College of Agricultural Sciences

J. Ranches, O'Connor, R., Johnson, D. D., Davies, K. W., Bates, J. D., Boyd, C. S., Bohnert, D. W., and Parker, T., “Effects of Virtual Fence Monitored by Global Positioning System on Beef Cattle Behavior”, Translational Animal Science, vol. 5. pp. S144 - S148, 2021.

D. M. Barnard, Germino, M. J., Bradford, J. B., O'Connor, R., Andrews, C. M., and Shriver, R. K., “Are Drought Indices and Climate Data Good Indicators of Ecologically Relevant Soil Moisture Dynamics in Drylands?”, Ecological Indicators, vol. 133, no. December 2021 article 108379, 2021.

E. P. Hamerlynck and O'Connor, R., “An Assessment of Seed Head and Flag Leaf Contributions to Reproductive Effort in Sagebrush Steppe Bunchgrasses”, Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 187, pp. 1-6, 2021.

S. B. St Clair, O'Connor, R., Gill, R., and McMillan, B., “Biotic Resistance and Disturbance: Rodent Consumers Regulate Post-Fire Plant Invasions and Increase Plant Community Diversity”, Ecological Society of America, vol. 97, no. 7, pp. 1700-1711, 2016.

R. O'Connor, Taylor, J. H., and Nippert, J. B., “Browsing and Fire Decreases Dominance of a Resprouting Shrub in Woody Encroached Grassland”, Ecology, vol. 101, no. 2, pp. 1-11, 2019.

R. O'Connor and Germino, M. J., “Comment on: Grazing Disturbance Promotes Exotic Annual Grasses by Degrading Soil Biocrust Communities”, Ecological Applications, vol. 31, no. 7, 2021.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., Boyd, C. S., O'Connor, R., and Copeland, S. M., “Dormant-Season Moderate Grazing Prefire Maintains Diversity and Reduces Exotic Annual Grass Response Postfire in Imperiled Artemisia Steppe”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 79, pp. 91 - 99, 2021.

J. D. Bates, “Herbaceous Biomass Response to Prescribed Fire in Juniper-Encroached Sagebrush Steppe”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 28-35, 2019.

K. W. Davies, Bates, J. D., and O'Connor, R., “Long-term Evaluation of Restoring Understories in Wyoming Big Sagebrush Communities with Mowing and Seeding Native Bunchgrass”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 75, pp. 81-90, 2021.

V. Schroeder, Johnson, D. D., O'Connor, R., Crouch, C. G., Dragt, W. J., Quicke, H. E., Silva, L. F., and Wood, D. J., “Managing Invasive Annual Grasses, Annually: A Case for More Case Studies”, Rangelands, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 1-8, 2022.

R. A. Gill, O'Connor, R., Rhodes, A., Bishop, T. B. B., Laughlin, D. C., and St Clair, S. B., “Niche Opportunities for Invasive Annual Plants in Dryland Ecosystems are Controlled by Disturbance, Trophic Interactions, and Rainfall”, Oecologia, vol. 187, no. 3, pp. 755-765, 2018.

E. P. Hamerlynck and O'Connor, R., “Photochemical Performance of Reproductive Structures in Great Basin Bunchgrasses in Response to Soil-Water Availability”, AoB PLANTS, vol. 14, no. 1, 2022.

S. Pau, Nippert, J. B., Slapikas, R., Griffith, D., Bachle, S., Helliker, B. R., O'Connor, R., Riley, W. J., Still, C. J., and Zaricor, M., “Poor Relationships Between NEON Airborne Observation Platform Data and Field‐Based Vegetation Traits at a Mesic Grassland”, Ecology, vol. 103, no. 2, pp. 1-10, 2022.

J. B. Nippert, Telleria, L., Blackmore, P., Taylor, J., and O'Connor, R., “Is a Prescribed Fire Sufficient to Slow the Spread of Woody Plants in an Infrequently Burned Grassland? A Case Study in Tallgrass Prairie”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 78, pp. 79-89, 2021.

R. O'Connor, “Small-Scale Water Deficits After Wildfires Create Long-Lasting Ecological Impacts”, IOPScience, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 1-11, 2020.

K. R. Connell, O'Connor, R., Nippert, J. B., and Blair, J. M., “Spatial Variation in Soil Microbial Processes as a Result of Woody Encroachment Depends on Shrub Size in Tallgrass Prairie”, Plant & Soil, pp. 359-373, 2021.

E. R. Wedel, O'Keefe, K., Nippert, J. B., Hoch, B., and O'Connor, R., “Spatio-Temporal Differences in Leaf Physiology are Associated with Fire, not Drought, in a Clonally Integrated Shrub”, AoB PLANTS, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1-11, 2021.

J. D. Bates, O'Connor, R., and Davies, K. W., “Vegetation Recovery and Fuel Reduction after Seasonal Burning of Western Juniper”, Fire Ecology, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 27 - 48, 2014.

C. S. Boyd, O'Connor, R., Ranches, J., Bohnert, D. W., Bates, J. D., Johnson, D. D., Davies, K. W., Parker, T., and Doherty, K. E., “Virtual Fencing Effectively Excludes Cattle from Burned Sagebrush Steppe”, Rangeland Ecology & Management, vol. 81, pp. 55 - 62, 2022.