Dr. Monica G.Turner
Department of Zoology
University of Wisconsin
430 Lincoln Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
Ecosystem and
Landscape Ecology Lab
 

Recent Conference Abstracts

Authors Title Meeting

2008

Buffam I., I. Serrano, K. Bishop and H. Laudon Associations of stream water acidity and other environmental factors with the spatial distribution of Brown Trout in a mesoscale boreal stream network (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2008
Collins, D.B.G., S.R. Carpenter, J. A. Foley, and M.G. Turner Ecological thresholds governing the fate and transport of phosphorus from watershed to lake (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2008
Griffin, J.M., M. Simard and M.G. Turner Influence of host tree species on ecosystem response to bark beetle outbreaks in subalpine forests of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2008
Griffin, J.M., M. Simard and M.G. Turner A comparison of severe fire and bark beetle disturbance effects on soil nitrogen dynamics of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. (pdf) International Association of Wildland Fire and the 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 2008
Kuhman, T.R., S.M. Pearson, and M.G. Turner Agricultural land-use legacies and non-native invasive plants in a southern Appalachian forest 100 years post-abandonment (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2008
Kuhman, T.R., S.M. Pearson, and M.G. Turner Effects of contemporary landscape patterns and land-use change on non-native invasive plants in western North Carolina (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2008
McKenzie D.A., D.B. Tinker, W.H. Romme, and M.G. Turner Effects of post-fire climate and stand age on montane forest plant communities in Glacier National Park, Montana (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2008
Simard, M., J.M. Griffin, P.A. Townsend and S. Jin Disturbance severity and post-disturbance biomass recovery in western subalpine forests: a comparison of bark beetle outbreaks and wildfires (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2008
Simard, M., W.H. Romme, J.M. Griffin, D.B. Tinker and M.G. Turner Do bark beetle outbreaks increase fire risk in the Western US? A synthesis of current knowledge and fuel dynamics in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (pdf) International Association of Wildland Fire and the 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 2008
Smithwick E.A.H., D.M. Kashian, M. Ryan, and M.G. Turner Broad-scale patterns of ecosystem nitrogen stocks and soil nitrogen availability in post-fire lodgepole pine ecosystems(pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2008
Smithwick E.A.H., M. Ryan, D.M. Kashian, W.H. Romme, M.G. Turner and D.B. Tinker Post-fire spatial and temporal complexity in Yellowstone: what does it mean for climate change forecasts?(pdf) International Association of Wildland Fire and the 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, 2008

2007

Kuhman, T.R., S.M. Pearson, and M.G. Turner Land-use legacies and invasive exotic plants in a southern Appalachian forest (pdf) Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (SAMAB) conference, 2007.
Turner, M.G. Spatial pattern and temporal dynamics: the importance of heterogeneity for regulating ecosystems and maintaining ecosystem services (pdf) Symposium, “Ecological Foundations of Sustainability in a Constantly Changing World,” Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, 2007.

2006

Albright, T. P., H. Chen, and L. Chen Modeling the distributions of invasive tree-of-heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in native and exotic ranges (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2006
Henning, B. M. and A. J. Remsburg Effects of lakeshore vegetation on Wisconsin avian and anuran populations (pdf) Wetland Science Forum hosted by the Wisconsin Wetlands Association, 2006
Levitt, E., M.G.Turner and E.A.H. Smithwick Ecosystem function in heterogeneous landscapes: variation in soil nitrogen availability among post-fire lodgepole pine stands in Yellowstone National Park (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2006
Marburg, A.E., M.B. Binder, S.R. Carpenter, J.W. Chipman, T. K. Kratz, T.M. Lillesand, and M. G. Turner Relationship of riparian land-cover change and initial lake color, clarity and conductivity in Northern Wisconsin, USA (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2006
Predick, K.I. and E. H. Stanley Spatial and temporal variation in nitrogen processing in the Wisconsin River (pdf) North American Benthological Society (NABS) 2006
A. J. Remsburg Effects of habitat structure and lakeshore development on northern Wisconsin Odonata communities (pdf) Wetland Science Forum hosted by the Wisconsin Wetlands Association, 2006
Schoennagel, T. and M. G. Turner Landscape heterogeneity following large fires: insights from Yellowstone National Park, USA (pdf) 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Conference, 2006
Simard, M. and M. G. Turner Explaining broad-scale infestation patterns of three bark beetle species in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (pdf) 3rd International Fire Ecology & Management Congress, 2006
Smithwick E.A.H., M. Ryan, D.M. Kashian, W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker, M.G. Turner Modeling the effects of changing climate and fire regimes on productivity, carbon storage and nitrogen fluxes in lodgepole pine forest stands (pdf) 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Conference, 2006

