Kansas Research: Projects, Research Publications, Presentations, Thesis and Dissertations, Technical Publications

Kansas Research Activities

Native sunflowers in a Kansas Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) field.

Most research investigations at the Kansas Cooperative Fish and WIldlife Research Unit are at the landscape scale, concentrationing on the inter-relationships among ecosystems. Many of the investigations are related to agricutural and energy production. It is a diverse research agenda including projects related to migratory birds and wetlands of the Great Plains and Gulf Coast; black-tailed prairie dog colonies of the western Great Plains; aquatic systems throughout Kansas, Great Plains, and northeastern United States; lesser prairie-chickens of the Southern Great Plains; and aquatic systems of the Great Plains.

Projects

Project	Completion Date
Identification of Current and Future Conservation Actions Needed to Preserve Lesser Prairie-Chicken Populations in Context of Land Management Practices and Environmental Variation	December 2017	Lesser prairie-chicken project involving retrospective analyses of data from 2 previous 10-year projects.	None
Climatic and Anthropogenic Forcing of Wetland Landscape Connectivity in the Great Plains	July 2017	Landscape scale NSF project on the influence of climate change on wetlands of the Great Plains.	Use of network analysis to prioritize wetland protection.
Multi-scale examination of the distribution and habitat use patterns of the Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) within the Fort Riley Military Reservation	May 2016	Study of regal fritially on Fort Riley and Konza Biological Station	None
Impacts of Energy Production, Habitat Selection, and Population Size on Resource Selection, Survival, and Recruitment of Lesser Prairie-Chickens in Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado	August 2018	Lesser prairie-chicken ecology in Kansas and Colorado	Long-term study of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado.
Lesser Prairie-Chicken Response to USDA Conservation Practices In Kansas and Colorado	September 2017	Evaluate the effects of USDA practices on lesser prairie chickens.	None
Parasitemia, Health, and Reproduction in a Migratory Waterfowl	December 2015	Scaup ecology at Red Rock Lakes NWR	None
Risk assessment of lead exposure by mottled ducks on the Texas Gulf Coast	August 2015	Risk assessment of lead exposure to mottled ducks in coastal marsh.	None
Estimating Inundation Frequency of Playa Wetlands Using 1970s LandSat MSS Data	December 2014	Using Landsat to estimate inundation frequency of playa wetlands.	None
Development of Conservation and Climate Adaptation Strategies for wetlands in the Great Plains LCC Region	August 2015	Network analyses of playa wetlands in the High Plains.	None
Wildife response to the restoration of tall-grass prairie infested with L. cuneata	December 2017	Measure wildlife response to restoration of grasslands infested with an invasive plant using fire and grazing.	None
CNH: Coupled Climate, Cultivation and Culture in the Great Plains: Understanding Water Supply and Water Quality in a Fragile Landscape.	May 2019	Humans adversely impact aquatic resources through land use, water removal, dam building, and altered biodiversity. In this research, we developed a coupled human-landscape model that incorporates the linkages and feedbacks among atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, and social processes to predict the potential impact of climate variability, climate change, land use, and human activity on water resources. This component of the project addresses both how fish communities are affected by natural and anthropogenic drivers, as well as, how these biotic effects interact with social science drivers and policy options. This research matters because without considering both natural and human systems, environmental professionals will never be able to attain sustainable resource conservation plans. The partners for the fish component of this research were the National Science Foundation (CNH) and Ecological Services Division of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. Specifically, our aquatic ecology results showed that drivers of watershed scale fish biodiversity vary regionally. Urbanization reduced fish biodiversity in the lower river. Disturbed conditions (low grassland, low flow) associated with a reduction in the desired historical condition (high grassland, high mean flow) reduced fish biodiversity in the middle and upper regions of the watershed. In the integrated model, these results were linked to policies that protect land and water resources. This project has high impact because successful conservation demands that natural patterns of biodiversity and human behavior be considered together, as we do in this project.	Humans adversely impact aquatic resources through land use, water removal, dam building, and altered biodiversity. In this research, we developed a coupled human-landscape model that incorporates the linkages and feedbacks among atmospheric, terrestrial, aquatic, and social processes to predict the potential impact of climate variability, climate change, land use, and human activity on water resources. This component of the project addresses both how fish communities are affected by natural and anthropogenic drivers, as well as, how these biotic effects interact with social science drivers and policy options. This research matters because without considering both natural and human systems, environmental professionals will never be able to attain sustainable resource conservation plans. The partners for the fish component of this research were the National Science Foundation (CNH) and Ecological Services Division of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. Specifically, our aquatic ecology results showed that drivers of watershed scale fish biodiversity vary regionally. Urbanization reduced fish biodiversity in the lower river. Disturbed conditions (low grassland, low flow) associated with a reduction in the desired historical condition (high grassland, high mean flow) reduced fish biodiversity in the middle and upper regions of the watershed. In the integrated model, these results were linked to policies that protect land and water resources. This project has high impact because successful conservation demands that natural patterns of biodiversity and human behavior be considered together, as we do in this project.
Developing and Testing a Spatially-Explicit, Science-Based, Decision-Support Tool for Making Riverscape-Scale Management Decisions: How Dams and Culverts Affect a Threatened Native Stream Fish, the Neosho Madtom, and Select Tributary Fish Species	February 2019	Resource managers need science-based tools to assess how human activities (e.g., dams and habitat modification) impact fish and other aquatic resources. Useful conservation tools must be based on rigorous science, yet they also must address specific problems of interest to environmental managers. The activities in this research project matter because low-head dams are one of the major threats to aquatic biodiversity. These barriers alter geomorphology, hydrology, and ecological patterns and processes. However, relatively little research has been done on the over 2,000,000, smaller low-head dams that block U.S. streams and rivers. In this project, our partners were the Ecological Services Division of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research, which quantified habitat, geomorphology, hydrology, and fish communities at six low-head dams and at six undammed sites within the Neosho River, KS, informed management decisions. The novel and insights of our research included the quantification of geomorphic dam footprints, the detection of keystone habitat effects, the importance of habitat mosaics, and the finding that alternative approaches to measuring dam effects provided contrasting scientific information (i.e., the blind man and the elephant effect). This research impacted management decisions on dam removal, renovation, and associated watershed management by providing original Kansas-based data on dams that agency cooperators can use in communicating with private landowners and policy-makers.	Resource managers need science-based tools to assess how human activities (e.g., dams and habitat modification) impact fish and other aquatic resources. Useful conservation tools must be based on rigorous science, yet they also must address specific problems of interest to environmental managers. The activities in this research project matter because low-head dams are one of the major threats to aquatic biodiversity. These barriers alter geomorphology, hydrology, and ecological patterns and processes. However, relatively little research has been done on the over 2,000,000, smaller low-head dams that block U.S. streams and rivers. In this project, our partners were the Ecological Services Division of the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research, which quantified habitat, geomorphology, hydrology, and fish communities at six low-head dams and at six undammed sites within the Neosho River, KS, informed management decisions. The novel and insights of our research included the quantification of geomorphic dam footprints, the detection of keystone habitat effects, the importance of habitat mosaics, and the finding that alternative approaches to measuring dam effects provided contrasting scientific information (i.e., the blind man and the elephant effect). This research impacted management decisions on dam removal, renovation, and associated watershed management by providing original Kansas-based data on dams that agency cooperators can use in communicating with private landowners and policy-makers.
Assessing Distribution and Movement of Blue Catfish in Kansas Reservoirs	December 2014	Top predators can change their distribution in response to resource availability. In so doing, these motile animals can influence their own growth, survival, and fitness. Blue catfish is a model species with which to examine whole system distribution because this large-bodied, long-lived predator is the most mobile of the North American catfish. In this research, we developed and tested tagging protocols, acoustically tagged the most common size of young-adult catfish, tracked tagged fish with continuously-operating stationary receivers, conducted a lake-wide manual tracking survey, and quantified spatially-explicit distributional patterns and drivers of those patterns. This research matters because blue catfish, as a top fish predator, can have influential ecosystem effects and are an important sportfish. In a nutshell, our fisheries management colleagues cannot successfully manage blue catfish without the spatial data described above. Our partners for this research were the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. Our tagging and sample design allowed us to detect an unprecedented number of time-space locations (i.e., millions of fish detections) over the course of the 2-year field study. This success allowed us to track 85% of tagged catfish over a 5-month annual field season. In addition, we combined three different site-specific responses (population number, residence time, movements) to reveal novel patterns of whole system distribution. For example, many fish constantly moved through Milford reservoir, but returned regularly to a large, central aggregation. At other sites, fish exhibited traditional site fidelity or exploratory behavior. This result has impact for fisheries managers by providing detailed, quantitative maps of where fish are located and how this changes through time and space. With this information, managers can be more successful in their sampling/assessment, in setting harvest regulations, and in providing information for their core constituency, anglers.	Top predators can change their distribution in response to resource availability. In so doing, these motile animals can influence their own growth, survival, and fitness. Blue catfish is a model species with which to examine whole system distribution because this large-bodied, long-lived predator is the most mobile of the North American catfish. In this research, we developed and tested tagging protocols, acoustically tagged the most common size of young-adult catfish, tracked tagged fish with continuously-operating stationary receivers, conducted a lake-wide manual tracking survey, and quantified spatially-explicit distributional patterns and drivers of those patterns. This research matters because blue catfish, as a top fish predator, can have influential ecosystem effects and are an important sportfish. In a nutshell, our fisheries management colleagues cannot successfully manage blue catfish without the spatial data described above. Our partners for this research were the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. Our tagging and sample design allowed us to detect an unprecedented number of time-space locations (i.e., millions of fish detections) over the course of the 2-year field study. This success allowed us to track 85% of tagged catfish over a 5-month annual field season. In addition, we combined three different site-specific responses (population number, residence time, movements) to reveal novel patterns of whole system distribution. For example, many fish constantly moved through Milford reservoir, but returned regularly to a large, central aggregation. At other sites, fish exhibited traditional site fidelity or exploratory behavior. This result has impact for fisheries managers by providing detailed, quantitative maps of where fish are located and how this changes through time and space. With this information, managers can be more successful in their sampling/assessment, in setting harvest regulations, and in providing information for their core constituency, anglers.
Development and validation of models to assess the threat to freshwater fishes from environmental change and invasive species	March 2012	By integrating the upstream landscape activities of humans, freshwater ecosystems are subjected to numerous anthropogenic threats, including the pervasive effects of hydrologic alteration, agricultural and urban land-use, invasive species, and climate change (Allan and Flecker 1993; Dudgeon et al. 2006). Recent history has clearly illustrated that there are limits to the level of environmental damage that river systems can sustain before their natural productivity, native species, and many of the services they provide humans become severely degraded. Scientists, resource managers and policy makers are becoming increasingly cognizant of these limitations, yet there remains a critical gap in our knowledge. Presently, we only have a limited understanding of how multiple agents of large-scale environmental change may independently and interactively compromise the ecological integrity of freshwater ecosystems (Alcamo et al. 2008). Anticipating the potential synergistic effects of human water use, regional climate, and land-use practices is recognized as one of the greatest challenges for conserving freshwater ecosystems in the coming decades.	By integrating the upstream landscape activities of humans, freshwater ecosystems are subjected to numerous anthropogenic threats, including the pervasive effects of hydrologic alteration, agricultural and urban land-use, invasive species, and climate change (Allan and Flecker 1993; Dudgeon et al. 2006). Recent history has clearly illustrated that there are limits to the level of environmental damage that river systems can sustain before their natural productivity, native species, and many of the services they provide humans become severely degraded. Scientists, resource managers and policy makers are becoming increasingly cognizant of these limitations, yet there remains a critical gap in our knowledge. Presently, we only have a limited understanding of how multiple agents of large-scale environmental change may independently and interactively compromise the ecological integrity of freshwater ecosystems (Alcamo et al. 2008). Anticipating the potential synergistic effects of human water use, regional climate, and land-use practices is recognized as one of the greatest challenges for conserving freshwater ecosystems in the coming decades.
Evaluation of Humpback Chub Translocations and Native Fish Community Restoration in Grand Canyon Tributaries	September 2013	Recovery of humpback chub (HBC) may include conservation measures such as determining the most suitable tributaries of the Colorado River for HBC translocations. Translocation goals may vary by tributary, but may include: 1) providing suitable grow-out habitat with fewer predators to augment mainstem aggregations; 2) provide population redundancy in Grand canyon National Park (GRCA) by establishing a second reproducing population; and 3) restore native fishes to GRCA to the extent feasible. A critical evaluation of these translocations is needed to determine success of, and plan additional HBC translocations, which is measured (in part) by HBC surviving and remaining in these tributaries with sufficient growth to maintain condition and presumably reproduce. Coupled with these translocations, there is a need to evaluate the fish communities in these tributaries to determine non-native abundance and its potential impacts on native fishes. So far 300 HBC have been relocated into Shinumo Creek in June 2009, but information is needed on the survival, recruitment, and outmigration of these fish (and future translocations), and interactions with other fishes in this stream and other streams where HBC translocations are being planned or considered (i.e., Havasu and Bright Angel creeks). Preliminary analysis indicated that 30% of the HBC translocated into Shinumo Creek in June 2009 out migrated to presumably the Colorado River (Paukert and Whittier 2010), suggesting outmigration (and survival of remaining HBC) will be critical factors to determine success of HBC translocations.	Recovery of humpback chub (HBC) may include conservation measures such as determining the most suitable tributaries of the Colorado River for HBC translocations. Translocation goals may vary by tributary, but may include: 1) providing suitable grow-out habitat with fewer predators to augment mainstem aggregations; 2) provide population redundancy in Grand canyon National Park (GRCA) by establishing a second reproducing population; and 3) restore native fishes to GRCA to the extent feasible. A critical evaluation of these translocations is needed to determine success of, and plan additional HBC translocations, which is measured (in part) by HBC surviving and remaining in these tributaries with sufficient growth to maintain condition and presumably reproduce. Coupled with these translocations, there is a need to evaluate the fish communities in these tributaries to determine non-native abundance and its potential impacts on native fishes. So far 300 HBC have been relocated into Shinumo Creek in June 2009, but information is needed on the survival, recruitment, and outmigration of these fish (and future translocations), and interactions with other fishes in this stream and other streams where HBC translocations are being planned or considered (i.e., Havasu and Bright Angel creeks). Preliminary analysis indicated that 30% of the HBC translocated into Shinumo Creek in June 2009 out migrated to presumably the Colorado River (Paukert and Whittier 2010), suggesting outmigration (and survival of remaining HBC) will be critical factors to determine success of HBC translocations.
Competition between native and non-native fishes in Bright Angel Creek and other tributaries: implications for humpback chub recovery	September 2012	1. Determine seasonal fish communities and food habits of fishes in tributaries where HBC are or will be translocated. 2. Determine if competition for food exists between native and non native fishes. 3. Conduct a population estimates (if feasible) seasonally on non native and native fishes. 4. Determine the estimated annual consumption of invertebrates and fish by non native fishes using bioenergetic models. 5. Make recommendations to determine if non native fishes can coexist without substantial detriment to native fishes, including the possibility of humpback chub	Bright Angel Creek (BAC) and other tributaries are being considered as a potential site to translocate endangered humpback chub (HBC) to possibly establish a second spawning population. In order to evaluate the efficacy of this goal, we propose a fish community and bioenergetics approach to determine the relative impact or benefit of removing nonnative trout (rainbow and brown) to provide a refuge for HBC, or provide information to determine if non native and native fish can coexist in BAC and other tributaries planned for HBC translocations (e.g., Shinumo and Havasu Creeks). Bright Angel Creek has a thriving population of nonnative brown and rainbow trout. However, there is debate as to whether nonnatives should be removed prior to translocations of HBC, or if co-habitation between trout and HBC can occur. In addition, if non-native fish are removed, it is unclear what proportion of fish would need to be removed to sustain native fish (HBC) populations.
Managing the Nations Fish Habitat at Multiple Spatial Scales in a Rapidly Changing Climate	March 2013	The goal of this project is to provide guidance to aquatic resource managers and decision makers for managing this habitat and their associated aquatic communities. Our proposed research will inform management and conservation efforts performed at multiple spatial scales, ranging from the regional prioritization of critical aquatic habitats to local population dynamics of ecologically and economically valuable fish species. An important first step in managing the nation’s fish habitat is a comprehensive assessment of the current state of habitat at national, regional and local scales. Successful management of aquatic habitat will also require a capacity to forecast changes in habitat as result of future changes in climate, land-use, and other natural and anthropogenic factors. Successful conservation and management will need to determine what are the critical habitat and resource strategies to conserve in order to maintain freshwater biodiversity, freshwater fisheries and ecosystem function in the future.	The goal of this project is to provide guidance to aquatic resource managers and decision makers for managing this habitat and their associated aquatic communities. Our proposed research will inform management and conservation efforts performed at multiple spatial scales, ranging from the regional prioritization of critical aquatic habitats to local population dynamics of ecologically and economically valuable fish species. An important first step in managing the nation’s fish habitat is a comprehensive assessment of the current state of habitat at national, regional and local scales. Successful management of aquatic habitat will also require a capacity to forecast changes in habitat as result of future changes in climate, land-use, and other natural and anthropogenic factors. Successful conservation and management will need to determine what are the critical habitat and resource strategies to conserve in order to maintain freshwater biodiversity, freshwater fisheries and ecosystem function in the future. While downscaled climate models are urgently needed, the current tools that have been developed are at much broader scales and have limited utility at regional and local levels. However, there is a mismatch between the broad-scale predictions from these models and the more local management of fish and aquatic habitats. Development of methods that integrate forecasts of land-use and climate change for prediction of changes in the aquatic habitat within nested national, regional and local scales are urgently needed. The goal of this project is to develop a multi-scale assessment of the current and future status of fish habitat (and predicted biological responses) under scenarios of projected climate and land-use changes at national, regional and local scales. We will develop: 1) a coarse assessment of vulnerable habitat across the nation useful to National Fish Habitat Action Plan (NFHAP) board and federal national offices, 2) medium resolution information across four regions appropriate for NFHAP partnerships and state agencies, and 3) relatively high resolution data about current and future habitat status so that local managers and stakeholders can identify the appropriate spatial scale where lentic and lotic habitats and associated biological communities are most vulnerable to climate and land-use changes. Our approach will address the following questions: Primary Questions and Objectives: 1. Where are the aquatic habitats in need of conservation as climate changes and causes unanticipated changes in the environment? 2. What are the nationwide aquatic habitat alterations from projected climate and land-use changes across? 3. What are the commonalities and differences in the effects of climate and land-use changes across regions and scales?
Recruitment of large river fishes	December 2012	The goal of this project is to determine how flooding and hydrological alteration may affect fish recruitment in large rivers.	None
Managing fish habitat in a changing climate	March 2013	The goal of this project is to determine how climate change will affect fish habitat at several spatial scales.	None
Influence of the Conservation Reserve Program on Population Structure, Demography, and Space Use by Greater Prairie-Chickens in Kansas and Nebraska	September 2028	The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is considered the most effective large-scale conservation effort affecting wildlife species in the United States. In the Great Plains, 4.18 million acres of CRP occurs in Kansas and Nebraska, potentially affecting a large number of wildlife species, including many grassland species that may rely on these landscapes for persistence and resilience to dynamic environments. Few studies have assessed the response of the greater prairie-chicken to the establishment of CRP, a species which has lost much of its historical range and is in decline. Kansas and Nebraska support the majority of extant greater prairie-chickens, though populations face multiple threats which may limit movement among remnant populations. The project will hierarchically evaluate the influence of CRP on greater prairie-chicken populations thought the collection of movement, vegetation, and genomic data sets and produce science that will form management actions on CRP enrollment as well as the species in the region.	None
2025 MSCGP: A national strategy for the future of reservoir fisheries in the 21st century: a blueprint for proactive, strategic, synthetic, multistate collaboration and co-management. Proposal Submitted but Declined	October 2024	The purpose of our proposal is to bring together reservoir fisheries researchers and managers across states to <b><i>co-develop a collaborative, strategic blueprint that will guide <u>future</u> reservoir fisheries conservation actions (research, management, planning, administration).</i></b> Our proposal addresses a timely priority because reservoirs support biodiversity by providing fish habitat and boost local economies through vital recreational fisheries and other societal benefits. The fisheries profession has made progress on <u>existing </u>reservoir fisheries problems and in using <u>established </u>reservoir fisheries sampling protocols. However, <u>current</u> management approaches are locally-developed and fragmented such that they fail to capitalize on the potential for extensive collaboration that could advance <u>future</u> reservoir fisheries conservation. Furthermore, reservoir fisheries are undergoing abrupt and often unpredictable changes related to climate, invading species, aging, and other anthropogenic impacts for which <u>current </u>reservoir fisheries planning and management are inadequate. <b><i>To effectively navigate these <u>immediate and future challenges</u>, a broad community of reservoir fisheries professionals can benefit from a regional (multistate) strategic and collaborative action plan, such as what we propose here</i></b><i>. </i>Phase 1 (for which funding is requested in 2025) will establish this network of reservoir fisheries specialists. These experts from a range of states will play a role in co-developing the contours of a strategic, proactive <u>21<sup>st</sup> century</u> blueprint and roadmap for <u>future</u> reservoir fisheries conservation. The grant PIs will coordinate this network through the following activities: (a) compiling information on shared <u>immediate and future</u> threats to reservoir fisheries across states, (b) assessing potential outcomes of these <u>present and future</u> threats and effects of a range of remediation strategies, (c) conducting surveys of reservoir fisheries data availability across states, (d) organizing online discussions across state personnel regarding threats, remedies, data syntheses, and strategic planning, (e) orchestrating an online workshop to address, discuss, summarize the above issues, and (f) providing summary documents to map out a blueprint for <u>future</u><i> </i>multistate reservoir fisheries conservation<i>. </i>Deliverables will include oral and written summaries for each activity.<i> </i>Together our proposal activities will provide the following expected outcome: establish a theory of change that will collectively help all reservoir fisheries professionals prioritize limited time and funding to successfully navigate <u>future</u> change. Many reservoir fisheries experts will be part of the network of participants that we will engage here. As a result, reservoir professionals nationwide will be the intended beneficiaries of the strategic planning and network coordination that will result from our grant. In summary, the co-developed blueprint that will result from our proposal will address <u>existing and emerging</u> challenges and help position reservoir professionals for <u>future</u> success in the face of abrupt environmental and societal change. There are no subrecipient activities associated with the proposed project.	None
C3PO - Connecting conservation culture to policy opportunity - available right now in a next-generation land grant galaxy near you. Proposal Pending	December 2026	The rationale for our grant is that we know there is demand both at the University and in the community-at-large for more knowledge creation and knowledge dissemination on issues of environmental sustainability, conservation, and management. We also know that environmental science programs (within the Division of Biology and other applied natural science departments) do an excellent job of teaching undergraduates and graduate students discipline-specific scientific concepts and methods. Unfortunately, we see that upon graduation students who are well trained in these natural science fields and are interested in non-academic conservation jobs (e.g.,agencies, industry, NGOs) are currently lacking a full understanding of how public agencies and conservation institutions function. In other words, these highly qualified natural science students are not fully prepared for their environmental careers in public service (e.g., state agencies, federal agencies, environmental industries, nongovernmental agencies). Technically trained natural scientists need additional training to be effective at conservation. Training in (1) the ability to lead and manage organizations that ultimately serve the public good, (2) how to work collaboratively across sectors, and (3) ways to engage science in the policy process will benefit our students and stakeholders. Conversely, we have a number of students in public administration fields that are well trained in many skills needed for someone who is interested in public service, but these policy-public administration students that are interested in environmental protection or conservation often lack knowledge about the additional technical aspects of complex environmental science problems. We seek a way to marry our and KSU's expertise to provide a practical bridge that combines strengths across university departments, eliminates weaknesses of specialized programs, and provides productive opportunities for KSU students and the Kansas stakeholder agencies who will employ our graduates in the future. When the Next-Gen K-State strategic plan was introduced, we became even more sure that the direction we suggest here is needed. Providing this bridge is a win-win for all. As one final comment, as our prototype develops, we will seek to include other environmental-oriented units on campus.	None
Creating a codeveloped, evidence-based action agenda that integrates ecological, policy, and practitioner needs to develop options and next steps for aquatic systems threatened by human and climate impacts. Mather and co-PIs. Full Proposal Pending	December 2027	<b><i>The Need for the Effort We Propose Here.</i></b><b> </b>Fisheries professionals routinely make data-driven decisions related to stream and river biota (e.g., water allocation, flow regulation, ecological status, permitting, habitat management, restoration priorities). Conservation challenges are increasing rapidly and the complexity of anthropogenic and <i>climate</i> impacts are accelerating. Existing workplans for most natural resource professionals (including freshwater fisheries researchers and managers) are no longer adequate to keep up with this emerging suite of environmental problems. Unfortunately, most professionals do not have the time or bandwidth to take on an additional leadership-related work task. <i>An effective, forward-looking, science-driven climate adaptation initiative that coordinates, directs, visions, and synthesizes the collaborative needs of current professionals, as we propose here, can fill this gap.</i><br><i> </i><br><b><i>Objectives </i></b><br>Co-identify urgent unresolved problems facing each sector (ecology, social science, management)Synthesize and integrate the empirical evidence from the policy and ecological literature Build a suite of scenarios that vision multiple, science-driven outcomesFacilitate discussions (and create a record) of scenarios, outcomes, gaps, needs, prioritiesCo-develop an action plan for research prioritization, decision making, and next steps<br><b><i>Uniqueness.</i></b><b> </b>Our approach is innovative in three ways.<br>First, we seek a true co-identification of needs and co-development of next steps among ecological researchers (advancing the empirical evidence base for <i>climate </i>change), social science researchers (human dimensions of <i>climate </i>change), and practitioners (science to support <i>climate-</i>smart planning processes for natural resource decision makers). Many multidisciplinary initiatives have been undertaken, but these efforts are often pre-scripted in favor of either researchers (request manager input on pre-determined research priorities) or in favor of managers (request research proposals on independently determined management needs). We intend to solicit and integrate input from all sectors.<br>Second, many strategic planning formats either prioritize small-scale empirical findings (research reviews) or provide futuristic discussions (think tanks). We will combine large-scale need assessments, small-scale evidence syntheses, multi-scale scenario development, and short and long term planning.<br>Third, we propose a thoughtfully choreographed series of integrative activities:<br>Using a broadly targeted <i>webinar</i>, followed by <i><u>focus groups</u></i>, all sectors will identify urgent needs related to <i>climate impacts on aquatic biota conservation </i>(result: <u>written synthesis</u>).<i>2a. Social science researchers </i>will <i><u>summarize</u> </i>what <i>climate</i>-related policies exist for native prairie fish management through a <i>university-based</i> <i><u>written</u></i> <i>policy gap analysis.</i><br><i>2b. Ecological researchers</i> will synthesize connections between specific <i>climate</i> impacts (identified by all sectors) and fish taxa to prioritize across-state biotic vulnerabilities using a <i><u>written </u>university-based literature review</i>.<br>3. Using 1-2 above, the research team will <u>create “s<i>cenarios</i></u>” that <i>visualize climate-related outcomes</i> [e.g., resist, adapt, direct (RAD)] for select high-priority problems identified in (1)<br><i>4. All sectors</i> will<i> </i>participate in <i>multiple structured engagement processes</i> (facilitation, Delphi method, expert imputation<u>)</u> of priorities, syntheses, and scenarios (result: <u>written synthesis</u>).<br><i>5. Researchers and managers</i> will <i>review and edit a co-developed written actionable science plan </i>to develop pathways to “best” outcomes (result: <u>a written synthesis</u>).<br><b><i> </i></b><br><b><i>Summary</i></b><b>. </b>Our visioning effort will integrate ecology, social science and practitioner perspectives to address an urgent <i>climate</i> priority for 21<sup>st</sup> century conservation professionals, i.e., maintaining and restoring native biodiversity.	None
Designing Optimal Landscapes for Lesser Prairie-Chicken Conservation	December 2026	Lesser prairie-chickens are listed as threatened or endangered in portions of their occupied range. The largest population is in Kansas. The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and landscape connectivity are important factors in the viability of lesser prairie-chickens. The role of CRP in lesser prairie-chicken ecology and connectivity of landscapes to facilitate movements are being assessed.	Lesser prairie-chickens are listed as threatened or endangered in portions of their occupied range. The largest population is in Kansas. The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and landscape connectivity are important factors in the viability of lesser prairie-chickens. The role of CRP in lesser prairie-chicken ecology and connectivity of landscapes to facilitate movements are being assessed.
Status of Native Bumble Bees (Bombus spp.) at Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas	July 2025	Bumblebees are of conservation concern. Diversity, occupancy, abundance, and habitat use are being assessed on Fort Riley, Kansas. Response to grassland management by bumblebees is being measured. Partners include Fort Riley, Department of Defense, and Kansas State University.	Bumblebees are of conservation concern. Diversity, occupancy, abundance, and habitat use are being assessed on Fort Riley, Kansas. Response to grassland management by bumblebees is being measured. Partners include Fort Riley, Department of Defense, and Kansas State University.
Factors influencing threatened and endangered fishes in the Great Plains	September 2010	(1) Determine the effects of hydrology on population abundance of Neosho madtoms; (2) determine the effects of land use, instream and riparian habitat, interspecific competition, predation, and urbanization and impoundments development of Topeka shiner abundance; (3) attempt to determine if there are trends in Topeka shiner populations or distribution over time; (4) continue to analyze the effects of disturbance on Neosho madtom and Topeka shiners as new collection data becomes available.	None
Development and Validation of Models to Assess the Threat to Freshwater Fishes from Environmental Change and Invasive Species.	September 2011	Primary Questions/Objectives 1. What are the primary anthropogenic and biotic threats to freshwater ecosystems in the Lower Colorado River Basin, and how do they vary across different spatial scales? 2. Which regional fish faunas are at greatest risk to anthropogenic and biotic threats? 3. What is the association between species distributions and community composition (both taxonomic and functional) and specific threat indices at different spatial scales, and what are the predicted effects of future environmental change?	None
Conservation Planning for Fishes in the Upper Colorado River Basin	December 2013	The Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) has one of the most threatened fish faunas in the United States (Tyus and Saunders 2000). There are only 14 native fish species in the UCRB and most have declined in their range and abundance in the last 100 years (Carlson and Muth 1989; Valdez and Muth 2005). Native fishes in the Colorado River Basin have been adversely impacted by modifications to natural flow regimes, physical habitat, stream temperatures and other human-induced agents of environmental change, in addition to the negative effects of invasive species. Therefore, the development of criteria for conservation will aid future considerations to protect aquatic species in the basin.	The Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) has one of the most threatened fish faunas in the United States (Tyus and Saunders 2000). There are only 14 native fish species in the UCRB and most have declined in their range and abundance in the last 100 years (Carlson and Muth 1989; Valdez and Muth 2005). Native fishes in the Colorado River Basin have been adversely impacted by modifications to natural flow regimes, physical habitat, stream temperatures and other human-induced agents of environmental change, in addition to the negative effects of invasive species. Therefore, the development of criteria for conservation will aid future considerations to protect aquatic species in the basin.
Status and management of black-tailed prairie dogs on small cultural parks of the western Great Plains	December 2011	The first objective of the proposed research is to establish baseline information on the population size and demographic parameters of resident prairie dogs at the four parks. We will include age specific birth and death rates, which will then be used to estimate population growth rates and to identify portions of the population that might be targeted to regulate population growth where management deems control necessary. Because prairie dog dispersal consists of both short distance (within colony) and long distance (beyond the colony) dispersal, we will seek to identify environmental and/or demographic factors that might explicate why an animal embarks on long-distance rather than short-distance dispersal from the natal social group. Specific tasks are as follows: 1. Map and identify changes in active areas occupied by prairie dogs at each park. 2. Determine population density (number of animals per ha) at one colony at each park. 3. Determine age (juvenile, yearling, adult) and sex specific survival and reproductive rates at each study colony. 4. Use demographic data of females (from objective 3) to estimate annual population growth rates at each study colony. 5. Track local dispersal movements of dye-marked individuals within colonies and long-distance dispersal of radio-collared individuals away from colonies. 6. Identify intrinsic (sex, age, condition) and extrinsic (population density, food availability) factors that are correlated with dispersal. Information from this study will provide detailed information about the status and trends in prairie dog numbers and area occupied at the four parks. It will also provide information about how changes in those trends should impact prairie dog short- and long-distance movements. These movements are the main source of prairie dog management conflicts, both within the parks, and with adjacent landowners. At the very least the study will define the magnitude of the dispersal problem, and we expect that it will lead to new ideas about how to control dispersal in ways that do not conflict with park management policies. In addition, the status information will be essential for studies to examine other conservation issues with respect to prairie dogs' ecological role in supporting plant diversity as well as the diversity of other wildlife species. The second Objective is to identify the extent of prairie dog burrowing activity at the Santa Fe Trail wagon-rut site at Fort Larned. Specific tasks are as follows: 1. Map colony boundary. 2. GPS the location of each burrow and give a specific identification number. 3. Designate burrow to type (crater, mound, or hole). 4. Measure the length, width, and height of each crater or mound. 5. Develop a Geographic information system database for data. The area of mounds and craters will give a first approximation of the area of disturbance to the Santa Fe Trail ruts within the park. The third objective is to test the accuracy of the visual population estimation procedure developed by Plumb et al. (2001) and in use at Scotts Bluff. The visual count data will be compared to the mark-recapture population estimate from the trap analyses, corrected for area as described in Objective 1, task 2. If necessary, we will use the corrected mark-recapture data to recalibrate the estimation equations in Plumb et al. (2001) to reflect our new data. We will compare the visual estimates calculated with the new equations in years 2 and 3, to test their robustness. The fourth objective is to identify species that occur with prairie dog colonies at the four parks. We will conduct a literature survey of primary literature, check online museum collection databases, survey the recent Park Service inventory and monitoring databases, and check written records at each park. These lists will provide information on vertebrate species that may suffer adverse effects if prairie dog numbers decline or if they disappear. This objective will result in a better understanding of prairie dog role(s) within and contribution(s) to native ecosystems diversity and function associated with each of the parks. Additionally, results from this portion of the study will increase each parks ability to better assess the potential impacts to associated species as a result of prairie dog control activities.	None
Identifying relevant decision support tools that will achieve actionable science for the conservation of prairie stream ecosystems challenged by climate change. Invited Proposal Submitted but Declined	October 2024	<b><i>Specific Planning, Management, and Decision-Making Information Gaps or Needs. </i></b>The literature shows that site- and taxa-specific <i>climate stressors</i> affect native aquatic prairie biota. Information gaps include policy reviews, literature syntheses that link specific <i>climate </i>impacts to specific taxa, and a co-produced (researcher and manager) list of priorities that will address the adverse impacts of <i>climate change </i>on prairie stream biota.<b><i> </i></b>We address these gaps.<br><br><b><i>Actionable Science Outcomes. </i></b>All proposed <u>activities</u> (listed below) include <i>researchers and managers (state and federal agencies) </i>who address prairie stream conservation.<br><br>(1) Using a broadly targeted <u>webinar</u>, followed by <u>focus groups</u>, <i>project personnel</i> and <i>federal and state agency stakeholders </i>will create a co-produced agenda, then identify agency constraints and needs related to <i>climate impacts on aquatic biota.</i><br><br>(2)<i> Social science researchers </i>will summarize<i> </i>what <i>climate</i> related policies exist for native prairie fish management, through a university-based research <u>policy gap analysis</u> (i.e., what policy options exist now and related policy strengths and weaknesses).<br><br>(3) <i>Ecological researchers</i> will synthesize connections between <u>specific <i>climate</i> impacts and fish</u> <u>taxa</u> to prioritize across-state biotic vulnerabilities using a university-based <u>literature review.</u><br><br>(4) With the <i>ecological researcher community</i>, we will create “scenarios” that visualize climate-related outcomes [e.g., resist, adapt, direct (RAD)] for prairie stream biota through <u>workshops.</u><br><br>(5) With <i>researchers and managers, </i>we will<i> </i>use multiple <u>structured engagement processes </u>(facilitation, Delphi method, expert imputation<u>)</u> to synthesize options and needs for prairie biota conservation given a suite of specific <i>climate</i> impacts (e.g., altered flow, degraded water quality, fragmentation, response thresholds, habitat loss, restoration, public views of science).<br><br>(6) <i>Researchers and managers</i> will review and edit a written <u>actionable science plan</u>.	<b><i>Overarching Issue. </i></b>Natural resource managers need decision support tools to address climate change. A decision support tool is a set of ideas, maps, concepts, data, or computer programs that managers and other practitioners can use to make decisions within their agencies. However, existing decision support tools may not be relevant or effective if they are misaligned with agency priorities, if they conflict with operational constraints, or if they do not mesh with actions that managers have available. The overarching question we address here is “<i>What decision support tools (characteristics, examples) will narrow the existing knowledge-action gap and create effective and relevant actionable science for the state and federal fisheries managers who are charged with conserving prairie stream biota in the face of climate change impacts?</i>”<br><br><b><i> Closing “Knowledge-Action” Gaps to Implement Actionable Science.</i></b><b> </b>The project we propose here merges the expertise of researchers (ecological and social science) and state and federal fisheries managers (practical experience with day-to-day realities) to close the “knowledge-action” gap for conservation of native prairie stream biota. Researchers and managers think differently about actionable science because they have different job responsibilities, work within institutions that have different missions, and may experience different “work cultures.” Managers do an excellent job on their day-to-day tasks, but with their ever expanding job responsibilities, they don’t always have time to strategically think about what is needed to successfully navigate the future. Researchers have excellent ideas, but their substantial expertise does not always mesh with management priorities at the appropriate scale for decision making. In the academic literature, this challenge is referred to as the “knowledge-action” or “know-do” gap.<br><br><b><i> Prairie Stream Biota are National Conservation Priorities in the Face of Climate Change. </i></b>Prairie streams occur across 15 US states and three CASC regions. Prairie stream fish and associated biota are priority resources to conserve because prairie stream ecosystems are geographically extensive, native prairie stream fish communities are diverse, and native prairie stream biota are very vulnerable to climate stressors (e.g., flow alteration, increased temperatures, degraded water quality, fragmentation, habitat loss, invasive threats). <b> </b><br><br><b><i> Project Objectives that Match Activities Described on the Previous Page</i></b><b> </b>(for prairie stream fish and associated biota faced with climate change):<br><br>1. Assess the current priorities, constraints, decision options, gaps in knowledge, and tool and information needs of state and federal fisheries management stakeholders.<br><br>2. Identify existing policies and decision support tools available from the literature.<br><br>3. Link individual climate change impacts to specific native prairie aquatic taxa (as identified in State Wildlife Action Plans) to prioritize within- and across-state vulnerabilities.<br><br>4. Create realistic ecological scenarios that depict outcomes for specific prairie stream biota based on decisions and/or specific climate change impacts.<br><br>5. Identify knowledge gaps and relevant science-based decision support tools needed to address climate change by merging Objectives 1-4 through extensive researcher-manager participant engagement.<br><br>6. Provide a co-produced action plan (synthesis & a proactive agenda to guide future activities).<br><br>In summary, an urgent priority for 21<sup>st</sup> century conservation professionals is to manage native biota before they decline to a level where biota are candidates for listing. Our actionable science addresses this need and can be adapted for other researcher-manager partnerships related to a range of activities (e.g., possible RAWA funded expansion for agencies).
Strategic planning for science-based management of federal reservoir fish populations and associated water supplies to address emerging 21st century threats: A collaborative approach. Proposal Submitted but Declined	December 2024	Reservoirs, common aquatic ecosystems that occur throughout the US, provide substantial benefits for society (e.g., water, flood control, recreation). Over 700 federal reservoirs are operated by the Army Corps of Engineers, making them critically important landscapes for the Department of Defense. Managing reservoir fish for recreational angling is a primary responsibility for state agencies. In addition, the connection between the lacustrine component of reservoirs and associated inflow-outflow rivers can have positive and negative effects on fish communities, including at risk species. At present, reservoir ecosystems are difficult to understand and manage because of their size, heterogeneity, ecological complexity, land-water link and multiple use objectives. Reservoirs also face increasing threats from aging, invasives, climate change, fish habitat loss, sediment accumulation, adjacent land use, eutrophication, harmful algae, and other adverse impacts. Although reservoirs have many disciplinary and policy components, their role in recreational fishing, swimming, and recreational boating are major foci for local partnerships of state and federal agency professionals and the general public. Identifying ways to address future change is daunting, but strategic rethinking about managing present and future threats can yield substantial benefits.<br><br>Much literature and many datasets exist that describe reservoir fish populations, water quality/quantity, watershed land use, habitat, and stream fish communities. However, this literature and these datasets often are not integrated. Consequently, much useful information that could help manage reservoirs is underused because of this lack of synthesis. A guide for quantitative synthesis would benefit all fisheries professionals interested in managing reservoir fish and the associated angling communities. Most state agency employees, charged with managing reservoir fish and reservoir fish habitat, have a full plate of responsibilities. Thus, asking agencies alone to take on new challenges is not realistic. However, a number of university researchers have a strong interest in helping to provide science that guides management. Together, university researchers and agency scientists can advance future strategic planning that will benefit popular sportfish, associated anglers, state management plans, at risk species, ecological connections that promote resilience, and reservoir readiness to respond to threats and change.	This grant will <u>enhance readiness to respond to ecological threats to the over 700 reservoirs operated by the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE)</u>. Our think-tank approach will advance reservoir water and reservoir fish management, benefit at-risk fish and water resources, address positive and negative connections across aquatic habitats, enhance ecosystem services (e.g., healthy fish populations and ecological flows), strengthen resilience in the face of future threats, and improve reservoir-related research and management partnerships in ACOE reservoirs.<b> </b>Our community-of expert-practice project with multiple partners has <u>seven outcomes</u> (listed below) that link directly to our objectives. <br><b> </b><br>A comprehensive, literature-based perspective that summarizes threats (existing and future) to reservoirs and reservoir-river connections for fish and water supplies. <br><br>A set of functional models that summarize how reservoirs and reservoir-river connections respond to common threats (e.g., climate change, aging, sedimentation, habitat loss, invasive fish, fragmentation). <br><br>A list of levers through which management can be implemented, future management scenarios, and related potential outcomes associated with these scenarios (e.g., safe operating space concept, Resist-Accept-Direct) <br><br>A step by step, example-based guide for quantitative data syntheses focused on (a) sport fish, (b) at risk taxa, (c) associated habitat data across systems (and states), and (d) ecological flows. <br><br>Guidelines for development and maintenance of a <i>community-of-expert practice</i> that facilitates regular communication and discussions among fisheries and water researchers, managers, policy makers, administrators, and stakeholder groups that span employers and interest groups (state, federal, university, NGO).<br><br>Progress towards adaptive management plans including data needs, useful syntheses, testable predictions of potential outcomes, deliberate learning experiments, and identification of urgent decision needs. <br><br>A living document that summarizes and continually updates plans, projects, and tools to (a) benefit species of recreational interest to anglers and fisheries management agencies, (b) protect at-risk fish species, (c) address connections among habitats within reservoirs and between reservoirs and adjacent inflow and outflow rivers, (d) link research and management communities nationwide, and (e) advance existing state and federal state action and management plans
Identification of Landscape Thresholds and Patch Dynamics for Lesser Prairie-Chickens	December 2025	Lesser prairie-chickens exhibit sudden changes in occupancy. We are evaluating the potential of landscape thresholds in changes in occupancy.	Lesser prairie-chickens exhibit sudden changes in occupancy. We are evaluating the potential of landscape thresholds in changes in occupancy.
Movements, Space Use, and Vital Rates of Mourning Doves	September 2025	Assessment of mourning dove ecology in Kansas including vital rate estimation, movements, habitat selection, and assessment of harvest.	Assessment of mourning dove ecology in Kansas including vital rate estimation, movements, habitat selection, and assessment of harvest.
Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems. PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2026.	December 2025	<i>Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems.</i> PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2022.<b> </b><br><br><i>A community of expert practice (COEP) is an organized network of intergenerational experts who agree to focus their combined skills across multiple projects to identify better “best” practices for important research and management issues. I have provided leadership to organize COEPs on: (1) appropriate spatial scales for field sampling, (2) research and management of prairie stream fish, (3) questions that guide effective research and conservation, and (4) digital conservation </i>	<i>Developing communities of expert practice (COEP) to apply intergenerational expertise to challenging aquatic conservation problems.</i> PI: M. E, Mather, Collaborators: Sean Hitchman, Joseph Smith, Dan Shoup, Quinton Phelps, John Dettmers, Kristen Faull-Chestnut. 2021-2022.<b> </b><br><br><i>A community of expert practice (COEP) is an organized network of intergenerational experts who agree to focus their combined skills across multiple projects to identify better “best” practices for important research and management issues. I have provided leadership to organize COEPs on: (1) appropriate spatial scales for field sampling, (2) research and management of prairie stream fish, (3) questions that guide effective research and conservation, and (4) digital conservation </i>
Guiding present and future native fish restoration using a strategic planning process, literature synthesis, database analysis, field protocol development/testing, and adaptive management. To PI: M. E. Mather, 2020-2024, $428,358, Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism – Ecological Services (Grant #: F20AF00207, Mod. #2; # T-59-R-2).	November 2027	The overarching issue that we address here is how to extract clearer and more actionable ecological insights from ”messy” biodiversity monitoring data. At present, only partial solutions exist for this well-established challenge of translating real-world data into environmental protection. Our adaptive management process for conserving native species threatened by adverse human impacts uses an iterative 10+6 step framework to address this challenge. Our weight-of-evidence (WOE) approach links ecological interpretations from multiple information streams (e.g., literature predictions, taxa and resource maps, exploratory data analysis plots, multiple logistic regression models, and model accuracy assessments). By systematically and repeatedly using our framework, researcher-manager teams can cumulatively integrate insights, address relevant gaps, and propose testable predictions that connect present understanding to future information needs. The proof-of-concept example we develop asks “<i>if, when, and why might a specific fish taxon be present or absent</i>?” However, our structured process can be adapted for multiple taxa, locations, questions, and other resource conservation problems. Our innovative team approach transforms the analysis of monitoring data into a series of iterative hypothesis tests that connect present and future analyses, direct upcoming data collections, and guide impending restoration initiatives. Considering multiple visualizations and analyses as individual pieces of a shared puzzle for which each piece provides partial insights into the bigger picture is a different way of thinking about using biodiversity monitoring data to protect native biota from human impacts.	<i>Background.</i><br>Natural resource agencies are charged with conserving native species. Freshwater biodiversity is decreasing at an alarming rate even though protecting freshwater is a priority for human security and environmental management. The ecological services sections of state natural resource agencies need new tools in their conservation toolboxes to combat the increasing number of obstacles to the successful conservation of native freshwater biodiversity.<br> <br><i>Objectives. </i><br>To provide these new tools that enhance the effectiveness of existing conservation approaches, here we seek to combine the efforts of university personnel, graduate students, and agency partners to provide guidance for present and future native fish restoration through five directions related to the project objectives:<br>(a) identify and implement a strategic planning process,<br>(b) synthesize existing literature on habitat needed by Kansas fish and impacts that adversely affect Kansas fish,<br>(c) analyze monitoring databases related to habitat and native fish distribution,<br>(d) as appropriate, develop / test field data protocols, and<br>(e) as possible, propose a program of adaptive management.<br>Ultimately, in this project, we seek to provide long-term guidance on conservation approaches rather than one-time one-place remedies.
Mather (and 9 Co-PIs). 2023. NRT-HDR-FW-HTF: Building interdisciplinary connectivity and convergence: an integrated research and management plan to promote biologically-involved sustainability. ($2,997,328). Submitted but Declined	October 2024	Our mission of adding strong interdisciplinary understanding, statistics, policy, and a more diverse workforce to established technical disciplinary expertise is a critical strategy towards addressing society’s environmental goals. Through identification of meaningful connections among distinct, established academic disciplines that play a consistent role in BIS projects and are regularly funded at land grant universities, we will develop novel integrated, education, training and research directions that will intellectually inform and conceptually advance environmental problems which are commonly encountered by state, federal, or industry environmental organizations.<br><br>This project is a high priority for the University cooperator.<br><br><i>The Provost of the university (second highest administrator at Kansas State University writes</i><br>“I write this letter to indicate both strong and enthusiastic institutional support from Kansas State University (KSU) for the… grant proposal, ….which enhances the university mission. ….The university will benefit from visionary ideas and first-class capacity building in interdisciplinary research. New (r<i>esearch and teaching</i>) resources will enhance our graduate educational programs, our interdisciplinary research capacity, and solutions for the complex environmental and biologically-involved sustainability issues facing Kansas and beyond.<br><i> </i><br><i>The Dean of the Graduate School said of this grant</i><br>“ proposed …grant. is one of the initiatives that has the potential to strategically change how we prepare our workforce. . The proposed grant can be a game changer in how we approach interdisciplinary graduate education. The Graduate School is thrilled about this proposal and ready to provide all the support it needs.”	Our mission of adding strong interdisciplinary understanding, statistics, policy, and a more diverse workforce to established technical disciplinary expertise is a critical strategy towards addressing society’s environmental goals. Through identification of meaningful connections among distinct, established academic disciplines that play a consistent role in BIS projects and are regularly funded at land grant universities, we will develop novel integrated, education, training and research directions that will intellectually inform and conceptually advance environmental problems which are commonly encountered by state, federal, or industry environmental organizations. <br><br>This project is a high priority for the University cooperator.<br><br><i>The Provost of the university (second highest administrator at Kansas State University writes</i><br>“I write this letter to indicate both strong and enthusiastic institutional support from Kansas State University (KSU) for the… grant proposal, ….which enhances the university mission. ….The university will benefit from visionary ideas and first-class capacity building in interdisciplinary research. New (r<i>esearch and teaching</i>) resources will enhance our graduate educational programs, our interdisciplinary research capacity, and solutions for the complex environmental and biologically-involved sustainability issues facing Kansas and beyond.<br><i> </i><br><i>The Dean of the Graduate School said of this grant</i><br>“ proposed …grant. is one of the initiatives that has the potential to strategically change how we prepare our workforce. . The proposed grant can be a game changer in how we approach interdisciplinary graduate education. The Graduate School is thrilled about this proposal and ready to provide all the support it needs.”
The Impact of Future Climate Variability on Shorebirds and Their Wetland Habitats in the South-Central U.S.	December 2022	Predicting shorebird and other wildlife responses to climate-induced wetland changes is therefore key to developing regional wetland conservation plans that support biodiversity. We will expand on past studies by generating precise maps of future wetland extent and connectivity for the region; and integrating habitat use and movement information for shorebirds and other wildlife to better-inform projected wildlife responses to changes in wetland connectivity.	Predicting shorebird and other wildlife responses to climate-induced wetland changes is therefore key to developing regional wetland conservation plans that support biodiversity. In the South-Central U.S., we propose to: (1) Project future wetland extent (i.e., surface water area) and connectivity relative to climate change; (2) Assess how future wetland availability will affect habitat suitability for shorebirds; (3) Track shorebirds to validate and refine habitat suitability and connectivity models. We will expand on past studies by generating precise maps of future wetland extent and connectivity for the region; and integrating habitat use and movement information for shorebirds and other wildlife to better-inform projected wildlife responses to changes in wetland connectivity.
Reconstruction of landscape composition and vegetation characteristics in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion	August 2023	Historically, the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion supported the greatest density of lesser prairie-chickens. Currently, the species is nearly extirpated from the ecoregion. Potential reasons for the rapid population decline include changes in land cover, vegetation composition, and vegetation structure. We will use historical vegetation data to detail potential changes in habitat quality, which may explain the population decline.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Historically, the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion supported the greatest density of lesser prairie-chickens. Currently, the species is nearly extirpated from the ecoregion. Potential reasons for the rapid population decline include changes in land cover, vegetation composition, and vegetation structure. <br><br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens depend on quality habitat to persist. Quality habitat is primarily specific vegetation structure followed by vegetation composition. Conservation planning requires information on the current vegetation composition and structure relative to historical conditions.<br><br><b>Collaboration/Partners:</b><br>U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Cooperative Research Unit, Kansas State University<br><br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>Understanding how the landscape has changed in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion is critical for management of lesser prairie-chickens. Many management practices can be designed to create a specific composition and structure of vegetation.
Multi-scale response of lesser prairie-chickens to future changes in land use and land cover	December 2022	Future changes in landscapes due to land use practices and climate change will greatly affect persistence of lesser prairie-chicken populations. We are combining multiple data sets from across the lesser prairie-chicken range to assess future conditions for populations among ecoregions.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens are declining across their range. Changes in land use and land cover are occurring across the species range. Predicting responses to future changes and associated climate change will inform ongoing conservation efforts.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens require large landscapes to persist. Large data sets assembled during the past decade will allow for analyses to predict future responses to changes in land cover and land uses, in particular in anticipation of climate changes.<br><b>Collaboration/Partners:</b><br>U.S. Geological Survey, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas State University.<br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>Predictions allowing for persistence of lesser prairie-chickens in light of future changes in land cover, land use, and climate change will inform conservation planning and management strategies.
Patterns of greenness (NDVI) in the Southern Great Plains and their influence on reproduction of a declining prairie grouse.	August 2022	We are evaluating the utility of NDVI and phenology-based metrics in estimating lesser prairie-chicken reproductive habitat quality remotely over broad spatial scales.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Temporal patterns in greenness values that describe site-specific plant phenology could also be useful for evaluating habitat quality in grasslands. Several grassland bird species, including lesser prairie-chickens, need both residual grassland cover and disturbed areas to successfully reproduce. Combining phenology-based metrics with field-collected data could be extremely useful for identifying high quality reproductive habitat and monitoring habitat using strategic habitat conservation in the future.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens are declining primarily due to a loss of habitat quality. Associated with climate change, habitat quality will determine the capacity of lesser prairie-chickens to persist. Vegetation greenness has been a strong predictor of habitat availability for several species of wildlife and may be a particularly useful tool in grasslands. Ecological disturbances in grasslands have been associated with temporal variation in greenness.<br><br><b>Collaboration/Partners: </b><br>U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas State University<br><br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>We are evaluating the utility of NDVI and other phenology-based metrics in estimating lesser prairie-chicken reproductive habitat quality remotely over broad spatial scales. These results will allow managers to assess habitat quality over broad landscapes as well as monitor effects of climate change on available habitat.
A strategic process for fisheries management and aquatic conservation. PI: M. E. Mather, 2018-2026.	December 2026	<i><b>A Strategic process for fisheries management and aquatic conservation.</b></i><b> PI: M. E. Mather, 2019-2022.</b><br><br>I am dedicated to the Unit mission elements of (a) providing excellent training for graduate students that will help them succeed in the rigorous science-based conservation required for the changing world, and (b) delivering proactive, effective research that identifies, then implements, solutions to the problems facing our management colleagues. Over my > 25 years with the Cooperative Research Unit Program, I have gained specific insights into what state and federal managers within our cooperating agencies need to be effective in science-based, data-driven conservation and management. Throughout my career, I have also gained substantial insights into the science, valued by universities, needed to provide lasting and effective decision support. Over the last three years (2018-2020), I have used my experience and commitment to develop then deliver insights that can help Unit cooperators address common problems (e.g., gear selection, harvest regulation evaluations, strategic planning, setting science-based goals for management and conservation, methodology for the creation of problem-related question networks that guide data analysis/collection, data fusion, and identifying metrics for success). These contributions promise to substantially improve the long-term implementation of the mission of our state, federal, and university cooperators.	<i><b>A Strategic process for fisheries management and aquatic conservation.</b></i><b> PI: M. E. Mather, 2019-2022. </b><br>I am dedicated to the Unit mission elements of (a) providing excellent training for graduate students that will help them succeed in the rigorous science-based conservation required for the changing world, and (b) delivering proactive, effective research that identifies, then implements, solutions to the problems facing our management colleagues. Over my > 25 years with the Cooperative Research Unit Program, I have gained specific insights into what state and federal managers within our cooperating agencies need to be effective in science-based, data-driven conservation and management. Throughout my career, I have also gained substantial insights into the science, valued by universities, needed to provide lasting and effective decision support. Over the last three years (2018-2020), I have used my experience and commitment to develop then deliver insights that can help Unit cooperators address common problems (e.g., gear selection, harvest regulation evaluations, strategic planning, setting science-based goals for management and conservation, methodology for the creation of problem-related question networks that guide data analysis/collection, data fusion, and identifying metrics for success). These contributions promise to substantially improve the long-term implementation of the mission of our state, federal, and university cooperators.
. Greater prairie-chicken response to natural and anthropogenic disturbance on Fort Riley	December 2020	Greater prairie-chickens are sensitive to disturbances on the landscape. However, effects of military activities on greater prairie-chicken demography and space use are unknown. Determining if military activities and other stochastic disturbances affect greater prairie-chickens is important for developing conservation and mitigation strategies. Given that Fort Riley supports a stable population of greater prairie-chickens, assessing space use and movements of that population may assist in management of other, declining populations.This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Fort Riley, Department of Defense. Greater prairie-chickens appear to adjust their movements and space use in response to military activity. Further, the population supported by Fort Riley is isolated and does not appear to be connected to other populations.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Greater prairie-chickens are sensitive to disturbances on the landscape. However, effects of military activities on greater prairie-chicken demography and space use are unknown.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Determining if military activities and other stochastic disturbances affect greater prairie-chickens is important for developing conservation and mitigation strategies. Given that Fort Riley supports a stable population of greater prairie-chickens, assessing space use and movements of that population may assist in management of other, declining populations.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Fort Riley, Department of Defense.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Greater prairie-chickens appear to adjust their movements and space use in response to military activity. Further, the population supported by Fort Riley is isolated and does not appear to be connected to other populations.
Spatial ecology and resource selection by female lesser prairie-chickens within their home ranges and during dispersal	September 2019	Lesser prairie-chickens are sensitive to disturbances on the landscape - especially grazing and fire. Understanding the response of lesser prairie-chickens to a variety of grazing and prescribed fire practices are important for conservation planning.<br>Prescribed fire and grazing management are critical tools for managing lesser prairie-chickens. Landowners might be able to use these tools for management of lesser prairie-chicken populations. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and NRCS Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative. Lesser prairie-chickens do benefit from heterogeneity of vegetation created by patch-burn grazing. Grazing intensity influences habitat selection by lesser prairie-chickens.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens are sensitive to disturbances on the landscape - especially grazing and fire. Understanding the response of lesser prairie-chickens to a variety of grazing and prescribed fire practices are important for conservation planning.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Prescribed fire and grazing management are critical tools for managing lesser prairie-chickens. Landowners might be able to use these tools for management of lesser prairie-chicken populations.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and NRCS Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens do benefit from heterogeneity of vegetation created by patch-burn grazing. Grazing intensity influences habitat selection by lesser prairie-chickens.
Lesser prairie-chicken and grassland response to intensive wildfire in the mixed-grass prairie	September 2020	The occurrence of wide-spread, intensive wildfires is increasing in the range of the lesser prairie-chicken. These fires may affect population demography of lesser prairie-chickens. Documenting the population response to intensive wildfires is important for developing conservation strategies. Mitigation of wildfire effects can be developed once effects are measured. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and NRCS Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative. Lesser prairie-chickens avoid areas affected by wildlife for at least 3 years post-fire. However, annual survival and nest success are not affected.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>The occurrence of wide-spread, intensive wildfires is increasing in the range of the lesser prairie-chicken. These fires may affect population demography of lesser prairie-chickens.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Documenting the population response to intensive wildfires is important for developing conservation strategies. Mitigation of wildfire effects can be developed once effects are measured.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and NRCS Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens avoid areas affected by wildlife for at least 3 years post-fire. However, annual survival and nest success are not affected.
Ring-necked pheasant survival, nest habitat use, and predator occupancy in Kansas spring cover crops	June 2020	Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining across the midwestern United States. Pheasant hunting is a critical contribution to economy of these areas. Developing alternative management strategies is important for management of pheasants. Use of spring cover crops can potentially benefit both pheasants and producers. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and Star Seed Company.<br>Spring cover crops use by pheasants is related to distance from CRP tracts. Therefore, strategic placement of spring cover crops is necessary to maximize use by pheasants.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining across the midwestern United States. Pheasant hunting is a critical contribution to economy of these areas.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Developing alternative management strategies is important for management of pheasants. Use of spring cover crops can potentially benefit both pheasants and producers.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and Star Seed Company.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Spring cover crops use by pheasants is related to distance from CRP tracts. Therefore, strategic placement of spring cover crops is necessary to maximize use by pheasants.
Ring-necked pheasant population and space use response to landscapes including spring cover crops.	June 2020	Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining across the midwestern United States. Pheasant hunting is a critical contribution to economy of these areas. Developing alternative management strategies is important for management of pheasants. Use of spring cover crops can potentially benefit both pheasants and producers. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and Star Seed Company.<br>Spring cover crops are used by pheasants, but only following the nesting season. Therefore, quality nesting cover must continue to provide if implementing this management strategy.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining across the midwestern United States. Pheasant hunting is a critical contribution to economy of these areas.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Developing alternative management strategies is important for management of pheasants. Use of spring cover crops can potentially benefit both pheasants and producers.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, and Star Seed Company.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Spring cover crops are used by pheasants, but only following the nesting season. Therefore, quality nesting cover must continue to provide if implementing this management strategy.
Network analyses of inland, depressional wetlands of the Great Plains	May 2019	Isolated, depressional freshwater wetlands are rapidly declining in the Great Plains. Connectivity among wetlands is critical to support biodiversity. Establishing connectivity patterns and predicting the influence of future conditions on wetland connectivity will aid in developing conservation strategies and determining species distributions. This research is a collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Playa Lakes Joint Venture, and Rainwater Basin Joint Venture. Wetlands critical to the connectivity of the wetland system were identified in the playas and Rainwater Basins. Both systems are nearly at the threshold for system collapse with continued loss of wetlands.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Isolated, depressional freshwater wetlands are rapidly declining in the Great Plains. Connectivity among wetlands is critical to support biodiversity.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Establishing connectivity patterns and predicting the influence of future conditions on wetland connectivity will aid in developing conservation strategies and determining species distributions.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort funded by the National Science Foundation among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Playa Lakes Joint Venture, and Rainwater Basin Joint Venture.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Wetlands critical to the connectivity of the wetland system were identified in the playas and Rainwater Basins. Both systems are nearly at the threshold for system collapse with continued loss of wetlands.
Landscape patterns contributing to lek establishment and morphometrics of attending lesser prairie-chickens	December 2021	Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations. Translocation to restore populations is a possible conservation strategy for this species. Assessing lek locations, establishment, and persistence is necessary to determine the success of the strategy. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service. Translocated birds do join and establish leks. However, leks are associated with quality nesting habitat and relatively high female densities, which are not found at the release sites.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Translocation to restore populations is a possible conservation strategy for this species. Assessing lek locations, establishment, and persistence is necessary to determine the success of the strategy.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Translocated birds do join and establish leks. However, leks are associated with quality nesting habitat and relatively high female densities, which are not found at the release sites.
Dispersal, reproductive success, and habitat use by translocated lesser prairie-chickens	December 2021	Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations. Translocation to restore populations is a possible conservation strategy for this species. Assessing habitat quantity and quality at release locations is necessary to determine the success of the strategy. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service. Initial release sites provide little quality habitat for translocated birds. Thus, long distance movements by translocated birds occur requiring an assessment of the potential for a much large area to support lesser prairie-chickens than previously thought.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Translocation to restore populations is a possible conservation strategy for this species. Assessing habitat quantity and quality at release locations is necessary to determine the success of the strategy.<br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Initial release sites provide little quality habitat for translocated birds. Thus, long distance movements by translocated birds occur requiring an assessment of the potential for a much large area to support lesser prairie-chickens than previously thought.
Translocation of the lesser prairie-chicken to the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion	May 2021	Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations. Translocation to restore populations is a possible conservation strategy for this species. Assessing the fate and movements of translocated birds is necessary to determine the success of the strategy. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service. Translocated birds have a low initial survival rate and tend to leave release locations, which makes targeted restoration unlikely. However, translocated birds do nest and reproduce providing evidence that the conservation strategy may have merit.	Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of conservation concern due to declining populations and occupied range. Managers are developing strategies, including translocation, to restore populations. Assessing the fate and movements of translocated birds is therefore necessary to determine the success of the strategy. This research is a collaborative effort among USGS, Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, and U.S. Forest Service. Results indicate translocated birds have a low initial survival rate and tend to leave release locations, which makes targeted restoration unlikely. However, translocated birds do nest and reproduce providing evidence that the conservation strategy may have merit.
Fawn survival and bed-site selection of mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas	December 2022	Mule deer are declining throughout their range, including western Kansas. The expansion of white-tailed deer may be affecting population demography and space use by mule deer. Fawn survival is a driving force in population trends of deer. Determination of factors influencing fawn survival will provide insight on population trends of white-tailed deer and mule deer in western Kansas. The project is a collaboration of researchers including the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife and Enterprise Management Department at Kansas State University, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas Bowhunters Association, and Mule Deer Foundation. Fawn survival is relatively low for both mule deer and white-tailed deer, but bed site selection differed between the two species. Coyote predation within the first week following birth is the primary source of fawn mortality.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Mule deer are declining throughout their range, including western Kansas. The expansion of white-tailed deer may be affecting population demography and space use by mule deer.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Fawn survival is a driving force in population trends of deer. Determination of factors influencing fawn survival will provide insight on population trends of white-tailed deer and mule deer in western Kansas.<br><b>Collaboration/Partners:</b><br>The project is a collaboration of researchers including the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife and Enterprise Management Department at Kansas State University, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas Bowhunters Association, and Mule Deer Foundation.<br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>Fawn survival is relatively low for both mule deer and white-tailed deer, but bed site selection differed between the two species. Coyote predation within the first week following birth is the primary source of fawn mortality.
Resource selection and activity patterns of female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas.	December 2022	Mule deer have been decreasing in abundance and occupied range in Kansas for the past three decades. Increasing numbers and expanding white-tailed deer may be contributing to trends in mule deer population. Mule deer are highly prized game animals that generate considerable revenue for Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism and private landowners.The project is a collaboration of among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Enterprise and Outdoor Management Program at Kansas State University, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas Bowhunters Association, and Mule Deer Foundation. Understanding landscape segregation, space use, and movements by female mule deer and white-tailed deer will inform landscape-scale management strategies and determine the influence of the presence of white-tailed deer on mule deer populations. Female habitat use and vegetation selection will allow for development of management strategies benefiting mule deer.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Mule deer have been decreasing in abundance and occupied range in Kansas for the past three decades. Increasing numbers and expanding white-tailed deer may be contributing to trends in mule deer population.<br><b>So What? Why this research matters:</b><br>Mule deer are highly prized game animals that generate considerable revenue for Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism and private landowners.<br><b>Collaboration/Partners:</b><br>The project is a collaboration of among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Enterprise and Outdoor Management Program at Kansas State University, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas Bowhunters Association, and Mule Deer Foundation.<br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>Understanding landscape segregation, space use, and movements by female mule deer and white-tailed deer will inform landscape-scale management strategies and determine the influence of the presence of white-tailed deer on mule deer populations. Female habitat use and vegetation selection will allow for development of management strategies benefiting mule deer.
Response of Greater Prairie-Chickens to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance on Fort Riley	December 2021	Greater prairie-chicken response to disturbance created by military activities.	Investigation of greater prairie-chickens on Fort Riley in response to military activities using GPS radio tags.
Assessment of temperate-breeding Canada goose management in Kansas	December 2020	Resident Canada geese are a wildlife management success story, but are exceeding societal thresholds of tolerance in many areas. Management strategies are needed to address this conflict. Accurate counts and determining effect of management strategies are important in resolving conflicts with resident Canada goose. Translocation is a potential management strategy for over abundant geese. This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. Survey methodology is being assess to improve precision of resulting estimates. Translocation does reduce survival of resident Canada geese.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Resident Canada geese are a wildlife management success story, but are exceeding societal thresholds of tolerance in many areas. Management strategies are needed to address this conflict.<br><b>Why this research matters:</b><br>Accurate counts and determining effect of management strategies are important in resolving conflicts with resident Canada goose. Translocation is a potential management strategy for over abundant geese. <br><b>Partners:</b><br>This research is a collaborative effort among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, South Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, and Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism.<br><b>Research that informs decisions: </b><br>Survey methodology is being assess to improve precision of resulting estimates. Translocation does reduce survival of resident Canada geese.
Survival, Movement, and Resource Selection of Male Mule Deer and White-tailed Deer in Western Kansas	December 2022	Declining populations of mule deer in Kansas and the Great Plains are of concern to state management agencies. The Kansas Unit with collaborators are measuring survival, home range, movements, and resource selection of male mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas to determine the relative influence of white-tailed deer on mule deer ecology and population demograph.	<b>Problem statement:</b><br>Mule deer have been decreasing in abundance and occupied range in Kansas for the past three decades. Increasing numbers and expanding white-tailed deer may be contributing to trends in mule deer population.<br><b>So What? Why this research matters:</b><br>Mule deer are highly prized game animals that generate considerable revenue for Kansas Parks, Wildlife, and Tourism and private landowners. <br><b>Collaboration/Partners:</b><br>The project is a collaboration of among the Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Wildlife Enterprise and Outdoor Management Program at Kansas State University, Kansas Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism, Kansas Bowhunters Association, and Mule Deer Foundation.<br><b>Research That Informs Decisions:</b><br>Understanding how the presence of male white-tailed deer affect space use and movements by male mule deer will inform landscape-scale management strategies. Relating the influence of harvest on male deer survival will contribute to developing harvest strategies.
A multi species approach to managing the effects of weather and land use on upland game birds	July 2019	Management for upland gamebirds is often focused on managing habitat for a single species. The goal of our project is to determine optimal ways to manage habitat across several upland gamebirds in Kansas. For this project, we are partnering with the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative (through USDA NRCS) and Pheasants Forever. Our research can be used to better inform placement and type of habitat management for multiple species of gamebirds.	Management for upland gamebirds is often focused on managing habitat for a single species. The goal of our project is to determine optimal ways to manage habitat across several upland gamebirds in Kansas. For this project, we are partnering with the Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative (through USDA NRCS) and Pheasants Forever. Our research can be used to better inform placement and type of habitat management for multiple species of gamebirds.
Multi-scale examination of the distribution and habitat use patterns of the Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) within the Fort Riley Military Reservation - II	December 2016	Regal fritillary are butterfly species of conservation concern. Testing response to management and host plant occurrence.	None
Response of Lesser Prairie-Chickens to Patch Burn Grazing in the Red Hills, Kansas	August 2017	Measuring relationships between grazing pressure and lesser prairie-chicken use of landscapes incorporating fire.	None
Historical Trends of the Landscape Structure of Plant Communities of Sand Shinnery Oak Prairie in the Southern High Plains	August 2017	Historical changes in land cover for sand shinnery oak ecoregion in Texas and New Mexico.	None
Early Spawn and Natural Spawn Age-0 Largemouth Bass: Food Habits and Habitat Use Evaluation	March 2017	Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is an important predator and a popular sportfish. However, adult survival is often poor because of size-structured interactions in the first year of life. To test the role of size-structured interactions among young largemouth bass, fish prey, invertebrate prey, fish competitors, and fish predators, we compared habitat-specific size through time, diet, stable isotope values, and distribution among three groups of age-0 largemouth bass in Hillsdale Reservoir. This research matters because largemouth bass is an important sportfish and this whole-system manipulation was a high-profile interest for our fisheries management colleagues. Our partners in this research were the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. For example, all sizes of first year largemouth bass used beach and vegetated habitat and ate a similar diet of invertebrates and fish. Thus, our extensive and comprehensive data set had impact for sportfish management in Kansas by showing that fish size is not a growth or survival bottleneck during the first summer. In addition to aiding management in their decision-making related to stocking, this project advanced basic ecological knowledge about controls on first-year survival of a common and important predator.	Largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) is an important predator and a popular sportfish. However, adult survival is often poor because of size-structured interactions in the first year of life. To test the role of size-structured interactions among young largemouth bass, fish prey, invertebrate prey, fish competitors, and fish predators, we compared habitat-specific size through time, diet, stable isotope values, and distribution among three groups of age-0 largemouth bass in Hillsdale Reservoir. This research matters because largemouth bass is an important sportfish and this whole-system manipulation was a high-profile interest for our fisheries management colleagues. Our partners in this research were the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks, and Tourism. This research informs decisions. For example, all sizes of first year largemouth bass used beach and vegetated habitat and ate a similar diet of invertebrates and fish. Thus, our extensive and comprehensive data set had impact for sportfish management in Kansas by showing that fish size is not a growth or survival bottleneck during the first summer. In addition to aiding management in their decision-making related to stocking, this project advanced basic ecological knowledge about controls on first-year survival of a common and important predator.
Missouri Cooperative Research Unit Agreement	June 2016	Missouri Cooperative Research Unit Agreement	Missouri Cooperative Research Unit Agreement

