Dr. Melissa Wuellner
Associate Professor
Office:
BHS
345 |
Phone: (308) 865-8006 |
Email: wuellnermr@unk.edu
Biography
Areas of Interest:
- Fisheries ecology and management
- Human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries
- Systems thinking and systems dynamics
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
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Publications:
- Dembkowski, D. J., Weber, M. J., and Wuellner, M. R. 2017. Factors influencing recruitment and growth of age-0 yellow perch in eastern South Dakota glacial lakes. Fisheries Management and Ecology doi: 10.1111/fme.12240.
- Turner, B.L., Wuellner, M., Nichols, T., Gates, R., Tedeschi, L. O., and Dunn, B. H. 2017. A systems approach to forecast agricultural land transformation from economic, policy, and cultural scenarios in the north central United States (2012 – 2062). International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 15(2): 102-123. doi: 10.1080/14735903.2017.1288029
- Wuellner, M. R., Vincent, L., and Felts, B. 2017. Environmental mental models of college students. International Journal of Environmental and Science Education 12: 105-115.
- Smith, B. J., Blackwell, B. G., Wuellner, M. R., Graeb, B. D. S., and Willis, D. W. 2017. Contact selectivity for four fish species sampled with North American standard gill nets. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37: 149-161.
- Wuellner, M. R., Grote, J. D., and Fincel, M. J. 2016. Spatial and temporal distinction of microelemental signatures of Missouri River tributaries. River Research and Applications doi: 10.1002/rra.3115.
- Bogner, D. M., Kaemingk, M. A., and Wuellner, M. R. 2016. Consequences of hatch phenology on stages of fish recruitment. PLoS ONE 11(10): e0164980.
- Dembkowski, D. J., Wuellner, M. R., and Willis, D. W. 2016. Synchrony in larval yellow perch production: the influence of the Moran Effect during early life history. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(10): 1567-1574.
- Turner, B. L., Wuellner, M., Nichols, T., Gates, R., Tedeschi, L. O., and Dunn, B. H. 2016. Development and evaluation of a system dynamics model for investigating agriculturally driven land transformation in the north central United States. Natural Resource Modeling 29(2): 179-228.
- Smith, B. J., Dembkowski, D. J., James, D. A., and Wuellner, M. R. 2016. A simple method to increase precision, reduce error, and facilitate the aging of otoliths: the otolith illumination device. The Open Fish Science Journal 9: 1-7.
- Smith, B. J., Blackwell, B. G., Wuellner, M. R., Graeb, B. D. S., and Willis, D. W. 2016. Escapement of fishes from modified fyke nets with varying throat configurations. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 36(1): 96-103.