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	July 2004 - October 2006

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

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Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. Thresholds and the generation of novelty. Ecology and Society.

Epperson, D., and C. R. Allen. Red imported fire ant impacts on upland arthropods in southern Mississippi.  American Midland Naturist.

Robertson, B. A., B. A. Schwartz, E. Loomis, and J. J. Fontaine. In Press. Protracted song ontogeny in a suboscine passerine. Wilson Journal of Ornithology.

Wardwell, D., and C. R. Allen.  In press. Variability in population abundance is associated with thresholds between scaling regimes.  Ecology and Society.

Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2009. Part 1 Concepts and Theory – commentaries on articles. Chapter XX in L. Gunderson, C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling, eds. Foundations of resilience. Island Press. 

Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2009. Part 2 ecological examples – commentaries on articles. Chapter XX in L. Gunderson, C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling, eds. Foundations of resilience. Island Press. 

Allen, C. R., L. Gunderson, and C. S. Holling. 2009. Part 3 Empirics and models – commentaries on articles. Chapter XX in L. Gunderson, C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling, eds. Foundations of resilience. Island Press. 

Fontaine, J. J., and K. L. Decker. 2009. Exploring predation and animal coloration through outdoor activity. Science Activities 45:3-7.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and H. CabezasI. 2009. Panarchy, adaptive management and governance: sustainable options for building resilience.  Nebraska Law Review 87:1036 – 1054.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and L. Gunderson. 2009. Panarchy: discontinuities reveal similarities in the dynamic system structure of ecological and social systems. Ecology and Society 14(1):15. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol14/iss1/art15/

Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 2009. Foundations of Resilience. Island Press, New York, NY. ~311pp. 

Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 2009. The evolution of an idea; the past, present and future of ecological resilience. Chapter 14 in L. Gunderson, C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling, eds. Foundations of resilience. Island Press. 

Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 2009. Why resilience? Why now? Chapter 1 in L. Gunderson, C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling, eds. Foundations of resilience. Island Press. 

McGrath, L.J., C. van Riper, and J. J. Fontaine. 2009. Flower power: tree flowering phenology as a settlement cue for migrating birds. Journal of Animal Ecology 78:22-30.

Pope, K. L., R. M. Neumann, and S. D. Bryan. 2009. Warmwater fish in small standing waters. Pages 13 – 27 in S. A. Bonar, W. A. Hubert, and D. W. Willis, editors. Standard methods for sampling North American freshwater fishes. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland

Allen, C. R., A. Alai, A. Kessler, T. Kinsell, A. Major, K. Nemec, and B. Stevens. 2008. Invasive plants: a guide to identification, impacts, and control of common North American species (book review). Great Plains Research 18:234.

Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2008. Cross-scale structure and the generation of innovation and novelty in discontinuous complex systems. Pages 219-233 in C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, eds. Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY.

Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling, Editors. 2008. Discontinuities in Ecosystems and other Complex Systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY. ~272 pp.

Chizinski, C. J., C. G. Huber, and K. L. Pope. 2008. Development and validation of a bioenergetics model for inland silverside in freshwater systems. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:254-261.

Chizinski, C. J., B. Sharma, K. L. Pope, and R. Patiño. 2008. A bioenergetics model for zebrafish. Journal of Fish Biology 73:35-43.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and K. M. Bessey. 2008. Discontinuities in urban systems: comparison of regional city-size structure in the United States. Pages 136-164 in C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, eds. Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, and C. M. Gallagher. 2008. Power laws, discontinuities and regional city size distributions. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 68:209-216. 

Holling, C. S., C. R. Allen, and G. D. Peterson. 2008. Panarchies and discontinuities. Pages 3-19 in C. R. Allen and C. S. Holling, eds. Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. University of Columbia Press, New York, NY.

Van Riper, C., III, K. Paxton, C. J. van Riper, K. A. van Riper, L. McGrath, and J. J. Fontaine. 2008. The role of protected areas as bird stop-over habitat. Pages. 312-320 in S. Weber and D. Harmon, eds. Rethinking protected areas in a changing world. The George Wright Society, Hancock, MI.

Wardwell, D., C. R. Allen, G. D. Peterson, and A. D. Tyre. 2008. A test of the cross-scale resilience model: functional richness in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Ecological Complexity 5:165-182.