Research Publications

Research Publications	Publication Date
Zavaleta, J.C., D.A. Haukos, B. Grisham, C. Boal, and C. Dixon. 2014. Restoring sand shinnery oak prairies with herbicide and grazing in New Mexico. Southwestern Naturalist 61:225-232.	October 2016
Winter, S. L., and J. F. Cully, Jr. Submitted. Lack of cowbird nest parasitism in a shortgrass region. Prairie Naturalist 37:43-45.	February 2005
Winter, S. L., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2007. Burrowing owl associations with black-tailed pprairie dog colonies in southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. Prairie Naturalist 39(2):69-75.	October 2007
Winter, S. L., R. E. Charlton, and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2000. A new county breeding record for black-billed magpies: Symptom of habitat changes in a grassland landscape. Bulletin of the Kansas Ornithological Society 51:25-28.	January 2000
Winter, S. L., J. F. Cully, Jr., and J. S. Pontius. 2003. Breeding season avifauna of prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas in shortgrass prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. vol. 106:129-138, Autumn 2003.	September 2003
Winter, S. L., J. F. Cully, Jr., and J. S. Pontius. 2002. Vegetation of prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas in southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado. Journal of Range Management 55:502-508.	September 2002
Winder, V.L., K.M. Carrlson, A.J. Gregory, C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, D.C. Kesler, L.C. Larsson, T.W. Matthews, L.B. McNew, M.A. Patten, J. C. Pitman, L.A. Powell, J.A. Smith, T. Thompson, D.H. Wolfe, and B.K. Sandercock. 2015. Variation of female space use in ten populations of prairie chickens. Ecosphere 6(9):166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES14-00536.1	October 2015
Whittier, J. B., C. P. Paukert, and K. Gido. 2006. Development of an Aquatic GAP for the Lower Colorado River Basin. Maxwell et al., editors. Gap Analysis Bulletin No. 14 USGS/BRD/Gap Analysis Program. Moscow, Idaho.	August 2006
Waldman, J., K. Wilson, M. E. Mather, N. P. Snyder. 2016. Can resilience theory help guide restoration of anadromous fishes? Fisheries 41(3): 116-126.	October 2016
Vhay, M.P., D.A. Haukos, D.S. Sullins, and M.B. Rice. 2024. Landscape-scale changes in lesser prairie-chicken habitat. PLoS ONE	June 2024
Vhay, M. P., D. A. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M.B. Rice. 2024. Broad-scale changes in lesser prairie-chicken habitat. Plos one 19: e0304452. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0304452	May 2024
Vest, J.L., D.A. Haukos, N.D. Niemuth, C.M. Setash, J.H. Gammonley, J.H. Devries, and D.K. Dahlgren. 2023. Waterfowl and wetland birds. Chapter 13 in L.B. McNew, D.K. Dahlgren, and J.L. Beck, editors. Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. Springer Publishing, New York, New York, USA.	September 2023
Verheijen, B.H.F., D.M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Future losses of playa wetlands decrease network structure and connectivity of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Landscape Ecology 35:453–467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-019-00958-w	January 2020
Verheijen, B.H.F., D.M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Effects of large-scale wetland loss on network connectivity of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Submitted to Landscape Ecology	October 2018
Verheigen, B.H.F., R.T. Plumb, C.K.J. Gulick, C.A. Hagen, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2021. Breeding season space use by lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) varies among ecoregions and breeding stages. American Midland Naturalist 185:149-174. \| Abstract	April 2021	Large-scale declines of grasslands ecosystems in the conterminous United States since European settlement have led to substantial loss and fragmentation of lesser prairie-chicken (<i>Tympanuchus pallidicinctus</i>) habitat and decreased their occupied range and population numbers by ~85%. Breeding season space use is an important component of lesser prairie-chicken conservation, because it could affect both dynamics and carrying capacity of local populations. Previous estimates of breeding season space use are largely limited to one of the four currently occupied ecoregions, but potential extrinsic drivers of breeding space use, such as landscape fragmentation, vegetative structure and composition, and density of anthropogenic structures, can show large spatial variation. Moreover, habitat needs vary greatly among the lekking/prelaying, nesting, brooding, and postbreeding stages of the breeding season, but space use by female lesser prairie-chickens during these stages remain relatively unclear. We tested whether home range area and daily displacement of female lesser prairie-chickens varied among ecoregions and breeding stages at four study sites in Kansas and Colorado, USA, representing three of the four currently occupied ecoregions. We equipped females with very-high-frequency (VHF, <i>n</i> = 39) or GPS transmitters (<i>n</i> = 157), and estimated home range area with kernel density estimators or biased random bridge models, respectively. Across all ecoregions, breeding season home range area averaged 190.4 ha (± 19.1 ha SE) for birds with VHF and 283.6 ha (± 23.1 ha) for birds with GPS transmitters, while daily displacement averaged 374.8 m (± 14.3 m). Average home range area and daily displacement were greater in the Short-Grass Prairie/CRP Mosaic Ecoregion (VHF: 233.0 ± 34.7 ha, GPS: 420.8 ± 52.8 ha, 468.5 ± 29.4 m) compared to sites in the Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecoregion (VHF: 146.4 ± 16.4, 158.6 ± 25.2 ha, GPS: 183.9 ± 21.2, 183.3 ± 13.9 ha, 281.0 ± 16.0, 319.5 ± 13.8 m). Home range area and daily displacement were greatest during lekking/prelaying (252.8 ± 23.0 ha, 539.7 ± 223.0 m) and smallest during the brooding stage (81.4 ± 11.5 ha, 221.3 ± 63.7 m), when female movements are restricted by mobility of chicks. Ecoregion- and breeding stage-specific estimates of space use by lesser prairie-chickens will help managers determine the spatial configuration of breeding stage-specific habitat on the landscape. Furthermore, ecoregion- and breeding stage specific estimates are crucial when estimating the amount of breeding habitat needed for lesser prairie-chicken population to persist.
Vanni, M.J., …. M.E. Mather, et al. 2017. A global database of nitrogen and phosphorus excretion rates of aquatic animals. Ecology, 98(5), 2017, pp. 1475.	July 2017
VanNimwegen, R. L., J. Kretzer, and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2008. Ecosystem engineering by a colonial mammal: How black-tailed prairie dogs structure rodent communities. Ecology 89:3298-3305.	December 2008
Van Ee, J.J. C.A. Hagen, D.C. Pavlacky Jr., D.A. Haukos , A.J. Lawrence, A.M. Tanner, B.A. Grisham, K.A. Fricke, L.G. Rossi, G.M. Beauprez, K.E. Kuklinski, R. Martin, M.D. Koslovsky, T.B. Rintz, M.B. Hooten. 2024. Melded integrated population models. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics doi.org/10.1007/s13253-024-00620-2	May 2024
Tsai, J.S., L.S. Venne, L.M. Smith, S.T. McMurry, and D.A. Haukos. 2012. Influence of local and landscape characteristics on avian richness and density in wet playas of the Southern Great Plains, USA. Wetlands 32:605-618.	October 2012
Thiagarajan, B., Y. Bai, K. L. Gage, and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2008. Prevalence of Yersinia pestis in rdents and fleas associated with black-tailed prairie dogs at Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44:731-736.	July 2008
Thiagarajan, B., J. F. Cully, Jr., T. M. Loughin, J. A. Montenieri, and K. L. Gage. 2008. Geographic variation in rodent-flea relationships in the presence of black-tailed prairie dog colonies. Journal of Vector Ecology 33:178-190.	June 2008
Teige, E.C., N.J. Parker, M.P. Vhay, and D.A. Haukos. 2022. Durability and longevity of Tympanuchus pallidicinctus (Lesser Prairie-Chicken) fence tags in Kansas and Colorado. Ecological Restoration 40:83-87. doi:10.3368/er.40.2.83	June 2022
Teige, E.C., L.A. Berigan, C.S.H. Aulicky, J.H. Reitz, D.A. Haukos, D.S. Sullins, K.A. Fricke, K.A. Schultz, and L.G. Rossi. 2023. Assessment of lesser prairie-chicken translocation through survival and lek counts. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2023:e1493.	October 2023
Taylor, R. B., Mather, M. E., Smith, J. M., Gerber-Boles, K. 2021. Can identifying discrete behavioral groups with individual-based acoustic telemetry advance the understanding of fish distribution patterns? Frontiers in Marine Science (section Global Change and the Future Ocean). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.723025 \| Abstract	October 2021	Complex relationships between human and natural ecosystems in human-dominated coastalscapes can be negotiated through science-based, data-driven conservation. To be effective for biodiversity and other issues, however, conservation needs to address processes related to field-based patterns of organismal distribution. Organismal distribution patterns in geographically-large, spatially-heterogeneous, and temporally-dynamic field environments can be challenging to identify using existing approaches. Here we show how dynamic-distribution telemetry data<b> </b>can provide a detailed temporal record of how individuals are distributed that provides new directions for a range of basic and applied questions beyond those issues traditionally explored by telemetry. To illustrate the advantages that accrue from this approach, we explored the connection between discrete groups of coexisting, same-species, same-size individuals and patterns of field distribution. We quantified locations of 59 acoustically-tagged striped bass (<i>Morone saxatilis) </i>within a 26-stationary unit telemetry receiver estuarine array in Plum Island Estuary. We then used cluster analyses on spatial and temporal-spatial metrics from this dataset to (1) assess if distinct groups of individuals coexisted, (2) quantify group characteristics, and (3) test associations between groups and distribution (e.g., physical site types and regions). Four discrete, co-occurring groups of similar-sized, individual striped bass were defined by different patterns of spatio-temporal use of physical habitat types and estuarine regions. Thus, our approach provides a different view of spatial distribution patterns, in a geographic area adjacent to dense human settlements, that has relevance to a wide range of ecological, evolutionary, behavioral, and conservation questions relevant to human-dominated coastalscapes.
Taylor, R. B., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, and K. M. Gerber. 2019. Confluences function as ecological hotspots: geomorphic and regional drivers can identify patterns of fish predator distribution within a seascape. Marine Ecology Progress Series. MEPS 629:133-148. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13088.	December 2019
Sullins, D.S., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C.E. Comer. 2019. Using pointing dogs and hierarchical models to evaluate American woodcock winter habitat. Proceedings of American Woodcock Symposium 11:154-167.	December 2019
Sullins, D.S., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Hobson, L.I. Wassenaar, C.E. Comer, and I.K. Hung. 2016. American woodcock migratory connectivity and post-juvenile dispersal as indicated by hydrogen isotopes. Wildlife Monographs	January 2016
Sullins, D.S., J.D. Kraft, D.A. Haukos, S.G. Robinson, J. Reitz, R.T. Plumb, J.M. Lautenbach, J.D. Lautenbach, B.K. Sandercock, and C.A. Hagen. 2018. Selection and demographic consequences of Conservation Reserve Program grasslands for lesser prairie-chickens. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:1617–1632 DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21553	August 2018
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, J.M. Lautenbach, J.D. Lautenbach, S.G. Robinson, M.B. Rice, B.K. Sandercock, J.D. Kraft, R.T. Plumb, J.H. Reitz, J.M.S. Hutchinson, and C.A. Hagen. 2019. Strategic regional conservation for lesser prairie-chickens among landscapes of varying anthropogenic influence. Biological Conservation https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2019.108213	September 2019
Sullins, D.S., D. A. Haukos, J. Craine, J. M. Lautenbach, S. G. Robinson, J. D. Lautenbach1, J. D. Kraft, R. T. Plumb, B. K. Sandercock, and N. Fierer. 2018. Identifying diet of a declining prairie grouse using DNA metabarcoding. Auk 135:583–608. DOI: 10.1642/AUK-17-199.1	May 2018
Stewart, A., S. Egbert, C. Lauver, E. Martinko, K. Price, D. Peterson, S. Park, C. Blodgett, and J. Cully. 2000. Land cover mapping for GAP: a hybrid classification approach to identifying the vegetation of Kansas. Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing.	September 2000
Spencer, D., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, M. Daniels, and D. Goodin. 2017. Conservation Reserve Program mitigates grassland loss in the lesser prairie-chicken range of Kansas. Global Ecology and Conservation 9:21-38.	January 2017
Smith, L.M., D.A. Haukos, and S. McMurry. 2012. High Plains Playas. Pages 299-311 In Press. In: Wetland Habitats of North America: Ecology and Conservation Concerns, D. Batzer and A. Baldwin (editors). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.	June 2012
Smith, J.M. , Wells, SM, Mather, ME, Muth, RM. 2014. Fish biodiversity sampling in stream ecosystems: a process for evaluating the appropriate types and amount of gear. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 24, 338–350. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aqc.2420/epdf	February 2014
Smith, J. S., and M. E. Mather. 2011. Using assemblage data in ecological indicators: a comparison and evaluation of commonly available statistical tools. Ecological Indicators 13: 253-262	December 2011
Smith, J. M and M. E. Mather. Beaver dams maintain native fish biodiversity via altered habitat heterogeneity in a coastal stream network. Freshwater Biology 58: 1523-1538.	May 2013
Sirch, M.W., D.S. Sullins, N.J. Parker, D.A. Haukos, J.D. Kraft, C.A. Hagen, and K.A. Fricke. 2022. Woody species mortality due to a megafire within the mixed-grass prairie. Prairie Naturalist 54:11-23. https://www.eaglehill.us/prna-pdfs-regular/prna-54/prna-008-Sirch.pdf \| Abstract	July 2022	Lack of fire in contemporary grasslands has contributed to the invasion of woody plants that often survive low- to moderate-intensity fire upon maturity. Knowledge of the effect of megafires (>40,000 ha) on grassland tree mortality and role of megafires in maintaining large grasslands is limited. We first quantified severity and spatial extent of a megafire using remote sensing techniques and then evaluated the effect of the megafire on woody canopy cover and tree mortality within the mixed-grass prairie of Clark County, Kansas, USA. We also used remote sensing techniques to estimate woody cover change and performed ground surveys to estimate woody species mortality, top-kill rates of woody species, size of remaining woody vegetation, postfire herbaceous composition, and the influence of herbicide and wildfire interaction on non-native saltcedar (<i>Tamarix ramosissima </i>Ledeb.). The megafire killed 33 ± 2% of saltcedar and 18 ± 1% (mean ± SD) of all other trees, including all eastern redcedar (<i>Juniperus virginiana</i> L.), and another 54 ± 2% of trees were top-killed and resprouted. Herbicide treatments in the burned area before the fire did not reliably increase saltcedar mortality. We conclude that further postfire management may be required to limit woody encroachment following megafire.
Schindler, AR, DA Haukos, CA Hagen, and BE Ross. A multi-species approach to manage effects of land cover and weather on upland game birds. Ecology and Evolution. 10:14330-14345.	December 2020
Schindler, A.R., D.A. Haukos, C.A. Hagen, B.E. Ross. 2020. A decision-support tool to prioritize candidate landscapes for lesser prairie-chicken conservation. Landscape Ecology 35:1417-1434.	May 2020
Saalfeld, S.T, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and W.P. Johnson. 2013. Seasonal variation in offspring sex ratio in the snowy plover. Western North American Naturalist 73:60-71	April 2013
Saalfeld, S.T, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and W.P. Johnson. 2013. Apparent survival in a declining snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) population in the Southern High Plains of Texas. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124:79-87	January 2013
Saalfeld, S.T, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and W.P. Johnson. 2012. Selection and spacing patterns of snowy plover nests in the Southern High Plains of Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 76:1703-1711	October 2012
Saalfeld, S.T, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and W.P. Johnson. 2012. Alleviation of nest thermal extremes by incubating snowy plovers in the Southern High Plains of Texas. Wader Study Group Bulletin 119:77-83	April 2012
Ross, B.E., D.A. Haukos, and P.T. Walther. 2018. Quantifying changes and drivers of mottled duck density in Texas. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:374–382.	February 2018
Ross, B.E., D.A. Haukos, C.A. Hagen, and J.C. Pitman. 2016. Landscape composition creates a threshold influencing lesser prairie-chicken population resilience to extreme drought. Global Ecology and Conservation 6:179-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2016.03.003	March 2016
Ross, B.E., D.A. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2018. Combining multiple sources of data to inform conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chicken populations. Auk 135:228-239.	April 2018
Ross, B.E., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. Using an individual-based model to assess common biases in lek-based count data to estimate population trajectories of lesser prairie-chickens.	May 2019
Ross, B. E., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2016. The relative contribution of climate to changes in lesser prairie- chicken abundance. Ecosphere 7(6):e01323. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.1323	June 2016
Rosen, D.J., A.D. Casekey, W.C. Conway, and D.A. Haukos. 2013. Vascular flora of the Southern High Plains of Texas and eastern New Mexico. Journal of The Botanical Research Institute of Texas 7:595-602.	September 2013
Robinson, S.G., D.A. Haukos, R.T. Plumb, J.M. Lautenbach, D.S. Sullins, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach. C.A. Hagen, and J.C. Pitman. 2018. Nonbreeding home range size and survival of lesser prairie-chickens. Journal of Wildlife Management 82:374–382.	February 2018
Robinson, S.G., D.A. Haukos, R.T. Plumb, J.D. Kraft, D.S. Sullins, J.M. Lautenbach, J.D. Lautenbach, B.K. Sandercock, C.A. Hagen, A. Bartuszevige, and M. A. Rice. 2018. Effects of landscape characteristics on annual survival of lesser prairie-chickens. American Midland Naturalist 180:66-86.	June 2018
Robinson, S.G., D.A. Haukos, R.T. Plumb, C.A. Hagen, J.C. Pitman, J.M. Lautenbach, D.S. Sullins, J.D. Kraft, and J.D. Lautenbach. 2016. Lack of lesser prairie-chicken mortality due to fence collisions in Kansas and Colorado. Journal of Wildlife Management 80:906-915.	April 2016
Robinson, S.G., D.A. Haukos, D.S. Sullins, and R.T. Plumb. 2016. Use of free water by nesting lesser prairie-chickens. Southwestern Naturalist 61:187-193.	September 2016
Rigby, E.A., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Duckling survival, fecundity, and habitat selection of mottled duck broods on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies 2:156-163.	April 2015
Rigby, E., and D.A. Haukos. 2014. A matrix model for mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula) on the western Gulf Coast of Texas. Southeastern Naturalist 13(Special Issue 5):26-40.	March 2014
Rigby, E., and D. Haukos. 2012. Breeding Season Survival and Breeding Incidence of Female Mottled Ducks on the Upper Texas Gulf Coast. Waterbirds 35:260-269.	June 2012
Riecke, T.V., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, J.A. Moon, and C.E. Comer. 2015. Baseline blood Pb levels of black-necked stilts on the upper Texas coast. Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology 95(4):465-469.	October 2015
Riecke, T.V., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, C.E. Comer, and J.A. Moon. 2019. Nest survival of black-necked stilts, Himantopus mexicanus, on the upper Texas coast. Waterbirds 42:261-271.	October 2019
Riecke, T.V., W. C. Conway, C.E. Comer, D.A. Haukos, and J.A. Moon. 2014. Red imported fire ants Solenopsis invicta cause black-necked stilt Himantopus mexicanus nest abandonment. Wader Study Group Bulletin 121:52-53.	August 2014
Rieber, C.J., T.J. Hefley, and D.A. Haukos. 2024. Treed Gaussian processes for animal movement modelling. Ecology and Evolution 14:e11447.	June 2024
Quinn, S. P., and C. P. Paukert. 2009. Recreational and commercial fisheries for centrarchids. In: S. J. Cooke and D. P. Phillip, editors. Ecological Diversity of Centrarchid Fishes: Basic and Applied Perspectives. Blackwell Science.	June 2009
Pullen, R. R., *W. W, Bouska, S. Campbell, and C. P. Paukert. 2009. Intestinal helminths of Cyprinella lutrensis in Deep Creek, Kansas; prevalence and spatial distribution estimates for Bothriocephalus acheilognathi (the Asian fish tapeworm) and Rhabdochona Canadensis. Journal of Parasitology 95(5): 1224-1226.	October 2009
Portillo-Quintero, C., B. Grisham, D. Haukos, C. Boal, C. Hagen, Z. Wan, and N. Menkiti. 2022. Trends in lesser prairie-chicken habitat extent and distribution on the Southern High Plains. Remote Sensing (Special Issue Wildlife Ecology for a Dynamic Future). Remote Sens. 2022, 14, 3780. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14153780	August 2022
Plumb, R.T., J.M. Lautenbach, S.G. Robinson, D.A. Haukos, V.L. Winder, C.A. Hagen, D.S. Sullins, J.C. Pitman, and D.K. Dahlgren. 2019. Lesser prairie-chicken space use in relation to anthropogenic structures. Journal of Wildlife Management 83:216-230. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21561	January 2019
Pirius, N.E., C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and M.C. Wallace. 2013. Winter habitat use and survival of lesser prairie-chickens in west Texas. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37:759-765.	December 2013
Phelps, Q. E., M. J. Ward, C. P. Paukert, S. R. Chipps, and D. W. Willis. 2005. Biotic and abiotic correlates with black bullhead population characteristics in Nebraska Sandhill lakes. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 20:295-302.	June 2005
Peterson, J.M., J.E. Earl, S.D. Fuhlendorf, D. Elmore, D.A. Haukos, A.M. Tanner, and S.A. Carleton. 2020. Estimating response distances of lesser prairie-chickens to anthropogenic features during long-distance movements. Ecosphere 11(9):e03202. 10.1002/ecs2.3202	September 2020
Peterson, J. T. and C. Paukert. 2009. Data conversion, Chapter 12 in Standard Sampling Methods for North American Freshwater Fishes. S. Bonar, D. Willis and W. Hubert, editors.	August 2009
Petersen, J. H., and C. P. Paukert. 2005. Development of a bioenergetics model for humpback chub and evaluation of water temperature changes in Grand Canyon, Colorado River. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 134:960-974.	February 2005
Petersen, J. H., D. L. DeAngelis, and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Developing bioenergetics and life history models for rare and endangered species. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society	March 2008
Pearse, A. T., J. F. Cavitt, and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2004. Effects of food supplementation on female nest attentiveness and incubation mate-feeding in two sympatric wren species. Wilson Bulletin 116:23-30	January 2004
Paukert, C.P. and J.M. Long. 2004. Geographic information systems applications in reservoir fisheries. Pages 85-111 in W.L. Fisher and F.J. Rahel, editors. Geographic information systems in fisheries. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.	April 2004
Paukert, C. P., and J. M. Long. 2004. GIS applications in reservoir fisheries. Pages 85-112 in W. L. Fisher and F. J. Rahel, editors. Geographic information systems in fisheries. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.	January 2004
Paukert, C. P., and J. H. Petersen. 2007. Simulated effects of temperature warming on rainbow trout and humpback chub in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Southwestern Naturalist 52:234-242.	June 2007
Paukert, C. P., and G. Scholten, editors. 2009. Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century: Building from 20 years of Research and Management. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.	December 2009
Paukert, C. P., and D. W. Willis. 2004. Environmental influences on largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides populations in shallow Nebraska lakes. Fisheries Management and Ecology 11: 1-8.	January 2004
Paukert, C. P., and D. W. Willis. 2003. Aquatic invertebrate assemblages in shallow prairie lakes: fish and environmental influences. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 18:523-536.	December 2003
Paukert, C. P., and A. S. Makinster. 2009. Longitudinal patterns in flathead catfish relative abundance and length at age within a large river: effects of an urban gradient. River Research and Applications 25:861-873.	July 2009
Paukert, C. P., M. McInerny, and R. Schultz. 2007. Current and historical black bass regulations in North America. Fisheries (Bethesda): 32(2):62-72.	February 2007
Paukert, C. P., L. G. Coggins, and C. F. Flaccus. 2006. Distribution and movement of humpback chub in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon, based on recaptures. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 135:539-544.	March 2006
Paukert, C. P., J. Schloesser, J. Eitzmann, J. Fischer, K. Pitts, and D. Thornbrugh. 2008. Effect of Instream Sand Dredging on Fish Communities in the Kansas River USA: Current and Historical Perspectives. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23:623-633.	December 2008
Paukert, C. P., D. W. Willis, and M. A. Bouchard. 2004. Movement, home range, and site fidelity of bluegills in a Great Plains lake. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:154-161.	March 2004
Paukert, C. P., D. L. Ward, P. J. Sponholtz, and K. D. Hilwig. 2005. Effects of repeated hoopnetting and handling on bonytail chub. Journal of Freshwater Ecology20:649-653.	December 2005
Paukert, C. P. 2004. Comparison of electrofishing and trammel netting variability for sampling native fishes in Grand Canyon, Colorado River, Arizona. Journal of Fish Biology 65: 1643-1652.	November 2004
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2022. Recovery of working grasslands following a megafire in the southern mixed-grass prairie Global Ecology and Conservation 36 (2022) e02142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2022.e02142	May 2022
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2022. Demographic effects of a megafire on a declining prairie grouse in the mixed-grass prairie. Ecology and Evolution 12:e9544.	November 2022
O’Connell, J., L. Johnson, L. Smith, S. McMurry, and D. Haukos. 2012. Influence of land-use and conservation programs on wetland plant communities of the semi-arid United States Great Plains. Biological Conservation 146:108-115.	January 2012
O’Connell, J., L. Johnson, L. Smith, S. McMurry, D.W. Daniel, and D. Haukos. 2013. Effects of agriculture tillage and sediment accumulation on emergent plant communities in playa wetlands of the U.S. High Plains. Journal of Environmental Management 120:10-17.	May 2013
O’Connell, J., L. Johnson, B. Beas, L. Smith, S. McMurry, and D. Haukos. 2013. Predicting dispersal-limitation in plants: optimizing planting decisions for isolated wetland restoration in agricultural landscapes. Biological Conservation 159:343-354.	January 2013
Owen, R.K., E.B. Webb, D.A. Haukos, and K.W. Goyne. 2020. Projected climate and land use changes drive plant community composition in agricultural wetlands. Environmental and Experimental Botany 175 (2020) 104039.	April 2020
Owen, R.K., E.B. Webb, D.A. Haukos, F.B. Fritschi and K.W. Goyne. 2020. Barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli) emergence and growth in a changing climate in Great Plains wetlands. Wetlands Ecology and Management https://doi.org/10.1007/s11273-019-09693-0	January 2020
Ogden, S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Lemmon, J. Alexander, G.A. Gatson, and W.H. Fick. 2019. Grassland bird and butterfly response to sericea lespedeza control via late-season grazing pressure. American Midland Naturalist 181:147-169.	April 2019
Moon, J.A., S.E. Lehnen, K.L. Metzger, M.A. Squires, M.G. Brasher, B.C. Wilson, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, B.E. Davis, F.C. Rohwer, E.M. Wehland, and B.M. Ballard. 2021. Projected impact of sea-level rise and urbanization on mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) habitat along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Texas through 2100. Ecological Indicators Ecological Indicators 132 (2021) 108276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108276	October 2021
Moon, J.A., D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2015. Mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) movements in the Texas Chenier Plain Region. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies 2:255-261.	April 2015
Moon, J.A. D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2017. Seasonal survival of adult female mottled ducks in the Texas Chenier Plain Region. Journal of Wildlife Management 81:461-469.	April 2017
Miller, S. D., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2001. Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Conservation: Introduction to the special section. Journal of Mammalogy 82:889-893.	November 2001
Michaels, H. L., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 1998. Landscape and fine scale habitat associations of the loggerhead shrike. Wilson Bull. 110:474-482.	August 1998
Meyers A.R., S.A. Carleton, W.R. Gould, C. Nichols, D.A. Haukos, and C.A. Hagen. 2018. Temporal variation in breeding season survival and cause-specific mortality of lesser prairie-chickens. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9:496-507.	February 2019
McMullin, S. L., V. DiCenzo, R. Essig, C. Bonds, R. DeBruyne, M. Kaemingk, M. Mather, Chris Myrick, Q. Phelps, T. Sutton, J. Triplett, 2016. Are we preparing the next generation of fisheries professionals to succeed in their careers? Fisheries 41(8): 448-461. \| Abstract	August 2016	NONE (Special Issue with Special Formatting Requirements)
McDowell, P.K., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, J.A. Moon, C.E. Comer, and I.K. Hung. 2015. Blood lead exposure concentrations in mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula) on the upper Texas coast. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies 2:221-228.	April 2015
McCullough, K., G. Albanese, and D.A. Haukos. 2017. Novel observations of larval fire survival, feeding behavior, and host plant use in the regal fritillary, Speyeria idalia (Drury) (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society 71:146–152	September 2017
McCullough, K., G. Albanese, D.A. Haukos, A.M. Ricketts, and S. Stratton. 2019. Management regime and habitat response influence abundance of regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) in tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere 10(8):e02845	August 2019
McCullough, K., D.A. Haukos, and G. Albanese. 2021. Regal fritillary sex ratio in tallgrass prairie: effects of survey timing and management regime. Submitted to American Midland Naturalist 185:57-76.	February 2021
Mattsson, B.J, M.C. Runge, J.H. Devries, G.S. Boomer, J.M. Eadie, D.A. Haukos, J. P. Fleskes, D.N. Koons, W.E. Thogmartin, and R. J. Clark. A prototypical modeling framework for integrated harvest and habitat management of North American waterfowl: case-study of northern pintail metapopulation dynamics. Ecological Modeling 225:146-158.	March 2012
Mather^,Martha., Gabe Granco, Jason Bergtold, Marcellus Caldas, Jessica Heier Stamm, Aleksey Sheshukov, Matthew Sanderson, Melinda Daniels^..2023. Achieving Interdisciplinary Success with RISE: A Widely-Implementable, Iterative, Multi-step Structured Process for Mastering Team Collaboration. \| Abstract	September 2023	Experts from different disciplines often have difficulty meshing their specialized perspectives into the shared mindset that is needed to address complex environmental problems. Existing training programs neither provide a systematic way to develop team skills nor offer a protocol for identifying increasingly connected interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary (IT) questions. Here, we illustrate a tractable, widely-implementable process that accelerates the development of these missing skills. Our <b><i>RISE </i></b>process<b><i> </i></b>(<b>R</b>oute to <b>I</b>dentifying, learning, practicing IT team <b>S</b>kills to address complex <b>E</b>nvironmental problems) can be used by diverse teams as a tool for training, research, or professional interactions. <i>RISE</i> helps professionals with different expertise learn from each other by repeatedly asking jointly developed questions that are tested quantitatively using a common IT dataset. The output of these quantitative tests are then discussed and synthesized. As a result, individual perspectives, originally informed by disciplinary training, are replaced by a shared understanding.
Mather, ME, Gerber, KM, Peterson, Z. Assessing distribution and movement of Blue Catfish in Kansas reservoirs. Final Report \| Abstract	August 2015	This report is organized into three chapters that address six objectives. The first chapter addresses objectives 1-3. (1) Develop and test tagging protocols for Blue Catfish. (2) Develop and test protocols for setting up and calibrating stationary receivers. (3) Summarize tagging and tracking protocols for use in other systems with other species. The second chapter addresses objectives 4-5. (4) Determine where tagged Blue Catfish spend their time within Milford reservoir. (5) Determine when, size distribution, and how many Blue Catfish exit Milford reservoir. The third chapter 10 addresses objective 6. (6) Quantify potential drivers of distribution.
Mather, M.E., H. J. Frank. J. M. Smith, R. D. Cormier, R. M. Muth, and J. T. Finn. 2012. Assessing freshwater habitat of adult anadromous alewives at multiple scales: a common challenge for fish and watershed restoration. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 4: 188-200	July 2012
Mather, M.E., C. Moffitt, M. Fabrizio, D. Parrish, B. Penaluna, B. Brown, S. Nesbit. 2022. Diversity and inclusion: a strategy to implement change for 2021 and beyond: symposium summary. Fisheries 47(1):28-34 \| Abstract	February 2022	Human diversity is as essential to the effectiveness and survival of professional organizations as fish diversity is to the function and sustainability of aquatic ecosystems. To accelerate the progress of the American Fisheries Society (AFS) towards diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), ten presentations and a group discussion provided context for our present efforts and suggested opportunities for synthesis that can enhance future successes. An introduction highlighted the value of coordinating existing strengths. A temporal perspective encouraged intergenerational teams to build on past achievements. Contributions of the Equal Opportunities Section, recommendations of the AFS DEI standing committee, citizen science educational programs, and the structure provided by historically black colleges and universities are existing strengths on which AFS can build. Although addressing power-differentials and institutional constraints are challenges, individuals have personal power to implement change. Furthermore, enhancing diversity can make individuals more successful, help professional teams solve difficult problems, and enhance AFS’s effectiveness in resource conservation. Taking a long view temporally with a wide lens across within-society specializations, this symposium highlighted the advantages of a framework to coordinate ongoing activities as a component of a longer term strategic plan.
Mather, M. E., and J. M Dettmers. Adaptive problem maps (APM): connecting data dots to build increasingly informed and defensible environmental conservation decisions. Journal of Environmental Management 312 (2022) 114826 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114826	March 2022
Mather, M. E., J. T. Finn, C. G. Kennedy, L. A. Deegan, and J. M. Smith. What happens in an estuary does not stay there: patterns of biotic teleconnectivity resulting from long term ecological research. Oceanography 26(3):168–179	September 2013
Mather, M. E., J. M. Smith, K. M. Boles, R. B Taylor, C. G. Kennedy, S. M. Hitchman, J. S. Rogosch, and H. M. Frank. 2021. Merging scientific silos: Integrating specialized approaches for thinking about and using spatial data that can provide new directions for persistent fisheries problems. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10645	June 2021
Mather, M. E., D. L. Parrish, and J. M. Dettmers. 2012. Now That You Have Great Results, Where Should You Submit Your Manuscript? In Scientific Communication for Natural Resources Professionals. Editors C. Jennings,T. Lauer, B. Vondracek. PAGES 121-133. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD.	August 2012
Mather, M. E, J. T. Finn, S. M. Pautzke, D. Fox, T. Savoy, H. M. Brundage III, L. A. Deegan, R. M. Muth. 2010. Destinations, routes, and timing of adult striped bass on their southward fall migration: implications for coastal movements. Journal of Fish Biology 77: 2326–2337.	December 2010
Marschall, E.A., M.E. Mather, D.L. Parrish, G. Allison, and J. McMenemy. Migration delays caused by anthropogenic barriers: modeling dams, temperature, and success of migrating salmon smolts. Ecological Applications 21: 3014-3031.	December 2011
Marschall, E.A., D.C. Glover, M.E. Mather, and D.L. Parrish. 2021. Modeling larval American Shad recruitment in a large river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41: 939-954. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10460 \| Abstract	May 2020	We used an bioenergetics-based modeling approach to track American Shad Alosa sapidissima offspring within a template of spatial and temporal habitat conditions defined by a combination of abiotic conditions and prey availability models. We simulated spawning at each river kilometer (RKM 138-280) on each day (1 April-31 August) to understand how spawning date and location drive larval recruitment differentially across years and decades. For both temperature and flow, inter-annual variation was large in comparison to interdecadal differences. Variation in simulated recruitment was best explained by a combination of season-specific temperature and location in along the course of the river. Greatest potential recruitment occurred in years in which June temperatures were relatively high. In years when June and July were warmer than average, maximum recruitment resulted from spawning taking place at the upstream portion of the modeled reach. Model scenarios (stationary or passive-drift larvae and dams or no dams) had predictable effects. When dams were present, but offspring were stationary, the area directly above the dams resulted in poor recruitment, due to the habitat being inappropriate for eggs. When offspring exhibited passive drift, they traveled far downstream. If dams were present, they frequently ended their movement at the dams. When larvae moved downstream but their movement was not limited by dams, spatial differences in expected recruitment relative to spawning sites were reduced. Our results demonstrate the importance of spatiotemporal environmental heterogeneity for producing positive recruitment over the longterm. In addition, our results suggest the importance of successful passage of spawners to historical spawning sites upstream of Vernon Dam in the Connecticut River, especially as conditions shift with climate change.
Malanchuk, J.B., B.E. Ross, D.A. Haukos, T.F. Bidrowski, and R. Schultheis. 2021. Translocation, survival, and recovery of Kansas-banded Canada geese. Ecosphere 12(7):e03659	July 2021
Makinster, A. S., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Effects and utility of minimum length limits and mortality caps for flathead catfish in discrete reaches of a large prairie river. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28:97-108.	March 2008
Londe, D.W., C.A. Davis, S.R. Loss, E.P. Robertson, D.A. Haukos, and T.J. Hovick. 2023. Climate change causes declines and greater extremes in wetland inundation in a region important for wetland birds. Ecological Applications doi.org/10.1002/eap.2930	December 2023
Lautenbach, J.M., R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, and C.A. Hagen. 2016. Lesser prairie-chicken avoidance of trees in a grassland landscape. Rangeland Ecology and Management (Special Issue) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2016.07.008	December 2016
Lautenbach, J.M., D.A. Haukos, D.S. Sullins, C.A. Hagen, J.D. Lautenbach, J.C. Pitman, R.T. Plumb, S,G. Robinson, and J.D. Kraft. 2019. Factors influencing nesting ecology of lesser prairie-chickens. Journal of Wildlife Management 83:205-215. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21582	January 2019
Lautenbach, J.D., D.A. Haukos, J.M. Lautenbach, and C.A. Hagen. 2021. Ecological disturbance through patch-burn grazing drives lesser prairie-chicken space use. Journal of Wildlife Management 85:1699–1710; 2021; DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.22118 \| Abstract	September 2021	Across portions of the western Great Plains, fire has been removed from grassland ecosystems, decreasing vegetation heterogeneity and allowing woody encroachment. This has implications for many grassland species that require diverse vegetation patches and structure throughout their life or patches that have limited availability in the absence of fire. The lesser prairie-chicken (<i>Tympanuchus pallidicinctus</i>) is a declining species of prairie-grouse that require heterogeneous grasslands throughout their life-history and fire has been removed from much of their range. Patch-burn grazing is a management strategy that introduces fire to a system and increases grassland heterogeneity. We sought to understand the effects of patch-burn grazing on lesser prairie-chicken space-use, habitat, and vegetation selection during a 4-year field study from 2014–2017. We found that female lesser prairie-chickens selected 1- and 2-year post fire patches during the lekking season, >3-year post-fire patches during the nesting season, and year-of-fire and 1-year post-fire patches during post-nesting and nonbreeding seasons. Vegetation selection was similar to available vegetation in patches that were selected during the nesting and nonbreeding season. Vegetation selection during the lekking and post-nesting seasons was not similar to available vegetation in selected patches, suggesting that lesser prairie-chickens are cuing in on other factors during this season. Because lesser prairie-chickens selected all available patches during their life-history, patch-burn grazing may be a viable management tool to maintain heterogeneity on the landscape and help control woody encroachment in the eastern portion of their range.
Kretzer, J. E., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2001. A new Kansas record for Bolborhombus sallaei sallaei Bates (Coleoptera: Scarabaiedae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 74:40.	June 2001
Kretzer, J. A., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2001. Prairie dog effects on harvester ant species diversity and density. Journal of Range Management 54:11-14.	January 2001
Kretzer, J. A., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2001. Black-tailed prairie dog effects on reptile and amphibian community composition in Kansas shortgrass prairie. Southwestern Naturalist 46:171-177.	June 2001
Kraft, J. D., D. A. Haukos, M. R. Bain, M. B. Rice, S. G Robinson, D. S. Sullins, C. A. Hagen, J. Pitman, J. Lautenbach, R. Plumb, and J. Lautenbach. 2021. Managing herbaceous structure for a heterogeneity-dependent bird. Journal of Wildlife Management 85:354–368. DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21984	February 2021
Kostelnick, J. C., D. L. Peterson, S. L. Egbert, K. M. McNyset, and J. F. Cully. In Press. Ecological niche modeling of black-tailed prairie dog habitts in Kansas using geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, and genetic algorithm for risk-set prediction (GARP). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Sciences 110:186-200.	October 2007
Kennedy, C. G., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, J. T. Finn, L. A. Deegan. 2015. Discontinuities concentrate mobile predators: Quantifying organism-environment interactions at a seascape scale. Ecosphere 7(2):e01226. 10.1002/ecs2.1226. \| Abstract	March 2016	ABSTRACT Understanding environmental drivers of spatial patterns is an enduring ecological problem critical to successful environmental conservation. Spatial discontinuities, both naturally occurring (e.g., river confluence, forest edge, drop-off) and anthropogenic (e.g., dams, roads), can strongly influence the distribution of highly mobile organisms that have land or seascape scale home ranges. Critical information about drivers of spatial patterns may be missed if only regularly-occurring environmental variables (e.g., depth, substrate, current velocity) are considered. A geomorphic discontinuity framework, expanded to include ecological patterns, provides a different way of examining organism-environment relationships that can capture the influence of these important but irregularly-distributed environmental conditions. Here, we test if highly mobile striped bass (Morone saxatilis) on a coastal feeding migration are consistently and predictably concentrated by spatial discontinuities. Specifically, we quantified the distribution of 50 acoustically-tagged striped bass relative to six types of physical features (sand bars, confluences, drop-offs, depth, channel proximity, region) during four monthly surveys at 40 sites within Plum Island Estuary (PIE). All striped bass survived tagging, were coastal migrants, displayed seasonal residency within PIE, and moved frequently within the estuary ecosystem. Striped bass were predictably and consistently clustered in the middle region of PIE at sites with high sandbar area, close to channel networks, adjacent to complex confluences, and at intermediate levels of bottom unevenness. In addition, the highest striped bass counts occurred at sites with the greatest additive heterogeneity (i.e., where multiple discontinuities co-occurred). Thus, the ecological discontinuity framework provided new insights about how mobile predators were distributed at the seascape scale that did not emerge from traditional habitat use perspectives. Consequently, our approach provides a fundamentally different way of looking at interactions among mobile animals and seascape-scale natural and anthropogenic physical features.
Kennedy, C. G., M. E, Mather, and J. M. Smith. 2017. Quantifying integrated, spatially-explicit, ecologically-relevant, physical heterogeneity within an estuarine seascape. Estuaries and Coasts, 40(5): 1385-1397; https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-016-0207-9; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12237-016-0207-9 \| Abstract	April 2017	Abstract In marine and estuarine ecosystems, quantifying spatially explicit patterns of physical heterogeneity is essential for meaningful ecological research and effective resource management. To identify site specific patterns of ecologically relevant heterogeneity, we asked three research questions for which we measured 23 geomorphic metrics at 40 sites within Plum Island Estuary (PIE), MA. Quantifying spatial patterns for complex physical features (e.g., confluences, bathymetric variation, channel networks, land features) provided several insights about seascape scale physical heterogeneity. First, individual metrics that described a single complex physical feature (e.g. confluence) showed different geographic patterns. When we used a cluster analysis to combine metrics from the same individual feature, we identified five patterns of confluences and three patterns of drop-offs throughout PIE. Second, because different types of physical features also varied in their geographic patterns, we developed and tested two indicators of overall physical heterogeneity. These overall heterogeneity indices combined physical features at specific sites via either a cluster analysis or an additive index. Third, these spatial patterns of overall physical heterogeneity were related to concentrations of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) within Plum Island Estuary. Specifically, more of these structure-oriented fish predators occurred at geographic locations with high overall heterogeneity (i.e., within a single heterogeneity cluster and at sites with the highest additive heterogeneity index values). With the creation and analysis of new metrics for individual and combined physical features, we have provided insights into spatially explicit patterns of physical heterogeneity that are relevant to seascape scale predator research and management.
Keller, A. D., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2002. Small Mammal Responses To Tallgrass Prairie Restoration From Fescue Pastures (Kansas). Ecological Restoration 20:279-280.	December 2002
Kearns, B., S. McDowell, J. Moon, E. Rigby, W. C. Conway, and D. Haukos. 2019. Distribution of contaminants in the environment and wildlife habitat use: a case study with lead and waterfowl on the Upper Texas Coast. Ecotoxicology DOI 10.1007/s10646-019-02079-1	August 2019
Kearns, B., P. Walther, W. Conway, and D. Haukos. 2015. Factors affecting fat content in mottled ducks on upper Texas Gulf Coast. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies 2:274-280	April 2015
Johnson, W.P, M.B. Rice, D.A. Haukos, and P. Thorpe. 2011. Factors influencing the occurrence of inundated playa wetlands during winter on the Texas High Plains. Wetlands 31;1287-1296.	December 2011
Johnson, T. L., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2005. Effects of colony connectivity on the spread of sylvatic plague (Yersinia pestis) in black-tailed prairie dogs across the Great Plains. Second Symposium Proceedings, The History, Ecology, and Economy of the Thunder Basin Prairie Ecosystem. J. B. Haufler, ed. CD	June 2005
Johnson, T. L., J. F. Cully, Jr., S. K. Collinge, C. Ray, C. M. Frey, B. K. Sandercock. 2011. Spread of sylvatic plague among black-tailed prairie dogs is associated with colony spatial characteristics. Journal of Wildlife Management 75:357-368.	January 2011
Johnson, L.A., D.A. Haukos, L.M. Smith, and S.T. McMurry. 2012. Loss of playa wetlands on the Southern Great Plains. Journal of Environmental Management 112:275-283.	July 2012
Jensen. W. E., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2005. Geographic variation in cowbird parasitism and dickcissel nesting success in Great Plains tallgrass prairie. The Auk 122:148-660.	April 2005
Jensen. W. E., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2005. Density-dependent habitat selection by a brood-parasitic cowbird in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia 142:136-149	February 2005
Hoch, G. A., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 1999. Effects of temporal variability in ground data collection on classification accuracy. Geocarto International 14:5-11.	December 1999
Hitchman, Sean, M., Martha E. Mather, Joseph M. Smith. 2021. Does type, quantity, and location of habitat matter for fish diversity in a Great Plains riverscape? Fisheries. https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fsh.10634	August 2021
Hitchman, S.M, M. E. Mather, J. Smith, and J. Fencl. 2018. Identifying keystone habitats with a mosaic approach can improve biodiversity conservation in disturbed ecosystems. Global Change Biology 2017;1–14. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.13846; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.13846/epdf	July 2017
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, J. S. Fencl. 2018. Habitat mosaics and path analysis can improve biological conservation of aquatic biodiversity in ecosystems with low-head dams. Science of the Total Environment 619–620: 221–231 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.10.272; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004896971732990X	April 2018
Haukos, D.A., and J.C. Zavaleta. 2015. Habitat. Pages 99-132 in D.A. Haukos, and C.W. Boal (editors). Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology, CRC Press.	February 2016
Haukos, D.A., and C.W. Boal (editors). 2016. Ecology and conservation of lesser prairie-chickens. Studies in Avian Ecology, No. 48. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, USA. 376 pp.	February 2016
Haukos, D.A., L.A. Johnson, L.M. Smith, and S.T. McMurry. 2016. Effectiveness of vegetation buffers surrounding playa wetlands at contaminant and sediment amelioration. Journal of Environmental Management 181:552-562.	August 2016
Haukos, D.A., J.C. Pitman, G.M. Beauprez, and D.D Schoeling. 2015. Harvest. Pages 133-158 in D.A. Haukos, and C.W. Boal (editors). Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology, CRC Press.	February 2016
Haukos, D.A., C.W. Boal, S. Carleton, and B. Grisham. 2018. Roles of Cooperative Research Units in contemporary conservation of natural resources. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 80:124-132.	October 2018
Haukos, D.A., A. Flanders, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. Lesser prairie-chickens of the sand sagebrush prairie. Pp. 281-298 in D.A. Haukos and C.W. Boal (editors). Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens, No. 49 Studies in Avian Biology, CRC Press.	February 2016
Haukos, D.A. 2022. Applying key concepts: management of harvested species. Chapter 12 in E. Gomez, C. Bishop, and J. Organ, editors. Introduction to Wildlife Management and Conservation in North America: An Overview. Great River Learning, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.	December 2022
Haukos, D.A. 2015. Estimates of annual survival of mottled ducks from band-recovery data in the Western Gulf Coast population. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Game Agencies 2:214-220.	April 2015
Haukos, D.A. 2013. Wetland Sampling Design and Logistics. Pages 1-48 In: Wetland Techniques, Volume I: Foundations. J.T. Anderson and C. A. Davis (editors). Springer, New York, New York.	October 2013
Haukos, D.A. 2012. Wetland Ecosystems (Book Review). Ecology 93:215-216.	December 2012
Haukos, D.A. 2011. Use of tebuthiuron to restore sand shinnery oak grasslands of the Southern High Plains. Pages 103-124 In Mohammed Naguib and Abd El-Ghany Hasaneen (Ed.), Herbicides – mechanisms and mode of action. ISBN: 978-953-307-744-4, InTech, \| Publisher Website	December 2011
Hansen, K. A., and C. P. Paukert. 2009. Current management of paddlefish sport fishes. Pages 277-290 In: C. P. Paukert and G. Scholten, editors. Paddlefish Management, Propagation, and Conservation in the 21st Century: Building from 20 years of Research and Management. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.	December 2009
Hagy, H.M., S.C. Yaich, D.A. Haukos, W.C. Johnson, C.R. Loesch, F. Reid, J. Simpson, S. Stephens, R.W. Tiner, B. Werner, and G. Yarris. 2014. Wetland issues affecting waterfowl conservation in North America. Wildfowl Special Issue 4:343-367.	December 2014
Hagen, C.A., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, and D.A. Haukos. 2013. A meta-analysis of lesser prairie-chicken nesting and brood rearing habitats: implications for habitat management. Wildlife Society Bulletin 37:750 - 758.	August 2013
Grisham, B.A., J.C. Zavaleta, A.C. Behney, P.K. Borsdorf, D.R. Lucia, C.W. Boal, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Ecology and Conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens in Sand Shinnery Oak Prairies. Pp. 315-344 in D.A. Haukos and C.W. Boal (editors), Ecology and conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology (no. 48), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. \| Abstract	February 2016	Abstract. Sand shinnery oak (Quercus havardii) prairies are unique ecosystems endemic to sandy soils of eastern New Mexico, northwestern Texas, and western Oklahoma; the historic and current distribution of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) overlaps these prairie systems. Lesser Prairie-Chicken populations in sand shinnery oak prairies of the Southern Great Plains have declined substantially since the late 1980s, most likely due to conversion of nesting and brood-rearing habitat to row-crop agriculture and extended periods of drought. In addition to threats universal throughout the species distribution, this population is susceptible to a changing climate in an area that is already representative of an extreme environment for ground-nesting birds. Recent studies of Lesser Prairie-Chicken ecology in sand shinnery oak prairies have expanded our knowledge on the ecology and management of the species, but a thorough review of the historic and current literature is lacking. In addition, current management guidelines exist for Lesser Prairie-Chickens in mixed grass and sand sagebrush prairies, but there are no comprehensive management guidelines for the species in sand shinnery oak prairies. This information is paramount given unique aspects of the vegetation community, relative ecosystem drivers, and environmental variation in sand shinnery oak prairie and the species’ current status as a proposed threatened species under the United States Endangered Species Act. Herein, we provide a thorough synthesis of literature pertaining to the life history, habitat requirements, habitat management, and population management for Lesser Prairie-Chickens in sand shinnery oak prairie, provide management guidelines and recommendations for the species in this ecoregion, and highlight current and future research needs. Within our objectives, we place emphasis on two recently completed long-term investigations into Lesser Prairie-Chicken ecology in sand shinnery oak prairie - a 10-year vegetation data set collected in Roosevelt County, New Mexico, 2001–2011 and a 6-year Lesser Prairie-Chicken data set collected in Roosevelt County, New Mexico and Cochran, Hockley, Terry, and Yoakum counties, Texas, 2006–2012.
Grisham, B.A., C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, D.M. Davis, K.K. Boydston, C. Dixon, and W.R. Heck. 2013. The predicted influence of climate change on lesser prairie-chicken reporductive parameters. PLoS ONE 8(7):e68225, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068225 \| Abstract \| Publisher Website	July 2013	The Southern High Plains is anticipated to experience significant changes in temperature and precipitation due to climate change. These changes may influence the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in positive or negative ways. We assessed the potential changes in clutch size, incubation start date, and nest survival for lesser prairie-chickens for the years 2050 and 2080 based on modeled predictions of climate change and reproductive data for lesser prairie-chickens from 2001–2011 on the Southern High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. We developed 9 a priori models to assess the relationship between reproductive parameters and biologically relevant weather conditions. We selected weather variable(s) with the most model support and then obtained future predicted values from climatewizard.org. We conducted 1,000 simulations using each reproductive parameter’s linear equation obtained from regression calculations, and the future predicted value for each weather variable to predict future reproductive parameter values for lesser prairie-chickens. There was a high degree of model uncertainty for each reproductive value. Winter temperature had the greatest effect size for all three parameters, suggesting a negative relationship between above-average winter temperature and reproductive output. The above-average winter temperatures are correlated to La Niña events, which negatively affect lesser prairie-chickens through resulting drought conditions. By 2050 and 2080, nest survival was predicted to be below levels considered viable for population persistence; however, our assessment did not consider annual survival of adults, chick survival, or the positive benefit of habitat management and conservation, which may ultimately offset the potentially negative effect of drought on nest survival.
Grisham, B.A., A. Godar, C.W. Boal, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Interactive effects between nest microclimate and nest vegetation structure confirm microclimate thresholds for Lesser Prairie-Chicken nest survival. Condor 118:728-746.	October 2016
Greene, D.U., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, R.D. Cox, S.R. Fritts, and W.R. Heck. 2024. Lesser Prairie-Chicken Brood Ecology on the Southern High Plains of Texas. Journal of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 11:110-118.	May 2024
Granco, G., J.L. Heier Stamm, J.S. Bergtold, M.D. Daniels, M.R. Sanderson, A.Y. Sheshukov, M. Mather, M.M. Caldas, S.M. Ramsey, R. Lehrter, D. Haukos,J. Gao, S. Chatterjee, J. Nifong, and J. Aistrup. 2019. Evaluating environmental change and behavioral decision-making for sustainability policy using an agent-based model: a case study for the Smoky Hill River Watershed, Kansas. Science of the Total Environment 695, 133769 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133769	December 2019
Granco, G. M. M. Caldas, J. . Bergtold, J, Heier-Stamm, M. E. Mather, M. R. Sanderson, M. D. Daniels, A. Y. Sheshukov, D. A. Haukos, and S. M. Ramsey. 2022. Local environment and individuals’ beliefs: the dynamics shaping public support for sustainability policy in an agricultural landscape. Journal of Environmental Management 301 (1) 113776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.113776	January 2022
Godar, A. A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2023. Ring-necked pheasant brood habitat selection and movements in an intensive agricultural landscape. Prairie Naturalist 56:107-123.	October 2023
Gerber, K. M., M. E. Mather, and J. M. Smith. 2019. Multiple metrics provide context for the distribution of a highly mobile fish predator, the blue catfish. Ecology of Freshwater Fish 128:141-155. https://doi.org/10.1111/eff.12438	January 2019
Gerber, K. M., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith. 2017. A suite of standard post-tagging evaluation metrics can help assess tag retention for field-based fish telemetry research. Reviews in Fisheries and Fish Biology 27 (3): 651–664; DOI: 10.1007/s11160-017-9484-z; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-017-9484-z	May 2017
Gerber, K. M., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, and Z. Peterson. 2019. Evaluation of a field protocol for internally-tagging fish predators using difficult-to-tag ictalurid catfish as examples. Fisheries Research: 209:58-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.09.003	January 2019
Gehrt, J.M., D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Looking at the bigger picture: how abundance of nesting and brooding habitat influences lek-site selection by lesser prairie-chickens. American Midland Naturalist 183:52-77.	January 2020
Gehrt, J.M., D.A. Moon, S.C. Stratton, and D.A. Haukos. 2022. Role of landscape features in resource selection by female Greater Prairie-chickens within a constrained environment. Global Ecology and Conservation 38 (2022):e02267.	August 2022
Gehrt, J.M, D.S. Sullins, B.H.F. Verheijen, and D.A. Haukos. 2023. Extrinsic variables most influence incubation behavior and nest success of an imperiled grouse species. Ecology and Evolution 13:e10509.	September 2023
Fritts, S.F., B.A. Grisham, D.A. Haukos, C.W. Boal, M.A. Patten, D.H. Wolfe, C.E. Dixon, R.D. Cox, and W.R. Heck. 2016. Long-term evaluation of lesser prairie-chicken nest ecology in response to grassland restoration at two spatial scales. Journal of Wildlife Management 80:527-539.	April 2016
Fritts, S. R., B. A. Grisham, R. D. Cox, C. W. Boal, D. A. Haukos, P. McDaniel, C. A. Hagen, and D. U. Greene. 2018. Interactive effects of severe drought and grazing on the life history cycle of a bioindicator species. Ecology and Evolution 8:9550–9562 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4432	September 2018
Franssen, N. R., K. B. Gido, C. S. Guy, J. A. Tripe, S. J. Schrank, T. R. Strakosh, K. N. Bertrand, C. M. Franssen, K. L. Pitts, and C. P. Paukert. 2006. Effects of floods and intermittence on fish assemblages in a prairie stream. Freshwater Biology 51:2072-2086	October 2006
Frank, H. F, M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, R. M. Muth, J. T. Finn. 2011. Role of Origin and Release Location in Pre-spawning Movements of Anadromous Alewives. Fisheries Management and Ecology 18:12–24.	January 2011
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2009. Spatial scale of stream fish assemblage and abundance estimates: effects of sampling effort, community structure, and habitat heterogeneity. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66:277-290.	January 2009
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Historical and current environmental influences of an endemic Great Plains fish. American Midland Naturalist 159:364-377.	April 2008
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Habitat relationships with fish assemblages in least disturbed Great Plains regions. Ecology of Freshwater Fish, doi: 10. 1111/j. 1600-0633. 2008. 00311. x.	June 2008
Ferry, K. H., and M. E. Mather. 2012. Spatial and temporal diet patterns of young adult and subadult striped bass feeding in Massachusetts estuaries: trends across scales. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science 4:30–45	March 2012
Fencl, J., M. Mather, J. Smith, and S. Hitchman. 2017. The blind men and the elephant examine biodiversity at low-head dams: are we all dealing with the same dam reality? Ecosphere 8 (1): 1-17; DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1973; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.1973/full	November 2017
Fencl, J. S., M. E. Mather, K. Costigan, and M. D, Daniels. 2015. How Big of an Effect Do Small Dams Have?; Using Geomorphological Footprints to Quantify Spatial Impact of Low-Head Dams and Identify Patterns of Across-Dam Variation PLoS ONE 10(11): e0141210. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0141210 \| Abstract	November 2015	Abstract Longitudinal connectivity is a fundamental feature of streams and rivers that can be broken by dams. Over 2,000,000 low-head dams (<6 m high) fragment United States streams and rivers and can alter biodiversity. Despite potential adverse impacts of this ubiquitous disturbance, the spatial impact of low-head dams is largely unknown. Progress for research and conservation is impaired by not knowing how low-head dams affect natural systems or the magnitude of their impact. Based on the geomorphic literature, we refined a methodology that allowed us to quantify the spatial impact of low-head dam impacts (i.e., dam footprint), assess variation in dam footprints across individual low-head dams within a single watershed, and identify select aspects of the ecological context of this variation. We quantified width, depth, and substrate profiles upstream and downstream of six low-head dams within the Upper Neosho River subdrainage, Kansas. Based on changes in substrate size, dam footprints averaged 6.7 km upstream (range 2.2 – 13.7), 1.2 km downstream (range 0.2 to 1.6), and 7.9 km total (3-15.3) footprint per dam. Together, these alterations disturb 47.3 km of the Upper Neosho River subdrainage. Despite differences in size, location, and original function, the geomorphic footprints of the six low-head dams in the upper Neosho drainage were relatively similar. The number of upstream dams and proximity to upstream dams, but not dam height, affected the spatial extent of dam footprints. In summary, ubiquitous low-head dams can individually and cumulatively alter lotic ecosystems. Both characteristics of individual dams and the ecological context of neighboring dams affect low-head dam impacts within and across watersheds. For these reasons, low-head dams require a different approach for research and management than the individualistic approach that has been applied to larger dams.
Faust, D.R., N. Knowles, E. McGruder, D.A. Haukos, G.P. Cobb, J.D. Maul, T.A.Anderson, and P.N. Smith. 2012. Inorganic and Organic Contaminants in Sediments from an Urban Playa and Associated Toxicity among Hyalella Azteca. Toxicology and Environmental Chemistry 94:1746-1757	October 2012
Eitzmann, J. L., and C. P. Paukert. 2010. Longitudinal differences in habitat complexity and fish assemblage structure of a Great Plains River. American Midland Naturalist 163:14-32	January 2010
Eitzmann, J. L., A. S. Makinster, and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Distribution and growth of blue suckers in a Great Plains, USA river. Fisheries Management and Ecology 14:255-262.	August 2007
Earl, J.E., S.D. Fuhlendorf, D. Haukos, A.M. Tanner, D. Elmore, and S.A. Carleton. 2016. Characteristics of lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) long-distance movements across their distribution. Ecosphere 7(8):e01441. 10.1002/ecs2.1441	August 2016
Doyle, W., C. P. Paukert, A. Starostka, and T. D. Hill. 2008. A comparison of four sampling gears used to collect shovelnose sturgeon in the Lower Missouri River. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 24:637-642.	September 2008
Davis, N, and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Impact of gravel bar scalping on Neosho madtom populations from the Lower Neosho River, Kansas. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23:501-511.	December 2008
Daniel, D.W., L.M. Smith, D.A. Haukos, L.A. Johnson, and S.T. McMurry. 2014. Land use and Conservation Reserve Program effects on the persistence of playa wetlands in the High Plains. Environmental Science and Technology 48:4282-4288.	April 2014
Cully, J. F., Jr., and S. L. Winter. 2000. Evaluation of Land Condition Trend Analysis on a Kansas military training site. Environmental Management 25:625-633.	January 2000
Cully, J. F., Jr., and H. L. Michaels. 2000. Henslow's sparrows habitat associations on Kansas tallgrass prairie. Wilson Bulletin 112:115-123.	January 2000
Cully, J. F., Jr., and E. S. Williams. 2001. Interspecific comparisons of sylvatic plague in prairie dogs. Journal of Mammalogy 82:894-905.	November 2001
Cully, J. F., Jr., T. L. Johnson, S. K. Collinge, and C. Ray. In Press. Disease limits populations: Plague and black-tailed prairie dogs. Vector Borne and Zoonotic Diseases \| Download	January 2010
Cully, J. F., Jr., S. K. Collinge, R. E. VanNimwegen, C. Ray, W. P. Johnson, B. Thiagarajan, D. B. Conlin, and B. Holmes. 2010. Spatial variation in keystone effects: small mammal diversity associated with black-tailed prairie dog colonies. Ecography 33:1-11. \| Download	January 2010
Cully, J. F., Jr., P. R. Lemons, II, and R. D. Applegate. 1999. Results of a wild turkey release in Kansas tallgrass prairie. Prairie Naturalist 31:33-41.	November 1999
Cully, J. F., Jr., L. G. Carter, and K. L. Gage. 2000. New records of sylvatic plague in Kansas. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 36:389-392.	January 2000
Cully, J. F., Jr., D. E. Biggins, and D. S. Seery. 2006. Conservation of black-tailed prairie dogs in areas with a history of sylvatic plague. Pps. 157-168 In: J. L. Hoogland (Ed. ). Conservation of the black-tailed prairie dog. Island Press.	January 2006
Cully, J. F., Jr. 2002. Plague in black-tailed prairie dogs: Implications for management at Thunder Basin National Grassland. Pp not numbered. In: The history, ecology and economy of the Thunder Basin Prairie Ecosystem, N. O. Geehan and J. Haufler eds.	June 2002
Cully, J. F., Jr. 1999. Lone star tick abundance, fire, and bison grazing in tallgrass prairie. J. Range Manage. 52:139-144.	January 1999
Cully, A. C., J. F. Cully, Jr., and R D. Hiebert. 2003. Exotic plant species in tallgrass prairie fragments. Conservation Biology 17:990-998.	August 2003
Combe, F. J., L. Jaster, A. Ricketts, D. Haukos, and A. G. Hope. 2022. Population genomics of free ranging Great Plains white-tailed and mule deer reflects a long history of inter-specific hybridization. Evolutionary Applications 15:111-131. http://doi.org/10.1111/eva.13330	January 2022
Collinge, S. K., W. C. Johnson, C. Ray, R. Matchett, J. Gersten, J. F. Cully, Jr., K. S. Gage, M. Y. Kosoy, J. E. Loye, and A. P. Martin. 2005. Testing the generality of a trophic cascade model for plague. EcoHealth 1(1):1-11.	March 2005
Collinge, S. K., W. C. Johnson, C. Ray, R. Matchett, J. Gersten, J. F. Cully, Jr., K. L. Gage, M. L. Kosoy, J. E. Loye, and A. P. Martin. 2005. Landscape structure and plague occurrence in black-tailed prairie dogs. Landscape Ecology 20:941-945	November 2005
Collinge, S. K., C. Ray, and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2008. Effects of disease on keystone species, dominant species, and their communities. Cary ConferenceProceedings.	February 2008
Chestnut- Faull, K. C., M. Mather, Q. Phelps, D. Shoup. 2022. A review of empirical evidence related to the effectiveness of harvest regulation evaluations: a systematic, standardized collaborative approach to data collection. Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10808 \| Abstract	August 2022	<b>Abstract</b><br>Harvest regulations are important tools that fisheries professionals use to impact fish abundance, alter population size structure, and improve fishing opportunities.<b> </b>Fisheries professionals often assume that specialized harvest regulations will have specific effects on target fish populations, but these predictions are not always realized because theory and practice don’t always match.<b> </b>To identify trends that can improve the future success of harvest regulations, we reviewed a representative sample of harvest regulation evaluations for inland sportfish (i.e., 62 evaluations from 41 studies). Our review revealed gaps related to quantitative predictions, statistical design, evaluation duration, researcher-manager collaboration, and data standardization. We encourage fisheries professionals to join together to systematically evaluate every change in harvest regulations. Shared and thoughtful data collection designs and protocol standardizations, which include the recommendations made in this call-to-action, can transform every regulation application into an empirical evaluation that provides generality across locations and time periods with similar effort and cost.
Caldas, M.M, M. Sanderson, M. Mather, M. Daniels, J. Bergtold, J. Aistrup, J.H. Stamm, D. Haukos, K. Mankin, A. Sheshukov, and D. Carr-Lopez. 2015. Bringing culture into sustainability science research and policy. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences 112:8157-8159.	July 2015
Caldas, M., M. Mather, J. Bergtold, M. Daniels, G. Granco, J. Aistrup, D. Haukos, A.Y. Sheshukov, M. Sanderson, and J.L. Heier Stamm. 2019. Understanding the Central Great Plains as a coupled climatic-hydrological-human system: Lessons learned in operationalizing interdisciplinary collaboration. Pages 265-294 In Dr. Stephen Perz, editor. Collaboration across boundaries for social-ecological systems science: experiences around the world. Palgrave-Macmillian, Cham, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13827-1	April 2019
Brinkley, P., Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Effects of fixative on total length of small bodies stream fishes. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 23:471-473.	September 2008
Brinkerhoff, R. J., C. Ray, B. Thiagarajan, S. K. Collinge, J. F. Cully, Jr., B. Holmes, and K. L. Gage. 2008. Prairie dog presence affects occurrence of disease vectors on small mammals. Ecography 31:654-662.	July 2008
Bouska, W. W., and C. P. Paukert. 2010. Road crossing designs and their impact on fish assemblages of Great Plains streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:214-222.	January 2010
Bouska, W. W., and C. P. Paukert. 2010. Effects of visible implant elastomer mark color on the predation of red shiners by largemouth bass. Fisheries Management and Ecology 17:294-296.	June 2010
Boal, C.W. and D.A. Haukos. 2016. The Lesser Prairie-Chicken: a brief introduction to the grouse of the Southern Great Plains. Pp. 1-12 in D.A. Haukos and C.W. Boal (editors), Ecology and conservation of Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology (no. 48), CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.	February 2016
Blake A. Grisham, B.A., C.W. Boal, N.R. Mitchell, T.S. Gicklhorn, P.K. Borsdorf, D.A. Haukos, and C. Dixon. 2015. Evaluation of Capture Techniques on Lesser Prairie-Chicken Trap Injury and Survival. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 6:318-326. \| Publisher Website	December 2015
Black, A.N., K.J. Bondo, A. Mularo, A. Hernandez, Y. Yu, C.M. Stein, A. Gregory, K.A. Fricke, J. Prendergast, D. Sullins, D. Haukos, M. Whitson, B. Grisham, Z. Lowe, and J.A. DeWoody. 2023. A highly-contiguous and annotated genome assembly of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Genome Biology and Evolution 2023: evad043. doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad043	March 2023
Black, A.N., A.J. Mularo, J.Y. Jeon, D. Haukos, K.J. Bondo, K.A. Fricke, A. Gregory, B. Grisham, Z.E. Lowe, and J.A. DeWoody. 2024. Discordance between taxonomy and population genomic data can complicate conservation policies. PNAS Nexus 3:298. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae298	July 2024
Berigan, L.A., C.S.H. Aulicky, E.C. Teige, D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, J.H. Reitz, L.G. Rossi, K.A. Schultz, and A.M. Ricketts. 2022. Availability of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nesting Habitat Impairs Restoration Success. Wildlife Society Bulletin 2022:e1379	October 2022
Berigan, L.A. C.S.H. Aulicky, E.C. Teige, D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, J.H. Reitz, L.G. Rossi, K.A. Schultz, M.B. Rice, E. Tanner, and S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2024. Lesser prairie-chicken dispersal after translocation: implications for restoration and population connectivity. Ecology and Evolution 14:e10871.	January 2024
Berigan, L. A., C. S. Aulicky, E. C. Teige, D. S. Sullins, K. A. Fricke, J. H. Reitz, and D. A. Haukos. 2024. Lesser prairie‐chicken dispersal after translocation: Implications for restoration and population connectivity. Ecology and Evolution, 14: e10871. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.10871.	January 2024
Bergtold, J. S., M. M. Caldas, S. R. Ramsey, M. R. Sanderson, G. Granco, and M. E. Mather. 2022. The gap between experts, farmers and non-farmers on perceived environmental vulnerability and the influence of values and beliefs. Journal of Environmental Management 316 (2022) 115186 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115186 \| Abstract	May 2022	<b>Abstract. </b>Science has played a mixed role in guiding conservation and sustainability-oriented decision-making by individuals, policymakers, institutions, and governments. Not all science-based conservation and sustainability initiatives that address issues facing humanity and ecosystems and global problems have gained public support. Conservation decisions and policy prescriptions are and may be based on perceptions about and experiences with the environment, local land use, and ecosystems that may not align with or be grounded in science or evidence from experts in the field. Social values, perceptions, and beliefs associated with nature play a critical role in how individuals view biodiversity conservation, sustainability, and natural resource management. This study first examines the gap between the public and scientists/experts about the state of water and land resources, wildlife and associated habitats, and aquatic biodiversity in the Smoky Hill River Watershed in western Kansas. Second, the study examines the role that values and beliefs play in shaping environmental perceptions for farmers and non-farmers. Analysis confirms that a gap between experts and farmers/non-farmers does exist, especially with respect to the state of the Ogallala Aquifer, playas on the High Plains, native fish populations and non-hunted wildlife species. Ordered-logistic regression analyses, meanwhile, indicate that farmer/non-farmer perceptions about the state of the local environment are influenced by traditional and self-interested values as well as environmental values, while less influence is found for beliefs such as religiosity and political ideology. Despite broad takeaways, results exhibited heterogeneity across the farmer and non-farmer subpopulations. If environmental professionals can’t align ecological data, stakeholders values/perceptions, and policies, then the existing body of technical research and management on sustainability in natural and social sciences may be of little value.<b> </b>
Beldon, J., B. Hanson, L. Smith, S. McMurry, and D. Haukos. 2012. Assessment of the Effects of Farming and Conservation Programs on Pesticide Deposition in High Plains Wetlands. Environmental Science and Technology 46:3424-3432.	December 2012
Behney, A.C., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, H.A.Whitlaw, and D.A. Haukos. 2012. Sexual selection and mating chronology of lesser prairie-chickens. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124:96-105	March 2012
Becker, T.A., A.A. Ahlers, S. Hesting, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Spatiotemporal distribution of waterfowl disease outbreaks in Kansas, USA. Prairie Naturalist 50:4-14.	June 2018
Bai, Y., M. Y. Kosoy, J. F. Cully, Jr., T. Bala, C. Ray, S. K. Collinge. 2007. Acquisition of non-specific Bartonella strains by the northern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys leucogaster). FEMS Microbiol. Ecol. 61:438-448	August 2007
Bai, Y., M. Y. Kosoy, C. H. Calisher, J. F. Cully, Jr., and S. K. Collinge. 2009. Effects of rodent community diversity and composition on prevalence of an endemic bacterial pathogen - Bartonella. Biodiversity 10:3-11 \| Download	October 2009
Austin, J., M. Miller, D. Haukos, J. Fleskes, R. Clark, and K. Guyn. 2013. Northern Pintail (Anas acuta), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/163	December 2014
Augustine, D. J., M. R. Matchett, T. P. Toombs, J. F. Cully, Jr., T. L. Johnson, J. G. Sidle. 2008. Spatiotemporal dynamics of black-tailed prairie dog colonies affected by plague. Landscape Ecology DOI: 10. 1007/s10980-007-9175-6	September 2008
Augustine, D. J., J. F. Cully, Jr., T. L. Johnson. In Press. Influence of fire on black-tailed prairie dog colony expansion in shortgrass steppe. Rangeland Ecology and Management 62(1):89-97. 2007	September 2007
Ashbaugh, H.M., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, C.E. Comer, and A.D. French. 2018. Evidence for exposure to selenium by breeding interior snowy plovers (Charadrius nivosus) in saline systems of the Southern Great Plains. Ecotoxicology doi.org/10.1007/s10646-018-1952-2	May 2018
Andersson, K., C.A. Davis, G. Harris, and D.A. Haukos. 2022 Changes in waterfowl migration phenologies in central North America: implications for future waterfowl conservation. PLoS ONE 17(5): e0266785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0266785	May 2022
Andersson, K., C.A. Davis, G. Harris, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Nonbreeding duck use and management contribution trends for Central Flyway refuges. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 9:45-64. http://www.fwspubs.org/doi/pdf/10.3996/042017-JFWM-033	June 2018
Andersson, K., C. Davis, G. Harris, and D. Haukos. 2015. An Assessment of Nonbreeding Waterfowl Surveys on National Wildlife Refuges in the Central Flyway. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:79-86. \| Download	January 2015
Alexander, J.A., W.H. Fick, S.B. Ogden, D.A. Haukos, J. Lemmon, G.A. Gatson, and K.C. Olson. 2021. Effects of prescribed fire timing on vigor of sericea lespedeza (Lespedeza cuneata) total forage biomass accumulation, plant-community composition, and native fauna on tallgrass prairie in the Kansas Flint Hills. Translational Animal Science 5:1-16 doi:10.1093/tas/txab079	April 2021
Albanese, G., and D.A. Haukos. 2017. A network model framework for prioritizing wetland conservation in the Great Plains. Landscape Ecology 32:115-130.	January 2017
Albanese, G., and D. Haukos. 2019. Toward a theory of connectivity among depressional wetlands of the Great Plains: resiliency to natural and anthropogenic disturbance within a wetland network. Pages 159-176 in E. Beever, S. Prange, and J. Franklin (editors). Disturbance Ecology and Biological Diversity: Context, Nature, and Scale. CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.	September 2019
Adam E. Rosenblatt1,*, Michael R. Heithaus2, Martha E. Mather3, Philip Matich1, James C. Nifong4, William J. Ripple5, Brian R. Silliman6. 2013. Coastal top predators and long-term ecological research. Oceanography 26(3):156–167	September 2013
*Gerken, J., and C. Paukert. 2009. Threats to paddlefish habitats. Pages 173-184 In C. P. Paukert and G. Scholten, editors. Paddlefish management, propagation, and conservation in the 21st century: building from 20 years of research and management. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.	December 2009

