Published Papers

Sauls Jr., Archie Ray (2021) The Bees of Two Sites in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, with a Consideration of the Effects of a Rare a Rare Flooding Event. Sauls, Archie Ray Jr., "The Bees of Two Sites in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, with a Consideration of the Effects of a Rare Flooding Event" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 364. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/etds/364 This thesis is brought to you for free and open access.

Realzola, E., Cook, J.L., & Cook, T.J., (2007). Composition of Gyrinid Aggregations in the East Texas primitive Big Thicket (Coleoptera: Gyrinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 61(4), 495-502. https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X(2007)61

Glorioso, B. M. & Waddle, J.H. (2017). Nocturnal arboreality in snakes in the swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin of south-central Louisiana and Big Thicket National Preserve of southeast Texas. The Journal of North American Herpetology, 2017(1):11-18. http://www.cnah.org/pdf/88616.pdf

Nicoletto, P. (2013). Effects of Hurricane Rita on the herpetofauna of Village Creek State Park, Hardin County, Texas. The Southwestern Naturalist, 58(1), 64-69. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23362673

Knudson, E., Bordelon, C., & Pogue, M. G. (2003). A new species of Schinia Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Heliothinae) from Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. Zootaxa, 382, 1-7. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.382.1.1

Cook, T. J., Clopton, R. E., & Cook, J. L. (2011). Neoasterophora megasilvestrensis n. gen., n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Actinocephalidae: Pileocephalinae) parasitizing Cheumatopsyche analis (Trichoptera: Hydropsychidae) in the Texas big thicket. Comparative Parasitology, 78(1), 56-62. pdf

Clopton, R. E., Cook, T. J., & Cook, J. L. (2008). Trichurispora wellgundis ng, n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Hirmocystidae) parasitizing adult water scavenger beetles, Tropisternus collaris (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) in the Texas Big Thicket. Comparative Parasitology, 75(1), 82-91. pdf

Powers, T. O., Harris, T. S., Higgins, R. S., Mullin, P. G., & Powers, K. S. (2021). Nematode biodiversity assessments need vouchered databases: A BOLD reference library for plant-parasitic nematodes in the superfamily Criconematoidea. Genome, 64(3), 232-241. doc

Powers TO, Harris T, Higgins R, Olson M, Matczyszyn J, Mullin P, Powers KS. (2019) New species of plant-parasitic nematodes in the family Criconematidae from Big Thicket National Preserve and the Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary (in prep).

Powers, T., Harris, T., Higgins, R., Mullin, P., & Powers, K. (2018). Discovery and identification of Meloidogyne species using COI DNA barcoding. Journal of Nematology, 50(3), 399. pdf

Powers, T. O., Bernard, E. C., Harris, T., Higgins, R., Olson, M., Lodema, M., ... & Powers, K. S. (2014). COI haplotype groups in Mesocriconema (Nematoda: Criconematidae) and their morphospecies associations. Zootaxa, 3827(2), 101-146. pdf

Powers T.O., Harris T, Higgins R, Olson M, Lodema M, Mullin P, Sutton L, Powers KS. Checklist of the soil-dwelling nematodes of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Marysee Prairie and Roy E. Larsen Sandyland Sanctuary (in prep).

Clopton, R. E., Cook, T. J., & Cook, J. L. (2007). Revision of Geneiorhynchus Schneider, 1875 (Apicomplexa: Eugregarinida: Actinocephalidae: Acanthosporinae) with Recognition of Four New Species of Geneiorhynchus and Description of Geneiorhynchus manifestus n. sp. Parasitizing Naiads of the Green Darner, Anax junius (Odonata: Aeshnidae) in the Texas. Comparative Parasitology, 74(2), 273-285. pdf

Hinton, J.G., Meyer, H.A., McDaniel, N.D., Bergeron, C., Keely, S.J. & Matte, A. (2014). Lone Star Bears: The Tardigrada of Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. Southeastern Naturalist, 13(5), 131-136. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26454947

Meyer, H.A., Domingue, M.N., & Hinton, J.G. (2014). Tardigrada of the West Gulf Coastal Plain, with Descriptions of Two new Species from Louisiana. Southeastern Naturalist, 13(5), 117-130. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26454946

