Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Nebraska
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Nebraska Staff Member

Dr. Craig R Allen

Unit Leader
Phone: (402) 472 - 0229
Email: allencr@unl.edu

Education

  • Ph D University of Florida 1997

Biography

Craig Allen received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida, and MS from Texas Tech University.. Resilience in ecological systems; biological invasions; landscape ecology. Currently teaches: - Foundations of Resilience - Ecology of Biological Invasions

Research Publications Publication Date
Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Yellow jackets (Vespula spp. ) disperse Trillium (spp. ) seeds in eastern North America. American Midland Naturalist 146:444-446. | Download December 2001
Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Ant-seed mutualisms: can fire ants sour the relationship? Biological Conservation 101: 249-253 September 2001
Zettler, J. A., T. M. Mcinnis, jr., C. R. Allen, and T. P. Spira. 2002. The biodiversity of fungi in red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) mounds. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95:487-491 | Download August 2002
Zettler, J. A., M. D. Taylor, C. R. Allen, and T. P. Spira. 2004. Consequences of forest clear cuts for native and non-indigenous ants. Annuals of the Entomological Society of America 97:513-518. April 2004
Wonkka, C.L., D. Twidwell, C.H. Bielski, C.R. Allen, M.C. Stambaugh. Regeneration and invasion of cottonwood riparian forest following wildfire. Restoration Ecology 26: 456-465. July 2018
Wong, A., C. R. Allen, N. M. Chaine, D. M. Haak, K. L. Pope, N. A. Smeenk, B. J. Stephen, and D. R. Uden. 2013. Enamel-based mark performance for marking Chinese mystery snail Bellamya chinensis. Management of Biological Invasions 4:231-234. | Download October 2013
Wojcik, D. P., C. R. Allen, R. J. Brenner, E. A. Forys, D. P. Jouvenaz, and R. S. Lutz. 2001. Red imported fire ants: impact on biodiversity. American Entomologist 47(1):16-23. | Download September 2001
Whitby, M. D., T. J. Kieran, T. C. Glenn, and C. Allen. 2020. Agricultural pests consumed by common bat species in the United States corn belt: The importance of DNA primer choice. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 303:107105. August 2020
Wardwell, D., and C. R. Allen. 2009. Variability in population abundance is associated with thresholds between scaling regimes. Ecology and Society 14 (2):\42. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss2/art42/ | Download December 2009
Wardwell, D., C. R. Allen, G. D. Peterson and A. D. Tyre. 2008. A test of the cross-scale resilience model: functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 5:165-182 | Download April 2008
Unstad, K. M., D. R. Uden, C. R. Allen, N. M. Chaine, D. M. Haak, R. A. Kill, K. L. Pope, B. J. Stephen, and A. Wong. 2013. Survival and behavior of Chinese mystery snails (Bellamya chinensis) in response to simulated water body drawdowns and extended air exposure. Management of Biological Invasions 4:123-127. | Download December 2013
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, T.D. McCoy, R. B. Mitchell and Q. Guan. 2015. Predicted avian responses to scenarios of biofuel-based landuse change in an intensive agricultural landscape. Global Change Biology – Bioenergy 7: 717-726. July 2015
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, R.B. Mitchell, Q. Guan and T.D. McCoy. Bioenergy feedstock development scenarios and potential impacts on regional groundwater withdrawals. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 68(5):124A-128A. October 2013
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler, L.Corral and K.A. Fricke. 2015. Adaptive invasive species distribution models: A framework for modeling incipient invasions. Biological Invasions 10: 2831-2850. September 2015
Uden, D.R., C.R. Allen, A.A. Bishop, R. Grosse, C.F. Jorgensen, T.G. LaGrange, R.G. Stutheit, and M.P. Vrtiska. 2015. Predictions of future ephemeral wetland habitat availability for the continued management of North American waterbirds under global change. Ecosphere 6:art215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES15-00256.1 Ecosphere. October 2015
Uden, D. R., M. L. Hellman, D.G. Angeler, and C. R. Allen. The role of reserves and anthropogenic elements for functional connectivity and resilience of ephemeral habitats. Ecological Applications 24:1569-1582. November 2014
Twidwell, D., Wonkka, C. L., Bielski, C. H., Allen, C. R., Angeler, D. G., Drozda, J., ... & Roberts, C. P. (2018). The perpetual state of emergency that sacrifices protected areas in a changing climate. Conservation Biology, 32(4), 905-915. | Download August 2018
Twidwell, D., C.R. Allen, S. Elbaum, and C. Detweiler. Smokey comes of age: Unmanned aerial systems for fire management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: November 2016
Sundstrom, S.M., T. Eason, R.J. Nelson, D.G. Angeler, C. Barichievy, A.S. Garmestani, N.A.J. Graham, D. Granholm, L. Gunderson, M. Knutson, K.L. Nash, M. Nyström, T. Spanbauer, C.A. Stow, and C.R. Allen. 2017. Detecting spatial regimes in ecological systems. Ecology Letters 20:19-32. October 2017
Sundstrom, S.M., C.R. Allen and L.H. Gunderson. 2016. Resisting resilience theory—a response to Connell, Sean D, and Ghedini, Giulia. 2015. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31:412-413. July 2016
Sundstrom, S., and C. R. Allen. Complexity versus certainty in understanding species’ declines. Diversity and Distributions 20: 344-355. March 2014
Sundstrom, S., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, J. Garcia, and D.G. Angeler. 2014. Transdisciplinary application of the cross-scale resilience model. Sustainability 6(10): 6925-6948. November 2014
Sundstrom, S., C. R. Allen and C. Barichievy. 2012. Species, functional groups, and thresholds in ecological resilience. Conservation Biology 26:305-314 April 2012
Streit Krug, A., D. R. Uden, C. R. Allen, and D. Twidwell. 2017. Culturally induced range infilling of eastern redcedar: a problem in ecology, an ecological problem, or both?. Ecology and Society 22(2):46. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09357-220246 August 2017
Stow, C. A., C. R. Allen and A. S. Garmestani. 2007. Evaluating discontinuities in complex systems. Ecology and Society 12(1): 26. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety. org/vol12/iss1/art26/ | Download June 2007
Stephen, B. J., C. R. Allen, N. M. Chaine, K. A. Fricke, D. M. Haak, M. L. Hellman, R. A. Kill, K. T. Nemec, K. L. Pope, N. A. Smeenk, D. R. Uden, K. M. Unstad, A. E. VanderHam, and A. Wong. 2013. Fecundity of the Chinese mystery snail in a Nebraska reservoir. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 28:439-444. | Download December 2013
Spears, B.M., S.C. Ives, D.G. Angeler, C.R. Allen, S Birk, L. Carvalho, S. Cavers, F. Daunt, R.D. Morton, M.J.O. Pocock, G. Rhodes, and S.J. Thackeray. 2015. Effective management of ecological resilience – are we there yet? Journal of Applied Ecology 52: 1311-1315. July 2015
Spanbauer, T.L., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler, T. Eason, S.C. Fritz, A.S. Garmestani, K.L. Nash, J.R. Stone, C.A. Stow, and S. Sundstrom. Body size distributions signal regime shifts in ecosystems. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.0249. June 2016
Spanbauer, T.L., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler, T. Eason, K.L. Nash, S.C. Fritz, and J.R. Stone. 2014. Prolonged instability prior to a regime shift. PLoS ONE 9(10): e108936. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108936 November 2014
Sendzimir, J., C. R. Allen, L. Gunderson and C. Stow. 2003. Implications of body mass patterns: linking ecological structure and process to wildlife conservation and management. Pages 125 - 152 in, Bissonette, J., and I. Storch, eds. Landscape ecology and resource management: linking theory with practice. Island Press, Washington, DC. | Download January 2003
Roberts, C.P., Allen, C.R., Angeler, D.G., Twidwell, D. Shifting avian spatial regimes in a changing climate. Nat. Clim. Chang. 9, 562–566 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-019-0517-6 | Abstract | Download June 2019
Roberts, C. P., Donovan, V. M., Wonkka, C. L., Powell, L. A., Allen, C. R., Angeler, D. G., Wedin, D. A., & Twidwell, D. (2019). Fire legacies in eastern ponderosa pine forests. Ecology and evolution, 9(4), 1869-1879. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4879 | Abstract | Download December 2019
Roberts, C. P., Allen, C. R., Angeler, D. G., & Twidwell, D. (2019). Shifting avian spatial regimes in a changing climate. Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 562-566. December 2019
Rehme, S. E., L. A. Powell, and C. R. Allen. 2011. Multimodel inference and adaptive management. Journal of Environmental Management 92:1360-1364. | Download February 2011
Pope, K. L., C. R. Allen, and D. G. Angeler. 2014. Fishing for resilience. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:467-478. | Download March 2014
Piotr Magnuszewski, Karolina Krolikowska, Anna Koch, Michal Pajak, Craig Allen, Victoria Chraibi, Anil Giri, Danielle Haak, Noelle Hart, Michelle Hellman, Donald Pan, Nathan Rossman, Jan Sendzimir, Maggi Sliwinski, Joanna Stefanska, Tharsi Taillieu, Denise Marie Weide and Ilonka Zlatar. Exploring the role of relational practices in water governance using a game-based approach. Water 10: 346. July 2018
Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 2010. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Pages 167-193 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. (Reprinted from Ecosystems 1:6-18.) November 2009
Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 1999. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Pages 415-432 in Readings in Ecology, S. Dodson, S. R. Carpenter, R. L. Jeanne, J. F. Kitchell, N. E. Langston, M. G. Turner, T. Ives, K. Elliot, and T. F. H. Allen, eds. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. July 1999
Pearlstine, L., S. E. Smith, L. Brandt, C. Allen, W. Kitchens, and J. Stenberg. 2002. Assessing state-wide biodiversity in the Florida gap analysis project. Journal of Environmental Management 66:127-144. | Download December 2002
Nemec, K.T., J.C. Trager, E. Manley, J. A. Kalisch, and C. R. Allen. 2012. Five new records of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) for Nebraska. The Prairie Naturalist 44:63–65 July 2012
Nemec, K.T., J. Chan, J. Hamm, C. Hoffman, T. Spanbauer, L Acosta, C. Allen, T Hefley, D.Pan, and P. Shrestha. Assessing resilience in stressed watersheds. 2013.Ecology and Society 19(1): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06156-190134. April 2014
Nemec, K.T., C.R. Allen, S.D. Danielson, and C.J. Helzer. 2014. Responses of predatory invertebrates to seeding density and richness in experimental tallgrass prairie restorations. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 183: 11 - 20. December 2013
Nemec, K., C. R. Allen, A. ALAI, G. Clements, A. Kessler, T. Kinsell, A. Major, and B. J. Stephen. 2011. Woody invasions of urban parks and trails and the changing face of urban forests in the Great Plains, USA. American Midland Naturalist 165:241-256. June 2011
Nemec, K. T., C. R. Allen, C. J. Helzer, and D. A. Wedin. 2013. Influence of diversity and seeding density on invasion resistance in experimental tallgrass prairie restorations. Ecological Restoration 31:168-185. July 2013
Nash, K.L., C.R. Allen, D. Angeler, C. Barichievy, A.S. Garmestani, N. A. J. Graham, D. Granholm, M. Knutson, J. Nelson, M. Nyström, S. Riley, C.A. Stow and S.M. Sundstrom. 2014. Discontinuities, cross-scale patterns and the organization of ecosystems. Ecology 95: 654-667. April 2014
Nash, K.L., C. R. Allen, C. Barichievy, M. Nyström, S. Sundstrom, and N.A.J. Graham. Habitat structure and body size distributions: ecosystem appropriate metrics and methods. Oikos 123:971-983. | Abstract November 2014
Myers, P.E., H. Birge, and C.R. Allen. Consuming fire ants reduces northern bobwhite survival and weight gain. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 30:49-58. November 2014
Miller, T. K., C. R. Allen, W. Landis, and J. Merchant. 2010. Risk assessment: Simultaneously prioritizing the control of invasive plant species and the conservation of rare plant species. Biological Conservation 143:2070-2079. | Download July 2010
Lotz, A., and C. R. Allen. 2013. Social-ecological predictors of global invasions and extinctions. Ecology and Society 18(3): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05550-180315 October 2013
Lotz, A., and C. R. Allen. 2007. Observer bias in anuran call surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management 71:675-679. | Download April 2007
LaBram, J. A., A. E. Peck and C. R. Allen. 2007. Monitoring-based Assessment of Gap Analysis models. Southeastern Naturalist 6:633-656. November 2007
LaBram, J. A., A. E. Peck and C. R. Allen. 2003. Description and application of an accuracy assessment method for Gap Analysis models. Gap Analysis Bulletin 11:18-24. August 2003
Kessler, A. C., J. W. Merchant, C. R. Allen, and S. D. Shultz. 2011. Invasive plants impacts on sandhill crane (Grus canadensis) roosting habitat. Invasive Plant Science and Management 4: 369-377. December 2011
Kaemingk, M. A., C. J. Chizinski, C. R. Allen, and K. L. Pope. 2019. Ecosystem size predicts social-ecological dynamics. Ecology and Society 24(2):17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-10961-240217 | Download May 2019
Jurek Kolasa, J., C.R.. Allen, J. Sendzimir, and C.A. Stow. 2012. Predictions and retrodictions of the hierarchical representation of habitat in heterogeneous environments. Ecological Modeling: in press. September 2012
Johnson, A. R., C. R. Allen, and K. A. N. Simpson. 2004. Estimating functional connectivity of wildlife habitat and its relevance to ecological risk assessment. Pages 41-55 in Kapustka, L. A., H. Gilbraith, M. Luxon, and G. R. Biddinger, eds. Landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation: critical information for ecological risk assessment, land-use management activities, and biodiversity enhancement practices, ASTM STP 1458. ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA. In press. November 2004
Holling, C. S., and C. R. Allen. 2002. Adaptive inference for distinguishing credible from incredible patterns in nature. Ecosystems 5:319-328. | Download June 2002
Holling, C. S., C. R. Allen, and G. D. Peterson. 2008. Panarchies and discontinuities. Pages 3-19 in Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, editors. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. June 2008
Hodbod, J., O. Barreteau, C.R. Allen and Daniele Magda. 2016. Managing adaptively for multifunctionality in agricultural systems. Journal of Environmental Management 183: 379-388. December 2016
Herrmann, D.L., W.C. Chuang, K. Schwarz, T.M. Bowles, A.S. Garmestani, W.D. Shuster, T. Eason, M.E. Hopton, and C.R. Allen. 2018. Agroecology for the shrinking city. Sustainability 10:675. July 2018
Haak, D.M., N.M. Chaine, B.J. Stephen, A. Wong, and C.R. Allen. 2013. Mortality estimate of Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in a Nebraska reservoir. BioInvasion Records 2:137-139. July 2013
Haak, D. M., B. J. Stephen, R. A. Kill, N. A. Smeenk, C. R. Allen, and K. L. Pope. 2014. Toxicity of copper sulfate and rotenone to Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis). Management of Biological Invasions 5:371-375. | Download November 2014
Gunderson, L., and C. R. Allen. 2010. Why resilience? Why now? Pages xii-xxv in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. November 2009
Gunderson, L., C. S. Holling, and C. R. Allen. 2010. The evolution of an idea - the past, present, and future of ecological resilience. Pages 423-444 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. November 2009
Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen, and D. Wardwell. 2007. Temporal scaling in complex systems: resonant frequencies and biotic variability. Chapter 5 in Bissonette, J. A., and I. Storch, eds. Temporal dimensions in landscape ecology: wildlife responses to variable resources. Springer. May 2007
Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. 2010. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. 466pp. November 2009
Gunderson, L., B. A. Cosens, B. C. Chaffin, C. A. (T.) Arnold, A. K. Fremier, A. S. Garmestani, R. K. Craig, H. Gosnell, H. E. Birge, C. R. Allen, M. H. Benson, R. R. Morrison, M. C. Stone, J. A. Hamm, K. Nemec, E. Schlager, and D. Llewellyn. 2017. Regime shifts and panarchies in regional scale social-ecological water systems. Ecology and Society 22(1):31. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-08879-220131 August 2017
Green, O.O., A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson, C.R. Allen, J.B. Ruhl, C.A. Arnold, N.A.J. Graham, B. Cosens, D.G. Angeler, B. Chaffin and C.S. Holling. 2015. Barriers and bridges to the integration of social-ecological resilience and law. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13:332-337. July 2015
Graeme S. Cumming, Craig R. Allen, Natalie C. Ban, Duan Biggs, Harry C. Biggs, David H. M. Cumming, Alta De Vos, Graham Epstein, Michel Etienne, Kristine Maciejewski, Raphaël Mathevet, Christine Moore, Mateja Nenadovic, and Michael Schoon. 2015. Understanding protected area resilience: a multi-scale, social-ecological approach. Ecological Applications 25: 299-319. June 2015
Garmestani, AS, and CR Allen. Resilience and law, an introduction. Pages 1 - 14 in Garmestani, AS and CR Allen, Editors. Law and Social-ecological Resilience. University of Columbia Press. April 2014
Garmestani, A.S., and C.R. Allen. 2015. Adaptive management of social-ecological systems: the path forward. Pages 255-262 in Allen, C.R., and A.S. Garmestani, Editors. Adaptive Management of Social Ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. October 2015
Garmestani, A., C. R. Allen, J.B. Ruhl and C.S. Holling. 2014. The Integration of resilience and law. Pages 365-382 in Resilience and Law, Garmestani, A.S. and C.R. Allen, Editors. Columbia University Press. April 2014
Garmestani, A., C. R. Allen , and K. M. Bessey. 2005. Time series analysis of clusters in city size distributions. Urban Studies 42: 1507-1515. | Download August 2005
Garmestani, A. and C.R. Allen. 2014. Social – Ecological Resilience and Law. University of Columbia Press, New York, New York: in press. 404pp. February 2014
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and M. H. Benson. 2013. Can law foster social-ecological resilience? Ecology and Society 18(2): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-05927-180237 July 2013
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and L. Gunderson. 2009. Panarchy: discontinuities reveal similarities in the dynamic system structure of ecological and social systems. Ecology and Society 14 (1): 15. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art15/ May 2009
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and K. M. Bessey. 2008. Discontinuities in urban systems: comparison of regional city-size structure in the United States. Pages 136-164 in Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, editors. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. June 2008
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and H. Cabezas. 2009. Panarchy, adaptive management and governance: sustainable options for building resilience. Nebraska Law Review 87:1036-1054. | Download March 2009
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, J. D. Mittelstaedt, C. A. Stow, and W. A. Ward. 2006. Firm size diversity, functional richness and resilience. Environmental and Development Economics: 11: 533-551. July 2006
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, J. D. Mittelstaedt, C. A. Stow, and W. A. Ward. 2006. Firm size diversity, functional richness and resilience. Environmental and Development Economics 11: 533-551. | Download August 2006
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, J. A. Labram, and A. E. Peck. 2004. Laboratory observations of red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) predation upon eastern tent caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae). Journal of Entomological Science 39: 472-473. September 2004
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, C. M. Gallagher and J. D. Mittelstaedt. 2007. Departures from Gibrat's law, discontinuities and city size distributions. Urban Studies 44:1997-2007. | Download September 2007
Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen and C. M. Gallagher. 2008. Power laws, discontinuities and regional city size distributions. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 68:209-216. | Download September 2008
Forys, E. A., and C. R. Allen. 2005. The impacts of sprawl on biodiversity: the ant fauna of the lower Florida Keys. Ecology and Society 10 (1): 25. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety. org/vol10/iss1/art25/ | Download July 2005
Forys, E. A., and C. R. Allen. 2002. Functional group change within and across scales following invasions and extinctions in the Everglades ecosystem. Ecosystems 5:339-347. | Download June 2002
Forys, E. A., and C. R. Allen. 1999. Biological invasions and deletions: community change in south Florida. Biological Conservation 87:341-347. July 1999
Forys, E. A., C. R. Allen, and D. P. Wojcik. 2002. Influence of proximity and amount of human development and roads on the occurrence of the red imported fire ant in the Lower Florida Keys. Biological Conservation 108:27-33. | Download June 2002
Forys, E. A., A. Quistorff, C. R. Allen and D. P. Wojcik. 2001. The likely cause of extinction of the tree snail Orthalicus rese reses (Say). Journal of Molluscan Studies 67:369-376. | Download September 2001
Forys, E. A., A Quistorff, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Potential fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) impact on the endangered Schaus swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Florida Entomologist 84:254-258. | Download September 2001
Epperson, D., and C. R. Allen. 2009. Red imported fire ant impacts on upland arthropods in southern Mississippi. American Midland Naturist 163:54-63. | Download December 2009
Emma Göthe, Leonard Sandin, Craig R. Allen and David G. Angeler. 2014. Quantifying cross-scale spatial patterns and their local and regional correlates in headwater streams: implications for resilience. Ecology and Society 19(3): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-06750-190315. | Abstract December 2014
Didier L. Baho, Stina Drakare, Richard K. Johnson, Craig R. Allen, and David G. Angeler. 2016. Is the impact of eutrophication dependent on ecosystem size? Limnology 76: 199-210. December 2017
