Submissions from 2018
Respiratory disease, behavior, and survival of mountain goat kids, Julie A. Blanchong, Christopher A. Anderson, Nicholas Clark, Robert W. Klaver, Paul J. Plummer, Mike Cox, Caleb Mcadoo, and Peregrine L. Wolff
Floods, drying, habitat connectivity, and fish occupancy dynamics in restored and unrestored oxbows of West Central Iowa, USA, Jesse R. Fischer, Bryan D. Bakevich, Colin P. Shea, Clay L. Pierce, and Michael C. Quist
Predicting monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) movement and egg-laying with a spatially-explicit agent-based model: The role of monarch perceptual range and spatial memory, Tyler J. Grant, Hazel R. Parry, Myron P. Zalucki, and Steven P. Bradbury
Weather and landscape factors affect white-tailed deer neonate survival at ecologically important life stages in the Northern Great Plains, Eric S. Michel, Jonathan A. Jenks, Kyle D. Kaskie, Robert W. Klaver, and William F. Jensen
A case study and a meta-analysis of seasonal variation in fish mercury concentrations, Nathan Mills, Darcy Cashatt, Michael J. Weber, and Clay L. Pierce
Stability of supraglacial debris, Peter L. Moore
Feeder density enhances house finch disease transmission in experimental epidemics, Sahnzi C. Moyers, James S. Adelman, Damien R. Farine, Courtney A. Thomason, and Dana M. Hawley
Consequences of porcine zona pellucida immunocontraception to feral horses, Cassandra M.V. Nuñez
Tropical Tree Species Effects on Soil pH and Biotic Factors and the Consequences for Macroaggregate Dynamics, Ann E. Russell, Stephanie N. Kivlin, and Christine V. Hawkes
Factors regulating year‐class strength of Silver Carp throughout the Mississippi River basin, Christopher J. Sullivan, Michael J. Weber, Clay L. Pierce, David H. Wahl, Quinton E. Phelps, Carlos A. Camacho, and Robert E. Colombo
Occupancy modeling of Parnassius clodius butterfly populations in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, Kimberly E. Szcodronski, Diane M. Debinski, and Robert W. Klaver
Submissions from 2017
Book Review of Serendipity: An Ecologist’s Quest to Understand Nature, E. E. Ball, D. M. Adams, J. N. Dupuie Jr., M. M. Jones, P. G. McGovern, R. M. Ruden, S. R. Schmidt, G. J. Vaziri, J. S. Eeling, B. D. Kirk, A. L. McCombs, A. B. Rabinowitz, K. M. Thompson, Z. J. Hudson, and Robert W. Klaver
Response of Anurans to Wetland Restoration on a Midwestern Agricultural Landscape, Paul E. Bartelt and Robert W. Klaver
A comparison of genetic diversity and population structure of the endangered scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), the fragile papershell (Leptodea fragilis) and their host-fish the freshwater drum (Aplodinotus grunniens), Jer Pin Chong and Kevin J. Roe
Factors affecting Snowy Plover chick survival in a managed population, Stephen J. Dinsmore, Eleanore P. Gaines, Scott F. Pearson, David J. Lauten, and Kathleen A. Castelein
Importance of scale, land cover, and weather on the abundance of bird species in a managed forest, Alexis R. Grinde, Gerald J. Niemi, Brian R. Sturtevant, Hannah Panci, Wayne Thogmartin, and Peter Wolter
Using landscape habitat associations to prioritize areas of conservation action for terrestrial birds, Tyler M. Harms, Kevin T. Murphy, Xiaodan Lyu, Shane S. Patterson, Karen E. Kinkead, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Paul W. Frese
The Farmer and the Rancher, David A. Hennessy, Hongli Feng, Mike Wimberly, Tong Wang, Adnan Akyüz, Peter Wolter, and Larry Janssen
Neonicotinoid insecticide removal by prairie strips in row-cropped watersheds with historical seed coating use, Michelle L. Hladik, Steven P. Bradbury, Lisa A. Schulte, Matthew Helmers, Christopher Witte, Dana W. Kolpin, Jessica D. Garrett, and Mary Harris
Associations among Habitat Characteristics and Meningeal Worm Prevalence in Eastern South Dakota, USA, Christopher N. Jacques, Jonathan A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, and Shelli A. Dubay
