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Callaghan, C. T., Mesaglio, T., Ascher, J. S., Brooks, T. M., Cabras, A. A., Chandler, M., ... & Young, A. N. (2022). The benefits of contributing to the citizen science platform iNaturalist as an identifier. PLoS biology, 20(11), e3001843.pdf

Dr. Keng-Lou James Hung, OBS pollination biologist, was a contributing author to a paper published recently in PLOS Biology about the benefits of acting as an identifier on iNaturalist. Congratulations James!

Oklahoma Biodiversity

2022

Higgins E, Parr TB and Vaughn CC (2022) Mussels and Local Conditions Interact to Influence Microbial Communities in Mussel Beds. Front. Microbiol. 12:790554. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.790554 (.pdf)

Castillioni, K., Patten, M. A., & Souza, L. (2022). Precipitation effects on grassland plant performance are lessened by hay harvest. Scientific reports, 12(1), 1-13(.pdf)

2021

Jacqueline M. Vadjunec, Austin L. Boardman, Todd D. Fagin, Michael P.Larson, Peter Kedron & Brian Birchler (2021) Footprints from the Dust Bowl: Using Historical Geographic Information Systems to Explore Land and Resource Access, Use, and Survivability in “No Man’s Land,” Cimarron County, Oklahoma, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111:7, 1906-1930, DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1867497(.pdf)

Werdel, G.M., Pandey, L.K. & Bergey, E.A. Cigarette butt effects on diatom health in a stream ecosystem. Aquat Ecol 55, 999–1010 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10452-021-09876-z(.pdf)

Brent Norris Tweedy, Brandon J. Sansom, Caryn C. Vaughn et al. Mercury Contamination Across a Riverine Foodweb, 18 June 2021, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-563456/v1](.pdf)

Vaughn, C. C., Parr, T. B., DuBose, T. P., Gates, K. K., Hopper, G. W., & Gido, K. B. (2022). Do mobile consumers homogenize the distribution of resources in stream food webs? A test with overlapping fish and mussel aggregations. Freshwater Biology, 67, 684– 694. https://doi.org/10.1111/fwb.13872(.pdf)

Boys, W.A., Siepielski, A.M., Smith, B.D., Patten, M.A. and Bried, J.T. (2021), Predicting the distributions of regional endemic dragonflies using a combined model approach. Insect Conserv Divers, 14: 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1111/icad.12444(.pdf)

2020

Bergey EA, Whipkey BE (2020) Climate gradients, and patterns of biodiversity and biotic homogenization in urban residential yards. PLoSONE 15(8):e0234830. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234830(.pdf)

Castillioni, K, Wilcox, K, Jiang, L, et al. Drought mildly reduces plant dominance in a temperate prairie ecosystem across years. Ecology and Evolution.. 2020; 10: 6702– 6713. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6400(.pdf)

Prather, R. M., K. Castillioni, E. A. R. Welti, M. Kaspari, and L. Souza. 2020. Abiotic factors and plant biomass, not plant diversity, strongly shape grassland arthropods under drought conditions. Ecology 101(6):e03033. 10.1002/ecy.3033(.pdf)

Siler, C. D., Freitas, E. S., Yuri, T., Souza, L., & Watters, J. L. (2021). Development and validation of four environmental DNA assays for species of conservation concern in the South-Central United States. Conservation Genetics Resources, 13(1), 35-40(.pdf)

2019

Nicole M. Colston, Jacqueline M. Vadjunec & Todd Fagin (2019) It is Always Dry Here: Examining Perceptions about Drought and Climate Change in the Southern High Plains, Environmental Communication, 13:7, 958-974, DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2018.1536071(.pdf)

Contina, A., Alcantara, J.L., Bridge, E.S., Ross, J.D., Oakley, W.F., Kelly, J.F. and Ruegg, K.C. (2019), Genetic structure of the Painted Bunting and its implications for conservation of migratory populations. Ibis, 161: 372-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.12641(.pdf)

Stuble, K. L., S. Ma, J. Liang, Y. Luo, A. T. Classen, and L. Souza. 2019. Long-term impacts of warming drive decomposition and accelerate the turnover of labile, not recalcitrant, carbon. Ecosphere 10(5):e02715. 10.1002/ecs2.2715(.pdf)

Patten, M. A., Barnard, A. A., & Smith, B. D. (2019). Geographic variation in a restricted-range endemic dragonfly GomphurusOzarkensis (Odonata: Gomphidae), with description of a new subspecies. Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 13(2), 15-26.(.pdf)

