Staff Publications
Listed below are technical publications by current and former Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission staff members (names in bold). Downloadable copies (PDF) of many articles are available below.
Amphibians and Reptiles
Fletcher, M.D. 1988. County Record: Eumeces anthracinus. Herpetological Review 19:17.
Fletcher, M.D. and B.G. Cochran. 1990. County Record: Ambystoma texanum. Herpetological Review 21:95.
Fletcher, M.D., B.G. Cochran, S.E. Trauth, and D.A. Saugey. 1992. Distribution of the southern red-backed salamander, Plethodon serratus (Caudata: Plethodontidae), in the Ouachita Mountain region of Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 46:100.
Birds
Holimon, W.C., C.W. Benkman, and M.F. Willson. 1998. The importance of mature conifers to red crossbills in southeast Alaska. Forest Ecology and Management 102:167-172.
Benkman, C.W., W.C. Holimon, and J.W. Smith. 2001. The influence of a competitor on the geographic mosaic of coevolution between crossbills and lodgepole pine. Evolution 53:282-294.
Holimon, W.C. and D.A. James. 2003. Nesting willow flycatchers discovered at Harrison, Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 57:81-85.
Holimon, W.C. and W.G. Montague. 2003. Reciprocal translocation re-establishes breeding status of Mississippi Alluvial Plain population of red-cockaded woodpeckers in Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 57:197-198.
Holimon, W.C., R.H. Doster, D.A. James, M.L. Mlodinow, J.C. Neal, and W.M. Shepherd. 2004. First documentation that Henslow's sparrow regularly occurs during the breeding and wintering seasons in Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 58:111-116.
Holimon, W.C., C.T. Witsell, W.H. Baltosser, and C.W. Rideout. 2008. Density and habitat associations of Henslow's Sparrows wintering in saline soil barrens in southern Arkansas. Journal of field Ornithology 79(4):364-370.
Holimon, W.C., J.A. Akin, W.H. Baltosser, C.W. Rideout, and C.T. Witsell. 2012. Structure and composition of grassland habitats used by wintering Smith’s Longspurs: the importance of native grasses. Journal of Field Ornithology 83:351-361.
Invertebrates
Nebeker, T.E., M.D. Warriner, and E.R. Hart. 2001. Cottonwood fiber farm pest management: cottonwood leaf beetle. In: Outcalt, K., ed. Proceedings of the 11th biennial southern silvicultural research conference; 2001, March 19-22; Knoxville, TN. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-1. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 549-552.
Warriner, M.D., T.E. Nebeker, T.D. Leininger, and J.S. Meadows. 2001. The effect of thinning on beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cerambycidae) in bottomland hardwood forests. In: Outcalt, K., ed. Proceedings of the 11th biennial southern silvicultural research conference; 2001, March 19-22; Knoxville, TN. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-1. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 553-557.
Warriner, M.D., T.E. Nebeker, and S.A. Tucker. 2002. Beetle diversity in an eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides Bartr.) plantation and adjacent bottomland hardwood forest in southeastern Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 56:220-226.
Warriner, M.D., T.E. Nebeker, and S.A. Tucker. 2004. Longhorned beetles in greentree reservoirs and naturally flooded bottomland hardwood stands. In: Connor, K.F., ed. Proceedings of the 12th biennial southern silvicultural research conference; 2003, February 24-28; Biloxi, MS. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-71. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 172-175.
Warriner, M.D., T.E. Nebeker, S.A Tucker, and T.L. Schiefer. 2004. Comparison of saproxylic beetle (Coleoptera) assemblages in upland hardwood and bottomland hardwood forests. In: Spetich, A., ed. Upland oak ecology symposium: history, current conditions, and sustainability. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-73. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 150-153.
Tucker, S.A., T.E. Nebeker, M.D. Warriner, W.D. Jones and T.K. Beatty. 2004. Effects of artificial defoliation on the growth of cottonwood: simulation of cottonwood leaf beetle defoliation. In: Connor, K.F. ed., Proceedings of the 12th biennial southern silvicultural research conference; 2003, February 24-28; Biloxi, MS. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-71. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 169-171.
Warriner, M.D. 2004. First Arkansas record of the robber fly Microstylum morosum (Diptera: Asilidae). Southwestern Naturalist 49:83-84.
Warriner, M.D. 2004. Occurrence and conservation status of the milkweed beetle Tetraopes texanus Horn (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Arkansas. The Coleopterists Bulletin 58:567-568.