Wilde, G. R., and K. L. Pope. 2008. A simple model for predicting survival of angler-caught and released largemouth bass. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:834-840.

Auer, S. K., R. D. Bassar, J. J. Fontaine, and T. E. Martin. 2007. Breeding biology of passerines in a subtropical montane forest in Northwestern Argentina. Condor 109:321-333.

Chizinski, C. J., C. G. Huber, M. Langoria, and K. L. Pope. 2007. Intraspecific resource partitioning by an opportunistic strategist, inland silverside Menidia beryllina. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 23:147-151.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, C. M. Gallagher, and J. D. Mittelstaedt. 2007. Departures from Gibrat’s law, discontinuities and city size distributions. Urban Studies 44:1997-2007. 

Gunderson, L., C. R. Allen, and D. Wardwell. 2007. Temporal scaling in complex systems: resonant frequencies and biotic variability. Pages 78-89 in J. A. Bissonette and I. Storch, eds. Temporal dimensions in landscape ecology: wildlife responses to variable resources. Springer.

Fontaine, J. J., M. Martel, H. M. Markland, A. M. Niklison, K. L. Decker, and T. E. Martin. 2007. Testing ecological and behavioral correlates of nest predation. Oikos 116:1887-1894.

Fontaine, J. J., S. C. Stier, M. L. Maggio, and K. L. Decker. 2007. Schoolyard microclimate. Science Teacher 74:38-42.

LaBram, J. A., A. E. Peck, and C. R. Allen. 2007. Monitoring-based assessment of Gap Analysis models. Southeastern Naturalist 6:633-656.

Lotz, A., and C. R. Allen. 2007. Observer bias in anuran call surveys. Journal of Wildlife Management. 71(2):675-679. http://www.wildlifejournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-toc&issn=0022-541X&volume=71&issue=2

Pope, K. L., and C. G. Kruse. 2007. Condition. Pages 423-471 in C. S. Guy and M. L. Brown, eds. Analysis and interpretation of freshwater fisheries data. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland.

Pope, K. L., G. R. Wilde, and D. W. Knabe. 2007. Effect of catch-and-release angling on growth and survival of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss (Walbaum). Fisheries Management and Ecology 14:115-121.

Stow, C. A., C. R. Allen, and A. S. Garmestani. 2007. Evaluating discontinuities in complex systems: toward quantitative measures of resilience. Ecology and Society 12(1):26. Online: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art26/

Allen, C. R. 2006. Discontinuities in ecological data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 103:6083-6084.

Allen, C. R. Predictors of introduction success in the South Florida avifauna. 2006. Biological Invasions 8:491-500.

Allen, C. R. 2006. Sprawl and the resilience of humans and nature: an introduction to the special feature. Ecology and Society 11(1):36. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art36/ 

Allen, C. R., A. Garmestani, T. Havlicek, P. Marquet, G. D. Peterson, C. Restrepo, C. Stow, and B. Weeks. 2006. Patterns in body mass distributions: sifting among alternative competing hypotheses. Ecology Letters 9:630-643. 

Allen, C. R., A. Garmestani, J. LaBram, A. Peck, and L. Provost. 2006. When landscaping goes bad: the incipient invasion of Mahonia bealei in the Southeastern United States. Biological Invasions 8:169-176. 

Allen, C. R., A. R. Johnson, and L. Parris 2006. A framework for spatial risk assessments: potential impacts of nonindigenous invasive species on native species. Ecology and Society 11(1):39. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol11/iss1/art39/ 

Allen, C. R., and D. A. Saunders. 2006. Multi-model inference, nomadism, discontinuity and complexity. Ecosystems 9(5):694-699. 

Chizinski, C. J., C. L. Higgins, C. E. Shavlik, and K. L. Pope. 2006. Multiple hypotheses testing of fish incidence patterns in an urbanized ecosystem. Aquatic Ecology 40:97-109. 

Durham, B. W., G. R. Wilde, and K. L. Pope. 2006. Temperature-caused fish kill in a flowing Great Plains river. The Southwestern Naturalist 51:397-401. 

Fontaine, J. J., and T. E. Martin. 2006. Habitat selection responses of parents to offspring predation risk: an experimental test. American Naturalist 168:811-818.

