Natural Resources, School of
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
2025
Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape, E. C. Bolas, J. F. Benson, and R. V. Blakey
Heat stress induced by irrigation over the US Great Plains and related uncertainties, L. Chen, I. C. Achugbu, Rezaul Mamood, K. Kintziger, J. Bell, and G. Meredith
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy as a Method for Identifying Variation in Puparial Morphology and Establishing Characters for Taxonomic Determination, Christian Elowsky and Leon G. Higley
Woody plant reinvasion shortens the lifespan of grassland restoration treatments, D. T. Fogarty, M. Beadle, C. R. Allen, C. Bielski, and D. Twidwell
Annual variation in attribute importance to upland game hunter satisfaction in Nebraska, M. P. Gruntarod, J. J. Lusk, and C. J. Chizinski
Devising optimized maize nitrogen stress indices in complex field conditions from UAV hyperspectral imagery, J. Li, Y. Ge, J. Gamon, and L. A. Puntel et al.
Devising Optimized Maize Nitrogen Stress Indices in Complex Field Conditions from UAV Hyperspectral Imagery, Jiating Li, Yufeng Ge, Laila A. Puntel, Derek M. Heeren, Geng Bai, Guillermo R. Balboa, John A. Gamon, Timothy J. Arkebauer, and Yeyin Shi
Does biofluorescence enhance visual signals in birds-of-paradise?, R. P. Martin, E. M. Carr, and J. S. Sparks
Why Real Impact Stories of Forest-Dependent Communities Are Essential in Carbon Marketing, Andrew Mwape
Zambia's Poor Septic Waste Management: A Disaster in Waiting, Andrew Mwape
Proximal Remote Sensing: An essential tool for bridging the gap between high resolution ecosystem monitoring and global ecology, Z. Pierrat, T. Magney, W. Richardson, B. Runkle, J. Diehl, X. Yang, and J Gamon et al.
Population increases of the threatened American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) linked to large-scale collaborations in a working lands ecoregion, C. P. Roberts, A. K. Ludwig, D. T. Fogarty, E. F. Stuber, Daniel R. Uden, T. L. Walker Jr., and D. Twidwell
2024
Heavy metal movement through insect food chains in pristine thermal springs of Yellowstone National Park, Braymond Adams, John Bowley, Monica Rohwer, Erik Oberg, Kelly Willemssens, Wendy Wintersteen, Robert K.D. Peterson, and Leon G. Higley
Bone traces and modifications from feeding by Dermestes maculatus, B. V. Adams and Leon G. Higley
Water, feeding efficiencies, and development of Dermestes maculatus DeGeer (1774), B. V. Adams and Leon G. Higley
An updated method for identifying the formative factors in soil structure, A. D. Anderson, C. L. Burras, Judith Turk, R. Young, N. Jelinski, C. Moorberg, D. Presley, K. Osterloch, A. Dere, and K. Clark
Parallels of quantum superposition in ecological models: from counterintuitive patterns to eco-evolutionary interpretations of cryptic species, David G. Angeler and Hannah B. Fried-Petersen
Field Testing of Gamma-Spectroscopy Method for Soil Water Content Estimation in an Agricultural Field, Sophia Becker, Trenton E. Franz, Tanessa Morris, and Bailey Mullins
SNAPSHOT USA 2021: A third coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States, J. F. Benson et al.
The Impact of Sublethal Injuries on Mountain Lion Predation and Spatial Ecology, J. F. Benson
Intrinsic and environmental drivers of pairwise cohesion in wild Canis social groups, J. F. Benson, D. Keiter, and P. J. Mahoney et al.
