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2000

Alexander, H.M. and J.D. Mihail. 2000. Seedling disease in an annual legume: consequences for seedling mortality, plant size, and population seed production. Oecologia 122:346-353.

Butler, J.J. Jr., A.A. Lanier, J.M. Healey, S.M. Sellwood, W. McCall, and E. Garnett. 2000. Direct-push hydraulic profiling in an unconsolidated alluvial aquifer. Kansas Geological Survey, Open-file Report 2000-62. 28 p.

Das, I. 2000. Review: A Kansas Snake Community: Composition and Changes over 50 Years, by Henry S. Fitch. Hamadryad 24:54.

Fitch, H.S. and A.F. Echelle. 2000. Historical perspective: Henry S. Fitch. Copeia 2000(3):891-900.

Kettle, W.D., H.M. Alexander, and G.L. Pittman. 2000. An 11-year ecological study of a rare prairie perennial (Asclepias meadii): Implications for monitoring and management. American Midland Naturalist 144:66-77.

Kettle, W.D., P.M. Rich, K. Kindscher, G.L. Pittman, and P. Fu. 2000. Land-use history in ecosystem restoration: a 40-year study in the prairie-forest ecotone. Restoration Ecology 8: 307-317.

Mushinsky, H.R. 2000. Review: A Kansas Snake Community: Composition and Changes over 50 Years, by Henry S. Fitch. Copeia 2000(3): 842-843.

Schweiger, E.W., J.E. Diffendorfer, R.D. Holt, R.J. Pierotti, and M.S. Gaines. 2000. The interaction of habitat fragmentation, plant, and small mammal succession in an old field. Ecological Monographs 70:383-400.

Seburn, D. 2000. Review: A Kansas Snake Community: Composition and Changes over 50 Years, by Henry S. Fitch. Canadian Field Naturalist 9 March 2000: p. 167.

Shine, R. 2000. Review: A Kansas Snake Community: Composition and Changes over 50 Years, by Henry S. Fitch. Herpetological Review 31:122-123.

Slade, N.A. and S.M. Blair. 2000. An empirical test of using counts of individuals captured as indices of population size. Journal of Mammalogy 81:1035-1045.

The Nature Conservancy, Osage Plains/Flint Hills Prairie Ecoregional Planning Team. 2000. Ecoregional Conservation in the Osage Plains/Flint Hills Prairie. The Nature Conservancy, Midwestern Resource Office, Minneapolis, MN. 48 pp. + 73 appendices.

1999

Butler, J.J. Jr. and J.M. Healey. 1999. Practical guidelines for the design and analysis of slug tests. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 99-14. 75 p.

Butler, J.J. Jr., J.M. Healey, L. Zheng, W. McCall, and M.K. Schulmeister. 1999. Hydrostratigraphic characterization of unconsolidated alluvial deposits with direct-push sensor technology. Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 99-40. 30 pp.

Butler, J.J. Jr., C.D. McElwee, and G.C. Bohling. 1999. Pumping tests in networks of multilevel sampling wells: Motivation and methodology. Water Resources Research 35:3553-3560.

Chou, R.Y.M., L.C. Ferrington Jr., B.L. Hayford, and H.M. Smith. 1999. Composition and phenology of Chironomidae (Diptera) from an intermittent stream in Kansas. Archives of Hydrobiology 147:35-64.

Cummings, C.L., H.M. Alexander, and A. Snow. 1999. Increased pre-dispersal seed predation in sunflower crop-wild hybrids. Oecologia 121:330-338.

deNoyelles, F. Jr., S.H. Wang, J.O. Meyer, D.G. Huggins, J.T. Lennon, W.S. Kolln, and S.J. Randtke. 1999. Water quality issues in reservoirs: some considerations from a study of a large reservoir in Kansas. In Environmental Engineering Conference Proceedings. (49th Annual Engineering Conference, Kansas). pp. 83-119.

Diffendorfer, J.E., M.S. Gaines, and R.D. Holt. 1999. Patterns and impacts of movements at different scales in small mammals. In: G. Barrett and J. Peles (eds.), Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 63-88.

Eifler, M.A. and N.A. Slade. 1999. Effect of weather on individual growth rates in cotton rats, Sigmodon hispidus. Journal of Mammalogy 80:1277-1287.

Fitch, H.S. 1999. A half century of change in a Kansan avian community. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin 50:33-36.

Foster, J. and W.D. Kettle. 1999. Distribution of a mound-building ant on native and restored prairies in Northeastern Kansas. The Prairie Naturalist 31: 21-32.

Graham, D.W., W.H. Graham, F. deNoyelles Jr., V.H. Smith, and E.M. Thurman. 1999. Natural attenuation of chloroacetinilide herbicides in aquatic systems. Natural Attenuation of Chlorinated Solvents, Petroleum Hydrocarbons, and Other Organic Compounds. (Proceedings of the Annual Batelle Conference, 1998) 5:238-288.

Graham, D.W., D. Miles, F. deNoyelles Jr., and V.H. Smith. 1999. Development of small outdoor microcosms for studying contaminant transformation rates and mechanisms under various water column conditions. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 18: 1124-1132.

