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  Shawn DeKeyser Shawn DeKeyser, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Natural Resource Sciences
 
     
 

Office: 131 Walster Hall
Phone: (701) 231-7868
E-mail: edward.dekeyser@ndsu.edu

Research interests:
Wetland Ecology
Wetland Assessment and Monitoring
Invasive Species Ecology and Management
Native Prairie Restoration

Training/Education:
PhD, Animal and Range Sciences - North Dakota State University, 2000
MS, Animal and Range Sciences - North Dakota State University, 1995
BS, Biology – Jamestown College, 1991

 

Courses taught:
RNG 450/650, Range Plants
RNG 454/654, Wetland Resources Management
RNG 462/662, Rangeland Planning and Analysis
RNG 716 Agrostology
RNG 717, Aquatic Vascular Plants

Selected Publications:
Alexander, B.W., D. Kirby, M. Biondini, and E. DeKeyser. 2010. Cattle grazing reduces survival and reproduction of the western prairie fringed orchid. The Prairie Naturalist 42:46-49.

Alexander, B.W., D. Kirby, M. Biondini, and E. DeKeyser. 2010. In situ development of western prairie fringed orchid seeds, protocorms, and seedlings in grazed and non-grazed prairie habitat. The Prairie Naturalist 42:50-54.

Alexander, B.W., D. Kirby, M. Biondini, and E. DeKeyser. 2010. Seed production and maturation of the western prairie fringed orchid. The Prairie Naturalist 42:55-60.

Paradeis, B.L., E. S. DeKeyser, and D. Kirby. 2010. Evaluation of restored and native prairie pothole region plant communities following an environmental gradient. Natural Areas J. 30:500-510.

DeKeyser, E., M. Biondini, D. Kirby, and C. Hargiss. 2008. Low prairie plant communities as a function of disturbance: physical parameters. Ecological Indicators 9:296-306.

Hargiss , C.L.M., E.S. DeKeyser, D.R. Kirby, and M.J. Ell. 2008. Regional assessment of wetland plant communities using the index of plant community integrity . Ecological Indicators 8: 303-307.

Mita, D., D. Kirby and E.S. DeKeyser. 2007. Developing a wetland condition prediction model using landscape structure variability . Wetlands, 27: 1124-1133.

Braun, T.A., J.L. Richardson, and E.S. DeKeyser. 2007. Wildfire induced soil water repellency on Badland hillslopes in North Dakota. Soil Survey Horizons, 47: 74-78.

Rogers, W.M., D.R. Kirby, P.E. Nyren, B.D. Patton, and E.S. DeKeyser. 2005. Grazing intensity effects on Northern Plains mixed-grass prairie. Prairie Naturalist, 37: 73-83.

Phillips, R.L., O. Beeri, and E.S. DeKeyser. 2005. Remote wetland assessment for Missouri Coteau prairie glacial basins. Wetlands, 25: 335-349.

 
     

 

 

 
Contact:
Kevin Sedivec, Ph.D.
Professor and Program Director
Range Sciences
Hultz Hall, Room 100F
701.231.7647
kevin.sedivec@ndsu.edu
   
   
     
* Last Updated: September 28, 2011