Natural Resources, School of
School of Natural Resources: Faculty Publications
2018
Effects of Patch Size and Basal Area on Avian Taxonomic and Functional Diversity in Pine Forests: Implication for the Influence of Habitat Quality on the Species-Area Relationship, Myung-Bok Lee and John P. Carroll
Tiered Approach to Resilience Assessment, Igor Linkov, Cate Fox-Lent, Laura Read, Craig R. Allen, James C. Arnott, Emanuele Bellini, Jon Coaffee, Marie-Valentine Florin, Kirk Hatfield, Iain Hyde, William Hynes, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Roger Kasperson, John Katzenberger, Patrick W. Keys, James H. Lambert, Richard Moss, Peter S. Murdoch, Jose Palma-Oliveira, Roger S. Pulwarty, Dale Sands, Edward A. Thomas, Mari R. Tye, and David Woods
Adult bobcat (Lynx rufus) habitat selection in a longleaf pine savanna, Andrew R. Little, L. Mike Conner, Michael J. Chamberlain, Nathan P. Nibbelink, and Robert J. Warren
Understanding Deer, Bear, and Forest Trends in the North Georgia Mountains: The Value of Long-term Data, Andrew R. Little, Gino J. D'Angelo, Charlie H. Killmaster, Kristina L. Johannsen, and Karl V. Miller
Factors Influencing Farmers Adoption of Best Management Practices: A Review and Synthesis, Tingting Liu, Randall J.F. Bruins, and Matthew T. Heberling
Variability of Rainfall Erosivity and Erosivity Density in the Ganjiang River Catchment, China: Characteristics and Influences of Climate Change, Xianghu Li and Xuchun Ye
Exploring the Role of Relational Practices in Water Governance Using a Game-Based Approach, Piotr Magnuszewski, Karolina Krolikowska, Anna Koch, Michal Pajak, Craig R. Allen, Victoria Chraibi, Anil Giri, Danielle Haak, Noelle Hart, Michelle Hellman, Donald Pan, Nathan Rossman, Jan Sendzimir, Maggi S. Sliwinski, Joanna Stefanska, Tharsi Taillieu, Denise Marie Weide, and Ilonka Zlatar
Spatial and temporal analysis of a 17–year lightning climatology over Bangladesh with LIS data, Rezaul Mahmood
Occupancy and habitat use by six species of forest ungulates on Tiwai Island, Sierra Leone, Kathryn R. McCollum, Emily Belinfante, April L. Conway, and John P. Carroll
Kori Bustards (Ardeotis kori) respond to vegetation density and elevation in the Northern Tuli Game Reserve, Botswana L'abondance de l'Outarde kori (Ardeotis kori) varie selon la végétation et l'élévation dans la réserve de chasse de Northern Tuli, Botswana, Kathryn R. McCollum, Larkin A. Powell, Andrei Shyman, Mary Bomberger Brown, and John P. Carroll
Ecological Drought: Accounting for the Non-Human Impacts of Water Shortage in the Upper Missouri Headwaters Basin, Montana, USA, Jamie McEvoy, Deborah J. Bathke, Nina Burkardt, Amanda E. Cravens, Tonya Haigh, Kimberly R. Hall, Michael J. Hayes, Theresa Jedd, Marketa Podebradska, and Elliot Wickham
Anatomy of an interrupted irrigation season: Micro-drought at the Wind River Indian Reservation, Shannon M. McNeeley, Cadida F. Dewes, Crystal J. Stiles, Tyler A. Beeton, Imtiaz Rangwala, Michael T. Hobbins, and Cody L. Knutson
The Paleoepidemiology of Enterobius vermicularis (Nemata: Oxyuridae) Among the Loma San Gabriel at La Cueva de los Muertos Chiquitos (600–800 CE), Rio Zape Valley, Durango, Mexico, Johnica J. Morrow and Karl Reinhard
The Fingerprint of Climate Change and Urbanization in South Korea, Won-Ho Nam, Guillermo A. Baigorria, Eun-Mi Hong, Taegon Kim, Yong-Sang Choi, and Song Feng
Performance Metrics for Street and Park Trees in Urban Forests, Eric A. North, Anthony W. D'Amato, and Matthew B. Russell
Autologous Bone Flap Resorption Years After Subtemporal Craniotomy, John Oladapo Obafunwa, Emily E. Hammerl, David Jaskierny, Livia A. Taylor, Lynette Russell, and Karl Reinhard
Comparison of Agricultural Stakeholder Survey Results and Drought Monitoring Datasets during the 2016 US Northern Plains Flash Drought, Jason A. Otkin, Tonya Haigh, Anthony Mucia, Martha Anderson, and Christopher Hain
Climate Change Implications for Irrigation and Groundwater in the Republican River Basin, USA, Gengxin Ou, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Daniel R. Uden, Derrel Martin, Craig R. Allen, and Nancy Shank
New evidence of ancient parasitism among Late Archaic and Ancestral Puebloan residents of Chaco Canyon, Rachel E. Paseka, Carrie C. Heitman, and Karl Reinhard
