2025
Human recreation influences activity of a large carnivore in an urban landscape, E. C. Bolas, J. F. Benson, and R. V. Blakey
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Evaluation of an autonomous acoustic surveying technique for grassland bird communities in Nebraska, Grace E. Schuster, Leroy J. Walston, and Andrew R. Little
Appraising groundwater quality and probabilistic human health risks from fluoride-enriched groundwater using the pollution index of groundwater (PIG) and GIS: a case study of adama town and its vicinities in the central main Ethiopian rift valley, Hassen Shube, Shankar Karuppannan, Muhammed Haji, Balamurugan Paneerselvam, Nafyad Kawo, Abraham Mechal, and Ashu Fekadu
Dynamic rates of Freshwater Drum near the northern extent of their range: evidence of environment-recruitment relationships, M. Stuart, N. Kludt, M. A. Pegg, F. Montesanto, C. Lyon, and C. J. Chance-Ossowski
The Complete Genome Sequence of Splendidofilaria pectoralis (Onchocercidae, Rhabditida, Chromadorea, Nematoda), Andrew Sweet, Robert E. Wilson, Jack Reakoff, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, Colleen Hurst, and Stacy Pirro
Risk avoidance during dispersal: temporal and behavioral shifts in selection by non-resident Eastern wolves, C. A. Thompson, J. F. Benson, and B. R. Patterson
Current Challenges and Future of Agricultural Genomes to Phenomes in the USA, C. K. Tuggle, J. L. Clarke, B. M. Murdoch, E. Lyons, N. M. Scott, B. Benes, J. D. Campbell, H. Ching, C. L. Daigle, S. D. Choudhury, J.C. M. Dekkers, J.R.R. Dorea, D. S. Erti, B. O. Fragomeni, J. E. Fulton, C. R. Guadagno, D. E. Hagen, A. S. Hess, L. M. Kramer, C. J. Lawrence-Dill, A. E. Lipka, T. Lubberstedt, F. M. McCarthy, and P. S. Schnable
Habitat characteristics, distribution, and abundance of Cicindelidia haemorrhagica (LeConte) (Coleoptera: Cicindelidae) in Yellowstone National Park, K. A. Willemssens, J. L. Bowley, L. Cavallini, E. Oberg, R.K.D. Peterson, and Leon G. Higley
Where east meets west: Phylogeography of the high Arctic North American brant goose, Robert E. Wilson, W. Sean Boyd, Sarah A. Sonsthagen, David H. Ward, Preben Clausen, Kathryn M. Dickson, Barwolt S. Ebbinge, Gudmundur A. Gudmundsson, George K. Sage, Jolene R. Rearick, Dirk V. Derksen, and Sandra L. Talbot
Within-field soil moisture variability and time-invariant spatial structures of agricultural fields in the US Midwest, Yi Yang, Bin Peng, Kaiyu Guan, Ming Pan, Trenton E. Franz, Michael H. Cosh, and Carl J. Bernacchi
Globe-LFMC 2.0, an enhanced and updated dataset for live fuel moisture content research, Marta Yebra, Gianluca Scortechini, Karine Adeline, Nursema Aktepe, Turkia Almoustafa, Avi Bar-Massada, María Eugenia Beget, Matthias Boer, Ross Bradstock, Tegan Brown, Francesc Xavier Castro, Rui Chen, Emilio Chuvieco, Mark Danson, Cihan Ünal Değirmenci, Ruth Delgado-Dávila, Philip Dennison, Carlos Di Bella, Oriol Domenech, Jean-Baptiste Féret, Greg Forsyth, Eva Gabriel, Zisis Gagkas, Fatma Gharbi, Elena Granda, Anne Griebel, Binbin He, Matt Jolly, Ivan Kotzur, Tineke Kraaij, Agnes Kristina, Pınar Kütküt, Jean-Marc Limousin, M. Pilar Martín, Antonio T. Monteiro, Marco Morais, Bruno Moreira, Florent Mouillot, Samukelisiwe Msweli, Rachael H. Nolan, Grazia Pellizzaro, Yi Qi, Xingwen Quan, Victor esco de Dios, Dar Roberts, Çağatay Tavşanoğlu, Andy F. S. Taylor, Jackson Taylor, İrem Tüfekcioğlu, Andrea Ventura, and Nicolas Younes Cardenas
