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Recent Publications


2007

Brudvig, L.A., C.M. Mabry, J.R. Miller, and T.A. Walker. 2007. Evaluation of central north American prairie management based on scpecis diversity, life form, and individual species metrics. Conservation Biology 21: 864-874.

Chun, Y.J., M.L. Collyer, K.A. Moloney, and J.D. Nason. Phenotypic plasticity of native vs. invasive purple loosestrife: A two-state multivariate approach. Ecology 88:1499-1512.

Losure, D.A., B.J. Wilsey, and K.A. Moloney. 2007. Evenness-invasibility relationships differ between two extinction scenarios in tallgrass prairie. Oikos 116:87-98.

Pritchard, J.A., D.M. Debinski, B. Olechnowski, and R. Vannimwegen. The landscape of Paul Errington's work. Widllife Society Bulletin 34:1411-1416.

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, T.R. Crow, L. Merrick, and D.T. Cleland. 2007. Homogenization of northern U.S. Great Lakes forests as a result of land use. Landscape Ecology 22:1089-1103.

Wiewel, A.S., W.R. Clark, and M.A. Sovada. 2007. Assessing small mammal abundance with track-tube indicies and mark-recapture population estimates. Journal of Mammalogy 88:250-260.

2006

Davros N.M., D.M. Debinski, K.F. Reeder, and W.L. Hohman. 2006. Butterflies and continuous conservation reserve program filter strips: Landscape considerations. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34:936-943.

Debinski, D.M. 2006. Forest fragmentation and matrix effects: the matrix does matter. Journal of Biogeography 33(10):1791-1792.

Debinski, D.M., R.E. VanNimwegen, and M.E. Jakubauskas. 2006. Quantifying relationships between bird and butterfly community shifts and environmental change. Ecological Applications 16:380-393.

Knoot , T.G., N. Grudens-Schuck, and L.A. Schulte. 2006. Watershed learning activity: Coming to terms with geographic scale. Journal of Extension 43. Available at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2006june/tt4.shtml

Miller, J.R.  2006.  Response to Mehtälä and Vuorisalo: Changing values or wishful thinking?  Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:116-117.

Miller, J.R. 2006. Restoration, reconsiliation, and reconnecting with nature nearby. Biological Conservation 127:356-361.

Orrock J.L., D.J. Levey, B.J. Danielson, and E.I. Damschen. 2006. Seed predation, not seed dispersal, explains the landscape-level abundance of an early-successional plant. Journal of Ecology 94:838-845.

Schulte, L.A., R.J. Mitchell, M.L. Hunter, Jr., J.F. Franklin, R.K. McIntyre, and B.J. Palik. 2006. Evaluating the conceptual tools for forest biodiversity conservation and their implementation in the U.S. Forest Ecology and Management 232:1-11.

2005

Horn, D.J., M.L. Phillips, R.R. Koford, W.R. Clark, M.A. Sovada, and R.J. Greenwood.  2005.  Landscape composition, patch size, and distance to edges: interactions affecting nest success. Ecological Applications 15:1367-1376. [pdf]

Miller, J.R.  2005.  Restoration, reconciliation, and reconnecting with nature.  Biological Conservation 127:356-361. [pdf]

Miller, J.R.  2005.  Biodiversity conservation and the extinction of experience. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:430-434. [pdf]

Martin, L.M., K.A. Moloney, and B.J. Wilsey 2005. An assessment of grassland restoration success using species diversity components.  Journal of Applied Ecology 42:327-336.

Orrock, J.L., and B.J. Danielson. 2005. Patch shape, connectivity, and foraging by oldfield mice (Peromyscus polionotus).  Journal of Mammalogy 86:569-575.

Reeder, K.F., D.M. Debinski, and B.J. Danielson. 2005. Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA.  Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 109:40-47.

Schulte, L.A., and D.J. Mladenoff.  2005.  Severe wind and fire regimes in northern Wisconsin (USA) forests: historical variability at the regional scale.  Ecology 86:431-445.