Graham, W.H., D.W. Graham, F. deNoyelles Jr., V.H. Smith, C.K. Larive, and E.M. Thurman. 1999. Metolachlor and alachlor breakdown product formation patterns in aquatic field microcosms. Environmental Science and Technology 33:4471-4476.

Guarisco, H. 1999. Distributional status and natural history observations of the genus Argyrodes (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 102: 138-141.

Holah, J.C. and H.M. Alexander. 1999. Soil pathogenic fungi have the potential to affect coexistence of two tallgrass prairie species. Journal of Ecology 87:598-608.

Holt, R.D., and M.A. Bowers. 1999. Experimental design at the landscape scale. In: G. Barrett and J. Peles (eds.), Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 263-285.

McMillan, A.L. 1999. Population genetics of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella L. (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). In G.W. Byers, R.H. Hagen, and R.W. Brooks (eds.), Entomological Contributions in Memory of Byron A. Alexander. University of Kansas Natural History Museum Special Publication 24. pp. 201-205.

Schweiger, E.W., R.J. Pierotti, R.D. Holt, and J.E. Diffendorfer. 1999. The relative importance of small-scale and landscape level heterogeneity in structuring small mammal distributions: An experimental study of habitat fragmentation. In G. Barrett and J. Peles (eds.), Landscape Ecology of Small Mammals. Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 175-207.

Wang, S.H., D.G. Huggins, F. deNoyelles Jr., and W.S. Kolln. 1999. An analysis of the trophic state of Clinton Lake. Lake and Reservoir Management 15:239-250.

Yao, J., R.D. Holt, P.M. Rich, and W. Marshall. 1999. Woody plant colonization in an experimentally fragmented habitat. Ecography 22:715-728.

1998

Alexander, H.M. and R.D. Holt. 1998. The interaction between plant competition and disease. Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 1/2:206-220.

Bowles, M.L., J.L. McBride, and R.F. Betz. 1998. Management and restoration ecology of the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, Asclepias meadii (Asclepiadaceae). Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85:110-125.

Butler, J.J. Jr., J.M. Healey, and M.K. Schulmeister. 1998. Overview of research at the Geohydrologic Experimental and Monitoring Site. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-45. 8 p.

Butler, J.J. Jr., J.M. Healey, V.A. Zlotnik, and B.R. Zurbuchen. 1998. The dipole flow test for site characterization: Some practical considerations. Kansas Geological Survey Open File Report 98-20. 23 p.

Eifler, M.A. and N.A. Slade. 1998. Activity patterns in relation to body mass and ambient temperature among overwintering cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus). Canadian Journal of Zoology 76:668-672.

Fitch, H.S. 1998. A Kansas Snake Community: Composition and Changes Over 50 Years. Krieger Publishing Company, Melbourne, FL. 165 pp.

Hamburg, S.P. and T.-C. Lin. 1998. Throughfall chemistry of an ecotonal forest on the edge of the Great Plains. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 28:1456-1463.

Holt, R.D., J.H. Lawton, G.A. Polis, and N.D. Martinez. 1998. Trophic rank and the species-area relationship. Ecology 80:1495-1504.

Kamler, J.F., D.S. Pennock, C.K. Welch, and R.J. Pierotti. 1998. Variation in morphological characteristics of the White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) and the Deer Mouse (P. maniculatus) under allotopic and syntopic conditions. American Midland Naturalist 140:170-179.

Kindscher, K. and L.L. Tieszen. 1998. Floristic and soil organic matter changes after five and thirty-five years of native tallgrass prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology 6:181-196.

Martinez, A. and J.J. Butler Jr. 1998. A field assessment of the feasibility of using borehole GPR at the Geohydrologic Experimental and Monitoring Site, Lawrence, Kansas. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 98-48. 15 p.

Mihail, J.D., H.M. Alexander, and S.J. Taylor. 1998. Interactions between root-infecting fungi and plant density in an annual legume. Journal of Ecology 86:739-748.

Peterson, A.T. and N.A. Slade. 1998. Extrapolating inventory results into biodiversity estimates and the importance of stopping rules. Diversity and Distributions 4:95-105.

Row, J.M., R.L. Wynia, T.C. Conway, and K. Kindscher. 1998. Propagation of Mead’s milkweed. Pp. 235-242 in J.T. Springer (ed.), Proceedings of the 16th North American Prairie Conference, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, NE, July 26-28, 1998.

Slade, N.A. 1998. Review of “Structured population models in marine, terrestrial, and freshwater systems” by Tuljapurkar and Caswell. Journal of Wildlife Management 2: 815-816.

Slade, N.A., R. Gomulkiewicz, and H.M. Alexander. 1998. Alternatives to Robinson and Redford's method of assessing overharvest from incomplete demographic data. Conservation Biology 12:148-155.

Slade, N.A. and L.A. Russell. 1998. Distances as indices to movements and home-range size from trapping records of small mammals. Journal of Mammalogy 79:346-353.

