2016

Research Articles

• Tree Circumference Dynamics in Four Forests Characterized Using Automated Dendrometer Bands

  Valentine Herrmann, Sean M. McMahon, Matteo Detto, James A. Lutz, Stuart J. Davies, Chia-Hao Chang-Yang, Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira (Author)

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• A General Method for Targeted Quantitative Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry

  Juan D. Chavez, Jimmy K. Eng, Devin K. Schweppe, Michelle Cilia, Keith Rivera, Xuefei Zhong, Xia Wu, Terrence Allen, Moshe Khurgel, Akhilesh Kumar, Athanasios Lampropoulos, Mårten Larsson, Shuvadeep Maity, Yaroslav Morozov, Wimal Pathmasiri, Mathew Perez-Neut, Coriness Pineyro-Ruiz, Elizabeth Polina, Stephanie Post, Mark Rider, Dorota Tokmina-Roszyk, Katherine Tyson, Debora Vieira Parrine Sant'Ana, James E. Bruce (Author)

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• Characterizing the Mechanical Properties of Running-Specific Prostheses

  Owen N. Beck, Paolo Taboga, Alena M. Grabowski (Author)

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• Multiple Browsers Structure Tree Recruitment in Logged Temperate Forests

  Edward K. Faison, Stephen DeStefano, David R. Foster, Joshua M. Rapp, Justin A. Compton (Author)

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• Patterns of Gene Flow between Crop and Wild Carrot, Daucus carota (Apiaceae) in the United States

  Jennifer R. Mandel, Adam J. Ramsey, Massimo Iorizzo, Philipp W. Simon (Author)

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• Female-Bias in a Long-Term Study of a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination: Monitoring Sex Ratios for Climate Change Research

  Joanne Braun McNeill, Larisa Avens, April Goodman Hall, Lisa R. Goshe, Craig A. Harms, David W. Owens (Author)

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• Re-Evaluating the Geological Evidence for Late Holocene Marine Incursion Events along the Guerrero Seismic Gap on the Pacific Coast of Mexico

  Thomas A. Bianchette, Terrence A. McCloskey, Kam-biu Liu (Author)

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• Soil Water Holding Capacity Mitigates Downside Risk and Volatility in US Rainfed Maize: Time to Invest in Soil Organic Matter?

  Alwyn Williams, Mitchell C. Hunter, Melanie Kammerer, Daniel A. Kane, Nicholas R. Jordan, David A. Mortensen, Richard G. Smith, Sieglinde Snapp, Adam S. Davis (Author)

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• Litter Species Composition and Topographic Effects on Fuels and Modeled Fire Behavior in an Oak-Hickory Forest in the Eastern USA

  Matthew B. Dickinson, Todd F. Hutchinson, Mark Dietenberger, Frederick Matt, Matthew P. Peters (Author)

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• 3D-Printing for Analytical Ultracentrifugation

  Abhiksha Desai, Jonathan Krynitsky, Thomas J. Pohida, Huaying Zhao, Peter Schuck (Author)

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• QTL Mapping in Three Rice Populations Uncovers Major Genomic Regions Associated with African Rice Gall Midge Resistance

  Nasser Yao, Cheng-Ruei Lee, Kassa Semagn, Mounirou Sow, Francis Nwilene, Olufisayo Kolade, Roland Bocco, Olumoye Oyetunji, Thomas Mitchell-Olds, Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop (Author)

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• Inter-Annual Variability of Area-Scaled Gaseous Carbon Emissions from Wetland Soils in the Liaohe Delta, China

  Siyuan Ye, Ken W. Krauss, Hans Brix, Mengjie Wei, Linda Olsson, Xueyang Yu, Xueying Ma, Jin Wang, Hongming Yuan, Guangming Zhao, Xigui Ding, Rebecca F. Moss (Author)

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• Soil Aggregate Stability and Grassland Productivity Associations in a Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie

  Kurt O. Reinhart, Lance T. Vermeire (Author)

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• Nutritional Supplement of Hatchery Eggshell Membrane Improves Poultry Performance and Provides Resistance against Endotoxin Stress

