Publications

BOOKS:

• Waller, DM and TP ROONEY, eds. 2008. The Vanishing Present: Wisconsin’s changing lands, waters, and wildlife. University of Chicago Press. 507 p.

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ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS:

• Fakhar-i-Abbas, KE Ruckstuhl, A Mian, T Akhtar, and TP ROONEY. 2012. Distribution, population size and structure of Himalayan grey goral Naemorhedus goral bedfordi (Certiodactyla: Bovidae) in Pakistan. Mammalia 76: 143-147.

• ROONEY TP and DA Rogers. 2011. Colonization and effects of Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata), European Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica), and Bell’s Honeysuckle (Lonicera × bella) on understory plants after five decades in southern Wisconsin forests. Invasive Plant Science and Management 4: 317-325.

• ROONEY TP, JL Peters, and JL Hays. 2010. Changes in the Sugarcreek Metropark bird community between 1978 and 2010. The Ohio Cardinal. in press.

• ROONEY TP. 2010. What do we do with too many deer? Action Bioscience. http://www.actionbioscience.org/biodiversity/rooney.html

• ROONEY TP and MK Leach. 2010. Replacing hay-mowing with prescribed fire restores species diversity and conservation value in a tallgrass prairie sampled thrice: a 59-year study. American Midland Naturalist 164: 311-321

• Ripple, WJ, TP ROONEY, and RL Beschta. 2010. Large predators, deer, and trophic cascades in the mid-latitudes. Pages 141-161 in J Terborgh and JA Estes, eds. Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. Island Press, Washington DC.

• Rogers, DA, TP ROONEY, TJ Hawbaker, VC Radeloff, and DM Waller. 2009. Paying the extinction debt in southern Wisconsin forest understories. Conservation Biology 23: 1497-1506.

• ROONEY TP. 2009. High white-tailed deer densities benefit graminoids and contribute to biotic homogenization of forest ground-layer vegetation. Plant Ecology 202: 103-111.

• ROONEY TP and DA Anderson. 2009. Are wolf-mediated trophic cascades boosting biodiversity in the Great Lakes Region? Pages 205-215 in A.P. Wydeven and T. Van Deelen, eds. Recovery of Gray Wolves in the Great Lakes Region of the United States: an Endangered Species Success Story. Springer, New York.

• ROONEY, TP. 2008. Stability of plant species co-occurrence structure in forest herb-layer communities. Acta Oecologica 34: 354-360.

• Rogers, DA, TP ROONEY, D Olson, and DM Waller. 2008. Fifty years of change in southern Wisconsin forests: Shifts in canopy and understory richness, composition and heterogeneity. Ecology 89: 2482-2492

• Waller, DM and TP ROONEY. 2008. Assembling the puzzle. Pages 1-12 in The Vanishing Present.

• Rogers, DA, TP ROONEY, and R. Henderson. 2008. Changes in southern upland forests. Pages 91-101 in The Vanishing Present.

• ROONEY, TP and DM Waller. 2008. Plant species diversity in the once and future Northwoods. Pages 75-90 in The Vanishing Present.

• ROONEY, TP and DJ Mladenoff. 2008. The future of forest conservation. Pages 458-459 in The Vanishing Present.

• ROONEY TP, JD Olden, MK Leach, DA Rogers. 2007. Biotic homogenization and conservation prioritization. Biological Conservation 134: 447-450.

• ROONEY TP. 2006. Deer density reduction without a 12-gague shotgun (Wisconsin). Ecological Restoration 24: 205-206.

• Olden, JD and TP ROONEY. 2006. On defining and quantifying of biotic homogenization. Global Ecology and Biogeography 15: 113-120.

• ROONEY TP, and KC Millam. 2006. Population demography and herbivory of Trillium
  grandiflorum: implications for Trillium conservation. Pages 591-595 in Columbus, JT, EA Friar, JM Porter, LM Prince, and MG Simpson, eds. Monocots: Comparative biology and evolution (excluding Poales). Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden, Claremont, CA.

• ROONEY TP. 2005. Distribution of ecologically-invasive plants along off-road vehicle trails in the Chequamegon National Forest, Wisconsin. Michigan Botanist 44: 169-173.

• ROONEY TP, DA Rogers, SM Wiegmann, and DM Waller. 2004. Monitoring non-native plant invasions over 50 years in Wisconsin forests. Weed Technology 18: 1266-1268.

• ROONEY TP, SM Wiegmann, DA Rogers, and DM Waller. 2004. Biotic impoverishment and homogenization in unfragmented forest understory communities. Conservation Biology 18: 787-798.

• Waller, DM and TP ROONEY. 2004. Nature is changing in more ways than one. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 19: 6-7.