Humans drive spatial variation in mortality risk for a threatened wolf population in a Canis hybrid zone, J. F. Benson, P. J. Mahoney, T. J. Wheeldon, C. A. Thompson, M. E. Ward, A. D. McLaren, G. E. Desy, J. M. Fryxell, and B. R. Patterson
Intrinsic and environmental drivers of pairwise cohesion in wild Canis social groups, John F. Benson
Development of a composite drought indicator for operational drought monitoring in the MENA region, Karim Bergaoui, Makram Belhaj Fraj, Stephen Fragaszy, Ali Ghanim, Omar Hamadin, Emad Al‑Karablieh, Jawad Al‑Bakri, Mona Fakih, Abbas Fayad, Fadi Comair, Mohamed Yessef, Hayat Ben Mansour, Haythem Belgrissi, Kristi Arsenault, Christa Peters‑Lidard, Sujay Kumar, Abheera Hazra, Wanshu Nie, Michael Hayes, Mark D. Svoboda, and Rachael McDonnell
Radiation Balance over Low-Turbidity Water Artificially Cleaned for Irrigation of Tobacco Grown Under Shading. I. Analysis of the Shortwave and Longwave Components, T.K.D.S. Borges, A.S.D. Oliveira, R. G. Allen, Ayse Kilic, J.P.C. Couto, and C. E. Santana
Radiation Balance over Low-Turbidity Water Artificially Cleaned for Irrigation of Tobacco Grown Under Shading. II. Water Albedo Analysis and Net Radiation Modelling, T.K.D.S. Borges, A.S.D. Oliveira, R. G. Allen, Ayse Kilic, J.P.C. Couto, and C. E. Santana
Thermalprofiles of Cicindelidia haemorrhagica(Coleoptera: Cicindelidae)activity in hot springs in Yellowstone National Park, J. L. Bowley, C. Heveran, D. K. Weaver, B. Adams, M. Rohwer, K. Willemssens, E. Oberg, Leon G. Higley, and R. K. D.
The effect of default options on choice of electricity utility at grid parity: A mixed methods study, M. E. Burbach, S. L. Moncure, S. M. Kennedy, and J. M. Smith
The paradoxes of irrigation efficiency associated with the modernization of irrigation zones: Tales and accounts, W. O. Bustamante, J. P. Viqueira, and Francisco Munoz-Arriola
A New Extinct Species of Malagodon (Cyprinodontiformes: Pantanodontidae) from Southeastern Coastal Madagascar, with a Discussion of its Phylogenetic Relationships and a Redescription of the Genus., E. M. Carr, R. P. Martin, and J. S. Sparks
Assessing Multi-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Patterns for Improvements in Sub-Seasonal Precipitation Predictability in the Northern Great Plains, C. M. Carrillo and Francisco Munoz-Arriola
Context-Dependent Macroinvertebrate Responses to Prolonged Biological and Chemical Treatment in Urbanized Lentic Ecosystems, M. Chaffee, A. Mittelstet, S. Comfort, T. Messer, D. Uden, and J. McCoy
Stress phenotyping analysis leveraging autofluorescence image sequences with machine learning, Sruti Das Choudhury, Carmela Rosaria Guadagno, Srinidhi Bashyam, Anastasios Mazis, Brent E. Ewers, Ashok Samal, and Tala Awada
The flash droughts across the south-central United States in 2022: Drivers, predictability, and impacts, J. I. Christian, T. M. Grace, B. J. Fellman, D. F. Meshaske, S. G. Edris, H. O. Olayiwola, J. B. Basara, Brian Fuchs, and J. C. Furtado
To burn or not to burn: governance of wildfires in Australia, Sarah Clement, Ahjond Garmestani, Jo Ann Beckwith, and Pele J. Cannon
Genomic patterns in the dwarf kingfishers (genus Ceyx) of northern Melanesia reveal a clear mechanistic framework explaining the paradox of the great speciators, D. A. DeRaad, A. N. Files, L. H. DeCicco, R. P. Martin, P. Holland, D. Pikacha Jr., I. G. Tigulu, D. Boseto, T. H. Lavery, M. J. Anderson, and R. G. Moyle
Publications and Other Works by R. F. Diffendal, Jr., Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Declining pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) population productivity caused by woody encroachment and oil and gas development, Victoria M. Donovan, Jeffrey L. Beck, Carissa L. Wonkka, Caleb P. Roberts, Craig R. Allen, and Dirac L. Twidwell Jr
A functional response in resource selection links multi-scale responses of a large carnivore to human mortality risk, Kyle Duncan Dougherty, J. A. Dellinger, B. Cristescu, D. J. Gammons, D. K. Garcelon, J. M. Higley, Q. E. Martins, S.P.D. Riley, J. A. Sikich, T. R. Stephenson, T. W. Vickers, G. M. Wengert, C. C. Wilmers, H. U. Wittmer, and John F. Benson
