Publications 2013

• Bold Denotes NREM faculty
• Asterisk denotes lead author who is a post-doc, graduate student or research support staff mentored by NREM faculty.

 

2013 (73)

Adams H.D., M.J. Germino, D.D. Breshears, G.A. Barron-Gafford, M. Guardiola-Claramonte, C.B. Zou, and T.E. Huxman. 2013. Non-structural leaf carbohydrate dynamics of Pinus edulis during drought-induced tree mortality reveal role for carbon metabolism in mortality mechanism. New Phytologist 197: 1142-1151.

 

Albanese, G.*, and C.A. Davis. 2013. Broad-scale relationships between shorebirds and landscapes in Southern Great Plains. Auk 130: 88-97.

 

Allen, K.P., R.D. Elmore, and C. Harper. 2013. The Wildlife Habitat Education Program: Moving from contest participation to implementation. Journal of Extension 51 (2): 2TOT9.

 

Allred, B.W., S.D. Fuhlendorf, T.J. Hovick, R.D. Elmore, D.M. Engle, and A. Joern. 2013. Conservation implications of native and introduced ungulates in a changing climate. Global Change Biology 19: 1875-1883.

 

Amini, M.H., R. Hashim, S. Hiziroglu, N. Syuhada, O. Sulaiman. 2013. Properties of particleboard made from rubberwood using modified starch as binder. Composites Part-B Engineering 50: 259-264.

 

Baskaran, M., R. Hashim, K. Sudah, O. Sulaiman, S. Hiziroglu, T. Arai, A. Kosugi. 2013. Influence of steam treatment on the properties of particleboard made from oil palm trunk with addition of polyhydroxyalkanoates. Industrial Crops and Products 51: 334-341.

 

Bakar, F.B., S. Hiziroglu, and P. Tahir. 2013. Properties of some thermally modified wood species. Materials and Design 43: 348-355.

 

Beas, B.J.*, L.M. Smith, K.R. Hickman, T.G. LaGrange, and R. Stutheit. 2013. Seed bank responses to wetland restoration: do restored wetlands resemble reference wetland conditions following sediment removal? Aquatic Botany 108: 7-15.

 

Becerra, T.A., D.M. Engle, R.D Elmore, and S.M. Fuhlendorf. 2013. Contrasting preference for grassland landscapes among population groups in the Central and Southern Great Plains. Rangeland Ecology and Management 66: 529-538.

 

Bekhta, P., S. Korkut, and S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Effect of pretreatment of raw material on properties of particleboard panels made from wheat straw. Bioresources 8 (3): 4766-4774.

 

Bodine, K.A., D.E. Shoup, J. Olive, Z.L. Ford, R. Krogman, and T.J. Stubbs. 2013. Catfish sampling techniques: where we are now and where we should go? Fisheries 38 (12): 529-546.

 

Boon, J.G., R. Hashim, O. Sulaiman, S. Hiziroglu, T. Sugimoto, and M. Sato. 2013. Influence of processing parameters on some properties of oil palm trunk binderless particleboard. European Journal of Wood Products 71: 583-589.

 

Breshears, D.D., H.D. Adams, D. Eamus, N.G. McDowell, D.J. Law, R.E. Will, A.P Williams and C.B Zou. 2013. The crucial amplifying role of increasing atmospheric moisture demand on tree mortality associated with regional die off. Frontiers in Plant Science 4: 266. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00266

 

Brewer, S.K., and T.B. Grabowski. 2013. Evaluating the reproductive success of Arkansas River shiner by assessing early life-history stage dispersal and survival at the landscape level. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Cooperators Science Series, FWS/CSS-103, Washington D.C.

 

Brewer, S.K. 2013. Groundwater influences on the distribution and abundance of riverine smallmouth bass, Micropterus dolomieu, in pasture landscapes of the Midwestern United States. River Research and Applications 29: 269–278.

 

Brewer, S.K. 2013. Channel unit use by smallmouth bass: Do land-use constraints or quantity of habitat matter? North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33: 351‒358.

 

Bryars, C., C. Maier, D. Zhao, M. Kane, B. Borders, R. Will, and R. Teskey. 2013. Fixed physiological parameters in the 3-PG model produced accurate estimates of loblolly pine growth on sites in different geographic regions. Forest Ecology and Management 289: 501-514.