Decker, K.L., C. R. Allen, L. Acosta, M. Hellman, C. Jorgensen, S. Rolfsmeier, G. Steinhauer, R. Stutzman, K. Unstad, A. Williams, and M. Yans. 2011. Landuse, landscapes, and biological invasions. Invasive Plant Science and Management 5:108-116 April 2012
DeWitte, S.N., M.H. Kurth, C.R. Allen and I. Linkov. 2017. Disease epidemics: Lessons for resilience in an increasingly connected world. Journal of Public Health 39: 254-257. July 2017
Daniel R. Uden, R. B. Mitchell, C. R. Allen, Qingfeng Guan and Tim D. McCoy. The feasibility of producing adequate feedstock for year–round cellulosic ethanol production in an intensive agricultural fuelshed. Bioenergy Research 6: 930-938. October 2013
Cumming, G.S., and C.R. Allen. 2017. Protected areas as social ecological-systems: Perspectives from resilience and social-ecological systems theory. Ecological Applications 27: 1709-1717. DOI: 10.1002/eap.1584. July 2017
Craig, R.K., A.S. Garmestani, C.R. Allen, C.A. Arnold, H. Birgé, D. DeCaro, A.K. Fremier, H. Gosnell and E. Schlager. 2016. Balancing stability and flexibility in adaptive governance: The new challenges and a review of tools available. Ecology and Society. October 2017
Craig R Allen, Hannah Birgé, David G Angeler, Craig Anthony Tony Arnold, Brian C Chaffin, Daniel DeCaro, Ahjond S Garmestani, Lance H Gunderson. 2018. Uncertainty and Trade-Offs in Resilience Assessments. Pages 243 - 268 in Practical Panarchy for Adaptive Water Governance, Gunderson and Cosens, Eds. Springer. September 2018
Cosens, B., L. Gunderson, C.R. Allen and M. Harm Benson. Identifying legal, ecological and governance obstacles and opportunities for adapting to climate change. Sustainability 6: 2338-2356; doi:10.3390/su6042338. May 2014
Conroy, M. J., C. R. Allen, J. T. Peterson, L. Pritchard, Jr., and C. T. Moore. 2003. Landscape change in the southern Piedmont: challenges, solutions, and uncertainty across scales. Conservation Ecology 8(2): 3. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol8/iss2/art3. | Abstract | Download | Publisher Website December 2003
Chuang, W.C., A. Garmestani, T.N. Eason, T.L. Spanbauer, H.B. Fried-Petersen, C.P. Roberts, S.M. Sundstrom, J.L. Burnett, D.G. Angeler, B.C. Chaffin, L. Gunderson, D. Twidwell and C.R. Allen. Quantitative approaches for assessing ecological and community resilience. Journal of Environmental Management 213: 353-362. July 2018
Chaine, N. M., C. R. Allen, K. A. Fricke, D. M. Haak, M. L. Hellman, R. A. Kill, K. T. Nemec, K. L. Pope, N. A. Smeenk, B. J. Stephen, D. R. Uden, K. M. Unstad, and A. E. VanderHam. 2012. Population estimate of Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis) in a Nebraska reservoir. BioInvasions Records 1:283-287. | Download October 2012
Chaffin, B.C., A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson, M.H. Benson, D.A. Angeler, C Arnold, B. Cosens, R.K. Craig, J.B. Ruhl and C.R. Allen. 2016. Transformative environmental governance. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 41: 399-423. December 2016
Chaffin, B., A.S. Garmestani, D.G. Angeler, D.L. Herrmann, C.A. Stow, M. Nyström, J. Sendzimir , M.E. Hopton, J. Kolasa and C.R. Allen. 2016. Biological invasions, ecological resilience and adaptive governance. Journal of Environmental Management 183: 399-407. December 2016
Caleb P. Roberts, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, Dirac Twidwell. 2018. Doublethink & double standards: mismatch between policy and ecology of a native invader. PLoS ONE 13(3):eo189733. | Download July 2018
Burnett, J.L., C.P. Roberts, C.R. Allen, M.B. Brown, and M.P. Moulton. 2017. Dynamics of range expansion by Passer montanus in North America. Biological Invasions 19: 5-9. August 2017
Burnett, J. L., K. L. Pope, A. Wong, C. R. Allen, D. M. Haak, B. J. Stephen and D. R. Uden. 2018. Thermal tolerance limits of the Chinese mystery snail (Bellamya chinensis): implications for management. American Malacological Bulletin 36:140-144. | Download May 2018
Bundschuh, M., R. Schulz, R. Schäfer, C. Allen, and D. Angeler. 2017. Resilience in ecotoxicology: Toward a multiple equilibrium context. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 36:2574-2580. September 2017
Bundschuh, M., R. Schulz, R. Schäfer, C. Allen, and D. Angeler. 2017. Ecotoxicology in a multiple equilibrium context. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 36: 2574-2580. December 2017
Brinley Buckley, E. M., C. R. Allen, M. Forsberg, M. Farrell, and A. J. Caven. 2017. Capturing change: the duality of time-lapse imagery to acquire data and depict ecological dynamics. Ecology and Society 22(3):30. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09268-220330 September 2017
Birgé, H.E., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angeler, S.G. Baer, R.A. Bevans and D.H. Wall. 2016. Adaptive management for soil ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management 183: 371-378. December 2016
Birgé, H. E., C. R. Allen, A. S. Garmestani, and K. L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Journal of Environmental Management 183:343-352. | Download October 2016
Birge, H.E, C.R Allen, R.K. Craig, A.S. Garmestani, J.A. Hamm, C. Babbitt, K. Nemec, and E. Schlager. 2014. Social-Ecological Resilience and Law in the Platte River Basin. Idaho Law Review 51:229 - 256. March 2015
Beiber, N., C.R. Allen and S. Wilson. River otter distribution in Nebraska. Wildlife Society Bulletin 42: 136-143. July 2018
Bale, M. T., J. A. Zettler, B. A. Robinson, T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2003. Yellow jackets may be an underestimated component of an ant-seed mutualism. Southeastern Naturalist 2:609-614. | Download November 2003
Baho, D.L., S Drakare, R.K. Johnson, C.R. Allen, and D.G. Angeler. Similar resilience attributes in lakes with different management practices.PLoS ONE 9(3):e91881. doi: 0.1371/journal.pone.0091881. | Abstract April 2014
Angeler, DG, CR Allen, AS Garmestani, LH Gunderson, O Hjerne, M Winder. 2016. Quantifying the adaptive cycle. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0146053. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0146053. December 2015
Angeler, D.G., and C.R. Allen. Quantifying resilience. 2016. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 617-624. May 2016
Angeler, D.G., D.L. Baho, C.R. Allen, and R.K. Johnson. 2015. Linking degradation status with ecosystem vulnerability to environmental change. Oecologia 178: 899-913. September 2015
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, and R.K. Johnson. 2013. Measuring the relative resilience of subarctic lakes to global change: redundancies of functions within and across temporal scales. Journal of Applied Ecology 50:572-584. June 2013
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, M. Alvarez-Cobelas, C. Rojo, M.A. Rodrigo, and S. Sánchez-Carrillo. 2013. Inferring the relative resilience of alternative states. PLoS ONE 8(10): e77338. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077338. October 2013
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, H.E. Birge, B.G. McKie, R.K. Johnson. 2014. Assessing and managing freshwater ecosystems vulnerable to global change. Ambio 43:113-125. January 2015
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, D.R. Uden, and R.K. Johnson. 2015. Spatial scaling patterns and functional redundancies in a changing boreal lake landscape. Ecosystems 18:889-902. March 2015
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, C. Barichievy, T. Eason, A.S. Garmestani, N.A.J. Graham, D. Granholm, L. Gunderson, M. Knutson, K.L. Nash, R.J. Nelson, M. Nyström, T. Spanbauer, C.A. Stow, and S.M. Sundstrom. 2016. Management implications of discontinuity theory. Journal of Applied Ecology 53:688-698. May 2016