Influence of virtual fence on heart rate response in beef cattle, K. Dozler, Y. Xiong, T. Mulliniks, Andrew R. Little, and M. Stephenson
A comparison of tag retention and mortality from two tagging methods for internal tag placement in Channel Catfish Ictalurus punctatus, T. C. Durhack, H. A. Simpson, D. A. Watkinson, Mark A. Pegg, and E. C. Enders
A major blind spot in drought risk financing: water services in low-income countries, Markus Enenkel, Nathan L. Engle, and Mark D. Svoboda
Health vulnerability mapping for drought: a case study in a predominantly rural, agricultural state, B. J. Fard, J. Puvvula, K. Smith, Michael Hayes, R. Lookadoo, Rezaul Mamood, S. Medcalf, C. Rowe, M. Durr, and J. E. Bell
Planet’s Biomass Proxy for monitoring aboveground agricultural biomass and estimating crop yield, T. E. Franz
Coordinated Cosmic-Ray Observing System (CCROS) Concept Paper, Trenton E. Franz
The LTAR Cropland Common Experiment at Platte River/High Plains Aquifer, A. Freidenreich, M. R. Schmer, Makki Khorchani, G. Birru, V. L. Jin, Tala Awada, R. A. Drijber, Andrew E. Suyker, S. C. Cordova, T. Smith, T. Kettler, S. Kristofferson, X. Sun, and L. Li
Evaluation of RothC model for predicting soil organic carbon stock in north-west Ethiopia, B. Geremew, Tsegaye Tadesse, B. Bedadi, H. T. Gollany, K. Tesfaye, A. Aschalew, A. Tilaye, and W. Abera
Groundwater recharge response to reduced irrigation pumping: Checkbook irrigation and the water savings payment plan, J. Gibson, T. E. Franz, T. GIlmore, D. Heeren, J. Gates, S. Thomas, and C. M. Neale
High-altitude adaptation is accompanied by strong signatures of purifying selection in the mitochondrial genomes of three Andean waterfowl, A. M. Graham, P. Lavretsky, R. E. Wilson, and K. G. McCracken
Exploring recruitment, retention, and license purchase probability of waterfowl hunters using a mark-recapture approach, K. A. Graham, Mark P. Vrtiska, D. H. Humburg, Larkin A. Powell, A. H. Raedeke, P. K. Devers, and Christopher J. Chizinski
Behaviour and attitudes of non‑resident water fowl hunters in Saskatchewan, M. P. Gruntarod, M. P. Vrtiska, and C. J. Chizinski
Duck hunters and difficulty complying with harvest regulations, M. P. Gruntarod, M. P. Vrtiska, C. J. Chizinski, J. N. Duberstein, D. C. Fulton, H. W. Harshaw, A. H. Raedeke, and J. Spaeth
Behaviour and attitudes of non-resident waterfowl hunters in Saskatchewan, Matthew P. Gruntorad, Mark P. Vrtiska, and Christopher J. Chizinski
Bigmouth Buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) migratorybehaviour and seasonal home range overlap are functionsof geographic space in a fragmented riverscape, L.F.G. Gutowsky, M. Stuart, A. Caskenentte, L. Jarvis, D. A. Watkinson, C. Kovachik, D. R. Leroux, N. B. Kludt, Mark A. Pegg, and E. C. Enders
Delivering and Evaluating Climate Services: The North Central Climate and Drought Webinar Series, T. Haigh, D. Kluck, D. Todey, and L. Nowatzke
Enhancing the science of age estimation: the creation of FishAge.org., M. J. Hamel, V. D. Davis, M. A. Pegg, D. L. Buckmeier, and J. D. Koch
Identifying Untapped Legal Capacity to Promote Multi‑level and Cross‑Sectoral Coordination of Natural Resource Governance, Nicola Harvey, Ahjond Garmestani, Craig R. Allen, Anoeska Buijze, and Marleen van Rijswick
Considerations for the use of porcine organ donation models in preclinical organ donor intervention research, Frazer I. Heinis, Shaheed Merani, Nicholas W. Markin, Kim F. Duncan, Michael J. Moulton, Lance Fristoe, William E. Thorell, Raechel A. Sherrick, Tami R. Wells, Matthew T. Andrews, and Marian Urban
Entomological observations on a decomposing pig (Sus scrofa) in Nebraska: late Spring to early Summer, Leon G. Higley, J. Obafunwa, and W. Belcher
Evaluation of Retrospective National Water Model Soil Moisture and Streamflow for Drought-monitoring Applications, M. Hughes, D. L. Jackson, D. Unruh, H. Wang, M. Hobbins, and Brian Fuchs et al.
Spatial Variation in Transit Time Distributions of Groundwater Discharge to a Stream Overlying the Northern High Plains Aquifer, Nebraska, USA, C. E. Humphrey, D. K. Solomon, T. E. Gilmore, M. R. MacNamara, D. P. Genereux, and A. R. Mittelstet et al.