Assessment of multiple stressors on the growth of larval green sturgeon Acipenser medirostris: implications for recruitment of early life-history stages, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Benjamin Martin, Eric Danner, Sarah E. Baird, Dennis E. Cocherell, Natnael Hamda, Joseph J. Cech Jr., and Nann A. Fangue
Rainfall simulation experiments in the southwestern USA using the Walnut Gulch Rainfall Simulator, Viktor O. Polyakov, Jeffry Stone, Chandra Holifield Collins, Mark A. Nearing, Ginger Paige, Jared Buono, and Rae-Landa Gomez-Pond
Guidelines for Ecotourism Operations in the Great Plains, Larkin A. Powell, Kelly Powell, and Katie Nieland
Hydro-stochastic interpolation coupling with the Budyko approach for prediction of mean annual runoff, Ning Qiu, Xi Chen, Qi Hu, Jintao Liu, Richao Huang, and Man Gao
Imaging Spectroscopic Analysis of Biochemical Traits for Shrub Species in Great Basin, USA, Yi Qi, Susan L. Ustin, and Nancy F. Glenn
Present and future thermal environments available to Sharp-tailed Grouse in an intact grassland, Edward J. Raynor, Larkin Powell, and Walter H. Schacht
Pollen Evidence of Medicine from an Embalming Jar Associated with Vittoria della Rovere, Florence, Italy, Karl Reinhard, Kelsey B. Lynch, Annie Larsen, Braymond Adams, Leon Higley, Marina Milanello do Amaral, Julia Russ, Donatella Lippi, Johnica J. Morrow, and Dario Piombino-Mascali
Changes in CO2 during the Ocean Anoxic Event 1d indicate similarities to other carbon cycle perturbations, Jon D. Richey, Garland R. Upchurch, Isabel P. Montanez, Barry H. Lomax, Marina B. Suarez, Neil M.J. Crout, R.M. Joeckel, Greg A. Ludvigson, and Jon J. Smith
Early Warnings for State Transitions, Caleb P. Roberts, Dirac Twidwell, Jessica L. Burnett, Victoria M. Donovan, Carissa L. Wonkka, Christine L. Bielski, Ahjond S. Garmestani, David G. Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Brady W. Allred, Matthew O. Jones, David E. Naugle, Shana M. Sundstrom, and Craig R. Allen
Doublethink and scale mismatch polarize policies for an invasive tree, Caleb P. Roberts, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, and Dirac L. Twidwell Jr.
Urban stream microbial communities show resistance to pharmaceutical exposure, E. J. Rosi, H. A. Bechtold, D. D. Snow, M. Rojas, A. J. Reisinger, and J. J. Kelly
The Nebraska Mesonet: Technical Overview of an Automated State Weather Network, Martha Shulski, Stonie Cooper, Glen Roebke, and Allen L. Dutcher
Paleoparasitology and Pathoecology in Russia: Investigations and Perspectives, Sergey Slepchenko and Karl Reinhard
Ranchers: perceptions of vegetation heterogeneity in the Northern Great Plains, Maggi Sliwinski, Mark Burbach, Larkin A. Powell, and Walter Schacht
First U-Pb Zircon Ages for Late Miocene Ashfall Konservat-Lagerstatte and Grove Lake Ashes from Eastern Great Plains, USA, Jon J. Smith, Elijah Turner, Andreas Moller, R.M. Joeckel, and Rick E. Otto
African Lion (Panthera leo) Space Use in the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area, Andrei Snyman, Edward Raynor, Chris Chizinski, Larkin Powell, and John Carroll
Integrating Authentic Scientific Research in a Conservation Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience, Amanda E. Sorensen, Lucia Corral, Jenny M. Dauer, and Joseph J. Fontaine
The Distribution and Role of Functional Abundance in Cross‐Scale Resilience, Shana M. Sundstrom, David G. Angeler, Chris Barichievy, Tarsha Eason, Ahjond Garmestani, Lance Gunderson, Melinda Knutson, Kirsty L. Nash, Trisha Spanbauer, Craig Stow, and Craig R. Allen
Anthropogenic Hydrological Cycle Disturbance at a Regional Scale: State-Wide Evapotranspiration Trends (1979-2015) Across Nebraska, USA, Jozsef Szilagyi
Evapotranspiration Trends (1979-2015) in the Central Valley of California, USA: Contrasting Tendencies During 1981-2007, Jozsef Szilagyi and Janos Jozsa
Drought and Land-Cover Conditions in the Great Plains, Heather Tollerud, Jesslyn Brown, Tom Loveland, Rezaul Mamood, and Norman Bliss
The Perpetual State of Emergency That Sacrifices Protected Areas in a Changing Climate, Dirac Twidwell, Carissa L. Wonkka, Christine H. Bielski, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Jacob Drozda, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Julia Johnson, Larkin A. Powell, and Caleb P. Roberts