Presentations

Presentations	Presentation Date
Wong, M., and J.F. Cully, Jr. 1999. Geographics patterns of Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) genetic variability in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri. 61st Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. Chicago, IL.	November 1999
Winter, S.L., J.F. Cully, Jr., and R.E. Charlton. 1999. Bird monitoring program based on remotely sensed land cover classification in a Kansas prairie location. 61st Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. Chicago, IL.	November 1999
Winders, K., and C. Paukert. Reduction in the abundance and condition of native fishes after invasion of white perch. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS. 28 January 2009.	January 2009
Wilson, R. H., D. S. Sullins, K. Gido. 2025. Quantifying avian predation rates of the Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius). Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.	January 2025	The Colorado pikeminnow (<i>Ptychocheilus lucius</i>), a federally endangered fish species, historically inhabited much of the Colorado River Basin. One potential factor contributing to the conservation status of this species is predation by avian piscivores. Our study will quantify predation loss of Colorado pikeminnow to avian predators and assess avian predator abundance along the San Juan River. This study seeks to inform conservation of Colorado pikeminnow in the San Juan River ecosystem.
Whittier, J., C. Paukert, and J. Olden. Modeling local and watershed drivers of native and non-native fishes in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Western Division of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.	May 2009
Whittier, J. B., C. P. Paukert, and J. D Olden. 2008. Spatial patterns in the distribution and conservation of imperiled fishes in the Lower Colorado River Basin. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Whitson. W.D., B.A. Grisham, C.A. Hagen, W.C. Conway, R. Howard, D.A. Haukos, and C. Villalobos. 2019. Lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection and nest success response to various prescribed burning and grazing regimes in eastern New Mexico. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma	November 2019	Landscape heterogeneity is important to lesser prairie-chickens. Nest success is dependent upon management practice.
Whitson. W.D., B.A. Grisham, C.A. Hagen, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C. Villalobos. 2020. Habitat selection and nest success response by lesser prairie-chickens to prescribed burning and grazing treatments. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, Texas.	February 2020	Landscape management is critical to persistence of lesser prairie-chicken populations. We document the response of lesser prairie-chickens to 5 grazing-fire treatments.
Whitson. M.D., B.A. Grisham, C.A. Hagen, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C. Villalobos. 2023. Sand shinnery oak prairie ecoregion plant community composition response to various spring prescribed-fire and post-fire regimes in eastern New Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.	February 2023	Understanding vegetation community response to prescribed fire and post-fire rest regimes can assist in more efficiently and effectively managing areas of Sand Shinnery Oak (Quercus havardii) Prairie Ecoregion. We surveyed plant community response to 5 spring prescribed-fire treatments, performed 2016 – 2021 by the BLM, using point-step transects (n = 385), identifying vegetation to species at points ~2 m apart along ~500-m transects.
Whitson. M.D., B.A. Grisham, C.A. Hagen, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C. Villalobos. 2022. Habitat selection and nest success response of lesser prairie-chicken to prescribed burning and grazing. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society.	February 2022	We used GPS satellite telemetry transmitters to monitor nesting success and habitat selection response by female lesser prairie-chickens to prescribed fire and grazing treatments. Additionally, quantification of plant community composition, invertebrate assemblages and biomass, and standing herbaceous biomass response to 5 spring prescribed-fire treatments, performed 2016-2022, and post-fire grazing treatments are being conducted to further analyze LEPC habitat selection and nest success respon
Whitson. M.D., B.A. Grisham, C.A. Hagen, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C. Villalobos. 2021. Habitat selection and nest success response of lesser prairie- chicken to prescribed burning and grazing. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Virtual presentation.	February 2021	Severe declines of LEPC occupied range and population abundance have increased the importance of improving habitat management efficacy and efficiency to optimize remaining available habitats and sustain existing populations. We used GPS satellite telemetry transmitters to monitor nesting success and habitat selection response by female lesser prairie-chickens to prescribed fire and grazing treatments.
Whitson, M.W., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, J.A. Moon, and P. Walther. 2019. Use of moist-soil management techniques for wintering waterfowl in fallow rice fields on the upper Texas Coast. Annual Meeting of The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Conroe, Texas.	February 2019	Moist-soil management is common wetland management strategy for food production to support wintering waterfowl. We evaluated the production of plants and invertebrates under a moist-soil management approach.
Whitson, M.D., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and D. Collins. 2016. Seed bank potential of moist-soil managed fallow rice fields on the upper Texas coast. 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD.	February 2016	Seed banks are the most ecological way to restore wetland systems. Emergence of predominately desirable wetland plants occurred within 31-150 days of management of fallow rice fields.
Whitson, M.D., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, J.A. Moon, and P. Walther. 2019. Use of moist-soil management of wintering waterfowl in fallow rice fields on the upper Texas coast. North American Duck Symposium, Winnipeg, Manitoba.	August 2019	Moist-soil management is a potential option to increase mottled duck habitat in former rice fields. Using moist-soil management increased the amount of available for mottled ducks.
Whitson, M.D., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, J.A. Moon, and P. Walther. 2019. Use of moist-soil management technique for wintering waterfowl in fallow rice fields on the upper Texas coast. North American Duck Symposium, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Poster	August 2019	Moist-soil management increase food availability for ducks on the Texas Gulf Coast. Slow drawdowns produce the greatest amount of food.
Whitson, M.D., T.V. Riecke, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, J.A. Moon, and P. Walther. 2016. Waterfowl identification skills by duck hunters on the upper Texas coast. 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD.	February 2016	Accurate identification of harvested birds is critical to the success of waterfowl regulations. In a survey of waterfowl hunters on the Texas coast, 25% of mottled ducks in hand were misidentified, which could be an issue in evaluating the effectiveness of harvest regulations.
White, K., *J. Gerken, C. Paukert, and A. Makinster. Fish community structure in natural and engineered habitats in the Kansas River. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010	February 2010
Whetten, A. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2024. Automated core area detection for prairie grouse in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2024	The identification of core areas for imperiled species is paramount for critical habitat designation and broadly informing conservation-targeted policies.We show how such an approach is useful for quantifying factors that describe magnitude of connectivity of a given lek to core areas.
Whetten, A. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. Estimation of contact time between animals from telemetry data. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	November 2023	Continuous processes in most applications are measured discretely with error. We show how the estimation of contact time can be used to study space use and inter-species interactions for movement data of many animals.
Whetten, A. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. A framework for clustering trajectories of telemetric data. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	Distinguishing groups of similar trajectories from a large collection is a non-trivial task that enhances exploratory data analysis and improves population-level inference. We propose a flexible framework for clustering trajectories of ecological telemetric data that allows expert-knowledge to determine the separating feature(s) in the clustering model using a framework compatible with Bayesian methods which account for sources of uncertainty unique to telemetric data.
Whetten, A. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. A Bayesian machine learning framework for animal telemetry data. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	Telemetry data (i.e., recorded locations over time) are a common type of ecological data that could benefit from the combination of ideas from Bayesian analysis and machine learning. We propose a framework for embedding supervised machine learning algorithms into hierarchical Bayesian models of animal movement usering an approach for estimating trajectories where portions of the model may be custom crafted to match study-specific objectives.
Weihs, B., and D. Haukos. 2014. Spatio-temporal inundation patterns of playa wetlands and saline lakes in the Southern High Plains, USA. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon.	May 2014	Wetlands of the western Great Plains are dynamic. We characterized annual variation in occurrence and amount of water from 1973 to current in the Southern High Plains.
Ware, M., J. Gehrt, and D. Haukos. 2023. Non-breeding space use and survival of a constrained population of Greater Prairie-chickens on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	We evaluated nonbreeding ecology of a constrained population of greater prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) on Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas, USA, which is one of the last intact large tracts of tall-grass prairie. Given the relatively high survival rate, high quality winter resources are present on Fort Riley, but foods on the Reservation may be limiting late in the nonbreeding season based on increasing crop use during late winter.
Ware, M., J. Gehrt, and D. Haukos. 2021. Non-breeding space use and survival of a constrained population of Greater Prairie-chickens on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	We estimated survival of greater prairie-chickens and measured resource and space use during the non-breeding season on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Geary and Riley counties, Kansas. Thirteen females survived to the non-breeding season with an apparent non-breeding survival of 61.5% for both years; greater prairie chickens selected for food plots but slightly against hayed areas; and only 2.22% of locations were outside of the boundaries of Fort Riley.
Ware, M., J. Gehrt, D. Haukos, D. Moon, and S. Stratton. 2024. Non-breeding space use and survival of a constrained population of greater prairie-chickens on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2024	We evaluated the nonbreeding ecology of greater prairie-chickens (GRPC; Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) on Fort Riley Military Reservation, Kansas, USA. High survival rates indicate quality winter resources on Fort Riley, which contributes to relatively successful reproductive effort by GRPCs.
Ware, M., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2024. Roost tree selection by wild turkeys in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Our objective was to characterize roost tree use, selection, and availability in Kansas, across a longitudinal precipitation gradient representing variation in abundance and distribution of forest cover types.Preliminary analyses indicated that Kansas turkeys use the tallest and largest diameter deciduous trees in the stand.<br><br>
Ware, M., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2024. Roost tree selection by wild turkeys in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Our objective was to characterize roost tree use, selection, and availability in Kansas, across a longitudinal precipitation gradient representing variation in abundance and distribution of forest cover types.Preliminary analyses indicated that Kansas turkeys use the tallest and largest diameter deciduous trees in the stand.
Vhay, M., Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2022. Assessment of lesser prairie-chicken habitat quality in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Reno, Nevada	June 2022	The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a prairie grouse that was once numerous throughout the southern Great Plains, particularly in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion of Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Our results suggest that anthropogenic disturbance has become increasingly prevalent since lesser prairie-chicken population peak and availability of habitat to support long-term population persistence has decreased.
Vhay, M., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2021. Assessing long-term changes in lesser prairie-chicken habitat quality across the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	Lesser prairie-chicken (<i>Tympanuchus pallidicinctus</i>) populations have declined by an estimated 90% in recent decades, with the lowest contemporary population estimates occurring in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion of the southwestern Great Plains. Our study will provide insight into aspects of marked change in habitat quality for lesser prairie-chickens in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion, providing a basis for investigation into finer-scale changes.
Vhay, M., D. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2023. Retrospective assessment of lesser prairie-chicken habitat quality in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	The lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) was once numerous throughout the southern Great Plains, particularly in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion of Kansas, Colorado, and Oklahoma; however, populations in the region have declined precipitously since 1985. Our results suggest that anthropogenic disturbance has become increasingly prevalent since lesser prairie-chicken population peak.
Vhay, M., D. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2022. Declining habitat quality and quantity for lesser prairie-chickens of the Sand Sagebrush Prairie. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Spokane, Washington.	November 2022	We reconstructed landscape-scale change in the Sand Sagebrush Ecoregion since 1985 to evaluate changes in habitat quality and quantity for a decline population of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Increased anthropogenic structures and decrease in vegetation vertical structure appears to have decreased available habitat as well as the quality of existing habitat.
Vhay, M., D. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2022. Assessment of lesser prairie-chickens habitat in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Lewiston, Montana.	October 2022	Our objectives were to reconstruct landscape-scale change in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion since 1985, and assess changes in vegetation structure and composition relative to lesser prairie-chicken management goals. Quality vegetation structure has declined on Comanche National Grassland since 1985 and ncreased anthropogenic structures and decrease in vegetation vertical structure appears to have decreased available habitat as well as the quality of existing habitat for lesser prairie-chi
Vhay, M., D. A. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2022. Changing habitat quality for lesser prairie-chickens in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan.	February 2022	Populations of Lesser Prairie-Chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion of southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado have declined sharply since the mid-1980s due to decreased habitat quality and availability. Increased anthropogenic structures and decrease in vegetation vertical structure appears to have decreased available habitat as well as the quality of existing habitat.
Vhay, M., D. A. Haukos, D. S. Sullins, and M. B. Rice. 2022. A retrospective assessment of lesser prairie- chicken habitat quality in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Des Moines, Iowa	February 2022	Our objectives were to reconstruct landscape-scale changes in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion from 1985-present and assess changes in vegetation composition and structure. Total area, mean patch size, and percent of the landscape covered by native prairie has decreased, and fragmentation decreased at the landscape level; vegetation structure on public lands has changed since 1985.
Vest, J., D. Haukos, N. Niemuth, C. Setash, J. Gammonley, S. Stephens, and D. Dahlgren. 2024. Rangelands: working lands for waterfowl and other wildlife. 9th North American Duck Symposium, Portland, Oregon.	February 2024	The future of many waterfowl populations is intrinsically linked with the conservation and management of North American rangelands. A key to sustaining the array of socioeconomic and ecosystem services that rangelands provide will be collaborations with grassland-based agricultural producers to find solutions to the current economic disparity of rangelands relative to other uses such as cropland.
Verheijen, B.H.F., and D.A. Haukos. 2019. How can breeding stage-specific estimates of movements and space use of female lesser prairie-chickens aid conservation efforts? 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	Movements during the breeding season influences mortality risk and resource acquisition. We relate movements and home range area among ecoregions and breeding stages.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D.M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Effects of future wetland losses on network connectivity of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. 25th Annual Rainwater Basin Joint Venture Information Seminar, Great Bend, Nebraska.	February 2020	Isolated Rainwater Basin wetlands create a network of wetlands connected at a variety of dispersal distances. Unfortunately, continued loss of wetlands is contributing to the ability of the network to remain intact.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D.A. Haukos, and D.S. Sullins. 2021. Spatiotemporal variation and individual heterogeneity in resource selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	We tested the extent and strength of resource selection by tracking lesser prairie-chickens at five sites in Kansas and Colorado, representing the three northernmost currently occupied ecoregions. During the breeding season, females selected sites with taller vegetation, at lower elevations, and that were further away from trees than males, while patterns were weaker and more similar between sexes during the nonbreeding season.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D. M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. The effects of large-scale wetland loss on network connectivity of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.	January 2018	Connectivity of isolated prairie wetlands is critical for conservation of the entire system. Loss of Rainwater Basins has greatly altered the connectivity of that system, resulting in increased isolation for species that are unable to disperse longer than 4 km.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D. M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Effects of large-scale wetland loss on network connectivity of the Rainwater Basin. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	The wetland network of the Rainwater Basin has been severely affected by 90% loss of wetlands. The degree of isolation of these wetlands will contribute to local extinctions of species that have limited dispersal capacity (<2 km).
Verheijen, B.H.F., D. M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Effects of large-scale wetland loss on network connectivity of the Rainwater Basin. Annual Meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Kearney, Nebraska.	February 2018	Wetland network analyses allows for the prioritization of wetlands for conservation due to their individual contribution to the network. We prioritized wetlands for conservation in the Rainwater Basins of Nebraska based on their contribution to the network.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D. M. Varner, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Effects of inundation probability and sediment accumulation on the connectivity and structure of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	We used network models to assess the role of inundation probability on the connectivity and structure of the Rainwater Basin for a range of dispersal distances. We found that several wetlands with low inundation probabilities or a high risk of disappearing from the landscape due to sediment accumulation were important to maintain network connectivity for most dispersal distances.
Verheijen, B.H.F., D. M. Varner, and D. A. Haukos. 2018. Wetland functionality and continued loss negatively affect network connectivity and structure of the Rainwater Basin, Nebraska. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Wetland connectivity is critical for the functionality of isolated wetlands. We established the relative importance of each wetland in the Rainwater Basin for conservation purposes.
Verheijen, B.H.F., C.K.J. Gulick, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach, J.M. Lautenbach, R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2021. Is grassland always grassland? Spatiotemporal variation in grassland patch selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Resource selection by lesser prairie-chickens is critical for management and conservation for this species of concern. Resource selection varied among ecoregions, but, in general, ungrazed or lightly grazed grasslands were selected.
Verheijen, B.H.F., C.K.J. Gulick, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach, J.M. Lautenbach, R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2021. Is grassland always grassland? Spatiotemporal variation in grassland patch selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2012	Lesser prairie-chickens require a tremendous area for persistence. Space use during the breeding season depends on the physiological state of the female.
Verheijen, B.H.F., C.K.J. Gulick, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach, J.M. Lautenbach, R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Is grassland always grassland? Spatiotemporal variation in grassland patch selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Annual meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, virtual.	October 2020	Lesser prairie-chicken space use is critical to conservation planning. Females adjust space use relative to available resources and physiological needs. United States grasslands have experienced large-scale declines since European settlement, which have led to habitat loss and fragmentation for many wildlife species. Lesser Prairie-chickens (<i>Tympanuchus pallidicinctus</i>) have been especially affected, as their occupied range and population abundance have declined by ~90%. Continued conserv
Verheijen, B.H.F., C.K.J. Gulick, C.A. Hagen, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach, J.M. Lautenbach, R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Extrinsic and intrinsic drivers of resource selection by female lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Lesser prairie-chicken space use determines habitat quality and overall fitness. We determined space use and home range area for lesser prairie-chickens across their entire northern occupied range.
Verheijen, B.H.F, C.K.J. Gulick, J.D. Kraft, J.D. Lautenbach, J.M. Lautenbach, R.T. Plumb, S.G. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2019. How can breeding stage-specific estimates of movements and space use of female lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) aid conservation efforts? Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Movements and space use by lesser prairie-chickens greatly influences habitat selection and population demography. We documented variation in home range and space use through several different ecological states that could influence management actions.
VanNimwegen, R., J. F. Cully, and J. Kretzer. 2007. Ecosystem engineering in a colonial mammal: how black-tailed prairie dogs structure small mammal communities. 87th annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Albuquerque, NM.	June 2007
VanNimwegen, R. E., and Jack F. Cully. Engineering effects of black-tailed prairie dogs: how do colonies structure small mammal communities? (Oral presentation). 67th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.	December 2006
Use of grazing management to restore lesser prairie-chicken habitat in eastern New Mexico. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, October 2011, Hays, Kansas	October 2011
Understanding the ecology, habitat use, phenology and thermal tolerance of nesting lesser prairie-chickens to predict population level influences of climate change. 2011. Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Poster (C. Boal, D. Haukos, and B. Grisham).	June 2011
Thiagarajan, Bala and Priya Davidar. Habitat analysis for the Nilgiri Tahr (Hemitragus hylocrius Ogilby) in the Palni Hill Ranges using remote sensing and GSI. Paper presented at the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. February 2003.	February 2003
Thiagarajan, Bala and Jack F. Cully, Jr. 2004. Dynamics of Plague in Small Rodents and their Ectoparasites associated with Black-tailed Prairie Dogs. American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Arcata, CA.	June 2004
Thiagarajan, B., Jack F. Cully, Jr., Thomas M. Loughin, Ying Bai, Michael Kosoy and Kenneth L. Gage. Prevalence of Bartonella Species in Rodents and Fleas Associated with Black-tailed Prairie Dogs? Annual Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases Conference in State College, Pennsylvania.	May 2006
Thiagarajan, B., J. Cully, T. M. Loughan, Y. Bai, M. Kosoy, K. L. Gage. 2007. Prevalence of Bartonella species in rodents and fleas associated with black-tailed prairie dogs. 62nd Annual Meeting, International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man, Madison, WI.	August 2007
Thiagarajan, B. and J.F. Cully, Jr. Dynamics of sylvatic plague in black-tailed prairie dog colonies. Kansas State University, Division of Biology 29th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.	March 2003
Thiagarajan, B. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Community dynamics of small rodents in the presence of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Paper presented at the 31st Annual Student Research Forum, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan. March, 2005.	March 2005
Thiagarajan, B. and J. Cully. Sylvatic plague and Bartonella in small rodents associated with black-tailed prairie dogs. 58th International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man. Flagstaff, AZ. August 2003.	August 2003
Thiagarajan , B., J. F. Cully, Jr., T. Loughan, Y. Bai, M. Kosoy, and K. L. Gage. Prevalence of Bartonella Species in rodents and fleas associated with black-tailed prairie dogs. (Poster presentation) Annual Conference of the Wildlife Disease Association and American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians in Storrs, Connecticut.	August 2006
Thermal ecology of nesting lesser prairie-chickens and the potential implications of climate change. 2011. 18th Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii. B. Grisham presenting.	October 2011
The predicted influence of climate change on lesser prairie-chicken reproductive parameters. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. B.A. Grisham presenting.	February 2012
The influence of playa wetlands on High Plains biodiversity. Ecology of Waterbird Migration and Playa Wetland Ecology Symposia, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture/Playa Lakes Joint Venture Research Symposium; Annual Meeting of The Waterbird Society, March 2011, Grand Island, Nebraska (Invited)	March 2011
The High Plains: making sense of a complex system. Webinar, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, September 2011. (Invited).	September 2011
The Great Plains LCC – Connections and Complexity. Joint Meeting of GPLCC Steering Committee and Science Team, September 2012 (Invited), Lubbock, Texas.	September 2012
Teige, E.C., L.A. Berigan, C.S.H. Aulicky, D.A. Haukos, K. Fricke, K. Schultz, J. Reitz, and L. Rossi. 2019. Assessing a lesser prairie-chicken translocation in the sand sagebrush prairie ecoregion. 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens has been proposed as a management option to enhance and restore populations. We described the basic life history characteristics of lesser prairie-chickens translocated to the Sand Shinnery Oak Prairie Ecoregion.
Teige, E.C., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2024. The Conservation Reserve Program and prairie grouse: a review of what we know and where we can go. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Established Conservation Reserve Program fields can largely benefit prairie grouse species but information on the direct effects of CRP on prairie grouse demography, resource selection, and space use is scattered throughout the literature. We conducted a literature review and found 19 relevant studies, of which 84% of the effects were positive on species dynamics, 16% indicated no direct effects, and 0% of studies indicated negative effects of CRP on species dynamics.<br><br>
Teige, E.C., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2024. The Conservation Reserve Program and prairie grouse: a review of what we know and where we can go. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Established Conservation Reserve Program fields can largely benefit prairie grouse species but information on the direct effects of CRP on prairie grouse demography, resource selection, and space use is scattered throughout the literature. We conducted a literature review and found 19 relevant studies, of which 84% of the effects were positive on species dynamics, 16% indicated no direct effects, and 0% of studies indicated negative effects of CRP on species dynamics.
Teige, E.C., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2024. The Conservation Reserve Program and Prairie Grouse: What do we know and where can we go? Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2024	We conducted a literature review of the direct effects of CRP on Tympanuchus and Centrocercus spp. and found 19 studies, of which 84% of the effects were positive on species dynamics, 16% indicated no direct effects, and 0% of studies indicated negative effects of CRP on species dynamics. Greater than half (52%) of studies included CRP as binary present/absence variable, 31% included CRP field vegetation measurements, and 10% included a grazing variable.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, N. Parker, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, D. Sullins, J. Reitz, L. K. Fricke, Schultz. 2024. How does translocated lesser prairie-chicken’s nest site selection affect nest survival? Annual Conference of American Ornithological Society, Estes Park, Colorado.	October 2024	Using 138 nest site locations and outcomes collected from radio- and GPS-marked birds, we used a hierarchical resource selection framework with remotely sensed environmental and field-collected vegetation covariates to model nest-site selection at multiple scales as well as nest survival. We found that Conservation Reserve Program grassland was the most selected cover type and held the majority of nest sites (65%), followed by the National Grasslands with a quarter of nest sites.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, K. Schultz, J. Reitz, and L. Rossi. 2020. Where do they go? Lesser prairie-chicken space use following translocation to the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens is a management option. Upon release in sand sagebrush patches, birds disperse and use more grassland patches on the landscape, specifically Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), than native sand sagebrush where they were released and once thrived therein.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2022. Assessment of lesser prairie-chicken translocation through demographics, space use, and resource selection. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Lewiston, Montana.	October 2022	To supplement the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion population, 411 lesser prairie-chickens (204 males and 207 females) were translocated to the Cimarron (KS) and Comanche (CO) National Grasslands from 2016-2019. This translocation had short-term success but current results indicate uncertainty around population persistence.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2021. Habitat space use of translocated lesser prairie-chickens to the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Translocation is a potential conservation strategy for lesser prairie-chickens. Time since release is a major factor in predicting space use.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2021. After the dust settles: survival, space use, and resource selection of translocated lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	To supplement a declining population, 411 lesser prairie-chickens (204 males and 207 females) were translocated during 2016-2019, from the Shortgrass/CRP Ecoregion of northwestern Kansas to the Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands in Kansas and Colorado. Post dispersal, female breeding season survival was similar between native (0.52, 95% CI = 0.47-0.57) and translocated (0.45, 95% CI = 0.39-0.51) birds but differed during the nonbreeding season with native survival of 0.73 (95% CI = 0.66-
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2020. Assessing the role of translocation in lesser prairie-chicken conservation. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Translocation is a potential management strategy to restore lesser prairie-chicken populations. We assessed the success of a large-scale translocation effort to USFW National Grasslands in Kansas and Colorado.
Teige, E., L. Berigan, C. Aulicky, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2019. A new hope: monitoring the effectiveness of lesser prairie-chicken translocation in the Sand Sagebrush Ecoregion of southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada	September 2019	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens is a potential management strategy for augmenting populations. However, population demography and space use 2-3 years post release differs greatly from established populations.
Taylor, R., M. Mather, C. Kennedy, J. Smith, K. Gerber. Confluence network dynamics can create a spatial mosaic of potential top-down predator interactions	August 2015	Geomorphology or large scale land forms can create variation in habitat that can differentially attract and retain predators and consequently influence consumers within food webs. Specifically, tributary junctures, also known as confluences, can create ecological hotspots through heterogeneity in shape, size, substrate, water velocity, and other aspects of complexity. These hotspots can aggregate consumers and alter food webs. The network dynamics hypothesis predicts that the presence and posit
Sylvia de la Piedra, Carlos Portillo-Quintero, Blake A. Grisham, Clint W. Boal, David A. Haukos, Willard R. Heck. 2016. Time series analysis of remote sensing data as a management tool for the conservation of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). 2016 Student Conference on Conservation Science - New York.	October 2016	We present results evaluating the effect of variability of seasonality parameters on lesser prairie-chicken home range sizes, nest habitat selection, and timing of nesting events. We also discuss the use of time series analysis of NDVI data as an efficient methodology for researchers and land managers to quantify spatio-temporal patterns in green vegetation and better manage wildlife populations.
Sullins, D.S., and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Lesser prairie-chicken foraging in native and CRP grasslands of Kansas and Colorado. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, Corpus Christi, TX	February 2016	Forage selection by lesser prairie-chicken in the northern part of their range is poorly understood. Using DNA bar coding of fecal samples we determine relative invertebrate and plant materials in the diet.
Sullins, D.S., and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Lesser prairie-chicken foraging in native and CRP grasslands of Kansas and Colorado. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC.	October 2016	Diets of lesser prairie-chickens are difficult to ascertain. We used DNA bar-coding approach to identify and quantify relative composition of invertebrates and plants in diets of lesser prairie-chickens across Kansas in several land cover types.
Sullins, D.S., and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Available foods and diets of lesser prairie-chickens in native and CRP grasslands of Kansas and Colorado. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Diet composition of lesser prairie-chickens has never been documented for the northern portion of their range. Diet composition varied among populations.
Sullins, D.S., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Optimal nesting substrate drives lesser prairie-chicken habitat use in Kansas and Colorado. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita.	January 2015	Quality habitat is the current limiting factor for lesser prairie-chicken populations. Litter structure is an important variable related to habitat use and is a surrogate for the time since disturbance.
Sullins, D.S., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Lesser prairie-chicken diets during brooding and winter. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Emporia, KS	October 2015	Foods of lesser prairie-chickens have been quantified in the northern portion of their range. The top food items were Orthoptera and Lepidoptera, but varied between summer and winter and among study sites.
Sullins, D.S., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, and C.E. Comer. 2017. Using pointing dogs and hierarchical models to estimate American woodcock winter habitat availability. 11th Woodcock Symposium, Roscommon, MI.	October 2017	Wintering American woodcock are understudied. We report on the use of pointing dogs as a technique to measure density and space use by wintering woodcock.
Sullins, D.S., W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Hobson, L.I. Wassenaar, and C.E. Comer. 2015. American woodcock migratory connectivity as indicated by hydrogen isotopes. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	American woodcock management requires knowledge of harvest derivation. We developed an isoscape that allows for the quick latitudinal location of woodcock based on either natal or molt origins.
Sullins, D.S., M.S. Sirch, J. Kraft, and David A. Haukos. 2019. Lesser prairie-chicken response to herbaceous vegetation change following intensive wildfire. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Intensive wildfires are increasing in lesser prairie-chicken range. For at least a year post fire, lesser prairie-chickens avoid the area and lek attendance is greatly decreased.
Sullins, D.S., J.M. Lautenbach, and D.A. Haukos. 2017. Tradeoffs of nest and brood habitat availability for lesser prairie-chickens. Annual conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens must have access to both nesting and brooding cover. Based on simulations, optimal production is when 35% of landscape is in nesting cover and 65% is in brooding cover.
Sullins, D.S., J. Kraft, D.A. Haukos, and B.K. Sandercock, Selection and demographic consquences of Conservation Reserve Program grasslands for lesser prairie-chickens. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Conservation Reserve Program land is considered beneficial to lesser prairie-chickens. Our results indicate that CRP provides selected nesting cover but these areas are not used by broods indicating a need for addition habitat types.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, and B.K. Sandercock. 2016. Impacts of Conservation Reserve Program grasslands on lesser prairie-chicken populations in the northern extent of their range. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	The Conservation Reserve Program is an important part of the persistence of lesser prairie-chickens in northwest Kansas. Population growth was not different between birds using CRP and those that did not.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, and B.K. Sandercock. 2015. Regional demographic variability for lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Population demography across space is critically important for conservation. We demonstrate that adult survival and landscape fragmentation are important vital rates to population growth.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, and B.K. Sandercock. 2015. Regional demographic variability for lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Population demography of lesser prairie-chicken across ecoregions is necessary to fine-tune conservation planning. Population growth rates differ among ecoregions with varying influences by ecological drivers.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, and B.K. Sandercock. 2015. Population demographic sensitivity for the threatened lesser prairie-chicken. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Lesser prairie-chicken populations are experiencing declines across their range. Using matrix models, we established that chick and juvenile survival influence annual population growth rates at a greater rate than other variables.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, and K. Harmoney. 2023. Strategic brush removal to increase lesser prairie-chicken habitat and cattle forage availability. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2023	We first estimated the distribution of lesser prairie-chickens using data from individuals marked with GPS transmitters in Kansas and Colorado, USA, and predicted habitat distribution based on avoidance of anthropogenic structures and selection for grassland dominated landscapes. In the short term, mechanical tree removal is costly, however, both cattle and lesser prairie-chickens can benefit long-term when future encroachment is prevented.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, J.M. Lautenbach, and J.D. Kraft. 2018. Tradeoffs of nest and brood habitat availability for lesser prairie-chickens. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	To examine the tradeoff of brood and nest habitat availability on recruitment and identify the optimal composition of habitats, we used an agent-based model in NetLogo 5.2. Fecundity rates were greatest in landscapes having 25–70% nesting habitat with maximum rates in landscapes having 45% nesting and 55% brood-rearing habitat (6.85 young/adult female).
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, J. Kraft, J. Lautenbach, J. Lautenbach, R. Plumb, S. Robinson, and B. Ross. 2016. Conservation planning for lesser prairie-chickens among reproductive and survivorship landscapes of varying anthropogenic influence. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Madison, WI. (Invited)	July 2016	This is a summary of the landscape scale work on lesser prairie-chicken ecology during the past 4 years in Kansas and Colorado. Successful conservation should consider variation in survival and reproductive success across longitudinal and latitudinal gradients.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, J. Kraft, J. Lautenbach, J. Lautenbach, R. Plumb, S. Robinson, B. Ross, and B.K. Sanderscock. 2017. Strategic regional conservation for lesser prairie-chickens among landscapes adjacent to western Kansas rivers. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens occupy a variety of landscapes. Conservation options for landscapes including rivers in western Kansas are detailed.
Sullins, D.S., D.A. Haukos, C.A. Hagen, and K.C. Olson. 2021. Targeted tree removal to benefit prairie grouse and cattle operations. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (invited, virtual).	November 2021	In an evaluation of socioeconomic factors that constrain conservation actions, we provide an example of a potential win-win solution that could benefit both lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) and cattle operations in Kansas based on a comprehensive evaluation of habitat requirements, habitat availability, and socioeconomic factors. Overall, mechanical tree removal may be more costly than short-term gains in cattle production; however, both cattle and lesser prairie-chickens ca
Sullins, D.S., B.E. Ross, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Influence of individual heterogeneity on lesser prairie-chicken population persistence. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Monitoring of lesser prairie-chicken populations is difficult and considerable uncertainty exists. This analyses tests consideration of incorporation of individual heterogeneity into population models.
Sullins, D., and D. Haukos. 2024. Strategic conservation of grassland dependent wildlife in working landscapes: an ideal free distribution perspective. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Large grassland-dominated landscapes available for wildlife have become rare due to conversion of native grasslands to cropland, establishment of anthropogenic features, increased fence densities, limited residual grass cover, and encroachment of woody plants. We combines species distribution and population matrix modeling tools for lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Kansas; our findings underscore the role of having available habitat that may be of marginal quality.
Sullins, D., D. Haukos, and C. Hagen. 2019. Hierarchical ecological benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program in the Southern Great Plains. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	As an invited paper to a symposium, we provide results on the effects of CRP on lesser prairie-chicken populations. CRP is most effective in dryer areas in conjunction with existing grassland.
Sullins, D. S., and D. A. Haukos. 2024. Effects of soil quality and grazing on nutrient availability for grassland birds. Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Manhattan, KS (Oral presentation). February 9, 2024.	February 2024	Both soil characteristics and grazing can influence nutrient distribution in grasslands and we expect that moderate grazing may promote the availability of limiting nutrients (e.g., nitrogen) to grassland birds. Our results suggest that nutrient availability in plant foods may be influenced by grazing; however, arthropod nutrient content may not be as influenced by grazing outside of Lepidopteran larvae.
Sullins, D. S., B. E., Ross, and D. A. Haukos. 2018. Potential bias of lesser prairie-chicken population estimates when not accounting for individual heterogeneity. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	There is considerable debate regarding the use of lek counts for monitoring trends in lesser prairie-chicken populations. Use of individual-based models to incorporate variation among individuals may not alleviate this concern.
Suleiman, G., J. Luginbill, M. Mather. 2022. Planning and implementing pathways for proactive biodiversity conservation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	Personnel from state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and universities contribute to biodiversity conservation. Together these professionals contribute many excellent datasets. Furthermore, good collaboration often exists amongst these groups. In spite of these promising attributes, many gaps still exist in what we know about the life history, ecology, and habitat for many species, both listed and non-listed. Gaps also exist in site specific species distribution and abundan
Stetter, A., J. Warren, and D. Haukos. 2014. Nest-site selection by scaup at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Scaup nest site selection is critical to success. Hot spots of successful nests contributed most of ducklings each year.
Stetter, A., J. Warren, and D. Haukos. 2014. Duckling survival at the edge of scaup range in Montana. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Scaup duckling survival is important in population demography. Earlier initiated nests had greater survival.
Stetter, A., J. Warren, and D. Haukos. 2013. Parasitemia, health, and reproduction in lesser scaup at Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	We are conducting a study to determine relationships among parasitemia, health, and reproduction in lesser scaup.Relationships between scaup relative body condition and H-LRatio were inconsistent between sexes.
Stetter, A., J. Warren, and D. Haukos. 2013. Duck survival at the edge of scaup range in Montana. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. October 2013.	October 2013	timing of hatch would be an important variable for managers to consider when trying to increase recruitment of LESC.
Stafford, K., and D. Haukos. 2024. Viability of lesser prairie-chicken populations in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Currently listed as threatened in Kansas under the Endangered Species Act, the lesser prairie-chicken is considered an indicator species of grassland ecological quality. Using Geographical Information Systems spatial analyses are being used to categorize landscape metrics (e.g., patch size, number of patches, contagion) and known landscape thresholds to determine if landscape-scale characteristics are influencing lek attendance across the lesser-prairie chicken range in Kansas.
Spencer, D., M. Daniels, and D. Haukos. 2014. A historical record of land cover change of the lesser prairie-chicken range in Kansas. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Landscape scale changes greatly affect lesser prairie-chickens. Since the 1940s, landscape fragmentation has influenced population occurrence and relative abundance.
Spatial variation in the recruitment patterns of three riverine fishes in the Kansas River. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.	September 2009
Smith, J., M. Mather, K. Gerber. Seasonal and diel patterns of depth and temperature distribution of Blue Catfish in Milford Reservoir, KS. Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	Most fish telemetry studies focus on horizontal movements through space and time. With recent advances in tag technology, the vertical and temperature distribution of tagged fish can also be explored. This study examined depth [measured as (1) meters from surface, (2) meters from the bottom, and (3)water column proportion] and temperature (°C) at which ten Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), implanted with temperature-depth acoustic transmitters, were found from June to November, 2012.
Smith, J. S., M. E. Mather, S. M. Hitchman. Operationalizing Riverscapes. Invited symposium paper, 2016 American Fisheries Society Meeting, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	Riverscapes are an increasingly important and common focus of stream ecology and conservation. A series of highly cited "riverscape ecology" publications lay out diverse larger-scale approaches to studying rivers and streams that integrate some combination of geomorphology, multiple spatial and temporal sampling scales, continuous sampling, heterogeneity, patch dynamics, and individual fish species life history information. However, moving from theory to practice can be daunting, and consensus
Smith, J. M., M. E. Mather, and S. M. Hitchman. 2021. Review, evaluation, and reimagining the landscape of practical approaches to spatial scale: where we have been and where we can go. Invited Presentation for a Symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151^st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD .	November 2021	Identifying, understanding, and managing patterns and drivers of fish distribution and abundance are priorities for fisheries professionals. Choosing, matching, and connecting spatial scales are necessary decisions that are implicit components of where to sample, when to sample, and how to generalize the results of field sampling. Here we review common directions for determining spatial scale, extent, and sampling frequency including strengths and gaps.
Smith, J. M., M. E. Mather, J. Fencl, and S, M. Hitchman. 2012. Stopping biodiversity loss: An evaluation of metrics that quantify the composition of fish communities in aquatic ecosystems. North Central Division American Fisheries Society Meeting, Wichita, KS	December 2012
Skidmore, C., M. Oeding, M. White, D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2023. Abundance and diversity assessment of Bombus spp. on Fort Riley Military Reservation in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	Due to this current USFWS assessment of the American Bumblebee and its potential impact to the training mission at the Fort Riley Military Reservation (FRMR), preemptive action was needed to evaluate the status and condition of the bumblebee genus on the 41,000 hectare installation. Preliminary analysis show that species occurring on FRMR include the brown-belted (B. griseocollis), southern plains (B. fraternus), black and gold (B. auricomus), American, common eastern (B. impatiens), and two-sp
Skidmore, C., M. Oeding, M. White, D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2023. Abundance and diversity assessment of Bombus spp. on Fort Riley Military Reservation in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2023	Due to the lack of information pertaining to Midwest bumblebee populations and recent US Fish and Wildlife Service assessment of the American Bumblebee (Bombus pensylvanicus), our goal was to evaluate the status and composition of the bumblebee genus on Fort Riley Military Reservation.Recapture rates varied among species, but overall the relative Cormack-Jolly-Seber estimates resulted in a daily survival probability of 0.625 (95% CL = 0.56-0.69) and recapture probability of 0.215 (95% CL= 0.1-0
Skidmore, C., K.E., McCullough, G. Albanese, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. A distribution modeling approach to monarch butterfly density, host plant occurrence, and preferred habitat in the Flint Hills. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC.	October 2016	Monarch butterflies are a species of conservation concern. Host plant occurrence and monarch densities were measures and determined to be related to areas of increased disturbance.
Skidmore, C., K. McCullough, and D. Haukos. 2017. The ecology of the Monarch butterfly relative to density, host plant occurrence and habitat use in the Flint Hills. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Monarchs are a species of conservation concern. We assessed the effects of grassland management practices on monarch density.
Skidmore, C., K. McCullough, and D. Haukos. 2017. Ecology of the Monarch butterfly relative to density, host plant occurrence, and habitat use in the Flint Hills. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Monarch butterflies are a species of conservation concern. We assessed density and spatial occurrence of the larval host plant in the Flint Hills of Kansas.
Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Sullins. 2024. Nesting ecology and survival of wild turkey hens across three grassland ecoregions in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Our objectives were to estimate and compare theadult and nest survival of wild turkeys across three prairie ecoregions in Kansas, USA. Currently, our nest site selection and hen survival data provide initial insight on the ecology of wildturkey hens in a grassland-dominated landscape.<br><br>
Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Sullins. 2024. Nesting ecology and survival of wild turkey hens across three grassland ecoregions in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Our objectives were to estimate and compare theadult and nest survival of wild turkeys across three prairie ecoregions in Kansas, USA. Currently, our nest site selection and hen survival data provide initial insight on the ecology of wildturkey hens in a grassland-dominated landscape.
Skidmore, C., C. Lathrom, D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2023. Effects of tallgrass prairie management regimes and land cover types on native bumblebee communities. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky	November 2023	Applied management information on tallgrass prairie bumblebees is currently limited; thus, our goal was to estimate density and evaluate management effects for the Bombus genus on Fort Riley Military Reservation (FRMR) in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. Results indicate that summer landscape use by the bumblebee guild changes dramatically between early and late summer, implying a need for time-sensitive surveying and targeted management techniques.
Sirch, M.S., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, and J. Kraft. 2019. Influence of burn severity on tree mortality and lesser prairie-chicken habitat in the mixed-grass prairie. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Intensive wildlife is becoming increasingly intense. However, even intensive wildfires are not removing tree cover in lesser prairie-chicken range.
Sirch, M., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, and J.D. Kraft. 2018. Lesser prairie-chicken response to intensive wildfire: one year post wildfire. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Lawrence, Kansas.	October 2018	Intensive wildfire is rare, but increasing in frequency in the Great Plains. Following intensive wildfire, lesser prairie-chicken habitat is reduced in quality, attendance at leks declined, and the area is avoided by lesser prairie-chickens.
Sink, C., and D. Haukos. 2017. Influence of raptor abundance on female lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens are susceptible to avian predation. However, habitat selection is based on maximizing reproduction rather than survival during periods of high raptor abundance.
Sink, C., and D. Haukos. 2017. Influence of raptor abundance on female lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens are subject to mortality by raptors. However, females do not change habitat use in response to changes in raptor abundance.
Silva, M., D.U. Greene, S.R. Fritts, B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, J. Lautenback, C.A. Hagen, and W.R. Heck. Assessing Fine-scale Microclimate Conditions in an Intensively Managed Landscape. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio TX, February 2017.	February 2017	Climate change forecasts predict the Southern Great Plains will become drier with more frequent extreme heat events. To understand how management efforts alter fine-scale thermal profiles and may influence ground nesting birds, we are evaluating the influences of vegetation structure, topography, and land management practices on thermal profiles (temperature and relative humidity) across seasons within the Southern Great Plains.
Shardlow, M., and C. Paukert. Sign survey techniques for river otters: looking back and moving forward. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH.	December 2008
Shardlow, M., C. Paukert, and T. Cable. Furharvester sighting reports and opinions regarding river otters in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS	January 2009
Shardlow, M., C. Paukert, and P. Gipson. 2008. Factors affecting the distribution and detectability of river otters in Eastern Kansas. Midwest Furbearer Workshop. Olathe, KS, 10 June 2008.	June 2008
Shardlow, M. and C. Paukert. Seeing what was missed: evaluating detection probabilities from river otter sign surveys. The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Monterey, CA. 23 September 2009.	September 2009
Severson, A., and C.P. Paukert. Impacts of zebra mussels on fishes in El Dorado Reservoir. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2009
Severson, A., and C. Paukert. Does zebra mussel presence affect abundance and condition of reservoir fishes in a Kansas reservoir? American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN. 2 September 2009.	September 2009
Severson, A. and C. Paukert. Zooplankton community response to zebra mussel invasion in a Kansas reservoir. Midwest Fisheries Student Colloquium, Manhattan, KS 23 January 2010	January 2010
Severson, A. and C. Paukert. Zebra Mussel Invasion and Zooplankton in a Great Plains Reservoir: Cause for Concern? American Water Resources Association Annual Water Resources Conference, Seattle, WA, 11 November 2009	November 2009
Sedimentation and volume loss in cropland, grassland, and CRP playas. 2011. Ecology of Waterbird Migration and Playa Wetland Ecology Symposia, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture/Playa Lakes Joint Venture Research Symposium; Annual Meeting of The Waterbird Society, Grand Island, Nebraska. S. McMurry presenting	March 2011
Scholten, G., and C. Paukert. Life history, status, and management of paddlefish. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN.	September 2009
Schloesser, J., J. Finley, C. Paukert, W. Doyle, and T. Hill. 2007. Comparison between push trawl and mini fyke nets to sample shallow water fish communities. Missouri River Natural Resource Conference, Nebraska City, Nebraska. 6 March 2007.	March 2007
Schloesser, J., J. Finley, C. Paukert, W. Doyle, and T. Hill. 2007. Comparison between push trawl and mini fyke nets to sample shallow water fish communities. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 4 September 2007.	September 2007
Schloesser, J., C. Paukert, W. Doyle, T. Hill, G. Mestl, and V. Travnichek. 2008. Detection and occupancy probabilities for monitoring Missouri River fishes. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Schloesser, J. T., D. E. Haines, and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Walleye harvest restrictions to reduce gizzard shad impingement. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 20 January 2007.	January 2007
Schloesser, J. T., C. P. Paukert, W. Doyle, T. Hill, G. Mestl, and V. Travnichek. 2007. Probability of detection and catch rate variability by gear type for Missouri River fishes. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Madison, WI 12 December 2007	December 2007
Schindler, A., B.E. Ross, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. A multi-species approach to managing the effects of weather and land cover on upland game birds.	February 2018	We use historical count data from four upland game bird species in Kansas to evaluate the effects of land cover and weather on populations. We assessed the effects of habitat quality (i.e., habitat composition and configuration) on these species’ populations by additionally evaluating their population change in response to several landscape metrics.
Schindler, A and B.E. Ross. 2019. The use of decision-support software to select candidate areas for lesser prairie-chicken conservation. US-IALE. Fort Collins, Colorado.	April 2019	This research involved developing a tool land managers can use to evaluate tradeoffs between competing land interests in order to maximize conservation potential for the lesser prairie-chicken. While prior research has identified conservation targets for this species, earlier tools have not considered economic impact when designing conservation networks, which may be an important factor in areas dominated by private lands.
Rossi, L., K. Fricke, J. Reitz, K. Schultz, and D. Haukos. 2018, Managing for recover of a prairie icon: the future of lesser prairie-chicken management. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Translocation may be an option for lesser prairie-chicken conservation. Success of a recent translocation effort is based on nest success and survival.
Ross, B.E., D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Using an individual-based model to assess monitoring for lesser prairie-chicken population growth rates.	February 2018	Monitoring efforts for lesser prairie-chickens have relied primarily on lek counts for inference. We simulated a decreasing population using an individual-based model and illustrate how a stable population can be observed at the level of the lek while the population is actually decreasing.
Ross, B.E., D.A. Haukos, and P. Walther. 2017. Quantifying changes and drivers of mottled duck density in Texas. 24th Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society	September 2017	We present a novel method to directly test environmental effects on density dependence. We also provide insight into potential drivers of mottled duck declines in Texas.
Ross, B.E., D. Haukos, and P. Walther. 2016. Drivers of mottled duck pairs on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD.	February 2016	The only long-term breeding survey of mottled ducks occurs on National Wildlife Refuges. Population trends are driven by environmental conditions (drought, hurricanes) but not density dependence.
Ross, B.E., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2016. Combining multiple data sources to determine drought and land-use impacts on Lesser Prairie-Chickens. 6th North American Ornithological Conference, Washington, D.C. 16-20 August 2016.	August 2016	Our work will be presented in a symposium on integrated population models. We show how to combine multiple sources of data into one model to yield insight into underlying drivers of population changes.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2015. The relative influence of climate variability and landscape change on lesser prairie-chicken populations. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba	October 2015	Leeser prairie-chickens are being impacted by changes in climate and landscapes. These results indicate that periodicities in climate are related to population fluctuations, but landscape change has variable impacts.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2015. Extreme drought events and changes in land cover interact to reduce resilience of the lesser prairie-chicken. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Lesser prairie-chicken populations vary greatly temporally in response to the environment. Greater amounts of cropland in the landscape limits the resiliency of lesser prairie-chicken populations to respond to extreme drought events.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2015. Combining multiple data sources to determine drought and land-use impacts on lesser prairie-chickens. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Lesser prairie-chicken populations have a number of potential influential factors. Using long-term data, our results indicate extant populations are mostly affected by short-term environmental conditions.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2014. The relative influence of drought and habitat on lesser prairie-chickens. Society for Conservation Biology, Missoula, Montana.	May 2014	Lesser prairie-chickens are limited by weather and habitat quality. We quantified the relative importance of each on population trends.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2014. Combining multiple data sources to determine climate and land-use impacts on lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.	October 2014	Demographic models for lesser prairie-chicken population require temporal variation to account for environment variation and climate change. Land-use is a determining factor in trends of lesser prairie-chicken populations.
