Tamatha Patterson
Science and Products
Evidence of an extreme weather‐induced phenological mismatch and a local extirpation of the endangered Karner blue butterfly
In 2011, an experiment was undertaken to examine spring synchrony between the endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis) (Kbb) and its obligate host plant, wild blue lupine (Lupinus perennis) at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore (INDU), where the southernmost population of Kbb occurred at the time of this study. From 2012 to 2014...
Patterson, Tamatha; Grundel, Ralph; Dzurisin, Jason D. K.; Knutson, Randy L.; Hellmann, Jessica Sharp savanna-forest transitions in the Midwest followed environmental gradients but are absent from the modern landscape
Historically, closed eastern forests transitioned into open savannas and prairies in the US Midwest, but this transition is poorly understood. To investigate the eastern boundary of the prairie-forest ecotone, we conducted a case study of historic and modern vegetation patterns of the Yellow River watershed in northwest Indiana. Historic...
Broderick, Caitlin M.; Heilman, Kelly A; Patterson, Tamatha; Peters, Jody A; McLachlan, Jason S. Conservation Action Planning: Lessons learned from the St. Marys River watershed biodiversity conservation planning process
Conservation Action Planning (CAP) is an adaptive management planning process refined by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and embraced worldwide as the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. The CAP process facilitates open, multi-institutional collaboration on a common conservation agenda through organized actions and quantified results....
Patterson, Tamatha A.; Grundel, Ralph Geographic coincidence of richness, mass, conservation value, and response to climate of U.S. land birds
Distributional patterns across the United States of five avian community breeding-season characteristics—community biomass, richness, constituent species' vulnerability to extirpation, percentage of constituent species' global abundance present in the community (conservation index, CI), and the community's position along the ecological...
Grundel, Ralph; Frohnapple, Krystal; Zaya, David N.; Glowacki, Gary A.; Weiskerger, Chelsea J.; Patterson, Tamatha A.; Pavlovic, Noel B.
Patterson Invited as Keynote Speaker for Women in STEM Event
Encouraging Women to Enter Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs