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2008
Anderson, C.A. and S.K. Sarver. 2008. Development of polymorphic microsatellite loci for the endangered Topeka shiner, Notropis topeka. Molecular Ecology Resources 8(2):311-313.
Archdeacon, T.P., S.A. Bonar, S.J. Kline, A. Iles and D. Hugheson. 2008. Effects of Asian tapeworm on the endangered Mohave chub. Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit. Fisheries Research Report 02-08.
Billings, S.A. and E.A. Gaydess. 2008. Soil nitrogen and carbon dynamics in a fragmented landscape experiencing forest succession. Landscape Ecology 23:581-593.
Collins, C.D. and B.L. Foster. 2008. The role of topography and soil characteristics in the relationship between species richness and primary productivity in a Kansas grassland. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 111(1/2):105-117.
Dickson, T.L. and B.L. Foster. 2008. The relative importance of the species pool, productivity and disturbance in regulating grassland plant species richness: a field experiment. Journal of Ecology 96:937-946.
Harris, R.C. and D. Ladd. 2008. The lichen genus Chrysothrix in the Ozark Ecoregion, including a preliminary treatment for eastern and central North America. Opuscula Philolichenum 5:29-42.
Harris, R.C. and C.A. Morse. 2008. Monoblastiopsis (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales, incertae sedis), a new genus from the Great Plains and Ozark Highlands. Opuscula Phiilolichenum 5:89-96.
Lark, A.M. and N.A. Slade. 2008. Variation in vigilance in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in northeastern Kansas. American Midland Naturalist 159:67-74.
Liu, G., G.C. Bohling, and J.J. Butler Jr. 2008. Simulation assessment of the direct-push permeameter for characterizing vertical variations in hydraulic conductivity. Water Resources Research 44:W02432, doi:10.1029/2007WR006078.
Marchin, R.M., E.L. Sage, and J.K. Ward. 2008. Population-level variation of Fraxinus americana (white ash) is influenced by precipitation differences across the native range. Tree Physiology 28:151-159.
Moody-Weis, J., J. Antonovics, H.M. Alexander, and D. Pilson. 2008. Predicting local colonization and extinction dynamics from coarser-scale surveys. Ecography 31:61-72..
Pisani, G., M. Walker, and J. Dorr. 2008. Observation of aberrant growth in a Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 111(1/2):156-158.
Questad, E.J. and B.L. Foster. 2008. Coexistence through spatio-temporal heterogeneity and species sorting in grassland plant communities. Ecology Letters 11:717-726.
Reed, A.W. and N.A. Slade. 2008. Density-dependent recruitment in grassland small mammals. Journal of Animal Ecology 77:57-65.
Tiemann, L.K. and S.A. Billings. 2008. Carbon controls on nitrous oxide production with changes in substrate availability in a North American grassland. Soil Science 173(5):332-341.
Wachter, B., C.D. McElwee, and J.F. Devlin. 2008. Hydraulic tomography and high-resolution slug testing to determine hydraulic conductivity distributions -- Year 4, Project Report to the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, U.S. DoD, EPA, and DOE, 74 pp. Also KGS Open-file Report No. 2008-23.
Worster, D., E. Schultz, K. Kindscher, E. Robinson, and K. Gerstner. 2008. The Nature of Kansas Lands. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
2007
Alexander, H.M., S. Price, R. Houser, D. Finch, and M. Tourtellot. 2007. Is there reduction in disease and predispersal seed predation at the border of a host plant's range? -- field and herbarium studies of Carex blanda. Journal of Ecology 95:446-457.
Bohling, G.C., J.J. Butler, Jr., X. Zhan, and M.D. Knoll. 2007. A field assessment of the value of steady-shape hydraulic tomography for characterization of aquifer heterogeneities. Water Resources Research 43:W05430, doi:101.1029/2006WR004932.
Busby, W.H. and G.R. Pisani. 2007. Welda Spring Field Trip. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 22:12.
Butler, J.J., Jr., P. Dietrich, V. Wittig, and T. Christy. 2007. Characterizing hydraulic conductivity with the direct-push permeameter. Ground Water 45(4):409-419.
Cummins, T. and N.A. Slade. 2007. Summer captures of Reithrodontomys megalotis in elevated traps. Southwestern Naturalist 52:79-82.
Devlin, J.F. and C.D. McElwee. 2007. Effects of measurement error on horizontal hydraulic gradient estimates. Ground Water 45(1):62-73.
Foster, B.L and K. Kindscher. 2007. Controls on biodiversity and ecosystem function in managed grasslands. National Resource Initiative Research Highlights 2007, No. 2.
Foster, B.L., C.A. Murphy, K. Keller, T. Aschenbach, E.J. Questad, and K. Kindscher. 2007. Restoration of prairie community structure and ecosystem function in an abandoned hayfield: a sowing experiment. Restoration Ecology 15:652-661.
Harris, R.C. and D. Ladd. 2007. New taxa of lichens and lichenicolous fungi from the Ozark Ecoregion. Opuscula Philolichenum 4:57-68.
Harris, R.C. and C.A. Morse. 2007. Monoblastiopsis (Dothidiomycetes, Pleosporales, incartae sedis), a new genus from the Great Plains and Ozark Highlands. Opuscula Philolichenum 5:89-96.
Koehle, J.J. and I. Adelman. 2007. The effects of temperature, dissolved oxygen, and Asian fish tapeworm on growth and survival of the Topeka Shiner. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 136(6):1607-1613.
Long, Q. and K. Kindscher. 2007. A comparison of the influence of disturbance regimes on native forbs (Kansas). Ecological Restoration 25:129-130.
McElwee, C.D., J.F. Devlin, and B. Wachter. 2007. Hydraulic tomography and high-resolution slug testing to determine hydraulic conductivity distribution. Year 3, Project Report to the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, U.S. Department of Defense, EPA, and DOE, 57., also Kansas Geological Survey Open-File Report No. 2008-1.
Moody-Weis, J. and H.M. Alexander. 2007. The mechanisms and consequences of seed bank formation in wild sunflowers (Helianthus annuus). Journal of Ecology 95:851-864.
Morse, C.A., C.C. Freeman, and R.L. McGregor. 2007. New, corrected, and interesting records for the Kansas vascular flora. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1:753-761.
Pisani, G.R. 2007. New Kansas maximum sizes for Virginia valeriae and Carphophis vermis. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 22:11.
Questad, E.J. and B.L. Foster. 2007. Vole disturbaces and plant diversity in a grassland metacommunity. Oecologia 153:341-351.
Reed, A.W. and N.A. Slade. 2007. Demography and environmental stochasticy: Empirical estimates of survival in three grassland rodents. Journal of Zoology 272:110-115.
Ross, H.C. and C.D. McElwee. 2007. Multi-level slug tests to measure 3-D hydraulic conductivity distributions. National Resources Research, DOI 10.1007/s11053-007-9034-9, 13 pp.
2006
Ashworth, S.M., B.L. Foster, and K. Kindscher. 2006. Relative contributions of adjacent species set and environmental conditions to plant community richness and composition in a group of created wetlands. Wetlands 26:193-204.
Billings, S. 2006. Soil organic matter dynamics and land use change at a grassland/forest ecotone. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 38:2934-2943.
Billings, S., C.M. Brewer, and B. Foster. 2006. Incorporation of plant residues into soil organic matter fractions with grassland management practices in the North American Midwest. Ecosystems 9:805-815.
Cook, W.M. and R.D. Holt. 2006. Influence of multiple factors on insect colonization of heterogeneous landscapes: a review and case study with periodical cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae). Annals of the Entomological society of America 99(5): 809-820.
Dalgleish, H.J. and D.C. Hartnett. 2006. Below-ground bud banks increase along a precipitation gradient of the North American Great Plains: a test of the meristem limitation hypothesis. New Phytologist 171:81-89.
Engard, B.R., C.D. McElwee, J.F. Devlin, B. Wachter, and B. Ramaker. 2006. Hydraulic tomography and high-resolution slug testing to determine hydraulic conductivity distributions -- Year 2, Project Report to the Strategic Environmental Researach and Development Program, U.S. DOD, EPA, and DOW. 57 pp.
Fitch, H.S. and G.R. Pisani. 2006. The timber rattlesnake
in northeastern Kansas. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 19:11-15. 
Gordon, D.A., G.P. Toth, D.W. Graham, J.M. Lazorchak, T.V. Reddy, C.W. Knapp, F. deNoyelles, S. Campbell, and D.L. Lattier. 2006. Effects of eutrophication on vitellogenin gene expression in male fathead minnows (Pimephales promelas) exposed to 17<alpha>ethynlestradiol in field mesocosms. Environmental Pollution 142:559-566.
Hanson, M.L., C.W. Knapp, and D.W. Graham. 2006. Field assessment of oxytetracycline exposure to the freshwater macrophytes Elodea densa (Planch.) and Ceratophyllum demersum L. Environmental Pollution 141:434-442.
Jog, S., K. Kindscher, E.J. Questad, B. Foster, and H. Loring. 2006. Floristic quality as an indicator of native species diversity in managed grasslands. Natural Areas Journal 26:149-167.
Kettle, W.D., V.S. Salisbury, W.H. Busby, and C.C. Freeman. 2006. Ecological management plan for the anderson County Prairie Preserve. Report to The Nature Conservancy, Kansas Chapter, Topeka, KS, December 2006.
Koch, K.R. and J.G. Burg. 2006. Relative abundance and survival of the tick Amblyomma americanum collected from sunlit and shaded habitats. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 20:173-176.
Martinko, E.A., R.H. Hagen, and J.A. Griffith. 2006. Successional change in the insect community of a fragmented landscape. Landscape Ecology 21:711-721.
Murphy, C.A., B.L. Foster, M.E. Ramspott, and K. Price. 2006. Effects of cultivation history and current grassland management on soil quality in northeastern Kansas. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 61(2):75-84.
Pisani, G.R. and H.S. Fitch. 2006. Rapid early growth in northeastern Kansas timber rattlesnakes. Journal of Kansas Herpetology 20:19-20.
Powell, A., W. Busby, and K. Kindscher. 2006. Status of the regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) and effects of fire management on its abundance in northeastern Kansas, USA. Journal of Insect Conservation, November 2006. 10 pp.
Reed, A.W. and N.A. Slade. 2006. Demography and environmental stochasticity: Empirical estimates of cotton rat survival. Journal of Mammalogy 87:433-439.
Reed, A.W. and N.A. Slade. 2006. Environmental stochasticity: Empirical estimates of survival of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Canadian Journal of Zoology 84:635-642.
Slade, N.A. and S. Crain. 2006. Impact of mowing strips in old-fields on rodents of eastern Kansas. Journal of Mammalogy 87:97-101.
Zhan, X. and J.J. Butler, Jr. 2006. KGS-HighK: A Fortran 90 program for simulation of hydraulic tests in highly permeable aquifers. Computers and Geosciences 32(5):704-707.