Fontaine, J. J., and T. E. Martin. 2006. Parent birds assess nest predation risk and adjust their reproductive strategies. Ecology Letters 9:428-434.

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, J. D. Mittelstaedt, C. A. Stow, and W. A. Ward. 2006. Firm size diversity, functional richness and resilience. Environment and Development Economics 11:533-551.

Martin, T. E., R. D. Bassar, S. K. Bassar, J. J. Fontaine, P. Lloyd, H. Mathewson, A. Niklison, and A. Chalfoun. 2006. Life history and ecological correlates of geographic variation in egg and clutch mass among passerine species. Evolution 60:390-398.

Pope, K. L., D. R. Blankinship, M. Fisher, and R. Patiño. 2006. Status of the common snook (Centropomus undecimalis) in Texas. Texas Journal of Science 58:325-332. 

Weeks, K. F., J. L. Walker, and C. R. Allen. 2006. Chattahoochee National Recreation Area rare species survey – 2004. Final Report to the National Park Service, Award # 1434-HQ-97-RU-1569.

Pope, K. L., G. R. Wilde, and D. L. Bauer.  2005.  Maximum size of fish caught with standard gears and recreational angling.  Fisheries Research 76:117-122.

Allen, C. R., D. Epperson, and A. Garmestani. 2004. The impacts of fire ants on wildlife: a decade of research. American Midland Naturalist 152:88-103. 

Garmestani, A. S., C. R. Allen, J. A. Labram, and A. E. Peck. 2004. Laboratory observations of red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) predation upon eastern tent caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae). Journal of Entomological Science 39:472-473. 

Johnson, A. R., C. R. Allen, and K. A. N. Simpson. 2004. Estimating functional connectivity of wildlife habitat and its relevance to ecological risk assessment. Pages 41-55 in L. A. Kapustka, H. Gilbraith, M. Luxon, and G. R. Biddinger, eds. Landscape ecology and wildlife habitat evaluation: critical information for ecological risk assessment, land-use management activities, and biodiversity enhancement practices, ASTM STP 1458. ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA. 

Pope, K. L., and G. R. Wilde. 2004. Effect of catch-and-release angling on growth of largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides. Fisheries Management and Ecology 11:39-44. 

Pope, K. L., G. R. Wilde, and B. W. Durham. 2004. Age-specific patterns in density-dependent growth of white crappie, Pomoxis annularis. Fisheries Management and Ecology 11:33-38. 

Wilde, G. R., and K. L. Pope. 2004. Anglers’ probabilities of catching record-size fish. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1046-1049. 

Wilde, G. R., and K. L. Pope. 2004. Relationship between lake-record weights of fishes and reservoir area and growing season. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 24:1025-1030. 

Zettler, J. A., M. D. Taylor, C. R. Allen, and T. P. Spira. 2004. Consequences of forest clear cuts for native and non-indigenous ants. Annuals of the Entomological Society of America 97:513-518.

Wilde, G. R., K. L. Pope, and R. E. Strauss. 2003.  Estimation of fishing tournament mortality and its sampling variance.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 23:779-786.

Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2002. Cross-scale structure and scale breaks in ecosystems and other complex systems. Ecosystems 5:315-318.

Zettler, J. A., T. M. McInnis, Jr., C. R. Allen, and T. P. Spira. 2002. The biodiversity of fungi in red imported fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) mounds. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 95:487-491.

Allen, C. R., and C. S. Holling. 2001. Cross-scale morphology. Pages 450-452 in A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch, eds. Encyclopedia of environmetrics. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.

Allen, C. R., R. S. Lutz, T. Lockley, S. A. Phillips, Jr., and S. Demarais. 2001. The non-indigenous ant, Solenopsis invicta, reduces loggerhead shrike and native insect abundance. Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 18:249-259.

Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. Modeling viable mammal populations in Gap Analyses. Biological Conservation 99:135-144.  

Allen, C. R., L. G. Pearlstine, D. P. Wojcik, and W. M. Kitchens. 2001. The spatial distribution of diversity between disparate taxa: spatial correspondence between mammals and ants. Landscape Ecology 16:453-464.  

