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Submissions from 2015

Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities and Enzymatic Activities Vary across an Ecotone between a Forest and Field, Megan A. Rúa, Becky Brasher, Nicole Hergott, Lily Van, and Jason D. Hoeksema

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Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Communities and Enzymatic Activities Vary across an Ecotone between a Forest and Field, Megan A. Rúa, Becky Moore, Nicole Hergott, Lily Van, Colin R. Jackson, and Jason D. Hoeksema

Resource Availability Determines Stability for Mutualist–pathogen–host Interactions, Megan A. Rúa and James Umbanhowar

Learning Biology Through Innovative Curricula: A Comparison of Game- and Nongame-Based Approaches, Troy D. Sadler, William L. Romine, Deepika Menon, Richard E. Ferdig, and Leonard Annetta

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Activation State of the Hyperpolarization-Activated Current Modulates Temperature-Sensitivity of Firing in Locus Coeruleus Neurons from Bullfrogs, Joseph Michael Santin and Lynn K. Hartzler

Cold-Acclimation Reduces CO2 Sensitivity of Chemosensory Locus Coeruleus Neurons of American Bullfrogs, Lithobates catesbeianus, Joseph Michael Santin and Lynn K. Hartzler

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Sidestream Smoke Exposure Increases the Susceptibility of Airway Epithelia to Adenoviral Infection, Priyanka Sharma, Abimbola O. Kolawole, Susan B. Core, Adriana E. Kajon, and Katherine J.D.A. Excoffon

Parasitoid Communities of Remnant and Constructed Prairie Fragments in Western Ohio, Drew Sheaffer and John O. Stireman III

How Specialists and Generalists Herbivores are Responding to Invasive Plant Tthreats, Lauren Elizabeth Shewhart

Battle Amid the Ashes: Phloem Defense Expression of Resistant and Susceptible Ash Species and Associated Physiological Responses of Emerald Ash Borer Larvae, D. N. Showalter, Chad Michael Rigsby, Don Cipollini, Daniel A. Herms, Sanjaya Wijeratne, A. Wijeratne, and Pierluigi Bonello

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Gene Diversification of an Emerging Pathogen: A Decade of Mutation in a Novel Fish Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia (VHS) Substrain since Its First Appearance in the Laurentian Great Lakes, Carol A. Stepien, Lindsey R. Pierce, Douglas W. Leaman, Megan D. Niner, and Brian S. Shepherd

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Continuing Progress towards a Phylogeny of Tachinidae, John O. Stireman III, James E. O'Hara, John K. Moulton, Pierfilippo Cerretti, Isaac S. Winkler, Jeremy D. Blaschke, and Z. L. Burington

Measuring Knowledge of Acids and Bases as Continuous and Categorical Constructs toward Understanding Concept Progression, Amber Todd and William L. Romine

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Viral Pathogen Production in a Wild Grass Host Driven by Host Growth and Soil Nitrogen, Briana K. Whitaker, Megan A. Rúa, and Charles Mitchell

Explosive Radiation or Uninformative Genes? Origin and Early Diversification of Tachinid Flies (Diptera: Tachinidae), Isaac S. Winkler, Jeremy D. Blaschke, Daniel J. Davis, John O. Stireman III, James E. O'Hara, Pierfilippo Cerretti, and John K. Moulton

Rapid Evolution of a Consumer Stoichiometric Trait Destabilizes Consumer–producer Dynamics, Masato Yamamichi, Cedric L. Meunier, Angela Peace, Clay Prater, and Megan A. Rúa

Submissions from 2014

Specific Glucosinolate Analysis Reveals Variable Levels of Epimeric Glucobarbarins, Dietary Precursors of 5‑Phenyloxazolidine-2-thiones, in Watercress Types with Contrasting Chromosome Numbers, Niels Agerbirk, Carl Erik Olsen, Don Cipollini, Marian Ørgaard, Ib Linde-Laursen, and Frances Chew

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White-Tailed Deer are a Biotic Filter During Community Assembly, Reducing Species and Phylogenetic Diversity, Danielle R. Begley-Miller, Andrew L. Hipp, Bethany H. Brown, Marlene Hahn, and Thomas P. Rooney