Long-term spatial heterogeneity in mallard distribution in the Prairie pothole region, Adam K. Janke, Michael J. Anteau, and Joshua D. Stafford
Development and validation of a house finch interleukin-1β (HfIL-1β) ELISA system, Sungwon Kim, Myeongseon Park, Ariel E. Leon, James S. Adelman, Dana M. Hawley, and Rami A. Dalloul
Emissions of forest floor and mineral soil carbon, nitrogen and mercury pools and relationships with fire severity for the Pagami Creek Fire in the Boreal Forest of northern Minnesota, Randall K. Kolka, Brian R. Sturtevant, Jessica R. Miesel, Aditya Singh, Peter T. Wolter, Shawn Fraver, Thomas M. DeSutter, and Phil A. Townsend
Lingering effects of contraception management on feral mare (Equus caballus) fertility and social behavior, Cassandra M. V. Nuñez, James S. Adelman, Haley A. Carr, Colleen M. Alvarez, and Daniel I. Rubenstein
Amphibians, Pesticides, and the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Restored Wetlands in Agricultural Landscapes, Rebecca A. Reeves, Clay L. Pierce, Mark W. Vandever, Erin Muths, and Kelly L. Smalling
Environmental contaminants in excrement of Iowa's nesting and wintering Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), William J. Reiter-Marolf, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Julie A. Blanchong
Landscape host abundance and configuration regulate periodic outbreak behavior in spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.), Louis-Etienne Robert, Brian R. Sturtevant, Barry J. Cooke, Patrick M. A. James, Marie-Josee Fortin, Philip A. Townsend, Peter T. Wolter, and Daniel Kneeshaw
Soil as Social-Ecological Feedback: Examining the “Ethic” of Soil Stewardship among Corn Belt Farmers, Gabrielle Roesch-McNally, J. Gordon Arbuckle, and John C. Tyndall
The trouble with cover crops: Farmers’ experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption, Gabrielle E. Roesch-McNally, Andrea D. Basche, J. G. Arbuckle, John C. Tyndall, Fernando E. Miguez, Troy Bowman, and Rebecca Clay
The trouble with cover crops: Farmers’ experiences with overcoming barriers to adoption, Gabrielle E. Roesch-McNally, Andrea D. Basche, J. G. Arbuckle, John C. Tyndall, Fernando E. Miguez, Troy Bowman, and Rebecca Clay
Forestry for a Low-Carbon Future: Integrating Forests and Wood Products Into Climate Change Strategies, Ann E. Russell and B. Mohan Kumar
Testosterone and prolactin levels in incubating Mountain Plovers (Charadrius montanus), Paul D. B. Skrade, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Carol M. Vleck
Intra-Annual Variability of Silver Carp Populations in the Des Moines River, USA, Christopher J. Sullivan, Carlos A. Comacho, Michael J. Weber, and Clay L. Pierce
Identifying Riparian Zones Best Suited to Installation of Saturated Buffers: A Preliminary Multi-Watershed Assessment, M. D. Tomer, D. B. Jaynes, S. A. Porter, D. E. James, and T. M. Isenhart
Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands, John C. Tyndall, Lisa A. Schulte-Moore, Jarad Niemi, Matthew J. Helmers, Matthew Z. Liebman, J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr., David E. James, Randall K. Kalka, Matthew E. O'Neal, Mark D. Tomer, Heidi Asbjornsen, Pauline Drobney, Jeri Neal, Gary Van Ryswyk, and Christopher C. Witte
Quantifying downed coarse woody material and residual forest basal area following retention harvesting in northeastern Minnesota using Landsat sensor data, P. T. Wolter, L. A. Hilgemann, and M. A. White
Submissions from 2016
Application of genetics and genomics to wildlife epidemiology, Julie A. Blanchong, Stacie J. Robinson, Michael D. Samuel, and Jeffrey T. Foster
Incongruence between mtDNA and nuclear data in the freshwater mussel genus Cyprogenia (Bivalvia: Unionidae) and its impact on species delineation, Jer Pin Chong, John L. Harris, and Kevin J. Roe
