Selected Publications:
- Bjarnholt, N., M. Nakonieczny, A. Kedziorski, D.M. Debinski, S.F. Matter, C.E. Olsen, M. Zagrobelny. 2012. Occurrence of sarmentosin and other hydroxynitrile glucosides in Parnassius butterflies and their food plants. Journal of Chemical Ecology. [doi 10.1007/s10886-012-0114-x]
- Hovick T.J., J.R. Miller, S.J. Dinsmore, D.M. Engle, and D.M. Debinski, S.D. Fuhlendorf. 2012. Effects of Fire and Grazing on Grasshopper Sparrow Nest Survival. Journal of Wildlife Management 76(1). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1937-2817/earlyview
- McGranahan, D.A., D. M. Engle, S. D. Fuhlendorf, J. R. Miller, and D.M. Debinski. (in press). An invasive cool-season grass complicates prescribed fire management in a native warm-season grassland. Natural Areas Journal.
- Miller, J.R. L.W. Morton, D.M. Engle, D.M. Debinski and R.N. Harr. 2012. Nature Reserves as Catalysts for Landscape Change. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 10(3):144-152. [doi:10.1890/100227]
- Debinski D.M., R. A. Moranz, J.T. Delaney, J.R. Miller, D.M. Engle, L.B. Winkler, D.A. McGranahan, R.J. Barney, J.C. Trager, A.L. Stephenson, and M.K. Gillespie. 2012. A cross-taxonomic comparison of insect responses to grassland management and land-use legacies. Ecosphere 2(12): Article 131. [doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES11-00226.1]
- Hovick T.J., J.R. Miller, R.R. Koford, D.M. Engle, and D.M. Debinski. 2011. Postfledging survival of Grasshopper Sparrows in grasslands managed with fire and grazing. Condor 113:429-437.
- Orlofske, J.M., W.J. Ohnesorg, D.M. Debinski. 2011. A comparison of the arthropod communities in remnant, restored, and reconstructed Iowa tallgrass prairies. Natural Areas Journal 31(2):500-507.
- Pillsbury, F.C., J.R. Miller, D.M. Debinski and D.M. Engle. 2011. Another tool in the toolbox? Using fire and grazing to promote bird diversity in highly fragmented landscapes. Ecosphere 2(3) Article 28:1-14.
- Debinski, D.M., H. Wickham, K. Kindscher, J. C. Caruthers, and M.Germino. 2010. Montane meadow change during drought varies with background hydrologic regime and plant functional group. Ecology, 91(6), pp. 1672-1681.
- Ockinger, E., O. Schweiger, T. Crist, D.M. Debinski, J. Krauss, M. Kuussaari, J. Petersen, J. Poyry, J. Settele, K. Summerville, and R. Bommarco. 2010. Life-history traits predict species responses to habitat area and isolation - A cross-continental synthesis. Ecology Letters (early view).
- Vogel, J., R. Koford and D.M. Debinski. (in press). Direct and indirect responses of tallgrass prairie butterflies to prescribed burning. Journal of Insect Conservation.
- Olechnowski, B.F.M., D. M. Debinski P. Drobney, K. Viste-Sparkman, and W.T. Reed. 2009. Changes in Vegetation Structure through Time in a Restored Tallgrass Prairie Ecosystem and Implications for Avian Diversity and Community Composition. Ecological Restoration 27(4): 449-457.
- Debinski, D.M. and M. Cross. 2009. Conservation and Global Climate Change. pp. 556-565 in Simon Levin et al. (Eds.) The Princeton Guide to Ecology. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 809 pgs.
- Olechnowski, B.F.M. and D. M. Debinski. 2008. Response of songbirds to riparian willow habitat structure across two regions of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(4):830-839.
- Calabrese, J.M. L. Ries, S.F. Matter, D.M. Debinski, J.N. Auckland, J. Roland, and W.F. Fagan. 2008. "Reproductive asynchrony in natural butterfly populations and its consequences for female matelessness. Journal of Animal Ecology. 77: 746-756.
- Davis, J.D., S. Hendrix D.M. Debinski and C.J. Hemsley. 2008. Butterfly, bee and forb community composition and cross-taxon incongruence in tallgrass prairie fragments. Journal of Insect Conservation 12:69-79.
- Davis, J.D., D.M. Debinski, and B.J. Danielson. 2007. Local and landscape effects on the butterfly community in fragmented Midwest U.S.A. prairie habitats. Landscape Ecology 22:1341-1354.