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, S.N. Burrows, T.A. Sickley, and E.V. Nordheim.  2005.  Spatial controls of Pre-Euroamerican wind and fire in Wisconsin (USA) forests: a multiscale assessment.  Ecosystems 8:73-94.

Schulte, L.A., A.M. Pidgeon, and D.J. Mladenoff.  2005.  One-hundred-fifty years of change in forest bird breeding habitat: historical and current estimates of species distributions.  Conservation Biology 19:144-156.

Shepherd, S., and D.M. Debinski. 2005. Evaluation of isolated and integrated prairie reconstructions as habitat for prairie butterflies.  Biological Conservation 126:51-61.

Shepherd, S., and D.M. Debinski. 2005. Reintroduction of regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) to a restored prairie.  Ecological Restoration 23:243-249.

Wiegand, T., E. Revilla, and K.A. Moloney. 2005. Effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on population dynamics.  Conservation Biology 19:108-121.

2004

Auckland, J.N., D.M. Debinski, and W.R. Clark.  2004. Demographics and movement of the butterfly Parnassius clodius.  Ecological Entomology 29:139-149.

Auckland, J.N, D.M. Debinski and W.R. Clark. 2004. Survival, movement, and resource use of the butterfly Parnassius clodius. Ecological Entomology 29:139–149. [pdf]

Bolliger, J., L.A. Schulte, S.N. Burrows, T.A. Sickley, and D.J. Mladenoff.  2004.  Assessing ecological restoration potentials of Wisconsin (USA) using historical landscape reconstructions.  Restoration Ecology 12:124-142.

Clark, W. R.  2004.  Book review of Quantitative Conservation Biology:  Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis.  Landscape Ecology 19:457-458.

Miller, J.R., M.D. Dixon, and M.G. Turner.  2004.  Response of avian communities in large-river floodplains to environmental variation at multiple scales.  Ecological Applications 14:1394-1410. [pdf]

Miller, J.R., M.G. Turner, E.H. Stanley, E.A.H. Smithwick, and L.C. Dent.  2004. Spatial extrapolation: the science of predicting ecological patterns and processes.  Bioscience 54:310-320. [pdf]

Nusser, S.M., W.R. Clark, J. Wang, and T.R. Bogenschutz.  2004.  Combining data from state and national monitoring surveys to assess large-scale ecological impacts of agricultural policy.  Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 9:1-17.

Phillips, M.L., W.R. Clark, S.M. Nusser, M.A. Sovada, and R.J. Greenwood.  2004.  Analysis of predator movement in prairie landscapes with contrasting grassland composition.  Journal of Mammalogy 85:187-195. [pdf]

Santelmann, M.V., D. White, K. Freemark, J.I. Nassauer, J.M. Eilers, K.B. Vachi, B.J. Danielson, R.C. Corry, M.E. Clark, S. Polasky, R.M. Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. Rustigian, C. Coiner, J. Wu, and D. M. Debinski.  2004. Assessing alternative futures for agriculture in Iowa, U.S.A.  Landscape Ecology 19:357-374.

Su, J.C., D.M. Debinski, M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 2004. Beyond species richness: community similarity as a measure of cross-taxon congruence for coarse-filter conservation. Conservation Biology 18:167-173. [pdf]

Tews, J., K.A. Moloney, and F. Jeltsch. 2004. Modeling seed dispersal in a variable environment: a case study of the fleshy-fruited savanna shrub Grewia flava. Ecological Modeling 175:65-76. [pdf]

Turner, M. G., S. E. Gergel, M. D. Dixon, and J. R. Miller.  2004.  Distribution and abundance of trees in floodplain forests of the Wisconsin River: environmental influences at different scales.  Journal of Vegetation Science 15:729-738.

2003

Bestelmeyer, B.T., J.R. Miller , and J.A. Wiens. 2003.  Applying species diversity theory to land management. Ecological Applications 13:1750-1761. [pdf]

Haddad, N., D.R. Bowne, A. Cunningham, B.J. Danielson, D. Levey, S. Sargent, and T. Spira. 2003. Corridor use by diverse taxa. Ecology 84:609-615.