 

Cooper, B., R.D. Elmore, and F.S. Guthery. 2013 Characteristics of Cassin’s Sparrow Territories. American Midland Naturalist 171: 90-96.

 

Crosby, A.D.*, R.D. Elmore, and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Northern bobwhite response to habitat restoration in eastern Oklahoma. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37: 733–740.

 

Crosby, A.D.*, and R.D. Elmore. 2013. Effect of abundance and survey protocol on estimates of occupancy and detection probability for northern bobwhites. Quail VII: 127-133.

 

Donmez-Cavdar, A., H. Yel, H. Kalaycioglu, S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Effect of waste melamine impregnated paper on properties of oriented strand board. Materials and Design 51: 751-755.

 

Dvorett, D.*, J. Bidwell, C. Davis, and C. DuBois. 2013. Assessing natural and anthropogenic variability in wetland structure for two hydrogeomorphic riverine wetland subclasses. Environmental Management 52: 1009-1022.

 

Dyer, J.J.*, S.K. Brewer, T.A. Worthington, and E.A. Bergey. 2013. The influence of coarse-scale environmental features on current and future model-predicted distributions of narrow-range endemic crayfish populations. Freshwater Biology 58: 1071‒1088.

 

Fulbright, T.E., K.R. Hickman, and D.G. Hewitt. 2013. Exotic grass invasion and wildlife abundance and diversity, south-central United States. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37: 503-509.

 

Gatlin, M.R.*, Shoup, D.E., and Long J.M. 2013. Invasive zebra mussels (Driessena polymorpha) and Asian clams (Corbicula fluminea) survive gut passage of migratory fish species: implications for dispersal. Biological Invasions 15: 1195-1200.

 

Ge, J., and C.B. Zou. 2013. Impacts of woody plant encroachment on regional climate in the Southern Great Plains of the USA. Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmosphere 118: 9093-9104. doi:10.1002/jgrd.50634, 2013.
George, A.D., T.J. O’Connell, K.R. Hickman, and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Use of seeded exotic grasslands by wintering birds in mixed-grass prairie. The Prairie Naturalist 45: 77–83.

 

George, A.D., T.J. O’Connell, K. R. Hickman, and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Food availability in exotic grasslands: A potential mechanism for depauperate breeding assemblages. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 125: 526–533.

 

Hartnett, D.C.*, G.W.T. Wilson, J.P. Ott, and M. Setshogo. 2013. Variation in root system traits among African semi-arid savanna grasses: Implications for drought tolerance. Austral Ecology 38: 383-392.

 

Hiziroglu, S., Z.W. Zhong, H.L. Tan. 2013. Measurement of bonding strength of pine, kapur and meranti wood species as function of their surface quality. Measurement 46 (9): 3189-3201.

 

Ji, B., C.A. Gehring, G.W.T.Wilson, R.M. Miller, L. Flores-Renteria, and N.C. Johnson. 2013. Patterns of diversity and adaptation in Glomeromycota from three prairie grasslands. Molecular Ecology 22: 2573-2587.

 

Kagima, B., and W.S. Fairbanks. 2013. Habitat selection and diet composition of reintroduced native ungulates in a fire-managed tallgrass prairie reconstruction. Ecological Restoration 31: 79-88.

 

Korkut-Sevim, D., S. Hiziroglu, and A. Aytin. 2013. Effect of heat treatment of surface characteristics of wild cherry wood. Bioresources 8 (2): 1582-1590.

 

Korkut, S.D., and S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Selected properties of heat treated Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus virginiana L.) wood. Bioresources 8 (3): 4756-4765.

 

Kurzawski, K.F., W.L. Fisher, D. Miller, and J.M. Long. 2013. The 2012 salary survey of public and private sector fisheries employers in the United States and Canada. Fisheries 138: 167-178.

 

Lee, D. N., R. W. Dolman, and D. M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Oryx callotis (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). Mammalian Species 45(897): 1–11.