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson and I. Linkov. 2017. Panarchy use in environmental science for risk and resilience planning. Environment, Systems and Decisions 36: 225-228. December 2016
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, A. Vila-Gispert, and D. Almeida. 2014. Fitness in animals correlates with proximity to discontinuities in body mass distributions. Ecological Complexity 20:213-218. January 2015
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen and M.-L. Persson. Resilience in psychology and psychiatry. International Journal of Bipolar Disorders: 20186:2 July 2018
Angeler, D.G, S. Sundstrom, and C.R. Allen. 2016. Deathcore, creativity, and scientific thinking. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e8867 May 2016
Angeler, D., Pope, K. L. and C. R. Allen. 2012. Saliendo del circulo vicioso: Gestiones alternativas para garantizar la sostenibilidad de la pesca. Revista Latinoamericana de Recursos Naturales 8(2):76-89. | Download June 2013
Angeler, D. G., C. R. Allen, and R. K. Johnson. 2012. Insight on invasions and resilience derived from spatiotemporal discontinuities of biomass at local and regional scales. Ecology and Society 17(2): 32.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-04928-170232. July 2012
Angeler, D. G., C. R. Allen, A. Garmestani, K. L. Pope, D. Twidwell, and M. Bundschuh. 2018. Resilience in environmental risk and impact assessment: concepts and measurement. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 101:543-548. | Download October 2018
Angeler, D. G., B. C. Chaffin, S. M. Sundstrom, A. Garmestani, K. L. Pope, D. R. Uden, D. Twidwell, and C. R. Allen. 2020. Coerced regimes: management challenges in the Anthropocene. Ecology and Society 25(1):4. | Download January 2020
Andrew C. Kessler, James W. Merchant, Steven D. Shultz, and Craig R. Allen. Using Cost-Effectiveness Analysis to Assess Alternatives for Managing Impacts of Invasive Vegetation on Sandhill Crane Roosting Habitat. Journal of Wildlife Management 77: 1301–1310. October 2013
Allen, Craig R., Joseph J. Fontaine, and A.S. Garmestani. 2012. Adaptive Management of Ecosystems. Pages 125-147 in Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. December 2012
Allen, C.R., and A. Garmestani. 2015. Adaptive Management. Pages 1 - 10 in Allen and Garmestani, Editors, Adaptive Management of Social-ecological Systems. Springer, Dordrecht, the Netherlands. October 2015
Allen, C.R., Nemec, K.T., Wardwell, D.A., Hoffman, J.D., Brust, M., Decker, K.L., Fogell, D., Hoffman, J.D., Hogue, J., Lotz, A., Miller, T., Pummill, M., Ramirez-Yañez, L.E, and Uden, D.R. 2013. Predictors of regional establishment success and spread of introduced non-indigenous vertebrates. Global Ecology and Biogeography 22: 889-899. June 2013
Allen, C.R., J.J. Fontaine, and A.S. Garmestani. 2012. Adaptive management of ecosystems. Pp. xx-xx, In: Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer October 2012
Allen, C.R., H.E. Birge, S.L. Bartelt-Hunt, R.A. Bevans, J.L. Burnett, B.A. Cosens, X Cai, A.S. Garmestani, I. Linkov, E.A. Scott, M.D. Solomon and D.R. Uden. 2016. Avoiding decline: Fostering resilience and sustainability in midsize cities. Sustainability 8: 844-868. November 2016
Allen, C.R., H. Birge, D.G. Angeler, C.A. Arnold, B.C. Chaffin, D. DeCaro, A.S. Garmestani, and L.H. Gunderson. 2018. Quantifying uncertainty and tradeoffs in resilience assessments. Ecology and Society: 23(1):3. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09920-230103. July 2018
Allen, C.R., Fontaine, J.J. 2017. Employment with the United States Geological Survey. Pages XX in Henke, S. Editor, Becoming a Wildlife Professional. Johns Hopkins University Press. October 2017
Allen, C.R., D.G. Angeler, M. P. Moulton, and C. S. Holling. The importance of scaling for detecting community patterns: success and failure in assemblages of introduced species. Diversity 7:229-241. October 2015
Allen, C.R., D.G. Angeler, G.S. Cumming, C. Folke, D. Twidwell, and D. Uden. 2016. Quantifying spatial resilience. Journal of Applied Ecology 53: 625-635. May 2016
Allen, C.R., D.G. Angeler, A.S. Garmestani, L.H. Gunderson and C.S. Holling. 2014. Panarchy: theory and application. Ecosystems 17:578-589. November 2014
Allen, C.R., A.S. Garmestani and D.G. Angeler. 2016. Resilience. In Wohl, E., Editor. Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental Science. Oxford University Press, New York. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199363445-0048. January 2016
Allen, C. R., and L. H. Gunderson. 2011. Pathology and failure in the design and implementation of adaptive management. Journal of Environmental Management 92:1379-1384. | Download March 2011
Allen, C. R., and D. A. Saunders. 2006. Multi-model inference and the understanding of complexity, discontinuity and nomadism. Ecosystems 9: 694-699. | Download November 2006
Allen, C. R., and D. A. Saunders. 2002. Variability between scales: predictors of nomadism in birds of an Australian Mediterranean-climate ecosystem. Ecosystems 5:348-359. | Download June 2002
Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2008. Cross-scale structure and the generation of innovation and novelty in discontinuous complex systems. Pages 219-233 in Allen, C. R. and C. S. Holling, editors. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. June 2008
Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2002. Cross-scale structure and scale breaks in ecosystems and other complex systems. Ecosystems 5:315-318. | Download June 2002
Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2001. Cross-scale morphology. Pages 450-452 in A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch, editors. Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK. | Download December 2001
Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, Editors. 2008. Discontinuies in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. 272 pages. June 2008
Allen, C. R., R. S. Lutz, T. Lockley, S. A. Phillips, jr., and S. Demarais. 2001. The non-indigenous ant, Solenopsis invicta, reduces loggerhead shrike and native insect abundance. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 18:249-259. September 2002
Allen, C. R., R. D. Willey, P. E. Myers, P. M. Horton, and J. Buffa. 2000. The impact of red imported fire ant infestation on northern bobwhite abundance trends in the Southeastern United States. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 17:43-51. January 2000
Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2010. Commentary on part two articles. Pages 197-204 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. November 2009
Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2010. Commentary on part three articles. Pages 301-307 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. November 2009
Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2010. Commentary on part one articles. Pages 3-18 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. November 2009
Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and A. R. Johnson. 2005. The use of discontinuities to assess relative resilience in complex systems. Ecosystems 8: 958-966. | Download December 2005
Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. Modeling viable mammal populations in gap analyses. Biological Conservation 99:135-144. | Download September 2001
Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, D. P. Wojcik, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. The spatial distribution of diversity between disparate taxa: spatial correspondence between mammals and ants. Landscape Ecology: 453-464. | Download September 2001