A Framework for Tracing Social–Ecological Trajectories and Traps in Intensive Agricultural Landscapes, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, Francisco Munoz-Arriola, Gengxin Ou, and Nancy Shank
Using art and story to explore how primary school students in rural Tanzania understand planetary health: a qualitative analysis, Elizabeth VanWormer, Jesca Mlawa, Elizabeth Komba, Christopher Gustafson, Hilda Mrema, and Jenny M. Dauer
Cosmic ray neutrons provide an innovative technique for estimating intermediate scale soil moisture, Thigesh Vather, Colin Everson, Michael Mengistu, and Trenton E. Franz
Improving the calibration of silicon photodiode pyranometers, Elizabeth Walter-Shea, Kenneth Hubbard, Mark A. Mesarch, and Glen Roebke
The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship: an experimental test in a prairie grassland, Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Philip A. Townsend, and Arthur I. Zygielbaum
The spatial sensitivity of the spectral diversity–biodiversity relationship: an experimental test in a prairie grassland, Ran Wang, John A. Gamon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Philip A. Townsend, and Arthur I. Zygielbaum
Dominant plant species shape soil bacterial community in semiarid sandy land of northern China, Shaokun Wang, Xiaoan Zuo, Xueyong Zhao, Tala Awada, Yongqing Luo, Yuqiang Li, and Hao Qu
Assessing Decadal Trends of a Nitrate-Contaminated Shallow Aquifer in Western Nebraska Using Groundwater Isotopes, Age-Dating, and Monitoring, Martin J. Wells, Troy E. Gilmore, Aaron R. Mittelstet, Daniel D. Snow, and Steven S. Sibray
Spring warming in Yukon mountains is not amplified by the snow albedo feedback, Scott N. Williamson, Faron S. Anslow, Garry K. C. Clarke, John A. Gamon, Alexander H. Jarosch, and David S. Hik
Field-scale mapping of evaporative stress indicators of crop yield: An application over Mead, NE, USA, Yang Yang, Martha C. Anderson, Feng Gao, Brian D. Wardlow, Christopher R. Hain, Jason A. Otkin, Joseph Alfieri, Yun Yang, Liang Sun, and Wayne Dulaney
2017
Mesoscale Modeling of the Meteorological Impacts of Irrigation during the 2012 Central Plains Drought, Clint Aegerter, Jun Wang, Cui Ge, Suat Irmak, Robert Oglesby, Brian D. Wardlow, Haishun Yang, Jingshen You, and Martha Shulski
A Quantitative Framework for Assessing Ecological Resilience, Didier L. Baho, Craig R. Allen, Ahjond Garmestani, Hannah Fried-Petersen, Sophia E. Renes, Lance Gunderson, and David G. Angeler
Potential of Windbreak Trees to Reduce Carbon Emissions by Agricultural Operations in the US, William Ballesteros Possu, James R. Brandle, and Michele Schoeneberger
Ungulate predation and ecological roles of wolves and coyotes in eastern North America, John F. Benson, Karen M. Loveless, Linda Y. Rutledge, and Brent R. Patterson
Northern Bobwhite Nest Site Selection in Field Borders, Danielle J. Berger, Jessica N. Piispanen, Tim F. Ginnett, and Jason D. Riddle
Assessment of a channel catfish population in a large open river system, A. J. Blank, M. J. Hamel, Jonathan J. Spurgeon, and Mark A. Pegg
Exploring Elementary Students’ Scientific Knowledge of Agriculture Using Evidence-Centered Design, Molly Brandt, Cory Forbes, and Jenny Keshwani
Plant uptake and stream chemistry set global bounds on nitrogen gas emissions from humid tropical forests, E.N.J. Brookshire, S. Gerber, W. Greene, R.A. Jones, and Steven A. Thomas
Resilience in Ecotoxicology: Toward a Multiple Equilibrium Concept, Mirco Bundschuh, Ralf Schulz, Ralf B. Schäfer, Craig R. Allen, and David G. Angeler
Defining Ecological Drought for the Twenty-First Century, Shelley D. Crausbay, Aaron R. Ramirez, Shawn L. Carter, Molly S. Cross, Kimberly R. Hall, Deborah J. Bathke, Julio L. Betancourt, Steve Colt, Amanda E. Cravens, Melinda S. Dalton, Jason B. Dunham, Lauren E. Hay, Michael J. Hayes, Jamie McEvoy, Chad A. McNutt, Max A. Moritz, Keith H. Nislow, Nejem Raheem, and Todd Sanford
Geological Principles Illustrated in the Art along the Antelope Valley Hiker/Biker Trail – The BIG X (Salt Creek Roadway/Antelope Valley Parkway) South to Q Street, Robert Diffendal, Jr.
