Publications on Tulula Wetlands

Publications (published, in press, or in review)

Rossell, I.R. 1997. Noteworthy collections from North Carolina: Lilium canadense ssp. editorum. Castanea 61:196-197.

Moorhead, K.K. and I.M. Rossell. 1997. Southern mountain fens. Pages 379-403 in: Southern forested wetlands: ecology and management. Lewis Publishers, NY. 616 pp.

Petranka, J.W., A.W. Rushlow and M.E. Hopey. 1998. Predation by tadpoles of Rana sylvatica on embryos of Ambystoma maculatum: Implications of ecological role reversals by Rana (predator) and Ambystoma (prey). Herpetologica 54:1-13.

Petranka, J. W. and L. J. Hayes. 1998. Chemically mediated avoidance of a predatory odonate (Anax junius) by American toad (Bufo americanus) and wood frog (Rana sylvatica) tadpoles. Behavioural Ecology and Sociobiology 42:2262-2271.

Petranka, J. W. and C. A. Kennedy. 1999. Pond tadpoles with generalized morphology: is it time to reconsider their functional roles in aquatic communities? Oecologia 120:621-631.

Rossell, C.R., Jr. and I.M. Rossell. 1999. Microhabitat selection by small mammals in a southern Appalachian fen. Wetlands Ecology and Management 7:219-224.

Rossell, I. M. and C. L. Wells. 1999. The seed banks of a southern Appalachian fen and an adjacent degraded floodplain. Wetlands 19:365-371.

Rossell, C.R., Jr., I.M. Rossell, J.W. Petranka, and K.K. Moorhead. 1999. Characteristics of a partially disturbed southern Appalachian forest-gap bog complex. Pages 81-89 in Proceedings of the Appalachian Biogeography Symposium (R. P. Eckerlin, Ed.). The Virginia Museum of Natural History, Special Publication No. 7.

Starnes, S. M., C. A. Kennedy, and J. W. Petranka. 2000. Sensitivity of embryos of southern Appalachian amphibians to ambient solar UV-B radiation. Conservation Biology 14: 277-282.

Moorhead, K.K., R. E. Moynihan, and S. L. Simpson. 2000. Soil characteristics of four southern Appalachian fens in North Carolina. Wetlands 20:560-564.

Moorhead, K. K. 2001. Water table dynamics of a southern Appalachian floodplain and associated fen. Journal of the American Water Resources Association 37:105-114.

Moorhead, K. K., I.M. Rossell, J.W. Petranka, and C.R. Rossell. 2001. Tulula Wetlands Mitigation Bank. Ecological Restoration 19:75-81.

Rossell, C.R., Jr. 2001. Song perch characteristics of Golden-winged Warblers in a mountain wetland. Wilson Bulletin 113:246-248.

Rossell, C. R., Jr., Rossell, I. M., Orraca, M. M., and J. W. Petranka. 2002. Evidence of epizootic disease as the cause of high mortality in a population of eastern box turtles. Herpetological Review 33:99-101.

Anderson A. R. and J. W. Petranka. 2003. Odonate predator does not affect hatching time or morphology of two amphibians. Journal of Herpetology, in press.

Petranka, J. W., K. A. Kennedy, and S. S. Murray. 2003. Response of amphibians to restoration of a southern Appalachian wetland: a long-term analysis of community dynamics. Wetlands 23:1030-1042.

Petranka, J. W., S. S. Murray , and K. A. Kennedy. 2003. Response of amphibians to restoration of a southern Appalachian wetland: perturbations confound post-restoration assessment. Wetlands 23:278-290.

Rossell, C.R., Jr., S.C. Patch, and S.P. Wilds. 2003.  Habitat attributes of Golden-winged Warbler territories in a mountain wetland. Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:1099-1104.

Rossell, I. M. and J. M. Kesgen.  2003.  The distribution and fruiting of red and black chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia and A. melanocarpa) in a southern Appalachian fen.  Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130: 202-205.

Moorhead, K. K.  2003.  Effects of drought on the water table dynamics of a southern Appalachian mountain floodplain and associated fen.  Wetlands 23:792-799.

Warren, R. J. II, J. D. Pittillo, and I. M. Rossell.  2004.  Vascular flora of a southern Appalachian fen and floodplain complex.  Castanea 69:116-124.

Warren, R. J. II, I. M. Rossell, and K. K. Moorhead.  2004.  Colonization and establishment of red maple (Acer Rubrum) in a southern Appalachian wetland.  Wetlands 24:364-374.

Holbrook, C. T. and J. W. Petranka.  2004.  Ecological interactions between Rana sylvatica and Ambystoma maculatum:  Evidence of interspecific competition and facultative intraguild predation.  Copeia 2004:932-939.

Rossell, I. M. and D. A. Losure.  2005.  The habitat and plant associates of Eriocaulon decangulare in three southern Appalachian wetlands.  Castanea (in press).