15-Yr Biomass Production in Semiarid Nebraska Sandhills Grasslands: Part 1—Plant Functional Group Analysis, B. Zhao, B. M. Stephenson, T. Awada, J. Volesky, and B. Wardlow
2023
Proteomic Identification of Seasonally Expressed Proteins Contributing to Heart Function and the Avoidance of Skeletal Muscle Disuse Atrophy in a Hibernating Mammal, MSR Abid, E. C. Bredahl, A. D. Clifton, H. Qiu, M. T. Andrews, and J. W. Checco
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
Cover crop performance under a changing climate in continuous corn system over Nebraska, G. Birru, A. Shiferaw, Tsegaye Tadesse, Brian D. Wardlow, V. L. Jin, M. Schmer, Tala Awada, T. Kharel, and J. Iqbal
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
Drought in the Breadbasket of America and the Influence of Oceanic Teleconnections, Olivia G. Campbell and Gregory B. Goodrich
Multi-scale Sources of Precipitation Predictability in the Northern Great Plains, C. M. Carrillo and Francisco Munoz-Arriola
Student Outcomes of Teaching About Socio-scientific Issues in Secondary Science Classrooms: Applications of EzGCM, K. Carroll Steward, D. Gosselin, M. Chandler, and C. T. Forbes
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
On the Economics of the Transition to a Circular Economy, A. Chennak, K. Giannakas, and Tala Awada
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
2023 Interior Least Tern and Piping Plover Annual Report for the Lower Platte River, Nebraska, E. F. Forsberg, Mark P. Vrtiska, and J. G. Jorgensen
Contrasting photoprotective responses of forest trees revealed using PRI light responses sampled with airborne imaging spectrometry, J. A. Gamon, R. Wang, and Sabrina E. Russo
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
Exploring the population dynamics of waterfowl hunters using a mark‐recapture approach, Katherine A. Graham, Mark P. Vrtiska, Dale D. Humburg, Larkin A. Powell, Andrew H. Raedeke, Patrick K. Devers, and Christopher J. Chizinski
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
Duck identification and regulation preferences among waterfowl hunters: a pre-assessment of the Tier II bag limit, M. P. Gruntarod, M. P. Vrtiska, R. J. Murano, M. J. Garrick, and C. J. Chizinski
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
Ewe…dung beetles and poop: a nutrient cycling and population ecology lesson for elementary students, Leon G. Higley, D. A. Golick, and P. M. Higley
An examination of scenarios to increase waterfowl hunting participation, M. P. Hinrichs, J. Nawrocki, M. P. Gruntarod, M. P. Vrtiska, and M. A. Pegg
20 Years of Change in Tundra NDVI from Coupled Field and Satellite Observations, F. K. Huemmrich, J. Gamon, P. Campbell, M. Mora, S. Vargas, B. Almanza, and C. Tweedie
Defining and describing students’ socioscientific issues tradeoffs practices, P. C. Jimenez, A. Zwickle, and J. M. Dauer
Wastewater Treatment in Central Asia: Treatment Alternatives for Safe Water Reuse, M. S. Kalmakhanova, J. L. Diaz de Tuesta, A. Malakar, H. T. Gomes, and D. D. Snow
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
The Influence of Grazing Systems on Bird Species Richness and Density in the Nebraska Sandhills, Silka L.F. Kempema, Walter H. Schacht, and Larkin A. Powell
TAPS Program Evaluation – Non-Producers, Stephanie M. Kennedy and Mark E. Burbach
TAPS Program Evaluation – Producers, Stephanie M. Kennedy and Mark E. Burbach