• LaRosa, RJ, DA Rogers, TP ROONEY, and DM Waller. 2004. Does steeplebush (Spiraea tomentosa) facilitate pollination of Virginia meadow beauty (Rhexia virginica)? Michigan
  Botanist 43: 57-63.

• Côté, SD, TP ROONEY, JP Tremblay, C Dussault, and DM Waller. 2004. Ecological impacts of deer overabundance. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 35: 113-147.

• Steven, JC, TP ROONEY, OD Boyle, and DM Waller. 2003. Density-dependent pollinator visitation and self incompatibility in upper Great Lakes populations of Trillium
  grandiflorum. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 130: 23-29.

• ROONEY TP and K Gross. 2003. A demographic study of deer browsing impacts on Trillium grandiflorum. Plant Ecology 168: 267-277.

• ROONEY TP and DM Waller. 2003. Direct and indirect effects of deer in forest ecosystems. Forest Ecology and Management 181: 165-176. (Special Issue—Forest Dynamics and Ungulate Herbivory: From Leaf to Landscape).

• ROONEY, TP, SL Solheim, and DM Waller. 2002. Factors influencing the regeneration of
  northern white cedar in lowland forests of the Upper Great Lakes region, USA. Forest
  Ecology and Management 163: 119-130.

• ROONEY, TP and DA Rogers. 2002. The modified Floristic Quality Index. Natural Areas
  Journal 22: 340-344.

• Barry, GR, TP ROONEY, SJ Ventura, and DM Waller. 2001. Evaluation of biodiversity value based on wildness: a study of the western Northwoods, Upper Great Lakes, USA. Natural Areas Journal 21: 229-242.

• ROONEY, TP and DM Waller. 2001. How experimental defoliation and leaf height affect
  growth and reproduction in Trillium grandiflorum. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 128: 393-399.

• ROONEY, TP 2001. Impacts of white-tailed deer on forest ecosystems: a North American perspective. Forestry 74: 201-208 (Special Issue—Ecological Impacts of Deer in Woodland).

• ROONEY, T, D Waller and S Wiegmann. 2001. Revisiting the Northwoods: a lesson in biotic homogenization. Wild Earth 11(1): 45-49.

• ROONEY, TP, RJ McCormick, SL Solheim and DM Waller. 2000. Regional variation in
  recruitment of hemlock seedlings and saplings in the upper Great Lakes, USA. Ecological Applications 10: 1119-1132.

• ROONEY, TP, C Antolik and MD Moran. 2000. The impact of salamander predation on
  Collembola abundance. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 102:
  308-312.

• Borgmann, K, DM Waller, and TP ROONEY. 1999. Does balsam fir (Abies balsamea)
  facilitate the recruitment of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)? American Midland Naturalist 141: 391-397.

• ROONEY, TP and DM Waller. 1998. Local and regional variation in hemlock seedling
  establishment in the forests of the upper Great Lakes region, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 111: 211-224.

• ROONEY, TP and WJ Dress. 1997. Patterns of plant diversity in overbrowsed primary and mature secondary hemlock-northern hardwood forest stands. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 124: 43-51.

• ROONEY, TP and WJ Dress. 1997. Species loss over sixty-six years in the ground layer vegetation of Heart's Content, an old-growth forest in Pennsylvania USA. Natural Areas Journal 17: 297-305.

• ROONEY, TP 1997. Escaping herbivory: refuge effects on the morphology and shoot
  demography of the clonal forest herb Maianthemum canadense. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 124: 280-285.

• Moran, MD, TP ROONEY, and LE Hurd. 1996. Top-down cascade from a bitrophic predator in an old-field community. Ecology 77: 2219-2227.

• ROONEY, TP, A Tetlow-Smith, and LE Hurd. 1996. Global warming and the regional
  persistence of a temperate-zone insect (Tenodera sinensis). American Midland Naturalist 136: 84-93.

• ROONEY, TP 1996. Wildlands recovery in Pennsylvania. Wild Earth 6(3): 89-93.

• ROONEY, TP 1995. Restoring landscape diversity and old growth to Pennsylvania's northern hardwood forests. Natural Areas Journal 15: 274-278.

• Hurd, LE, RM Eisenberg, MD Moran, TP ROONEY, WJ Gangloff, and VM Case. 1995. Time, temperature, and food as determinants of population persistence in the temperate mantid Tenodera sinensis (Mantodea: Mantidae). Environmental Entomology 24: 348-353.

• ROONEY, TP 1995. Global warming and The Wildlands Project. Wild Earth 5(3): 46-47.

• ROONEY, TP 1994. Modelling climate-induced extinction in the temperate zone.
  Environmental Conservation 21: 257-259.

• ROONEY, TP 1994. Is logging good for songbirds? Wild Earth 4(2): 31-32.