importance of lake-specific characteristics for water quality across the continental United States, Emily K. Read, Vijay P. Patil, Samantha K. Oliver, Amy L. Hetherington, Jennifer A. Brentrup, Jacob A. Zwart, Kirsten M. Winters, Jessica R. Corman, Emily R. Nodine, R. Iestyn Woolway, Hilary A. Dugan, Aline Jaimes, Arianto B. Santoso, Grace S. Hong, Luke A. Winslow, Paul C. Hanson, and Kathleen C. Weathers
Prehistoric earth oven facilities and the pathoecology of Chagas disease in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, Karl Reinhard and Adauto Araujo
Development modeling of Lucilia sericata (Diptera: Calliphoridae), Amanda Roe and Leon G. Higley
The uncertain climate footprint of wetlands under human pressure, Ana Maria Roxana Petrescu, Annalea Lohila, Juha-Pekka Tuovinen, Dennis D. Baldocchi, Ankur R. Desai, Nigel T. Roulet, Timo Vesala, Albertus Johannes Dolman, Walter C. Oechel, Barbara Marcolla, Thomas Friborg, Janne Rinne, Jaclyn Hatala Matthes, Lutz Merbold, Ana Meijide, Gerard Kiely, Matteo Sottocornola, Torsten Sachs, Donatella Zona, Andrej Varlagin, Derrick Y.F. Lai, Elmar Veenendaal, Frans-Jan W. Parmentier, Ute Skiba, Magnus Land, Arjan Hensen, Jacobus van Huissteden, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Narasinha J. Shurpali, Thomas Grünwald, Elyn R. Humphreys, Marcin Jackowicz-Korczynski, Mika A. Aurela, Tuomas Laurila, Carsten Grüning, Chiara A.R. Corradi, Arina P. Schrier-Uijl, Torben R. Christensen, Mikkel P. Tamstorf, Mikhail Mastepanov, Pertti J. Martikainen, Shashi Verma, Christian Bernhofer, and Alessandro Cescatti
Thermal-based modeling of coupled carbon, water, and energy fluxes using nominal light use efficiencies constrained by leaf chlorophyll observations, M. A. Schull, M. C. Anderson, R. Houborg, Anatoly A. Gitelson, and W. P. Kustas
Biotic and climatic controls on interannual variability in carbon fluxes across terrestrial ecosystems, Junjiong Shao, Xuhui Zhou, Yiqi Luo, Bo Li, Mika Aurela, David Billesbach, Peter D. Blanken, Rosvel Bracho, Jiquan Chen, Marc L. Fischer, Yuling Fu, Lianhong Gu, Shijie Han, Yongtao He, Thomas Kolb, Yingnian Li, Zoltan Nagy, Shuli Niu, Walter C. Oechel, Krisztina Pinter, Peili Shi, Andrew E. Suyker, Margaret Torn, Andrej Varlagin, Huimin Wang, Junhua Yan, Guirui Yu, and Junhui Zhang
Application of Remote Sensing for Quantifying and Mapping Surface Energy Fluxes in South Central Nebraska: Analyses with Respect to Field Measurements, Vivek Sharma, Suat Irmak, Ayse Kilic, and Denis Mutibwa
Simultaneous Cr(VI) reduction and methylene blue removal by Bacillus sp. JH2-2 isolated from mining site soil, Jaehong Shim, Patrick Shea, Jeong-Muk Lim, and Byung-Taek Oh
Evaluating an unconfined aquifer by analysis of age-dating tracers in stream water, D. K. Solomon, T. E. Gilmore, B. Kimball, and D. P. Genereux
Effects of alternative framing on the publics perceived importance of environmental conservation, Amanda E. Sorensen, Daniel Clark, and Rebecca C. Jordan
Habitat Characteristics of Eastern Wild Turkey Nest and Ground-roost Sites in 2 Longleaf Pine Forests, Mary M. Streich, Andrew R. Little, Michael J. Chamberlain, L. Mike Connor, and Robert J. Warren
Complementary-relationship-based 30 year normals (1981–2010) of monthly latent heat fluxes across the contiguous United States, Jozsef Szilagyi
Evaluating a satellite-based seasonal evapotranspiration product and identifying its relationship with other satellite-derived products and crop yield: A case study for Ethiopia, Tsegaye Tadesse, Gabriel B. Senay, Getachew Berhan, Teshome Regassa, and Shimelis Beyene
Fluctuating fire regimes and their historical effects on genetic variation in an endangered shrubland specialist, Hernan Vázquez-Miranda, Kelly R. Barr, C. Craig Farquhar, and Robert M. Zink
Atmospheric Responses to North Atlantic SST Anomalies in Idealized Experiments. Part I: Northern Hemispheric Circulation, Michael C. Veres and Qi Hu
Estimation and analysis of gross primary production of soybean under various management practices and drought conditions, Pradeep Wagle, Xiangming Xiao, and Andrew E. Suyker
Factors affecting female space use in ten populations of prairie chickens, Virginia L. Winder, Kaylan M. Carrlson, Andrew J. Gregory, Christian A. Hagen, David A. Haukos, Dylan C. Kesler, Lena C. Larsson, Ty W. Matthews, Lance B. McNew, Michael A. Patten, Jim C. Pitman, Larkin A. Powell, Jennifer A. Smith, Tom Thompson, Donald H. Wolfe, and Brett K. Sandercock
Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation Response to Spring Fires and Bison Grazing, Stephen L. Winter, Brady W. Allred, Karen R. Hickman, and Samuel D. Fuhlendorf
Atmospheric circulation processes contributing to a multidecadal variation in reconstructed and modeled Indian monsoon precipitation, Qianru Wu and Qi Hu
Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology, Jianyang Xia, Shuli Niu, Philippe Ciais, Ivan A. Janssens, Jiquan Chen, Christof Ammann, Altaf Arain, Peter D. Blanken, Alessandro Cescatti, Damien Bonal, Nina Buchmann, Peter S. Curtis, Shiping Chen, Jinwei Dong, Lawrence B. Flanagan, Christian Frankenberg, Teodoro Georgiadis, Christopher M. Gough, Dafeng Hui, Gerard Kiely, Jianwei Li, Magnus Lund, Vincenzo Magliulo, Barbara Marcolla, Lutz Merbold, Leonardo Montagnani, Eddy J. Moors, Jorgen E. Olesen, Shilong Piao, Antonio Raschi, Oliver Roupsard, Andrew E. Suyker, Marek Urbaniak, Francesco P. Vaccari, Andrej Varlagin, Timo Vesala, Matthew Wilkinson, Ensheng Weng, Georg Wohlfahrt, Liming Yan, and Yiqi Luo
Multi-scale evaluation of light use efficiency in MODIS gross primary productivity for croplands in the Midwestern United States, Qinchuan Xin, Mark Broich, Andrew E. Suyker, Le Yu, and Peng Gong
Phycocyanin-specific absorption coefficient: Eliminating the effect of chlorophylls absorption, Y. Z. Yacobi, J. Köhler, F. Leunert, and Anatoly A. Gitelson
Uncertainty in simulating gross primary production of cropland ecosystem from satellite-based models, Wenping Yuan, Wenwen Cai, Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson, Huajun Fang, Andrew E. Suyker, Yang Chen, Wenjie Dong, Shuguang Liu, and Haicheng Zhang
Estimation of crop gross primary production (GPP): II. Do scaledMODIS vegetation indices improve performance?, Qingyuan Zhang, Yen-Ben Cheng, Alexei I. Lyapustin, Yujie Wang, Xiaoyang Zhang, Andrew E. Suyker, Shashi Verma, Yanmin Shuai, and Elizabeth M. Middleton
Geographic variation, null hypotheses, and subspecies limits in the California Gnatcatcher: A response to McCormack and Maley, Robert M. Zink, Jeffrey G. Groth, and Hernan Vázquez-Miranda
2014
Stochastic Models to Generate Geospatial-, Temporal-, and Cross-Correlated Daily Maximum and Minimum Temperatures, Guillermo A. Baigorria
Breeding time in a migratory songbird is predicted by drought severity and group size, Charles R. Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown
Variation in age composition among colony sizes in Cliff Swallows, Charles R. Brown, Erin A. Roche, and Mary Bomberger Brown
2014 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Monitoring, Research, Management, and Outreach Report for the Lower Platte River, Nebraska, Mary Bomberger Brown, Joel G. Jorgensen, and Lauren R. Dinan
Parameterization of the Satellite-Based Model (METRIC) for the Estimation of Instantaneous Surface Energy Balance Components over a Drip-Irrigated Vineyard, Marcos Carrasco-Benavides, Samuel Ortega-Farias, Luis Octavio Lagos, Jan Kleissl, Luis Morales-Salinas, and Ayse Kilic
Variations in the influence of diffuse light on gross primaryproductivity in temperate ecosystems, Susan J. Cheng, Gil Bohrer, Allison L. Steiner, David Y. Hollinger, Andrew E. Suyker, Richard P. Phillips, and Knute J. Hadelhoffer
Local awareness of and attitudes toward pygmy hippopotamus conservation in the Moa River Island Complex, Sierra Leone., April L. Conway, Sonia M. Hernandez, John P. Carroll, Gary T. Green, and Lincoln Larson
Spatial Accuracy of Climate Networks: A Case Study in Nebraska, Andrea J. Coop, Kenneth Hubbard, Martha Shulski, Jinsheng You, and David B. Marx
Connections between Student Explanations and Arguments from Evidence about Plant Growth, Jenny Dauer, Jennifer H. Doherty, Allison L. Freed, and Charles W. Anderson
The University of Nebraska State Museum, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Some Reflections on Our Experiences at Sun Yat-sen University Since 1985, Robert F. Diffendal Jr. and Anne P. Diffendal
You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies, W. K. Dodds, S. M. Collins, S. K. Hamilton, J. L. Tank, S. Johnson, J. R. Webster, K. S. Simon, M. R. Whiles, H. M. Rantala, W. H. McDowell, S. D. Peterson, T. Riis, C. L. Crenshaw, S. A. Thomas, P. B. Kristensen, B. M. Cheever, A. S. Flecker, N. A. Griffiths, T. Crowl, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, R. El-Sabaawi, and E. Marti
A Retrospective Examination of Paleoparasitology and its Establishment in the Journal of Parasitology, Charles T. Faulkner and Karl Reinhard
Using art to assess environmental education outcomes, Ami G. Flowers, John P. Carroll, Gary T. Green, and Lincoln R. Larson
Productivity and Carbon Dioxide Exchange of Leguminous Crops: Estimates from Flux Tower Measurements, Tagir Gilmanov, John M. Baker, Carl J. Bernacchi, David P. Billesbach, George G. Burba, Saulo Castro, Jiquan Chen, Werner Eugster, Marc L. Fischer, John A. Gamon, Maheteme T. Gebremedhin, Aaron J. Glenn, Timothy J. Griffis, Jerry L. Hatfield, Mark W. Heuer, Daniel M. Howard, Monique Y. Leclerc, Henry W. Loescher, Oliver Marloie, Tilden P. Meyers, Albert Olioso, Rebecca L. Phillips, John H. Prueger, R. Howard Skinner, Andrew E. Suyker, Mario Tenuta, and Bruce K. Wylie