Quantifying Early-Seral Forest Composition with Remote Sensing, Rayma a. Cooley, Peter T. Wolter, and Brian R. Sturtevant
Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus storage across a growing season by the herbaceous layer in urban and preserved temperate hardwood forests, Michaeleen Gerken Golay, Janette Thompson, and Randall Kolka
Spatial scale matters when modeling avian co-occurrence, Tyler M. Harms and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Phosphorus source--sink relationships of stream sediments in the Rathbun Lake watershed in southern Iowa, USA, Najphak Hongthanat, John L. Kovar, Michael L. Thompson, James R. Russell, and Thomas M. Isenhart
Spatial Ecology and Survival of Swainson's Hawks (Buteo swainsoni) in the Northern Great Plains, Will M. Inselman, Shubham Datta, Jonathan A. Jenks, Robert W. Klaver, and Troy W. Grovenburg
Occupancy dynamics in human-modified landscapes in a tropical island: implications for conservation design, Julissa I. Irizarry, Jamie A. Collazo, and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Influence of patch shape on mallard nest survival in northern Iowa, Rolf R. Koford, Gian Dodici, Guy Zenner, Jennifer A. Vogel, Brenna Ness, and Robert W. Klaver
Review of Large Carnivore Conservation: Integrating Science and Policy in the North American West, A. L. McCombs, A. J. Albertsen, M. M. Cox, E. E. Ernst, H. J. Haley, D. A. Loney, M. M. Mackert, F. Piatscheck, V. M. Pocius, D. S. Stein, E. A. Altrichter, A. J. Almond, J. M. Dale, J. N. Dupuie Jr., P. G. McGovern, B. A. Nixon, J. E. Swanson, and R. W. Klaver
Vegetation recovery following fire and harvest disturbance in central Labrador — a landscape perspective, Brian R. Miranda, Brian R. Sturtevant, Isabelle Schmelzer, Frédérik Doyon, and Peter Wolter
Canada goose nest survival at rural wetlands in north-central Iowa, Brenna N. Ness and Robert W. Klaver
How cost-effective are cover crops, wetlands, and two-stage ditches for nitrogen removal in the Mississippi River Basin?, Sarah S. Roley, Jennifer L. Tank, John Tyndall, and Jonathan D. Witter
Age-specific survival of reintroduced swift fox in Badlands National Park and surrounding lands, Indrani Sasmal, Robert W. Klaver, Jonathan A. Jenks, and Greg M. Schroeder
Do transmitters affect survival and body condition of American beavers Castor canadensis?, Joshua B. Smith, Steve K. Windels, Tiffany Wolf, Robert W. Klaver, and Jerrold L. Belant
Nest survival of Tricolored Blackbirds in California's Central Valley, Kelly Weintraub, T. Luke George, and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Submissions from 2015
Status of the Topeka Shiner in West-Central Iowa, Bryan David Bakevich, Clay L. Pierce, and Michael C. Quist
A Food Web Modeling Analysis of a Midwestern, USA Eutrophic Lake Dominated by Non-Native Common Carp and Zebra Mussels, Michael E. Colvin, Clay L. Pierce, and Timothy W. Stewart
Mate Replacement and Alloparental Care in Ferruginous Hawk (Buteo regalis), Shubham Datta, Will M. Inselman, Jonathan A. Jenks, Kent C. Jensen, Christopher C. Swanson, Robert W. Klaver, Indrani Sasmal, and Troy W. Grovenburg
Density, Abundance, and Habitat Associations of the Inland Swamp Sparrow (Melospiza georgiana georgiana) in Iowa, Tyler Harms and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Influence of Habitat and Intrinsic Characteristics on Survival of Neonatal Pronghorn, Christopher N. Jacques, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, and Robert W. Klaver
Influence of ecologic factors on prevalence of meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) infection in South Dakota, USA, Christopher N. Jacques, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, Robert W. Klaver, and Shelli A. Dubay