Hinton, J. G., Meyer, H. A., McDaniel, N. D., Bergeron, C. B., Keely, S. J., & Matte, A. (2014). Lone Star Bears: The Tardigrada of Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. Southeastern Naturalist, 13(sp5), 131-136. https://bioone.org/journals/Southeastern-Naturalist/volume-13/issue-sp5/058.013.s512/Lone-Star-Bears--The-Tardigrada-of-Big-Thicket-National/10.1656/058.013.s512.short

Dutton, H., & Barger, M. (2017). Comparison of Metazoan Parasite Diversity in Catfishes Within and Outside the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 84(1), 21-27. https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-84.1.21

Kusy, H., & Barger, M. (2017). A New Species of Macroderoides (Trematoda: Macroderoididae) from Spotted Gar, Lepisosteus oculatus (Lepisosteidae), in the Big Thicket National Preserve and Surrounding Areas, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 84(1), 28-31. https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-84.1.28

Kusy, H., & Barger, M. (2017). A New Species of Caecincola (Trematoda: Cryptogonimidae) from White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) in Southeastern Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 84(1), 32-35. https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-84.1.32

Orcutt, G., & Barger, M. (2017). A New Species of Caecincola (Trematoda: Cryptogonimidae) from Largemouth Bass (Micropterus salmoides) in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 84(2), 155-158. https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-84.2.155

Barger, M. (2016). A New Species of Prosorhynchoides (Trematoda: Bucephalidae) from White Bass, Morone chrysops (Moronidae), in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 83(1), 74-77. https://doi.org/10.1654/1525-2647-83.1.74

Barger, M., & Wellenstein, D. (2015). Morphological Confirmation of Homalometron (Trematoda: Apocreadiidae) Species in Freshwater Fishes in Southeastern Texas, U.S.A., with Description of Two Species. Comparative Parasitology, 82(2), 248-253. https://doi.org/10.1654/4754.1

Dutton, H., & Barger, M. (2015). Metazoan Parasites of Catfishes in the Big Thicket National Preserve and Surrounding Areas, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 82(2), 187-197. https://doi.org/10.1654/4743.1

Dutton, H., & Barger, M. (2014). A New Genus and Species of Caryophyllaeid (Cestoda: Caryophyllidea) from Spotted Suckers, Minytrema melanops (Catostomidae), in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 81(1), 23-26. https://doi.org/10.1654/4620.1

Barger, M. (2010). A New Species of Lissorchis (Trematoda: Lissorchiidae) from Creek Chubsuckers (Erimyzon oblongus) in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 77(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1654/4415.1

Barger, M. (2010). A New Species of Caecincola (Trematoda: Cryptogonimidae) from Spotted Bass (Micropterus punctulatus) in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 77(1), 6-8. https://doi.org/10.1654/4417.1

Barger, M. (2014). A New Species of Azygia (Trematoda: Azygiidae) from Pirate Perch, Aphredoderus sayanus (Aphredoderidae), in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas, U.S.A. Comparative Parasitology, 81(2), 257-259. https://doi.org/10.1654/4704.1

Tarter, A. A., Ford, D. F., Symonds, D. E., Ford, N. B., & Schwalb, A. N. (2022). Impact of extreme climatic events on unionid mussels in a subtropical river basin. Hydrobiologia, 1-16. pdf

Ford, D. F., Plants-Paris, E. D., & Ford, N. B. (2022). Density, apparent survival, and local population size of Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddelli) in the Neches River, Texas. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 25(2), 74-8. https://doi.org/10.31931/fmbc-d-21-00003

Ford, D.F., Plants-Paris, E.D. & Ford, N.B. Comparison of Louisiana Pigtoe (Pleurobema riddellii, Mollusca, Unionidae) growth at three different locations in the Neches River Basin of East Texas. Hydrobiologia 847, 2021–2033 (2020). https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10750-020-04228-8

Thesis: Tarter, A. A. (2019). Distribution of unionid mussels in the Big Thicket region of Texas

Dascher, E. D., Burlakova, L. E., Karatayev, A. Y., Ford, D. F., & Schwalb, A. N. (2018). Distribution of unionid freshwater mussels and host fishes in Texas: a study of broad-scale spatial patterns across basins and a strong climate gradient. Hydrobiologia, 810, 315-331. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-017-3168-5

Walters, A. D., Ford, D., Chong, E. T., Williams, M. G., Ford, N. B., Williams, L. R., & Banta, J. A. (2017). High-resolution ecological niche modelling of threatened freshwater mussels in east Texas, USA. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 27(6), 1251-1260. https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2784