Great Plains Geology: A Personal Journey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Geology: My Personal Journey, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Nebraska, USA: Wonderful Fossils, Natural History Museums and Public Art Depicting Fossils, Robert F. Diffendal Jr.
Landscape Features Affecting Northern Bobwhite Predator-Specific Nest Failures in Southeastern USA, Susan Ellis-Felege, Shannon E. Albeke, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Michael J. Conroy, D. Clay Sisson, William E. Palmer, and John P. Carroll
Hydraulics Near Unscreened Diversion Pipes in Open Channels: Large Flume Experiments, Ali Ercan, M. Levent Kavvas, Kara Carr, Zachary Hockett, Houssein Bandeh, Timothy D. Mussen, Dennis E. Cocherell, Jamilynn B. Poletto, Joseph J. Cech Jr., and Nann A. Fangue
Reproductive ecology of interior least tern and piping plover in relation to Platte River hydrology and sandbar dynamics, Jason M. Farnsworth, David M. Baasch, Chadwin B. Smith, and Kevin L. Werbylo
Long-term analysis of the asynchronicity between temperature and precipitation maxima in the United States Great Plains, Paul Flanagan, Jeffrey B. Basara, and Xiangming Xiao
Measuring Farmer Conservation Behaviors: Challenges and Best Practices, Kristin Floress, Adam Reimer, Aaron Thompson, Mark Burbach, Cody Knutson, Linda Prokopy, Marc Ribaudo, and Jessica Ulrich-Schad
Feasibility analysis of using inverse modeling for estimating field-scale evapotranspiration in maize and soybean fields from soil water content monitoring networks, Foad Foolad, Trenton E. Franz, Teijun Wang, Justin Gibson, Ayse Kilie, Richard Allen, and Andrew E. Suyker
Feasibility Analysis of Using Inverse Modeling for Estimating Field-Scale Evapotranspiration in Maize and Soybean Fields from Soil Water Content Monitoring Networks, Foad Foolad, Trenton E. Franz, Tiejun Wang, Justin Gibson, Ayse Kilic, Richard Allen, and Andrew Suyker
Hiring Leaders: Inference and Disagreement About the Best Person for the Job, Konstantinos Giannakas, Murray Fulton, and Tala Awada
A framework for pollination systems thinking and conservation, Doug Golick, Jenny Dauer, Louise Lynch, and Erin Ingram
Nest site selection and nest survival of Greater Prairie-Chickens near a wind energy facility, Jocelyn Olney Harrison, Mary B. Brown, Larkin A. Powell, Walter H. Schacht, and Jennifer A. Smith
The roles of ecology, behavior and effective population size in the evolution of a community., C.M. Hung, S. Drovetski, and R. M. Zink
Modeling with a Conceptual representation: is it necessary? does it Work?, Rebecca C. Jordan, Steven Gray, Amanda E. Sorensen, Samantha Pasewark, Suparna Sinha, and Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Modeling with a Conceptual representation: is it necessary? does it Work?, Rebecca C. Jordan, Steven Gray, Amanda E. Sorensen, Samantha Pasewark, Suparna Sinha, and Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver
Temporal Migration Shifts in the Aransas-Wood Buffalo Population of Whooping Cranes (Grus americana) Across North America, Joel G. Jorgensen and Mary Bomberger Brown
Common Carp Disrupt Ecosystem Structure and Function Through Middle-out Effects, Mark A. Kaemingk, Jeffrey C. Jolley, Craig P. Paukert, David W. Willis, Kjetil Henderson, Richard S. Holland, Greg A. Wanner, and Mark L. Lindvall
Culturally induced range infilling of eastern redcedar: a problem in ecology, an ecological problem, or both?, Aubrey Streit Krug, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, and Dirac L. Twidwell Jr
