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W. Carter Johnson

Emeritus Professor of Ecology, South Dakota State University
Verified email at sdstate.edu
Cited by 9492

Woodland expansions in the Platte River, Nebraska: patterns and causes

WC Johnson - Ecological monographs, 1994 - Wiley Online Library
This research was conducted to identify the factors that have permitted Populus—Salix
woodland to expand into the formerly active channels of the Platte River and its two major …

Forest overstory vegetation and environment on the Missouri River floodplain in North Dakota

WC Johnson, RL Burgess… - Ecological …, 1976 - Wiley Online Library
The study area, bounded north and south by two large reservoirs, includes the most
extensive remnant of floodplain forest in the Dakotas. Structure and composition of the forest …

Tree recruitment and survival in rivers: influence of hydrological processes

W Carter Johnson - Hydrological Processes, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
The findings of a 14‐year study of tree reproduction and survival in the Platte River, Nebraska,
are presented. The study was initiated in 1985 to determine the causes and remedies of …

Vulnerability of northern prairie wetlands to climate change

WC Johnson, BV Millett, T Gilmanov, RA Voldseth… - …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The prairie pothole region (PPR) lies in the heart of North America and contains millions of
glacially formed, depressional wetlands embedded in a landscape matrix of natural …

Prairie wetland complexes as landscape functional units in a changing climate

WC Johnson, B Werner, GR Guntenspergen… - …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
The wetland complex is the functional ecological unit of the prairie pothole region (PPR) of
central North America. Diverse complexes of wetlands contribute high spatial and temporal …

Acorn dispersal by the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)

S Darley-Hill, WC Johnson - Oecologia, 1981 - Springer
Blue jays transported and cached 133,000 acorns from a stand of Quercus palustris trees in
Blacksburg, Virginia, representing 54% of the total mast crop. A further 20% (49,000) of the …

Dispersal of beech nuts by blue jays in fragmented landscapes

WC Johnson, CS Adkisson - American Midland Naturalist, 1985 - JSTOR
In September 1981, many thousands of green Fagus grandifolia nuts were dispersed by
blue jays (Cyanocitta cristata) from a woodlot in southeastern Wisconsin and cached in their …

Scale-dependent habitat use in three species of prairie wetland birds

DE Naugle, KF Higgins, SM Nusser, WC Johnson - Landscape ecology, 1999 - Springer
We evaluated the influence of scale on habitat use for three wetland-obligate bird species
with divergent life history characteristics and possible scale-dependent criteria for nesting and …

Climate trends of the North American prairie pothole region 1906–2000

B Millett, WC Johnson, G Guntenspergen - Climatic Change, 2009 - Springer
The Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) is unique to North America. Its millions of wetlands and
abundant ecosystem goods and services are highly sensitive to wide variations of temperature …

The effects of altered hydrologic regime on tree growth along the Missouri River in North Dakota

PW Reily, WC Johnson - Canadian Journal of Botany, 1982 - cdnsciencepub.com
Increment cores were collected to examine effects of changed hydrologic regime on radial
growth of floodplain trees downstream of Garrison Dam. Alterations in seasonal streamflow …