Ross, B., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2014. Changes in lesser prairie-chicken abundance in Kansas. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Lesser prairie-chickens are declining throughout their range. Lek attendance was related to time and landscape changes.
Rode, O., V. Reed, M. Mather, T. Moore, K. Nelson, M. Madin, J. Francois, L. Krueger. Hybrid Digital-empirical approaches can advance sustainability of aquatic ecosystems: merging GIS and local fish habitat data to aid watershed conservation. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan Kansas, February 2023	February 2023	Monitoring fish and invertebrate resources is a vital component of conservation. Yet, organismal data alone are not enough. Data on relevant habitat are also critical to interpret native fish and invertebrate distribution patterns. Obtaining relevant habitat data across an entire state or region is a challenge given the broad geographic extent of aquatic resources and concurrent limitations in biologist time and budgets.
Rode, O. M. Mather, V. Reed, K. Nelson, M. Madin, J. Francois, T. Moore, L. Krueger. 2023. Squeezing additional insights from fish survey data to aid conservation. 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas (February 12-15, 2023).	February 2023	Survey sampling to assess patterns of fish biodiversity is critically important for conservation. Addressing questions such as where are specific fish taxa located?; what are habitat-impact correlates of fish distribution?; how has diversity changed?, will become even more important as human impacts increase and climate changes. Most monitoring datasets contain useful information, but no monitoring dataset answers all questions. Here, we propose a 10-step process for realistically obtaining add
Robinson, S.G., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. The influence of habitat composition and configuration on lesser prairie-chicken survival rates in Kansas. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Emporia, KS	October 2015	Survival of lesser prairie-chickens is a crucial component of population demography. There were patterns and thresholds for landscape composition (% cropland, grassland) effects on survival than can be used on large-scale models.
Robinson, S.G., R.T. Plumb, J.M. Lautenbach, D.A. Haukos, S. Carleton, A. Meyers, and J. Reitz. 2015. Space use by nonbreeding lesser prairie-chickens. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Nonbreeding ecology of lesser prairie-chicken populations are not well studied. Home range varied among months but not among study sites encompassing all Ecoregions that support lesser prairie-chickens.
Robinson, S.G., D.A. Haukos, and J.C. Pitman. 2015. Nonbreeding season movement and space use of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita.	January 2015	Movements of nonbreeding lesser prairie-chickens are critical to conservation planning. Movements and habitat use differed among regions such that conservation plans should be considered at the population level.
Robinson, S., R.T. Plumb, J.M. Lautenbach, D.S. Sullins, J.D. Kraft, and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Attributing landscape characteristics to lesser prairie-chicken survival in Kansas and Colorado. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Landscape configuration and composition is hypothesized to affect lesser prairie-chicken space use and vital rates. We determined functional relationships between landscape characteristics and vital rates of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas.
Robinson, S., R.T. Plumb, J.M. Lautenbach, D.S. Sullins, J.D. Kraft, D.A. Haukos, C.A. Hagen, and J.C. Pitman. 2015. Functional relationships among lesser prairie-chicken survival, habitat type, and landscape fragmentation. International Grouse Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland.	September 2015	The relationships among survival and landscape characteristics are critical to understanding population responses by lesser prairie-chickens to changes in their landscapes. Annual survival was influenced more by large-scale precipitation patterns than local landscape characteristics.
Robinson, S., R. Plumb, J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2014. Nonbreeding Season Movement and Habitat Use of Lesser Prairie-Chickens in Kansas. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, Colorado.	September 2014	Nonbreeding ecology of lesser prairie-chickens is critical to conservation efforts. Seasonal movements and high survival were related to habitat availability.
Robinson, S., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, S. Carleton, A. Meyers, and J. Reitz. 2015. There is no space like home:space use of nonbreeding lesser prairie-chickens. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Lesser prairie-chicken space use during the nonbreeding season was estimated using satellite transmitters. Home range size was considerably larger than previously reported and birds remained associated with lek sites.
Robinson, S., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, C. Hagen, J. Pitman, and B. Sandercock. 2016. Come rain or no water, I will survive: nonbreeding lesser prairie-chicken survival and space use. North American Ornithological Congress, Washington, D.C.	August 2016	Lesser prairie-chicken demography is critical for population growth. Nonbreeding lesser prairie-chickens have relative high survival and nearly 3 times the home range size compared to the breeding season.
Robert L. Mapes, Martha E. Mather. Using the land mosaic concept to test how habitat heterogeneity alters distribution of young of year largemouth bass in a Great Plains reservoir	February 2015	Recruitment of fish varies widely across systems and distribution of age-0 fish varies dramatically within systems. Type, size, location, and complexity of the habitat may alter the suite of resources available to age-0 fish. Consequently, landscape characteristics may influence habitat-specific size and numbers through time.
Rigby, E., and D. Haukos. 2014. Duckling Survival and Habitat Selection for Mottled Ducks on the Upper Texas Gulf Coast. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	October 2014	Survival and habitat selection by mottled duck broods were measured. Broods have high survival and balance habitat selection between predator populations and salinity levels.
Riecke, T.V., J.A. Moon, D.A. Haukos, J.S. Sedinger, W.C. Conway, and P.S. Walther. 2015. An integrated population model for mottled ducks in Texas: harvest, habitat, and survival. Annual meeting of the Western Section of the Wildlife Society, Santa Rosa, CA.	January 2015	Mottled ducks population demography is uncertain in the western Gulf Coast. These results provide insight into potential factors driving the population change.
Rieber, C., T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. Lesser prairie-chicken movement models in patch-burn and rotational grazing systems. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2023	We applied a novel Bayesian continuous-time animal movement model to estimate the birds’ movement trajectories and movement descriptors and compare them across the two ranches that conducted patch-burn and rotational grazing practices. Our preliminary results indicate that distances traveled were smaller in the patch-burn than in the rotational grazing treatment.
Rieber, C., T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. Bayesian machine learning for movement modeling of lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Portland, Oregon.	August 2023	We recognized a novel application of a recently developed machine learning method and incorporated it in the Bayesian continuous time modeling framework. We demonstrated this method using data from a declining grassland bird, the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus).
Rieber, C. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2023. Bayesian machine learning for movement modeling of lesser prairie-chickens. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	Bayesian continuous time models have been developed to estimate the true animal movement trajectory that underlies discretely recorded telemetry data, yet these models remain inaccessible and underutilized. To account for these transitions, we recognized a novel application of a recently developed machine learning method and incorporated it in the Bayesian continuous time modeling framework using data from a declining grassland bird, the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus).
Rieber, C. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2022. Estimating metrics characterizing lesser prairie-chicken movements. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan (poster).	February 2022	We applied continuous-time movement models to produce population-level characterizations of Lesser Prairie-Chicken movement patterns on two adjacent ranches in Kiowa and Comanche counties in the Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecoregion of south-central Kansas. We created a Bayesian continuous-time movement model for each individual bird to predict its true locations over time and used these predicted movement paths to obtained model-based estimates of derived movement metrics (i.e., velocity, displacement
Rieber, C. T. Hefley, and D. Haukos. 2022. Bayesian machine learning for movement modeling of lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Spokane, Washington.	November 2022	To extract information available in telemetry data, we must continue to improve statistical methods that enable estimation of where an animal went and how it moved, with associated measures of uncertainty. Using a novel application of a recently developed machine learning method incorporated in the Bayesian continuous time modeling framework, we demonstrated this method can be easily applied to any telemetry data to compare derived quantities (e.g., average velocity, rest time) across treatment
Richard Lehrter and Martha Mather. Geographic Region, Land Use, Flow, and Discontinuities Influence Fish Biodiversity across Regions in a Great Plains Watershed	January 2017	Researchers, managers, and decision-makers seek science-based policies that minimize environmental degradation. To address this need, here we ask what environmental variables (% developed land, % grassland, mean summer flow, region, discontinuities) affect fish species richness in the Smoky Hill River, KS.
Rachel M. Pigg1, Tammi L. Johnson2, and Jack F. Cully. 2011. The influence of landscape features on the disease ecology of sylvatic plague. Annual meeting of the International Biogogrpahy Society, Heraklion, Crete, 07 Jan 2011.	January 2011
Quist, M. C., M. E. Mather, D. L. Parrish, S. R. Chipps, T. J. Kwak, and C. P. Paukert. 2013. The voices of reality: why effective fisheries education is challenging and practical ways to move forward. 143 rd Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Little Rock, Arkansas, September 11. Platform	September 2013	This work review how academic programs are integrating with thew needs to state and federal agencies
Prebyl, T., T. Mosher, C. Paukert, and S. Wisely. Identifying the strain of a record largemouth bass using a DNA-sequencing approach. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS. 28 January 2009.	January 2009
Potential exposure to environmental lead in mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula) on the Texas Chenier Plains National Wildlife Refuge Complex. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. S.K. McDowell presenting. Poster	February 2012
Potential climate change impacts to mottled ducks on the Chenier Plain Region of Texas. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. J.A. Moon presenting.	February 2012
Portillo-Quintero, C., B. Grisham, D. Haukos, C. Boal, C. Hagen, and Z. Wan. 2018. Trends of the landscape structure of plant communities of sand shinnery oak prairie in the Southern High Plains. Society of Range Management, Sparks, Nevada.	February 2018	Lesser prairie-chickens in sand shinnery oak prairie of New Mexico and Texas have been steadily declining since the late 1980s. Unlike other areas of the lesser prairie-chicken range, significant declines in available habitat has occurred in this ecoregion, likely contributing to the overall population decline.
Pope, K. L., M. P. Carey, D. R. DeVries, J. E. Garvey, M. Henderson, S. Hitchman, M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, and R. W. Tingley. 2022. Researchers and managers: co-development of science-based management. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	Adapting how manager-researcher teams frame questions may advance the co-development process. Considering progress made for science-based management, using examples, we review key obstacles and prerequisites for building collaborative research-management relationships in the aquatic arena.
Pool, T., J. Olden, J. Whittier, and C. Paukert. Riverscape patterns and environmental drivers of functional diversity and composition of fish communities in the Lower Colorado River Basin. Western Division of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.	May 2009
Plumb, R.T., J.M. Lautenbach, S.G. Robinson, J.D. Kraft, D. Sullins, J. Lautenbach, D.A. Haukos, J.L. Winder, J.C. Pitman, C.A. Hagen, and D. Dahlgren. 2016. Lesser prairie-chicken space use response to anthropogenic structures among landscapes. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Madison, WI.	July 2016	Lesser prairie-chicken avoidance of anthropogenic structures limits available habitat. Our results indicates that the most reliable predictor of space use is occurrence and location of distribution power lines.
Plumb, R.T., J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Breeding season home-range characteristics of female lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, Kansas.	February 2014	Spatial habitat use by lesser prairie-chickens is poorly understood. Space use is related to patch size and composition.
Plumb, R.T., J. Lautenbach, B. Ross, D. Spencer, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Effects of habitat patch use on breeding season survivorship of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, Colorado.	September 2014	Patch size influences survival of lesser prairie-chickens. We quantified the relationships between patch size and hen survival.
Plumb, R.T., J. Lautenbach, B. Ross, D. Spencer, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Breeding season habitat patch use by female lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, Colorado.	September 2014	Patch size influences habitat use by lesser prairie-chickens. We formalized the relationships between patch size and nest success.
Plumb, R.T., J. Lautenbach, B. Ross, D. Spencer, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Past, Present, and Future: using historical and contemporary information to guide conservation decisions for an iconic prairie grouse of the southwestern Great Plains. Regional Pheasants Forever and Quail Unlimited Conference, Wichita, Kansas.	May 2014	This a poster presentation to Pheasants Forever convention. It highlights the entirety of the current lesser prairie-chicken project.
Plumb, R.T., J. Lautenbach, B. Ross, D. Spencer, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Breeding season space use dynamics of female lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Symposium on Animal Movement and the Environment, Raleigh, North Carolina.	May 2014	Use of satellite telemetry for lesser prairie-chicken movements and habitat use will provide additional insights into space needs. We present a summary of home range estimates and habitat inclusion for lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado.
Plumb, R.R., J.M. Lautenbach, S.G. Robinson, J.D. Kraft, D. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, C.A. Hagen, and D. Dahlgren. 2015. Lesser prairie-chicken space use response to anthropogenic structures. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Lesser prairie-chickens avoid anthropogenic structures, but avoidance distances and relative influence of structures on space use is unclear. Breeding females demonstrate avoidance of all assessed structures, with distance to distribution power lines being a significant predictor of space use.
Plumb, R.R., J.M. Lautenbach, S.G. Robinson, J.D. Kraft, D. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, C.A. Hagen, and D. Dahlgren. 2015. Lesser prairie-chicken space use response to anthropogenic structures among landscapes. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Lesser prairie-chickens avoid anthropogenic structures on the prairie. We documented avoidance distances for a variety of structures in Kansas and Colorado.
Plumb, R., J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2013. Breeding season movements of adult female lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Biannual Prairie Grouse Technical Council Meeting, Crookston, MN	October 2013	Movements of female lesser prairie-chickens during the breeding season were quantified. Large movements were associated with nest or brood loss.
Plumb, R., J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2013. Adult female survival of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Biannual Prairie Grouse Technical Council Meeting, Crookston, MN	October 2013	Female lesser prairie-chicken were captured and tagged in Kansas and Colorado during 2013. Breeding season survival was similar to other areas despite the harsh environmental conditions.
Plum, R., Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Nest site location by lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Across landscapes, lesser prairie-chickens select habitat patches. Patch size and arrange affect habitat use.
Plum, R., Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, J. Augustine, K. Oxenrider, and D. Dahlgren. 2014. Effects of habitat patch selection on breeding season survivorship of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Habitat fragmentation and loss have been identified as the primary cause of precipitous declines in lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations. Changes in land use patterns have created a mosaic landscape of interspersed habitat patches. Identifying species-habitat patch relationships and their effects on demographic parameters has become an increasingly important dynamic that research has yet to adequately address. The goal of this study is to assess how habitat patch s
Playas of the Llano Estacado. Southern Plains Conference, Ogallala Commons, February 2012 (Invited), Muleshoe, Texas	February 2012
Pitts, K. L., C. Paukert, and J. Whittier. 2008. Evaluation of an ecological risk index in quantifying threats to fishes. Western Division of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Portland, OR, 7 May 2008.	May 2008
Pitts, K. L., C. P. Paukert, and J. W. Whittier. 2007. Hydrologic variability in the Lower Colorado River Basin: implications for fish conservation. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 6 September 2007.	September 2007
Pitts, K. L., C. P. Paukert, and J. B. Whittier. 2008. Assessing anthropogenic threats to fishes in the Lower Colorado River Basin. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Phelps, Q.E., M.J. Ward, C.P. Paukert, and D.W. Willis. Biotic and Abiotic Correlates with Black Bullhead Population Characteristics in Nebraska Sandhill Lakes. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska	September 2005
Phelps, Q.E., M.J. Ward, C.P. Paukert, and D.W. Willis. Biotic and Abiotic Correlates with Black Bullhead Population Characteristics in Nebraska Sandhill Lakes. 65th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Indianapolis, IN.	December 2004
Phelps, Q. E., M. E. Mather, D. E. Shoup. 2019. Harvest Regulations: What Do We Know, What Do We Need To Know, What Should We Do Next to Develop and Implement Standardized Assessments to Evaluate Harvest Regulations. 79th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, January 27-30, 2019	January 2019	Fisheries managers are tasked with maintaining specific target sportfish populations to provide satisfactory opportunities for anglers. The outcome of this complex management process is variable and depends on characteristics of the ecosystem and population. Of the limited options that are available to alter populations and ultimately influence angler satisfaction, harvest regulations (size or creel limits) are arguably the most common tool. However, when and where harvest regulations work is
Peterson, Z., M. Mather, J. Smith, K. Gerber. Correlates of the whole-system distribution of a reservoir predator (Blue Catfish, Ictalurus furcatus). Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	Few comprehensive evaluations exist of correlates for the whole system distribution of mobile sportfish. Here, we used a monthly manual acoustic telemetry survey throughout Milford Reservoir, KS, to quantify whole-system distribution of Blue Catfish (N = 75 fish).
Peterson, Z., M. E. Mather, and J. Smith. 2012. Quantifying spatially-explicit patterns in a large reservoir: an approach for determining associations between a top fish predator and physical habitat. North Central Division American Fisheries Society Meeting, Wichita, KS	December 2012
Peterson, J.T. and C.P. Paukert. 2009. Converting non-standard fish sampling data to standardized data. 139th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Nashville, TN.	August 2009
Peterson, J.T. and C.P. Paukert. 2008. Converting non-standard fish sampling data to standardized data. Poster. 138th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Ottawa, ON.	August 2008
Peterson, J., and C. Paukert. 2008. Converting non-standard fish sampling data to standardized data. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Peterson, J., S. Fuhlendorf, D. Elmore, A. Tanner, J. Earl, D. Haukos, and S. Carleton. 2018. Effects of anthropogenic structures on the long-distance movements of lesser prairie-chickens. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.	January 2018	Understanding lesser prairie-chicken response to anthropogenic structures during dispersal is critical to connecting the landscape. Lesser prairie-chickens avoid structure on the landscape, so their dispersal is constrained to much less of the landscape than previously thought.
Peterson, J., M. E. Mather, K. M. Gerber, J. M. Smith. Evaluating the adequacy of fish-habitat data for the blue catfish	August 2014	Habitat is critical for fisheries management, yet quantitative data on many fish-habitat associations are limited. Here, we assess what habitat data are available for blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus), an important and popular sport fish.
Pegg, N., D.A. Haukos, and R. Schulthesis. 2024. Vital rates of mourning doves in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2024	To understand changes in mourning doves demographic rates at an appropriate scale for management, establishing baseline data on local vital rates is necessary. High nest densities and success suggest that mourning doves are most successful in urban areas despite the potential for interspecific competition.
Pegg, N., D.A. Haukos, and R. Schulthesis. 2024. Harvest pressure on an iconic household species, the mourning dove. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.	January 2024	Mourning doves (<i>Zenaida macroura</i>) are one of the most prolific bird species in North America and harvested more than all other migratory birds combined.<br>Our data suggest that harvest is not a main contributor to mourning dove declines in Kansas; however, managed dove fields may act as a sink for local populations.
Pegg, N., D.A. Haukos, and R. Schulthesis. 2023. Harvest pressure on an iconic household species, the mourning dove. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	November 2023	To better understand declining trends within the Central Management Unit (CMU), we reviewed movements and harvest pressure of mourning doves banded in Kansas using data from the national mourning dove banding program.Our data suggest that harvest is not a main contributor to mourning dove declines in Kansas; however, managed dove fields may act as a sink for local populations.
Pegg, N., D.A. Haukos, and R. Schulthesis. 2023. Band recovery analyses of mourning doves banded in Kansas. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas.	February 2023	Following the initiation of a harvest strategy to estimate absolute abundance in 2013, data suggests that mourning dove populations are decreasing across all management units in the United States. These data suggest that harvest pressure likely plays a minimal role in mourning dove survival; however, doves are more likely to be recovered within a year of being banded (direct recoveries) than any time after a year (indirect recoveries).
Pegg, N., D. Haukos, and R. Schultheis. 2024. Novel co-occurrence of mourning doves, Eurasian collared-doves, and white-winged doves in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Mourning doves are migratory gamebirds that breed throughout the contiguous United States are declining in the Central Management Unit, which includes Kansas, with a disproportionately large percent of the breeding mourning dove population and declines >40% since 2004. One potential cause for declines in Kansas is the novel presence of white-winged doves and Eurasian collared-doves; we found significant changes in the distributions of all three species over time.
Paukert, C., W. Bouska, and T. Keane. Road crossing design and their impacts of fish assemblages and geomorphology of Great Plains streams. Kansas Transportation Engineering Conference, Manhattan, KS.	April 2009
Paukert, C. and A. Severson. Zooplankton community characteristics in El Dorado Reservoir: response to zebra mussel invasion. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010	February 2010
Paukert, C. P., and J. Whittier. Effects of invasive species in freshwater fisheries. 5th World Fisheries Congress, Yokohama, Japan, 23 October 2008.	October 2008
Paukert, C. P., and J. H. Petersen. Simulated effects of temperature warming on rainbow trout and humpback chub in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Arizona/New Mexico American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ.	February 2006
Paukert, C. P., and A. S. Makinster. 2007. Flathead catfish population dynamics in the Kansas River: implications for management. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 19 January 2007.	January 2007
Paukert, C. P., and *A. M. Severson. Using long-term data to determine the effects of zebra mussels on reservoir sport fishes. 70th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Springfield, IL, 7 December 2009	December 2009
Paukert, C. P., T. J. DeBates, D. W. Willis, W. Stancill, and J. Klammer. Population ecology of northern pike in shallow Nebraska lakes. Annual AFS Meeting, Madison, WI, 23 August 2004.	August 2004
Paukert, C. P., L. G. Coggins, and C. Flaccus. Site Fidelity of Humpback Chub in Grand Canyon. Kansas Chapter AFS Annual Meeting, Emporia, KS, 21 February 2004	February 2004
Paukert, C. P., L. G. Coggins, and C. Flaccus. Site Fidelity of Humpback Chub in Grand Canyon. Annual AFS Meeting, Madison, WI, 23 August 2004.	August 2004
Paukert, C. P., J. Eitzmann, J. Fischer, K. Pitts, J. Schloesser, and D. Thornbrugh. 2007. Fish community and habitat differences in dredges and undredged sites on the Lower Kansas River. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 19 January 2007.	January 2007
Paukert, C. P., D. Ward, P. Sponholtz, and K. Hilwig. Effects of handling and hoop netting on bonytail. Desert Fishes Council 36th Annual Meeting, Tucson, AZ November 2004.	November 2004
Paukert, C. P. Using long-term data to assess the distribution of a rare fish: lessons from the Colorado River. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH.	December 2008
Paukert, C. Fish and fish habitat in the Kansas River: what have we learned? Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010	February 2010
Paukert, C. Fish and fish habitat in the Kansas River. Midwest Fisheries Student Colloquium, Manhattan, KS 22 January 2010.	January 2010
Parrish, D.L., E.A. Marschall, and Martha E. Mather. Modeling fish migration in the Connecticut River, USA. Japanese Society of Fisheries Science.	March 2016	This work is important because we have modeled a tributary spawner and are modeling a mainstem spawner. These species provide a basis for understanding the effects of climate change on migrating fish with distinctively different life histories.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2021. Lesser prairie-chicken space use following megafire in the Mixed-Grass Prairie. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	We compared space use and resource selection by lesser prairie-chickens marked with GPS transmitters in the mixed-grass prairie of Kansas before (2014-2016) and after (2018-2020) a 2017 intensive wildfire (252,000 ha). Step selection revealed lesser prairie-chickens strongly avoided wooded areas before and after the fire, indicating that although we did see mortality of woody species, areas did not become available for use by lesser prairie-chickens as they avoided burned areas post-fire, sugge
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2021. Lesser prairie-chicken resource selection following megafire in the mixed-grass prairie. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Megafires (wildfires >40,000 ha) have increased worldwide in recent years causing extensive social and economic impacts, but may benefit grassland-dependent wildlife species, including the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), that depend on fire to maintain large expanses of herbaceous cover and stop woody encroachment. Post-fire, lesser prairie-chickens maintained selection for CRP and grassland at similar rates, but were 4.08 times more likely to avoid trees compared to before
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2021. Lesser prairie-chicken habitat use and selection following a megafire in the mixed- grass prairie. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Mega-fires are increasing in frequency and intensity in the Great Plains, affecting many species of flora and fauna - including the lesser prairie-chicken. Following the Starbuck fire in 2017, lesser prairie-chickens greatly reduce use of burned areas compared to preburn with lower nest success and lek attendance.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2020. Influence of a megafire on lesser prairie-chicken habitat use and quality in the Mixed-Grass Prairie. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Intense wildfires are increasing with climate change. While short-term responses to wildfire by lesser prairie-chickens appear negative, this type of fire presents an opportunity to slow woody encroachment and increase plant diversity, potentially increasing overall habitat availability.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2020. Effects of a megafire on lesser prairie-chickens in the mixed-grass prairie. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Megafires are infrequent but intensive disturbance in grassland systems. We are the first to document the response of lesser prairie-chickens to a large intensive wildlife comparing pre and post-fire population demography and space use.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2019. Rising from the ashes? Lesser prairie-chicken and grassland response to intense wildfire in Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Intensive wildlife can be detrimental to lesser prairie-chicken populations. Immediately following the most intensive fire in the history of Kansas, lesser prairie-chickens avoided the fire area for at least 3 years.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2019. Lesser prairie-chicken and grassland response following intense wildfire in Kansas. 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	Wildfire is a frequent occurrence in lesser prairie-chicken range. We compared pre and post fire lek abundance and attendance and population vital rates and found that abundance decreased but vital rates remain the same.
Parker, N.J., D.S. Sullins, A.A. Ahlers, D.A. Haukos, K.A. Fricke, and C.A. Hagen. 2022. Demographic effects of a megafire on lesser prairie-chickens in the mixed-grass prairie. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Lewiston, Montana.	October 2022	We leveraged demographic data of lesser prairie-chickens from before (2014–2016) and after (2018–2020) a 2017 megafire in the mixed-grass prairie of Kansas. Although we documented minimal effects on vital rates, reduced lesser prairie-chicken abundance and reproductive output suggests recovery may take >3 years.
Owen, R.K., E.B. Webb, D. A Haukos and K. W. Goyne. Projected climate and land use changes drive wetland plant community composition in playas. Playa Wetlands Research Symposium. October 26 & 27, 2022. Kearney, NE.	October 2022	We quantified potential changes in playa wetland plant community composition associated with predicted changes in precipitation and land use in the Great Plains through the end of the 21<sup>st</sup> century. Plant communities tended to shift toward more native species under projected future climate conditions, but as Nitrogen runoff increased, native species richness decreased.
Owen, R.K., D. Fowler, E.B. Webb, K.W. Goyne, and D. Haukos. Playas to Potholes: How will climate change impact soil biogeochemistry in Great Plains prairie wetlands?	January 2019	We completed a systematic literature review to capture studies completed in Great Plains playa, prairie, or prairie pothole wetlands evaluating soil responses to environmental conditions. Several studies indicate that Great Plains wetlands have the capacity to store carbon to offset CO2 emissions, however, historic land use practices and hydrologic changes reduce this capacity.
Ogden, S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, and J. Alexander. 2016. Grassland birds and season of burn: grassland nesting songbird response to Sericea Lespedeza control. Annual meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Great Bend.	October 2016	Sericea is an invasive plant. Control is possible using summer and fall burns, which do not negatively affect avian productivity.
Ogden, S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, and J. Alexander. 2016. Birds, butterflies, and burning: wildlife response to summer fire used for invasive plant control in tall-grass prairie. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC	October 2016	Sericea is a major conservation issue as an invasive species. Summer burning reduces sericea and has neutral to positive benefits for nesting grassland birds and butterflies.
Ogden, S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2017. Influence of season of burn on butterfly diversity in tall-grass prairie. 7th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Orlando, FL. (Invited)	December 2017	Control of invasive sericea in tallgrass prairie can be accomplished using late summer fire. Butterfly species benefit from use of prescribe fire to control sericea.
Ogden, S., D.A. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2017. Grassland bird response to season of burn and grazing intensity. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Control of invasive plant species can involve intensive management; therefore, response of wildlife is necessary to judge the effectiveness of the management strategy. Grasslands birds are not negatively affected by use of summer fire and intensive grazing to control sericea.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K.C. Olson, and J. Lemmon. 2015. Response of grassland passerine communities to tall-grass prairie restoration with summer fire and sheep grazing. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Sericea is an invasive species that reduces native grassland avian habitat and is avoided by livestock. Potential restoration using summer fire and sheep grazing did not negatively affect grassland birds.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2016. Grassland bird community response to sericea lespedeza control using fire and grazing. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, MI	January 2016	Sericea lespedeza is an invasive forb of tall-grass prairie and requires control. Results indicate that summer fire and ruminant grazing have a neutral or positive impact on grassland birds but does control sericea.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2016. Grassland bird community response to Sericea Lespedeza control using fire and grazing. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, Corpus Christi, TX	February 2016	Sericea is an invasive forb that may be controlled by summer fire and small-ruminant grazing. These control measures do not negatively impact use by grassland song birds.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K.C. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2015. Grassland nesting bird community response to Sericea Lespedeza using fire and grazing. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Emporia, KS	October 2015	Sericea is an invasive plant in tall-grass prairie requiring unique control efforts. Use of summer fire and sheep grazing controlled sericea but did not have negative effects on grassland birds.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K. Olson, and J. Lemmon. 2015. Response of grassland passerine communities to tall-grass prairie restoration using summer fire and sheep grazing. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Sericea lespedeza is an invasive species negatively impacting livestock grazing and wildlife habitat. The use of summer fire and sheep to control sericea did not affect wildlife species but did reduce occurrence of the invasive plant.
Ogden, S., D. Haukos, K. Olson, J. Alexander, and J. Lemmon. 2016. Patterns of butterfly community composition in response to sericea lespedeza control using fire and grazing. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Sericea can be controlled using summer fire and grazing by small ruminants. Response by butterflies to these management techniques depends on species.
Nifong, J.C., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, S. M. Hitchman. 2018. Integrating spatial patterns into future conservation, restoration, and management programs. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, KS	February 2018	Approaches that ignore underlying spatial patterns in habitat structure and environmental conditions are widely used by conservation, management, and restoration programs. Consequently, managers and researchers often fail to incorporate and account for the effects spatial patterns have on the outcomes and efficacy of their endeavors.
Nichter, A., T. Lipp, D. Haukos, and A. Gregory. 2015. Effects of anthropogenic noise on male lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Sound produced by oil and gas wells reduces the available habitat for lesser prairie-chickens. We documented the reduced lek attendance by male lesser prairie-chicken as distance to well decreases.
Newby, Lorri, and Jack F. Cully, Jr. Effects of litter size on growth in black-tailed prairie dogs. Paper presented at the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. February 2003.	February 2003
Newby, L.A. and J.F. Cully, Jr. Effects of litter size on growth in black-tailed prairie dogs. Kansas State University, Division of Biology 29th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.	March 2003
Newby, L. A. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Effects of litter size on growth in juvenile black-tailed prairie dogs. Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists annual meeting, Lubbock, TX. June, 2003.	June 2003
Nest success and nest site selection of black-necked stilts on the Texas Chenier Plain National Wildlife Refuge Complex. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. T.V. Riecke presenting.	February 2012
Nepal, V., B. Knuth, M. Mather, D. Parrish. 2022, Asking different questions can overcome obstacles and identify new solutions to achieving human diversity in the aquatic sciences. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	Scientific evidence of the value of diversity continues to grow. Diverse teams are more successful, solve more problems, are more creative, and contribute more to personal growth. Yet, natural sciences, in general, and aquatic sciences, in particular, suffer from under-representation of many groups including females, LGBTQ+, people of color, and people with disabilities. What are the obstacles and solutions to increasing diversity in our profession and what progress has been made thus far? Here
Native fish conservation in Grand Canyon. Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society	February 2005
Morris, S.A., C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and B.A. Grisham. 2022. Variance in clutch size and egg morphology of lesser prairie-chickens across a climate gradient. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Marble Falls, TX 24-26 Feb. 2022.	February 2022	Lesser prairie-chickens occupy a range that has a temperature and precipitation gradient from SW to NE. We found strong evidence that lesser prairie-chickens in the southwestern extent of their distribution may be responded to the hotter and drier climate through modification of clutch sizes and egg morphology.
Morris, S.A., C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and B.A. Grisham. 2020. Variability in Lesser Prairie-Chicken Egg Morphometrics and Appearance Across a Climate Gradient. Meeting of the Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, TX, 14 February 2020.	February 2020	We found evidence that lesser prairie-chickens in hotter and drier regions of their distribution lay smaller clutches of larger eggs. This may be an adaptation to reduce evapotranspiration and egg death in arid landscapes.
Moon, J.A., D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2014. Movements by mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	October 2014	Mottled ducks are nonmigratory; thus, local movements have direct impacts on fitness. Movements are greatest during molt period, indicating a potential limiting availability of habitat.
Moon, J.A., D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2014. Habitat selection by mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	October 2014	Habitat selection by mottled ducks guides conservation decisions. Salinity and vegetation influence selection decisions by mottled ducks.
Moon, J., S. Lehnen, K. Metzger, S. Sesnie, D. Haukos, and W. Conway. 2016. Integrating sea-level rise and anthropogenic change into mottled duck conservation. 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD.	February 2016	Sea level rise will affect coastal habitats for mottled ducks. This simulation provides forward looking predications of changes in habitat availability for mottled ducks due to climate change.
Moon, J., S. DeMaso, M. Brasher, W. Conway, and D. Haukos. 2016. A stochastic model to simulate mottled duck population dynamics. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Mottled ducks population demography was modeled using a stochastic approach. Changes in population size was influenced by all breeding metrics.
Moon, J., S. DeMaso, M. Brasher, W. Conway, D. Haukos. 2016. A stochastic model to simulate mottled duck population dynamics. 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD.	February 2016	Population vital rates were used to simulate population growth of mottled ducks in the Western Gulf Coast Population. All variables associated with breeding contributed significantly to the model.
Moon, J., D. Haukos, W. Conway, and S. Lehnen. 2014. Habitat selection of adult female mottled ducks in the Texas Chenier Plain Region. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Austin, TX.	February 2014	Mottled ducks selectively use habitat on the Texas Coast. Salinity and biological season were the two most important factors affecting habitat use.
Moon, J., D. Haukos, W. Conway, and P. Walther. 2013. Potential implications of climate change on the mottled duck. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	Climate change will have a disportionate effect on nonmigratory mottled ducks. Sea level rise may reduce selected habitat by as much as 50%
Moon, J., D. Haukos, W. Conway, and P. Walther. 2013. Movements of mottled ducks in the Texas Chenier Plain Region. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	The mottled duck (Anas fulgivula) has been established as an indicator species to coastal marsh health and function.Preliminary analyses indicate that distances traveled by mottled ducks are short relative to other waterfowl,<5,000 m on average; movement occurrence, duration, and distance were linked to biological season, salinity regime, and habitat conditions on the landscape (i.e., available wetlands).
Moon, J., D. Haukos, W. Conway, and P. Walther. 2013. Habitat selection of mottled ducks in the Texas Chenier Plain. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	Mottled ducks are nonmigratory and thus satisfy their life history requirements in the same landscape throughout the year. Habitat use was tied to salinity regime and water availability on the landscape with coastal marshes being selected for over adjacent ephemeral waters (e.g., stock tanks).
Moon, D., and Jack Cully. 2010. Small mammals in prairie ecosystems: scale dependent responses to disturbance. American Society of Mammalogists annual Meeting, Laramie, WY. 6/16/2010	June 2010
Mitchell, N., P. Borsdorf, C. Dixon, B. Grisham, D. Haukos, and C. Boal. 2014. Evaluation of capture techniques on lesser prairie-chicken trap injury. 50th Annual Meeting of The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Austin, Texas, Feb 2014	February 2014	Lesser prairie-chickens are a species of substantial conservation concern. We identified trap-specific risk of injury to birds that may be useful in directing research methods for the species.
Meyers, AM, SA Carleton, WR Gould, C Nichols, D Haukos, and C Hagen. 2016. Use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) habitat by lesser prairie-chicken in eastern New Mexico. Arizona/New Mexico Joint Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Flagstaff, AZ.	February 2016	This study investigated the affect of CRP grasslands on seasonal space use in lesser prairie-chickens.
Meyers, AM, SA Carleton, WR Gould, C Nichols, D Haukos, and C Hagen. 2016. Use of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) habitat by lesser prairie-chicken in eastern New Mexico. Arizona/New Mexico Joint Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Flagstaff, AZ.	February 2016	Evaluation of the use of CRP by lesser prairie-chickens in New Mexico.
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia. 2023. Identifying priority grasslands for lesser prairie-chicken reproduction using phenology and gradient landscape metrics. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2023	Our objective was to use a novel Random Forest approach to predict reproductive habitat within grasslands of Kansas using 9 NDVI-based vegetation phenology metrics combined with other landscape variables. Overall, phenology metrics and anthropogenic feature densities appear to have utility in predicting within grassland lesser prairie-chicken habitat abundance, however, important predictors may vary annually, which complicates habitat monitoring.
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia. 2022. Predicting within grassland habitat abundance for lesser prairie-chickens using gradient landscape and vegetation phenology metrics Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Spokane, Washington.	November 2022	Our objective was to use a Random Forest approach and nest location data from 2014 and 2015 to test the importance of landscape scale variables, such as percent grassland within 5km and density of oil wells within 2km, and 9 NDVI-based vegetation phenology metrics in predicting the abundance of lesser prairie-chicken nesting habitat in Kansas. Results showed that important variables differed between 2014 and 2015, where, nest habitat abundance was best predicted by percent grassland within 5km
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia. 2022. Linking greenness (NDVI) to lesser prairie-chicken reproductive habitat availability and quality. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Lewiston, Montana.	October 2022	We evaluated the potential of NDVI and NDVI-based phenology metrics to predict lesser prairie-chicken reproductive habitat selection and nest survival. Our results suggest that NDVI phenology metrics have utility in predicting reproductive habitat within remaining grasslands.
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia. 2022. Evaluating the role of vegetation phenology metrics in lesser prairie-chicken nest and brood-sites selection. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan.	February 2022	We evaluated the role of phenology metrics in nest and brood-site selection by female lesser prairie-chickens that were captured and marked with GPS and VHF transmitters in Kansas. Preliminary results suggest that phenology metrics are not reliable predictors of nest-site selection; however, maximum NDVI is a reliable predictor of brood-site selection as brood-rearing females selected sites with higher maximum NDVI, which may indicate higher food abundance, better cover, and increased productiv
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia. 2021. Evaluating the role of NDVI- Based phenology metrics in lesser prairie-chicken nest-site selection. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	We evaluated the potential role of NDVI-related phenology metrics in nest-site selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Preliminary results suggest that phenology metrics alone may not be a reliable predictor of lesser prairie-chicken nest-site selection likely due to the resolution of the phenometric images, limiting landscape features such as avoidance of anthropogenic and woody features, or other hierarchical processes.
Messier, A., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, and C. O’Meilia,. 2021. Lesser prairie-chicken resource selection following megafire in the mixed-grass prairie. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, virtual.	February 2021	The Normalized Difference in Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a remotely sensed index that measures photosynthetically active plant material and an indicator of vegetation productivity; we sought to evaluate the potential of NDVI to predict abundance of available nesting habitat. Preliminary results suggest that snapshot values of NDVI may not be a significant predictor of habitat selection; however, probability of use was greater in the 0.23-0.3 NDVI range at the 30-m pixel scale.
McDowell, S., W. Conway, C. Comer, D. Haukos, and J. Moon. 2014. Lead exposure concentrations in the blood of mottled ducks (Anas fulvigula) on the Texas Chenier Plains National Wildlife Refuge Complex. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	October 2014	Mottled ducks continue to be exposed to lead more than any other waterfowl species. Results indicate that exposure occurs during fall when hunting occurs.
McCullough, K.E., G. Albanese, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Re-thinking regal fritillary conservation and management: habitat characteristics and the impact of disturbance regime on an imperiled grassland butterfly. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC.	October 2016	Regal fritillary butterflies have been declining to the point of conservation concern. Our results indicate that previously published information on management response may suffer from low sample sizes and not provide accurate guidance.
McCullough, K., G. Albanese, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Habitat characteristics and the impact of disturbance regime on an imperiled grassland butterfly: re-thinking regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) conservation and management. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Regal fritillary are a butterfly species of conservation concern. Contrary to previous findings, we report that fire may be beneficial to the species.
McCullough, K., G. Albanese, and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Gradient habitat modeling of regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) and larval host plant using distribution modeling approach with notes on life history sttributes. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	The regal fritillary is a species of conservation concern with greatest densities remaining in the Flint Hills of Kansas. We used species distribution models to link adult occurrence to location of larval host plants.
Mather. M. E., J. M. Smith, J. Gerken, J. Patterson. Can animal movement change the outcome of ecological interactions in a grassland ecosystem? Poster. Grasslands in an International Context, Symposium, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.	September 2011
Mather. M. E. 2018. Implicit gender bias limits workplace diversity in the scientific profession: evidence, consequences, and remedies. The National Diversity in STEM Conference, October 11-13, 2018, San Antonio, TX	October 2018	Universities and agencies that develop science-based policy face difficult technical problems. Workforce diversity can increase the incidence of creative problem-solving. However, implicit bias is a barrier to socio-demographic diversity. Implicit bias (e.g., ethnicity, gender, age) is caused by subconscious stereotypes acquired in childhood, from cultural traditions, or via the media. To improve scientific problem-solving, here we review the literature on one type of implicit bias (gender), i
Mather, Martha E. 2020. Why aren’t we more successful in conserving rivers and river fish? 150th Annual Meeting of American Fisheries Society. September 14-25, 2020. Columbus, Ohio. Invited Presentation for Symposium Entitled “Confronting Present and Emerging Stressors in Rivers for Global Fisheries Conservation." https://www.dropbox.com/s/ms9304h71r5rsey/Mather%20-%20Success%20-%2043610%20%28Final%2016%20mn%29-LOAD.mp4?dl=0	September 2020	State, federal, and university fisheries professionals share an interest in maintaining river fish populations, conserving stream fish biodiversity, and restoring lotic fish habitat. The fisheries profession has substantial knowledge of river fish through many excellent individual taxa-, site-, time-, and impact-specific studies. Yet, we are still not as successful as we would like. Why are we drowning in data yet starving for a generalized understanding of river ecology and the decision suppor
Mather, Martha E. 2020. Combining Freakonomics with Data Fusion to Advance Big Data Approaches for Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Problem Solving. 150th Annual Meeting of American Fisheries Society. September 14- 2 5 2020. Columbus, Ohio. Invited Presentation for Symposium Entitled “Merging Data Science and Fisheries and Aquatic Science to Solve Big Problems.” https://www.dropbox.com/s/snz1n55v3jjvq5o/Mather%20-%20Fish%20Freak%20%2843598%29%2017%20min.mp4?dl=0	September 2020	Data and technology are central to the future success of the environmental science profession. However, a conundrum for data science is that big data do not necessarily translate to better science or more effective resource management. Consequently, fisheries professionals need to integrate multiple data sets to ask, answer, and interpret meaningful questions. Here we summarize guidelines for developing a framework that uses existing datasets more effectively.<br><br>https://www.dropbox.com/s/s
Mather, M.E., R. Lehrter. 2017. Fish Biodiversity as an Interdisciplinary Link to Achieve Sustainability. 147th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Tampa, Florida, August 20-24th, 2017.	August 2017	Providing science-based guidance for managing, conserving, and restoring aquatic ecosystems in the face of anthropogenic pressure and climate change is critically important for both resource sustainability and fisheries management. Understanding the ecology of natural systems is a priority, of course, but for sustainability biophysical knowledge must be linked to human systems. However, focusing multiple disciplines on a common goal can be a challenge in coupled natural- human system research.
Mather, M.E., J. M. Smith, K. M. Gerber, R.B. Taylor. 2017. Resmo: Patterns of residence and movement across sites can provide novel insights into field distribution of mobile consumers in pelagic ecosystems. Invited presentation - Symposium: “Pelagic fish seascapes: Integration of new technology and modeling.” 147th Annual Meeting, American Fisheries Society, Tampa, Florida, August 20-24th, 2017.	August 2017	Understanding the relative advantage of staying in one place versus moving elsewhere is critical for effective fisheries research and management. With the advent of new telemetry tools, fisheries researchers have been able to identify specific (and often surprisingly diverse) patterns of seasonal residency, local movement, and regional dispersal.
Mather, M.E., J. M. Dettmers, R. A. Stein, D. L. Parrish, D. Glover. 2019. A portfolio approach to integrated assessment and research can provide a larger context for the successful evaluation of fisheries harvest regulations. 79th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Meeting, January 27-30, 2019, Cleveland, OH.	January 2019	Harvest regulations are essential tools that fisheries managers use to alter fish populations and achieve angler satisfaction. Evaluation of regulations is essential but evaluating all regulations for all species in all systems across multiple time periods is not logistically feasible. Thus, a strategic plan that identifies what regulations need to be evaluated where, when, and how can assist effective decision-making. Specifically, an integrated framework of assessment and research (i.e., t
Mather, M.E., J. M. Dettmers, D. L. Parrish, R. A Stein. E. A. Marschall. 2018. A portfolio of integrated monitoring and research can advance successful science-based conservation and fisheries management. Invited Talk in 2018 American Fisheries Society Symposium (Atlantic City, NJ, August 19 - 23, 2018) entitled “From Catastrophe to Recovery: Stories of Fishery Management Success.”	August 2018	Resource agencies manage fisheries and conserve aquatic resources based on sound data and scientific principles. This always-difficult task is ever more challenging as fish species and aquatic systems are assaulted by an increasing diversity of human disturbances. Here we propose a pathway by which resource agencies and their collaborators can advance sustainable science-based fisheries management. Using successful examples from a variety of agencies and fisheries, we illustrate this multi-ste
Mather, M.E., D. Shoup, and Q. Phelps. 2019. Ensuring that technological advances actually advance the fisheries profession: Developing a strategic framework that uses advanced technologies to solve persistent fisheries problems. Presentation is part of a symposium entitled “Integrating Advanced Technologies to Improve Data Quality and Reduce Bias in Fisheries and Wildlife Population Research and Management.” 149th Annual American Fisheries Society Meeting and Joint Conference with The Wildlife Society in Reno, Nevada, September 29-October 3, 2019.	October 2019	Fisheries can benefit from advanced technologies (e.g., telemetry, remote sensing, social media, quantitative approaches). However, advanced technologies do not solve complex fisheries problems, improve data quality, or reduce bias by themselves. Here we provide a framework to focus advanced technologies on common fisheries management problems (e.g., standard/standardized assessments, harvest regulation application/evaluation, habitat improvement, invasive species control, managing barriers).
Mather, M., J. Smith, C. Kennedy, K. Gerber, R. Taylor. Mobile organisms in the ‘scape’: patterns, consequences, and challenges. Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	An increasing body of empirical evidence illustrates that mobile organisms can view the aquatic environment through 'scape scale glasses. Consequently, the 'scape' perspective is central to the solution of many common population, community, and fisheries questions. However, operationalizing the 'scape perspective in aquatic systems is challenging. New technological advances in aquatic telemetry make fish an ideal taxa to explore these complex interactions among mobility, 'scapes, and the theor
Mather, M., D. Shoup, and Q. Phelps. 2018. Placing gear standardization in a broader context that advances science-based fisheries research and management. 78th Fish and Wildlife Conference, Milwaukee, WI, January 28-31	January 2018	Implementation of rigorous methodologies, including gear evaluation and standardization, is critically important for effective fisheries research and management. Although few fisheries professionals disagree with the urgent need for detailed, quantitative protocols prior to data collection, challenges exist in executing representative and generalizable gear evaluations and standardizations. Three primary areas require attention. Addressing these challenges can advance the establishment and im
Mather, M., D. Oliver, J. Smith. 2023. Will We Know “Success” When We See It?: Defining Appropriate Expectations for Biodiversity Monitoring Surveys. 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas (February 12-15, 2023).	February 2023	Identifying relative abundance, habitat use, and spatial/temporal trends of fish and aquatic invertebrates is important for conservation-based management. Most biodiversity monitoring programs follow excellent technical guidelines and produce useful datasets; nevertheless, fisheries professionals are often disappointed with some aspects of their survey data. Specifically, the conservation community struggles with appropriate interpretations (e.g., what did we learn?, what are we unlikely to eve
Mather, M. E., and Coauthors. 2024. Scientists can create a transformative, interdisciplinary blueprint for protecting fish and wildlife resources; a next-gen direction for graduate education. Sigma Xi IFORE Meeting, Washington DC, November, 2024	November 2024	Here, we describe an example-based approach to identify what impedes success in achieving sustainability and what changes can be made to improve the likelihood of more effective future outcomes for the fish and wildlife profession. We call this approach <i>Biologically-Involved Sustainability</i> (BIS) to emphasize the need to marry disciplinary specialization with a holistic, across-disciplinary perspective.
Mather, M. E., R. Taylor, C. Kennedy, J. Smith. L. Deegan, J. Finn, K. Gerber. Trade-Offs Between Site Fidelity and Local Dispersal Create Heterogeneity in Consumer-Mediated Habitat Linkages in a Disturbed Seascape	August 2015	The relative advantages and disadvantages of staying in one place (e.g., site fidelity) versus moving elsewhere (e.g., dispersal to utilize temporal resources) have been explored in ecology and evolution for decades. . Plum Island Estuary, in densely populated northeastern Massachusetts, has been impacted by multiple natural and anthropogenic disturbances and presents an ideal opportunity to test the relative importance of residency vs dispersal in consumer-mediated habitat linkages.
Mather, M. E., R. M. Muth, and H. J. Frank*. 2012. Using the adopt-a-fish program to get stakeholders hooked on conservation. North American Congress for Conservation Biology, Invited Speaker, Symposium, Oakland, CA	July 2012
Mather, M. E., Q. Phelps. D. Shoup, K. Chestnut-Faull, C. Aymami. Syntheses are an underused opportunity to advance fisheries research and management: a framework to move fisheries “synthesis science” forward. 83rd Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Overland Park, Kansas (February 12-15, 2023).	February 2023	Data collection in fisheries, aquatic sciences, and applied environmental problem solving is typically undertaken at a specific time and place. These focused studies provide useful information. Yet, even the best-designed, most-extensive individual empirical study has limits. In particular, how well results transfer across populations, taxa, systems, or impacts is unclear from individual studies. An opportunity to increase understanding and provide better management solutions is lost if fisheri
Mather, M. E., P. L. Angermeier, K. L. Pope, L. A. Deegan, C. L. Hopkinson, and M. Vanni. May 2022. Framing questions differently can catalyze innovative solutions to complex aquatic science problems. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	This talk introduces the symposium entitled “Questions we should be asking to advance aquatic research and conservation.”
Mather, M. E., O. Rode, D. Oliver, K. Nelson, T. Reed, T. Moore, S. Pratap, S. Kuck. 2024. How a Monitoring Dataset, an Adaptive Management Framework, and Ecological Comparisons of Thoughtfully-Selected Fish Groups Can Aid Aquatic Conservation and Native Fish Restoration. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, KS. 66502	February 2024	The purpose of this research is to illustrate how an adaptive management framework, applied to monitoring data for carefully chosen groups of fish, can guide conservation planning for native fish restoration. Our team developed a 10-step adaptive management framework with an embedded 6-step statistical loop.
Mather, M. E., J. M. Smith, J. M. Dettmers, S. M. Hitchman, and J. T. Finn. 2019. Identifying and Operationalizing Big Hairy Audacious Goals for Fish Habitat Research, Management, and Conservation. This presentation that is part of a symposium entitled “Habitat Modeling Across Terrains and Disciplines: Addressing Common Challenges in Fisheries and Wildlife.” 149th Annual American Fisheries Society Meeting and Joint Conference with The Wildlife Society in Reno, Nevada, September 29-October 3, 2019.	October 2019	Habitat data are central to successful resource conservation. Although environmental professionals know much about habitat, managers, administrators, and policy-makers still find it difficult to make wise habitat-based conservation and restoration decisions. Iterative, adaptive problem maps that integrate questions, actions, data, methodologies (including species distribution models) with a discussion of data strengths, weaknesses, and uncertainty can provide defensible scientific-based habit
