Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Tsang TPN, … KJ Turo, et al. [139 authors] (in press) Land use change consistently reduces α but not β and γ diversity of bees. Global Change Biology.
Turo KJ, JR Reilly, TPM Fijen, A Magrach, R Winfree (2024) Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide. Nature Ecology and Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-024-02460-2 PDF
Perry KI, Bahlai CA, Assal TJ, Riley CB, Turo KJ, Taylor L, Delgado de la Flor YA, Sivakoff FS, Gardiner MM (2024) Landscape change and alien invasions drive shifts in native lady beetle communities over a century. Ecological Applications. doi: 10.1002/eap.3024 PDF
Bell KL, KJ Turo, A Lowe, K Nota, A Keller, F Encinas-Viso, L Parducci, R Richardson, R Legget, B Brosi, K Burgess, Y Suyama, N deVere (2022) Plants, pollinators, and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding. Molecular Ecology. doi: 10.1111/mec.16689 PDF
Turo KJ, Gardiner MM (2021) Effects of urban greenspace configuration and native vegetation on bee and wasp reproduction. Conservation Biology. doi: 10.1111/cobi.13753 PDF
Gardiner MM, Perry KI, Riley CBR, Turo KJ, Sivakoff FS, Delgado de la Flor YA (2021) Community science data suggests that urbanization and forested habitat loss threaten aphidophagous native lady beetles. Ecology and Evolution 11: 2761–2774. doi: 10.1002/ece3.7229 PDF
Turo KJ, Spring MR, Sivakoff FS, Delgado de la Flor YA, Gardiner MM (2021) Conservation in post-industrial cities: How does vacant land management and landscape configuration influence urban bees? Journal of Applied Ecology 58: 58-69 doi: 10.1111/1365-2664.13773 PDF
Turo KJ, Gardiner MM (2020) The balancing act of urban conservation. Nature Communications. 11: 1-5. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17539-0 PDF
Parker DM, Turo KJ, Delgado de la Flor YA, Gardiner MM (2020) Landscape context influences the abundance and richness of native lady beetles occupying urban vacant land. Urban Ecosystems 23: 1299–1310. doi: 10.1007/s11252-020-01000-7 PDF
Delgado de la Flor YA, Perry KI, Turo KJ, Parker DM, Thompson JL, Gardiner MM (2020) Local and landscape-scale environmental filters drive the functional diversity and taxonomic composition of spiders across urban greenspaces. Journal of Applied Ecology. 57: 1570–1580. doi: 10.1111/1365‐2664.13636 PDF
Turo KJ, Gardiner MM (2019) From potential to practical: Conserving bees in urban public greenspace. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 17: 167-175. doi: 10.1002/fee.2015 PDF
Yang L, Turo KJ, Riley CB, Alfaro Inocente E, Tian J, Hoekstra N, Piermarini PM, Gardiner MM (2019) Can urban greening lead to increased vector abundances in cities? The impact of mowing, landscape patterns, and local vegetation on adult mosquito populations. Urban Ecosystems 22: 827–839. doi: 10.1007/s11252-019-00857-7 PDF
Wagner DL, Todd KJ (2016) New ecological assessment for the emerald ash borer: A cautionary tale about unvetted host-plant literature. American Entomologist 62:26–35. doi: 10.1093/ae/tmw005 PDF
Todd KJ, Gardiner MM, Lindquist ED (2016) Mass flowering crops as a conservation resource for wild pollinators (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of Kansas Entomological Society 89: 158–167. doi: 10.2317/0022-8567-89.2.158 PDF
Wagner DL, Todd KJ (2015) Ecological impacts of emerald ash borer. In: Van Driesche RG, Reardon RC (eds) Biology and control of emerald ash borer. USFS Technology Transfer Bulletin FHTET-2014-09, USDA Forest Service, Morgantown, WV, pp 15–62.