- Debinski, D.M., M.V. Santelmann, D. White, K. Freemark and J. Sifneos. 2007. Butterfly responses. Pp.102-107 In: J. Nassauer (ed.) From the Corn Belt to the Gulf, Resources for the Future Press.
- M.V. Santelmann, D. White, K. Freemark Lindsay, J. I. Nassauer, J. M. Eilers, K. B. Vache, B.J. Danielson, R.C. Corry, M.E. Clark, S. Polasky, R.M.Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. L. Rustigian, C.U. Coiner, J. Wu and Debinski, D.M. 2007. An integrated assessment of alternative futures for corn belt agriculture. Pp.162-174 In: J. Nassauer (ed.) From the Corn Belt to the Gulf, Resources for the Future Press.
- Vogel, J., D.M. Debinski, R. Koford and J. Miller. 2007. Butterfly responses to prairie restoration through fire and grazing. Biological Conservation 140:78-90.
- Debinski, D.M., R.E. VanNimwegen and M. E. Jakubauskas. 2006. Quantifying relationships between bird and butterfly community shifts and environmental change. Ecological Applications 16(1)380-393.
- Debinski, D.M. 2006. Forest fragmentation and matix effects: The matrix does matter. Journal of Biogeography 33:1791-1792.
- Davros, N.M., D.M. Debinski, K.F. Reeder and W.L. Hohman. 2006. Butterflies and continuous conservation reserve program filter strips: Landscape considerations. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(4):936-943.
- Pritchard, J., D.M. Debinski, B. Olechnowski and R. VanNimwegen. 2006. The landscape of Paul Errington's work. Wildlife Society Bulletin 34(5):1411-1416.
- Reeder, K.F., D.M. Debinski, and B.J. Danielson. 2005. Factors affecting butterfly use of filter strips in Midwestern USA. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 109:40-47.
- Shepherd, S. and D.M. Debinski. 2005. Evaluation of isolated and integrated prairie reconstructions as habitat for prairie butterflies. Biological Conservation 126:51-61.
- Shepherd, S. and D. M. Debinski. 2005. Reintroduction of Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) to a restored prairie. Ecological Restoration 23(4):243-249.
- Su, J.C., D.M. Debinski, M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 2004. Beyond species richness: community similarity as a measure of cross-taxon congruence for coarse-filter conservation. Conservation Biology 18(1):167-173.
- Auckland, J. N., D.M. Debinski, and W.R. Clark. 2004. Survival, movement and resource use of the butterfly Parnassius clodius. Ecological Entomology.
- Santelmann, M.V., D. White, K. Freemark, J.I. Nassauer, J.M. Eilers, K.B. Vachi, B.J. Danielson, R.C. Corry, M.E. Clark, S. Polasky, R.M. Cruse, J. Sifneos, H. Rustigian, C. Coiner, J. Wu, and D.M. Debinski. 2004. Assessing alternative futures for agriculture in Iowa, U.S.A. Landscape Ecology 19(4): 357-374
- Norris, W.R., L.M. Hemesath, D.M. Debinski, and D.R. Farrar. 2003. Does bird community composition vary along a disturbance gradient in Northeast Iowa (USA) forests? Natural Areas Journal 23:262-273.
- Hendrix, S. and D.M. Debinski. 2003. Butterflies in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwest. Bur Oak Guide Series, University of Iowa Press.
- Holt, R.D. and D.M. Debinski. 2003. Reflections on landscape experiments and ecological theory: tools for the study of habitat fragmentation. Pp. 201-223. In How Landscapes Change: Human Disturbance and Ecosystem Fragmentation in the Americas, G.A. Bradshaw and P.A. Marquet, eds. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.
- Debinski, D.M. and J.A. Pritchard. 2002. A field guide to butterflies of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Roberts Rinehart Publishers, Boulder, CO.
- Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, K. Kindscher, E.H. Saveraid and M. Borgognone. 2002. Predicting meadow communities and species occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Pp. 499-506. In Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Scale and Accuracy (Scott, J.M., P.J. Heglund, M. Morrison, M. Raphael, J. Haufler, B. Wall, editors). Island Press. Covello, CA.
- Debinski, D.M., C. Ray, and E.H. Saveraid. 2001. Species diversity and the scale of the landscape mosaic: do scales of movement and patch size affect diversity? Biological Conservation 98(2):179-190.
