Aguilar, R., DeLaFuente, A., Heslinga, J., Nyamai, P.A. 2026. Ecosystem responses to ecological restoration treatments of prescribed fire and tree girdling reveal mixed outcomes in two degraded oak savanna communities in West Michigan, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 618, 123954, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2026.123954
Nyamai, P.A., Swaty, R., Dettenmaier, M. 2025. Demystifying ecological modeling: a hands-on activity to acquaint students with modeling ecosystem responses to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. American Biology Teacher 87(6): 347-353
Partridge, C.G., P.A. Nyamai., A. Hoskins., S. Parks. 2023. Butterfly Blues: Population Genetic Assessment of Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis L.) in Endangered Karner Blue Butterfly Habitat around Central-West Michigan. Botany 00: 1–10 dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjb-2022-0107 1
Nyamai, P.A., T.A. Aschenbach., J.L. Heslinga. 2020. Restoration on private Lands: A case study examining vegetation recruitment following restoration treatments in an oak-pine barrens ecosystem in western Michigan, USA. American Midland Naturalist 184: 149-162.
Nyamai, P.A., P.C. Goebel., R.G. Corace III., D.M. Hix. 2020. Regeneration patterns of key pine species in a mixed-pine forest indicate a positive effect of variable retention harvesting and an increase in recruitment with time. Forest Ecosystems 7: 50.
Poppenwimer, T.L., Hicks, H.M., Nyamai, P.A., Boes, K.E. 2015. Promoting student understanding of the ecological impacts and management of invasive species: a collaborative scenario-driven activity. American Biology Teacher 77: 676-680.
Nyamai, P.A., P.C. Goebel., D.M. Hix., R.G. Corace III., I. Drobyshev. 2014. Fire history, fuels, and overstory effects on the regeneration-layer dynamics of mixed-pine forest ecosystems of eastern Upper Michigan, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 322: 37-47.
Toman, E., D.M. Hix., P.C. Goebel., S.D. Gehrt., R.S. Wilson., J.A. Sherry., A. Silvis., P.A. Nyamai., R.A, Williams., S. McCaffrey. 2014. Hazardous fuels management in mixed red pine and eastern white pine forest in the northern Lake States: A synthesis of knowledge. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-134. USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA, USA. 64 p. http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/46030
Nyamai, P.A., T.S. Prather., J.M. Wallace. 2011. Evaluating restoration methods across a range of plant communities dominated by invasive annual grasses to native perennial grasses. Invasive Plant Science and Management 4: 306-316.