Tecic, D.L., J.L. McBride, M.L. Bowles, and D.L. Nickrent. 1998. Genetic variability in the federal threatened Mead’s milkweed, Asclepias meadii Torrey (Asclepiadaceae), as determined by allozyme electrophoresis. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85: 97-109.

1997

Alexander, H.M., N.A. Slade, and W.D. Kettle. 1997. Application of mark-recapture models to estimation of the population size of plants. Ecology 78:1230-1237.

Butler, J.J. Jr. 1997. The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests. Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, FL. 252 p.

Butler, J.J. Jr., C.D. McElwee, and G.C. Bohling. 1997. Transient head data from multilevel samplers: A promising new approach for subsurface characterization. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-36. 27 p.

Butler, J.J. Jr., C.D. McElwee, and D.D. Davies. 1997. Hydraulic tracers: A new tool for characterizing subsurface variations in hydraulic conductivity. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 97-70. 18 p.

Debinski, D.M. and A.M. Babbit. 1997. Butterfly species in native prairie and restored prairie. The Prairie Naturalist 29(4):219-228.

Grover, J. and R.D. Holt. 1997. Plants in food webs. In: M.J. Crawley (ed.), Plant Ecology, 2nd ed. Blackwell, Oxford. pp.556-567.

Holt, R.D. 1997. From metapopulation dynamics to community structure: some consequences of spatial heterogeneity. In: I. Hanski and M. Gilpin (eds.), Metapopulation Biology. Academic Press, New York. pp. 149-164.

Polis, G.A., W.B. Anderson, and R.D. Holt. 1997. Towards an integration of landscape ecology and food web ecology: the dynamics of spatially subdivided food webs. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 28: 289-316.

Schott, G.W. and S.P. Hamburg. 1997. The seed rain and seed bank of an adjacent native tallgrass prairie and old field. Canadian Journal of Botany 75:1-7.

Slade, N.A., L.A. Russell, and T.J. Doonan. 1997. The impact of supplemental food on movements of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster). Journal of Mammalogy 78:1149-1155.

Swihart, R.K. and N.A. Slade. 1997. On testing for independence of animal movements. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 2:48-63.

Thrall, P.H., J.D. Bever, J.D. Mihail, and H.M. Alexander. 1997. The population dynamics of annual plants and soil-borne fungal pathogens. Journal of Ecology 85: 313-328.

1996

Butler, J.J. Jr. 1996. Slug tests in site characterization: Some practical considerations. Environmental Geosciences 3:154-163.

Butler, J.J. Jr. and C.D. McElwee. 1996. Well-testing methodologies for characterizing heterogeneities in alluvial-aquifer systems: Final technical report. Project report to United States Geological Survey Water Resources Research Program, U.S. Department of the Interior. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 95-75. 320 p.

Butler, J.J. Jr., C.D. McElwee, and W.Z. Liu. 1996. Improving the quality of parameter estimates obtained from slug tests. Groundwater 34:480-490.

Davelos, A.L., H.M. Alexander and N.A. Slade. 1996. Ecological genetic interactions between a clonal host plant (Spartina pectinata) and associated rust fungi (Puccinia seymouriana and Puccinia sparganoides). Oecologia 105:205-213.

Diffendorfer, J.E., R.D. Holt, and N.A. Slade. 1996. Small mammal community patterns in old fields: distinguishing site-specific from regional processes. In: M.S. Cody and J.A. Smallwood (eds.), Long-Term Studies of Vertebrate Communities. Academic Press, New York. pp. 421-466.

Dubayah, R. and P.M. Rich. 1996. GIS-based solar radiation modeling. In: M.F. Goodchild, L.T. Steyaert, B.O. Parks, D. Maidment, M. Crane, and S. Glendinning (eds.), GIS and Environmental Modeling: Progress and Research Issues. GIS World Books, Fort Collins, CO, pp. 129-134.

Dunham, J.W. and K.P. Price. 1996. Comparison of nadir and off-nadir multispectral response patterns of six tallgrass prairie treatments in eastern Kansas. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 62(8):961-967.

Holt, R.D. 1996. Temporal and spatial aspects of food web structure and dynamics. In: G. Polis and K. Winemiller (eds.), Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall, New York. pp.255-257.

Holt, R.D. 1996. Food webs in space: an island biogeographic perspective. In: G. Polis and K. Winemiller (eds.), Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall, New York. pp. 313-323.

McElwee, C.D. and J.J. Butler Jr. 1996. Experimental verification of a general model for slug tests. Kansas Geological Survey Open-file Report 96-47. 29 p.

Polis, G.A., R.D. Holt, B.A. Menge, and K.O. Winemiller. 1996. Time, space, and life history: influences on food webs. In: G. Polis and K. Winemiller (eds.), Food Webs: Contemporary Perspectives. Chapman and Hall, New York. pp. 435-460.

Slade, N.A., S.T. McMurry, and R. Lochmiller. 1996. Habitat differences in mass-specific litter sizes of hispid cotton rats. Journal of Mammalogy 77:346-350.