Allen, C. R., K. Simpson and A. R. Johnson. 2003. Improving vertebrate modeling in Gap Analyses: incorporating minimum viable populations and functional connectivity in patchy environments. Gap Analysis Bulletin 11:15-18. August 2003
Allen, C. R., J. Slater, E. Wiggers and H. Birge. 2017. The invasive ant, Solenopsis invicta, reduces herpetofauna richness and abundance. Biological Invasions 19: 713-722. February 2017
Allen, C. R., J. J. Fontaine, K. L. Pope, and A. S. Garmestani. 2011. Adaptive management for a turbulent future. Journal of Environmental Management 92:1339-1345. | Download May 2011
Allen, C. R., Garmestani, A., LaBram, J., Peck, A., and L. Provost. 2006. When landscaping goes bad: the incipient invasion of Mahonia bealei in the Southeastern United States. Biological Invasions 8:169-176. | Download January 2006
Allen, C. R., G. S. Cumming, A. Garmestani, P. D. Taylor, and B. Walker. 2011. Managing for resilience. Wildlife Biology 17:337-349. January 2012
Allen, C. R., E. A. Forys, and C. S. Holling. 1999. Body mass patterns predict invasions and extinctions in transforming landscapes. Ecosystems 2:114-121. | Download July 1999
Allen, C. R., E. A. Forys, and C. S. Holling. 2010. Body mass patterns predict invasions and extinctions in transforming landscapes. Pages 281-297 in Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, Editors. Foundations of Ecological Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. (Reprinted from Ecosystems 2:114-121.) November 2009
Allen, C. R., E. A. Forys, K. G. Rice, and D. P. Wojcik. 2001. Effects of fire ants on hatching turtles and prevalence of fire ants on sea turtle nesting beaches in Florida. Florida Entomologist 84:250-253. | Download September 2001
Allen, C. R., D. G. Angeler, J. J. Fontaine, A. S. Garmestani, N. M. Hart, K. L. Pope, and D. Twidwell. 2017. Adaptive management of rangeland ecosystems. Pages 373-394 in D. D. Briske, editor. Rangeland systems: processes, management and challenges. Springer, New York. | Download October 2017
Allen, C. R., D. Epperson and A. Garmestani. 2004. The impacts of fire ants on wildlife: a decade of research. American Midland Naturalist 152:88-103. | Download July 2004
Allen, C. R., A. S. Garmestani, and S. Sundstrom. 2012. Resilience. Pages 335-339 in Encyclopedia of Sustainability, Volume 5, Ecosystem Management and Sustainability. Berkeshire Publishing Group, MA. December 2012
Allen, C. R., A. R. Johnson and L. Parris 2006. A framework for spatial risk assessments: potential impacts of nonindigenous invasive species on native species. Ecology and Society 11 (1): 39. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety. org/vol11/iss1/art39/ | Download August 2006
Allen, C. R., A. Garmestani, T. Havlicek, P. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. Stow, and B. Weeks. 2006. Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative competing hypotheses. Ecology Letters 9: 630-643. | Download April 2006
Allen, C. R., A. Alai, A. Kessler, T. Kinsell, A. Major, K. Nemec and B. Stevens. 2008. Invasive Plants: A Guide to Identification, Impacts, and Control of Common North American Species (Book Review). Great Plains Research: in press. October 2008
Allen, C. R. and C. Holling 2010. Novelty, adaptive capacity, and resilience. Ecology and Society 15(3): 24. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol15/iss3/art24/ | Download September 2010
Allen, C. R. 2006. Sprawl, and the resilience of humans and nature: an introduction to the special feature. Ecology and Society 11 (1): 36. [online] URL: http://www. ecologyandsociety. org/vol11/iss1/art36/ | Download July 2006
Allen, C. R. 2006. Predictors of introduction success in the South Florida avifauna. Biological Invasions 8:491-500. | Download February 2006
Allen, C. R. 2006. Discontinuities in ecological data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103: 6083-6084. | Download April 2006
Allen, C. R. 2001. Ecosystems and immune systems: hierarchical response provides resilience against invasions. Conservation Ecology 5(1): 15. [online] URL: http://www. consecol. org/vol5/iss1/art15 September 2001
Allen, C. R. 2009. Wildlife Science: Linking Ecological Theory and Management Applications (book review). Great Plains Research 19:258-259. November 2009
Project Completion Date
Chytrid fungus distribution in Nebraska May 2014
Pollinator assemblages in Southeast prairies and sandstone prairies biologically unique landscapes June 2015
Platte River Basin Timlapse June 2015
Making adaptive management meaningful: translating science learning into policy decision making December 2014
Integrating adaptive management, resilience thinking and optimization December 2015
Impacts of wind energy development and operation on soil invertebrates December 2013
Evaluating the benefitsof higher diversity CRP plantings for at-rsik speceis December 2013
Ecological models and biodiversity conservation in Nebraska landscapes December 2014
Dynamics of resilience in complex adaptive systems December 2017
Better soil for birds May 2016
Bat movements across transforming landscapes June 2018
Amphibian Occupancy, Functional Connectivity, and Resilience of Rainwater Basin Wetlands May 2018
Angler behavior in response to management actions on Nebraska reservoirs December 2013
ESTIMATING NORTH AMERICAN RIVER OTTER (LONTRA CANADENSIS) POPLULATION SIZE USING DNA FROM SCAT December 2010
THE EFFECT OF COMMON REED ON RIVER OTTER HABITAT USE December 2010
Habitat use and home range of otters December 2010
PLATTE RIVER WATERSHED ECOSYSTEMS SERVICES ON NATIVE AND RESTORED GRASSLANDS September 2014
Assessing local and regional variability in productivity and fidelity of grassland birds on National Park Service units in the Great Plains May 2011
Scenarios of Climate Change and Land Use Change and Biological Invasions December 2012
Southeast prairies biologically unique landscape and sandstone prairies biologically unique landscape research December 2012
Wetland Condition Assessment May 2014
Nebraska Invasive Species Project December 2014
Adaptive management framework for Nebraska Natural Legacy Plan. December 2014
Relationship between diversity and function December 2010
Adaptive management of prairie remnants for legacy goals May 2012
Implementation of amphibian monitoring and adaptive management for wetland restoration evaluation. March 2014
Range and Habitat Usage of Northern Long-Eared Bats in Nebraska August 2018
Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Science June 2019
National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) Program September 2022
Novel Ecological Uses for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle-UAVs July 2019
Managing Red Cedar Invasions of Nebraska Grasslands -Part II December 2020
Managing Red Cedar Invasion of Nebraska Grasslands- Part I January 2021
Invasion, Cost-share, and Private Landowners: Resolving the Challenges of Scale with Managing Juniperus Virginiana on Nebraska's Rangelands December 2018
Implementing the North American Bat Monitoring Program Through Citizen Science in Nebraska November 2018
Global Change, Vulnerability and Resilience: Management Options for an Uncertian Future January 2019
Generation Novelty in Complex Systems December 2019
Evaluating Wetland Condition Across Nebraska August 2018
Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Prevention Program December 2022
Monitoring, Mapping and Risk Assessment and Management of Invasive Species in Nebraska - Part I December 2019
