Publications

I have had several opportunities to publish scientific papers both as a lead author and as a member of a larger scientific team. Here are some of the highlights of that record. If any of these links are behind a paywall for you, simply reach out to me and I’ll work to get you a PDF. The icons to the left of the titles (e.g., ) are intended to help roughly group content by their topic.

Picture of a question mark butterfly (Speyeria cybele) on a common milkweed flower (Asclepias syriaca)

Not (Yet!) Published

– Ohlert, T. et al. Drought Severity Interacts with Duration to Erode Ecosystem Resistance. [In press at Science] -

– Bush, S. et al. Thinking Outside the Rocks: Subsurface Storage, Topography, and Land Cover Modulate Large-Scale Riverine Dissolved Silicon Dynamics. [In revision at Geophysical Research Letters] - spatial & manuscript

– White, M. et al. Scale-Dependent Effects of Species Richness and Asynchrony Regulate the Temporal Stability of Consumer-Mediated Nutrient Dynamics. [In review at Nature Ecology & Evolution] -

– Carey, J.C. et al. River Silicon Concentrations and Exports are Predominantly Increasing Relative to Nitrogen and Phosphorus Across High Latitude Systems. [In prep] -

– Maurer, G. et al. Ten Simple Rules for Team Synthesis in Ecological Research. [In prep]

Published

– Brun, J. et al. Enabling Data-Driven Collaborative and Reproducible Environmental Synthesis Science. 2025. Methods in Ecology and Evolution

– LaMontagne, J. et al. Community Synchrony in Seed Production is Associated with Trait Similarity and Climate across North America. 2024. Ecology Letters - - Recipient of the 2025 McIntosh Award

– Lyon, N.J. & Earl, S. Conventional Commits: A Better Way to Track Changes with Git. 2024. DataBits

– Nigro, K.M. et al. coMAST: Harmonized Seed Production Data for Woody Plants across U.S. Long Term Research Sites. 2024. Ecology -

– Johnson, K. et al. Climate, Hydrology, and Nutrients Control the Seasonality of Si Concentrations in Rivers. 2024. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

– Lyon, N.J. & Chen, A. Announcing ltertools: An R Package By and For the LTER Community. 2024. DataBits

– Johnson, K. et al. Establishing Fluvial Silicon Regimes and Their Stability Across the Northern Hemisphere. 2024. Limnology and Oceanography Letters

– Herbivory Variability Network. Plant Size, Latitude, and Phylogeny Explain Within-Population Variability in Herbivory. 2023. Science

– Kucuk, R.A. et al. Gut Bacteria of Adult and Larval Cotinis nitida Linnaeus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Demonstrate Community Differences According to Life Stage and Gut Region. 2023. Frontiers in Microbiology -

– Gaynor, K. et al. Ten Simple Rules to Cultivate Belonging in Collaborative Data Science Research Teams. 2022. PLOS Computational Biology

– Coon, J.J. et al. Using Adaptive Management to Restore Grasslands Invaded by Tall Fescue (Schedonorus arundinaceus). 76. 2021. Rangeland Ecology and Management -

– Lyon, N.J. et al. Responses of Flowering Plant and Butterfly Communities to Experimental Herbicide and Seeding Treatments for Native Grassland Restoration. 3. 2021. Ecological Restoration -

– Lyon, N.J. et al. An Integrated Approach to Restoring Grassland Function to Working Lands. 2019. Master of Science Thesis -

– Lyon, N.J., Debinski, D.M., and Rangwala, I. Evaluating the Utility of Species Distribution Models in Informing Climate Change-Resilient Grassland Restoration Strategy. 7. 2019 Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution -

– Lyon, N.J. & Hodum, P. Mytilus Mussels as Bio-indicators of Regional Microplastic Trends. 2015. University of Puget Sound Undergraduate Thesis