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Predation Risk, Elk, and Aspen: Comment, Robert L. Beschta, Cristina Eisenberg, John W. Laundre, William J. Ripple, and Thomas P. Rooney

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'Anomalous Diversity'? A Case for High tropical Parasitoid Richness in Tachinid Flies, Z. L. Burington, John O. Stireman III, and Diego J. Inclán

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A Morphological Phylogeny of Tachinidae, Pierfilippo Cerretti, James E. O'Hara, John O. Stireman III, Diego J. Inclán, Hiroshi Shima, Monty Wood, John Kevin Moulton, and Isaac S. Winkler

Effects of Water Availability on Emerald Ash Borer Larval Performance and Phloem Phenolics of Manchurian and Black Ash, Sourav Chakraborty, Justin G.A. Whitehill, Amy L. Hill, Stephen O. Opiyo, Don Cipollini, Daniel A. Herms, and Pierluigi Bonello

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White Fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus, As a Novel Larval Host for Emerald Ash Boer, Don Cipollini

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Costs of Resistance in Plants: From Theory to Practice, Don Cipollini, Dale Walters, and Claudia Voelckel

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Why Is Living Fast Dangerous? Disentangling the Roles of Resistance and Tolerance of Disease, James P. Cronin, Megan A. Rúa, and Charles E. Mitchell

Do Mothers Always Know Best? Oviposition Mistakes and Resulting Larval Failure of Pieris virginiensis on Alliaria petiolata, a Novel, Toxic Host, Samantha Davis and Don Cipollini

How Environmental Conditions and Changing Landscapes Influence the Survival and Reproduction of a Rare Butterfly, Pieris virginiensis (Pieridae), Samantha Davis and Don Cipollini

The Effects of Agricultural Land Use on Periphyton Quality and Fatty Acid Composition in Midwestern Streams, Hannah M. Fazekas and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

Glucosinolate-Related Glucosides in Alliaria petiolata: Sources of Variation in the Plant and Different Metabolism in an Adapted Specialist Herbivore, Pieris rapae, Tina Frisch, Niels Agerbirk, Samantha Davis, Don Cipollini, Carl Erik Olsen, Mohammed Saddik Motawia, Nanna Bjarnholt, and Birger Lindberg Møller

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Exploring Plant Defense Theory in Tall Goldenrod, Solidago altissima, Jeremy J. Heath, A. Kessler, Eric Woebbe, Don Cipollini, and John O. Stireman III

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Expression and Function of Genes Involved in Spermatogenesis in the Planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, Tasha Hester and Labib Rouhana

Potential for Large-bodied Zooplankton and Dreissenids to Alter the Productivity and Autotrophic Structure of Lakes, Scott N. Higgins, B. Althouse, Shawn P. Devlin, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and M. J. Vander Zanden

A Phylogenetic Meta-analysis of Biotic and Abiotic Factors Affecting Plant Response to Mycorrhizal Fungi, Jason D. Hoeksema, James D. Bever, Sounak Chakraborty, Veer B. Chaudhary, Elizabeth A. Housworth, Wittaya Kaonongbua, Marc J. Lajeunesse, James F. Meadow, Brook Milligan, Bridget J. Piculell, Megan A. Rúa, James Umbanhowar, Wolfgang Viechtbauer, and Peter C. Zee

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A New Species and Synonymy of The Neotropical Eucelatoria Townsend and Redescription of Myiodoriops Townsend, Diego J. Inclán and John O. Stireman III

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An Easy “A”? Online vs. Face-to-Face Grades, Stephen J. Jacquemin and Joseph Cavanaugh

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Body Size and Geographic Range Do Not Explain Long Term Variation in Fish Populations: A Bayesian Phylogenetic Approach to Testing Assembly Processes in Stream Fish Assemblages, Stephen J. Jacquemin and Jason C. Doll

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On the Specialization of Tooth Morphology in Early Cladodont Sharks., Stephen J. Jacquemin, M. Jones, Charles N. Ciampaglio, and Z. Whetstone

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Wabash River Freshwater Drum Aplodinotus grunniens Diet: Effects of Body Size, Sex, and River Gradient, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Mark Pyron, Michael Allen, and Lucas Etchison

