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The following Missouri State publications are based on research in the White River watershed, and include studies which predate the 1999 opening of the Bull Shoals Field Station.
  • Aubrey, David. 2004. Master's thesis: Savanna restoration through prescribed fire: demographic and physiological responses of oak and hickory seedlings and saplings to a changing light environment. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri.

  • Beckman, Daniel W. and Robert G. Schulz. 1996. A simple method for marking fish otiliths with alizarin compounds. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 125:146-149.    
  • Berger, Lisa. 1993. Master's thesis: Scientifically based water resource management and environmental quality planning: Barry/Stone Counties, Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. David A. Castillon, major professor.    
  • Black, Alice. 1997. Master's thesis: Wilson's Creek, Greene and Christian Counties in Missouri: water quality, macroinvertebrate indices and planning implications using GIS, based on watershed landuse and water contamination hazards. David A. Castillon, major professor.    
  • Boyles, Justin. 2004. Master's thesis: A comparison of summer and winter roosting habitat and behavior of evening bats (Nyctieceius humeralis) in Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri.

  • Boyles, J.G., B. Mormann, J.C. Timpone, and L.W. Robbins. 2006. Characteristics of summer and winter roost trees of evening bats (Nycticeius humeralis) in Southwestern Missouri.  American Midland Naturalist 155:210-220.

  • Boyles, J.G., J. C. Timpone, and L.W. Robbins.  2003.  Winter records and notes on the roosting  ecology of Red Bats, Lasiurus borealis and Evening Bats, Nycticeius humeralis in Missouri.  Bat Research News 44:59-61.

  • Britzke, Eric. 1998. Master's thesis: The distribution, status, and ecology of the Eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana) in Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Lynn Robbins, major professor.   
  • Bush, Bruce A. 1980. Master's thesis: Investigation of Groundwater Quality in Unincorporated Greene County, Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. David A. Castillon, major professor.    
  • Calfee, John W. 1995. Master's thesis: Early life history of the White Sucker (Catostomus commersoni) in Lake Taneycomo, Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Carden-Jesson, Melanie. 1998. Master's thesis: Predicting Soil Erosion on Off-Road Vehicle Trails in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. David Castillon, major professor.    
  • Castillon, David A. 1998. The Changing Value of Water: A Guidebook and Baseline Water Quality Data for Piney Creek Wilderness, Missouri Natural Resources Conference, Lake Ozark, Missouri, February 1998. Association of American Geographers. Boston, Massachusetts.    
  • Davis, Stacy D. 1996. Master's thesis: Reproduction and diet of Kinosternon odoratum inhabiting a cold water reservoir in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Don Moll, major professor.    
  • Fowler, James F. 1983. Master's thesis: Food habits and biology of Stonerollers (Campostoma) in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Charles Taber, major professor.     Hanson, Darby. 1998. Master's thesis: Effects of hypoxia on brood-carrying in the amphipod, Gammarus pseudolimnaeus. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. M. Christopher Barnhart, major professor.    
  • Greene, J. 2006. Reading the Landscape: Strategies for helping students become curious observers of relationships and processes in nature. Green Teacher 78: 30-32.

  • Harris, Erich G. 1997. Master's thesis: Utilizing diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) for the assemblage of diversity indices, trophic status, and sprobity status in the uppermost region of Lake Taneycomo. Missouri State University. Russell Rhodes, major professor.    
  • Havel, J.E. and J. Graham. 2006. Complementary population dynamics of exotic and native Daphnia in North American reservoir communities. Archiv für Hydrobiologie 167: 245-264.

  • Havel, John.E., William R. Mabee, and John R. Jones. 1995. Invasion of the exotic cladoceran Daphnia lumholtzi into North American reservoirs. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52:151-160.    
  • Havel, J.E. and K.R. Pattinson.  2003.  Spatial distribution and seasonal dynamics of plankton in a terminal multiple-series reservoir.  Lake and Reservoir Management 19:1-13.

  • Hemsath, Douglas B. 1992. Master's thesis: the impact of land use on water quality: a comparison of the Roaring River and Piney Creek drainage basins of southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. David A. Castillon, major professor.    
  • Hoback, Wyatt W. and M. Christopher Barnhart. 1996. Lethal limits and sublethal effects of hypoxia an Gammarus pseudolimnaeus Bousfield (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Journal of the North American Benthological Society 15(1):117-126.    
  • Holder, Thomas L. 1988. Master's thesis: movement and life history apsects of the pygmy rattlesnake in southwest Missouri. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Don Moll, major professor.    
  • Howlett, David. 1999. Master' thesis: Age, growth, and population structure of black redhorse (Moxostoma duquesnei) and golden redhorse (Moxostoma erythrurum) in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Hutson, Christian. 1999. Master's thesis: Age determination, growth, and reproduction of the redhorse sucker (Moxoxtoma carinatum) in the James River drainage. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Johnson-Peterson, Jennifer. 1998. Master's thesis: Visibility in Hercules Glades wilderness, Taney County, Missouri: a study of baseline conditions. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. David Castillon, major professor.    
  • Kiner, Lisa K. 1996. Master's thesis project: Age and growth of madtom catfishes in a Southwest Missouri stream. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • King, Shanda H. 2000. Master's Thesis: A quantitative analysis of the vegetation of post-oak savannas in Taney County, Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. John Heywood, major professor.    
  • Kinroth, Gerald W. 1989. Master's thesis: Concentrations of selected metals in benthic algae from the headwaters region of Crane Creek, Stone County, Missouri. Master's Thesis. Missouri State University. Russell Rhodes, major professor.    
  • Lathrop, Linda. 1992. Master's thesis: A study of the vegetation of the White River Balds Natural Area, Taney County, Missouri. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Grant Pyrah, major professor.    
  • Lippert, Kimberly J. 1994. Master's thesis: Food habits, distribution, and impact of the nine-banded armadillo in Missouri Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Lynn Robbins, major professor.    
  • Long, James M. 1995. Master's thesis: Habitat selection by size classes of largemouth bass. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Moody-Weis, Jennifer. 2000. Master's thesis: Pollinator limitation of Oenothera macrocarpa. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. John Heywood, major professor.    
  • Moody-Weis, Jennifer, and John S. Heywood. 2001.  Pollinator limitation to reproductive success in the Missouri Evening Primrose,  Oenothera macrocarpa (Onagraceae). Am. Journal of Botany. In press.    
  • Mormann, B., M. Milam, and L. Robbins. 2004. Hibernation: Red bats do it in the dirt. "Bats", Bat Conservation International 22:6-9.

