2016
A framework for understanding the characteristics of complexity in biology, Joseph Dauer and Jenny Dauer
Using Cosmic-Ray Neutron Probes to Monitor Landscape Scale Soil Water Content in Mixed Land Use Agricultural Systems, Trenton E. Franz, Ammar Wahbi, Mariette Vreugdenhil, Georg Weltin, Lee Hang, Markus Oismueller, Peter Strauss, Gerd Dercon, and Darin Desilets
A remotely sensed pigment index reveals photosynthetic phenology in evergreen conifers, John A. Gamon, K. Fred Huemmrich, Christopher Y.S. Wong, Ingo Ensminger, Steven Garrity, David Y. Hollinger, Asko Noormets, and Josep Peñuelas
Local Perspectives on Environmental Insecurity and Its Influence on Illegal Biodiversity Exploitation, Meredith L. Gore, Michelle L. Lute, Jonah H. Ratsimbazafy, and Andry Rajaonson
Developing Coherent Conceptual Storylines: Two Elementary Challenges, Deborah Hanuscin, Kelsey Lipsitz, Dante Cisterna-Alburquerque, Kathryn A. Arnone, Delinda van Garderen, Zandra de Araujo, and Eun Ju Lee
Terrestrial ecosystem process model Biome-BGCMuSo v4.0: summary of improvements and new modeling possibilities, Dóra Hidy, Zoltán Barcza, Hrvoje Marjanovi´c, Maša Zorana Ostrogovi´c Sever, Laura Dobor, Györgyi Gelybó, Nándor Fodor, Krisztina Pintér, Galina Churkina, Steven Running, Peter Thornton, Gianni Bellocchi, László Haszpra, Ferenc Horváth, Andrew E. Suyker, and Zoltán Nagy
Submerged area of typical torrential flood and debris-flow disasters in Mengzong Gully, China, Ai-Di Huo, Wen-Ke Guan, Jian Dang, Tian-Zhong Wu, Hainiken Shantai, Wei Wang, and Michael W. Van Liew
Winter Diet and Hunting Success of Canada Lynx in Colorado, Jacob S. Ivan and Tanya M. Shenk
Convergent evolution in social swallows (Aves: Hirundinidae), Allison E. Johnson, Jonathan S. Mitchell, and Mary B. Brown
Impact perceptions and acceptance capacity toward Piping Plovers Charadrius melodus among visitors on a public beach in Nebraska, USA, Joel G. Jorgensen and Mary Bomberger Brown
Flight Initiation Distances of Nesting Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Response to Human Disturbance, Joel G. Jorgensen, Lauren R. Dinan, and Mary Bomberger Brown
Examining the Relevancy and Utility of the American Fisheries Society Certification Program to Prepare Future Fisheries Professionals, Mark A. Kaemingk, Ron Essig, Steve L. McMullin, Craig Bonds, Robin L. DeBruyne, Christopher A. Myrick, Quinton E. Phelps, Trent M. Sutton, and James R. Triplett
Basic Forms and Orbit Spaces:a Diffeological Approach, Yael Karshon and Jordan Watts
Sustainable Grassland Management: An Exploratory Study of Progressive Ranchers in Nebraska, Stephanie M. Kennedy, Mark E. Burbach, and Maggi S. Sliwinski
Sensitivity of evapotranspiration retrievals from the METRIC processing algorithm to improved radiometric resolution of Landsat 8 thermal data and to calibration bias in Landsat 7 and 8 surface temperature, Ayse Kilic, Richard G. Allen, Ricardo Trezza, Ian Ratcliffe, Baburao Kamble, Clarence W. Robison, and Doruk Ozturk
Informative spectral bands for remote green LAI estimation in C3 and C4 crops, Oz Kira, Anthony L. Nguy-Robertson, Timothy J. Arkebauer, Raphael Linker, and Anatoly A. Gitelson
Freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate diversity patterns in an Andean-Amazon basin: implications for conservation efforts, Janeth Lessmann, Juan M. Guayasamin, Kayce L. Casner, Alexander S. Flecker, W. Chris Funk, Cameron K. Ghalambor, Brian A. Gill, Iván Jácome- Negrete, Boris C. Kondratieff, LeRoy N. Poff, José Schreckinger, Steven A. Thomas, Eduardo Toral-Contreras, Kelly R. Zamudio, and Andrea C. Encalada
Survival and cause-specific mortality of female eastern wild turkeys in two frequently-burned longleaf pine savannas, Andrew R. Little, John F. Benson, Michael J. Chamberlain, L. Mike Conner, and Robert J. Warren
Survival and cause-specific mortality of female eastern wild turkeys in two frequently-burned longleaf pine savannas, Andrew R. Little, John F. Benson, Michael J. Chamberlain, L. Mike Conner, and Robert J. Warren
Habitat Selection of Wild Turkeys in Burned Longleaf Pine Savannas, Andrew R. Little, Michael J. Chamberlain, L. Mike Conner, and Robert J. Warren
Eastern wild turkey nest site selection in two frequently burned pine savannas, Andrew R. Little, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Michael J. Chamberlain, L. Mike Conner, and Robert J. Warren
Narrowing the Agronomic Yield Gaps of Maize by Improved Soil, Cultivar, and Agricultural Management Practices in Different Climate Zones of Northeast China, Zhijuan Liu, Xiaoguang Yang, Xiaomao Lin, Kenneth Hubbard, Shuo Lv, and Jing Wang