Presentations Presentation Date
Wong, A., C. R. Allen, N. M. Chaine, A. D. Engel, D. M. Haak, R. A. Kill, K. L. Pope, B. J. Stephen, and D. R. Uden. 2012. Thermal limits of the Chinese mystery snail. 73rd Annual Meeting, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Wichita, Kansas (poster). December 2012
Warren, Z. A., Whitby, M.D., Allen, C.R., & Seguin, B. (2015, October). All ears: utilizing an acoustic grid to quantify bat activity in over agricultural fields. Oral presentation at the 2016 Natural Legacy Conference, Broken Bow, NE. September 2016
Warren, Z. A., Seguin, B., Whitby, M.D., and Allen, C.R. 2017. Looking back to move forward: A quantitative meta-analysis of Myotis septentrionalis roost selection. Oral presentation at the 2017 North American Symposium on Bat Research, Knoxville, TN. October 2017
Trisha L. Spanbauer, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Kirsty L. Nash, Sherilyn C. Fritz, Jeffery R. Stone, and Ahjond S. Garmestani. Paleo-thresholds: What the past can tell us about abrupt changes in ecosystems. Resilience 2014, May 10, 2014, Montpellier, France. May 2014
Teeters, B., C. R. Allen, and C. Helzer. Bee diversity and functional composition in grassland habitats of the tallgrass prairie. International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy. August 14-17, 2013, University Park, PA. August 2013
Sundstrom, S., C.R. Allen and D.G. Angeler. Discontinuity and convergence in global economies. 2016 Conference on Complex Systems, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 2016
Sundstrom, S. and C.R. Allen. Cross-scale resilience from theory to practice: Results from a synthesis collaboration. Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution Annual Meeting, Victoria, Canada, May 8-11 2017. May 2017
Shana Sundstrom and Craig Allen. Detecting Spatial Regimes. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August, 6-11, 2017. August 2017
Seguin, B. H., Warren, Z. A., Whitby, M.D., & Allen, C.R. Determining the habitat use of Nebraska bats: What scale is best? Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, NE. February 2017
Sarah Nodskov, Caleb Roberts, Victoria Donovan, Emma Keele, Dirac Twidwell, Craig Allen, Larkin Powell, Dave Wedin, David Angeler. Influences of Mixed Severity and Time since Fire on Diversity in Ponderosa Habitats. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, NE. February 2017
Roberts, CP, CR Allen, DG Angeler, JL Burnett, and D Twidwell. Quantifying long-term, continental-scale changes in ecological resilience. Resilience 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, August 20-23, 2017. August 2017
Roberts, CP, CR Allen, DG Angeler, JL Burnett, and D Twidwell. Metrics for quantifying ecological resilience. Ecological Society of America 2017, Portland, OR, August, 6-11, 2017. August 2017
Pope, K. L., B. C. Chaffin, H. E. Birgé, C. R. Allen, S. M. Sundstrom, and D. G. Angeler. 2017. Emergent properties of recreational fisheries. 8th World Recreational Fishing Conference, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (poster). July 2017
Noelle M. Hart, Daniel R. Uden, Craig R. Allen, Kent Fricke, Joel Jorgensen, Krista Lang, Melissa Panella, Kent Pfeiffer, Rick Schneider, Kristal Stoner, Gerry Steinauer, and Scott Taylor. Management, monitoring, and modeling of Indian Cave State Park: Reaching conservation goals through adaptive management. NE Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Kearney, NE. Feb 27-Feb. 28, 2014. February 2014
Nicholas Smeenk, Ted LaGrange and Craig R. Allen. Nebraska’s Wetland Assessment Intensification Study as Part of the EPA National Wetland Condition Assessment Project. Society of Wetland Scientists Annual Meeting. June 2013
Nicholas Smeenk, Craig Allen, and Jacob Kerby. Distribution of the amphibian pathogen Chytrid in Nebraska. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO, January 26 – 29, 2014 January 2014
Nicholas A Smeenk, Craig R. Allen, and Ted LaGrange. The ecological condition of Nebraska's wetlands: an intensification of the Environmental Protection Agency's 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, OR. May 18 - 23, 2014. May 2014
Kent A. Fricke, Craig R. Allen, Joseph J. Fontaine, Scott Wessel, Theresa Smydra, Rebekah Jessen, Steven D. Rasmussen, and Kristal Stoner. Adaptive management of invasive woody plants in the Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska. NE Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting. Feb. 27-28, Kearney, NE. February 2014
Kaemingk, M. A., C. J. Chizinski, C. R. Allen, and K. L. Pope. 2018. Size matters: waterbody size shapes social-ecological relationships in a regional recreational fishery. Annual Meeting, Nebraska Chapter, American Fisheries Society, Lincoln, Nebraska. February 2018
Kaemingk, M. A., C. J. Chizinski, C. R. Allen, and K. L. Pope. 2018. Size matters for anglers. 148th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Atlantic City, New Jersey. August 2018
Jezierski, C., C.R. Allen, J.J. Fontaine, M. Koch, and T. McCoy. 2013. Nebraska Wind Energy and Wildlife Project 2012 Survey Results. Nebraska Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Chadron, NE. March 2013
Jessica Burnett, Caleb Roberts, Craig Allen, David Angeler, Tarsha Eason, Dirac Twidwell. Detecting Broad-scale Spatial Regime Shifts Using Information Theory. Resilience 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 20-23 2017. August 2017
Helen Tripp, Dirac Twidwell, and Craig Allen. Avian Community Responses to Management of Juniperus virginiana in the Loess Canyons of Nebraska. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August, 6-11, 2017 August 2017
Hart, N., M. Benson, C. Allen and A. Tyre. Linking Resilience Thinking and Structured Decision Making For Natural Resource Planning and Management. Resilience 2014, Montpellier, France. May 2014
Hannah Birge, Rebecca A Bevans, Craig R Allen, David G Angeler, Sara G Baer, Diana H Wall. Adaptive Management for Ecosystem Services. Resilience 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 23 2017. August 2017
Haak, D. M., C. R. Allen, K. A. Fricke, N. M. Hart, M. L. Hellman, R. A. Kill, K. T. Nemec, K. L. Pope, N. A. Smeenk, B. J. Stephen, D. R. Uden, K. M. Unstad, A. E. VanderHam, and A. Wong. 2014. Solving mysteries of the snail. 74th Annual Meeting, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, Missouri. January 2014
Haak, D. M., B. J. Stephen, N. M. Hart, K. L. Decker, C. R. Allen, V. E. Forbes, and K. L. Pope. 2014. Trends and consequences of invasions by freshwater snails. 74th Annual Meeting, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, Missouri (poster). January 2014
Haak, D. M., B. J. Stephen, N. M. Chaine, K. Decker, D. R. Uden, C. R. Allen, V. E. Forbes, and K. L. Pope. 2013. Moving faster than a snail’s pace: trends and consequences of invasive freshwater snails. 18th International Conference on Aquatic Invasive Species, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada (Poster). April 2013
H Tripp, D Twidwell, C Allen. Avian Community Responses to Management of Juniperus virginiana in the Loess Canyons of Nebraska. NE Legacy Conference, Nebraska City, NE October 2017
Fricke, K.A., J.J. Fontaine, and C.R. Allen. 2013. Stakeholder involvement in adaptive wildlife management. Nebraska Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Chadron, NE. March 2013
Fricke, K.A., C.R. Allen, and J.J. Fontaine. 2015. Unwanted plant management in Nebraska. Nebraska Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Ogallala, NE. February 2015
