Reavis M. L., Ahlen J., Rudek J., and Naithani K. (2022) Evaluating greenhouse gas emissions and climate mitigation goals of the global food and beverage sector. Frontiers of Sustainable Food Systems, 5:789499. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.789499
Crop Modeling
A peaked response to accumulated growing degree day is a better functional form than one utilizing days after planting and cultivar-agnostic models perform equivalently to cultivar-specific models.
Ellie Kuhn, Beatriz Moreno-García, Michele Reba, Kusum Naithani, and Benjamin R. K. Runkle (2025) Modeling rice leaf area index and canopy height in the US Mid-South region. Agrosystems, Geosciences, and Environment. doi: 10.1002/agg2.70139
Reavis M. L., Purcell L., Pereira A., and Naithani K. (2023) Effects of Measurement Methods and Growing Conditions on Phenotypic Expression of Photosynthesis in Diverse Rice Genotypes. Frontiers in Plant Science. Volume 14. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1106672
Soil Health
Sniegocki R., Moon J. B., Rutrough A., Gireneus J., Seelan J. S. S., Weindorf D. C., Farmer M. C., and Naithani K. (2022) Recovery of soil microbial diversity and functions along a tropical montane forest disturbance gradient, Frontiers in Environmental Science, 10:853686. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2022.853686
Qin C., Bartelme R., Chung A., Fairbanks D., Lin Y., Liptzin D., Muscarella C., Naithani K., Peay K., Pellitier P., St. Rose A., Stanish L., Werbin Z., and Zhu K. (2021) From DNA sequences to microbial ecology: Wrangling NEON soil microbe data with the neonMicrobe R package. Ecosphere, 12 (11): e03842. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.3842.
Moon J. B., Wardrop D. H., Smithwick E. A. H. & Naithani K. J. (2019) Fine-scale spatial homogenization of microbial habitats: a multivariate index of headwater wetland complex condition. Ecological Applications. 29(1), e0181.
Moon J. B., Wardrop D. H., Bruns M. A. V., Miller R. M., and Naithani K. J. (2016) Land-use and land-cover effects on soil microbial community abundance and composition in headwater riparian wetlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 97: 215 – 233.
Pollinator and Pest Management
Stemet L. S., Biddinger D. J., Naithani K., Szalanski A. L., and Joshi N. K. (in review) Intertegular distance of wild bees and its use in estimating proboscis lengths and foraging ranges to better understand bee conservation ecology.
Acharya R. S., Leslie T., Burke J., Naithani K., Fitting E., Loftin K., and Joshi N. K. (2024) Sheep grazing influences the abundance, diversity, and community composition of wild bees and other insects in livestock pastures. Ecological Indicators. Vol: 162, 111839. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.111839
Joshi N. K., Naithani K., Biddinger D. J. (2020) Nest modification protects immature stages of the Japanese orchard bee (Osmia cornifrons) from invasion of a cleptoparasitic mite pest. Insects, 11(1), 65.
Shaffer L. J., Khadka K. K., Van Den Hoek J. & Naithani K. J. (2019) Human-elephant conflict: A review of current management strategies and future directions. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:235.
Joshi N. K., Rajotte E. G., Naithani K. J., Krawczyk G. & Hull L. A. (2016) Population dynamics and flight phenology model of codling moth differ between commercial and abandoned apple orchard ecosystems. Frontiers in Physiology, 7:408.
Biddinger D.J., Joshi N.K., Rajotte E.G., Halbrendt N.O., Pulig C., Naithani K.J. & Vaughn M. (2013). An immunomarking method to determine the foraging patterns of Osmia cornifrons and resulting fruit set in a cherry orchard. Apidologie, 44: 738-749.