Carbon and energy fluxes in cropland ecosystems: a model-data comparison, Erandathie Lokupitiya, A. S. Denning, K. Schaefer, D. Ricciuto, R. Anderson, M. A. Arain, Colorado State University, A. G. Barr, G. Chen, J. M. Chen, P. Ciais, D. R. Cook, M. Dietze, M. El Maayar, M. Fischer, University of Alberta, D. Hollinger, C. Izaurralde, A. Jain, C. Kucharik, Z. Li, S. Liu, L. Li, R. Matamala, P. Peylin, D. Price, S. W. Running, A. Sahoo, M. Sprintsin, Andrew Suyker, H. Tian, C. Tonitto, M. Torn, Hans Verbeeck, Shashi Verma, and Y. Xue
Atmospheric Sensitivity to Roughness Length in a Regional Atmospheric Model Over the Ohio-Tennessee River valley, Rezaul Mahmood
Impacts of human hunting on spatial behavior of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Sierra A. Marantz, Jed A. Long, Stephen L. Webb, Kenneth L. Gee, Andrew R. Little, and Stephen Demarais
Temporal Variability in Aboveground Plant Biomass Decreases as Spatial Variability Increases, Devan Allen McGranahan, Torre J. Hovick, R. Dwayne Elmore, David M. Engle, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Stephen L. Winter, James R. Miller, and Diane M. Debinski
Temporal Variability in Aboveground Plant Biomass Decreases as Spatial Variability Increases, Devan Allen McGranahan, Torre J. Hovick, R. Dwayne Elmore, David M. Engle, Samuel D. Fuhlendorf, Stephen L. Winter, James R. Miller, and Diane M. Debinski
Are We Preparing the Next Generation of Fisheries Professionals to Succeed in their Careers?: A Survey of AFS Members, Steve L. McMullin, Vic DiCenzo, Ron Essig, Craig Bonds, Robin L. DeBruyne, Mark A. Kaemingk, Martha Mather, Christopher A. Myrick, Quinton E. Phelps, Trent M. Sutton, and James R. Triplett
CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD MINERAL ENCRUSTATION: LONG-LIVED AQUATIC INSECTS ACCUMULATE CALCIUM CARBONATE DEPOSITS IN A MONTANE DESERT STREAM, Eric K. Moody, Jessica R. Corman, and Michael T. Bogan
Monitoring Grassland Seasonal Carbon Dynamics, by Integrating MODIS NDVI, Proximal Optical Sampling, and Eddy Covariance Measurements, Enrica Nestola, Carlo Calfapietra, Craig A. Emmerton, Christopher Y. S. Wong, Donnette R. Thayer, and John A. Gamon
Estimation of Energy Balance Components over a Drip-Irrigated Olive Orchard Using Thermal and Multispectral Cameras Placed on a Helicopter-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), Samuel Ortega-Farias, Samuel Ortega-Salazar, Tomas Poblete, Ayse Kilic, Richard Allen, Carlos Poblete-Echeverria, Luis Ahumada-Orellana, Mauricio Zuniga, and Daniel Sepulveda
Does Predation Influence the Seasonal and Diel Timing of Moose Calving in Central Ontario, Canada?, Brent R. Patterson, Kenneth J. Mills, Kevin R. Middel, John F. Benson, and Martyn E. Obbard
The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability, M.D. Petrie, N. A. Brunsell, R. Vargas, Scott L. Collins, L.B. Flanagan, N.P. Hanan, M.E. Litvak, and A. E. Suyker
The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability, M. D. Petrie, N. A. Brunsell, R. Vargas, S. L. Collins, L. B. Flanagan, N. P. Hanan, M. E. Litvak, and Andrew E. Suyker
Status of knowledge of the Shovelnose Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus platorynchus, Rafinesque, 1820), Q. E. Phelps, S. J. Tripp, M. J. Hamel, J. Koch, E. J. Heist, J. E. Garvey, K. M. Kappenman, and M. A. H. Webb
Estimating carbon storage in windbreak trees on U.S. agricultural lands, W. B. Possu, James R. Brandle, G. M. Domke, M. Schoeneberger, and Erin E. Blankenship
Optimizing the Safety Margins Governing a Deterministic Design Process while Considering the Effects of a Future Test and Redesign on Epistemic Model Uncertainty, Nathaniel B. Price
Seasonal Relationships Between Foliar Moisture Content, Heat Content and Biochemistry of Lodgepole Pine and Big Sagebrush Foliage, Yi Qi, W. Matt Jolly, Philip E. Dennison, and Rachael C. Kropp
Foraging decisions underlying restricted space use: effects of fire and forage maturation on large herbivore nutrient uptake, Edward J. Raynor, Anthony Joern, Jesse B. Nippert, and John M. Briggs
Temporal variability in large grazer space use in an experimental landscape, Edward J. Raynor, Anthony Joren, Adam Skibbe, Mark Sowers, John M. Briggs, Angela N. Laws, and Douglas Goodin
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
Daily soil surface CO2 flux during non-flooded periods in flood-irrigated rice rotations, J. M. Motschenbacher, K. R. Brye, M. M. Anders, E. E. Gbur, N. A. Slaton, and M. A. Evans-White
Bringing the passion back: Using your expertise to gain experience, improve motivation, and create real change in global agriculture, J.M.D. Motschenbacher
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