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{"title":"Ross Natural History Reservation: A Review of Recent Dynamics from Aerial Photography","authors":"J. Aber, William E. Jensen, A. J. Allison, C. Pettit, S. E. Aber","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0105","url":null,"abstract":"Ross Natural History Reservation (RNHR) is a Natural Area of Emporia State University, located at the eastern edge of the Flint Hills in east-central Kansas. Previous analysis of aerial photographs covered the period 1945 to 2006. More recent developments and trends are presented here for the period 2007 to 2020. We employ conventional, large-format National Agriculture Imagery Program (NAIP) imagery along with small-format aerial photography (SFAP) taken with kites, helium blimp, and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to document qualitative changes in land cover and land use. A wildfire in July 2012 was a major event that burned >90% of RNHR. Other significant developments include a reduction in the number of human-built structures, establishment and later realignment of experimental disturbance plots, rediscovery of the 19th-century Fruitland Schoolhouse remains, and a severe wind storm in 2019. The combination of NAIP and SFAP provides spatial and temporal resolutions for general interpretation as well as detailed analyses, which have revealed a mosaic of botanical and archaeological footprints.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"51 - 71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47959041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tardigrades of North America: New Records of Occurrence for Three Species of Green Tardigrades (Heterotardigrada, Echiniscoidea, Echiniscidae, Viridiscus)","authors":"W. R. Miller, P. J. McCowan, Emma S. Perry, S. L. Schulze, R. Shannon, C. Henry","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0122","url":null,"abstract":"Three species of green tardigrades (Heterotardigrada: Echiniscoidea: Echiniscidae) Viridiscus perviridis, Viridiscus viridianus and Viridiscus viridissimus are reported from a dozen locations from Kansas, Maine, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. This is the first report of these species from these states and is the farthest north these species have been found in North America. Viridiscus viridianus is also reported from the island of Antigua, the first report of this genus from Antigua.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"235 - 241"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42917774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Status of Hornyhead Chub (Nocomis biguttatus) and Redspot Chub (Nocomis asper) in Kansas","authors":"J. Whitney, Ryan Waters, Joshua A. Holloway","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0110","url":null,"abstract":"The Hornyhead Chub (Nocomis biguttatus) and Redspot Chub (Nocomis asper) are threatened species in Kansas, with population declines attributed largely to agriculture and impoundments. Both species are ecosystem engineers via their reproductive behavior, as they create and guard spawning mounds which other fishes use for spawning habitat. As such, declines of Kansas Nocomis have multi-species conservation implications. The objective of our research was to determine the current population status of Kansas Nocomis, which we accomplished by compiling known collection records, examining trends in those collection records, and by conducting our own contemporary sampling effort for Nocomis during 2017-2018. We found 112 unique collection records in Kansas for the Hornyhead Chub spanning from 1885-2014. Forty of the 112 records (36%) occurred since 1990, with only one since 2010 (<1%). All Hornyhead Chub collections since 1953 have come from the Osage River basin, with the most numerous and recent collections occurring in Elm Creek (WB and LY counties), Locust Creek (WB county), Marmaton River (BB county), North Wea Creek (MI county), and South Fork Pottawatomie Creek (AN county). Our 2017-2018 survey captured 111 Hornyhead Chubs at seven of 22 (32%) sample sites. For the Redspot Chub we found 59 unique collection records, with 34% of those collections happening since 1990, and none since 2007. All collections since 1963 were from Spring River or Shoal Creek in Cherokee county, although Redspot Chub had not been found in the Spring River since 1995. We captured four Redspot Chubs during 2017-2018, all in Shoal Creek. Our research indicated that the continued persistence of Nocomis in Kansas is in a precarious state, although the situation is much more perilous for the Redspot Chub than the Hornyhead Chub. Watershed protection and restoration coupled with propagation and repatriation may help prevent the extirpation of Nocomis species from Kansas.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"121 - 136"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47502699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sixty-One Annual Meetings of the Kansas Academy of Science","authors":"","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"102 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46432856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The 152nd Annual Meeting of The Kansas Academy of Science - Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, April 3-4, 2020: Cancelled","authors":"","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0104","url":null,"abstract":"The 152nd Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science was planned to be held April 3-4, 2020 at Baker University in Baldwin City, Kansas. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world and the United States, the Board of Directors of the KAS considered what needed to be done in light of other meetings and sporting events that were being cancelled across the country. So far as I am aware, there has never been a KAS meeting cancelled this far in advance in the 151 year history of the Academy. However, after deliberation regarding this serious situation, the KAS Board voted to cancel the 2020 Annual Meeting on March 12, 2020. Members were notified by email and through the Academy’s page on Facebook.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"50 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43711734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Abstracts Submitted for the 152Nd Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science and the 96th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society, Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, April 3-4, 2020 (Note that the Meeting was Cancelled)","authors":"","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0129","url":null,"abstract":"The following abstracts of papers and posters were accepted for presentation at the 152nd Annual Meeting of the Kansas Academy of Science and the 96th Annual Meeting of the Kansas Entomological Society.