Publications available in electronic format
All of our Open-file Reports and a limited number of our other publications are available in electronic format; these are listed on this page. (Most newer publications in our full list of publications are linked to the publishers' websites.)
Publications in the first three categories listed below (our reports, technical publications and bulletins) are listed by full title.
Within the remaining categories, the publications are listed by subject (such as the name of the lake surveyed) or by the filename in our internal system that corresponds to a complete title in (in most cases, the first few words of the filename are the same as the first few words of the publication title).
If you would like a copy of a specific publication, please email biosurvey@ku.edu. Please let us know if you need a version remediated for accessibility.
List of publications
These reports, now totaling more than 200, are numbered. Please see the list of these reports, which are in order of publication with their corresponding number.
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1975
Checklist of Kansas Vascular Plants
Collecting and Preserving Kansas Invertebrates
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1976
Rare Native Vascular Plants of Kansas
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1977
Aquatic Vascular Plants of Kansas I: Submersed and Floating Leaved Plants
Caenis Mayfly Records for Kansas
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1979
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1980
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1982
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1981
New Records of the Fauna and Flora of Kansas for 1982
Sphaeriacean Clams of Kansas
Chiggers in Kansas: Their Habits and Effect on Man
Ticks in Kansas: Their Habits and Effect on Man
Skunks in Kansas: A Review of Their Natural History and Methods of Control
Poison Ivy and Poison Oak in Kansas
Mosquitoes in Kansas: Natural History and Methods of Control
Lake Afton
Alma City Lake
Anthony City Lake
Atchison County
Augusta City Lake
Augusta-Santa Fe
Banner Creek
Carbondale Lake
Centralia City Lake
Elk City
Fall River
John Redmond bathymetric
John Redmond sediment
Moline City Lake
Pleasanton
Polk Daniels
Pottawatomie No. 1
Sabetha Pony Creek
Lake Shawnee
Thayer City Lakes
Wilson Lake
Woodson Lake
Wyandotte County Lake
Yates Center New
Yates Center Old
These are listed by filename.
Baldwin Creek use attainability analysis 1998
Clinton Lake and watershed 2000
Floodplain wetlands Lower Missouri 2010
Great Bend Station 2012
Playa mapping
Marmaton River 2002
USEPA Region 7 rivers and streams nutrient reference benchmark
USEPA Region 7 lakes nutrient reference benchmark 2011
These are listed by filename.
Propagation Mead's milkweed 1999
Riedle & Pisani2020Kingsnakes
Two new species Thelenella 2016
Vegetation mapping Tallgrass Prairie preserve 2010
These are listed by filename.
Airborne multispectral 2005
Development value added remotely sensed 2000
Discriminating forest stand Yellowstone 2001
Greater Prairie Chicken Sharp Tailed Grouse Conservation Strategy 2022
Harmonic Analysis 2001
Horseshoe Creek inventory KARS 1999
Hyperspectral Aviris and LandSat TM Imagery Yellowstone 2001
Hyperspectral nonforested montane 2001
Land Use Land Cover Change in Kansas
Modeling gray wolf habitat poster Houts
Onset of greenness grass wheat 2001
Pracht Wetland Landcover KARS 1995
Remote sensing southern Great Plains 2002
Remote Sensing Tools Landsat 7 2002
Satellite data model pheasant populations 2002
Using ecological systems land cover KARS 2002
These are listed by publication year/filename.
1950 Live trap small mammals
1951 Funnel trap reptiles
1952 KU natural history reservation
1954 Seasonal acceptance bait
1955 Great Plains skink
1956 Great Plains narrow mouth frog
1956 McGregor Forest habitat reservation
1956 Temperature amphibians reptiles northeastern
1957 Reproduction prairie vole
1959 Patternless phase copperhead
1960 criteria snakes
1961 longevity snakes
1961 snake source living spermatozoa
1963 black rat snake
1965 Natural History Reservation booklet
1967 lizards
1972 radio tracking
1974 broad winged hawk
1978 prairie kingsnake
1978 red-tailed hawk
1980 Reproductive strategies reptiles
1981 Coluber constrictor mormon
1982 snake prairie woodland habitat
1985 prairie timber rattlesnakes
1987 Sin of anecdotal writing
1988 Natural areas and reservation
1989 Glass lizard
1992 Methods of sampling snake
1993 Relative abundance snakes Kansas
1999 Kansas avian community
2003 Reproduction snakes
These are listed by filename.
40 Year Study Ecotone 2000
50 Years report Field Station Ecological Reserves 1997
Crane flies Byers
Ecology and Hydrology of the Kansas Ecological Reserves 1991
Feeding ornate box turtle Alice Fitch 1966
GEMS Butler
Johnson Fitch nature's own laboratory 1950
Johnson_1950 about Fitch reservation
Mammals Fitch Kettle
Overview Kettle
Reptiles Fitch
Perspectives habitat fragmentation agroecosystem 1995
Revisiting data kingsnakes 2020
Rockefeller Prairie plant guild case study 1994
Slope aspect oak hickory forest 1978
Spiders Guarisco Fitch
Temperature tolerances embryonic eumeces Alice Fitch 1964
Vertebrate animals Fitch Reservation 2016