Appendix C
Research Projects By Staff, 1999–2000

[ Biennial Contents | Staff Publications ]

David H. Anderson (1999)

• Evaluation of the invertebrate community of the channelized Kissimmee River ecosystem

Lourdes Rojas and Dave Anderson sample benthic invertebrates in the Kissimmee River, Highlands Co., Florida; photo by Nancy Deyrup.

• Importance of periphyton in Everglades food webs
• Evaluation of wading bird food resources in wetlands at Buck Island Ranch
• Crayfish growth and secondary production in Ranch wetlands

• Cutthroat grass restoration plan for the Lake Placid Scrub Preserve
• Scrub habitat restoration
• Scrub fire behavior/fire effects model

• Nitrogen and phosphorus cycling in relation to land use and cattle stocking density in subtropical pastures
• Algal productivity and nutrient characteristics of wetlands in improved and semi-native pastures of the Lake Okeechobee Basin
• Invasion of north temperate forest soils by exotic earthworms
• Influence of cattle grazing and land use on freshwater wetlands in rangeland ecosystems
• Optimization of best management practices for beef cattle ranching in the Lake Okeechobee Basin
• Agro-ecosystem indicators of sustainability as affected by cattle density in ranch management systems

• Contributions of suburban jay populations to the metapopulation dynamics of the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens)
• Composition and relative abundance of terrestrial vertebrate predators in a suburban development in oak scrub
• The influence of sub-urbanization on time/energy budgets of Florida scrub-jays
• Florida scrub-jay nest-site selection in native and non-native habitats: the impact of human disturbance
• Influence of sub-urbanization on survival and spatial use of fledgling Florida scrub-jays
• Parental care, resource availability, and brood reduction in Florida scrub-jays across an urban gradient
• Energy expenditure of Florida scrub-jays across an urban gradient using doubly-labeled water
• Physiological correlates of variation in the timing of reproduction in two populations of Florida scrub-jays
• Avian community response to sub-urbanization on the Lake Wales Ridge
• Caching behavior of Florida scrub-jays in suburban and natural habitats
• Population monitoring of Florida scrub-jays and red-cockaded woodpeckers at Avon Park Air Force Range
• Prediction of dispersal patterns from source-sink demographic patterns
• Dispersal gap characteristics of Florida scrub-jays in a heterogeneous landscape
• Pine resin and the orientation of red-cockaded woodpeckers cavities
• Fledgling production by red-cockaded woodpeckers in south-central Florida
• Survival and recruitment of red-cockaded woodpeckers in south-central Florida: population stability and evidence of metapopulation structure
• Demographic consequences of limited breeding opportunities for male red-cockaded woodpeckers
• Home range size and habitat characteristics of red-cockaded woodpeckers in south-central Florida
• Habitat selection and behavior of foraging red-cockaded woodpeckers in south-central Florida
• Forays and movements patterns of non-breeding Florida scrub-jays in a heterogeneous landscape
• Maintaining a spatial database of the distribution of Florida scrub-jays and their habitat throughout Florida
• Banding Florida scrub-jays in Highlands County
• Gut morphology, diet, and taxonomy of New World Columba pigeons
• Nesting chronology of common ground-doves in Florida and Texas
• Relationship between the reproductive ecology of the white-crowned pigeon and the fruiting phenology of tropical hardwood hammock trees
• Effects of supplemental protein on brood reduction, nestling-, and post-fledging survival in suburban populations of Florida scrub-jays
• Effects of landscape and demography on patch-scale movement patterns of Florida scrub-jays
• Timing of reproduction in birds: nutrition-endocrine interactions
• Microsite variation in acorn germination
• Demography of Florida scrub-jays in long-unburned, recently restored scrub habitats
• Movement patterns of Florida scrub-jays across a landscape mosaic on the Lake Wales Ridge
• Influence of landscape structure and habitat variation at multiple spatial scales on the demography and population dynamics of Florida scrub-jays in west-central Florida

Mark A. Deyrup

Mark Deyrup examines beetles in the Archbold insect collection; photo by Nancy Deyrup.

