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RECENT SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

Barfknecht, D.F., D.J. Gibson, & A. Hiekens. 2024. Temporal changes in spatial scale and autocorrelation structure of forest openings based on taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional turnover. Acta Oecologica, 123: 103998. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actao.2024.103998
Eduardo-Palomino, F., Gibson, D.J., Barberá, P., Trillo, F., Castro, J., De La Torre, M.I., & Walters, S. A. 2024. International Biological Flora: Festuca dolichophylla J. Presl. Journal of Ecology, 112, 1655-1682. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14343.
Gibson, D.J., J.A. Newman, & H.A. Hager. 2026. Saving our shared heritage: priorities for grassland conservation and management. In. Routledge Handbook of Grasslands (Ed. Hager, H.A., Gibson, D.J., & J.A. Newman). Routledge, London, UK. ISBN: 978-1032491752.
Ren, Z., Baer, S.G., Johnson, L.C., Galliart, M.B. & D.J. Gibson. 2024. Effects of manipulated rainfall and intraspecific variation within dominant species on community assembly: insights from a long-term grassland restoration experiment. Ecology & Evolution., 14: e70571. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.70571.
Sytsma, J.R., M. Galliart, K. Fogarty, K. Howe, B.J.S.C. Olson, S. G. Baer, D.J. Gibson, B. Maricle, & E. Hartung & L.C. Johnson. 2026. Taking genomics outdoors in the US Great Plains: Linking local adaptation, trait variation, and gene expression in grass ecotypes across a rainfall gradient. Molecular Ecology: 35, no. 10: e70382. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.70382.

Barfknecht, D.F., Li, G., Martinez, K.A., & Gibson, D.J. 2021. Interactive disturbances drive community composition, heterogeneity, and exotic invasive species niches during secondary succession. Plant Ecology & Diversity. DOI: 10.1080/17550874.2020.1841313. https://doi.org/10.1080/17550874.2020.1841313.
Garrett, E.M., & D.J. Gibson. 2020. Identifying sustainable grassland management approaches in response to the invasive legume Lespedeza cuneata: A functional group approach. Sustainability, 12 (15), 5951. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12155951

Hernandez, E. P, F. Bastida, D.J. Gibson, F. B. Losada, M. J. Giménez Alvear, Y. Pallavicini, J. Izquierdo, & J.L. González-Andujar. 2023. Crop quality may not be at the expense of agricultural sustainability: relationship between weed community structure and wheat grain quality. Agronomy, 13(1), 49; https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy13010049.
Ren, Z., D.J. Gibson, K.L. Gage, J.L. Matthews, M.D.K. Owen, D.L. Jordan, D.R. Shaw, S.C. Weller, R.G. Wilson., B.G. Young. 2023. Exploring the effect of region on diversity and composition of weed seedbanks in herbicide-resistant crop systems in the United States. Pest Management Science 80(3): 1446-1453. https://doi.org/10.1002/ps.7875.
Rumpa, M.M., S. Babaei, R.F. Krausz, D.J. Gibson, E.J. Miller, & K.L. Gage. 2025. Does exposure to PPO-inhibiting herbicides alter the male-to-female sex ratio of Amaranthus palmeri? Weed Technology 1–31. https://doi.org/10.1017/wet.2025.24.

Cheplick, G.P. & Gibson, D.J. 2026. Population and ecotypic differentiation in Poaceae: Past and present approaches. The Botanical Review, https:doi.org/10.1007.s12229-026-09335.0
Ekmekci, A., Aqazade, M., Gibson, D.J., & Rushton, G. 2025. Measuring teachers' motivation, beliefs, leadership engagement, and networks: Validation of instruments for teacher education and research. Professional Development in Education. 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2025.2580333.
Gibson, D.J., Benda, C., Felsl., I., & G. Kiefer. 2024. Challenges in the establishment of a rare plant species monitoring program using community science volunteers. Ecological Solutions and Evidence. 5, e12400 https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12400.
Heger, T., Eliot-Graves, A., Kaiser, M.I., Morrow, K.H., Bausman, W., Dietl, G., Dormann, C., Gibson, D.J., Griesemer, J., Itescu, Y., Jax, K., Latimer, A., Liu, C., Starrfelt, J., Stephens, P.A., & Jeschke, J.M. 2025. Looking beyond Popper: How philosophy can be relevant to ecology. Oikos, e10994. https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.10994.
Thapa, S., D.J. Gibson, & R. Li. 2026. Forest transition under climate pressure: Land Use Land Cover change in the Greater Shawnee National Forest. Remote Sensing 18(7), 1079; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs18071079 .