Publications
Butterflies in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest. University of Iowa Press, 2003.
, A field guide to butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Roberts Rinehart, 2002.
, “Biological diversity assessment in Glacier National Park, Montana: I. sampling design”, in Ecological indicators, Springer, 1992, pp. 393-407.
, “Adapting the Fire-Grazing Interaction to Small Pastures in a Fragmented Landscape for Grassland Bird Conservation”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2016.
, “Another tool in the toolbox? Using fire and grazing to promote bird diversity in highly fragmented landscapes”, Ecosphere, vol. 2, no. 3, p. art28, 2011.
, “AVIAN COMMUNITY STRUCTURE IN FRAGMENTED GRASSLANDS MANAGED USING A FIRE-GRAZING INTERACTION”, Grassland bird responses to a fire-grazing interaction in a fragmented landscape, p. 5, 2010.
, “Beyond species richness: Community similarity as a measure of cross‐taxon congruence for coarse‐filter conservation”, Conservation Biology, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 167-173, 2004.
, “Biodiversity and remotely sensed habitat types: a comparison of montane meadows in the Gallatin Range, MT and in Grand Teton National Park, WY”, University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 45-49, 1996.
, “Butterflies and continuous conservation reserve program filter strips: landscape considerations”, Wildlife Society Bulletin, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 936-943, 2006.
, “Butterfly, bee and forb community composition and cross-taxon incongruence in tallgrass prairie fragments”, Journal of Insect Conservation, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 69-79, 2008.
, “Butterfly Responses”, From the Corn Belt to the Gulf: Societal and Environmental Implications of Alternative Agricultural Futures, p. 102, 2007.
, “Butterfly responses to habitat edges in the highly fragmented prairies of Central Iowa”, Journal of Animal Ecology, vol. 70, no. 5, pp. 840-852, 2001.
, “Butterfly responses to prairie restoration through fire and grazing”, Biological Conservation, vol. 140, no. 1, pp. 78-90, 2007.
, “Butterfly species in native prairie and restored prairie”, Prairie Naturalist, vol. 29, pp. 219-228, 1997.
, “Changes in vegetation structure through time in a restored tallgrass prairie ecosystem and implications for avian diversity and community composition”, Ecological Restoration, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 449-457, 2009.
, “CHAPTER THREE: BUTTERFLY RESPONSES TO FLORAL AND HOST PLANT RESOURCES IN MONTANE MEADOWS”, Butterfly Community Temporal Trends and Responses to Resource Availability Along a Hydrologic Gradient of Montane Meadows, p. 30, 2008.
, “CHAPTER TWO: BUTTERFLY INDICATORS OF MONTANE MEADOWS ALONG A HYDROLOGICAL GRADIENT: RESPONSES FROM A SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE”, Butterfly Community Temporal Trends and Responses to Resource Availability Along a Hydrologic Gradient of Montane Meadows, p. 8, 2008.
, “Coenonympha haydenii Responds to Drought”, Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, vol. 94, no. 2, pp. 182-182, 2013.
, “A comparison of satellite data and landscape variables in predicting bird species occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, USA”, Landscape Ecology, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 71-83, 2001.
, “A comparison of the arthropod communities in remnant, restored, and reconstructed Iowa tallgrass prairies”, Natural Areas Journal, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 148-155, 2011.
, “Connecting Soil Organic Carbon and Root Biomass with Land-Use and Vegetation in Temperate Grassland”, The Scientific World Journal, vol. 2014, 2014.
, , “Conservation value of roadside prairie restoration to butterfly communities”, Conservation Biology, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 401-411, 2001.
, “Constraints to restoring fire and grazing ecological processes to optimize grassland vegetation structural diversity”, Ecological Engineering, vol. 95, pp. 865-875, 2016.
, “COS 73-5: The ecological oddity of an invasive Eurasian grass that lengthens fire-return interval”, The 93rd ESA Annual Meeting, 2008.
, “A cross-taxonomic comparison of insect responses to grassland management and land-use legacies”, Ecosphere, vol. 2, no. 12, p. art131, 2011.
, “DB Lindenmayer, Large-scale landscape experiments: lessons from Tumut”, Landscape Ecology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 161-162, 2010.
, “Direct and indirect responses of tallgrass prairie butterflies to prescribed burning”, Journal of Insect Conservation, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 663-677, 2010.
, “Drought influences control of parasitic flies of cattle on pastures managed with patch-burn grazing”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 290-297, 2015.
, “Drought Influences Control of Parasitic Flies of Cattle on Pastures Managed with Patch-Burn Grazing”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, 2015.
, “Effects of fire and grazing on grasshopper sparrow nest survival”, The Journal of Wildlife Management, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 19-27, 2012.
, “Effects of grassland management practices on ant functional groups in central North America”, Journal of insect conservation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 699-713, 2013.
, “Effects of larval food-limitation on Vanessa cardui Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)”, The American midland naturalist, vol. 141, no. 2, pp. 315-322, 1999.
, “Epigaeic Ant Communities Along a Soil Moisture Gradient in Grand Teton Montane Meadows”, University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 135-140, 2008.
, “Evaluation of isolated and integrated prairie reconstructions as habitat for prairie butterflies”, Biological Conservation, vol. 126, no. 1, pp. 51-61, 2005.
, , “An Examination of Interannual Population Variation in Parnassius Clodius Butterflies”, University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 121-123, 2011.
, “An Examination of Reproductive Phenology with Implications for Understanding Climate Change Effects”, University of Wyoming National Park Service Research Center Annual Report, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 63-67, 2009.
, “Exotic-Dominated Grasslands Show Signs of Recovery with Cattle Grazing and Fire”, PLOS ONE, vol. 11, no. 11, p. e0165758, 2016.
, “Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA”, Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 40-47, 2005.
, “Fire induced reproductive mechanisms of a Symphoricarpos (Caprifoliaceae) shrub after dormant season burning”, Botanical Studies, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 80, 2014.
, “Flowers increase ecosystem biodiversity in Midwestern prairies”, Journal of Student Research, 2018.
, “Forest fragmentation and matrix effects: the matrix does matter”, Journal of Biogeography, vol. 33, no. 10, pp. 1791-1792, 2006.
, “Genetic diversity assessment in a metapopulation of the butterfly Euphydryas gillettii”, Biological Conservation, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 25-31, 1994.
, “Gradient-based habitat affinities predict species vulnerability to drought”, Ecology, vol. 94, no. 5, pp. 1036-1045, 2013.
, “Grazing and an invasive grass confound spatial pattern of exotic and native grassland plant species richness”, Basic and Applied Ecology, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 654-662, 2012.
, “High community turnover and dispersal limitation relative to rapid climate change”, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2016.
, “Inconsistent outcomes of heterogeneity-based management underscore importance of matching evaluation to conservation objectives”, Environmental Science & Policy, vol. 31, pp. 53-60, 2013.
, “An invasive cool-season grass complicates prescribed fire management in a native warm-season grassland”, Natural Areas Journal, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 208-214, 2012.
, “An invasive grass increases live fuel proportion and reduces fire spread in a simulated grassland”, Ecosystems, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 158-169, 2013.
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