Ford, D. F., Walters, A. D., Williams, L. R., Williams, M. G., & Ford, N. B. (2016). Mussel assemblages in streams of different sizes in the Neches River basin of Texas. Southeastern Naturalist, 15(1), 26-40. https://bioone.org/journals/southeastern-naturalist/volume-15/issue-1/058.015.0103/Mussel-Assemblages-in-Streams-of-Different-Sizes-in-the-Neches/10.1656/058.015.0103.short

Ford, D. F., Oliver, A. M. (2015). The known and potential hosts of Texas mussels: Implications for future research and conservation efforts. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 18, 1-14. pdf

Ford, N. B., Heffentrager, K., Ford, D. F., Walters, A. D., & Marshall, N. (2014). Significant recent records of unionid mussels in northeast Texas rivers. Freshwater Mollusk Biology and Conservation, 17(1), 8-15. https://doi.org/10.31931/fmbc.v17i1.2014.8-15

Lewis, D. P., Ammirati, J. F., Liimatainen, K., Niskanen, T., Ovrebo, C. L., Smith, M., Justice, J., & Kaminsky, L. (2023). Cortinarius watsoneae, a new species of Agaricomycetes (Cortinariaceae) from the Gulf States. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 17(1), 259-264. https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1294

Lewis, D. P., Ovrebo, C. L., & Justice, N. J. (2020). Literature update for Texas fleshy basidiomycota with new vouchered records for southeast Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 14(2), 465-479. pdf

Bessette, A.E., Bessette, A.R., Lewis. D. (2019). Mushrooms of the Gulf Coast States: A Field Guide to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. University of Texas Press. book cover image

Buyck, B., et. al. (2017). Fungal Biodiversity Profiles 21-30. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 38(1), 101-146. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v38.iss1.2017.101

Buyck, B., Hofstetter, V., & Olariaga, I. (2016). Setting the record straight on North American Cantharellus. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 37(3), 405-417. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v37.iss3.2016.405

Buyck, B., Moreau, P., Courtecuisse, R., Kong, A., Roy, M., & Hofstetter, V. (2016). Cantharellus coccolobae sp. nov. and Cantharellus garnieri, Two Tropical Members of Cantharellus subg. Cinnabarinus. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 37(3), 391-403. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v37.iss3.2016.391

Buyck, B., Olariaga, I., Justice, J., Lewis, D., Roody, W., & Hofstetter, V. (2016). The dilemma of species recognition in the field when sequence data are not in phase with phenotypic variability. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 37(3), 367-389. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v37.iss3.2016.367

Buyck, B., Olariaga, I., Looney, B., Justice, J., & Hofstetter, V. (2016). Wisconsin chanterelles revisited and first indications for very wide distributions of Cantharellus species in the United States East of the Rocky Mountains. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 37(3), 345-366. https://doi.org/10.7872/crym/v37.iss3.2016.345

Petersen, R. H., Hughes, K. W., Justice, J., & Lewis, D. P. (2014). A new species of Gomphus from Southeastern United States. North American Fungi, 9(9), 1-13. http://dx.doi.org/10.2509/naf2014.009.009

Buyck, B., Lewis, D. P., Eyssartier, G., & Hofstetter, V. (2010). Cantharellus quercophilus sp. nov. and its comparison to other small, yellow or brown American chanterelles. Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 31(1), 17-33.

Lewis, D. P., & Ovrebo, C. L. (2009). Mycological Literature on Texas Fleshy Basidiomycota, Two New Combinations, and New Fungal Records for Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 3(1), 257–271. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41972163

Ortiz-Santana, B., Lewis, D. P., & Both, E. E. (2009). A new Boletus from North America. Mycotaxon, 110, 211-217. http://www.mycotaxon.com/

Hughes, K. W., Petersen, R. H., Mata, J. L., Psurtseva, N. V., Kovalenko, A. E., Morozova, O. V., Lickey, E.B., Blanco, J.C., Lewis, D.P, Nagasawa, E.I. and Halling, R.E. (2007). Megacollybia (Agaricales). Reports of the Tottori Mycological Institute, 45, 1-57. pdf

Lewis, D.P., & Cibula, W. (2000). Studies on Gulf Coast Agarics (Basidiomycota: Agaricaceae): Notes on some interesting and rare species. Texas Journal of Science, 52, 65-78. pdf