Nebeker, T.E., T.D. Leininger, J.S. Meadows, and M.D. Warriner. 2005. Thinning southern bottomland hardwoods stands: insect and disease considerations. In: Fredrickson, L.H., S.L. King, and R.M. Kaminski, eds. Ecology and Management of Bottomland Hardwood Systems: The State of Our Understanding. University of Missouri-Columbia. Gaylord Memorial Laboratory Special Publication No. 10: 467-477.
Warriner, M.D. 2007. Notes on the distribution of the robber fly, Laphria vorax. The Prairie Naturalist 39:171-175.
Warriner, M.D. 2008. Distribution and taxonomic status of tarantulas in Arkansas (Theraphosidae: Aphonopelma). Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 62:107-114.
Warriner, M.D. 2008. First record of the Asian horntail Eriotremex formosanus (Hymenoptera: Siricidae), in Arkansas, U.S.A. Entomological News 119:212-213.
Mammals
Fletcher, M.D. and J.D. Wilhide. 1991. Observations on a resident population of Myotis lucifugus in Jackson County, Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 45:123.
Witsell, T., G.A. Heidt, P.L. Dozhier, T. Frothingham, and M. Lynn. 1999. Recent documentation of mountain lion (Puma concolor) in Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 53:157-158.
Natural Communities
Foti, T.L. 1970. Correlation between selected soil and vegetation factors, Sylamore District, Ozark National Forest. U. of A. unpbl. M.S. Thesis.
Foti, T.L. 1975. The natural divisions of Arkansas. In Arkansas Natural Area Plan, Ark. Dept. of Planning, Little Rock, pp. 11-34.
Foti, T.L. 1976. Arkansas, its land and people. Arkansas Department of Education, Little Rock, 71p.
Foti, T.L. 1978. The Natural Divisions of Arkansas, a Classroom Guide. Arkansas Ecology Center, Little Rock, 70p.
Irving, R.S., S. Brenholts and T.L. Foti. 1980. Composition and net primary production of native prairies in eastern Arkansas. Am. Midl. Nat. 103(2): 298-309.
Foti, T.L. 1984. Environmental considerations of the prehistoric river valley. In P. C. Sherrod, Motifs of ancient man, pp. 130-135. UALR, Little Rock.
Orzell, S.L. 1985. Notes on three palustrine natural community types in the Arkansas Ozarks. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 39:141-143.
Foti, T.L. 1989. Development of instrumentation for monitoring the distribution of diffused light and sunflecks in the forest. Unpbl. M.S. Thesis. UA Graduate Institute of Technology, 39 p.
Foti, T.L. 1989. Blackland prairies of southwestern Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 43:23-28.
Foti, T.L. 1990. The vegetation of Saratoga Landing blackland prairie. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 44:40-43.
Foti, T.L. and S.M. Glenn. 1992. The Ouachita Mountain landscape at the time of settlement. In: Hedrick, L. and D. Henderson, eds. Proceedings of the conference, Restoration of old growth forests in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Ouachita National Forest, Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development: 49-65.
Foti, T.L. and G. Hansen. 1992. Arkansas and the Land. 1992. U of A Press, Fayetteville. 113 pp.
Foti, T.L. 1993. The river's gifts and curses. In: J. Whayne and W.B. Gatewood eds. The Arkansas Delta, Land of Paradox. U of A Press, Fayetteville. pp. 30-52.
Foti, T.L. and M.S. Devall. 1994. Herbaceous plant biodiversity of stands in the Ouachita and Ozark national forests. In: Baker, J.B. 1994. Proceedings of a symposium on ecosystem management research in the Ouachita Mountain: pretreatment conditions and preliminary findings. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station.
Foti, T.L. and J.M. Guldin. 1994. Multivariate analysis of the ground cover layer, shrub layer, midstory, and overstory. In: Baker, J.B. 1994. Proceedings of a symposium on ecosystem management research in the Ouachita Mountain: pretreatment conditions and preliminary findings. New Orleans, LA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Forest Experiment Station.
Foti, T.L., X. Li, M. Blaney and K. Smith. 1994. A classification system for the natural vegetation of Arkansas. Proc. Ark. Acad. Science 48:50-62.
Foti, T.L. and G.A. Bukenhofer. 1998. A description of the sections and subsections of the Interior Highlands of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 52:53-62.
Foti, T.L. and G.A. Bukenhofer. 1999. Chapter 1: Ecological units of the Highlands. In Ozark-Ouachita Highlands Assessment: terrestrial vegetation and wildlife. Report 5 of 5. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-35. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 1-6.