• Exotic ants in Florida
• Manual of the ants in Florida
• New Aphaenogaster from Florida xeric uplands
• New Smithistruma from Florida
• Crematogaster of the subgenus Orthocrema in eastern North America
• Description and natural history of a new Crematogaster from southeastern pinelands
• Distribution, natural history, and description of the male of Eurhopalothrix floridana
• Ants of San Salvador, Bahamas
• Ant survey of New Providence, Bahamas
• Ant survey of North Andros Island, Bahamas
• A new species of Smithistruma from the Cumberland Plateau in Kentucky, named in honor of William Brown, Jr.
• Litter-inhabiting ants in Florida
• Survey of litter-inhabiting ants of mountain valleys in the Ouachita Mountains
• Ant survey of the Ordway Preserve, Florida
• Preliminary survey of the ants of Ponape
• Natural history of the exotic ant Quadristurma emmae
• New dacetine ant from Apalachicola National Forest
• A predaceous beetle circumvents the chemical defense of a millipede
• Taxonomy and biogeography of Melanoplus grasshoppers of Florida scrub
• Taxonomy and biogeography of the Brooksville Ridge grasshopper
• Taxonomy and natural history of the sandhill pygmy mole cricket
• Post-fire mortality in south Florida slash pine
• Biogeography of burrowing wolf spiders in Florida
• Survey of dacetine ants in the Bahamas
• Natural history of a caterpillar that lives with social spiders
• Yellow bowl insect survey
• Ant diversity survey of Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• New Leptothorax from Apalachicola National Forest
• Ant survey of the Florida panhandle
• New Pyramica from the Apalachicola National Forest
• New Ellipes from the Brooksville Ridge
• Natural history of caterpillar that eats shell plates of dead gopher tortoises
• Insect visitors on flowers of Serenoa repens
• Insect visitors on flowers of Ilex glabra
• Bees of the Archbold Biological Station
• Nesting behavior of Perdita bequaerti
• Interactions between flies and flowers on the Archbold Biological Station
• List of Coleoptera of the Archbold Biological Station

• Lake Annie water chemistry
• Lakewatch monitoring program for Lake Annie

• Bibliography of shrikes of the world

• Phenology monitoring
• Climatological data from the ESE site
• Wells and ponds at Archbold Biological Station; water level monitoring
• Treefrog survey
• Archbold Biological Station photo points; long-term vegetation changes

• Reproductive success and habitat selection of nesting barred owls on Buck Island Ranch

Barred owls (Strix varia) at Buck Island Ranch, Highlands Co., Florida; photo by Nancy Deyrup

• Reproductive success and habitat selection of nesting red-shouldered hawks on Buck Island Ranch
• Prey selection of the barred and barn owls on Buck Island Ranch
• The importance of ditches and canals on agricultural lands for wading birds
• The effects of agricultural practices (sod) on bird communities on a central Florida cattle ranch
• Evaluation of wading bird food resources in ditches/wetlands at Buck Island Ranch
• Winter territory size and habitat use of the American kestrel in south-central Florida
• Crayfish growth and secondary production in ranch wetlands
• Prey-selection of white-tailed kites at Buck Island Ranch
• American kestrel/eastern phoebe surveys on a south-central Florida cattle ranch; the importance of open spaces for wintering birds
• Roosting behavior of crested caracaras at a large roost on Buck Island Ranch
• Reproductive success of ospreys nesting on Lake Istokpoga, Florida
• Influence of cattle grazing and land use on freshwater wetlands in rangeland ecosystems

• Relating genetic variation to population size and geographic variables in Nolina brittoniana
• Interactions of soil crust and vascular plants in a xeric shrubland
• Effects of mechanical treatment vs. prescribed fire on listed Lake Wales Ridge plants and their habitat
• Long-term demography of Florida scrub plants
• Distribution of federally-listed plants in Highlands County using GPS

Alaä Wally, Plant Ecology Research Assistant, standing in flatwoods at Archbold Biol. Sta., with global position equipment.
The tall shrub in flower (Sept. 2000) at Alaä’s right is Palafoxia feayi and Sabal etonia is in front of her; photo by Nancy Deyrup.

• Effects of fire and seed bank dynamics on patterns of genetic variation in Hypericum cumulicola and implications for management
• Post-fire demography of Eriogonum floridanum and Clitoria fragrans
• Fire-induced mortality in south Florida slash pine
• Post-fire demography of Solidago chapmanii
• Slash pine demography in seasonal ponds
• Methods in population viability assessment
• Rosemary scrub seed banks
• Importance of open space in scrub
• Metapopulation dynamics of plants in Florida scrub
• Water relations of scrub oaks
• Post-fire changes in sandhill communities
• Reproductive biology of Asimina obovata
• Edge effects in scrubby flatwoods and flatwoods
• Dynamics of cutthroat grass
• Effect of added fuel on flatwoods recovery post-fire
• Restoration of bahia grass pastures
• Effects of logging, fire, and combinations on sand pine scrub at Lake Arbuckle State Park
• Review of population viability studies in plants
• Population dynamics of Polygonella basiramia
• Soil water dynamics in xeric soils at Archbold
• Crotalaria avonensis demography at Carter Creek
• Heterogeneity in fire intensity and community pattern in Florida scrub and Carolina sandhills
• Populations dynamics and fire ecology of the federally-listed threatened scrub plant Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium
• Comparison of the population dynamics of Hypericum cumulicola in different habitats and with different fire return intervals
• Gap characteristics and dynamics in Florida scrub
• Demography of a Chrysopsis species at Archbold
• Demography and spatial pattern in Florida rosemary
• Demography of Dicerandra christmanii
• Demography of Dicerandra frutescens
• Demography of Eryngium cuneifolium

The basal rosette of Eryngium cuneifolium (wedge-leafed button-snakeroot),
a Federally- and State-endangered plant that is restricted to the Highlands Co.,
Florida, portion of the Lake Wales Ridge; photo by Nancy Deyrup.