Lewis, D. & McGraw, J. (1984) Studies on Big Thicket Agaricales. The Southwestern Naturalist 29(3), 257-264. https://doi.org/10.2307/3671356

Lewis, D., & McGraw, J. (1981). Agaricales, Family Amanitaceae, of the Big Thicket. The Southwestern Naturalist, 26(1), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.2307/3671322

Liggio, J., Liggio Orto, A. (1999). Wild Orchids of Texas. University of North Texas Press. book cover image

Haile, K. C., & Hatch, S. L. (2013). Vascular Plants of the Canyonlands unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 575-585. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24621109

Haile, K. (2012). Vascular Plant Survey of the Canyonlands Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, Texas (Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University). https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/13642242.pdf

MacRoberts, B. R., Brown, L. E., MacRoberts, M. H., Pruess, W. W., Elsik, I. S., & Jones, S. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Jack Gore Baygall and Neches Bottom Units of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler, Jasper, and Hardin Counties, Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 473-488. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41972030

Brown, L. E., MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., & Pruess, W. W. (2009). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Menard Creek Corridor Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Polk, Liberty, and Hardin Counties, Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 443-455. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41972197

Brown, L. E., Pruess, W. W., Elsik, I. S., MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., & Walker, S. B. (2008). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Loblolly Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Liberty County, Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1481-1489. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971797, pdf

MacRoberts, M. H., & MacRoberts, B. R. (2008). The Big Thicket of Texas as floristically unique habitat. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 665-671. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971692

MacRoberts, M. H., & MacRoberts, B. R. (2008). Rare and endemic plants of the Big Thicket: A phytogeographical analysis. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1475-1479. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971795

MacRoberts, M. H., & MacRoberts, B. R. (2007). Phytogeography of the Big Thicket, east Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1149-1155. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971544, pdf

Brown, L. E., Keith, E. L., Rosen, D. J., & Liggio, J. (2007). Notes on the flora of Texas with additions and other significant records. III. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 1255-1264. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971554

Brown, L. E., Harcombe, P. A., Pruess, W. W., Elsik, I. S., MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., & Jones, S. D. (2006). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Lance Rosier Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Hardin County, Texas. SIDA, Contributions to Botany, 1175-1189. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41969096

Brown, L. E., MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., Harcombe, P. A., Pruess, W. W., Elsik, I. S., & Jones, S. D. (2006). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Big Sandy Creek Unit, Big Thicket National Preserve. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41968625

Brown, L. E., MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., Harcombe, P. A., Pruess, W. W., Elsik, I. S., & Johnson, D. (2005). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Turkey Creek Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler and Hardin counties, Texas. SIDA, Contributions to Botany, 1807-1827. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41968456

MacRoberts, B. R., MacRoberts, M. H., & Brown, L. E. (2002). Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Hickory Creek Unit of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Tyler County, Texas. SIDA, Contributions to Botany, 781-795. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41971692

MacRoberts, B. R., Brown, L. E., & MacRoberts, M. H. Annotated checklist of the vascular flora of the Jack Gore Baygall and Neches Bottom Units of the Big Thicket National Preserve. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 4(1). pdf

Vasilyeva, L.N. (2011). Quaternaria carpinicola, a comb. nov. (Diatrypaceae). Mycosphere, 2(4), 515–517. http://www.mycosphere.org/pdfs/MC2_4_No14.pdf

Vasilyeva, L., & Stephenson, S. (2010). Biogeographical patterns in pyrenomycetous fungi and their taxonomy. The Grayan disjunction. Mycotaxon, 114, 281-303. https://doi.org/10.5248/114.281

Vasilyeva, L. N., & Stephenson, S. L. (2009). The genus Diatrype (Ascomycota, Diatrypaceae) in Arkansas and Texas (USA). Mycotaxon, 107, 307-314. http://www.mycotaxon.com

Rogers, J.D., Vasilyeva, L., & Hay, F.O. (2008). New Xylariaceae from Hawaii and Texas (USA). Sydowia, 60(2): 277–286. http://sydowia.at/syd60-2/T11-Rogers.htm

Winsett, KE, & Stephenson, S.L. (2013). Myxomycetes isolated from submerged plant material collected in the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. Mycosphere, 4(2), 227–231. https://doi.org/10.5943/mycosphere/4/2/5 pdf

Winsett, K. E., & Stephenson, S. L. (2012). An Annotated Checklist of the Myxomycetes of the Big Thicket National Preserve, Texas. Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, 6(1), 287–298. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41972403