Foti, T.L., L.L. Richards, J. Andre and J.E. Voeller. 1999. Chapter 2: Prehistoric and historic ecological changes. In Ozark-Ouachita Highlands Assessment: terrestrial vegetation and wildlife. Report 5 of 5. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-35. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 1-6.
Hamel, P.B. and T.L. Foti., tech. eds. 2001. Bottomland hardwoods of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: Characteristics and management of natural function, structure and composition. A Symposium at Fayetteville, AR October 28, 1995. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-42. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 109 p.
Tingle, J.L., C.V. Klimas, and T.L. Foti. 2001. Application of General Land Office Survey notes to bottomland hardwood ecosystem management and restoration in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley - an example from Desha County, Arkansas. In: Hamel, P.B. and T.L. Foti tech. Eds. Bottomland hardwoods of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: characteristics and management of natural function, structure, and composition. 1995 October 28. Fayetteville, AR. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-42. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 16-27.
Foti, T.L. 2001. Presettlement forests of the Black Swamp area, Cache River, Woodruff County, Arkansas from notes of the first land survey. In: Hamel, P.B. and T.L. Foti, eds. Bottomland hardwoods of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley: characteristics and management of natural function, structure, and composition. 1995 October 28. Fayetteville, AR. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-42. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 7-15.
Foti, T.L., S. Simon, D. Zollner, and M. Hattenbach. 2003. Blackland prairie landscapes of southwestern Arkansas: historical perspective, present status and restoration potential. pp. 94-109 In Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain, Nature, Culture and Sustainability, E. Peacock and T. Schausecker, eds. University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London. 348 pp.
D. Zollner, S. Simon and T.L. Foti. 2003. A plant community classification for Arkansas’s blackland prairie ecosystem. Pp. 110-145 In Blackland Prairies of the Gulf Coastal Plain, Nature, Culture and Sustainability, E. Peacock and T. Schausecker, eds. University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa and London. 348 pp.
Woods, A.J., T.L. Foti, S.S. Chapman, J.M. Omernik, J.A. Wise, E.O. Murray, W.L. Prior, J.B. Pagan, J.A. Comstock, Jr., and M. Radford. 2004. Ecoregions of Arkansas (color poster with map, descriptive text, summary tables and photographs): Reston, Virginia, US Geological Survey (map scale 1:1,000,000).
Foti, T.L. 2004. Upland hardwood forests and related communities of the Arkansas Ozarks in the early 19th century. In: Spetich, A., ed. Upland oak ecology symposium: history, current conditions, and sustainability. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-73. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 21-29.
Klimas, C.V., E.O. Murray, J. Pagan, H. Langston, and T.L. Foti. 2005. A regional guidebook for applying the hydrogeomorphic approach to assessing wetland functions of forested wetlands in the West Gulf Coastal Plain region of Arkansas. ERDC/EL TR-05-12. US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 159 pp. plus appendices.
Klimas, C.V., E.O. Murray, H. Langston, T. Witsell, T. Foti, and R. Holbrook. 2006. A regional guidebook for conducting functional assessments of wetland and riparian forests in the Ouachita Mountains and Crowley’s Ridge regions of Arkansas. ERCS/EL TR-06-14, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Klimas, C.V., E.O. Murray, H. Langston, J. Pagan, C.T. Witsell, and T.L. Foti. 2008. A regional guidebook for applying the hydrogeomorphic approach to assessing wetland functions of forested wetlands and riparian areas in the Ozark Mountains region of Arkansas. ERDC/EL TR-08-31. US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 116 pp. plus appendices
Klimas, C.V., E.O. Murray, J. Pagan, H. Langston, and T.L. Foti. 2008. A regional guidebook for applying the hydrogeomorphic approach to assessing wetland functions of forested wetlands in the Arkansas Valley region of Arkansas. ERDC/EL TR-08-23. US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS 127 pp. plus appendices
Klimas, C.V., E.O. Murray, T.L. Foti, J. Pagan, M. Williamson and H. Langston. 2009. An Ecosystem restoration model for the Mississippi Alluvial Valley based on geomorphology, soils, and hydrology. Wetlands Vol. 29, No. 2, June 2009, pp. 430-450.
Seifert, C.L., R.T. Cox, S.L. Forman, T.L. Foti, T.A. Wasklewicz, and A.T. McColgan. 2009. Relict nebkhas (pimple mounds) record prolonged late Holocene drought in the forested region of south-central United States. Quaternary Research 71: 329-339.