Twitter in the Higher Education Classroom: A Student and Faculty Assessment of Use and Perception, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Lisa K. Smelser, and Melody J. Bernot

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Tooth Morphology Provides Evidence of Ancestral Megalodon Lineage, Stephen J. Jacquemin, S. Wint, Charles N. Ciampaglio, and D. J. Cicimurri

Effects of Warming and Food Quality on the Metabolism and Growth of an Algivorous Fish from Lake Tanganyika, Lesley Y. Kim, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Peter B. McIntyre, and Lynn K. Hartzler

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Measuring Teaching Best Practice in the Induction Years: Development and Validation of an Item-Level Assessment, Laura Kingsley and William L. Romine

Nonlinear Responses of Lake Ecosystems to Climate Change, Benjamin Kraemer, E. Silow, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, and Peter B. McIntyre

Withdrawal Effect of Chronic Amphetamine Exposure during Adolescence on Complex Maze Performance, Daniel Krall, Stephanie Lim, Abby M. Cooper, Paul W. Burleson, Derek J. Rhoades, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Daryl C. Wilmore, Martin Spears, and Catherine B. Willmore

Exploring Fall Migratory Patterns of American Black Ducks Using Eight Decades of Band‐Recovery Data, Philip Lavretsky, Joshua Miller, Volker Bahn, and Jeffrey Peters

Sustained Release of Small Molecules from Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Monetite Calcium Phosphate Cement, Boren Lin, Huan Zhou, Douglas W. Leaman, Vijay Goel, Anand Agarwal, and Sarit B. Bhaduri

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Chasing tachinids ‘Down Under’: Expeditions of the phylogeny of World Tachinidae project, Part II Eastern Australia, James E. O'Hara, Pierfilippo Cerretti, John O. Stireman III, and Isaac S. Winkler

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Diversity and Systematics of the World Tachinidae (Diptera), James E. O'Hara, John O. Stireman III, Pierfilippo Cerretti, John Kevin Moulton, and Isaac S. Winkler

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Host Specificity And Co-Speciation In Avian Haemosporidia In The Western Cape, South Africa, Sharon Okanga, Graeme S. Cumming, Philip A.R. Hockey, Lisa Nupen, and Jeffrey L. Peters

Cardiorespiratory Effects of Gap Junction Blockade in the Locus Coeruleus in Unanesthetized Adult Rats, Luis Gustavo Alexandre Patrone, Kenia Cardoso Bicego, Lynn K. Hartzler, Robert W. Putnam, and Luciane H. Gargaglioni

Oviposition Preferences of Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) for Different Ash Species Support the Mother Knows Best Hypothesis, Chad Michael Rigsby, Vanessa Muilenburg, Thaddeus Tarpey, Daniel A. Herms, and Don Cipollini

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Development and Evaluation of a Model for Secondary Evolution Educators’ Professional Development Needs, William L. Romine, Ellen Barnett, Patricia J. Friedrichsen, and Aaron J. Sickel

Measuring Changes in Interest in Science and Technology at the College Level in Response to Two Instructional Interventions, William L. Romine and Troy D. Sadler

Student Interest in Technology and Science (SITS) Survey: Development, Validation, and Use of a New Instrument, William L. Romine, Troy D. Sadler, Morgan Presley, and Michelle L. Klosterman

Assessing the Efficacy of the Measure of Understanding of Macroevolution as a Valid Tool for Undergraduate Non-Science Majors, William L. Romine and Emily M. Walter

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Assessing the Efficacy of the MUM as a Valid Measure for Understanding of Macroevolution for Undergraduate Non-Science Majors, William L. Romine and Emily M. Walter

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A Quantitative Analysis of Kalandars and Captive Bears in Pakistan, Thomas P. Rooney and Kendra C. Millam

Does Variation in Morphology Correspond with Variation in Habitat use in Freshwater Gastropods?, Brittany Ross, Stephen J. Jacquemin, and Mark Pyron

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A Primer on Regneration, Labib Rouhana

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PIWI Homologs Mediate Histone H4 mRNA Localization to Planarian Chromatoid Bodies, Labib Rouhana, Jennifer A. Weiss, Ryan S. King, and Phillip A. Newmark