Mather, M. E., C. Aymami, and O. Rode. 2021. Plotting a course for science-based, data-driven watershed conservation through the development of a regional collaboration. Invited presentation for a symposium entitled “Creating and Implementing an Ecosystem-wide Integrated Research Agenda and Conservation Plan for Prairie Streams: A Shared Vision, Next Generation Synthesis, and Future Action Plan .” 151st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD.	November 2021	Fisheries professionals, responsible for lotic ecosystems that cross jurisdictional boundaries, can benefit from a coordinated multi-state strategy for science-based, data-driven decision support. Yet, initiating and implementing an integrated research-conservation initiative at the regional scale is challenging. Here, we review the benefits of such a multi-state collaboration, recognize the corresponding challenges, identify strategic planning that creates common goals, then we review an examp
Mather, M. E. 2022. Using a holistic approach to connect research and management. 152nd American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. August 21-25, 2022	August 2022	A 21<sup>st</sup> century grand challenge for fisheries conservation is how to connect data to successful action. This critical link between research (data) and management / policy decisions (action) is widely examined. Yet, a full measure of success in making these connections still eludes us. Here, we use the blind men and the elephants paradigm to conceptually develop then connect relevant pieces of the larger puzzle to holistically address the multifaceted <i>data-to-action</i> (research-to
Mather, M. E. 2021. We have been working on this forever: why is “diversity and inclusion” so hard? Invited presentation for a symposium entitled “Diversity and inclusion: a strategy to implement change for 2021 and beyond.” 151^st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD.	November 2021	In 2021, interest in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has exploded in fisheries, at academic institutions, at state/federal agencies, and within other sectors of US society. The American Fisheries Society (AFS) has prioritized DEI and Equal Opportunities (EO) as essential to our profession with wide support for this perspective from individual members, AFS leaders, and committees. Much productive past and present activity related to DEI has been undertaken within AFS. <i>But do we all see
Mather, M. E. 2011. Migratory fish in estuarine landscapes: can anadromous fish provide a general ecological framework for understanding distribution, habitat use, and movement? Invited Symposium Talk, North American Benthological Society, May, 2011	May 2011
Marschall, E. A., D. C. Glover, M. E. Mather, and D. L. Parrish. Modeling the effects of climate change on larval cohort success in anadromous fish populations in the mainstem of a large river. 4th Mississippi-Yangtze River Symposium, Chongqing, China, 17 October 2018.	October 2018	The success of anadromous fish populations is partly dependent on conditions in the rivers in which they spawn. A key question in understanding how anadromous populations will respond to climate change is how well behaviors adapted for historical conditions will perform under scenarios of climate change.
Marchese, C., C. Skidmore, D. A., Haukos, and D. S. Sullins. 2025. Investigating wild turkey poult and hen diets across Kansas: landscape influences on arthropod and plant diversity. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, St. Louis, Missouri.	January 2025	In Kansas, a decline in wild turkey (<i>Meleagris gallopavo</i>) re recruitment has been observed, reflecting broader population trends of this game species. Despite the importance of poult survival in population demography, an information gap remains regarding their diets in the Great Plains. We collected fecal samples (<i>n</i> = 246) from GPS-tracked wild turkey hens and their poults from April–July 2024 and used DNA metabarcoding to identify arthropod and plant taxa consumed.
Mapes, R.L., and M. E. Mather. Location, Location, Location: Incorporating spatial context into fisheries research. Contributed Paper. American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	Fisheries biologists often ignore the spatial context of their field samples even though considering the landscape has increased understanding of organism-habitat relationships in other systems. The goal of our study is to test if the spatial context of habitat-specific sampling influenced age-0 largemouth bass distribution and diet in a Great Plains reservoir.
Mapes, R., M. Mather, S. Hitchman, J. M. Smith, A. Earl, J. Romaine. 2015. Is all heterogeneity created equal? How types of habitat heterogeneity differentially alter distribution, abundance, and diets of age-0 largemouth bass.	August 2015	Heterogeneity is ubiquitous in aquatic ecosystems and can dramatically alter ecological patterns and processes. Aquatic ecologists and fisheries biologists often examine variation in structure and function within and across habitats. Landscape ecologists frequently test questions about habitat mosaics. However, the impacts of within-patch, across-patch, and within-mosaic heterogeneity are rarely compared. To address this information gap, here we test if three types of heterogeneity differential
Mammoliti, K., *W. Bouska, and C. Paukert. Seasonal stockpiling of prairie stream fishes below road crossings in the flinthills of Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010	February 2010
Mammoliti, K., *J. Gerken, and C. Paukert. Population characteristics of channel catfish in the Kansas River. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010.	February 2010
Malone, W.E.A., and D.A. Haukos. 2016. The influence of watershed condition on avian use of dry playa wetlands. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Playas are the predominant wetland system in the High Plains. Avian and floral diversity of the region is enhanced by the presence of playas.
Malone, W.E.A., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. The influence of watershed condition on avian use of dry playa wetlands. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Playa wetlands exist in 2 primary ecological state, but the dry state is little studied. Preliminary data indicate that the presence of dry playas considerable increased landscape biodiversity.
Malone, W.E.A., D.A. Haukos, and M.D. Daniels. 2015. Our essential freshwater source: estimating the occurrence and function of playa wetlands in western Kansas. Governor’s Water Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	November 2015	As part of a NSF grant, we designed a project to evaluate functional status of wetlands in the Smoky Hill River Watershed. Concentrating on playas, the value of these wetlands in supporting floral and faunal biodiversity of the region is presented.
Malone, W., and D.A. Haukos. 2017. How playa wetlands influence landscape biodiversity: small depressions with a big benefit. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Playa wetlands are crucial islands of biodiversity in the High Plains landscape. We quantified the contribution of playas to the biodiversity of plants and birds relative to what would be expected if playas were lost from the landscape.
Malone, W., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. The influence of watershed condition on avian use and diversity of playa wetlands in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Emporia, KS	October 2015	Playas are the primary surface hydrological feature of the High Plains. Grassland with playas support greater biodiversity than grasslands alone.
Malone, W., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. The influence of watershed condition on avian use and diversity of playa wetlands in western Kansas. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas. (poster)	August 2015	Playas are important sites for biodiversity. We compared species richness and diversity among watershed types in western Kansas.
Malanchuk, J.B., and D. Haukos. 2020. Survival, recovery, and translocation of temperate-breeding Kansas-banded Canada geese. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Resident Canada geese can be a nuisance. Use of capture and translocation to a rural area negatively affects their survival.
Malanchuk, J., T. Bidrowski, and D. Haukos. 2020. Survival, recovery, and translocation of Kansas-banded Canada geese. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Resident Canada geese represents a major success story in wildlife management, but currently populations exceed societal thresholds of tolerance requiring strategies to remove geese. We evaluated the effect of translocating resident Canada geese on survival and found reduced survival as a result of being translocated.
Malanchuk, J., D. Haukos, and T. Bidrowski. 2019. Population status and vital rates of temperate-breeding Canada geese in Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Resident Canada geese are an issue throughout the Central Flyway. We estimated the population size and effects of management actions on annual survival for Canada geese in Kansas.
Malanchuk, J. B., D. S. Sullins, and D. A. Haukos. 2019. Probability of mottled duck pair pond use on the Chenier Plain, Texas. North American Duck Symposium, Winnipeg, Manitoba.	August 2019	Mottled ducks selection for certain habitat characteristics relative to use of pair ponds on the upper Texas coast. Mottled ducks select larger ponds with submergent vegetation.
Makinster, A., and C. P. Paukert. Population dynamics of flathead catfish in the Kansas River, Kansas. 31st Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Hays, KS.	February 2006
Makinster, A., and C. P. Paukert. Flathead catfish population dynamics in a Midwestern prairie river. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, New York, 14 September 2006.	September 2006
Luginbill, J.L., E Johnson, S. M. Hitchman, M. E. Mather Effective aquatic conservation requires fisheries research in the “scape” American Fisheries Society Meeting, Kansas City, August 2016	August 2016	Many state, federal, and nongovernmental agencies provide information on whether proposed land and water use activities will have an adverse impact on aquatic ecosystems. Based on experience with both state and federal nongame management in the Great Plains, here we build a case that environmental agencies managing streams and rivers need an integrated riverscape-scale decision tool that synthesizes individual pieces of data throughout a watershed.
Lloyd, J.D, C. Aldridge, T. Allison, D. Haukos, C. LeBeau, L. McNew, and V. Winder. 2022. Prairie grouse and wind energy: the state of the science. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Spokane, Washington.	November 2022	Understanding effects of wind-energy development on prairie grouse is particularly important because these species are of high conservation concern, some are important game species, and all have geographic distributions that overlap extensively with areas of potentially high-value wind resources that may experience development pressure in coming decades. Indirect effects of wind energy development may be significant and primarily represented as functional habitat loss through avoidance of wind
Lipp, T., A. Gregory, and D. Haukos. 2015. Influence of sound on nest placement and success of the lesser prairie-chicken. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	A soundscape was created based on noise produced by oil and gas wells. Female lesser prairie-chickens nested outside of the range of sound produced by the wells (>500 m).
Lehrter, Mather, Daniels. 2015. Fish Biodiversity as a Component of Ecosystem Function and Indicator of Environmental Degradation in a Great Plains River	November 2015	Fresh water provides valuable goods and services for society. Organismal diversity plays a major role in sustainability planning for aquatic ecosystems. Fish and other aquatic biota maintain ecosystem function and provide indicators of ecosystem degradation / restoration. This research is part of a larger coupled-natural-human system project that links ecological, hydrological, geomorphological, sociological, economic, and policy responses to anthropogenic and climate impacts with the goal of
Lehnen, S.L., J.A. Moon, M.J. Osland, N.M. Enwright, K.L. Metzger, B.C. Wilson, M.G. Brasher, B.C. Chivoiu, W.C. Conway, B.E. Davis, L.C. Feher, D.A. Haukos, D.M. Head, D.J. Johnson, T.C. Lane, N.M. Rankin, F.C. Rohwer, C.R. Sanspree, C.L. Stagg, D.R. Stewart, M.A. Squires, and W.C. Vervaeke. 2023. Implementation of climate change adaption using the resist-accept-direct framework: a case study for managing coastal Texas wetlands in response to rising seas. Society of Wetland Scientists, Spokane, Washington.	June 2023	To best use limited resources within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Refuge System, we implemented a multi-pronged approach within the Resist-Accept-Direct framework to respond to and potentially mitigate sea-level rise impacts. Our approach addresses the effects of climate change in a proactive framework and represents a general approach to tackle pressing conservation issues in other regions.
Lautenbach, J., and D. Haukos. 2017. Quantifying landscape and vegetation characteristics of lesser prairie-chicken habitat during extreme temperature events. Annual meeting of the Society of Range Management, St. George, UT.	February 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens are sensitive to extreme environmental conditions. Individuals select habitat for summer refugia during extreme temperature conditions.
Lautenbach, J., and D. Haukos. 2015. Effect of pyric herbivory on vegetation composition with management implications for lesser prairie-chickens. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Prescribed fire has a major impact on quality and availability of habitat for lesser prairie-chickens. Time since burn dictates degree of use by lesser prairie-chickens throughout the breeding season.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2016. Effects of tree encroachment on lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, MI	January 2016	Tree encroachment is a major contributor to habitat loss for lesser prairie-chickens. We estimated the cut-off density for use at 2 trees/ha.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2014. Survival and habitat selection of lesser prairie-chicken chicks and broods. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, Colorado.	September 2014	Chick survival is a limiting factor in lesser prairie-chicken demography. Survival is related to region and environmental conditions, varying considerably across time and space.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2014. Nest site location by lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Nest site selection by lesser prairie-chickens is related to lek location and habitat structure. Distance from nest to lek differed among populations.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2014. Impacts of tree encroachment on lesser prairie-chickens. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union, Cooper Ornithological Society, and Society of Canadian Ornithologists, Estes Park, Colorado.	September 2014	Invasion of prairie systems by trees is detrimental to prairie grouse. We documented threshold densities for use of prairies by lesser prairie-chickens.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2014. Differences in successful and unsuccessful nests of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, Kansas.	January 2014	Nest success of lesser prairie-chickens is critical in population demography. Vegetation structure has the greatest impact on nest success.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2013. Regional variation in nest success of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Crookston, MN.	October 2013	Nest success of lesser prairie-chickens was evaluated across the northern range of the species. Variation in nest success was documented and due to differences in environmental conditions.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, and J. Pitman. 2013. Factors affecting brood and chick survival of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Crookston, MN.	October 2013	Brood and chick survival are difficult to estimate for lesser prairie-chickens. Survival varied in response to environmental conditions.
Lautenbach, J., R. Plumb, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2015. Effects of tree encroachment on lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba.	October 2015	Tree encroachment is a major cause of habitat loss for lesser prairie-chickens. Lesser prairie-chickens avoid areas with >2 trees/ha and at distances twice as far as would be expected at random.
Lautenbach, J., J. Lautenbach, and D. Haukos. 2016. Using patch-burn grazing to maintain prairie for lesser prairie-chickens. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Lesser prairie-chickens respond positively to patch burn grazing. Further patch burn grazing can be used to control invading red-cedar, which reduces habitat quality for lesser prairie-chickens.
Lautenbach, J., J. Lautenbach, and D. Haukos. 2016. Lesser prairie-chicken habitat and movement response to patch-burn grazing. Annual Meeting of the Midwest AFish and Wildlife Conference, Grand Rapids, MI	January 2015	Fire is an important component to maintaining lesser prairie-chicken habitat. However, to fulfill their life history requirements, lesser prairie-chickens require access to a variety of habitat conditions that can be enhanced by prescribed fire.
Lautenbach, J., J. Lautenbach, and D. Haukos. 2016. Killing trees and maintaining prairie for lesser prairie-chickens through patch-burn grazing. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, Corpus Christi, TX	February 2016	Trees greatly influence habitat use by lesser prairie-chickens. Prescribed fire can be used to control trees but nest selection is based on areas that are greater than two since burn.
Lautenbach, J., J. Lautenbach, and D. Haukos. 2016. Effects of tree encroachment and prescribed fire on lesser prairie-chicken space use. Annual meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Great Bend.	October 2016	Control of invasive trees using prescribed fire in grasslands is a common management strategy. Lesser prairie-chickens respond positively to a patch-burn system compared to a traditional annually burned approach to grassland management.
Lautenbach, J., J. Lautenbach, D. Sullins, R. Plumb, D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. Lesser prairie-chicken avoidance of trees in a grassland landscape. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, St. George, Utah.	February 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens are sensitive to trees invading prairie landscapes. Very low densities of trees renders potential habitat functionally absent.
Lautenbach, J., D. Haukos, and C. Hagen. 2017. Influence of patch-burn grazing on lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection in Kansas. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Dickinson, ND.	October 2017	Patch-burn grazing is a potential management tool for lesser prairie-chicken populations in the eastern portion of their range. Female lesser prairie-chickens use burn patches >2 yrs old for nesting, but not for any other portion of their life cycle.
Lautenbach, J., D. Haukos, and C. Hagen. 2016. Satisfying the quilt work of habitat needs of the lesser prairie-chicken: the role of patch-burn grazing. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC.	October 2016	Lesser prairie-chickens need landscape heterogeneity to persist. Patch-burn grazing does provide the heterogeneity necessary for all phases of the breeding season.
Lautenbach, J., D. Haukos, and B.A. Grisham. 2017. Quantifying landscape and vegetative characteristics of lesser prairie-chicken habitat during extreme temperature events. Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens inhabit landscapes of thermal extremes. We documented habitat selection during these extremes to aid in conservation.
Lautenbach, J., D. Haukos, and B.A. Grisham. 2017. Fried Chicken: Identifying Areas of Thermal Refugia for Lesser Prairie-chickens in a Changing Climate. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Thermal conditions will increasing be important with climate change. We found that lesser prairie-chickens will actively seek thermal refugia during extreme temperatures
Lathrom, C., Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2024. Assessing the composition and diversity of native bumblebee species in the Great Plains. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2024	We assessed the occurrence, abundance, and distribution of native bees on Fort Riley, Kansas, relative to the potential effects on future military missions, tallgrass management regimes, and land cover types. We estimated 1.30 Bombus/ha (CV = 0.184) and 1.40 Bombus/ha (CV = 0.122) during 2022 and 2023, respectively.
Lathrom, C., Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2024. Assessing the composition and diversity of native bumblebee species in the Great Plains. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	We measured the variation of native Bombus communities across space and time relative to land cover types, floral types and stage, and tallgrass prairie management regimes on Fort Riley, Kansas, with a focus on American bumblebee and Southern Plains bumblebee. We captured 8,620 bees across 22 sites representing 12 dominant plant colonies representing Bombus species including American, Southern Plains, Black and Gold, Common Eastern, Brown-Belted, and Two Spotted.
Lathrom, C., Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2024. Assessing the Composition and Diversity of Native Bumblebee Species in the Great Plains. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Sioux Falls, South Dakota.	January 2024	The steady decline of pollinator populations, such as native bumblebees, has caused a growing concern for sustainable management practices across the Great Plains. The findings of this study will contribute to the development of evidence-based management recommendations for maintaining and enhancing the ecological health and biodiversity of the Great Plains ecosystem relative to the suite of <i>Bombus </i>species monitored during the trials.
Lathrom, C., Skidmore, C., D. Haukos, and D. Moon. 2023. Tallgrass prairie management regime and plant diversity effects on native bumblebee density. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky	November 2023	To understand the status of the Bombus genus in the Flint Hills of Kansas, our goal was to assess diversity and species compositions of bumblebee communities relative to landcover and tallgrass prairie management regimes on Fort Riley Military Reservation (FRMR).Our results highlight where management efforts for imperiled bumblebee species may be focused for future conservation efforts.
Lane, T.C., B.A. Grisham, J.A. Moon, D.M. Head, D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2017. Habitat selection of wintering waterfowl communities on the upper Texas Coast. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, Texas.	February 2017	Wintering waterfowl form mixed, high density flocks that utilized specific habitat features. On the upper Texas Gulf Coast, habitat selection by waterfowl was influenced by water salinity and presence of submerged vegetation.
Lane, T.C., B.A. Grisham, J.A. Moon, D.M. Head, D.A. Haukos, and W.C. Conway. 2017. Habitat selection of wintering waterfowl communities on Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	The upper Texas Gulf Coast is an important waterfowl wintering area. Important factors to habitat selection was salinity, water depth, and presence of submerged aquatic vegetation
Kretschmann, A., S. Bonar, K. Young, J. Whittier, C. Paukert, and D. Guertin. Using Geographic Information Systems to delineate native fish and sport fish management areas in the Verde River watershed, Arizona. Western Division of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM.	May 2009
Kraft, J.D., and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Landscape level habitat selection of female lesser prairie-chickens in western Kansas and eastern Colorado. International Grouse Symposium, Reykjavik, Iceland.	September 2015	Lesser prairie-chickens are dependent upon grasslands but features of grasslands that cause a population response are lacking. Resource selection analyses indicate that patch size and degree of anthropogenic impacts are important feature for habitat selection.
Kraft, J.D., S.G. Robinson, R.T. Plumb, and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Landscape characteristics of home ranges of lesser prairie-chickens. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Characteristics of lesser prairie-chicken home ranges directly impact population demography. Landscape characteristics differ between individual and grouped home ranges compared to what is generally available on the landscape.
Kraft, J.D., J. Lautenbach, D.A. Haukos, and J.C. Pitman. 2015. Seasonal habitat selection by female lesser prairie-chickens in varying landscapes. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita.	January 2015	Resource selection is critical for conservation of species. Resource habitat selection by lesser prairie-chickens is consistent across the annual cycle.
Kraft, J.D., J. Lautenbach, D.A. Haukos, and J.C. Pitman. 2015. Seasonal habitat selection by female lesser prairie-chickens in varying landscapes. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita.	January 2014	Resource selection by animals is crucial to conservation decisions. Lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection was consistent throughout the annual cycle.
Kraft, J.D., J. Lautenbach, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, and C.A. Hagen. 2015. Female lesser prairie-chicken response to grazing practices in western Kansas grasslands. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, Sacramento, CA.	February 2015	Lesser prairie-chickens are primarily found on private lands throughout their range. Grazing intensity and utilization does influence differential habitat use by lesser prairie-chickens.
Kraft, J.D., J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2015. Female lesser prairie-chicken response to grazing in western Kansas grasslands. Biennial meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri.	September 2015	Grazing management greatly influences space use by lesser prairie-chickens. Measures of LPC habitat use and reproductive success were positively related with lower values of grazing intensity (AUM and percent forage utilization rates), larger pasture sizes, and greater values of above-ground biomass
Kraft, J.D., J. Lautenbach, D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2015. Female lesser prairie-chicken response to grazing in western Kansas grasslands. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Grazing management is critical for the success of lesser prairie-chickens. We established relationships among grazing intensity/utilization and population vital rates.
Kraft, J.D., D.A. Haukos, M.R. Bain, M. Rice, S. Robinson, D.S. Sullins, C.A. Hagen, J. Pitman, J. Lautenbach, R. Plumb, and J. Lautenbach. 2017. Sparser herds, larger pastures, and imperiled birds: heterogeneity-based grazing management is essential for a heterogeneity-dependent grassland. Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Dickinson, ND.	October 2017	Lesser prairie-chickens require landscape heterogeneity to fulfill their life cycle. Grazing management for <40% utilization in larger pastures with reduced stocking densities had the greatest probability of use by lesser prairie-chickens.
Kraft, J.D., D. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Evaluation of lesser prairie-chicken brood habitat selection across categorical habitats. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Habitat use by lesser prairie-chicken broods is little understood. Disturbed native grassland was selected over CRP.
Kraft, J.D., D. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2016. Dynamic interactions of Conservation Reserve Program, native grasslands, and lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Habitat selection is an important feature of the life history of lesser prairie-chickens. As the amount of cropland increases, selection of CRP increases.
Kraft, J.D., D. Haukos, and C. Hagen. 2016. Implications of pasture area, grazing strategy, and region on lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection and vegetation. Annual Meeting of the Society of Range Management, Corpus Christi, TX	February 2016	Grazing management greatly influences lesser prairie-chicken habitat use. Moderate levels of grazing and larger pasture area maximized vegetation structure that is selected by lesser prairie-chickens.
Kraft, J.D., D. Haukos, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2015. Identifying drivers of lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection within western Kansas grazed lands. Annual Meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, Emporia, KS	October 2015	Grazing management greatly influences lesser prairie-chicken habitat. Grazing intensity, pasture area, timing of grazing, and ecological site all influence habitat use by lesser prairie-chickens.
Kraft, J.D., D. Haukos, C. Hagen, and J. Pitman. 2016. Are larger pastures and sparser herds the way to manage grassland birds? A case-study of the lesser prairie-chicken. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC. (Invited)	October 2016	Grazing management is critical for lesser prairie-chickens. Results indicate that light-moderate grazing with pastures >400 ha maximizes nest success.
Kinlan, M.A., D. Haukos, A.M. Ricketts, and L. Jaster. 2020. Influence of hunting on survival of adult male mule and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Harvest of mule deer and white-tailed deer may be influence demography of populations in western Kansas. We found that harvest was the dominant form of mortality of adult male deer, but hunting season occurred after rut period.
Kinlan, M., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, and Levi Jaster. 2019. Seasonal survival, land-cover selection, and movements of male mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	White-tailed deer are displacing mule deer in Kansas. Male white-tailed deer use different habitat than male mule throughout much of the year.
Kinlan, M., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, and Levi Jaster. 2019. Movement patterns and resource selection of male mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Resource selection and movement of male deer may affect survival and highlight differences among species. Mule and white-tailed deer in Kansas greatly changed their movements and habitat selection during rifle hunting season.
Kinlan, M., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, and L. Jasper. 2018. Seasonal survival and movements of male mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Mule deer and white-tailed in Kansas are experiencing contrasting population trends. We compared male survival and movements between the two species in two different landscapes.
Kerns, B., S. McDowell, J. Moon, E. Rigby, and D. Haukos. 2014. Identifying landscape-level indicators of environmental contaminants that affect wildlife: a species distribution approach. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Kansas City, MO.	January 2014	Lead exposure is a habitat quality issue. Spatial distribution of lead on the upper Texas coast is patchy, but not avoided by mottled ducks.
Kerns, B., J. Moon, E. Rigby, and D. Haukos. 2013. Species distribution in environmental decision-making: characterizing the efficacy of different models for use in habitat and wildlife management. Annual meeting of Society for Conservation GIS. Monterey, California. July 2013.	July 2013	Distribution models of mottled ducks were compared between home range and entropy models. Although home range provided good basic estimates of actual land use, maxent provides a more robust solution for modeling habitat use based on niche requirements that will manifest even more strongly at larger spatial scales
Kern, M., M. Kinlan, T. Karish, A. Ricketts, D. Haukos, and Levi Jaster. 2019. Neonate survival rates and bed-site selection of two sympatric deer species in western Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Mule deer and white-tailed deer coexist but exhibit different population trends in Kansas. We investigated the role of fawn survival and habitat use in these trends.
Kern, M., M. Kinlan, T. Karish, A. Ricketts, D. Haukos, and L. Jaster. 2019. Neonate survival rates and bed-site selection of two sympatric deer species in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Fawn survival and habitat use are essential to understanding population dynamics of deer. Fawn survival differed among mule and white-tailed deer and between study sites due to different landscapes.
Kern, M., A. Rickett, D. Haukos,and L. Jasper. 2018. Survival and cause-specific mortality of white-tailed and mule deer fawns in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Mule deer and white-tailed deer populations have different trajectories in Kansas. We assessed fawn survival and cause-specific mortality factors to determine if differential survival is contributing to the different population trends.
Kennedy, C. G., M. E. Mather, J. T. Finn, L. A. Deegan. 2011. The complexity of habitat complexity: how physical features of a New England estuary shape seasonal habitat use of migratory striped bass. CERF Meeting, FL	November 2011
Kearns, B., S. McDowell, J. Moon, and D. Haukos. 2013. Spatial analysis and ecological risk assessment for lead exposure in Gulf Coast waterfowl: does environmental lead represent an ecological trap? Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Minneapolis, Minnesota. August 2013.	August 2013	Spatial variation of lead exposure by mottled ducks was evaluated. Our spatial analyses and creation of a “risk surface” can help direct management efforts and raise awareness of “ecological traps” – areas where forage and shelter are adequate for persistence, but exposure to anthropogenically deposited lead will reduce fecundity and survival.
Kearns, B., S. McDowell, J. Moon, W. Conway, and D. Haukos. 2014. The legacy of lead: developing new methods for assessing lead contamination and wildlife exposure risks in Gulf Coast wetland habitats. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Austin, TX.	February 2014	Lead distribution in Gulf Coastal marshes is influenced by disturbance events and soil type. Despite a lead ban for nearly 30 years, lead remains available for waterfowl on the upper Texas Gulf Coast.
Kearns, B., P. Walther. W. Conway, and D. Haukos. 2014. A body condition index for non-breeding mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	October 2014	Models were developed to estimate body fat from structural characteristics for mottled ducks. Patterns of fat stores varies among male and female mottled ducks.
Kearns, B., P. Walther, and D. Haukos. 2014. Developing a body condition index for mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Austin, TX.	February 2014	Body condition indices are important in monitoring waterfowl. The index for mottled ducks was based on use of structural characteristics to predict fat deposits.
Kayla M. Gerber, Martha E. Mather. A High Retention Methodology for Surgically Implanting Telemetry Tags in Catfish	January 2015	A review of tagging studies revealed that catfish (blue Ictalurus furcatus and channel I. punctatus) have higher tag loss (expulsion, mortality) than other fish (mean catfish tag loss = 74%, range = 40-98%). To address this, we conducted an experiment on 70 hatchery-raised channel catfish (184-260 mm TL) in Milford Hatchery, KS, using five treatments that combined incision location, general handling, and antibiotics
Kayla M. Gerber, Martha E. Mather, Joseph M. Smith, Zachary J. Peterson. Distribution Patterns of Individual Fish Predators (Blue Catfish) in a Midwestern Reservoir	February 2015	Movement can dramatically change the outcome of ecological interactions and the effectiveness of fisheries management. To integrate consequences of mobility into existing paradigms, researchers and managers first need to know the patterns of distribution and movement within fish populations
Kaufman, G.A., J.F. Cully, Jr., T. Hoernemann, S. Egbert, A. Stewart, and R.L. Rehmeier. Gap Analysis in Kansas: new innovations from KS-GAP. Society of Conservation Biologists, University of Hawaii. August 2001.	August 2001
Karish, T., M. Kinlan, M. Kern, D. Haukos, A.M. Ricketts, and L. Jaster. 2021. Ecology of white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Southeastern Deer Study Group, Virtual presentation.	February 2021	Increasing numbers of white-tailed deer in Kansas are associated with declining mule deer numbers, increasing deer-human conflicts, and facilitation of the spread of chronic wasting disease. Survival of adult females was high with only a 14% annual mortality rate, with only 2% were legally harvested the entire study.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A.M. Ricketts, and L. Jaster. 2020. Resource selection in multiple spatial scales by female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Resource selection allows for co-existence of sympatric species such as white-tailed deer and mule deer. In western Kansas, female mule deer demonstrated differential resource selection relative to white-tailed deer, which may be manifested in the reduced reproductive output of mule deer due to competitive exclusion.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, and L. Jaster. 2021. Resource selection by female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	A predominant hypothesis for the loss of mule deer and concurrent expansion of white-tailed deer in Kansas is adaptation of white-tailed deer to changes in land use and land cover as reflected in resource selection. Preliminary results indicate white-tailed deer selected for canopy cover when it was available, whereas mule deer most consistently selected for steeper slopes.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, and L. Jasper. 2018. Resource selection and movements of female mule deer and white-tailed deer during parturition and lactation in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Kansas mule deer and white-tailed deer populations are experience conflicting abundance trajectories. We measured doe habitat use and movements during the breeding season to test differences between species, sexes, and landscapes.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, Levi Jaster, M. Kinlan, and M. Kern. 2019. Resource selection and movements of female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	White-tailed deer are displacing mule deer in Kansas. Female white-tailed deer use different habitats than female mule deer during the reproductive season.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, L. Jaster, M. Kinlan, and M. Kern. 2021. Activity patterns and movements of mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of American Society of Mammalogists, Virtual presentation.	June 2021	Abundance and occupied range of mule deer (<i>Odocoileus hemionus</i>) in Kansas have been declining and contracting while the white-tailed deer (<i>O. </i> <i>virginianus</i>) abundance and range have been expanding. Initial results showed similar activity patterns between the study sites. Initial results also indicate the most drastic change in activity for females occurs when tending a live fawn, but for males, the most drastic change is during the rut.
Karish, T., D. Haukos, A. Ricketts, L. Jaster, M. Kinlan, and M. Kern. 2019. Seasonal activity patterns of female white-tailed deer and mule deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Relating habitat use to activity patterns of deer will provide insight into habitat segregation. Our results indicate a landscape effect in addition to a species effect on activity patterns
Johnson, Tammi L., and Jack F. Cully, Jr. Black-tailed prairie dogs and sylvatic plague: Landscape dynamics of an emerging disease. Paper presented at the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. February 2003.	February 2003
Johnson, T. L., and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2004. Effects of colony connectivity on the spread of Sylvatic Plague (Yersinia pestis) in black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) across the Great Plains. Presentation to the Thunder Basin Prairie Ecosystem Management Association, May 2004, Casper, WY.	May 2004
Johnson, T. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Effects of Black-tailed Prairie Dog Colony Complex Structure on the Spread of Sylvatic Plague. Annual Coordinating Committee Meeting, Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Manhattan, KS.	March 2004
Johnson, T. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Connectivity of Black-tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Colony Complexes Across the Great Plains. Division of Biology. 30th Annual Graduate Student Forum, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.	February 2004
Johnson, T. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Colony spatial dynamics influence the transmission of sylvatic plague in black-tailed prairie dogs. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Student Research Forum, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan. March, 2005.	March 2005
Johnson, T. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Black-tailed prairie dogs and sylvatic plague: Landscape dynamics of an emerging disease. Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Lubbock TX. June 2003.	June 2003
Johnson, T. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2004. Drainages as Potential Corridors for the Spread of Sylvatic Plague in Black-tailed Prairie Dogs. American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting, Arcata, CA.	June 2004
Jensen, William E. and Jack F. Cully, Jr. Latitudinal variation in cowbird parasitism and productivity of grassland songbirds across the Flint Hills. Paper presented at the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting, Kansas State University, February 2003	February 2003
Jensen, William E. and Jack F. Cully, Jr. Evidence for density-dependent habitat selection by brown-headed cowabirds in tallgrass prairie. Paper presented at the Cooper Ornithological Society Annual Meeting, Flagstaff, AZ, May 2003.	May 2003
Jensen, W.E., and J.F. Cully, Jr. Use of grassland bird communities by Brown-headed Cowbirds in the Flint Hills.	October 2001
Jensen, W.E., and J.F. Cully, Jr. Use of grassland bird communities by Brown-headed Cowbirds in tallgrass prairie landscapes.	December 2001
Jensen, W.E., and J.F. Cully, Jr. Do Brown-headed Cowbirds exhibit density-dependent habitat selection in tall grass prairie landscapes?	September 2002
Jensen, W.E. What do matrix population models tell us about Northern Bobwhite populations?	April 2002
Jensen, W. E. and J.F. Cully, Jr. Evidence for density-dependent habitat selection by brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater). Kansas State University, Division of Biology 29th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum, Manhattan, KS.	March 2003
Jensen, W. E. and J. F. Cully, Jr. Density-dependent habitat selection by brown-headed cowbirds in tallgrass prairie. 121st Stated meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Urbana-Champaign, IL. August 2003	August 2003
Jennie Grill, Ryland Taylor, Martha Mather. Where and How Predators Feed: Migratory Striped Bass Can Provide General Insights Into Sportfish Foraging. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS	January 2017	Migratory predators can provide a general model for where and how sportfish feed. The insights we provide here about the relative consumption of fish and invertebrates have general relevance for fish ecology, movement, and sportfish management in a variety of ecosystems.
Jane S. Fencl, Martha E. Mather, Sean M. Hitchman, Joseph M. Smith. Quantifying river fragmentation: impacts of low-head dams on geomorphology and fish biodiversity in the Neosho River, Kansas	February 2015	Dams can alter fundamental characteristics of riverine ecosystems, by fragmenting ecological, hydrological, and geomorphological connectivity. Of the over 2,770 peer-reviewed papers on dams and fish, only about 6% target low-head dams (< 6 m high) even though these small dams are a common type of instream barrier. To increase scientific knowledge about these potential geomorphic and ecological impacts, we sampled at six low-head dams and five undammed reference sites in the upper Neosho River w
Interpretation of the High Plains. Science Committee, Great Plains Landscape Conservation Cooperative, October 2011, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (Invited).	October 2011
Hu, D, S. Gaughan, P.M. Kocovsky, M.E. Mather, K. Mayes, J. Perkin, J.S. Rogosch, D. Winkelman, M. Wuellner. 2022. AFS 151 Symposia Summaries. "Creating and implementing an ecosystem-wide integrated research agenda and conservation plan for prairie streams: A shared vision, next generation synthesis, and future action plan." Fisheries 47: 30. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10708	November 2021	The symposium brought together scientists and managers across the Great Plains who shared their perspectives, research, existing resources, and anticipated roles in a collaborative network. Presentations were organized around several topics including a keynote address about prairie stream conservation, ongoing research, state agency perspectives, federal agency coordination, and opportunities for future collaboration.
Hoernemann, T.A., J.F. Cully, Jr., and G.A. Kaufman. Automated data management for vertebrate modeling for Kansas GAP and Great Plains Regional GAP. National GAP Meeting, South Dakota. June 2001.	August 2001
Hitchman, S., M. Mather, J. Smith. 2022. Status quo vs innovation when creating best practices. 152nd American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Spokane, WA. August 21-25, 2022	August 2022	The fisheries profession can benefit from the development of criteria for determining when to keep the status quo and when to innovate. Many fisheries professionals are currently overwhelmed by existing job responsibilities. As a result, our profession provides limited opportunities and incentives for thinking about new approaches to complex problems. In this talk, we give an example of innovation in best practices and discuss ideas for creating best practices for choosing spatial scales when s
Hitchman, S., M. Mather, J. Smith, J. Fencl. 2016. Viewing streams as a habitat mosaic; implications for riverscape ecology and stream conservation. Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	Here, we develop a riverscape-scale, habitat-mosaic approach for quantifying how human impacts and climate change impact freshwater fish biodiversity. If mosaics create different patterns of biodiversity than traditionally-measured isolated habitat patches, extant approaches to examining organism-habitat relationships will be unable to address larger scale conservation threats.
Hitchman, S., M. E. Mather, J. M. Smith, K. L. Pope, D. R. DeVries, M. P. Carey, and J. E. Garvey. 2022. Scale: direction and progress for impactful science-based conservation. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	Here, we address the following: 1) Are we still asking the same questions regarding scale across three decades? 2) What parts of the scale problem have been solved? 3) Is scale choice explicit or often driven by outside factors beyond our control such as funding? (4) Will we ever reach consensus?
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, and J. M. Smith. 2021. Scale V.2021: Identifying current issues that address future needs for making scale choices that facilitate effective field sampling. Invited Presentation for a symposium entitled “Scale V.2021: Status, Options, and Knowledge Gaps for Choosing and Matching Scales in Aquatic Field Data,” 151^st Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, November 6-10, 2021, Baltimore, MD.	November 2021	Decisions on when, where, and how much fisheries field data to collect necessarily include considerations of spatial and temporal scales. In this symposium, fisheries professionals with diverse expertise, who work on different taxa in different ecosystems, will contribute their insights about current options for choosing scale including existing strengths, weaknesses, tradeoffs for scale choice, and consequences for data interpretation. In our introductory symposium presentation, we synthesize
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. S. Fencl, J. M. Smith. 2015. Are riffles keystone habitats in a low-gradient prairie stream?; implications for riverscape ecology and stream conservation	August 2015	A riverscape approach to stream ecology and conservation focuses on how stream habitats are integrated to create a sustainable mosaic that supports a diverse biotic community. Here, we (1) test if stream habitat units are categorical or continuous, (2) quantify the distribution of these units across a riverscape, (3) evaluate fish species-habitat relationships, then (4) identify repositories of native stream fish biodiversity.
Hitchman, S. M., M. E. Mather, J. S. Fencl, J. M. Smith. Does heterogeneity in habitat type, size, and arrangement influence patterns of fish biodiversity in the Neosho River, Kansas?	August 2014	Habitat heterogeneity is a ubiquitous feature of stream and river ecosystems that can alter biodiversity and change the effectiveness of conservation policies. Although much research invokes heterogeneity as an important ecological driver of biotic patterns, metrics that quantify heterogeneity differ, resulting in ambiguity in across-site comparisons of patterns and processes.
Hilwig, K. D., P. J. Sponholtz, D. L. Ward, and C. P. Paukert. Effects of repeated handling on bonytail chub - preliminary results. Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program, 25th Annual Recovery Program Researchers' Meeting. Moab, UT. 13 January 2004.	January 2004
Haukos, D.A., and W.C. Conway. 2018. Playas and Saline Lakes – Threatened Systems of the Semi-Arid High Plains. Annual conference of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Denver, CO.	May 2018	Semi-arid wetlands are conservation challenges. Treating the wetlands as a functioning system will allow for prioritization of conservation strategies based on contribution to overall network.
Haukos, D.A., and G. Albanese. 2017. Use of network analysis to prioritize conservation of playa wetlands based on landscape connectivity. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE. (Invited)	February 2017	Playa wetlands form a redundant but resilient system. We develop a network approach to prioritizing wetlands for conservation based on their contribution to the network.
Haukos, D.A., W.C. Conway, D. Hett, and B. Weihs. 2017. Ecological state change of saline lakes on the Southern High Plains. Annual conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Saline lakes of the Southern High Plains provide important ecological benefits. Due to the declining Ogallala Aquifer, saline lakes are changing from a continuously inundated saline system to a periodic inundated system dependent on precipitation, which will have long-term effects on flora and fauna using saline lakes.
Haukos, D.A., J.A. Moon, and W.C. Conway. 2016. At what scale should mottled ducks be managed? Special Session: Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation of Monotypic Ducks, 7th North American Duck Symposium, Annapolis, MD. (Invited)	February 2016	Mottled ducks persist as isolated populations in the Western Gulf Coast region. Evidence is provided to support development of management goals and objectives at local or regional scales rather than state or Western Gulf Coast population.
Haukos, D.A. 2020. Effects of saline lakes and playa wetland ecological state changes on sandhill crane space use of the Southern High Plains. North American Crane Workshop, Lubbock, Texas (Invited)	January 2020	Invited plenary presentation on the role of saline lakes and playa wetlands on wintering ecology of sandhill cranes. State changes in these wetland systems have caused a constraint in the available habitat for the cranes.
Haukos, D.A. 2019. Lesser prairie-chicken response to changing landscapes and climate. Plenary presentation, Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Manhattan, Kansas (Invited).	July 2019	Summary of 30 years of research on lesser prairie-chickens. The species is screwed.
Haukos, D.A. 2019. Animals as indicators of environmental changes. Special Session “One Health and Animal Research - A Cross-Link to Promote Human, Animal, and Environmental Health”, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science National Meeting. Denver, Colorado (Invited).	October 2019	Invited seminar presentation, no abstract required. An overview of the role of animals in the environment as part of the OneHealth initiative.
Haukos, D.A. 2018. Lesser prairie-chickens – a case study in cooperative conservation. Invited presentation in symposium “Challenges of balancing stakeholder engagement and scientific decision-making to inform wildlife policy” Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio (Invited)	October 2018	As part of a special section on balancing science and stakeholder, the lesser prairie-chicken is an example of successful integration. The use of science in an adaptive framework for lesser prairie-chicken management is highlighted.
Haukos, D.A. 2017. Playa buffers. Playa Lakes Workshop and Tour, Kansas Alliance of Wetlands and Streams, Garden City, Kansas (Invited)	January 2017	Workshop presentation on the need and effectiveness of playa buffers.
Haukos, D.A. 2017. Ecosystem services and playa lakes of the Great Plains. Keynote Speaker, Playa Lakes Workshop and Tour, Kansas Alliance of Wetlands and Streams, Garden City, Kansas (Invited)	January 2017	Keynote address at a 2-day workshop. Highlighted the general ecology and conservation of playas.
Haukos, D.A. 2015. History and function of the Cooperative Research Unit system. National Military Fish and Wildlife Association, North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference, Omaha, NE	March 2015	Explained how DOD can use the Unit System to address their natural resource needs.
Haukos, D., T Karish, D. Ricketts, L. Jaster, M. Kinlan, and M. Kern. 2019. Resource selection of female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Resource selection may be contributing to segregation of habitat use between mule deer and white-tailed deer in Kansas. Female mule deer select much different habitat features than white-tailed deer in Kansas.
Haukos, D., J. Moon, W. Conway, and P. Walther. 2013. Survival of mottled ducks in the Texas Chenier Plain Region. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	We modelled annual survival rates relative to breeding periods, molting periods, periods of harvest, and climatic events.Primary periods of mortality included periods of hunting, molting and breeding in rank order.
Haukos, D., C. Boal, S. Carleton, and B. Grisham. 2015. Roles of Cooperative Research Units in contemporary conservation of natural resources. North American Wildlife & Natural Resources Conference, Omaha, NE.	March 2015	As part of a Special Session at the North American Conference, we presented a case study of Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units. We demonstrated that the Unit Model remains relevant in contemporary natural resource research.
Haukos, D., A. Godar, A. Piernicky, and J. Prendergast. 2021. Managing agricultural landscapes for wildlife with cover crops. Changing the Agricultural Landscape with Cover Crops, Symposium, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Virtual. (Invited)	February 2021	Spring cover crops are a potential addition to an intensively cropped landscape. When provide, cover crops are used by a wide variety of wildlife and selection depends on cover crop type.
Haukos, D., A. Arsenault, C. DuBrock, J. Schneider, S. Fritts, F. C. Coe, K. Holland, and B. Dunlap. 2023. Wildlife undergraduate curriculum from the perspective of the TWS Certification Review Board members. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	November 2023	The Wildlife Biologist Certification Program was established by The Wildlife Society in 1977 to promote and strengthen professional standards among wildlife biologists. The Wildlife Biologist Certification Program strives to be adaptive and responsive to needs of wildlife professionals.
Haukos, D. 2021. The beauty and mystery of wetlands. Invited seminar, Festival of the Cranes. Flint Hill Audubon Society.	November 2021	Provided an overview of wetlands, with a focus on wetlands in Kansas.
Haukos, D. 2021. Ecology of mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Invited seminar, Colorado Division of Parks and Wildlife.	October 2021	Mule deer are declining in the Great Plains. A summary of a 3-year research project in western Kansas was presented to CPW.
Haukos, D. Annual survival, recovery rates, and movements of mottled ducks banded on the western Gulf Coast. 2014. Mottled Duck Symposium, Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Destin, Florida.	September 2014	Mottled ducks have been banded since 1997. Results indicate environmental conditions affect survival and recovery, and survival rates are low.
Haukos, D. 2013. The future role of playa wetlands for waterfowl. 6th North American Duck Symposium, Memphis, Tennessee, Jan. 27-31	January 2013	Playa wetlands provide critical habitat for waterfowl. Rates of loss and degradation of playas are unsustainable and annual losses of habitat for waterfowl are significant.
Hagen, C., J. Kraft, J. Lautenbach, and D. Haukos. 2018. Holy cow! How grazing management strategies influence lesser prairie-chicken space use and demography. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Fire and grazing are critical aspects to lesser prairie-chicken ecology. This is a summary of 5 years of research on these drivers.
Gulick, C., and D.A. Haukos. 2019. Influence of landscape features on female lesser prairie-chicken dispersal routes. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Dispersal by female lesser prairie-chickens is critical to population persistence. We tested resource selection during dispersal as a form of step-selection.
Gulick, C., and D.A. Haukos. 2019. Influence of grassland management systems on fine-scale distribution of lesser prairie-chickens and their habitat. Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management, Minneapolis, Minnesota.	February 2019	Fire and grazing shape prairie landscapes. We measure the differential response of lesser prairie-chickens to different grazing management strategies.
Gulick, C., and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Factors affecting habitat availability for lesser prairie-chickens across different land management regimes. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	Lesser prairie-chickens require heterogeneity in vegetation composition and structure across the landscape. Cattle grazing in association with patch-burn grazing causes differential landscape use by lesser prairie-chickens.
Gulick, C., and D. Haukos. 2018. Spatial patterns of lesser prairie-chickens in response to different disturbance regimes. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Fire and grazing influence space use by lesser prairie-chickens. Patch-burn grazing areas have greater use by lesser prairie-chickens because of the increase landscape heterogeneity.
Gulick, C., J. Lautenbach, and D.A. Haukos. 2017. Space use by cattle, and its cascading effects on lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection. Annual conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Cattle grazing is a primary management tool for lesser prairie-chicken management. We assessed relationships between fine scale cattle movements and lesser prairie-chicken habitat use.
Gulick, C., D. Haukos, and J. Lautenbach. 2018. Effect of grazing management systems on space use by cattle and lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Grazing management to benefit lesser prairie-chickens is unclear. Use of patch-burn grazing vs rotational grazing was tested with differences found in habitat characteristics.
GrishamG, B., C.W. Boal, and D. Haukos. 2012. The predicted influence of climate change on Lesser Prairie-Chicken reproductive ecology. 48th Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, TX. Feb. 2012.	February 2012
Grisham, B.A., J. Zavaleta, C.W. Boal, and D.A. Haukos. 2013. Management of lesser prairie-chicken populations in shinnery oak-grasslands: priorities and future directions. 49th Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Houston, TX. Feb. 2013.	February 2013	We drew on a 10 year data set and broadbased analysis of lesser prairie-chicken research in shinnery-oak habitat in west Texas and New Mexico. We provide our insights as to priorities for future research of the species regionally in context of what data and information are lacking.
Grisham, B., J. Lautenbach, R. Plumb, J. Kraft, J. Reitz, D. Sullins, C. Conring, A. Godar, C. Griffin, C. Boal, and D. Haukos. 2014. Does microclimate explain spatial variation in lesser prairie-chicken nest survival? 50th Annual Meeting of The Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Austin, Texas, Feb 2014	February 2014	We found maximum daily temperature and minimum daily relative humidity were negatively correlated to nest survival of lesser prairie-chickens for all study areas. Preliminary analyses indicate support for our hypothesis that abiotic conditions appear to exert strong influences on lesser prairie-chicken nest survival in the southwestern region, but reduced influences in the northern and northeastern extents of their distribution.
Grisham, B., D. Greene, R. Cox, S. Fritts, C. Boal, D. Haukos, and W. Heck. 2017. Lesser prairie-chicken brood ecology in the sand shinnery oak prairie ecoregion. 32nd Prairie Grouse Technical Council Meeting, Dickinson ND.	October 2017	We evaluated brood-site selection and brood survival of lesser prairie-chickens among control sites and four combinations of treatments with tebuthiuron (0.60kg/ha) and a short-duration, rotational-grazing system used to restore sand shinnery oak prairies. Our results indicated starvation and thermal cover are two proximate mechanisms limiting brood recruitment on the Southern High Plains.
Grisham, B., C.W. Boal, and D. Haukos. 2011. Thermal ecology of nesting lesser prairie-chickens and the potential implications of climate change. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Waikoloa, HI. Nov. 2011.	November 2011
Grisham, B., C.W. Boal, and D. Haukos. 2011. Thermal ecology of nesting lesser prairie-chickens and the potential implications of climate change. 29th Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Hays, KS. Oct. 2011.	October 2011
Grisham, B., C.W. Boal, and D. Haukos. 2011. A ten year assessment of herbicide treatment and grazing on nest site selection and daily nest survival of lesser prairie-chickens in New Mexico. 29th Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Hays, KS. Oct. 2011	October 2011
Grisham, B., C. Boal, and D. Haukos. Thermal tolerances of nesting lesser prairie-chickens and the potential population level influence of climate change. 2011 Joint Meeting of the Association of Field Ornithologists, Cooper Ornithological Society, and the Wilson Ornithological Society, Kearney, NE. Mar. 2011.	March 2011
Griffin, C.P., A.J. Godar, S.R. Fritts, D.U. Greene, B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, G.M. Beauprez, M.A. Patten, and C.A. Hagen. 2016. A range-wide assessment on the influence of anthropogenic structure dispersion and land cover patch size on lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance. NAOC, Washington, D.C.	October 2016	Lesser prairie-chickens require landscapes free of anthropomorphic structures. The response differs spatially and was related to habitat quality.
Griffin, C.P., A.J. Godar, S.R. Fritts, B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, G.M. Beauprez, M.A. Patten, and C.A. Hagen. 2016. A range-wide assessment of the influence of anthropogenic features and landcover patterns on lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Lek density of lesser prairie-chickens was related to a number of landcover and anthropogenic variables. Oil/gas wells and transmission lines had the greatest impact on lek density.
Griffin, C.P., A.J. Godar, B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, C.A. Hagen. A Range-Wide Assessment of the Influence of Weather on Lesser Prairie-Chicken Demographic Parameters. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, TX, February 2015	February 2015	To assess the role of environmental conditions on Lesser Prairie-Chicken nest and female survival, we analyzed demographic data in 2007-2012 in the sand shinnery oak (SSOP) from 1997-2002 in the sand sagebrush prairie (SSBP) ecoregions. Our results suggest environmental conditions influenced nest survival more than female survival, disproportionately influenced nest survival in the SSOP, and corroborate our earlier findings that suggest environmental variables are a contributing factor that inf
Griffin, C., A. Godar, D. Greene, B. Grisham, C. Boal, D. Haukos, G. Beauprez, J. Pitman, and C. Hagen. 2018. A range–wide assessment on the influence of anthropogenic structure dispersion and land cover patch size on lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Establishment of leks is critical to lesser prairie-chicken populations. Our results suggested that lesser prairie-chicken’s response to anthropogenic structure varied depending on the ecoregion and structure type.
Greene, D.U., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and R.D. Cox. Brood Survival of Lesser Prairie Chickens in the Sand Shinnery Oak Ecoregion of Texas and New Mexico. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio TX, February 2017.	January 2017	There is currently little information on brood ecology and survival of Lesser Prairie-Chickens in the sand shinnery oak prairie ecoregion. We evaluated brood site selection and survival regarding vegetation structure, invertebrate abundance and richness, and management practices at control sites (TX, NM) and grazing (short-duration, rotational) and herbicide (shrub control) treatments (NM).
Greene, D.U., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and R.D. Cox. 2017. Brood survival of lesser prairie-chickens in the sand shinnery oak ecoregion of Texas and New Mexico. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Brood ecology of lesser prairie-chickens is poorly understood, yet critical to population viability. A variety of factors influenced brood survival and habitat selection with considerable variation among study sites.
Granco, G., and M. Mather. 2022. New questions to understand how culture can affect sustainability policies: linking scales in a multi-use freshwater ecosystem. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting (JASM). Grand Rapids, MI, May 2022	May 2022	The need to integrate data from natural and human systems is a well-established focus of aquatic research and conservation. Researchers and practitioners who address conservation problems acknowledge diversity in stakeholders' responses to proposed conservation policies as a challenge for successful implementation. Researchers and conservation practitioners rarely test how coexisting stakeholder cultures respond to sustainability policy options. Our research fills this gap by exploring the impa