Fricke, K.A., C.R. Allen, J.J. Fontaine, S. Wessel, T. Smydra, R. Jessen, S.D. Rasmussen, and K. Stoner. 2013. Adaptive management of invasive woody plants in the Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska. Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI. October 2013
Fricke, K., C. Allen, J.J. Fontaine, S. Wessel, T. Smydra, R. Jessen, and S. Rasmussen. 2013. Challenges of integrating adaptive management into eastern redcedar removal projects. Nebraska Natural Legacy Conference. Nebraska City, NE. September 2013
Emma Brinley Buckley, Craig Allen, Michael Forsberg, Michael Farrell. Applications of Time-lapse Photography in Complex Systems: The Pulse of the Platte. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, January 26-29, 2014. Kansas City, KS. January 2014
Ecological resilience versus engineering resilience. Craig R. Allen, U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska - Lincoln National Council for Science and the Environment The Science, Business and Education of Sustainable Infrastructure: Building Resilience in a Changing World. January 22-25, 2018, Washington, DC January 2018
Dirac Twidwell, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler, Joseph J. Fontaine, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Noelle M. Hart, Kevin L. Pope. Prescribed Burn Associations in an Adaptive Management Framework. Society of Range Management Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL. Feb 8 – 15. February 2015
Dillon T. Fogarty, Dirac Twidwell, & Craig R. Allen. Ecosystem Service Trade offs Associated with Eastern Redcedar in Nebraska. Nebraska Natural Legacy Project 2017 Location: Lied Lodge & Conference Center, Nebraska City, NE 68410. Dates: October 10-11, 2017 October 2017
Dillon Fogarty, Christine Bielski, Craig Allen, Allison Zach & Dirac Twidwell. Disconnect Between Science and the Public Threatens Ecosystem Services in the Great Plains. Conference: Ecological Society of America annual meeting, Portland, OR, August, 6-11, 2017. August 2017
Didier L. Baho, Stina Drakare, Richard K. Johnson, Craig R. Allen, and David G. Angeler. Disturbance ecology: does ecosystem size matter? Aquatic Microbial Ecology (SAME 14), Uppsala, Sweden, August 24, 2015. August 2015
Daniel R. Uden, Michelle L. Hellman, David G. Angeler, and Craig R. Allen. The role of reserves and anthropogenic habitats for functional connectivity and resilience of ephemeral wetlands. NE Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Kearney, NE. Feb 27-Feb 28, 2014. February 2014
Craig R. Allen, Hannah Birge, David G. Angeler, Craig Anthony Arnold, Brian C. Chaffin, Daniel DeCaro, Ahjond S. Garmestani, Lance H. Gunderson. Quantifying uncertainty and tradeoffs in resilience assessments. Resilience 2017, Stockholm, Sweden, Aug 22, 2017. August 2017
Catherine M. Berrick, Zachary A. Warren, Craig R. Allen. Nightly summer activity patterns of the northern long-eared bat. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Lincoln, NE. February 2017
Caleb P. Roberts, Dirac Twidwell, Jessica L. Burnett, Craig R. Allen, David G. Angeler. Monitoring for future uncertainty. NE Legacy Conference, Nebraska City. October 2017
Burnett, J.L., C.R. Allen, D.G. Angler, C. Roberts, D. Tidwell, and A Tyre. 2016. Detecting regime shifts in space and time using the Breeding Bird Survey. The North American Ornithological Congress Vi, Washington, D.C. August 2016
Brittany Dueker, Dirac Twidwell, Allison Zach, & Craig Allen. A statewide assessment of awareness of Juniperus Virginiana invasion and management in Nebraska. Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, Times: August, 6-11, 2017. August 2017
Birge, H.E., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, K.L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Gordon Research Conference Unifying Ecology across Scales. University of New England, July 2016. July 2016
Birge, H.E., C.R. Allen, A.S. Garmestani, K.L. Pope. 2016. Adaptive management for ecosystem services. Conference for Complex Systems. Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2016. September 2016
Birge, H., C.R. Allen and D. Twidwell. 2015. Not all disturbances are created equal. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2015
Bielski, C. H.1, Twidwell, D.1, Allen, C. R. : Extreme fire restores biomass production in juniper-invaded grasslands. 2017 Legacy Conference, Nebraska City, NE. October 2017
Ashley VanderHam, Michelle Hellman, and Dr. Craig Allen. Using Amphibian Monitoring to Create Wetland Restoration Guidelines. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, January 26-29, 2014. Kansas City, KS. January 2014
Angeler, D.G., C.R. Allen, H. Birge, S. Drakare, B.G. McKie, and R.K. Johnson. Management of freshwater ecosystems under fast environmental change. Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting 2016, Sacramento, CA, May 21-26. May 2016
Angela M. Mech, Travis D. Marsico, Kathryn A. Thomas, Daniel A. Herms, Craig R. Allen, and Patrick C. Tobin. Predicting the impact of non-native specialist insects feeding on North American host plants. ESA Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, August 8-12, 2017. August 2017
Allen, Craig R., Olivia Odom Green, Ahjond S. Garmestani, J.B. Ruhl, Craig A. Arnold, Lance H. Gunderson, Barbara Cosens, David G. Angeler, Brian C. Chaffin. 2016. Barriers and Bridges to the Integration of social-ecological resilience and law. ESA Annual Meeting, Fort Lauderdale, FL. August 2016
Allen, C.R., and C. Fabricius. 2014. Adaptive management for reconciling resilience and ecosystems with increasing crop productivity and reducing yield gaps in agroecosystems. Presentation at the Annual Soil and Water Conservation Society Meeting, Chicago, IL. July 2014
Allen, C.R. Evaluating discontinuities to assess resilience in complex systems: potential and pitfalls. Resilience 2014, Montpellier, France. May 2014
Allen, C.R. Assessing Resilience in Stressed Watersheds: The Platte River, Nebraska. Resilience 2014, Montpellier, France. May 2014
Allen, C. R., and K. Stoner. 2014. Adaptive management and the implementation of state wildlife action plans. Presentation at the Conference on Ecological and Ecosystem Restoration. New Orleans, LA, July 22, 2014. July 2014
Allen, C. R., N. M. Chaine, K. A. Fricke, D. M. Haak, M. L. Hellman, R. A. Kill, K. T. Nemec, K. L. Pope, N. A. Smeenk, B. J. Stephen, D. R. Uden, K. M. Unstad, A. E. VanderHam and A. Wong. 2013. Solving mysteries of the snails. Annual Meeting, Nebraska Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Gretna, Nebraska. February 2013
K.A. Fricke, J.J. Fontaine, and C.R. Allen. Implementing adaptive management: demonstrating the difficulties. NE Chapter of the Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Kearney, NE. Feb 27-28, 2014. February 2014
Technical Publications Publication Date
Weeks, K. F., J. L. Walker and C. R. Allen. 2006. Chattahoochee National Recreation Area rare species survey - 2004. Final Report to the National Park Service, Award # 1434-HQ-97- RU-1569. August 2006
Role and Organization Individual         Start Date        End Date       
The Wildlife Society - Member Allen January 1993 Present
The Resilience Alliance - Board of Directors Allen May 2000 Present
Society for Conservation Biology - Member Allen January 1992 Present
Ralph Yorque Society - Member Allen January 1998 Present
Other - Core Advisory Team Allen September 2012 Present
International Association for Landscape Ecology - Member, U.S. Chapter Allen January 1998 January 2001
Ecological Society of America - Member Allen January 1994 Present
American Association for the Advancement of Science - Member Allen January 1998 Present