  S. K. Makkar, N. C. Rath, B. Packialakshmi, Z. Y. Zhou, G. R. Huff, A. M. Donoghue (Author)

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• Method for the Determination of Ammonia in Mainstream Cigarette Smoke Using Ion Chromatography

  Christina Vaughan Watson, June Feng, Liza Valentin-Blasini, Rayman Stanelle, Clifford H. Watson (Author)

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• Interactive Effects of Elevated [CO2] and Drought on the Maize Phytochemical Defense Response against Mycotoxigenic Fusarium verticillioides

  Martha M. Vaughan, Alisa Huffaker, Eric A. Schmelz, Nicole J. Dafoe, Shawn A. Christensen, Heather J. McAuslane, Hans T. Alborn, Leon Hartwell Allen, Peter E. A. Teal (Author)

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• Local versus Generalized Phenotypes in Two Sympatric Aurelia Species: Understanding Jellyfish Ecology Using Genetics and Morphometrics

  Luciano M. Chiaverano, Keith W. Bayha, William M. Graham (Author)

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• Climate Impacts on Sea Turtle Breeding Phenology in Greece and Associated Foraging Habitats in the Wider Mediterranean Region

  Samir H. Patel, Stephen J. Morreale, Vincent S. Saba, Aliki Panagopoulou, Dimitris Margaritoulis, James R. Spotila (Author)

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• Major Gene for Field Stem Rust Resistance Co-Locates with Resistance Gene Sr12 in ‘Thatcher’ Wheat

  Colin W. Hiebert, James A. Kolmer, Curt A. McCartney, Jordan Briggs, Tom Fetch, Harbans Bariana, Frederic Choulet, Matthew N. Rouse, Wolfgang Spielmeyer (Author)

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• Forecast Modelling via Variations in Binary Image-Encoded Information Exploited by Deep Learning Neural Networks

  Da Liu, Ming Xu, Dongxiao Niu, Shoukai Wang, Sai Liang (Author)

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• Large Salt Dust Storms Follow a 30-Year Rainfall Cycle in the Mar Chiquita Lake (Córdoba, Argentina)

  Enrique H. Bucher, Ariel F. Stein (Author)

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• Seasonal Change in Trophic Niche of Adfluvial Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) and Coexisting Fishes in a High-Elevation Lake System

  Kyle A. Cutting, Wyatt F. Cross, Michelle L. Anderson, Elizabeth G. Reese (Author)

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• Bayesian Top-Down Protein Sequence Alignment with Inferred Position-Specific Gap Penalties

  Andrew F. Neuwald, Stephen F. Altschul (Author)

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• Nested Association Mapping of Stem Rust Resistance in Wheat Using Genotyping by Sequencing

  Prabin Bajgain, Matthew N. Rouse, Toi J. Tsilo, Godwin K. Macharia, Sridhar Bhavani, Yue Jin, James A. Anderson (Author)

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• Ecological Importance of Small-Diameter Trees to the Structure, Diversity and Biomass of a Tropical Evergreen Forest at Rabi, Gabon

  Hervé R. Memiaghe, James A. Lutz, Lisa Korte, Alfonso Alonso, David Kenfack (Author)

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• Missing Rings, Synchronous Growth, and Ecological Disturbance in a 36-Year Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Provenance Study

  Caroline Leland, John Hom, Nicholas Skowronski, F. Thomas Ledig, Paul J. Krusic, Edward R. Cook, Dario Martin-Benito, Javier Martin-Fernandez, Neil Pederson (Author)

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• Heading Date QTL in Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Coincide with Major Developmental Genes VERNALIZATION1 and PHOTOPERIOD1

  Mohammed Guedira, Mai Xiong, Yuan Feng Hao, Jerry Johnson, Steve Harrison, David Marshall, Gina Brown-Guedira (Author)

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• Allelic Variation in Developmental Genes and Effects on Winter Wheat Heading Date in the U.S. Great Plains