Granco, G., J. Heier Stamm, M. Daniels, J. Bergtold, M. Caldas, M. Sanderson, A. Sheshukov, M. Mather, and D. Haukos. 2018. Culture influences on human decision-making processes toward environmental policy: an integrative model of human-environment interaction. International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Fort Collins, Colorado.	June 2018	Combining human and natural systems into an interactive decision-making model will inform future policy decisions. We demonstrate a form of agent-based models that relates human decisions regarding the effects of changes in landscape on associated measures of biodiversity.
Goldberg, A. and J.F. Cully. 2011. Estimated Apparent Survival Using Robust Design of Black-tailed Prairie Dogs at Four Small National Parks. American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting. Portland, Oregon.	June 2011
Godar, A.J., C.P. Griffin, B.A. Grisham, D.A. Haukos, S.R. Fritts, B.E. Ross, C.W. Boal, C.A. Hagen, M.A. Patten, and J.C. Pitman. 2017. Combining weather data and climate projections: a case study with Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Annual meeting of the Midwest Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Lincoln, NE.	February 2017	Use of climate change projections is important to predict future conditions for grassland birds. Using lesser prairie-chickens as a case study, we demonstrate how climate data can be used in an integrated population model.
Godar, A.J., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, and D.A. Haukos. 2015. Does Microclimate Explain Regional Variation in Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nest Survival? Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita.	January 2015	These are results of a comparison of the influence of weather on lesser prairie-chicken nest success. Relative humidity has the greatest influence of tested variables on nest success.
Godar, A.J., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos. Does Microclimate Explain Regional Variation in Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nest Survival? Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, TX, February 2015.	February 2015	The range of the lesser prairie-chicken (LEPC) exists along diverse longitudinal precipitation and latitudinal temperature gradients, but data allowing assessment of these influence are lacking across the distribution of the species. We monitored 26 nests in sand shinnery oak prairie, 30 in short-grass/CRP prairie and 49 in mixed-grass prairie ecosystems and our results indicated model selection uncertainty among our a priori candidate models, but found 1) nest survival increased as relative hu
Godar, A.J., B.A. Grisham, C.P. Griffin, S.R. Fritts, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, J.C. Pitman, M.A. Patten, and C.A. Hagen. 2016. The influence of weather parameters on lesser prairie-chicken rangewide nest survival. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Environmental conditions influence nest success of lesser prairie-chickens. Combinations of precipitation and extreme temperatures that varied among ecoregions were dominant models related to nest success.
Godar, A.J., B.A. Grisham, B.E. Ross, C.W. Boal, S.R. Fritts, C.P. Griffin, C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, M.A. Patten, and J.C. Pitman. 2016. Rangewide assessment of the influence of climate change on lesser prairie-chicken population persistence. North American Ornithological Congress, Washington, D.C.	August 2016	Climate change will greatly affect lesser prairie-chicken population demography. This affect will be greatest in the sand shinnery oak prairie of the southwest portion of the species range.
Godar, A.J., B.A. Grisham, B.E. Ross, C.W. Boal, S.R. Fritts, C.P. Griffin, C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, M.A. Patten, and J.C. Pitman. 2016. Incorporating contemporary statistical methods into long-term ecological data: A case study using Lesser Prairie-Chickens. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS	February 2016	Understanding population demography of lesser prairie-chickens requires long-term monitoring to incorporate all of the potential variables influencing population growth. An integrated population model was developed and tested to assess relationships among weather and and demographic data, landscape characteristics, use patterns, lek persistence, and other variables.
Godar, A., and D. Haukos. 2020. Ring-necked pheasant population and space use response to landscapes including spring cover crops. "Frontiers in Agriculture" speaker, Agricultural Conservation Committee, Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Fall meeting, virtual (Invited presentation).	October 2020	Invited presentation on the potential for spring cover crops to provide wildlife habitat. Use of spring cover crops depends on vicinity to permanent cover.
Godar, A., and D. Haukos. 2020. Bugs and Birds. Nebraska Pheasants Forever Team Meeting. Fall meeting, virtual (Invited presentation).	October 2020	Invited presentation on the potential for spring cover crops to provide wildlife habitat. Invertebrate populations differ among cover crop types.
Godar, A., A.C. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2017. Ring-necked pheasant use of spring cover crops in western Kansas. Annual conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	RIng-necked pheasant populations in Kansas are declining. We assessed the use of spring cover crops as a management tool to reverse the decline.
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2022. Ring-necked pheasant use of spring cover crops. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan (poster).	February 2022	Spring cover crops have the potential to benefit ring-necked pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) populations. Hens with cover crops in their home ranges had greater survival and recruitment rates than hens without cover crops in their home ranges.
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2021. Reliance on CRP for breeding by ring-necked pheasants in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	In Kansas, former prairie is now cropland and isolated grassland patches interspersed with tracts of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), with landowners encouraged to plant and manage CRP to provide nesting and brood-rearing habitat to increase annual recruitment by pheasants, but the effect of landscape composition on reproductive rates remains largely unknown. Pheasants select CRP for nesting in contemporary landscapes but recruitment (i.e., brood use) benefits with additional diversity of co
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2021. Influence of spring cover crops on ring-necked pheasant populations in Kansas. Changing the Agricultural Landscape with Cover Crops, Symposium, Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual. (Invited presentation)	February 2021	Ring-necked pheasants are positively influenced by spring cover crops. In particular, hens with broods will select for certain cover crops.
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2020. Supporting grassland birds using spring cover crops. Annual meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, virtual.	October 2020	Spring cover crops provide habitat for a number of wildlife species. Grassland birds increase in abundance in landscapes associated with cover crops.
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2020. Influence of spring cover crops on ring-necked pheasant populations in Kansas. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Ring-necked pheasants have been declining for the past decade in the midwestern United States. We tested a potential management strategy of spring cover crops as a way to increase pheasant populations.
Godar, A., A. Piernicky, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2020. Adding diversity to the landscape with spring cover crops. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Pheasants need different cover types in a relatively small area. Spring cover crops add to the heterogeneity of cover types used by pheasants.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2019. Scale dependency: influencing pheasant populations using cover crops. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Use of cover crops by pheasants is affected by many variables. The primary variable is the scale at which cover crops are applied on the landscape.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2019. Grassland bird response to spring cover crops in an agricultural landscape. Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, Anchorage, Alaska.	June 2019	In intensively altered landscapes, ring-necked pheasants may benefit from planting of spring cover crops rather than maintaining a field as fallow. Use of spring cover crops by pheasants depends on the spatial arrangement of habitat patches in the landscape.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2019. For the birds: modifying western Kansas using spring cover crops to manage for pheasants. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Ring-necked pheasants are declining in the Midwest. We evaluated spring cover crops as a potential management strategy for nesting and brooding pheasants.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Pheasant habitat selection: logical or mysterious. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	A potential, agriculture-friendly source of wildlife habitat is planting spring cover crops to convert barren, chemical fallow fields into alternative sources of food and cover for ring-necked pheasants. Use of the cover crops fields increased as the vegetation grew and peaked in June, when the cover crops were terminated.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Do pheasants use spring cover crops? Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.	January 2018	Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining across the Midwestern United States. We documented use of spring cover crops by ring-necked pheasants such that the soil conservation tool may contribute to increasing local pheasant populations.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Cover crops: Altering an altered landscape to benefit wildlife? Annual Meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Kearney, Nebraska.	March 2018	Spring cover crops are used by ring-necked pheasants. The GreenSpring seed formulation was selected by pheasants.
Gerlanc, N.M., T. Hoernemann, G.A. Kaufman, and J.F. Cully, Jr. Kansas GAP: Implications for amphibian biodiversity and conservation. Division of Biology 28th Annual Graduate Student Research Forum. March 2002.	March 2002
Gerken, J.E., and C.P. Paukert. Impacts of a low-head dam on fish communities in the Kansas River. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2009
Gerken, J., and C. Paukert. Fish community changes associated with a low-head dam in a large Great Plains river. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH.	December 2008
Gerken, J., and C. Paukert. 2008. Effects of a low-head dam on the fish community of a Large Great Plains River. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Gerken, J., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Effects of a low-head dam on the fish community of a large Great Plains river. Southwestern Association of Naturalists, Memphis, TN. 12 April 2008.	April 2008
Gerken, J., W. Bouska, and C. Paukert. Effects of instream habitat and fish communities on the endangered Topeka shiner in Kansas streams. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS. 28 January 2009	January 2009
Gerken, J., *W. Bouska, and C. Paukert. Factors influencing the endangered Topeka shiner in Kansas streams. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH. 17 December 2008	December 2008
Gerken, J. E., and C. P. Paukert. Topeka shiners status and trends in Kansas. 70th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Springfield, IL, 8 December 2009	December 2009
Gerken, J. E., and C. P. Paukert. Fish recruitment in the Kansas River: the role of flow, habitat, and urbanization. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS, 5 February 2010	February 2010
Gerken, J. E., and C. P. Paukert. Effects of urbanization on recruitment of Riverine fishes. 70th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Springfield, IL, 8 December 2009	December 2009
Gerht, J.A., D. Moon, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Greater Prairie-chicken habitat selection within a mosaic burning regime on Fort Riley Military Reservation. Annual meeting of the Kansas Ornithological Society, virtual.	October 2020	Greater prairie-chickens select nesting sites among a variety of patch types on the landscapes. Nest success is lower in patches burned every 1-2 years compared to 3-4 years.
Gerht, J.A., D. Moon, and D.A. Haukos. 2020. Effects of management strategies and military activity on greater prairie-chicken ecology on Fort Riley Military Reservation. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Greater prairie-chickens are declining throughout much of their range. Fort Riley, Kansas, supports a stable population and we are measuring the effects of military disturbance on greater prairie-chicken demography and space use.
Gerber, K., M. Mather, J. Smith, Z. Peterson. Identifying overall, seasonal, and diel patterns for reservoir-wide distribution of Blue Catfish: filling critical gaps for fish ecology and fisheries management. Invited Symposium, American Fisheries Society, August 21-25, 2016	August 2016	The failure to understand system-wide distribution of mobile fish predators has impeded progress in fish ecology and limited the effectiveness of fisheries management. Biotelemetry innovations offer new hope for filling these critical information gaps. Here we combine acoustic tags with stationary receivers to quantify the reservoir-wide distribution of Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) using three metrics (population proportion, residence time, and movements). Then we test if season and diel p
Gerber, K. M., M. E. Mather. Z. Peterson, J. Smith. Patterns of Variability in the Distribution and Movement of Individual Fish Predators in a Heterogeneous Aquatic Ecosystem	August 2014	Movement can dramatically change the outcome of ecological interactions and the effectiveness of fisheries management. To integrate consequences of mobility into existing paradigms, researchers and managers need to know how distribution and movement varies across individuals within and across fish populations and species.
Gerber, K. M., M. E. Mather, Z. Peterson, J. M. Smith, J. Reinke, J. Goeckler. 2012. Where are those $$#@@ fish?; Distribution and movement of a top predator (blue catfish) in a large, highly-variable Midwestern reservoir. North Central Division American Fisheries Society Meeting, Wichita, KS	December 2012
Gehrt, J.M., S. Stratton, and D.A. Haukos. 2019. Demographic responses of greater prairie-chickens to fire, haying, and military activity on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Riley, Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Greater prairie-chicken response to military and management activities are important for management success. Females select for areas with moderate burn intervals and relatively sparse vegetation, as probability of use decreases as visual obstruction at 75% obstruction increases beyond 3 dm.
Gehrt, J.M., D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2019. The comings and goings of lesser prairie-chickens: intrinsic and extrinsic influence on female nest attendance. 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	Nest attendance patterns are basic to the life history of birds. We describe attendance patterns of lesser prairie-chickens for the first time.
Gehrt, J.M., D.A. Moon, and D.A. Haukos. 2021. Greater prairie-chicken habitat selection in response to fire and manmade structures on Fort Riley Military Reservation. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Military activities have the potential of affecting space use and resource selection by greater prairie-chickens. In both the lekking and nesting stages, females selected for frequently burned areas (every 1 to 2 years), but, ontrary to many studies, examining bird habitat selection relative to manmade structures, birds on Fort Riley were not deterred by anthropogenic structures in their habitat selection.
Gehrt, J.M., D.A. Moon, and D.A. Haukos. 2021. Effects of military activity on greater prairie-chicken space use in a constrained environment on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Kansas. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	We quantified how training affected space use of greater prairie-chickens on Fort Riley Military Reservation in Riley and Geary counties, Kansas. There were no clear trend in how movement was affected (41% of birds decreased movement during training, 59% increased movement; however, birds responded differently based on age (5 second-year and 6 after second-year birds decreased movement, 9 second-year and 7 after second-year birds increased movement during training) with no effects on night roos
Gehrt, J.A., D.S. Sullins, and D.A. Haukos. 2018. Looking at the bigger picture: how availability of nesting and brooding habitat influences lek-site selection by lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Lesser prairie-chickens need three types of habitat for reproduction - lek, nesting, and brooding. We tested the location of leks relative to the nesting and brooding habitat.
Gehrt, J., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2019. Taking an Incubation break: the where, when, and why of lesser prairie- chickens leaving their nests. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	The relationship between incubation breaks and nest survival has not been tested for lesser prairie-chickens. Incubation breaks are related to temperature and time in incubation, with nest success related to distance traveled during incubation breaks.
Gehrt, J., D. Sullins, and D. Haukos. 2019. Taking an Incubation break: The where, when, and why of lesser prairie- chickens leaving their nests. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Lesser prairie-chickens use a wide variation of habitats to complete their life cycle. We document habitat use by females leaving nests during incubation.
Fritts, S.R., B.A. Grisham, R.D. Cox, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and P. McDaniel. 2016. Influence of vegetation structure and composition on lesser prairie-chicken abundance, survival, and recruitment following an intense drought. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Lesser prairie-chicken response to drought is important to deciphering the population dynamics of the species. Based on contemporary time lags for recovery from drought, climate change may be detrimental to lesser prairie-chicken populations in the Southern High Plains.
Fritts, S.R., B.A. Grisham, R.D. Cox, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, and P. McDaniel. 2016. Assessing potential synergies between drought and grazing on lesser prairie-chicken demography. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, North Carolina.	October 2016	Grazing and drought interact to influence population demography of lesser prairie-chicken populations. It is critical to reduce grazing pressure for up to 3 years post drought to facilitate population recovery.
Fritts, S.F., B.A. Grisham, C.W. Boal, D.A. Haukos, M.A. Patten, D.H. Wolfe, C.E. Dixon, W.R. Heck. Lesser prairie-chicken nest site selection and nest survival at two spatial scales in a cattle-dominated landscape. 2015 Annual meeting of The Wildlife Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba.	October 2015	We examined lesser prairie-chicken nest site selection and nest survival from 2001–2010 at two spatial scales in Roosevelt County, New Mexico in context of shrub control and grazing management. Overall, no consistent patterns of nest survival among treatments were detected, which suggests reduced rates of herbicide and short-duration grazing treatments are not detrimental to LPC nesting ecology
Franssen, N. R., K. B. Gido, T. R. Strakosh, K. N. Bertrand, C. M. Franssen, C. P. Paukert, K. L. Pitts, C. S. Guy, J. A. Tripe, and S. J. Shrank. Effects of floods and intermittence on fish assemblages in a prairie stream. 31st Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Hays, KS.	February 2006
Fischer, J., and C. Paukert. 2008. Habitat relationships with fish assemblages in minimally disturbed Great Plains regions. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Fischer, J., and C. Paukert. 2007. Sampling effort required to estimate species richness in wadable Great Plains streams with a towed electrofishing. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 19 January 2007.	January 2007
Fischer, J., and C. Paukert. 2007. Historical and current environmental influences on an endemic great plains fish. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 19 January 2007.	January 2007
Fischer, J., and C. P. Paukert. Fish habitat relationships in South Central Kansas. 31st Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Hays, KS.	February 2006
Fischer, J., and C. P. Paukert. Environmental influences of stream fish in the Nebraska Sandhills. Nebraska Chapter of the AFS Annual Meeting, Gretna, NE.	March 2006
Fischer, J., and C. P. Paukert. Factors influencing lotic fish-habitat relationships in the Great Plains. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, New York, 14 September 2006.	September 2006
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2006. Historical and environmental influence on an endemic Great Plains fish. 67th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference. Omaha, NE. 6 December 2006.	December 2006
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2006. Environmental influences structuring Great Plains stream fish assemblages. 67th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Omaha, NE. 6 December 2006.	December 2006
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2008. Habitat relationships with fish assemblages in minimally disturbed Great Plains regions. Dakota and Iowa Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Joint Annual Meeting, Sioux Falls, SD. 20 February 2008.	February 2008
Fischer, J. R., and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Spatial scale of stream fish assemblages and abundance estimates: effects of sampling effort, community structure, and habitat heterogeneity. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 4 September 2007.	September 2007
Finn, J., M. Mather, J. Smith, Hitchman, M. Carey, C. Aymami, O. Rode, R. Tingley. 2022. Monitoring that inspires research: linking monitoring and research data, Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	Research and monitoring data are two equally important components for understanding and conserving aquatic systems. Yet, these two types of data are not the same and often do not fit together well.
Fencl, J., M. E. Mather, S. M. Hitchman, J. M. Smith. Quantifying impacts of river fragmentation: How low-head dams alter geomorphology, fish biodiversity, and habitat in the Neosho River, Kansas	August 2014	Dams fragment ecological, hydrological, and geomorphological aspects of connectivity, which are fundamental characteristics of riverine ecosystems. To increase scientific knowledge about the geomorphic and ecological impacts of low-head dams, we quantified the extent of the dam footprint at five low-head dams in the Neosho River basin, Kansas.
Example of fisheries final report	March 2015	a;skljjdf;aslkjfad;flkasj
Erie, Benjamin R., Tammi L. Johnson, Bala Thiagarajan, and Jack F. Cully, Jr. Rodent community dynamics associated with black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus). Paper presented at the Kansas Chapter of The Wildlife Society meeting, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS. February 2003.	February 2003
Emerging issues related to diseases of migratory birds in the Great Plains. Annual meeting of the Disease Committee, Midwest Association of State Wildlife and Fisheries Agencies, April 2012 (Invited), Manhattan, Kansas.	April 2012
Eitzmann, J., and C. Paukert. 2007. Electrofishing and hoopnetting gear comparisons for fish communities in the Kansas River, Kansas. Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa Tri-State American Fisheries Society Meeting, Council Bluffs, IA. 19 January 2007.	January 2007
Eitzmann, J., A. Makinster, and C. P. Paukert. Spatial and temporal patterns in blue suckers in the Kansas River, Kansas. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.	September 2005
Eitzmann, J., A. Makinster, and C. P. Paukert. Population dynamics of blue suckers in the Kansas River, Kansas. 31st Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Hays, KS. 11 February 2006.	February 2006
Eitzmann, J., A. Makinster, and C. P. Paukert. Blue sucker population dynamics in a shallow, Great Plains river. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Lake Placid, New York, 11 September 2006 (poster).	September 2006
Eitzmann, J. L., and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Evaluation of multiple gears to assess a Great Plains river fish community. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, 4 September 2007.	September 2007
Eitzmann, J. L., and C. P. Paukert. 2006. Comparison of electrofishing and trammel netting of shovelnose sturgeon in the Kansas River. 67th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Omaha, NE. 5 December 2006.	December 2006
Effects of land management on plant communities of playa wetlands. 2011. Ecology of Waterbird Migration and Playa Wetland Ecology Symposia, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture/Playa Lakes Joint Venture Research Symposium; Annual Meeting of The Waterbird Society, Grand Island, Nebraska. J. O’Connell presenting.	March 2011
Effects of Conservation Reserve Program on size, sediment depth, and volume loss in playa wetlands. 2011. 36th Annual Great Plains Limnology Conference, Texhoma, Texas. D. Daniel presenting.	October 2011
Effectiveness of vegetative buffer areas surrounding playa wetlands. Ecology of Waterbird Migration and Playa Wetland Ecology Symposia, Rainwater Basin Joint Venture/Playa Lakes Joint Venture Research Symposium; Annual Meeting of The Waterbird Society, March 2011, Grand Island, Nebraska (Invited)	March 2011
Ecosystem services provided by High Plains playas; status and needs. 2011. Special Session CEAP-Wetlands, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Washington, D.C. L. Smith presenting.	June 2011
Ecosystem services provided by High Plains playas; status and needs. 2011. Special Session CEAP-Wetlands, Soil and Water Conservation Society, Washington, D.C. L. Smith presenting.	April 2012
Ecosystem services and playas of the U.S. Great Plains. 2011. Joint Meeting of Society of Wetland Scientists, Wetpol, and Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic. L. Smith Presenting.	June 2011
Ecosystem services and playas of the U.S. Great Plains. 2011. Joint Meeting of Society of Wetland Scientists, Wetpol, and Wetland Biogeochemistry Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic. L. Smith Presenting.	July 2011
Durbin, C. J., R. H. Rusten, G. Brunette, T. Kim, D. S. Sullins. 2024. Landscape-scale drivers of wildlife communities in an altered working landscape. Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Manhattan, KS (Poster presentation). February 9, 2024.	February 2024	The Lonsinger sustainability research farm in Osborne County, KS was donated to Kansas State University in 2017 and presents an opportunity to evaluate factors influencing biodiversity in a working landscape. We collected baseline data on plant, avian, mammalian, and arthropod communities. Plant species richness (r=0.2), arthropod richness (0.2), avian species richness (r=0.3), and mammalian species richness (r=0.6) were correlated with percent woody cover within 400m.
Durbin, C. J., D. S. Sullins, and A. A. Ahlers. 2024. Influence of woody cover and other landscape variables on northern raccoon occupancy in the contiguous United States. The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Changes in fire regimes and other altered ecological drivers have facilitated encroachment of woody species into grassland and savanna ecosystems. Woody encroachment has been linked to grassland bird declines. However, little knowledge is available on the impacts to wildlife including mesopredators. We evaluated the influence of woody cover and other landscape variables on Northern raccoon occupancy using stacked single-season occupancy models. We acquired raccoon observations from Snapshot USA 2019, 2020, and 2021 camera trap data and land cover layers from the Rangeland Analysis Platform, National Landcover Database, and the National Hydrography Dataset to evaluate Northern raccoon occupancy. We fit multiple occupancy models using an information theoretic framework and evaluated model performance based on parsimony (AIC<sub>c</sub>). The interactive model including proportion of cropland within 1km (β<sub>crop</sub> = 4.12, SE = 0.72) and proportion of woody cover within 1km estimated at the 30-meter scale (β<sub>woody</sub> = 0.63, SE = 0.12; β<sub>woody*crop </sub>= 1.91, SE = 0.36) was our best supported occupancy model. Northern raccoons were more likely to occupy areas with cropland and even more likely to occupy landscapes having both cropland and woody cover. Growth and maturation of woody cover along cropland edges could benefit this native edge species.
Durbin, C. J., D. S. Sullins, D. Byrd, and A. A. Ahlers. 2024. An examination of proximity to water and minimum woody cover requirements for northern raccoon occupancy in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference. Manhattan, KS (Oral presentation). February 9, 2024.	February 2024	Woody encroachment is a major threat to grasslands in large portions of the Great Plains. Impacts of woody encroachment on biodiversity of plant species is well reported, however, little knowledge is available on the impacts to wildlife including mesopredators. We used Snapshot USA 2020 data and woody cover layers from the Rangeland Analysis Platform to evaluate the difference in Northern raccoon use in relation to percent woody cover. Occupancy was strongly related to woody cover.
Duffie, L.E., W.C. Conway, C.E. Comer, H.M. Ashbaugh, D.A. Haukos, and D.P. Collins. 2015. Primary feather molt in incubating snowy plovers in the Southern High Plains. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, TX.	February 2015	Interior western snowy plovers are a species of conservation concern. Nearly a quarter of adult birds were molting primary feathers during the breeding season, which may affect recruitment of local populations.
Duffie, L.E., W.C. Conway, C.E. Comer, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, S.T. Saalfeld, and H.M. Ashbaugh. 2015. The potential roles of primary molt and parasite loads in declining snowy plovers in the Southern Great Plains. Annual Meeting of the New Mexico Ornithological Society, Roswell, NM.	April 2015	Snowy plover populations on the Southern Great Plains are declining rapidly in some areas. Ecological stressors are resulting in early molt, which is affecting reproductive success.
Duffie, L.E., C.E. Comer, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, K.W. Farrish, R.J. Taylor, and H.M. Ashbaugh. 2017. Conservation implications and toxicological risk for declining snowy plovers breeding in the Southern Great Plains. Annual meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, San Juan, Puerto Rico.	June 2017	Snowy plovers are declining in the Southern Great Plains. Our results indicate that Se may be contributing to the decline.
Duffie, L.E., C.E. Comer, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, K.W. Farrish, R.J. Masse, and R.J. Taylor. 2016. Potential mercury exposure through wetland sediments and blood of snowy plovers breeding in the Southern Great Plains. Joint meeting of the Gulf Estuarine Research Society and Society of Wetland Scientists, Pensacola Beach, FL.	November 2016	Snowy plovers are declining throughout interior North America, with contaminants potentially contributing to the decline. There was no evidence that mercury exposure is sufficient to cause population-level effects although other contaminants may influence populations.
Duffie, L.E., C.E. Comer, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, K.W. Farrish, R.J. Masse, and R.J. Taylor. 2016. Mercury concentrations in wetland sediments and blood of snowy plovers in the Southern Great Plains. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Snowy plover populations exist in highly modified environments that frequently are contaminated with heavy metals. Mercury is not biomagnifying in snowy plovers.
Duffie, L.E., C.E. Comer, W.C. Conway, D.A. Haukos, D.P. Collins, K.W. Farrish, R.J. Masse, and R.J. Taylor. 2016. Environmental mercury availability and accumulation in wetland sediments and blood of snowy plovers in the Southern Great Plains. Annual Meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Corpus Christi, TX.	May 2016	Interior snowy plovers are declining. These data indicate that mercury concentrations are not a factor in these declines.
Doyle, W., and C. Paukert. Microhabitat use of shovelnose and pallid sturgeon in the Lower Missouri River. 9th Annual Missouri River Natural Resources Conference, Pierre, South Dakota.	May 2005
Doyle, W., C. Paukert, and A. Starostka. Microhabitat use of shovelnose and pallid sturgeon in the Lower Missouri River. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Anchorage, Alaska.	September 2005
Detectability of lesser prairie-chicken lets from aerial surveys. 2011. 18th Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii. J. McRoberts presenting.	October 2011
DeVries, D. R., M. P. Carey, J. E. Garvey, S. Hitchman, M. E. Mather, K. L. Pope, J. M. Smith, and R. W. Tingley. 2022. Connecting biology to policy: linking scales for data collection to scales needed for the decision-making process. Joint Aquatic Sciences Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan (Virtual).	May 2022	As biologically-trained professionals, here we provide a bridge perspective and examples that lay the foundation for a framework that provides practical ways to match scales needed for field data and common policy decisions.
DeBates, T.J., C.P. Paukert, and D.W. Willis. Fish Community Responses to the Establishment of a Piscivore, Northern Pike Esox lucius, in a Nebraska Sandhill Lake, 40th Annual Meeting, Dakota Chapter, American Fisheries Society (Poster). March 2004.	March 2004
D. Haukos. 2013. Changing landscapes and grassland birds: effects and conservation strategies. Annual meeting of the Colorado Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Colorado Springs.	February 2013	Anthropogenic impacts on Great Plains landscapes are extensive. Unmanaged grazing, conversion of grasslands to croplands, dominating invasive species, declining surface and ground water, oil and natural gas exploration, development of alternative energy sources (e.g., wind, biofuels, and ethanol), changing farm programs, and other impacts have converted an extensive, continuous grassland into a highly fragmented, resistant landscape that has a reduced carrying capacity for grassland birds
Cully, Jack F., Jr. Prairie Dogs and Sylvatic Plague. Institute for Human and Environmental Health at Texas Tech University. Lubbock, TX.	March 2003
Cully, Jack F., Jr. Kansas Gap Applications to bird conservation. Central Grasslands All Bird Conservation Workshop. Salina, KS.	March 2003
Cully, J., R. Pigg, and A. Goldberg. 2010. Sustainability of black-tailed prairie dogs at small culture parks of the western Great Plains. 22nd North American Prairie Conference, Cedar Falls, IA. 8/5/2010	August 2010
Cully, J. F., and T. L. Johnson. 2008. Plague regulates black-tailed prairie dog populations. Symposium on the ecology of plague and its effects on wildlife. Fort Collins, Colorado	November 2008
Cully, J. F., T. L. Johnson. 2007. Spatial dynamics of plague in three black-tailed prairie dog complexes. Annual meeting of the Wildlife Disease Association, Estes Park, CO.	August 2007
Cully, J. F., Jr. The ecology of plague in rodent populations. Third International Wildlife Conference, Christchurch, NZ	December 2003
Cully, J. F., Jr. Insights on plague from multi-species comparisons in prairie dogs. Annual Meeting of the Society for Vector Ecology. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho	October 2003
Cully, J. F., Jr, Impacts of Hantavirus risks on a small mammal field study. CDC Workshop on Wildlife Biologist Biosafety Recommendations. Atlanta, GA. 26 August 2010.	August 2010
Cully, J. F. Jr., Sharon K. Collinge, Whitney C. Johnson, Chris Ray, Bala Thiagarajan, David B. Conlin, and Brian Holmes. Spatial variation in keystone effects: small mammal associates of black-tailed prairie dogs. (Oral presentation). 67th Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference in Omaha, Nebraska.	December 2006
Cully, J. F. Jr., B. R. Erie, T. L. Johnson, and B. Thiagarajan. Rodent Associates of black-tailed prairie dogs in areas with and without plague. Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists, Lubbock, TX. June 2003	June 2003
Cully, J. F. Jr., B. Erie, T. Johnson, and B. Thiagarajan. Rodent associates of black-tailed prairie dogs in areas with and without plague. 58th International Conference on Diseases in Nature Communicable to Man. Flagstaff, AZ., August 2003	August 2003
Cully, A.C., J.F. Cully, Jr., and R.D. Hiebert. 1999. The effects of size, fragmentation, species diversity, and seasonality on invasion of tallgrass prairie by non-native plant species. 5th International Conference on the ecology of invasive alien plants. La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy.	November 1999
Community response to use of prescribed grazing and herbicide for restoration of sand shinnery oak grasslands. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. J.C. Zavaleta presenting.	February 2012
Cody P. Griffin, Alixandra J. Godar, Blake A. Grisham, Clint W. Boal, David A. Haukos, Jim C. Pittman, and Christian A. Hagen. Does Weather Influence Lesser Prairie-Chicken Demographic Parameters Disproportionately in the Sand Shinnery Oak Prairie Compared to the Sand Sagebrush Prairie? 48th Joint Annual Meeting of the New Mexico and Arizona Chapters of The Wildlife Society, Las Cruces, NM.	February 2015	To assess the role of environmental conditions on Lesser Prairie-Chicken nest and female survival, we analyzed demographic data in 2007-2012 in the sand shinnery oak (SSOP) from 1997-2002 in the sand sagebrush prairie (SSBP) ecoregions. Our results suggest environmental conditions influenced nest survival more than female survival, disproportionately influenced nest survival in the SSOP, and corroborate our earlier findings that suggest environmental variables are a contributing factor that inf
Carl, D.D.,D. E. Shoup, M. E. Mather, Q. E. Phelps. 2019. Standardized and robust analyses for evaluating fishing regulation effectiveness. 79th Midwest Fish & Wildlife Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, January 27-30, 2019	January 2019	Regulation changes are frequently used to alter lakes and reservoir fisheries to achieve management goals. Although regulations are generally thought to be effective, fisheries management is hampered by a lack of published studies evaluating regulation effectiveness.
C. P. GRIFFIN*, A.J. GODAR, S.R.FRITTS, B. A. GRISHAM, C.W. BOAL, D.A. HAUKOS, and J. C. PITMAN. A Range-wide Assessment of the Influence of Anthropogenic Features on Lesser Prairie-Chicken Lek Attendance. 31st Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri. Sept. 2015.	September 2015	We identified relationships between anthropogenic feature densities and lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance. Preliminary results suggest increasing anthropogenic feature densities negatively influenced male lek attendance, and we speculate this was likely due to decreased quality in available nesting habitat around leks for hens.
Brinkley, P., J. Fischer, and C. P. Paukert. Effect of fixative on total length of small-bodied stream fish. 31st Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Hays, KS.	February 2006
Bouska, W., and C. Paukert. The effects of crossing design and water velocity on the movement of Great Plains lotic fishes. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH. 17 December 2008.	December 2008
Bouska, W., and C. Paukert. Passage of prairie fishes through different crossing designs and water velocities in an experimental stream. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2009
Bouska, W., and C. Paukert. Fish on the move: effects of culvert design on the passage of Great Plains stream fish. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Columbus, OH.	December 2008
Bouska, W., and C. Paukert. 2008. Road crossing designs and their impact on movement and diversity of Great Plains stream fishes. American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, August 2008.	August 2008
Bouska, W., and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Impacts of Road Crossings on Prairie Stream Fishes. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, Madison, WI 11 December 2007 (poster)	December 2007
Bouska, W. W., and C. P. Paukert. Road crossing designs, their effect on prairie stream fishes, and an update on the Topeka shiner. Dakota Chapter of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting, Spearfish, SD, 24 February, 2010.	February 2010
Boal, C.W., S.A. Morris, D.A. Haukos, and B.A. Grisham. 2021. Variance in clutch size and egg morphology of lesser prairie-chickens across a climate gradient. 28th Annual Converence of The Wildlife Society (virtual), 1-5 Nov. 2021.	November 2021	Lesser prairie-chickens occupy a range that has a temperature and precipitation gradient from SW to NE. We found strong evidence that lesser prairie-chickens in the southwestern extent of their distribution may be responded to the hotter and drier climate through modification of clutch sizes and egg morphology.
Boal, C.W., B. A. Grisham, D. Haukos, and W. Heck. 2013. Population demography of lesser prairie-chicken populations in shinnery-oak grassland communities of New Mexico and Texas. Society for Range Management 66th Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, OK. Feb. 2013.	February 2013	This presentation will be an overview and update on prairie chicken demography in the southwestern part of their distribution. It is an invited presentation for a prairie chicken symposium being arranged for the Society of Range Management.
Bleitz, M., C. Davis, B. Ballard, D. Haukos, T. Hovick, D. Londe, E. Robertson, S. Loss. 2024. Migratory shorebirds and landscape-level characteristics of stopover sites used in the U.S. Great Plains. Annual meeting of the International Association of Landscape Ecologists, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	April 2024	Shorebirds (sandpipers, plovers, etc.) are a declining groupof migratory birds that often travel far during migration and rely on a network of wetlands for refueling and replenishing nutrient reserves. Large shorebirds may have different stopover habitat preferences than other long distance shorebird migrants.
Blackmore, P., J. Taylor, L. Skabelund, D. Haukos, and B. Chamberlain. 2018. Butterflies using urban green roofs in the tallgrass prairie landscape. Annual Meeting of US Regional Association of the International Association for Landscape Ecology, Chicago, Illinois.	March 2018	Green roofs in urban settings have been promoted as conservation measures for native species. Preliminary testing of use of green roofs indicate that generalist species find the roof, but prairie specialists do not occupy green roofs in urban settings.
Berigan, L., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2018. Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens: does lek presence limit dispersal? Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	The value of translocating prairie grouse has been debated relative to dispersal following release. In assessing a lesser prairie-chicken translocation, we found that despite extensive post-release dispersal (mean = 18 km, sd = 16 km), 75% of individuals stayed within the immediate vicinity of the Forest Service National Grasslands (≤24.8 km of the release site).
Berigan, L., D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2018. Role of natal habitat preference induction in prairie-grouse translocation success. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens is a potential management strategy to restore populations. Our results indicate that translocated birds search for habitat representative of their natal area.
Berigan, L., D. Haukos, D. Sullins, and K. Fricke. 2018. Lesser prairie-chicken translocation: minimizing dispersal to ensure translocation success. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	In an attempt to re-establish populations of lesser prairie-chickens in available habitat, individuals were translocationed. Upon arrival, translocated individual usually dispersed >15 km to occupy landscapes similar as their origin.
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, E. Teige, D. Sullins, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, K. Schultz, M. Rice, E. Tanner, S. Fuhlendorf, and D. Haukos. 2024. Lesser prairie-chicken dispersal after translocation: implications for restoration and population connectivity. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Translocation is a potential conservation strategy toaugment populations of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Dispersal movements (male: 103 ±73 km, female: 175 ± 108 km) led to diffusion across landscapes, with 69% of birds settling >5 kmfrom their release site. traveling by a single 3.75 ± 4.95 km dispersal flight per day, selecting for steps that end far from roads and inConservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands.<br><br>
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, E. Teige, D. Sullins, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, K. Schultz, M. Rice, E. Tanner, S. Fuhlendorf, and D. Haukos. 2024. Lesser prairie-chicken dispersal after translocation: implications for restoration and population connectivity. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society, Baltimore, Maryland.	October 2024	Translocation is a potential conservation strategy toaugment populations of lesser prairie-chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Dispersal movements (male: 103 ±73 km, female: 175 ± 108 km) led to diffusion across landscapes, with 69% of birds settling >5 kmfrom their release site. traveling by a single 3.75 ± 4.95 km dispersal flight per day, selecting for steps that end far from roads and inConservation Reserve Program (CRP) grasslands.
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, E. Teige, D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2019. Dispersal, habitat use, and eventual settlement of translocated lesser prairie-chickens. 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	Translocated prairie-chickens are characterized by large initial movements prior to settling. We tested for the influence of various factors on eventually settling location.
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2019. Overcoming post-release dispersal to successfully translocate lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Use of translocation to increase prairie grouse populations is rife with uncertainty. We documented post-release dispersal as a primary determinant for augmenting local populations.
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2019. Conservation implications of lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection on the Cimarron National Grasslands. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens is a potential conservation strategy. We habitat selection by translocated birds differs from previously measured resident birds.
Berigan, L., C. Aulicky, D. Sullins, D. Haukos, K. Fricke, J. Reitz, L. Rossi, and K. Schultz. 2019. Landscape composition explains high rates of dispersal in translocated lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, Anchorage, Alaska.	June 2019	Translocated lesser prairie-chickens typically undertake large movements upon release. Landscape features that affect movements include percent grassland and configuration of CRP tracts.
Bergtold, J.S., M.R. Sanderson, J.L. Heier Stamm, M.M. Caldas, G. Granco, S.M. Ramsey, M. Mather, D.A. Haukos, and M. Daniels. 2017. Perceived vulnerability of the Ogallala aquifer, wetlands and aquatic biodiversity: the gap between the public and scientific experts. Kansas Governor’s Water Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	November 2017	Solving environmental issues requires agreement among stakeholders that a problem exists and needs to be addressed. Based on survey results, there is a perception gap among stakeholders in west Kansas relative to issues regarding groundwater, surface water, biodiversity, and future effects of climate change, which will complicate future conservation efforts.
Becker, T., P. McBee, and D. Haukos. 2015. Occurrence and predictions of avian disease outbreaks in Kansas. Annual meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2015	Avian disease are becoming increasingly important as a societal interest. We compiled, documented, and analyzed historical waterfowl disease outbreaks in Kansas to determine if predictable patterns exist.
Becker, T., P. McBee, and D. Haukos. 2015. Occurrence and prediction of avian disease outbreaks in Kansas. Joint meeting of American Ornithologists’ Union and Cooper Ornithological Society, Norman, OK.	July 2015	Disease outbreaks in migratory birds are increasing in conservation concern. We compiled all of the historical records of disease outbreaks in Kansas, found no environmental linkage to outbreaks, and produced a disease reporting protocol for KDWPT.
Becker, T., A. Ahlers, and D. Haukos. 2016. A retrospective surveillance study of avian disease outbreaks in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	February 2016	Avian disease outbreaks in Kansas were documented. Occurrence of diseases is increasing with increased populations of light geese.
B.A. GRISHAM, A.J. GODAR, C.W. BOAL, and D.A. HAUKOS. An Assessment of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nest Microclimate and Nest Survival Among Three Ecoregions. 31st Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri. Sept. 2015.	August 2015	We used data loggers to assess correlation between microclimate and nest survival of lesser prairie-chickens. Microclimate received more model support for nest survival compared to visual obstruction, and our results suggest conservation of the species would benefit from the identification of thermal landscapes that promote cooler, more humid conditions during nest incubation.
Austin Earl, Robert L. Mapes, Martha E. Mather. It’s A Fish Eat Fish World – Or Is It? Kansas Natural Resource Conference	January 2017	Piscivory has been suggested to influence size, growth, and survival of age-0 sport fish. However, the relationships among piscivory and other abiotic and biotic variables are poorly understood. Here, we examined the incidence of fish prey in the diets of age-0 largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) in Hillsdale Reservoir in order to better understand piscivory.
Aulicky, C.S.H., and D.A. Haukos. 2019. Not just dusty data: what can we learn from range-wide analyses of lesser prairie-chicken morphology? 33rd Biennial Meeting of the Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.	October 2019	We compiled all of the lesser prairie-chicken morphometric data since the mid 1980s and documents spatial and temporal patterns relative to these measurements. Differences were found between ecoregions and in response to environmental conditions.
Aulicky, C., and D.A. Haukos. 2019. Testing the hotspot hypothesis: lesser prairie-chicken lek formation and female space use. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Lek formation has been hypothesized to occur under several different selection pressures. We tested and found support for the hotspot hypothesis (formation at intersection of female home ranges).
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2020. What determines lesser prairie-chicken lek persistence? Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2020	Leks are the cornerstone of lesser prairie-chicken ecology. Lek persistence depends on the availability of quality nesting habitat.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2020. Lesser prairie-chicken lek formation, lek persistence, and female space use. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Louisville, Kentucky.	September 2020	Leks are the dominant feature in the life history of lesser prairie-chickens. We report support for the hotspot theory for lek formation whereby female home range overlap determines the locations of leks.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2019. Testing the hotspot hypothesis: lesser prairie-chicken lek formation and female space use. Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society, Anchorage, Alaska.	June 2019	The hotspot hypothesis has been proposed to explain location of leks by prairie grouse. Our results confirms many of the predictions of the hotspot hypothesis.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2019. Testing the Hotspot Hypothesis: lesser prairie-chicken lek formation and female space use. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Creation and persistence of leks are key to maintaining lesser prairie-chicken populations. Our results support the hotspot hypothesis in that males create leks where the greatest probability of encountering a hens occurs.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2018. What can we learn from morphology? A study of the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Kansas. Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	Morphometrics reflects environmental conditions and habitat quality for many species. However, for lekking species such as lesser prairie-chickens, some morphometric measures should not vary due to external factors in order for females to assess fitness potential of males.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2018. Testing the hotspot hypothesis: lesser prairie-chickens lek formation and female space use. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Translocation of lesser prairie-chickens is a potential tool for conservation. We tested the hotspot hypothesis for lek formation in colonized habitat and found that males do group in areas of high female use.
Aulicky, C., and D. Haukos. 2019. Size matters: effects of climate on lesser prairie-chicken body size. Annual meeting, oSTEM, Detroit, Michigan. Poster	November 2019	Body mass is the most plastic of morphometric body metrics for lesser prairie-chicken. Interestingly, they gain mass during drought to hedge bets regarding the intensity of the drought.
Aulicky, C., D. Haukos, and K. Fricke. 2018. Not just dusty data: What can we learn from range-wide analyses of lesser prairie-chicken morphology?Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Morphology can be used to monitor lesser prairie-chicken populations. We conducted the first range-wide assessment of morphometric data for lesser prairie-chickens.
Aulicky, C., D. Haukos, K. Fricke, L. Rossi, J. Reitz, and K. Schultz. 2021. Translocated lesser prairie-chicken lek dynamics and female space use. Midwest Fish and Wildlife Conference, virtual.	February 2021	Translocation of lek-breeding prairie grouse offers unique challenges and considerations. We found the number of nesting attempts by females within a 5 to 2 km distance had the greatest influence on the persistence of formed leks into a subsequent year.
Aulicky, C., D. Haukos, K. Fricke, L. Rossi, J. Reitz, and K. Schultz. 2021. Translocated lesser prairie-chicken lek dynamics and female space use. Annual Meeting of the American Ornithological Society. Virtual presentation.	August 2021	Translocation of lek-breeding prairie grouse offers unique challenges and considerations. Translocation efforts are considered successful with lek persistence, but the focus on translocating males first to bolster or form leks is based on untested assumptions about how lek breeding species disperse and navigate new landscapes. Future translocation efforts should focus on creating nesting habitat to sustain long-term nest site selection prior to releasing birds, rather than methodology focused o
Aulicky, C., D. Haukos, K. Fricke, L. Rossi, J. Reitz, and K. Schultz. 2021. Role of female space use in lek dynamics of translocated lesser prairie-chickens. Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society (virtual).	November 2021	Translocation of male prairie grouse prior to releasing females is common methodology believed to retain birds at desired sites by bolstering or forming new leks, but this method is based on untested assumptions about how lek breeding species disperse and navigate new landscapes. Our findings show that nesting habitat constraints and female space use drive placement and stability of leks, as expected under the hotspot hypothesis
Ashbaugh, H.M., W.C. Conway, D.P. Collins, D.A. Haukos, and D. Klein. 2015. Snowy plover exposure to metals in sediment and water from saline lakes of the Southern Great Plains. Annual meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Corpus Christi, TX.	February 2015	Saline lakes are critical habitat for snowy plovers. Baseline contaminant levels were measured throughout the Southern Great Plains.
Ashbaugh, H.M., W.C. Conway, D.P. Collins, D.A. Haukos, and C.E. Comer. 2016. Heavy metal concentrations within breeding snowy plovers in saline lakes of the Southern Great Plains of Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Annual Meeting of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, San Antonio, TX.	February 2016	Snowy plovers breed in saline lakes of the Southern Great Plains with the potential for exposure to heavy metals. In testing for such exposure, it was found the Se may be impacting the population across the range.
Annis, A.C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2019. Are cover crops a hot ticket item for chicks? Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Reno, Nevada.	September 2019	Cover crops are potential management option for pheasants in a crop rotation. Broods selected for cover crops over fallow fields and had increased occupancy in cover crops with increased plant diversity.
Annis, A.C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2017. Survival of ring-necked pheasants in western Kansas spring cover crops. Annual conference of The Wildlife Society, Albuquerque, NM.	September 2017	Pheasants are an important game bird in Kansas. We assessed the response to spring cover crops.
Annis, A.C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2017. Kansas ring-necked pheasant habitat use and survival in summer cover crops. Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Wichita, KS.	January 2017	Ring-necked pheasant populations are declining in parts of Kansas. Establishment of cover crops in typically fallow fields may enhance habitats for ring-necked pheasants and other wildlife species.
Annis, A.C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2019. Are spring cover crops a hot ticket item for chicks? Kansas Natural Resource Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	January 2019	Ring-necked pheasants are limited by brood survival. We evaluated use of spring cover crops by pheasant broods.
Annis, A.C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Survival and nest-site selection of ring-necked pheasants in western Kansas spring cover crops. Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Cleveland, Ohio.	October 2018	Ring-necked pheasants are declining in Kansas and one possible option is to plant spring cover crops. Our results of pheasant response to spring cover crops includes: apparent adult survival was 74% in 2017, nest success was 33%; females selected vegetation at the 50% visual obstruction density for nesting, and selected properties enrolled in the federal Conservation Reserve Program for nest locations.
Annis, A., D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2017. Mesocarnivore occupancy within Kansas spring cover crops. Kansas Ornithological Society, Junction City, Kansas.	October 2017	Use of spring cover crops has been proposed to benefit ring-necked pheasants. We tested occupancy of potential predators to determine if spring cover crops represent an ecological trap.
Annis, A. C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. What drives nest-site selection of Kansas ring-necked pheasants? Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	Ring-necked pheasants require nesting and brood-rearing habitat in close proximity for successful reproduction. Use of spring cover crops can provide brood habitat but not nesting habitat.
Annis, A. C., A. Godar, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Effects of spring cover crops on ring-necked pheasant survival and resource selection with notes on mesocarnivore occupancy. Annual Meeting of the Central Mountains and Plains Section of The Wildlife Society, Kearney, Nebraska.	March 2018	Spring cover crops have the potential to improve habitat quality for ring-necked pheasants. Pheasants do nest in cover crops, but more importantly bring their broods to the planted fields.
American woodcock (Scolopax minor) habitat suitability and occupancy in eastern Texas. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. D.S. Sullins presenting.	February 2012
Albanese, G., and D. Haukos. 2015. A framework for understanding connections within dense broad-scale habitat networks: prioritizing wetlands for conservation within a dynamic landscape. Annual meeting of the Society of Wetland Scientists, Providence, RI.	May 2015	Playa wetland connectivity is critical to the persistent of biodiversity in the High Plains. We developed an approach to network analyses for large, dense networks that previously was not possible.
Aerial surveys for lesser prairie-chicken leks: detectability and disturbance response. 2012. 48th Annual Meeting, Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Fort Worth, Texas. J.T. McRoberts presenting.	February 2012
Adams, P., W. Conway, J. Moon, B. Ballard, E. Bonczek, M. J. Butler, B. Davis, D. Haukos, J. Lancaster, S. Lehnen, E. Rigby, F. Rohwer, K. Ringelman, E. Wehland, and B. Wilson. 2024. Fire for feathers-the science behind prescribed burning to support breeding mottled ducks. 9th North American Duck Symposium, Portland, Oregon.	February 2024	The coastal prairies and marshes of the Gulf Coast are fire-adapted ecosystems, where fire is a regional disturbance regime that has shaped plant and animal communities. This research project will provide practitioners and land managers information on how to apply fire to positively influence mottled duck breeding ecology.
A.J. Godar, B.A. Grisham, B.E. Ross, C.W. Boal, D. Greene, C.P. Griffin, C.A. Hagen, D.A. Haukos, M.A. Patten, and J.C. Pitman. 2018. Rangewide lesser prairie-chicken population persistence with climate change. International Grouse Symposium, Logan, Utah.	September 2018	Weather events influence nearly all vital rates for lesser prairie-chickens though their effects vary by ecoregion. Our assessment of the effect of environmental conditions on population trends across the distribution of the species indicates southern populations in the MGP and SOP will have severe declines resulting in extinction for most climate projections unless managers take sufficient conservation efforts.
A.J. GODAR*, C.P. GRIFFIN, S.R. FRITTS, B. A. GRISHAM, C.W. BOAL, D.A. HAUKOS, J.C. PITMAN, and C.A. HAGEN. The Influence of Weather Parameters on Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nest Survival. 31st Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri. Sept. 2015.	September 2015	We used the nest survival model and known fate model in Program MARK to assess the effect size of biologically relevant environmental variables on nest survival for four ecoregions and to assess the effect size on hen survival, respectively. Combined, our results suggest LEPCs respond similarly to environmental conditions across the distribution of the species, but weather impacts to nest survival are exacerbated in the shinnery oak prairies.
A modeling framework to integrate harvest and habitat management of North American waterfowl: case-study of northern pintail metapopulation dynamics. 2011. 18th Annual Meeting of The Wildlife Society, Waikoloa, Hawaii. B. Mattsson presenting.	October 2011
A matrix population model for mottled ducks on the western Gulf Coast of Texas. The West Gulf Coast Plain and Big Thicket Science Conference, April 2011, Nacogdoches, Texas	April 2011
Mather, M.E., Oliver, D., Smith, J., Rode, O., Reed, V., Moore, T., Nelson, K., Hitchman, S., Pratap, S. 2023. Failure only occurs if nothing is learned: incorporating testable predictions into monitoring. 153rd American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting, August 20-24, 2023, in Grand Rapids, Michigan,	August 2023	Here we review an adaptive management framework that changes the goal of species distribution modeling from debating and defending the accuracy and utility of a specific model to using available information to learn more about the system. As a result, potentially inexplicable results that have multiple possible interpretations are transformed into focused opportunities to learn.
S.R. FRITTS*, B.A. GRISHAM, R.D. COX, C.W. BOAL, D.A. HAUKOS, and P. MCDANIEL. Hierarchical Modeling of Lesser Prairie-Chicken Lek Attendance, Survival, and Recruitment in Responseto Grazaing and Weather. 31st Prairie Grouse Technical Council, Nevada, Missouri. Sept. 2015.	September 2015	We examined impacts of grazing and weather on lesser prairie-chicken lek attendance, survival, and recruitment. Weather appears to affect reproduction efforts more greatly than adult male survival during lekking.
Godar, A., A. Annis, D. Haukos, and J. Prendergast. 2018. Can you find pheasants in spring cover crops? Kansas Natural Resources Conference, Manhattan, Kansas.	February 2018	Ring-necked pheasants are important game birds in Kansas, but populations are declining. We evaluated the potential for use of spring cover crops to enhance breeding habitat.
Kennedy, C. G., M. E. Mather, J. T. Finn, L. A. Deegan. The geomorphological complexity of a New England estuary and its role in shaping seasonal habitat use and site fidelity of striped bass on a foraging migration. Contributed Paper, Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society, Seattle, WA (September 2011)	September 2011
Haukos, D.A. 2018. Wildlife, farming, and ranching in Kansas - ecology, economics, and expectations. Keynote address, Phi Beta Kappa Induction Ceremony, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas (Invited)	April 2018	The natural world is rapidly changing. The future will require difficult decisions to balance economics of an expanding human population with the conservation of ecological goods and services necessary to sustain the population.