Assessment of irrigation physics in a land surface modeling framework using non-traditional and human-practice datasets, Paticia M. Lawston, Joseph A. Santanello Jr., Trenton E. Franz, and Matthew Rodell
The 5E Learning Cycle: What's the Story?, Kelsey Lipsitz, Dante Cisterna, and Deborah Hanuscin
Population Growth and Mortality Sources of the Black Bear Population in Northern Georgia, Andrew R. Little, Adam Hammond, James A. Martin, Kristina L. Johannsen, and Karl V. Miller
The impact of water quality in Narragansett Bay on housing prices, Tingting Liu, James J. Opaluch, and Emi Uchida
The diffeology of Milnor's classifying space, Jean-Pierre Magnot and Jordan Watts
Droughts of the twentieth and early twenty first centuries: Influences on the production of beef and Forage in Kentucky, USA, Rezaul Mahmood
Mesonets: Meso-scale weather and climate observations for the U.S., Rezaul Mahmood
Recent Land Cover Changes and Sensitivity of the Model Simulations to Various Land Cover Datasets for China, Rezaul Mahmood
The future of Earth observation in hydrology, Matthew F. McCabe, Matthew Rodell, Douglas E. Alsdorf, Remko Uijlenhoet, Wolfgang Wagner, Arko Lucieer, Rasmus Houborg, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Trenton E. Franz, Jiancheng Shi, Huilin Gao, and Eric F. Wood
Carbon Flux Phenology from the Sky: Evaluation for Maize and Soybean, Alexandria G. McCombs, Cuizhen Wang, Ankur Desai, Andrew E. Suyker, and Sebastien C. Bird
Multi-Scale Habitat Selection by Cow Moose (Alces alces) at Calving Sites in Central Ontario, A.A.D. McLaren, J. F. Benson, and B.R. Patterson
Pseudoscorpions of the family Cheiridiidae (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) recovered from burial sediments at Pachacamac (500–1,500CE), Peru, Johnica J. Morrow, Livia Taylor, Lauren Peck, Christian Elowsky, Lawrence Stewart Owens, Peter Eeckout, and Karl Reinhard
Applying Topographic Classification, Based on the Hydrological Process, to Design Habitat Linkages for Climate Change, Yongwon Mo, Dong Kun Lee, Keunyea Song, Ho Gul Kim, and Soo Jin Park
Ecophysiological responses of native invasive woody Juniperus virginiana L. to resource availability and stand characteristics in the semiarid grasslands of the Nebraska Sandhills, Joseph Msanne, Tala Awada, N. M. Bryan, Walter H. Schacht, Rhae A. Drijber, Y. Li, X. Zhou, Jane A. Okalebo, David A. Wedin, James R. Brandle, and J. Hiller
How do undergraduate STEM mentors reflect upon their mentoring experiences in an outreach program engaging K-8 youth?, Kari Nelson, Jaime Sabel, Cory Forbes, Neal Grandgenett, William Tapprich, and Christine E. Cutucache
Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents, B. C. Norman, M. R. Whiles, S. M. Collins, A. S. Flecker, S. K. Hamilton, S. L. Johnson, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, L. R. Ashkenas, W. B. Bowden, C. L. Crenshaw, T. Crowl, W. K. Dodds, R. O. Hall, R. El-Sabaawi, N. A. Griffiths, E. Marti, W. H. McDowell, S. D. Peterson, H. M. Rantala, T. Riis, K. S. Simon, J. L. Tank, S. A. Thomas, D. von Schiller, and J. R. Webster
Can an immersion exhibit inspire connection to nature and environmentally responsible behavior?, Lisa Pennisi, N. Qwynne Lackey, and Stephen M. Holland
Scaling, similarity, and the fourth paradigm for hydrology, Chirsta D. Peters-Lidard, Martyn Clark, Luis Samaniego, Niko E. C. Verhoest, Tim van Emmerik, Remko Uijlenhoet, Kevin Achieng, Trenton E. Franz, and Ross Woods
Tolerance: the forgotten child of plant resistance, Robert K. D. Peterson, Andrea C. Varella, and Leon G. Higley