Hendrix, S., and D.M. Debinski.  2003.  Butterflies in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest.  Bur Oak Guide Series, University of Iowa Press.

Miller, J.R., J.A. Wiens, N.T. Hobbs, and D.M. Theobald. 2003. Effects of human settlement on bird communities in lowland riparian areas of Colorado (USA). Ecological Applications 13:1041-1059. [pdf]

Nickel, A.M., B.J. Danielson, and K.A. Moloney. 2003. Wooded habitat edges as refugia from microtine herbivory in tallgrass prairies. Oikos 100:525-533. [pdf]

Norris, W.R., L.M. Hemesath, D.M. Debinski, and D.R. Farrar. 2003. Does bird community composition vary along a disturbance gradient in Northeast Iowa (USA) forests? Natural Areas Journal 23:262-273.

Orrock, J.L., B.J. Danielson, and M.J. Burns. 2003. Spatial ecology of predator-prey interactions: corridors and patch shape influence seed predation. Ecology 84:2589-99.

Phillips, M.L., W.R. Clark, M.A. Sovada, D.J. Horn, R.R. Koford, and R.J. Greenwood.  2003. Predator selection of prairie landscape features and its relation to duck nest success. Journal of Wildlife Management 67:104-114. [pdf]

Pitt, J.A., W.R. Clark, R.D. Andrews, K.P. Schlarbaum, D.D. Hoffman, and S.W. Pitt.  2003.  Restoration and monitoring of the river otter population in Iowa. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 110:7-12.

Schulte, L.A., T.C. Crow, J. Vissage, and D.C. Cleland. 2003. Seventy-years of forest change in the northern Great Lakes Region, USA. Pages 99-101 in L. Buse and A. Perera (eds.). Forest Research Information Paper #155. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada.

Wichmann M.C., K. Johst, K.A. Moloney, C. Wissel, F. Jeltsch . 2003. Extinction risk in periodically fluctuating environments. Ecological Modeling 167:221-231.

Wiegand, T., and K.A. Moloney. 2003. Rings, circles and null-models for point pattern analysis in ecology. Oikos 104:209-229. [pdf]

2002

Clark, W.R., B.L. Falk, R.A. Schmitz, and B.A. Babcock. 2002. Projecting the wildlife and economic impacts of United States agricultural policy using landscape-level analyses. Pages 139-143 in R. Field, R. J. Warren, H. Okarma and P. R. Sievert, editors. Wildlife, Land, and People: Priorities for the 21st Century. Proceedings of the Second International Wildlife Management Congress. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Debinski, D.M., and J.A. Pritchard.  2002.  A field guide to butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Boulder, CO.

Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, K. Kindscher, E.H. Saveraid and M. Borgognone.  2002. Predicting meadow communities and species occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Pages 499-506 in Scott, J.M., et al., eds.  Predicting species occurrences: Issues of scale and accuracy.  Island Press, Covello, CA.

Gergel, S.E., M.G. Turner, J.R. Miller, J.M. Melack, and E.H. Stanley. 2002. Landscape indicators of human impacts on riverine systems. Aquatic Science 64:118-128.

Holt, R.D., and D.M. Debinski.  2002.  Reflections on landscape experiments and ecological theory: tools for the study of habitat fragmentation.  Pages 201-223 in G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet, eds.  How landscapes change: Human disturbance and ecosystem fragmentation in the Americas, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.

Jeltsch, F., and K.A. Moloney. 2002. Spatially-explicit vegetation models: what have we learned? Progress in Botany 63:326-343.

Kuehl, A.K., and W.R. Clark. 2002. Predator activity related to landscape features in northern Iowa. Journal of Wildlife Management 66:1224-1234. [pdf]

Miller, J. R., and R. J. Hobbs. 2002. Conservation where people live and work. Conservation Biology 16:330-337. [pdf]

Mladenoff, D.J., S.E. Dahir, E.V. Nordheim, L.A. Schulte, and G.G. Guntenspergen. 2002. Narrowing historical uncertainty: probabilistic classification of ambiguously identified tree species in historical survey data. Ecosystems 5:539-553.