Theses and Dissertations

Theses and Dissertations	Publication Date
Zavaleta, J. Effects of grazing and herbicide treatments to restore degraded sand shinnery oak grasslands. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.	May 2012
Wong, Mayee. 2003. High spatial homogeneity in a sex-biased mating system: The breeding structure of greater prairie chickens (Tympanuchus cupido pinnatus) in Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 2003
Winter, Stephen L. 1999. Plant and breeding bird communities of black-tailed prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas in southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	September 1999
Wes Bouska, M.S., 2008. Thesis: Road crossings design and their impacts on fish assemblages and geomorphology of Great Plains streams	December 2008
Vhay, M. 2022. Retrospective assessment of lesser prairie-chicken habitat in the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	November 2022
Tiege, E. Translocation of the lesser prairie-chicken to the Sand Sagebrush Prairie Ecoregion. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	August 2021
Thiarajan, Bala. 2006. Community dynamics of rodents, fleas, and plague associated with black-tailed prairie dogs. Ph.D. Dissertation, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 2006
Taylor, Ryland. 2017. Using Geomorphology and Animal “Personality” to Understand ‘Scape-Scale Predator Distributions. MS Thesis, Kansas State University	September 2017
Sullins, D. Habitat use and origins of American woodcock wintering in east Texas. M.S. Thesis Stephen F. Austin State University	December 2013
Sullins, D. 2017. Regional variation in demography, distribution, foraging, and strategic conservation of lesser prairie-chickens in Kansas and Colorado. Dissertation, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.	May 2017
Stetter, A. Nest-site selection, duckling survival, and blood parasite prevalence of lesser scaup nesting on Red Rocks Lakes National Wildlife Refuge, Montana. M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.	August 2014
Spencer, D.A. 2015. A historical record of land cover change of the lesser prairie-chicken range in Kansas. M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	November 2014
Smith, J. M. 2011. Beaver dams maintain native fish biodiversity in a coastal stream network via altered habitat heterogeneity: evaluating gear, quantifying fish assemblages, and testing ecological hypotheses	December 2011
Rusten, Rachel H. 2024. An assessment of grassland loss, woody encroachment, and pesticide use on North American grassland bird populations. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS>	May 2024
Rucker, Amber D. 2001. Conversion of tall fescue pastures to tallgrass prairie in southeastern Kansas: small mammal responses. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University	May 2001
Robinson, S. 2015. Landscape ecology, survival, and space use of lesser prairie-chickens. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.	October 2015
Riecke, T. Effects of environmental lead exposure on nongame birds using coastal marsh of the upper Texas Gulf Coast. M.S. Thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University	December 2013
Rieber, C. 2023. Movement models for lesser prairie-chickens in multiple landscapes. Thesis, Kansas State University.	August 2023
Plumb, R. Lesser prairie-chicken movement, space use, survival, and response to anthropogenic structures in Kansas and Colorado. Kansas State University, Manhattan.	February 2015
Peterson, Zachary. 2015. Quantifying patterns and select correlates of the spatially and temporally explicit distribution of a fish predator (blue catfish, Ictalurus furcatus) throughout a large reservoir ecosystem. M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.	August 2015
Parker, N. Lesser prairie-chicken demography, resource selection, and habitat response following megafire in the mixed-grass prairie. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	July 2021
Ogden, S. 2016. Grassland bird and butterfly response to sericea lespedeza control using fire and grazing. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	December 2016
O. Rode, 2023. How a monitoring dataset, an adaptive management framework, and ecological comparisons of thoughtfully-selected fish groups can aid aquatic conservation and native fish restoration. MS Thesis, Kansas State University.	December 2023
Newby, Lorri A. 2005. Effects of experimental manipulation of coterie size on demography of black-tailed prairie dogs in South Dakota. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University	May 2005
Moon, J. Habitat use and movements of mottled ducks on the upper Texas Coast. Ph.D. Dissertation Stephen F. Austin State University	May 2014
Moon, Derek. 2011. Small mammals in disturbed tallgrass prairie landscapes. MS Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.	September 2011
Michaels, Heidi L. 1997. Landscape and fine-scale habitat associations of the loggerhead shrike and Henslow's sparrow on Fort Riley Military Instalation, Kansas. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 1997
McDowell, S. Sources and uptake of environmental lead by mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. M.S. Thesis, Stephen F. Austin State University.	May 2014
McCullough, K. 2016. A Multi-Scale Examination of the Distribution and Habitat Use Patterns of the Regal Fritillary Butterfly (Speyeria idalia). Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	November 2016
Mapes, Robert. 2016. Young of year largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) relative abundance and diet: role of habitat type, spatial context, and size. MS Thesis. Kansas State University	November 2016
Malone, W. 2016. Predictive changes in avian occupancy and hydrology of playa wetlands in the Smoky Hill River, Kansas, watershed due to climate change. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	November 2016
Malanchuk, J. Assessment of resident Canada goose management in Kansas. Dissertation, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	July 2021
Mackenzie Shardlow, M.S. 2009. Thesis: Factors affecting detectability and distribution of the North American river otter	August 2009
Lehrter, R. 2018. Large-Scale Drivers of Fish Biodiversity Differ Across An Environmentally-Variable Watershed. MS. Thesis, Kansas State University	March 2018
Lautenbach, J. Lesser prairie-chicken reproductive success, habitat selection, and response to trees. M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	December 2014
Lautenbach, J. 2017. The role of fire, microclimate, and vegetation in lesser prairie-chicken habitat selection. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, USA.	March 2017
Kristen Pitts, M.S. 2008. Thesis: Assessing threats to native fishes in the Lower Colorado River Basin	June 2008
Kretzer, Justin E. 1999. Herpetological and coleopteran communities of black-tailed prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas in southwest Kansas. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 1999
Kraft, J. 2016. Vegetation characteristics and lesser prairie-chicken responses to land cover types and grazing management in western Kansas. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan	November 2016
Kinlan, M. Survival, movement, and resource selection of male mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan	August 2021
Kern, M. 2019. Fawn survival and bed-site selection of mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas. Wildlife and Outdoor Enterprise Management, Kansas State University (co-advised with A. Ricketts).	December 2019
Kennedy, Cristina. 2013. Habitat heterogeneity concentrates predators in the seascape: linking intermediate-scale estuarine habitat to striped bass distribution. M. S. Thesis. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.	January 2013
Kearns, B. 2015. Risk assessment of lead exposure by mottled ducks on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Ph.D Dissertation, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	March 2015
Kalish, T. 2022. Survival, activity patterns, movements, home ranges and resource selection of female mule deer and white-tailed deer in western Kansas Dissertation, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	May 2022
Josh Schloesser, M.S. 2008. Thesis: Large river fish community sampling strategies and fish associations to engineered and natural river channel structures	June 2008
Johnson, Tammi L. 2005. Spatial dynamics of a bacterial pathogen: Sylvatic plague in black-tailed prairie dogs. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 2005
Johnson, L. Current status and function of playa wetlands on the Southern Great Plains. Ph.D Graduate 3/23/2011. Texas Tech University	March 2011
Jesse Fischer, M.S. 2007. Thesis: Structural organization of Great Plains stream fish assemblages: implications for sampling and conservation	May 2007
Jensen, William E. 2003. Spatial variation in brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) abundance and brood parasitism in the Flint Hills tallgrass prairie. Ph.D. Disertation, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	May 2003
Jeff Eitzmann, M.S. 2008. Thesis: Spatial habitat variation in a Great Plains river: effects on the fish assemblage and food web structure	May 2008
Hoch, Greg A. 1997. Mapping and monitoring of disturbance from military training at Fort Riley Kansas and an investigation into the stability of grassland ecotones using satellite remote sensing. M.S. Thesis, Division of Biology, Kansas State University.	October 1997
Hitchman, Sean. 2017. A Mosaic Approach Can Advance the Understanding and Conservation of Native Fish Biodiversity in Natural and Fragmented Riverscapes. Ph.D, Kansas State University	December 2017
Gulick, C. 2019. Spatial ecology and resource selection by female lesser prairie-chickens within their home ranges and during dispersal. Thesis, Kansas State University.	August 2019
Godar, A. 2020. Ring-necked pheasant population and space use response to landscapes including spring cover crops. Dissertation, Kansas State University	August 2020
Gerber, Kayla. 2015. Tracking blue catfish: quantifying system-wide distribution of a mobile fish predator throughout a large heterogeneous reservoir. M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.	August 2015
Gehrt, J. Response of greater prairie-chickens to natural and anthropogenic disturbance on Fort Riley. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan.	August 2021
Fencl, Jane. 2015. How big of an effect do small dams have?: using ecology and geomorphology to quantify impacts of low-head dams on fish biodiversity. M.S., Kansas State University.	April 2015
Burak, Matthew. Developing Standardized Metrics to Quantify the Temporal Distribution of Migrating Anadromous Herring: Comparing Adult Returns across Coastal Rivers. July 2011. M.S. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.	July 2011
Berigan, L. 2019. Dispersal, reproductive success, and habitat use by translocated lesser prairie-chickens. Kansas State University.	December 2019
Becker, T. 2016. Retrospective review of wild waterfowl diseases in Kansas. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan	August 2016
Aulicky, C. 2020. Lek dynamics and range-wide morphometric patterns of lesser prairie-chickens. Dissertation, Kansas State University	September 2020
Annis, A. 2018. Ring-necked pheasant survival, nest habitat use, and predator occupancy in Kansas spring cover crops. Kansas State University, Manhattan.	December 2018
Andrew Makinster, M.S. 2006. Thesis: Population dynamics of flathead catfish in the Kansas River	December 2006
Victoria Reed. 2023. Using state-wide, long-term databases to establish an approach to suggest useful future data related activities. MS. Kansas State University	August 2023

Technical Publications

Technical Publications	Publication Date
Smith, L.M., S. T. McMurry, J. O’Connell, and D.A. Haukos. 2011. Influence of U. S. Department of Agriculture Programs and Conservation Practices on Ecological Services Provided by Playa Wetlands in the High Plains; CEAP Wetlands Final Report to the USDA.	March 2011
Schloesser, J. T., and C. P. Paukert. 2007. Walleye harvest restrictions to minimize gizzard shad impingement. Final report submitted to Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation. 27 January 2007.	January 2007
Proffer, M., and C. Paukert. 2009. Zooplankton Dynamics of Marion Lake. Report to Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and US Army Corps of Engineers.	July 2009
Paukert, C., C. Berry, and K. Pope. 2007. Topeka shiner 5-year review and workshop. Report submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service and Topeka Shiner Recovery Team. 15 June 2007. 92 pages.	June 2007
Paukert, C. P., M. McInerny, and R. Schultz. 2004. Current and historical black bass regulations in North America: A survey conducted by the Centrarchid Technical Committee of the Northcentral Division of the American Fisheries Society. Centrarchid Technical Committee, Northcentral Division, American Fisheries Society.	July 2004
Mather, ME, Gerber, KM, Peterson, Z. Assessing distribution and movement of Blue Catfish in Kansas reservoirs. Final Report	May 2015
Mather, M.E., C. Moffitt, M. Fabrizio, D. Parrish, B. Penaluna, B. Brown, S. Nesbit. Diversity and inclusion: a strategy to implement change for 2021 and beyond: symposium summary. Fisheries	November 2021
Mather, M.E., C. Aymami, O. Rode. 2022. Developing a strategic planning process for native fish restoration. (Grant # F20AF00207 T-59-R-1 Mod. #1). Annual Report – Submitted November 2022.	November 2022
Mather, M. E., and O. Rode. 2023. Guiding Present and Future Native Fish Restoration	June 2023
Mather, M. E., O. Rode, S. Kuck. 2024. Guiding Present and Future Native Fish Restoration	June 2024
Mapes, R.L., 2017. Young of year largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) relative abundance and diet: role of habitat type, spatial context, and size. Final Report.	March 2017
Haukos, D.A. 2011. Mottled Duck Focal Species Plan. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Regional Migratory Bird Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 40pp.	December 2011
Eitzmann, J., A. Makinster, and C. Paukert. 2005. Population dynamics of blue suckers in the Kansas River. Final Report, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.	December 2005
Distribution and Abundance of Fishes in the Kansas River. Final report to Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks.	October 2009
Cully, J., S. Egbert, J. Harrington, T. Hornemann, G. Kaufman, C. Lauver, E. Martinko, and K. Price. 2002. A Gap Analysis of Kansas. Kansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Manhattan, Kansas.	August 2002
Cully, J. F., Jr. and T. L. Johnson. 2004. Annual Report: Prairie Dog colonies Five National Grasslands. Presented to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche, Cimarron, Kiowa and Rita Blanca, and Thunder Basin National Grasslands.	October 2004
Cully, J. F., Jr. and T. L. Johnson. 2003. Annual Report: Prairie Dog colonies Five National Grasslands. Presented to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche, Cimarron, Kiowa and Rita Blanca, and Thunder Basin National Grasslands.	December 2003
Cully, J. F., Jr. and T. L. Johnson. 2002. Annual Report: Prairie Dog colonies Five National Grasslands. Presented to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche, Cimarron, Kiowa and Rita Blanca, and Thunder Basin National Grasslands.	December 2002
Cully, J. F., Jr. and T. L. Johnson. 2001. Annual Report: Prairie Dog colonies Five National Grasslands. Presented to U.S. Forest Service, Comanche, Cimarron, Kiowa and Rita Blanca, and Thunder Basin National Grasslands.	December 2001
Cully, J. F., Jr. 2002. Final Report Summaries: Kansas Gap analysis project. Gap Analysis Bulletin No. 11:59-60	December 2002
Cully, J. F. 2009. 2009 Project report: Black-tailed prairie dog colony mapping at the Kiowa and Rita Blanca National Grasslands. Photocopy on file at Cibola National Forest Office, Albuquerque.	December 2009
Bouska, W. W., C. P. Paukert, and T. Keane. 2009. Inventory and assessment of road-stream crossings for aquatic organism passage, with recommendations for culvert design. Final report, Kansas Department of Transportation, KTRANS Program, Project Number KSU 07-6, Topeka.	August 2009
Boal, C.W., B.A. Grisham, D.A.Haukos, J.C.Zavaleta, and C. Dixon. 2013. Lesser Prairie-Chicken Nest Site Selection, Microclimate, and Nest Survival in Association with Vegetation Responses to a Grassland Restoration Program. U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2013-1235, 48p.	January 2014
Abstract of presentation to landscape ecology of plague in the American Southwest. Edited by Chris Brand - National Wildlife Health Lab. Madison, WI.	September 2001
Mather, M.E., C. Aymami, O. Rode. 2021. Developing a strategic planning process for native fish restoration. (Grant # F20AF00207 T-59-R-1 Mod. #1). Annual Report – Submitted November 2021	November 2021

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

Kansas Research Activities

Links

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

Kansas Research Activities

Links

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