  Sarah M. Grogan, Gina Brown-Guedira, Scott D. Haley, Gregory S. McMaster, Scott D. Reid, Jared Smith, Patrick F. Byrne (Author)

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• QTL Mapping of Low-Temperature Germination Ability in the Maize IBM Syn4 RIL Population

  Shuaidong Hu, Thomas Lübberstedt, Guangwu Zhao, Michael Lee (Author)

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• Seeing the Forest through the Trees: Considering Roost-Site Selection at Multiple Spatial Scales

  David S. Jachowski, Christopher T. Rota, Christopher A. Dobony, W. Mark Ford, John W. Edwards (Author)

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• Linking Measures of Colony and Individual Honey Bee Health to Survival among Apiaries Exposed to Varying Agricultural Land Use

  Matthew Smart, Jeff Pettis, Nathan Rice, Zac Browning, Marla Spivak (Author)

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• Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Phenological Development, Low-Temperature Tolerance, Grain Quality, and Agronomic Characters in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

  D. B. Fowler, A. N'Diaye, D. Laudencia-Chingcuanco, C. J. Pozniak (Author)

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• Changes in the Chemical Composition and Decay Resistance of Thermally-Modified Hevea brasiliensis Wood

  Elias Taylor Durgante Severo, Fred Willians Calonego, Cláudio Angeli Sansígolo, Brian Bond (Author)

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• Attack and Success of Native and Exotic Parasitoids on Eggs of Halyomorpha halys in Three Maryland Habitats

  Megan V. Herlihy, Elijah J. Talamas, Donald C. Weber (Author)

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• Toxoplasma gondii Infection in Seagull Chicks Is Related to the Consumption of Freshwater Food Resources

  Oscar Cabezón, Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar, Virginia Morera, Ignacio García-Bocanegra, Jacob González-Solís, Sebastian Napp, Maria P. Ribas, Berta Blanch-Lázaro, Xavier Fernández-Aguilar, Noelia Antilles, Sergio López-Soria, Cristina Lorca-Oró, Jitender P. Dubey, Sonia Almería (Author)

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• Soil Quality Indexing Strategies for Evaluating Sugarcane Expansion in Brazil

  Maurício R. Cherubin, Douglas L. Karlen, Carlos E. P. Cerri, André L. C. Franco, Cássio A. Tormena, Christian A. Davies, Carlos C. Cerri (Author)

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• Management Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in a Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forest

  Sabina Dore, Danny L. Fry, Brandon M. Collins, Rodrigo Vargas, Robert A. York, Scott L. Stephens (Author)

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• How Hives Collapse: Allee Effects, Ecological Resilience, and the Honey Bee

  Brian Dennis, William P. Kemp (Author)

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• A Global Meta-Analysis on the Impact of Management Practices on Net Global Warming Potential and Greenhouse Gas Intensity from Cropland Soils

  Upendra M. Sainju (Author)

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• Recurrent Selection for Transgene Activity Levels in Maize Results in Proxy Selection for a Native Gene with the Same Promoter

  Anastasia L. Bodnar, Megan N. Schroder, M. Paul Scott (Author)

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• Can Novel Management Practice Improve Soil and Environmental Quality and Sustain Crop Yield Simultaneously?

  Upendra M. Sainju (Author)

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• FastGGM: An Efficient Algorithm for the Inference of Gaussian Graphical Model in Biological Networks

  Ting Wang, Zhao Ren, Ying Ding, Zhou Fang, Zhe Sun, Matthew L. MacDonald, Robert A. Sweet, Jieru Wang, Wei Chen (Author)

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• Genome Wide Association Study of Seedling and Adult Plant Leaf Rust Resistance in Elite Spring Wheat Breeding Lines

  Liangliang Gao, M. Kathryn Turner, Shiaoman Chao, James Kolmer, James A. Anderson (Author)

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• Improving Estimations of Spatial Distribution of Soil Respiration Using the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Algorithm and Soil Temperature as Auxiliary Data

  Junguo Hu, Jian Zhou, Guomo Zhou, Yiqi Luo, Xiaojun Xu, Pingheng Li, Junyi Liang (Author)

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