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"271 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44753501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ode to a Stoneroller","authors":"E. C. Martin","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"72 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43968037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Populations of Small Mammals, Tallgrass Prairie and Prescribed Fire: A Fire-Reversal Experiment","authors":"D. Kaufman, G. Kaufman, A. Reed, Dawn M. Kaufman, Ryan L. Rehmeier","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0101","url":null,"abstract":"We sampled small mammals in burned and unburned tallgrass prairie by using three sites in each of two contiguous ungrazed experimental fire-reversal treatments during 1999-2010. One of the experimental treatments (001A to R20A) had been burned in spring for >20 years and then was switched to an unburned research treatment after the spring fire in 2000. In contrast, the other treatment (020A to R01A) had been left unburned for 20 of 29 years before it was switched to an annually burned treatment beginning with the prescribed fire in spring 2001. Overall, we recorded 11 species of rodents and two of shrews for a total of 2,444 individuals. The white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) was the most abundant species followed by the hispid cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) and deer mouse (P. maniculatus). Of the seven common species (>25 individuals), six were strongly associated with one of the treatments, and several species showed positive associations with some part of the landscape within each treatment. Furthermore, white-footed mice, deer mice, prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster), western harvest mice (Reithrodontomys megalotis) and Elliot's short-tailed shrews (Blarina hylophaga) showed significant temporal patterns of abundance in either R01A or R20A in one or both seasons (autumn or spring). Our study also supports a very important conservation message. That is, the white-footed mouse (a woodland species) and the hispid cotton rat (a colonizing species) were more numerically dominant than the most common rodent, the deer mouse, (a native prairie species) throughout the 10-year study. These observations demonstrate that areas not burned frequently allow encroachment by shrubs and then trees, which subsequently allow the white-footed mouse and hispid cotton rat to expand into these areas. Conversely, the stoppage of frequent fires ultimately degrades the mosaic of prairie habitats for native prairie small mammals [such as the deer mouse, prairie vole and western and plains harvest mice (R. montanus)] and these species move out as shrubs and trees become common. Visual observations indicate that the latter (degradation of native tallgrass prairie) occurs much more rapidly (potentially within a decade) than the restoration of native tallgrass prairie by the elimination of shrubs and trees by annual burning (potentially 50 or more years).","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42392141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Phylogenetic Distribution of DMV-D10, an Endogenous Strain of Dahlia Mosaic Virus, in Members of Asteraceae","authors":"Keri L. Maricle, E. Gillock","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0113","url":null,"abstract":"DMV-D10 is a strain of Dahlia mosaic virus (DMV) that is classified as an endogenous virus and does not induce any visible symptoms in the host plant. Endogenous viruses have the ability to integrate their viral sequences into the host plant genome, which can be transmitted to offspring. No studies have examined the host range of DMV-D10 outside of the Dahlia genus. Because DMV-D10 has only been observed in Dahlia, the objective for this study was to determine if presence of DMV-D10 follows an evolutionary relationship among species closely related to Dahlia. An addition objective of this study was to determine if species infected with DMV-D10 may also be infected with Dahlia common mosaic virus (DCMV) because these plant viruses are closely related. It was hypothesized species in the same tribe (Coreopsideae) as Dahlia were more likely to be infected with DMV-D10 compared to species in other Asteraceae tribes. Ten tribes consisting of thirty-five species were collected, and DNA was extracted to determine DMV-D10 infection. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results for a movement protein gene indicate DMV-D10 is widely spread across Asteraceae. Specifically, gel electrophoresis results suggest presence of DMV-D10 in thirteen species across seven tribes. Additionally, DCMV was detected in six species across five tribes of Asteraceae. Although, phylogenetic relationship of host plants does not necessarily determine DMV-D10 infection. This leads to questions of how this virus can move to species in other Asteraceae tribes. Some potential hypotheses include pollen transmission or possible plant-virus coevolution.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"165 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45708921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation of Paddlefish Harvest at Osawatomie Dam, Marais Des Cygnes River, Kansas, From 1992 to 2006","authors":"Paul Stockebrand, Ben C. Neely","doi":"10.1660/062.123.0118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1660/062.123.0118","url":null,"abstract":"Paddlefish (Polyodon spathula) are an ancient fish species native to large rivers in eastern Kansas. They were first managed in the state in the 1970s and several snag fisheries have since developed. Osawatomie Dam on the Marais des Cygnes River supports the second most popular Paddlefish fishery in Kansas behind Chetopa Dam on the Neosho River. Mandatory check of harvested fish occurred in the Marais des Cygnes River beneath Osawatomie Dam from 1992 to 2006. These data were recently summarized to quantify harvest during the study period, determine the influence of discharge on harvest, and evaluate effects of a minimum length limit. Mean annual harvest during the study period was 50 fish and annual harvest ranged from 0 fish in four years to 454 fish in 1999. Annual harvest was largely dependent on magnitude and duration of high flows near Osawatomie Dam as measured by the 75th percentile of mean daily discharge (m3sec-1) during annual snagging seasons but was not affected by regulation period. Mean eye-fork length (EFL) of harvested fish was 82 cm across the entire study period, but fish were larger after 2001 (mean = 98 cm) when an 86.4 cm EFL minimum length limit was implemented. These results provide insight into fishery characteristics at Osawatomie Dam and can be referenced for evaluations of this and other Paddlefish fisheries throughout the state.","PeriodicalId":76755,"journal":{"name":"Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. Kansas Academy of Science","volume":"123 1","pages":"213 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45305364","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}