Forest Change in the Driftless Area of the Midwest: From a Preferred to Undesirable Future, Tricia G. Knoot, M. E. Shea, Lisa A. Schulte, John C. Tyndall, M. D. Nelson, C. H. Perry, and Brian J. Palik
How Should Iowa’s Agricultural Landscape Look?, Drake Larsen, Lisa A. Schulte, and John Tyndall
Enhancing Agroecosystem performance and Resilience through Increased Diversification of Landscapes and Cropping Systems, Matthew Z. Liebman and Lisa A. Schulte-Moore
Effects of climate and plant phenology on recruitment of moose at the southern extent of their range, Kevin L. Monteith, Robert W. Klaver, Kent R. Hersey, A. Andrew Holland, Timothy P. Thomas, and Matthew J. Kauffman
Factors Influencing Soil Aggregation and Particulate Organic Matter Responses to Bioenergy Crops across a Topographic Gradient, Todd A. Ontl, Cynthia A. Cambardella, Lisa A. Schulte, and Randall K. Kolka
Restored Agricultural Wetlands in central Iowa: Habitat Quality and Amphibian Response, Rebecca A. Reeves, Clay L. Pierce, Kelly L. Smalling, Robert W. Klaver, Mark W. Vandever, William A. Battaglin, and Erin Muths
Pesticide concentrations in frog tissue and wetland habitats in a landscape dominated by agriculture, Kelly L. Smalling, Rebecca A. Reeves, Erin Muths, Mark Vandever, William A. Battaglin, Michelle L. Hladik, and Clay L. Pierce
Agricultural Conservation Planning Framework: 1. Developing Multipractice Watershed Planning Scenarios and Assessing Nutrient Reduction Potential, Mark D. Tomer, S. A. Porter, K. M. B. Boomer, D. E. James, J. A. Kostel, Matthew J. Helmers, Thomas M. Isenhart, and E. McLellan
Mindset about Intelligence and Meaningful and Mindful Effort: It's Not My Hardest Class Any More!, Janice A. Wiersema, Barbara Licklider, Janette R. Thompson, Suzanne Hendrich, Cynthia Haynes, and Katherine Thompson
Watershed features and stream water quality: Gaining insight through path analysis in a Midwest urban landscape, U.S.A., Jiayu Wu, Timothy W. Stewart, Janette R. Thompson, Randall K. Kolka, and Kristie J. Franz
Submissions from 2014
Factors affecting Burrowing Owl occupancy of prairie dog colonies, Kristen M. Alverson and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Effects of Set-aside Conservation Practices on Bird Community Structure within an Intensive Agricultural Landscape, Ross Robert Conover, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and L. Wes Burger Jr.
The Impact of Prairie Strips on Aphidophagous Predator Abundance and Soybean Aphid Predation in Agricultural Catchments, Rachael Cox, Matthew E. O'Neal, Rene Hessel, Lisa A. Schulte, and Matthew J. Helmers
Predator exclosures, predator removal, and habitat improvement increase nest success of Snowy Plovers in Oregon, USA, Stephen J. Dinsmore, David J. Lauten, Kathleen A. Castelein, Eleanor P. Gaines, and Mark A. Stern
Book Review of Conservation by Proxy: Indicator, Umbrella, Keystone, Flagship, and Other Surrogate Species, Tyler J. Grant, Peter G. Eyheralde, Melissa S. C. Telemeco, Amy L. Moorhouse, Rebecca A. Reeves, Karin Grimlund, Amy Podaril, Sarah E. Emeterio, and Robert W. Klaver
Influence of landscape characteristics on retention of expandable radiocollars on young ungulates, Troy W. Grovenburg, Robert W. Klaver, Christopher N. Jacques, Todd J. Brinkman, Christopher C. Swanson, Christopher S. DePerno, Kevin L. Monteith, Jaret D. Sievers, Vernon C. Bleich, John G. Kie, and Jonathan A. Jenks
Re-Evaluating Neonatal-Age Models for Ungulates: Does Model Choice Affect Survival Estimates?, Troy W. Grovenburg, Kevin L. Monteith, Christopher N. Jacques, Robert W. Klaver, Christopher S. DePerno, Todd J. Brinkman, Kyle B. Monteith, Sophie L. Gilbert, Joshua B. Smith, Vernon C. Bleich, Christopher C. Swanson, and Jonathan A. Jenks
Influence of Season and Time of Day on Marsh Bird Detections, Tyler Harms and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Evaluating the effects of landscape configuration on site occupancy and movement dynamics of odonates in Iowa, Tyler Harms, Karen Kinkhead, and Stephen J. Dinsmore