Genotypic Controls on Mycorrhizal-host Relationships in Pinus radiata, Megan A. Rúa and Jason D. Hoeksema

Climate Drivers, Host Identity and Fungal Endophyte Infection Determine Virus Prevalence in a Grassland Ecosystem, Megan A. Rúa, Rebecca L. McCulley, and Charles E. Mitchell

Mission Biotech: Using Technology to Support Learner Engagement in STEM, Troy D. Sadler, Jennifer L. Eastwood, William L. Romine, and Leonard Annetta

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Impacts of Gaming, Teachers, and Interest on Student Science Learning associated with Innovative Biotechnology Curricula, Troy D. Sadler, William L. Romine, Deepika Menon, Michelle L. Klosterman, and Leonard Annetta

Habitat Fragmentation, Tree Diversity and Plant Invasion Interact to Structure Forest Caterpillar Communities, John O. Stireman III, Hilary Devlin, and Annie Lynn Doyle

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Whence the Tachinidae, John O. Stireman III, Isaac S. Winkler, Jeremy D. Blaschke, Daniel J. Davis, James E. O'Hara, Pierfilippo Cerretti, and John Kevin Moulton

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Towards a Molecular Phylogeny of World Tachinidae: A Progress Report, John O. Stireman III, Isaac S. Winkler, John Kevin Moulton, James E. O'Hara, and Pierfilippo Cerretti

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Is there Light after Depth? Distribution of Periphyton Chlorophyll and Productivity in Lake Littoral Zones, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Shawn P. Devlin, Peter B. McIntyre, and M. J. Vander Zanden

Metabolic Supply versus Demand: Direct and Indirect Effects of Climate Change in Littoral Lake Tanganyika, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Lesley Y. Kim, Renalda Munubi, Benjamin Kraemer, and Peter B. McIntyre

The Complexity of Top-Down Control on Primary Productivity: Interactive Effects of Biomass Removal and Consumer Nutrient Recycling in a Low Nutrient Ecosystem, Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, Peter B. McIntyre, J. A. May, and E. Hile

Potential Role of Alkaloids and Monoamines in Ash Resistance to Emerald Ash Borer, Caterina Villari, S. Chakraborti, Chad Michael Rigsby, Don Cipollini, Daniel A. Herms, and Pierluigi Bonello

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Mechanisms of Ash Resistance to Emerald Ash Borer: Progress and Gaps, Caterina Villari, Justin G.A. Whitehill, Don Cipollini, Daniel A. Herms, and Pierluigi Bonello

First Record of a Tachinid Fly Parasitoid (Diptera: Tachinidae) on a Dragonfly (Odonata: Calopterygidae), Natalia Von Ellenrieder, Martin Hauser, Scott Kinnee, James E. O'Hara, John O. Stireman III, Pierfilippo Cerretti, and D. Monty Wood

Decreased Emergence of Emerald Ash Borer From Ash (Fraxinus Spp.) Treated with Methyl Jasmonate is Associated with Induction of General Defense Traits and the Toxic Phenolic Compound Verbascoside, Justin G.A. Whitehill, Chad Michael Rigsby, Don Cipollini, Daniel A. Herms, and Pierluigi Bonello

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Progress towards a Molecular Phylogeny of Tachinidae, Year Two, Isaac S. Winkler, John O. Stireman III, John K. Moulton, Pierfilippo Cerretti, and Jeremy D. Blaschke

Submissions from 2013

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Food Limitation as a Potentially Emerging Contributor to the Asian Vulture Crisis, Fakhar -i- Abbas, Thomas P. Rooney, Jibran Haider, and Afsar Mian

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Grey Wolf in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan: Distribution, Abundance, and Persecution, Fakhar -i- Abbas, Thomas P. Rooney, and Afsar Mian

Effects of Soil Biota and rhizosphere Extract from Non-Native Lonicera maackii on the Natie Impatiens capensis, Jonathan Ali

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Gas Exchange, Growth, and Defense Responses of Invasive Alliaria Petiolata(Brassicaceae) and Native Geum Vernum(Rosaceae) to Elevated Atmospheric CO2 and Warm Spring Temperatures, Laurel J. Anderson and Don Cipollini

