Insect, Arthropod, Microbial, and Soil Diversity

Research Articles: Insects and Arthropods

• Ants of the Palouse Prairie: diversity and species composition in an Endangered Grassland
• Habitat Loss and Fragmentation on the Palouse and its Impact on arthropod conservation
• Bumble bee fauna of Palouse Prairie: Survey of native bee pollinators in a fragmented ecosystem

Research Articles: Cyanobacterial and Algal Diversity (Biological Soil Crusts)

• New species of green microalgae (Chlorophycophyta) from an eastern Washington silt loam
• Karolina Fučíková, Jared C. Rada & Louise A. Lewis (2011) The tangled taxonomic history of Dictyococcus, Bracteacoccus and Pseudomuriella (Chlorophyceae, Chlorophyta) and their distinction based on a phylogenetic perspective, Phycologia, 50:4, 422-429, DOI: Link to paper.
• (Metting, F. B. 1979. A comparative study of algal communities on cultivated and uncultivated portions of a Schumacher silt loam. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Botany, Washington State University.)
• Ashley, J. 1988. Soil algal population and community biology: laboratory and field studies. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Botany, Washington State University.

Research Articles: Soil Microbial Diversity

• Bacterial communities of soil and earthworm casts of native Palouse Prairie remnants and no-till wheat cropping systems
• Agroecological and environmental factors influence Barley yellow dwarf viruses in grasslands in the US Pacific Northwest
• Patterns of Rhizosphere Microbial Community Structure Associated with Co-Occurring Plant Species