- Johnson, D. M., D. A. Soluk, and D.M. Debinski. 2001. The Endangered Hine's Emerald Dragonfly. Wings, Spring, 2001:17-21.
- Jakubauskas, M.E., K. Kindscher, and D.M. Debinski. 2001. Spectral and biophysical relationships of montane sagebrush communities in multitemporal SPOT XS data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 22(9):1767-1778.
- Ries, L. and D.M. Debinski. 2001. Butterfly responses to habitat edges in the highly fragmented prairies of Central Iowa. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:840-852.
- Ries, L., D.M. Debinski, and M.L. Wieland. 2001. The conservation value of roadside prairie restoration to butterfly populations. Conservation Biology 15(2):401-411.
- Saveraid, E.H., D.M. Debinski, K. Kindscher, and M.E. Jakubauskas. 2001. A comparison of satellite data and landscape variables in predicting bird species occurrences in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Landscape Ecology 16(1):71-83.
- Debinski, D.M. and P. Drobney. 2000. Regal Fritillary and its host plant studied at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (Iowa). Ecological Restoration 18(4): 254-255.
- Debinski, D.M. and R.D. Holt. 2000. Habitat fragmentation experiments: a global survey and overview. Conservation Biology 14:342-355.
- Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 2000. Montane meadows as indicators of environmental change. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 64:213-225.
- Jakubauskas, M.E., K. Kindscher, A., Fraser, D.M. Debinski, and K.P. Price. 2000. Close-range remote sensing of aquatic macrophyte vegetation cover. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 21(18):3533-3538.
- Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas and K. Kindscher. 1999. A remote sensing and GIS-based model of habitats and biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. International Journal of Remote Sensing 20:3281-3292.
- Kelly, L. and D.M. Debinski. 1999. Effects of larval food limitation on Vanessa cardui Linnaeus (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). American Midland Naturalist 141:315-322.
- Kelly, L, and D.M. Debinski. 1998. Relationship of host plant density to size and abundance of the Regal Fritillary butterfly, Speyeria idalia (Nymphalidae). The Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 52(3):262-276.
- Kindscher K., A. Fraser, M.E Jakubauskas, and D.M. Debinski. 1998. Identifying wetland meadows in Grand Teton National Park using remote sensing and average wetland values. Wetlands Ecology and Management 5:265-273.
- Jakubauskas, M.E., K. Kindscher, and D.M. Debinski. 1998. Multitemporal characterization and mapping of montane sagebrush communities using Indian IRS LISS-II imagery. Geocarto International 13(4):65-74.
- Debinski, D.M., and L. Kelly. 1998. Decline of Iowa populations of the Regal Fritillary (Speyeria idalia) Drury. Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science. 105(1):16-22.
- Debinski, D.M., and P. Humphrey. 1997. An integrated approach to biological diversity assessment. Natural Areas Journal 17(4): 355-365.
- Debinski, D.M. and A.M. Babbit. 1997. Butterfly species in native prairie and restored prairie. The Prairie Naturalist 29(4): 219-227.
- Debinski, D.M., M.E. Jakubauskas, and K. Kindscher. 1997. Assessing biodiversity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Geo Info Systems. July: 42-45.
- Debinski, D.M. 1996. Using satellite data to support fieldwork: Can species distributions be predicted? Yellowstone Science 4(3): 2-5.
- Jakubauskas, M.E., D.M. Debinski, and K. Kindscher. 1996. Integration of multispectral and ecological data for characterizing montane meadow communities in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Proceedings of the 1996 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium, Lincoln, Nebraska.
- Holt, R.D., D.M. Debinski, J. Diffendorfer, M. Gaines, E. Martinko, G. Robinson, and G. Ward. 1995. Perspectives from an experimental study of habitat fragmentation in an agroecosystem. pp. 147-175 in: D.M Glen, M.P. Greaves, and H.M. Anderson (eds.) Ecology and Integrated Farming Systems, John Wiley and Sons, West Sussex, England.
- Debinski, D.M. and P.F. Brussard. 1994. Using biodiversity data to assess species-habitat relationships in Glacier National Park, Montana. Ecological Applications 4(4):833-843.
- Debinski, D.M. 1994. Genetic diversity assessment in a metapopulation of the butterfly, Euphydryas gillettii. Biological Conservation 70:25-31.
- Debinski, D.M. 1993. Butterflies of Glacier Park, Montana. Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History 159:1-13.