Sustainability nexus analytics, informatics, and data (AID): Drought, L. S. Huning, S. M. Bateni, and Michael Hayes et al.
Combining Multi-View UAV Photogrammetry, Thermal Imaging, and Computer Vision Can Derive Cost-Effective Ecological Indicators for Habitat Assessment, Qiao Hu, Ligang Zhang, Jeff Drahota, Wayne Woldt, Dana Varner, Andy Bishop, Ted LaGrange, Christopher M. U. Neale, and Zhenghong Tang
Describing undergraduate students’ reasoning and use of evidence during argumentation about socioscientific issues systems, P. Citlally Jimenez, Ashley R. Alred, and Jenny M. Dauer
Estimating plant β-diversity using airborne and spaceborne imaging spectroscopy, N. P. Kamaraj, H. Gholizadeh, R. G. Hamilton, S. D. Fuhlendorf, K. F. Huemmrich, and J. A. Gamon
Quantifying the climate change impacts on the magnitude and timing of hydrological extremes in the Baro River Basin, Ethiopia, S. M. Kassaye, Tsegaye Tadesse, G. Tegegne, and A. T. Hordofa
Relative and Combined Impacts of Climate and Land Use/Cover Change for the Streamflow Variability in the Baro River Basin (BRB), S. M. Kassaye, Tsegaye Tadesse, G. Tegegne, A. T. Hordofa, and D. A. Malede
Three-dimensional probabilistic hydrofacies modeling using machine learning, N. Kawo, Jesse T. Korus Dr., Y. Kishawi, E. Haaker, and Aaron R. Mittelstet
Long-term croplands water productivity in response to management and climate in the Western US Corn Belt, M. Khorchani, Tala Awada, M. Schmer, V. Jin, G. Birru, S.R.S. Dangal, Andrew E. Suyker, and A. Freidenreich
Simulation of soil temperature under maize: An inter-comparison among 33 maize models, B. A. Kimball, K. R. Thorp, K. J. Boote, C. Stockle, and Andrew E. Suyker et al.
A comparative analysis of OpenET for evaluating evapotranspiration in California almond orchards, K. Knipper, M. Anderson, N. Bambach, F. Melton, Z. Ellis, Y. Yang, J. Volk, A. J. McElrone, W. Kustas, M. Roby, W. Carrara, S. Castro, and Ayse Kilic
The ltar grazing land common experiment at platte river high plains aquifer, M. Korchani, M. Schmer, A. Freidenreich, Tala Awada, G. Birru, S. Christofferson, R. Drijber, G. Erickson, V. Jin, R. McDermott, Andrew E. Suyker, A. Watson, B. Woodbury, Y. Xiong, J. Hiller, X. Sun, and L. Li
The dynamics of sea otter prey selection under population growth and expansion, C. B. Leach, B. P. Weitzman, J. L. Bodkin, D. Esler, G. G. Esslinger, K. A. Kloecker, D. H. Monson, J. N. Womble, and M. B. Hooten
Hydrological impacts of the Conservation Reserve Program—A mini review, L.B.S. Leal, T. Roy, Daniel R. Uden, and Karina Schoengold
Evaluation of flash drought characteristics using satellite-based soil moisture product between North and South Korea, Hee-Jin Lee, Won-Ho Nam, Jason A. Otkin, Yafang Zhong, Xiang Zhang, and Mark D. Svoboda
The LTAR Common Experiment: Facilitating improved agricultural sustainability through coordinated cross-site research, M. A. Liebig, L. J. Abendroth, G. P. Robertson, D. Augustine, D. Boughton, and Makki Khorchani et al.
Integrating UAV hyperspectral data and radiative transfer model simulation to estimate maize leaf and canopy nitrogen content, J. Li, Y Ge, L. A. Puntel, D. Heeren, G. Bai, G. R. Balboa, J. A. Gamon, T. J. Arkebauer, and Y. Shi
Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate, J. Lisonbee, B. Parker, E. Fleishman, T. W. Ford, R. K. Bocinsky, and B. Fuchs et al.
