Publications

*undergraduate students
†co-first authors

Peer-Reviewed Articles

  1. Coon, JJ, *KE Rola, *IA Bradley, SB Maresh Nelson, & JR Miller. In Press. Increased productivity and abundance of an obligate grassland bird after experimental invasive grass management. Restoration Ecology.

  2. Schultz, M, H Jamieson, E Piontek, JJ Coon, & SJ Halsey, SJ. In Press. The importance of cultural values in ecological restorations. Society & Natural Resources.

  3. Coon, JJ, NJ Lyon, EJ Raynor, DM Debinski, JR Miller, & WH Schacht. 2021. Using adaptive management to restore grasslands invaded by tall fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus). Rangeland Ecology and Management, 76(1): 84-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2021.02.001
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  4. Strauser, J, WP Stewart, L Foelske, N Shipley, NM Evans, JJ Coon, & CJ van Riper. 2021. Effects of incentives on survey response rates in two rural counties. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration. https://doi.org/10.18666/JPRA-2020-10486
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  5. Coon, JJ, CJ van Riper, LW Morton, & JR Miller. 2020. What drives private landowner decisions? Exploring willingness to manage non-native grasses in the eastern Great Plains. Journal of Environmental Management, 276: 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111355
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  6. Maresh Nelson, SB, JJ Coon, & JR Miller. 2020. Do habitat preferences improve fitness? Context-specific adaptive habitat selection by a grassland songbird. Oecologia. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04626-8
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  7. Larson, ER, BM Graham, R Achury, JJ Coon, MK Daniels, DK Gambrell, KL Jonasen, GD King, N LaRacuente, TIN Perrin-Stowe, EM Reed, CJ Rice, SA Ruzi, MW Thairu, JC Wilson, & AV Suarez. 2020. From environmental DNA (eDNA) to citizen science: Emerging tools for the early detection of invasive species. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 18(4): 194-202. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2162
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  8. Coon, JJ, CJ van Riper, LW Morton, & JR Miller. 2019. Evaluating nonresponse bias in survey research conducted in the rural Midwest. Society and Natural Resources. 33(8): 968-98. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2019.1705950
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  9. Raynor, EJ, JJ Coon, TM Swartz, LW Morton, WH Schacht, & JR Miller. 2019. A social-ecological assessment of cattle producer views toward conservation, an invasive grass, and stocking rate. Rangeland Ecology and Management, 72(6): 888-898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2019.07.008
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  10. Swartz, TM, JJ Coon, JR Mattes*, & JR Miller. 2019. Identifying Opportunities to Conserve Farm Ponds on Private Lands: Integration of Social, Ecological, and Historical Data. Land, 8(127): 1-19. PDF, https://doi.org/10.3390/land8090127
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  11. Maresh Nelson†, SB, JJ Coon†, WH Schacht, & JR Miller. 2019. Cattle select against the invasive grass tall fescue in heterogeneous pastures managed with prescribed fire. Grass and Forage Science, 74(3): 486-495. https://doi.org/10.1111/gfs.12411
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  12. Coon, JJ, SB Nelson, *IA Bradley, *AC West, & JR Miller. 2018. Parental infanticide in Dickcissels (Spiza americana): video evidence and a review of potential mechanisms. Wilson Journal of Ornithology, 130(1): 1-5. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1676/1559-4491-130.1.341
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  13. Maresh Nelson, SB, JJ Coon, CJ Duchardt, JR Miller, DM Debinski, & WH Schacht. 2018. Contrasting impacts of invasive plants and human-altered land cover on nest survival and parasitism of a grassland bird. Landscape Ecology, 33(10): 1799-1813. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-018-0703-3
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  14. Nelson, SB, JJ Coon, CJ Duchardt, JD Fischer, SJ Halsey, AJ Kranz, CM Parker, SC Schneider, TM Swartz, & JR Miller. 2017. Patterns and mechanisms of invasive plant impacts on North American birds: a systematic review. Biological Invasions, 19(5): 1547-1563. PDF, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-017-1377-5
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  15. Coon, JJ, M Atkin, L Gabriel, & WM Pangle. 2015. Food choice of red-shouldered hawks (Buteo lineatus) in a rehabilitation setting in Shepherd, MI: Behavioral insights from novel methods. Journal of Wildlife Rehabilitation, 35(2): 15-22. PDF
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  16. Coon, JJ and WM Pangle. 2015. Too hot to handle: Climate change and adaptive evolution in vertebrates. EvoS Journal: The Journal of Evolutionary Studies Consortium, 7(1), 1-9.
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Natural History Note

  1. Iverson, JB, MS Finkler, & JJ Coon. 2021. Ambystoma maculatum (spotted salamander) and Ambystoma texanum (smallmouth salamander) tail bifurcation. Herp Review

Technical Reports

  1. *Feldberg-Bannatyne, E., P*etras, A., *Newman, K., *Astorga, J., *Boigenzahn, E., *Clarkberg, T.E., *Eckert, K., *Kamara, K., *King, E., *Mathews, M., *Roskamp, C., Schalck, G., *Spellman, M., and Coon, JJ. 2021. Nature’s Contributions to People: Evaluating the Benefits of Earlham College’s Backcampus. Earlham College Department of Environmental Sustainability, Report 353-2021.
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  2. Coon, JJ, SB Maresh Nelson, L Wright Morton, and JR Miller. 2019. Agricultural, ecological, and social responses to an invasive grass and its removal in working Midwestern grasslands. Sustainable Agriculture, Research, and Education-North Central Region, Report GNC 15-201. https://projects.sare.org/project-reports/gnc15-201/
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  3. Coon, JJ, LW Morton, & JR Miller. 2018. A survey of landowners in the Grand River Grasslands: Managing wildlife, cattle, and non-native plants. Report 04-18, University of Illinois Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/99941
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  4. Coon, JJ. 2014. Nature as a distant other: What the human species owes to biological communities. Honors Platform Undergraduate Academic Journal, 2: 11-16.