 

Leslie, D. M., Jr., *R. W. Dolman, and D. N. Lee. 2013. Elaphodus cephalophus (Artiodactyla: Bovidae). Mammalian Species 45 (904): 80–91.
Long, J.M. 2013. Book review: Conservation, ecology, and management of catfish: the second international symposium. Fisheries 38: 462.

 

Long, J.M. and J.J. Schaffler. 2013. Documenting utility of paddlefish otoliths for quantification of metals using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 27: 2188-2194.

 

Loss, S.R., T. Will, and P.P. Marra. 2013. Estimates of bird collision mortality at wind farms in the United States. Biological Conservation 168: 201-209.

 

Lynch, T.B. and J.H. Gove. 2013. An antithetic variate to facilitate upper-stem height measurements for critical height sampling with importance sampling. Canadian Journal of Forestry Research 43: 1151-1161.

 

McGranahan, D.A.*, D.M. Engle, J.R. Miller, and D.M. Debinski. 2013. An invasive grass increases live fuel proportion and reduces fire spread in a simulated grassland. Ecosystems 16: 158–169.

 

McGranahan, D.A.*, D.M. Engle, S.D. Fuhlendorf, S.L. Winter, J.R. Miller and D.M. Debinski. 2013. Inconsistent outcomes of heterogeneity-based management underscore importance of matching evaluation to conservation objectives. Environmental Science and Policy 31: 53–60.

 

McGranahan, D.A.*, D.M. Engle, S.D. Fuhlendorf, J.R. Miller, and D.M. Debinski. 2013. Multivariate analysis of rangeland vegetation and soil organic carbon describes degradation, informs restoration and conservation. Land 2: 328-350.

 

Meyer, M.D.*, C.A. Davis, J.R. Bidwell. 2013. Assessment of two methods for sampling invertebrates in shallow vegetated wetlands. Wetlands 33: 1063–1073.

 

Middleton, A.D., T.A. Morrison, J.K. Fortin, M.J. Kauffman, C.T. Robbins, K.M. Proffitt, P.J. White, D.E. McWhirter, T.M. Koel, D. Brimeyer, and W.S. Fairbanks. 2013. Grizzly bear predation links the loss of native trout to the demography of migratory elk in Yellowstone. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280:20130870. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0870

 

Nordin, A, O. Sulaiman, R. Hashim, N. Salim, S. Masatoshi, S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Properties of laminated panels made from compressed oil palm trunk. Composites Part B: Engineering 52: 100-105.

 

Penn, C., Will, R., Fultz, L., and Hamilton, D. 2013. Forage and tree growth in a soil with an encased swine sludge layer. Journal of Environmental Management 128: 586-593.

 

Polito, V.J., K.A. Baum, M.E. Payton, S.E. Little, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and M.V. Reichard. 2013. Tick abundance and levels of infestation on cattle in response to patch burning. Rangeland Ecology and Management 66: 545-552.

 

Polo, J.A., S.W. Hallgren, and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Effect of long-term understory prescribed burning on standing and down dead woody material in dry upland oak forests. Forest Ecology and Management 291: 128–135.

 

Priadi, T., S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Characterization of heat treated wood species. Materials and Design 49: 575-582.

 

Ramachandriya, K.D., M.R. Wilkins, S. Hiziroglu, N.T. Dunford, and H.K. Atiyeh. 2013. Development of an efficient pretreatment process for enzymatic saccharification of eastern redcedar. Bioresource Technology 136:131-139.

 

Ramachandriya, K.D., M.R. Wilkins, H.K. Atiyeh, N.T. Dunford, and S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Effect of high dry solid loading on enzymatic hydrolysis of acid bisulfite pretreated Eastern Redcedar. Bioresource Technology 147: 168-176.

 

Robertson, S.*, K.R. Hickman, K.R. Harmoney, and D.M. Leslie, Jr. 2013. Combining glyphosate with burning or mowing improves control of yellow bluestem (Bothriochloa iscahemum). Rangeland Ecology and Management 66:376-381.

 

Salim, N., R. Hashim, O. Sulaiman, N.A. Nordin, M. Ibrahim, H.M.D. Akil, M. Sato, T. Sugimoto, S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Effect of steaming on some properties of compressed oil palm trunk lumber. Bioresources 8 (2): 2310-2324.