Patten, M. A., Hjalmarson, E. A., Smith-Patten, B. D., & Bried, J. T. (2019). Breeding thresholds in opportunistic Odonata records. Ecological Indicators, 106, 105460(.pdf)

2018

Curry, C. M., Ross, J. D., Contina, A. J., & Bridge, E. S. (2018). Varying dataset resolution alters predictive accuracy of spatially explicit ensemble models for avian species distribution. Ecology and evolution, 8(24), 12867-12878(.pdf)

Vadjunec, J. M., Frazier, A. E., Kedron, P., Fagin, T., & Zhao, Y. (2018). A land systems science framework for bridging land system architecture and landscape ecology: A case study from the southern high plains. Land, 7(1), 27(.pdf)

Shi, Z., Lin, Y., Wilcox, K. R., Souza, L., Jiang, L., Jiang, J., ... & Luo, Y. (2018). Successional change in species composition alters climate sensitivity of grassland productivity. Global change biology, 24(10), 4993-5003(.pdf)

2017

Hoagland, B. W., & Buthod, A. K. (2017). Vascular Flora of the Deep Fork National Wildlife Refuge, Okmulgee County, Oklahoma. Castanea, 82(1), 32-45(.pdf)

Sansom, B. J., Tweedy, B. N., & Vaughn, C. C. (2017). Composition of fish communities on and off mussel beds in the Kiamichi River, Oklahoma. In Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science (Vol. 97, pp. 1-7) (.pdf)

Hoagland, B. W., Messick, J., Rahman, M., & Fagin, T. (2013). Vegetation patterns in Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma; an analysis of General Land Office Survey records from 1874 and 1905. Publications of the Oklahoma Biological Survey, 12(1)(.pdf)

2016

Sansom, B. J., Atkinson, C. L., & Vaughn, C. C. (2016). Growth and longevity estimates for mussel populations in three Ouachita Mountain rivers. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 19(2), 19-26(.pdf)

Buthod, A. K., & Hoagland, B. W. (2016). A Floristic Inventory of the University of Oklahoma's Kessler Atmospheric and Ecological Field Station, McClain County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Native Plant Record, 16(1)(.pdf)

2015

Hoagland, B. W., Buthod, A., & Arbour, D. (2015). Additions to the Vascular Flora of the Red Slough Wildlife Management Area, McCurtain County, Oklahoma. Castanea, 80(4), 253-261(.pdf)

Shi, Z., Sherry, R., Xu, X., Hararuk, O., Souza, L., Jiang, L., ... & Luo, Y. (2015). Evidence for long‐term shift in plant community composition under decadal experimental warming. Journal of Ecology, 103(5), 1131-1140(.pdf)

Vaughn, C. C., Atkinson, C. L., & Julian, J. P. (2015). Drought‐induced changes in flow regimes lead to long‐term losses in mussel‐provided ecosystem services. Ecology and evolution, 5(6), 1291-1305(.pdf)

2014

Buthod, A. K., & Skvarla, J. J. (2014). Pollen morphology of the Oklahoma endemic plants Leavenworthia aurea (Brassicaceae/Cruciferae) and Phlox pilosa subsp. longipilosa (Polemoniaceae), with special reference to their natural history. Rhodora, 116(965), 41-62. https://doi.org/10.3119/13-11(.pdf)

Caire, W., Ganow, K. B., Matlack, R. S., Caddell, G. M., & Crawford, P. H. (2014). Loss of a significant maternity population of Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) in Oklahoma. The Southwestern Naturalist, 59(2), 274-277. https://doi.org/10.1894/N02-TAL-64.1(.pdf)

Todd D. Fagin & Bruce W. Hoagland (2014) A Landscape in Transition:The Arbuckle Mountains, 1870 to 1898, The Professional Geographer, 66:3, 456-467, DOI:10.1080/00330124.2013.848757(.pdf)

2013

Yoo, E. H., Hoagland, B. W., Cao, G., & Fagin, T. (2013). Spatial distribution of trees and landscapes of the past: a mixed spatially correlated multinomial logit model approach for the analysis of the public land survey data. Geographical Analysis, 45(4), 419-440(.pdf)

Newton, T. J., Vaughn, C. C., Spooner, D. E., Nichols, S. J., & Arts, M. T. (2013). Profiles of biochemical tracers in unionid mussels across a broad geographical range. Journal of Shellfish Research, 32(2), 497-507(.pdf)

Contina, A., Bridge, E. S., Seavy, N. E., Duckles, J. M., & Kelly, J. F. (2013). Using geologgers to investigate bimodal isotope patterns in Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris). The Auk, 130(2), 265-272(.pdf)