Small Changes, Big Impacts: Prairie Conservation Strips, Mary A. Harris and Geetha Iyer
Prairie Conservation Strips on My Land: Frequently Asked Questions, Mary A. Harris and Jeri Neal
Incorporating detection probability into northern Great Plains pronghorn population estimates, Christopher N. Jacques, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, Robert W. Klaver, and Christopher S. DePerno
Reconnecting Tile Drainage to Riparian Buffer Hydrology for Enhanced Nitrate Removal, Dan B. Jaynes and Thomas M. Isenhart
Reproductive Success of the American Oystercatcher (Haematopus palliatus) in Texas, Lianne M. Koczur, Alexandra E. Munters, Susan A. Heath, Bart M. Ballard, M. Clay Green, Stephen J. Dinsmore, and Fidel Hernández
Biodiversity, Photosynthetic Mode, and Ecosystem Services Differ between Native and Novel Ecosystems, Leanne M. Martin, H. Wayne Polley, Pedram P. Daneshgar, Mary A. Harris, and Brian J. Wilsey
Deformation of Debris-Ice Mixtures, Peter Lindsay Moore
Streambank Erosion Rates and Loads within a Single Watershed: Bridging the Gap between Temporal and Spatial Scales, Jason A. Palmer, Keith E. Schilling, Thomas M. Isenhart, Richard C. Schultz, and Mark D. Tomer
Historical Changes in Fish Assemblage Structure in Midwestern Nonwadeable Rivers, Timothy Parks, Michael C. Quist, and Clay L. Pierce
Anthropogenic Disturbance and Environmental Associations with Fish Assemblage Structure in Two Nonwadeable Rivers, T. P. Parks, M. C. Quist, and Clay L. Pierce
Fish Assemblage Relationships with Physical Characteristics and Presence of Dams in Three Eastern Iowa Rivers, Clay L. Pierce, N. L. Ahrens, A. K. Loan-Wilsey, G. A. Simmons, and G. T. Gelwicks
Unexpected Effects of Chitin, Cellulose, and Lignin Addition on Soil Dynamics in a Wet Tropical Forest, Ann E. Russell
Prairie Strips: Bringing Biodiversity, Improved Water Quality, and Soil Protection to Agriculture, Lisa A. Schulte Moore
Reconstructing Vegetation Past: Pre-Euro-American Vegetation for the Midwest Driftless Area, USA, Monika E. Shea, Lisa A. Schulte, and Brian J. Palik
Disease and Predation: Sorting out Causes of a Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) Decline, Joshua B. Smith, Jonathan A. Jenks, Troy W. Grovenburg, and Robert W. Klaver
Forest recovery patterns in response to divergent disturbance regimes in the Border Lakes region of Minnesota (USA) and Ontario (Canada), Brian R. Sturtevant, Brian R. Miranda, Peter T. Wolter, Patrick M. A. James, Marie-Josée Fortin, and Philip A. Townsend
Agricultural Water Quality BMPs: A Standardized Approach to Financial Analysis, John Tyndall and Gabrielle Elan Roesch-McNally
Native tree species regulate nitrous oxide fluxes in tropical plantations, Samantha R. Weintraub, Ann E. Russell, and Alan R. Townsend
Satellite-Based Management Tool for Oak Savanna Ecosystem Restoration, Peter T. Wolter, Elizabeth A. Berkley, Scott D. Peckham, and Aditya Singh
Publications from 2013
Targeting perennial vegetation in agricultural landscapes for enhancing ecosystem services, Heidi Asbjornsen, V. Hernandez-Santana, Matthew Z. Liebman, J. Bayala, J. Chen, Matthew J. Helmers, C. K. Ong, and Lisa A. Schulte
Habitat, Fish Species, and Fish Assemblage Associations of the Topeka Shiner in West-Central Iowa, Bryan D. Bakevich, Clay L. Pierce, and Michael C. Quist
Inferential consequences of modeling rather than measuring snow accumulation in studies of animal ecology, Angela Brennan, Paul C. Cross, Megan Higgs, Jon P. Beckmann, Robert W. Klaver, Brandon M. Scurlock, and Scott Creel
Apparent Survival of Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus) Varies with Reproductive Effort and Year and between Sexes, Mark A. Colwell, Wendy J. Pearson, Luke J. Eberhart-Phillips, and Stephen J. Dinsmore