 

Schmitt, J.D.*, and Shoup, D.E. 2013. Delayed hooking mortality of blue catfish caught on juglines. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33: 245-252.

 

Sulaiman, N.S., R. Hashim, M.H.M. Amini, O. Sulaiman, and S. Hiziroglu. 2013. Evaluation of properties of particleboard made using oil palm starch modified with epichlorohydrin. Bioresources 8 (1): 283-301.

 

Talent, L.G., and S.G. Talent. 2013. Effects of crowding on reproductive traits of western fence lizards, Sceloporus occidentalis. Herpetological Conservation and Biology 8 (1): 251–257.

 

Twidwell, D.*, W.E. Rogers, S.D. Fuhlendorf, C.L. Wonkka, D.M. Engle, J.R. Weir, U.P. Kreuter and C.A. Taylor. 2013. The rising Great Plains fire campaign: citizens’ response to woody plant encroachment. Frontiers in Ecology and Environment 11: 64-71.

 

Twidwell, D.*, S.D. Fuhlendorf, C.A. Taylor and W.E. Rodgers. 2013. Refining thresholds in coupled fire-vegetation models to improve management of encroaching woody plants in grasslands. Journal of Applied Ecology 50: 603-613.

 

Twidwell, D.*, B.W. Allred, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2013. National-scale assessment of ecological content in the world’s largest land management framework. Ecosphere 4 (8), art94.

 

Twidwell D.*, C.L. Wonkka, C.A. Taylor, C.B. Zou, J.J. Twidwell, and W.E. Rogers. 2013. Drought-induced woody plant mortality in an encroached semiarid savanna depends on topoedaphic factors and land management. Applied Vegetation Science. doi: 10.1111\avsc.12044.

 

Weir, J.R., and R.F. Limb. 2013. Seasonal variation in flammability of Quercus marilandica and Quercus stellata leaf litter burned in the laboratory. Fire Ecology 3: 80-88.

 

Will, R.E., S.M. Wilson, C.B. Zou and T.C. Hennessey. 2013. Increased VPD due to higher temperature leads to greater transpiration and faster mortality during drought for tree seedlings common to the forest-grassland ecotone. New Phytologist 200: 366-374.

 

Will, R.E., C.J. Lilly, J. Stewart, S. Huff and C.G. Tauer. 2013. Recovery from topkill of shortleaf pine X loblolly pine hybrids compared to their parent populations. Trees: Structure and Function 27: 1167–1174.

 

Williams, R., T. Kuzmic and B. Orr. 2013. The student-citizen and study abroad. Journal of Forestry 111 (4): 300-302.

 

Williams, R.J.*, S.W. Hallgren, G.W.T. Wilson and M.W. Palmer. 2013. Juniperus virginiana encroachment into upland oak forests alters arbuscular mycorrhizal abundance and litter chemistry. Applied Soil Ecology. 65: 23-30.

 

Winter, S.L.*, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and B.L. Smith. 2013. Breeding bird communities associated with tallgrass prairies in southeast Nebraska. Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences 33: 39-45.

 

Winter, S.L.*, K.R. Hickman, C.L. Goad, S.D. Fuhlendorf, and M.S. Gregory. 2013. Seasonal Fires, Bison Grazing and the Tallgrass Prairie Forb Arnoglossum plantagineum Raf. Natural Areas Journal 33:327-338.

 

Worthington, T.A., S.K. Brewer, T.B. Grabowski, and J. Mueller. 2013. Evaluating the sampling efficiency of the Moore egg collector. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33: 79‒88.

 

Worthington, T.A., S.K. Brewer and N. Farless. 2013. Spatial and temporal variation in efficiency of the moore egg collector. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33: 1113-1118.

 

Zhong, Z.W., S. Hiziroglu, and C.T.M Chan. 2013. Measurement of the surface roughness of wood based materials used in furniture manufacture. Measurement 46(6): 1482-1487.

 

Zou, C.B., D.J. Turton, R.E. Will, D.M. Engle, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2013. Alteration of hydrological processes and streamflow with juniper (Juniperus virginiana) encroachment in a mesic grassland catchment. Hydrological Processes DOI:10.1002/hyp.10102.