2005

Albright, T.P. and L. Chen Explaining and predicting US/China invasive species distributions using statistical and machine learning tools (pdf) Association of American Geographers, 2005
Anderson, D.P., W.P. Porter, J.D. Forester, M.G. Turner, E.H. Merrill, J.L. Frair, M.S. Boyce and D. R. Visscher Linking elk energetic budgets to landscape use: implications for growth and reproduction (pdf) International Mammalogical Congress
Sapporo, Japan 2005
Anderson, D.P., J.D. Forester, M.G. Turner, M.S. Boyce, E.H. Merrill, J.L. Frair and D. R. Visscher Comparative analysis of elk-landscape relationships using resource selection and resource utilization functions. (pdf) Wildlife Society, 2005
Forester, J.D., A.R. Ives, D.P. Anderson and M.G. Turner Using state-space models to link patterns of elk movement to landscape characteristics inYellowstone National Park (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2005
Kashian, D.K., M.G. Ryan, W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker and M.G. Turner Effects of changes in climate and fire frequency on landscape-scale carbon cycling in coniferous forests (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2005
Remsburg, A.J. and M. G. Turner Amount and position of post-fire coarse wood influences litter decomposition and microarthropods (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2005
Erica A.H. Smithwick Understanding post-fire spatial and temporal heterogeneity in microbial community composition using a landscape approach (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2005
Sugden-Newbery, A., J. Chipman, M. Binder, M. Wegener, J. Riera, T. Lillesand, F. Scarpace, T. Kratz, M.G. Turner and S. Carpenter Historical cause and effect: Are changes in lake chemistry drivers of
or driven by changes in land-use? (pdf)
LTER student collaborative research symposium, 2005
Turner, M.G. Linking space and time: ecological legacies of land use and natural disturbances (pdf) Gesellschaft für Okologie Regensburg, Germany, 2005
Turner,M.G., W.H. Romme, D.B. Tinker, E.A.H. Smithwick, K.L. Metzger and J. Zhu Disturbance, spatial variability and cross-scaleinteractions in the post-fire Yellowstone landscape (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2005

2004

Albright, T.P., Q, Guo and Z. Zhu Prediction of the potential distribution of plant invaders between China and the US: Sino-US collaboration, ecological modeling, and GIS implementation (pdf) Beijing International Symposium on Biological Invasions, 2004
Albright, T.P., L. Chen, Q, Guo and Z. Zhu Predicting potential distributions of plants invasive between the U.S. and China: a Sino-U.S. collaboration (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Anderson, D. P., J.D. Forester and M. G. Turner Linking elk movement patterns to forage availability and predator avoidance in northern Wisconsin.  (pdf) Wildlife Society, 2004
Anderson, D.P., J. Lehmann, C. Boesch, H. Beyer and J.D. Forester Chimpanzee movement patterns and social ecology in the Taï National Park, Côte d’Ivoire. (pdf) International Symposium
African Great Apes: Evolution, Diversity and Conservation
Kyoto, Japan 2004
Balser, T.C., R. Fujinuma, E.A.H. Smithwick, K.L. Metzger, J. Zhu and M. G. Turner Overcoming methodological challenges in ecosystem-scale research: a landscape-scale assessment of microbial community composition following forest fire (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Cardille, J., S. Carpenter, M. Coe, J. Foley, P.Hanson, M.G. Turner and Julie Vano Effect of Surface and Subsurface Flow Networks on Spatial Variation in Ecosystem Processes of Lakes of the Northern Highlands, WI, USA (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Cardille,J., S. Carpenter, M. Coe, J. Foley, P. Hanson, M.G. Turner and J. Vano A framework for analyzing terrestrial-aquatic interactions in a land-lake mosaic (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2004
Cardille,J.A., P.C. Hanson, J.A. Vano and M. T. Coe Interactions of Terrestrial and Aquatic Processes Among Lakes of the Northern Highland Lake District, USA (pdf) American Geophysical Union, 2004
Forester, J.D., D. P. Anderson and M. G. Turner Linking elk movement patterns to landscape composition and forage availability in Yellowstone National Park (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Forester, J.D., M.G. Turner and D. P. Anderson Response of elk to high-density patches of coarse woody debris and regenerating saplings: A multi-scale analysis of browsing refugia in Yellowstone National Park (pdf) Wildlife Society, 2004
Fraterrigo, J.M., M.G. Turner and S. M. Pearson Fine-scale heterogeneity of forest herbs: the role of past land use and life-history traits (pdf) International Association for Landscape Ecology, 2004
Guo, Q, T.P. Albright and Z. Zhu Transpacific biological invasions: the need to study the native habitats (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Metzger, K.L., E.A.H. Smithwick, M.G.Turner, D.B. Tinker, W.H. Romme, and A. J. Remsburg Coarse woody debris: Effects on post-fire ecosystem process rates (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Pearson, S.M., M.G. Turner and A.B. Smith Land use history, abiotic gradients, and mesic forest understories in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Predick, K.I, S.E. Gergel and M.G. Turner Effect of flood regime on tree growth in the floodplain and surrounding uplands of the Wisconsin River (pdf) Wisconsin Wetlands Association , 2004
Predick, K.I. and M.G. Turner Influence of flooding on spatial patterns of carbon content in fine sediment on the Wisconsin River floodplains and uplands (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Remsburg, A.J., M.G. Turner, K.L. Metzger, D.B. Tinker and W. H. Romme Effects of post-fire coarse woody debris on fine litter decomposition and microarthropod distribution (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Romme, W. H., D.B. Tinker and M. G. Turner Vegetation responses to stand-replacing fires in 2000 vs. 1988 in lodgepole pine forests of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Smithwick, E. A.H., M.G. Turner, M.C. Mack , F. Stuart Chapin III, J. Zhu and T. C. Balser Spatial heterogeneity in ecosystem processes after severe fire in a black spruce (P.mariana) forest, Alaska (USA) (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Sugden-Newbery, A. and M. G. Turner Forest community composition in riparian and upland sites in the Northern Highlands Lake District, Wisconsin, USA (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004
Turner, M.G., K.L. Metzger, W.H. Romme, E.A.H. Smithwick, D.B. Tinker and J. Zhu Spatial and temporal variation in net nitrogen mineralization following stand-replacing fire in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (pdf) Ecological Society of America, 2004