Testing the Predictive Performance of Distribution Models, Volker Bahn and Brian J. McGill

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Reproductive Isolation in the Elegans-Group of Caenorhabditis, Scott Everet Baird and Sara Rose Seibert

The Value of Evolutionary History: Using Phylogenetic Diversity to Identify the Long-Term Effects of Deer Browsing on Northern Wisconsin Forest Understory Plant Communities, D. R. Begley, Thomas P. Rooney, and A. L. Hipp

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Wolves Facilitate the Recovery of Browse-Sensitive Understory Herbs in Wisconsin Forests, Krystle Bouchard, Jane E. Wiedenhoeft, Adrian P. Wydeven, and Thomas P. Rooney

Recolonizing Wolves Trigger a Trophic Cascade in Wisconsin, Ramana Callan, Nathan P. Nibbelink, Thomas P. Rooney, Jane E. Wiedenhoeft, and Adrian P. Wydeven

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To 'Die Hel' and back. Expeditions of the Phylogeny of World Tachinidae Project. Part I: Western Cape, South Africa, Pierfilippo Cerretti, James E. O'Hara, John O. Stireman III, Isaac S. Winkler, and Ashley H. Kirk-Spriggs

Biogeographic Variation in Resistance of the Invasive Plant, Alliaria Petiolata, to a Powdery Mildew Fungus and Local Influences on the Prevalence of Resistance, Don Cipollini, Samantha Davis, Deah Lieurance, and Volker Bahn

Genetic Structure of the Endangered Northeastern Bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus) in Pennsylvania, USA, Using Information from RAPD and SNPs, Kendra Cipollini, Kendra Millam, Douglas Burks, Don Cipollini, Sarah Girod, Zachary VanGundy, and Jeffrey L. Peters

Carotenoids in Unexpected Places: Gall Midges, Lateral Gene Transfer, and Carotenoid Biosynthesis In Animals, Cassidy Cobbs, Jeremy Heath, John O. Stireman III, and Patrick Abbot

Why Is Living Fast Dangerous? Disentangling the Roles of Resistance and Tolerance of Disease, James P. Cronin, Megan A. Rúa, and Charles E. Mitchell

Partitioning Beta Diversity in a Neotropical Forest Opiliones Assemblage (Cusuco National Park, Honduras), Brittany Damron and Thomas P. Rooney

Does the Native West Virginia White Butterfly (Pieris Vir- Giniensis) Oviposit on Invasive, Toxic Garlic Mustard (Alliaria Petiolata)?, Samantha Davis and Don Cipollini

Depth-specific Variation in Carbon Isotopes Demonstrates Resource Partitioning Among the Littoral Zoobenthos, Shawn P. Devlin, M.J. Vander Zanden, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

Cryptic Phenotypic Plasticity in Populations of the Freshwater Prosobranch Snail, Pleurocera canaliculata, Robert T. Dillon Jr., Stephen J. Jacquemin, and Mark Pyron

The Influence of Preservation on Fish Morphology in Museum Collections Based on Two Species of the Genus Lepomis (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Centrarchidae), Kevin A. Gaston, Stephen J. Jacquemin, and Thomas E. Lauer

Relationship between Land Use and Ohio Stream Fish Diversity, Blythe Hazellief, Volker Bahn, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur

The Role of Carotenoids and their Derivatives in Mediating Interactions between Insects and Their Environment, Jeremy J. Heath, Don Cipollini, and John O. Stireman III

Carnivores and Carotenoids are Associated With Adaptive Behavioural Divergence in a Radiation of Gall Midges, Jeremy J. Heath, Brenda Wells, Don Cipollini, and John O. Stireman III

Revision of the Genus Erythromelana Townsend, 1918 (Diptera: Tachinidae) with Description of 11 New Species and Analysis of Their Phylogeny and Diversification, Diego J. Inclán and John O. Stireman III

Long-term Fish Assemblages Respond to Habitat and Niche Breadth in the West Fork White River, Indiana, Stephen J. Jacquemin and Jason C. Doll

Morphology of bluntnose minnow Pimephales notatus (Cyprinidae) covaries with habitat in a central Indiana watershed, Stephen J. Jacquemin, Erika Martin, and Mark Pyron