2012

Moore, A. J., Bartoli, A., Tortosa, R. D., & Baldwin, B. G. (2012). Phylogeny, biogeography, and chromosome evolution of the amphitropical genus Grindelia (Asteraceae) inferred from nuclear ribosomal and chloroplast sequence data. Taxon, 61(1), 211-230(.pdf)

Spooner, D. E., Vaughn, C. C., & Galbraith, H. S. (2012). Species traits and environmental conditions govern the relationship between biodiversity effects across trophic levels. Oecologia, 168(2), 533-548(.pdf)

Julian, J. P., Thomas, R. E., Moursi, S., Hoagland, B. W., & Tarhule, A. (2012). Historical variability and feedbacks among land cover, stream power, and channel geometry along the lower Canadian River floodplain in Oklahoma. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 37(4), 449-458(.pdf)

Chilson, P. B., Bridge, E., Frick, W. F., Chapman, J. W., & Kelly, J. F. (2012). Radar aeroecology: exploring the movements of aerial fauna through radio-wave remote sensing(.pdf)

General Biodiversity

2022

Sandoval, B. A., Bridge, E. S., Fulton, C. F., & Ruyle, J. E. (2022). Phantom Design and Verification Enabling Effective Antennas for Bird Tracking Technology. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, 21(8), 1703-1707(.pdf)

Means M, Crews T, Souza L (2022). Annual and perennial crop composition impacts on soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics at two different depths. Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1017/ S1742170522000084(.pdf)

Avolio, M. L., Komatsu, K. J., Koerner, S. E., Grman, E., Isbell, F., Johnson, D. S., ... & Zhang, Y. (2022). Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere, 13(10), e4249(.pdf)

2021

Rypel, A. L., Saffarinia, P., Vaughn, C. C., Nesper, L., O’Reilly, K., Parisek, C. A., ... & David, S. R. (2021). Goodbye to “rough fish”: paradigm shift in the conservation of native fishes. Fisheries, 46(12), 605-616(.pdf)

Lopez, J. W., & Vaughn, C. C. (2021). A review and evaluation of the effects of hydrodynamic variables on freshwater mussel communities. Freshwater Biology, 66(9), 1665-1679(.pdf)

Teixeira, J., Souza, L., Le Stradic, S., & Fidelis, A. (2022). Fire promotes functional plant diversity and modifies soil carbon dynamics in tropical savanna. Science of The Total Environment, 812, 152317(.pdf)

Rudgers, J. A., Fox, S., Porras‐Alfaro, A., Herrera, J., Reazin, C., Kent, D. R., ... & Jumpponen, A. (2022). Biogeography of root‐associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains. Journal of Biogeography, 49(1), 22-37(.pdf)

Chong, K. Y., Corlett, R. T., Nuñez, M. A., Chiu, J. H., Courchamp, F., Dawson, W., ... & Wardle, D. A. (2021). Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics?. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 52(1), 291-314(.pdf)

Halpin, L. R., Ross, J. D., Ramos, R., Mott, R., Carlile, N., Golding, N., ... & Clarke, R. H. (2021). Double‐tagging scores of seabirds reveals that light‐level geolocator accuracy is limited by species idiosyncrasies and equatorial solar profiles. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(11), 2243-2255(.pdf)

Moore, A. J., Messick, J. A., & Kadereit, J. W. (2021). Range and niche expansion through multiple interspecific hybridization: a genotyping by sequencing analysis of Cherleria (Caryophyllaceae). BMC ecology and evolution, 21(1), 1-22(.pdf)

Hung, K.-L.J.; Sandoval, S.S.; Ascher, J.S.; Holway, D.A. Joint Impacts of Drought and Habitat Fragmentation on Native Bee Assemblages in a California Biodiversity Hotspot. Insects 2021, 12, 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects12020135(.pdf)

Heinen VK, Benedict LM, Pitera AM, Sonnenberg BR, Bridge ES, Pravosudov VV. 2021 Social dominance has limited effects on spatial cognition in a wild food-caching bird. Proc. R. Soc. B288:20211784. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.1784(.pdf)

Leslie, C.M.; Strand, A.I.; Ross, E.A.; Ramos, G.T.; Bridge, E.S.; Chilson, P.B.; Anderson, C.E. Shifting the Balance among the ‘Three Rs of Sustainability:’ What Motivates Reducing and Reusing? Sustainability 2021, 13, 93. https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810093(.pdf)

Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Heinen, V. K., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird. Animal Behaviour, 182, 153-172(.pdf)

Chong, K. Y., Corlett, R. T., Nuñez, M. A., Chiu, J. H., Courchamp, F., Dawson, W., ... & Wardle, D. A. (2021). Are Terrestrial Biological Invasions Different in the Tropics?. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 52(1), 291-314(.pdf)

Benedict, L. M., Pitera, A. M., Branch, C. L., Sonnenberg, B. R., Heinen, V. K., Bridge, E. S., & Pravosudov, V. V. (2021). Information maintenance of food sources is associated with environment, spatial cognition and age in a food-caching bird. Animal Behaviour, 182, 153-172(.pdf)

2020

Sansom, B. J., Bennett, S. J., Atkinson, J. F., & Vaughn, C. C. (2020). Emergent hydrodynamics and skimming flow over mussel covered beds in rivers. Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR026252. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026252(.pdf)

Bried, J., Ries, L., Smith, B., Patten, M., Abbott, J., Ball-Damerow, J., ... & White, E. (2020). Towards global volunteer monitoring of odonate abundance. BioScience, 70(10), 914-923(.pdf)

Todd D. Fagin, Thomas A. Wikle & Adam J. Mathews (2020) Emerging Geospatial Technologies in Instruction and Research: An Assessment of U.S. and Canadian Geography Departments and Programs, The Professional Geographer, 72:4, 631-643, DOI:10.1080/00330124.2020.1777573(.pdf)

Prather, R. M., Castillioni, K., Kaspari, M., Souza, L., Prather, C. M., Reihart, R. W., & Welti, E. A. (2020). Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 29(12), 2273-2288(.pdf)

Sansom, B. J., Bennett, S. J., Atkinson, J. F., & Vaughn, C. C. (2020). Emergent hydrodynamics and skimming flow over mussel covered beds in rivers. Water Resources Research, 56, e2019WR026252. https:// doi.org/10.1029/2019WR026252(.pdf)

Bried, J., Ries, L., Smith, B., Patten, M., Abbott, J., Ball-Damerow, J., ... & White, E. (2020). Towards global volunteer monitoring of odonate abundance. BioScience, 70(10), 914-923(.pdf)

2019

Smith-Patten, B. D. (2019). Odonate Species Richness in the United States and Canada. Argia, 31(1), 1217(.pdf)

Hung K-LJ, Kingston JM, Lee A, Holway DA, Kohn JR. 2019 Non-native honey bees disproportionately dominate the most abundant floral resources in a biodiversity hotspot. Proc. R. Soc. B286:20182901. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2901(.pdf)

Gow EA, Knight SM, Bradley DW, Clark RG, Winkler DW, Bélisle M, Berzins LL, Blake T, Bridge ES, Burke L, Dawson RD, Dunn PO, Garant D, Holroyd G, Horn AG, Hussell DJT, Lansdorp O, Laughlin AJ, Leonard ML, Pelletier F, Shutler D, Siefferman L, Taylor CM, Trefry H, Vleck CM, Vleck D, Whittingham LA and Norris DR (2019) Effects of Spring Migration Distance on Tree Swallow Reproductive Success Within and Among Flyways. Front. Ecol. Evol. 7:380. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2019.00380(.pdf)

2018

Hancock, L. P., Obbens, F., Moore, A. J., Thiele, K., de Vos, J. M., West, J., ... & Edwards, E. J. (2018). Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeographic history of Calandrinia (Montiaceae). American Journal of Botany, 105(6), 1021-1034(.pdf)

Pandey, L. K., & Bergey, E. A. (2018). Metal toxicity and recovery response of riverine periphytic algae. Science of the total environment, 642, 1020-1031(.pdf)

di Utara Thailand, S. H. E., SURIYAWONG, P., THAPANYA, D., BERGEY, E. A., & CHANTARAMONGKOL, P. (2018). Aquatic insect functional feeding groups in a mountain stream with a series of check dams in Northern Thailand. Sains Malaysiana, 47(7), 1379-1386(.pdf)

Hancock, L. P., F. Obbens, A. J. Moore, K. Thiele, J. M. de Vos, J. West, J. A. M. Holtum, and E. J. Edwards. 2018. Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeographic history of Calandrinia (Montiaceae). American Journal of Botany 105(6): 1021–1034(.pdf)

2017

Carver, A. R., Ross, J. D., Augustine, D. J., Skagen, S. K., Dwyer, A. M., Tomback, D. F., & Wunder, M. B. (2017). Weather radar data correlate to hail‐induced mortality in grassland birds. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, 3(2), 90-101(.pdf)