Lockhart, Brian Roy, James M. Guldin, and Thomas Foti. 2010. "Tree Species Composition and Structure in an Old Bottomland Hardwood Forest in South-Central Arkansas." CASTANEA 75(3): 315-29. September 2010.
Plants
Irving, R.L., S. Brenholts and T.L. Foti. 1980. Composition and net primary production of native prairies in eastern Arkansas. American Midland Naturalist 103(2):298-309.
Orzell, S.L., E.L. Bridges, and L. Peacock. 1985. Additions and noteworthy vascular plants from Arkansas with some ecological notes. SIDA 11:226-231.
Pittman, A.B., V. Bates, and R. Kral. 1989. A new species of Polymnia (Compositae:Heliantheae) from the Ouachita Mountain region of Arkansas. SIDA 13:481-486.
Shepherd, W.M., C.R. Preston, and R. Steinauer. 1991. Five-year study of Geocarpon minimum at Warren Prairie Natural Area in Bradley County, Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 45:100-102.
Akin, J.A. and R.L. Meyer. 1996. Examination of the cell wall of Micrasterias radiosa var. radiosa (Conjugatophyceae) by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 50: 17–21.
Akin, J.A. and Richard L. Meyer. 1996. The Desmids (Conjugatophyceae) of Arkansas. Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science 50: 111-115.
Witsell, C.T. and W.M. Shepherd. 1998. Rediscovery of Marsilea vestita subsp. vestita in Pulaski County, Arkansas after 162 years. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 52:142-143.
Peck, J.H., C.T. Witsell, and E. Hendrix. 2000. Dryopteris goldiana and its hybrid with D. celsa new to Arkansas. American Fern Journal 90:110-111.
McKenzie, P.M., T. Smith, and C.T. Witsell. 2003. Carex conoidea (Cyperaceae) new to Arkansas with notes on its occurrence in Arkansas and Missouri. Sida 20:1727-1730.
Pringle, J.S and C.T. Witsell. 2005. A new species of Sabatia (Gentianaceae) from Saline County, Arkansas. SIDA 21:1249-1262.
Witsell, C.T. and B. Baker. 2006. The vascular flora of the South Fork Native Plant Preserve, Van Buren County, Arkansas. Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science 60:144-164.
McKenzie, P.M., C.T. Witsell, and J. Woolbright. 2006. Carex bicknellii (Cyperaceae) new to Arkansas. Sida 22:801-804.
Dahal, P., H. Liechty, B.A. Rupar, C. Fristoe, E. Heitzman. 2006. Hardwood vigor and survival following applications of imazapyr in mid-rotation pine plantations. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-92. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. pp. 171-173.
Witsell, C.T. 2007. Hypericum adpressum (Clusiaceae) new to Arkansas and the Ouachita Mountains, U.S.A. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1:713-716.
Rupar, B.A. 2008. Growth response of Loblolly Pine and Competing vegetation to midrotation herbicide and fertilizer application. M.S. Thesis, University of Arkansas at Monticello, 85 p.
Jones, R.L., C.T. Witsell, and G.L. Nesom. 2008. Distribution and taxonomy of Symphyotrichium sericeum and S. pratense (Asteraceae: Astereae). Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 2:731-739.
Simpson, J.D. Crank, C.T. Witsell, and J.H. Peck. 2008. Two exotic ferns, Dryopteris erythrosora and Marsilea quadrifolia, newly naturalized in Arkansas. American Fern Journal 98:111-112.
McKenzie, P.M., C.T. Witsell, L.R. Phillippe, C.S. Reid, M.A. Homoya, S.B. Rolfsmeier, C.A. Morse. 2009. Status assessment of Eleocharis wolfii (Cyperaceae) in the United States. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 3(2):831-854.
Weakley, Alan S., Richard J. LeBlond, Bruce A. Sorrie, C. Theo Witsell, L. Dwayne Estes, Kanchi Gandhi, Katherine Gould Matthews, and Atsushi Ebihara. 2011. "New Combinations, Rank Changes, and Nomenclatural and Taxonomic Comments in the Vascular Flora of the Southestern United States." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 5(2): 437-55.
MacRoberts, Barbara R., Michael H. MacRoberts, and C. Theo Witsell. 2011. "Small-Scale Vascular Plant Species Richness in Southwestern Arkansas Blackland Prairies." Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas 5(2): 743-51.