  • Noelker, Jon D. 1988. Master's thesis: Occurrence and growth characteristics of algae isolated from Shallow Wells, Deep Wells, and springs in northwest Arkansas and southwest Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Russell Rhodes, major professor.    
  • Pitts, Joseph D. 1988. Master's thesis: The food habits of the amphipod Gammarus pseudolimnaeus (Holsinger) in the upper region of Lake Taneycomo as related to the benthic diatom (Bacillariophyceae) microflora. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Russell Rhodes, major professor.    
  • Rhodes, R. G., J. H. Havel, C. C. Thompson, and A. Toste. 1992. Isolation of algae from groundwater in Southwest Missouri and its relationships to water chemistry. Proc. Water Quality Conference, University of Missouri - Columbia. Columbia, Missouri.    
  • Schell, Paul T. 1994. Master's thesis: Home range, activity period, burrow use, and body temperatures of nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) on the northern edge of its range Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Lynn Robbins, major professor.     Simmons, Brian. Master's thesis: Comparison of population structure of two shiners in Ozark streams. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Smith, Jessica.  2002.  Master's thesis: Reduced Hawkmoth pollination in Ruellia Humilis.  Missouri State University.  Springfield, Missouri.  John Heywood, major professor.
  • Smith, Stephanie A., Lynn W. Robbins, and Jack G. Steiert. 1997. Isolation and characterization of a chitinase from the nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctus. J. Mammalogy 79:486-491.    
  • Tamme, Tina M.  2002.  Master's thesis:  Environmental limits to invasion of ponds by the exotic zooplankter Daphnia lumholtzi Sars.  Missouri State University.  Springfield, Missouri. John E. Havel, major professor.
  • Taulman, Jim F., and Lynn W. Robbins. 1996. Recent range expansion of the nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) in the United States. Journal of Biogeography 23:635-648.    
  • Thomas, Brent R. 1993. Master's thesis: Growth, diet, and reproduction of the red-eared slider (Trachemys scripta) inhabiting a reservoir receiving a cold effluent. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Don Moll, major professor.    
  • Thomas, Brent R., Don Moll, and Jack Steiert. 1994. Evidence of a symbiotic relationship between cellulolytic bacteria and a freshwater herbiverous turtle. The Southwestern Naturalist 4:386-388.    
  • Thompson, Kip R. and Daniel W. Beckman. 1995. Validation of age estimates from white sucker otiliths. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124:637-639.    
  • Thompson, Kip R. 1993. Master's thesis: Validation of age estimates and comparisons of growth rates of the white sucker, Catostomus commersoni, in three Southwest Missouri populations. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Daniel Beckman, major professor.    
  • Turner, Lisa K. 1995. Master's thesis: Reproduction and diet of Pseudemys concinna inhabiting a cold water reservoir in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Don Moll, major professor.    
  • Vitello, Christopher B. 1979. Master's thesis: An examination of trophic state indices for some Missouri reservoirs. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Russell Rhodes, major professor.    
  • Vujnich, Joseph W. 1983. Master's thesis: The role and implications of ecological planning in making land use decisions for the Busiek State Forest. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. David A. Castillon, major professor.    
  • Wakefield, Carl. 1996. Maturation and reproduction of the white sucker (Catostomus commersoni) in Lake Taneycomo, Missouri. Missouri State University. Springfield, Missouri. Daniel Beckman, major professor.   
  • Wilson, Timothy B. 1999. Master's thesis. Reproduction and movement patterns of the common snapping turtle (Chelydra serpentina) inhabiting a hypothermic reservoir in Southwest Missouri. Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri. Don Moll, major professor.    
  • Woods, Grant. R. 1988. Master's thesis: Scrape behavior and physical characteristics of scrapes and rubs of white-tailed deer. Lynn Robbins, major professor.    
  • Woods, Grant R., Lynn W. Robbins, and S.F. Spence. 1988. New Scrape Research. Deer and Deer Hunting 12(2):34-42.