Publications

Metroparks Toledo regularly performs research on habitat management and restoration, often in partnership with universities or other research-based organizations. One partnership that has been especially productive is with Dr. Scott Abella at the University of Nevada Las Vegas and Natural Resource Conservation LLC, who works with Metroparks to evaluate changes in vegetation and habitat in relation to management actions such as prescribed burning, tree thinning, and deer management; restoration activities such as conifer removals and oak savanna restoration; and forest pests and diseases such as oak wilt and emerald ash borer. In addition, our long-term wildlife monitoring programs contribute to state-wide databases that are periodically utilized for scientific publications.

Below is a list of peer-reviewed publications that Metroparks has been directly involved with, through either data collection, writing, or study design.

Variation in Characteristics and Conservation values of plant communities on abandoned agricultural lands with and without fires by Scott R. Abella and Timothy A. Schetter - 2021 [Read]
Restoring Historic Plant Communities in the Oak Openings Region of Northwest Ohio by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2001 [Read]
Fifteen Years of Plant Community Dynamics During a Northwest Ohio Oak Savanna Restoration by Scott R. Abella, John F. Jaeger and Lawrence G. Brewer - 2004 [Read]
Public Land Acquisition and Ecological Restoration: an Example from Northwest Ohio's Oak Openings Region by Scott R. Abella, John F. Jaeger and Timothy A. Schetter - 2007 [Read]
Conserving Large Oaks and Recruitment Potential while Restoring Midwestern Savanna and Woodland by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2017 [Read]
Restoring and conserving rare native ecosystems: A 14-year plantation removal experiment by Scott R. Abella, Timothy A. Schetter and Timothy L. Walters - 2017 [Read]
Resistance and Resilience to Natural Disturbance during Ecological Restoration by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2018 [Read]
Testing the hypothesis of hierarchical predictability in ecological restoration and succession by Scott R. Abella, Timothy A. Schetter and Timothy L. Waters - 2018 [Read]
Fourteen years of swamp forest cange from the onset, during, and after invasion of emerald ash borer by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2019 [Read]
Predicting Post-Fire Tree Survival for Restoring Oak Ecosystems by Scott R. Abella et al. - 2019 [Read]
Changes in trees, groundlayer diversity, and deer-preferred plants across 18 years in oak (Quercus, Fragaceae) forests of northwestern Ohio by Scott R. Abella et. al - 2020 [Read]
Rapid and transient changes during 20 years of restoration management in savanna-woodland-prairie habitats threatened by woody plant encroachment by Scott R. Abella et. al - 2020 [Read]
Unusually high-quality soil seed banks in a Midwestern U.S. oak savana region: variation with land use history, habitat restoration, and soil properties by Scott R. Abella, Jenella L. Hodel and Timothy A. Schetter - 2020 [Read]
Co-Variation among Vegetation Structural Layers in Forested Wetlands by Scott R. Abella et. al - 2021 [Read]
Delayed Tree Mortality After Prescribed Fires in Mixed Oak Forests in Northwestern Ohio by Scott R. Abella, LaRae A. Sprow and Timothy A. Schetter - 2021 [Read]
Forest community structure and composition following containment treatments for the fungal pathogen oak wilt by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2021 [Read]
Rapid increase in sensitive indicator plants concurrent with deer management in an Oak forest landscape by Scott R. Abella, Timothy A. Schetter and Timothy D. Gallaher - 2022 [Read]
Changes in Groundlayer Communities with Variation by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2023 [Read]
Relationships of community diversity with districtuions of rare species, non-native plants, and compositional stability in a temperate forest-open habitat landscape by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2023 [Read]
Species and landscape variation in tree regeneration and 17 years of change in forested wetlands invaded by emerald ash borer by Scott R. Abella et. al. - 2024 [Read]
Ecology of Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) in the Forest Understory by Scott R. Abella, Timothy A. Schetter and LaRae A. Sprow - 2023 [Read]
Unexpected phenological responses of butterflies to the interaction of urbanization and geographic temperature by Sarah E. Diamond et. al. - 2014 [Read]
Dynamics of Surviving Ash (Fraxinus spp.) Populations in Areas Long Infested by Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) by Kathleen S. Knight et. al. [Read]
Using Dutch Elm Disease - Tolerant Elm to Restore Floodplains Impacted by Emerald Ash Borer by Kathleen S. Knight et. al. [Read]
Assessing an Imperiled Oak Savanna Landscape in Northwestern Ohio using Landsat Data by Timothy A. Schetter and Karen V. Root - 2011 [Read]
A multi-scale Spatial Analysis of Native and Exotic Plant Species Richness Within a Mixed-Disturbance Oak Savanna Landscape by Timothy A. Schetter, Timothy L. Walters and Karen V. Root - 2013 [Read]
Butterfly abundance declines over 20 years of systematic monitoring in Ohio, USA by Tyson Wepprich et. al. - 2019 [Read]