Are Larger Cities More Central in Urban Networks: A Metaanalysis, X. Li and Z. Neal
Development of the Quantitative Modelling Observation Protocol (QMOP) for undergraduate biology courses: validity evidence for score interpretation and uses, Lyrica Lucas, Anum Khushal, Robert Mayes, Brian Couch, and Joseph Dauer
Variation in lanternfish (Myctophidae) photophore structure: A comprehensive and comparative analysis, R. P. Martin, E. M. Carr, and J. S. Sparks
Nitrate removal by floating treatment wetlands under aerated and unaerated conditions: field and laboratory results, J. M. McCoy, M. Chaffee, A. Mittelstet, T. Messer, and S. Comfort
Diving at high altitude: O2 transport and utilization in the Ruddy Duck and Torrent Duck in the Andes, K. G. McCracken, G. Scott, L. Alza, A. Astie, C. Bakkeren, and R. E. Wilson et al.
Topography-driven microclimate gradients shape forest structure, diversity, and composition in a temperate refugial forest, B. H. McNichol, R. Wang, A. Hefner, C. Helzer, S. M. McMahon, and S. E. Russo
Effect of Biomass Water Dynamics in Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensor Observations: A Long-Term Analysis of Maize–Soybean Rotation in Nebraska, T. C. Morris, T. E. Franz, S. M. Becker, and Andrew E. Suyker
Towards a standardized, ground-based network of hyperspectral measurements: combination of time series from autonomous field spectrometers with Sentinel-2, P. Naethe, A. Desanctis, A. Burkart, PKE Campbell, and J. A. Gamon et al.
Social networks and transformative behaviours in a grassland social-ecological system, H. K. Nesbitt, A. L. Metcalf, T. M. Floyd, Daniel R. Uden, B. C. Chaffin, S. Gulab, S. Banerjee, S. Vallury, S. L. Hamlin, E. C. Metcalf, D. T. Fogarty, D. Twidwell, and Craig R. Allen
Do nitrogen and phosphorus influence Channel Catfish growth in a Great Plains river?, C. Oathout and Mark A. Pegg
Multivariate evaluation of flash drought across the United States, J. A. Otkin, Y. Zhong, T. W. Ford, M. C. Anderson, C. Hain, A. Hoell, Mark D. Svoboda, and H. Wang
Understanding the values that inform regenerative ranching in the Northern U.S. Great Plains, T. Pape, G. Meredith, D. Sandal, M. F. Kabir, S. Banerjee, C. R. Allen, E. Dennis, and M. Stephenson
Factors affecting walleye and sauger recruitment in Lewis and Clark Lake, South Dakota, 2001–2022, William J. Radigan, Phil Chvala, Christopher Longhenry, and Mark A. Pegg
Descriptive Report on Dietary Remains from Aztec and Salmon Ruins Coprolites, Karl J. Reinhard
Evaluating the Risk Landscape of Hawaiian Monk Seal Exposure to Toxoplasma gondii, S. Robinson, K. Falinski, D. Johnson, E. VanWormer, K. Shapiro, and M. Barbieri
Development modeling of Phormia regina(Diptera:Calliphoridae), A. Roe, J. D. Wells, and Leon G. Higley
Implementing interdisciplinary sustainability education with the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus, C. B. Romulo, S. Venkataraman, S. Caplow, S. Ajgaonkar, C. R. Allen, A. Anandhi, S. W. Anderson, C. B. Azzarello, K. Brundiers, E. Blavascunas, J. M. Dauer, D. L. Druckenbrod, E. Fairchild, L. R. Horne, K. Lee, M. Mwale, J. Mischler, E. Pappo, N. S. Patel, N. D. Sintov, C. S. Ramsdell, and S. G. Vincent
Combined high rates of alternative breeding strategies unexpectedly found among populations of a solitary nesting raptor, R. N. Rosenfield, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, W. E. Stout, T. G. Driscoll, A. C. Stewart, P. N. Frater, and S. L. Talbot
Exploring heterogeneity in waterfowl hunter trip preferences: A discrete choice experiment, K. A. Sainsbury, H. W. Harshaw, D. C. Fulton, N. W. Cole, A. A. Dayer, J. N. Duberstein, A. H. Raedeke, R. M. Schuster, and Mark P. Vrtiska
What waterfowl hunters want: exploring heterogeneity in hunting trip preferences, Katherine A. Sainsbury, Howard W. Harshaw, David C. Fulton, Nicholas W. Cole, Ashley A. Dayer, Jennie N. Duberstein, Andrew H. Raedeke, Rudy M. Schuster, and Mark P. Vrtiska
AMethod to Estimate Climate Drivers ofMaize Yield Predictability Leveraging Genetic-by-Environment Interactions in the US and Canada, Parisa Sarzaeim and Francisco Munoz-Arriola