Selected Recent KSNHI Staff Publications

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Kindscher, K. In press. Plant Lore. Encyclopedia of Great Plains, David J. Wishart, Editor. University of Nebraska Press.

Su, J.C., Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. In press. Beyond species richness: Community similarity as a measure of cross-taxon congruence for coarse-filter conservation.  Conservation Biology.

Barnes, C. C., M. K. Smalley, K.P. Manfredi, K. Kindscher, and D. Sheeley.  In press. Characterization of a Anti-Tuberculosis Resin Glycoside from the Prairie Medicinal Plant Ipomoea leptophylla.  Journal of Natural Products.

Aschenbach, T. and K. Kindscher. In press.  Comparison of Planting Treatments in a Tallgrass Prairie Restoration.  Proceedings of the North American Prairie Conference (2002). 

Freeman, C.C. & C.A. Morse. 2003. The vascular flora of the Ogallala ecotone on the Dempsey Divide, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Sida 20: 1215-1243.

Freeman, C.C, C.A. Morse & R.L. McGregor. 2003. New vascular plant records for the grassland biome of central North America. Sida 20: 1289-1297.

Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, K. Kindscher, E.H. Saveraid and M. Borgognone.  2002.  Predicting Meadow Communities and Species Occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Pp. 499-506.  In Predicting Species Occurrences:  Issues of Scale and Accuracy, (Scott, J. M., P. J. M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, B. Wall, editors).  Island Press. Covello, CA.

Lauver, C. L., W. H. Busby, and J. L. Whistler.  2002.  Testing a GIS model of habitat suitability for a declining grassland bird.  Environmental Management 30(1):88-97.

Thurmond, J.P., C.C. Freeman, K. Kindscher, H. Loring, C.A. Morse & B.W. Hoagland. 2002. Preliminary report of an ethnobotanical survey along the Ogallala ecotone on the Dempsey Divide in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma Archeol. 50: 10-37.

Busby, W. H., and J. L. Zimmerman. 2001. The Kansas Breeding Bird Atlas.  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence. 466 pp.

Chapman, S.S., J.M. Omernik, J. Freeouf, D.G. Huggins,  J.R. McCauley, C.C. Freeman, G. Steinauer, & R. Angelo. 2001. Ecoregions of Nebraska and Kansas. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR. (map)

Fraser, A. and K. Kindscher. 2001.  Tree Spade Transplanting of Spartina pectinata (Link) and Eleocharis macrostachya (Britt.) in a Prairie Wetland Restoration. Aquatic Botany 71(4):297-304.

Freeman, C.C. The genus Aristida (Poaceae) in Kansas. 2001. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 104: 144-157.

Jakubauskas, M.E., K. Kindscher, and D.M. Debinski. 2001. Spectral and Biophysical Relationships of Montane Sagebrush Communities in Multitemporal SPOT XS Data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22:1767-78.

Rice, N. H., K. Zyskowski, and W. H. Busby.  2001.  Charadriiform bird surveys in north central Kansas. Kansas Ornithological Society Bulletin 52(3):29-36.

Saveraid, E.H., D.M. Debinski, K. Kindscher, and M.E. Jakubauskas. 2001. A Comparison of Satellite Data and Landscape Variables in Predicting Bird Species Occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.  Landscape Ecology 16(1):71-83.

Vallurupalli V., M. Demidova, K. Kindscher, L.K. Pannell, and K.P. Manfredi. 2001. A New Prenylated Bibenzyl from Glycyrrhiza lepidota. Phytochemistry 58:153-157.

Anderson, H.W., W. Silberstein, M. Cobb and K. Kindscher. 2000. Conservation Easements in the 10th Federal Circuit. In: Protecting the Land: Conservation Easements, Past, Present, and Future. Island Press, Covelo, California.

Busby, W. H. 2000. Hummingbird pollination of epiphytic ericaceae in the cloud forest canopy.  In N. Nadkarni and N.Wheelwright, editors. The Ecology and Natural History of Monteverde:  A Background to Conservation. Oxford University Press, New York.

Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 2000. Montane meadows as indicators of environmental change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment 64:213-225.

Freeman, C.C. 2000. Vascular plants new to three states in the central United States. Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 103: 51-54.

Jakubauskas, M.E., K. Kindscher, A. Fraser, and D.M. Debinski. 2000. Close-range remote sensing of aquatic macrophyte vegetation cover. International Journal of Remote Sensing 21:3533-3538.

Kettle, W.D., P.M. Rich, K. Kindscher, G.L. Pittman, and P. Fu. 2000. Land-Use History in Ecosystem Restoration: A 40-year Study in Prairie-Forest Ecotone. Restoration Ecology 8:307-317.

Kindscher, K. and A. Fraser. 2000. Planting Forbs First Provides Greater Species Diversity in Tallgrass Prairie Restorations. Ecological Restoration 18: 115-116.

Fraser, A. and K. Kindscher. 1999. Tree Spade Used to Establish Wetland Grasses, Rushes, and Sedges. Ecological Restoration 17: 162-163.

Lauver, C. L., K. Kindscher, D. Faber-Langendoen, and R. Schneider. 1999. A Classification of the Natural Vegetation of Kansas. Southwest Naturalist 44: 421-444

Davison, C. and K. Kindscher. 1999. Tools for Diversity: Fire, Grazing, and Mowing on Tallgrass Prairies. Ecological Restoration 17: 136-143.

Debinski, D., K. Kindscher, and M.E. Jakubauskas. 1999. A Remote Sensing and GIS-Based Model of Habitats and Biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17:3281-3291.

Freeman, C.C. 1998. New and noteworthy angiosperm records for Iowa. Sida 18: 605-609.

Freeman, C.C., R.L. McGregor & C.A. Morse. 1998. Vascular plants new to Kansas. Sida 18: 593-604.

Freeman, C.C. 1998. The flora of Konza Prairie: a historical review and contemporary patterns. Pp. 69-80. In: Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Jakubauskas, M.E. Kindscher, K., and D. Debinski. 1998. Multitemporal characterization and mapping of montane sagebrush communities using Indian IRS LISS-II imagery. Geocarto International 13(4): 65-74.

Kindscher, K., K.P. Manfredi, M. Britton, M. Demidova and D. Hurlburt. 1998. Testing Prairie Plants with Ethnobotanical Importance for Anti-Cancer and Anti-AIDS Compounds. Journal of Ethnobiology 18: 229-245.

Kindscher, K. and L. Tieszen. 1998. Floristic and Soil Organic Matter Changes after Five and Thirty-five Years of Native Tallgrass Prairie Restoration. Restoration Ecology 6:181-196.

Kindscher, K. and D. Hurlburt. 1998. Huron Smith's Ethnobotany of the Hocak (Winnebago). Economic Botany 52: 352-372.

Kindscher, K. and A. Fraser, M.E. Jakubauskas, and D. Debinski. 1998. Identifying Wetland Meadows in Grand Teton National Park Using Remote Sensing and Average Wetland Values. Wetlands Ecology and Management 5: 265-273.

Busby, W. H., and W. R. Brecheisen. 1997.  Chorusing phenology and habitat associations of the crawfish frog, Rana areolata (Anura: Ranidae), in Kansas. Southwestern Naturalist 42(2):210-217.

Busby, W. H., and J. R. Parmelee. 1996.  Historical changes in a herpetofaunal assemblage in the Flint Hills of Kansas.  American Midland Naturalist 135:81-91.

Kindscher, K. 1992. Medicinal wild plants of the prairie--an ethnobotanical guide. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas; contains 203 native species, illustrated with line drawings and maps.

Kindscher, K. 1987. Edible wild plants of the prairie--an ethnobotanical guide. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas; contains 123 native species, illustrated with line drawings and maps.