Moore, A. J., Vos, J. M. D., Hancock, L. P., Goolsby, E., & Edwards, E. J. (2018). Targeted enrichment of large gene families for phylogenetic inference: phylogeny and molecular evolution of photosynthesis genes in the Portullugo clade (Caryophyllales). Systematic Biology, 67(3), 367-383(.pdf)

Trachtenberg, Z. M., Burns, T. J., de Beurs, K., Ellis, S. E., Gates, K. K., Hoagland, B. W., ... & Zeigler, J. J. (2017). The Anthropocene biosphere: Supporting ‘open interdisciplinarity’through blogging. Trends in ecology & evolution, 32(1), 1-3(.pdf)

Wilcox, K. R., Tredennick, A. T., Koerner, S. E., Grman, E., Hallett, L. M., Avolio, M. L., ... & Zhang, Y. (2017). Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. Ecology letters, 20(12), 1534-1545(.pdf)

2016

Kelly, J. F., K. G. Horton, P. M. Stepanian, K. M. de Beurs, T. Fagin, E. S. Bridge, and P. B. Chilson. 2016. Novel measures of continental- scale avian migration phenology related to proximate environmental cues. Ecosphere 7(9):e01434. 10.1002/ecs2.1434(.pdf)

Qin, Y., Xiao, X., Wang, J., Dong, J., Ewing, K., Hoagland, B., ... & Loveland, T. R. (2016). Mapping annual forest cover in sub-humid and semi-arid regions through analysis of Landsat and PALSAR imagery. Remote Sensing, 8(11), 933(.pdf)

Shi, Z., Xu, X., Souza, L., Wilcox, K., Jiang, L., Liang, J., ... & Luo, Y. (2016). Dual mechanisms regulate ecosystem stability under decade-long warming and hay harvest. Nature communications, 7(1), 1-6(.pdf)

2015

Smith-Patten, B. D., Bridge, E. S., Crawford, P. H., Hough, D. J., Kelly, J. F., & Patten, M. A. (2015). Is extinction forever?. Public Understanding of Science, 24(4), 481-495(.pdf)

Liang, J., Qi, X., Souza, L., & Luo, Y. (2016). Processes regulating progressive nitrogen limitation under elevated carbon dioxide: a meta-analysis. Biogeosciences, 13(9), 2689-2699(.pdf)

Gates, K. K., Vaughn, C. C., & Julian, J. P. (2015). Developing environmental flow recommendations for freshwater mussels using the biological traits of species guilds. Freshwater Biology, 60(4), 620-635(.pdf)

2014

Zelikova, T. J., Blumenthal, D. M., Williams, D. G., Souza, L., LeCain, D. R., Morgan, J., & Pendall, E. (2014). Long-term exposure to elevated CO2 enhances plant community stability by suppressing dominant plant species in a mixed-grass prairie. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(43), 15456-15461(.pdf)

Atkinson, C. L., Christian, A. D., Spooner, D. E., & Vaughn, C. C. (2014). Long‐lived organisms provide an integrative footprint of agricultural land use. Ecological Applications, 24(2), 375-384(.pdf)

Bridge, E. S., Kelly, J. F., Xiao, X., Takekawa, J. Y., Hill, N. J., Yamage, M., ... & Newman, S. H. (2014). Bird migration and avian influenza: A comparison of hydrogen stable isotopes and satellite tracking methods. Ecological indicators, 45, 266-273(.pdf)

2013

Kardol, P., Souza, L., & Classen, A. T. (2013). Resource availability mediates the importance of priority effects in plant community assembly and ecosystem function. Oikos, 122(1), 84-94(.pdf)

Atkinson, C. L., Vaughn, C. C., Forshay, K. J., & Cooper, J. T. (2013). Aggregated filter‐feeding consumers alter nutrient limitation: consequences for ecosystem and community dynamics. Ecology, 94(6), 1359-1369.(.pdf)

Yoo, E. H., Hoagland, B. W., Cao, G., & Fagin, T. (2013). Spatial distribution of trees and landscapes of the past: a mixed spatially correlated multinomial logit model approach for the analysis of the public land survey data. Geographical Analysis, 45(4), 419-440(.pdf)

2012

Simberloff, D., Souza, L., Nuñez, M. A., Barrios-Garcia, M. N., & Bunn, W. (2012). The natives are restless, but not often and mostly when disturbed. Ecology, 93(3), 598-607(.pdf)