• Demography of Liatris ohlingerae
• Demography of Warea carteri
• Demography and fire ecology of Polygala lewtonii
• Demography, floral biology, and breeding system of scrub plum
• Restoration of long-unburned sandhill
• Experimental introduction of Ziziphus celata and sandhill restoration at Lake Wales Ridge National Wildlife Refuge

Hilary M. Swain

• Use of IKONAS satellite imagery for vegetation analysis at Archbold Biological Station
• Use of IKONAS satellite imagery for vegetation mapping at Buck Island Ranch
• Classroom and laboratory improvements for Archbold Biological Station
• A new generation of fire equipment for Archbold Biological Station
• Cutthroatgrass restoration plan for the Lake Placid Scrub Preserve
• GIS vegetation mapping for the Lake Wales Ridge
• Optimization of best management practices for beef cattle ranching in the Lake Okeechobee Basin
• Research priorities for conservation in Florida
• Wading birds in agricultural landscapes of central Florida
• Behavioral ecology of the goldeneye duck
• Biogeographical representation of field stations in North America
• Project FIRST, Faculty Institute for Reforming Science Teaching through field stations
• NSF’s NEON Workshop at Archbold Biological Station, 9-12 January 2000
• Conservation and environmental education for the Florida scrub; enhancing WWW facilities at Archbold Biological Station

Carl W. Weekley, Jr.

• Monitoring of federally-listed endangered plants on the Lake Wales Ridge
• Breeding system and status of Ziziphus celata
• Population dynamics of Hypericum cumulicola
• Distribution of federally-listed plants in Highlands County using GPS
• Demography, floral biology, and breeding system of scrub plum
• Effects of logging, fire, and combinations on sand pine scrub at Lake Arbuckle State Forest
• Relating genetic variation to population size and geographic variables in Nolina brittoniana
• Long-term demography of Florida scrub plants
• Effects of mechanical treatment vs. prescribed fire on listed Lake Wales Ridge plants and their habitat
• Demography of Eryngium cuneifolium
• Demography of Dicerandra frutescens
• Demography of Warea carteri
• Post-fire demography of Eriogonum floridanum and Clitoria fragrans
• Slash pine demography in seasonal ponds
• Metapopulation dynamics in Florida scrub
• Demography and spatial pattern in Florida rosemary
• Population dynamics of Polygonella basiramia
• Effect of added fuel on flatwoods recovery post-fire
• Soil water dynamics in xeric soils at Archbold Biological Station
• Cabbage palm demography at Buck Island Ranch
• Effects of fire and seed bank dynamics on patterns of genetic variation in Hypericum cumulicola
• Populations dynamics and fire ecology of the federally-listed threatened scrub plant Eriogonum longifolium var. gnaphalifolium
• Population viability analysis of two Lake Wales Ridge scrub endemic plants

Glen E. Woolfenden

• Florida scrub-jay behavior and ecology
• Florida scrub-jay cognition
• Florida scrub-jay sentinel system
• Florida scrub-jay nest sites in natural and suburban habitats
• Florida scrub-jay brood reduction
• Florida scrub-jay development of sexual dimorphism in mass; breeding and annual variation in mass
• Contaminants in Florida scrub-jay eggs
• Daily changes in Florida scrub-jay mass during breeding season
• Florida scrub-jay resource availability and use
• Florida scrub-jay energy expenditure and doubly labeled water
• Fire ecology and Florida scrub-jays
• Florida scrub-jay sex ratios
• Florida scrub-jay dispersal
• Florida scrub-jay time budgets at Archbold Biological Station and in suburbs
• Florida scrub-jay parasites and epidemics
• Florida scrub-jay egg rejection (inter- and intraspecific)
• Florida scrub-jay ptilochronology
• Florida scrub-jay acorn use
• Florida scrub-jay ethogram
• Florida scrub-jay nocturnal roosting
• Florida scrub-jay contact vocalization
• Florida scrub-jay social learning
• Florida scrub-jay road-edge territories and survival
• Florida scrub-jay lifetime fitness
• Florida scrub-jay inheritance of egg size
• Corvid gaits
• Studies of Florida birds
• Winter distribution of the sharp-tailed sparrows
• References to Florida birds in Field Notes/North American Birds
• History of breeding birds of Florida
• Computer bibliography of Florida ornithology
• Blue jay life history

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