Schulte, L.A., D.J. Mladenoff, and E.V. Nordheim. 2002. Quantitative classification of a historic northern Wisconsin landscape: mapping forests at regional scales. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 32:1616-1638.

Tewksbury, J.J., D.J. Levey, N.M. Haddad, S. Sargent, J.L. Orrock, A. Weldon, B.J. Danielson, J. Brinkerhoff, E.I. Damschen, and P. Townsend. 2002. Corridors affect plants, animals, and their interactions in fragmented landscapes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99:12923-12926.

2001

Debinski, D.M., C. Ray, and E.H. Saveraid. 2001. Species diversity and the scale of the landscape mosaic: do scales of movement and patch size affect diversity? Biological Conservation 98:179-190.

Miller, J.R., J.M. Fraterrigo, N.T. Hobbs, D.M. Theobald, and J.A. Wiens. 2001. Urbanization, avian communities, and landscape ecology. Pages 117-137 in J.M. Marzluff (eds.). Avian Ecology and Conservation in an Urbanizing World. Kluwer, NY. [pdf]

Ries, L., and D.M. Debinski. 2001. Butterfly responses to habitat edges in the highly fragmented prairies of Central Iowa. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:840-852.

Ries, L., D.M. Debinski, and M.L. Wieland. 2001. The conservation value of roadside prairie restoration to butterfly populations. Conservation Biology 15:401-411.

Saveraid, E.H., D.M. Debinski, K. Kindscher, and M.E. Jakubauskas. 2001. A comparison of satellite data and landscape variables in predicting bird species occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Landscape Ecology 16:71-83.

Schulte, L.A., and D.J. Mladenoff. 2001. The original U.S. Public Land Survey records: Their use and limitations in reconstruction pre-European settlement vegetation. Journal of Forestry 99:5-10.

Seabloom, E.W., K.A. Moloney, and A.G. van der Valk. 2001. Constraints on the establishment of plants along a fluctuating water-depth gradient. Ecology 82:2216-2232.

2000

Danielson, B.J., and M.W. Hubbard. 2000. The influence of corridors on the movement behavior or individual Peromyscus polionotus in experimental landscapes. Landscape Ecology 15: 323-331.

Debinski, D.M., and P. Drobney. 2000. Regal Fritillary and its host plant studied at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (Iowa). Ecological Restoration 18: 254-255.

Debinski, D.M., and R.D. Holt. 2000. Habitat fragmentation experiments: a global survey and overview. Conservation Biology 14:342-355.

Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 2000. Montane meadows as indicators of environmental change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 64:213-225.

Klaas, B.A., K.A. Moloney and B.J. Danielson. 2000. The tempo and mode of gopher mound production in a tallgrass prairie remnant. Ecography 23:246-256. [pdf]

Miller, J.R., and P. Cale. 2000. Behavioral mechanisms and habitat use by birds in a fragmented agricultural landscape. Ecological Applications 10:1732-1748. [pdf]

Miller, J.R., and N.T. Hobbs. 2000. Effects of recreational trails on nest predation rates and predator assemblages. Landscape and Urban Planning 50:227-236. [pdf]

Miller, J.R., J.A. Wiens, and N.T. Hobbs. 2000. How does urbanization affect bird communities in riparian habitats? An approach and preliminary assessment. Pp. 427-440 in J. Craig, N. Mitchell, and D. Saunders (eds.). Nature Conservation in Production Environments: Managing the Matrix. Surrey Beatty and Sons, Chipping Norton, New South Wales, Australia.

Weber, G.E., K.A. Moloney, and F. Jeltsch. 2000. Simulated long-term vegetation response to alternative stocking strategies in savanna rangelands. Plant Ecology 150:77-96.

Wolfe-Bellin, K., and K.A. Moloney. 2000. The effect of gopher mounds and fire on the spatial distribution and demography of a short-lived legume in tallgrass prairie. Canadian Journal of Botany 78:1299-1308.




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