Forys, E. A., A. Quistorff, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Potential fire ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) impact on the endangered Schaus swallowtail (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Florida Entomologist 84:254-258.  

Forys, E. A., A. Quistorff, C. R. Allen, and D. P. Wojcik. 2001. The likely cause of extinction of the tree snail Orthalicus rese reses (Say). Journal of Molluscan Studies 67:373-380.  

Kamler, J. F., and K. L. Pope.  2001.  Non-lethal methods of examining fish stomach contents.  Reviews in Fisheries Science 9:1-11.  

Pope, K. L.  2001.  Anglers tagging and marking fish:  provincial and state fishery agency views.  Fisheries (Bethesda) 26(3):23-27.  

Pope, K. L., M. L. Brown, W. G. Duffy, and P. H. Michaletz.  2001.  A caloric-based evaluation of diet indices for largemouth bass.  Environmental Biology of Fishes 61:329-339.  

Pope, K. L., B. E. Van Zee, M. C. Mayo, and M. Rahman.  2001.  Assessment of outputs from Smith-Root model-5.0 GPP and model-7.5 GPP electrofishers.  North American Journal of Fisheries Management 21:353-357.  

Wojcik, D. P., C. R. Allen, R. J. Brenner, E. A. Forys, D. P. Jouvenaz, and R. S. Lutz. 2001. Red imported fire ants: impact on biodiversity. American Entomologist 47(1):16-23.

Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Yellow jackets disperse seeds of trillium in eastern forests. American Midland Naturalist 146:444-446.

Zettler, J. A., T. P. Spira, and C. R. Allen. 2001. Ant-seed mutualisms: can fire ants sour the relationship? Biological Conservation 101 249-253.

2000

Allen, C. R., R. D. Willey, P. E. Myers, P. M. Horton, and J. Buffa.  2000.  The impact of red imported fire ant infestation on northern bobwhite abundance trends in the Southeastern United States.  Journal of Agricultural and Urban Entomology 17:43-51.

Cunningham, M. K., W. F. Granberry, Jr., and K. L. Pope. 2000. Shrinkage of inland silverside larvae preserved in ethanol and formalin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 20:816-818.

Martin, C. R. Olson, B. J. Heidinger, and J. J. Fontaine. 2000. Parental care and clutch sizes in North and South American birds. Science 287:1482-1485.

Peterson, G., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 1999. Ecological resilience, biodiversity and scale. Pages 415-432 in S. Dodson, S. R. Carpenter, R. L. Jeanne, J. F. Kitchell, N. E. Langston, M. G. Turner, T. Ives, K. Elliot, and T. F. H. Allen, eds.  Readings in ecology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. (Reprinted from Ecosystems 1:6-18)

1998
 

1997

Unkenholz, E. G., M. L. Brown, and K. L. Pope.  1997.  Oxytetracycline marking efficacy for yellow perch fingerlings and temporal assays of tissue residues.  The Progressive Fish-Culturist 59:280-284.

1996

Pope, K. L., W. T. Geraets, and D. W. Willis.  1996.  Egg development in a high-density black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus) population.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 11:451-458.

1995

Allen, C. R., R. S. Lutz, and S. Demarais.  1995.  Red imported fire ant impacts on northern bobwhite populations.  Ecological Applications 5:632-638. 

Pope, K. L., M. L. Brown, and D. W. Willis.  1995.  Proposed revision of the standard weight (Ws) equation for redear sunfish.  Journal of Freshwater Ecology 10:129-134.

1994

Allen, C. R., S. Demarais, and R. S. Lutz.  1994.  Red imported fire ant impacts on wildlife: an overview.  Texas Journal of Science 46:51-59.

Pope, K. L., and D. R. DeVries.  1994.  Interactions between larval white crappie and gizzard shad:  quantifying mechanisms in small ponds.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123:975-987.

Pope, K. L., and D. W. Willis.  1994.  Changes in the brown trout population in Gary Creek, South Dakota, 1988-1993.  Proceedings of the South Dakota Academy of Science 73:51-58.

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Allen, C. R., Sherman A. Phillips, Jr., and M. Trostle.  1993.  Range expansion by the ecologically disruptive red imported fire ant into the Texas Rio Grande valley.  Southwestern Entomologist 18:315-316.