Konza LTER Publications
Warm spring reduced carbon cycle impact of the 2012 US summer drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016:201519620. doi:10.1073/pnas.1519620113.
Heterogeneity promotes resilience in restored prairie: Implications for the environmental heterogeneity hypothesis. Ecological Applications. 2024;34(6):e3006. doi:10.1002/eap.3006.
. Colonization and recovery of invertebrate ecosystem engineers during prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2014;22:456 -464. doi:10.1111/rec.12084.
. Diversity–stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales. Ecology. 2023;104(9):e4136. doi:10.1002/ecy.v104.910.1002/ecy.4136.
Growing up prairie: Ecological drivers of grassland songbird nestling development. Department of Biology. 2019;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40070.
. Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02927. doi:10.1002/ecy.2927.
. Ecosystem Processes of Prairie Streams and the Impact of Anthropogenic Alteration on Stream Ecological Integrity. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6849.
. Effects of rangeland management on survival of female greater prairie‐chickens. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 2017. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21331.
. Factors affecting female space use in ten populations of prairie chickens. Ecosphere. 2015;6(9):art166. doi:10.1890/ES14-00536.1.
Space use of female greater Prairie-Chickens in response to fire and grazing interactions. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2017;70(2):165–174. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.004.
. Effects of mycorrhizas on growth and demography of tallgrass prairie forbs. American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:1452 -1457. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21669678.
. Facilitating nurse plant survival with mycorrhizal inoculum following eradication of a non-native grass. 2018;MS Thesis. Available at: https://shareok.org/handle/11244/317698.
. Suppression of mycorrhizal growth response of big bluestem by nonsterile soil. Mycologia. 1988;80:338 -343. doi:10.2307/3807630.
. Topsin-M: the new benomyl for mycorrhizal-suppression experiments. Mycologia. 2008;100:548 -554. doi:10.3852/08-024R.
. The water budget, climate variability, and climate impacts assessment in Northeast Kansas. 2009;32:189 -196.
. Hyporheic oxygen flux and substratum spatial heterogeneity: effects on whole-stream dynamics. 2005;MS Thesis:1 -65.
. Mycorrhizal-mediated phosphorus transfer between tallgrass prairie plants Sorghastrum nutans and Artemisia ludoviciana. Functional Ecology. 2006;20:427 -435. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2006.01134.x.
. Centimeter-scale stream substratum heterogeneity and metabolic rates. Hydrobiologia. 2009;623:53 -62. doi:10.1007/s10750-008-9647-y.
. Interspecific variation in plant responses to mycorrhizal colonization in prairie grasses and forbs. American Journal of Botany. 1998;85:1732 -1738.
. Effects of mycorrhizae on plant productivity and species abundances in tallgrass prairie microcosms. American Journal of Botany. 1997;84:478 -482. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21708601.
. Mycorrhizal symbiosis in the tallgrass prairie: above- and belowground linkages. 2003;PhD Dissertation:1 -211.
. Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments. Ecology Letters. 2009;12:452 -461. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01303.x.
. Invasive warm-season grasses reduce mycorrhizal root colonization and biomass production of native prairie grasses. Mycorrhiza. 2012;22:327 -336. doi:10.1007/s00572-011-0407-x.
. Suppression of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus spore germination by nonsterile soil. Canadian Journal of Botany. 1989;67:18 -23. doi:10.1139/b89-003.
. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in C3 and C4 tallgrass prairie grasses: the role of light and nitrogen. Botany. 2012;90:1221 -1228. doi:10.1139/b2012-091.
. Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2008;6:247 -254. doi:10.1890/070140.
. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in tallgrass prairie: The effect of light and nitrogen. 2010;MS Thesis:1 -52. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9577.
. Characterization of the water soluble soil organic pool following the rewetting of dry soil in a drought-prone tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2009;41:21 -28. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.08.013.
. Causes and consequences of avian within-season dispersal decisions in a dynamic grassland environment. Animal Behaviour. 2019;155:77 - 87. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.009.
. Alterations in carbon and nitrogen cycling in irrigated tallgrass prairie soil. 2001;PhD Dissertation:1 -206.
. Response of microbial communities to water stress in irrigated anddrought-prone tallgrass prairie soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2007;39:2750 -2757. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.025.
. Carbon and nitrogen pools in a tallgrass prairie soil under elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2004;68:148 -153. doi:10.2136/sssaj2004.1480.
. Nitrogen competition in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem exposed to elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2001;65:340 -346. doi:10.2136/sssaj2001.652340x.
. Grasshopper sparrows on the move: patterns and causes of within-season breeding dispersal in a declining grassland songbird. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/32705.
. Patterns and correlates of within-season breeding dispersal: a common strategy in a declining grassland songbird. The Auk: Ornithological Advances. 2018;135(1):1-14. doi:10.1642/AUK-17-69.1.
. Carbon dynamics and microbial activity in tallgrass prairie exposed to elevated CO2 for 8 years. Plant and Soil. 2000;227:127 -137. doi:10.1023/A:1026590001307.
. Natural 15N abundances in a tallgrass prairie exposed to 8 years of elevated atmospheric CO2. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2006;37:409 -412. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.06.009.
. Seven years of enhanced water availability influences the physiological, structural and functional attributes of a soil microbial community. Applied Soil Ecology. 2007;35:535 -545. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.09.014.
. Soil and microbial responses in tallgrass prairie to elevated CO2. 1998;MS Thesis:1 -111.
. Temporal dynamics of plant community regeneration sources during tallgrass prairie restoration. Plant Ecology. 2013;214:1169 -1180. doi:10.1007/s11258-013-0241-7.
. Effects of rangeland management on community dynamics of the herpetofauna of the tallgrass prairie. Herpetologica. 2006;62:378 -388. doi:10.1655/0018-0831(2006)62[378:EORMOC]2.0.CO;2.
. Effects of burn regimes ontallgrass prairie herpetofaunal species diversity and communitycomposition in the Flint Hills, Kansas. Journal of Herpetology. 2006;40:49 -60. doi:10.1670/162-05A.1.
. Discrimination of chemical stimuli in conspecific fecal pellets by a visually adept iguanid lizard, Crotaphytus collaris. Journal of Ethology. 2009;27:157 -163. doi:10.1007/s10164-008-0100-5.
. Spatial variation in predation attempts on artificial snakes in a fire-disturbed tallgrass prairie. Southwestern Naturalist. 2007;52:263 -270. doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[263:SVIPAO]2.0.CO;2.
. Impacts of land management practices on tallgrassprairie herpetofauna. 2005;MS Thesis:1 -105.
. Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 2023;111(11):2472-2482. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14198.
Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. 2021;102(11). doi:10.1002/ecy.3504.
Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. doi:10.1111/gcb.v29.2310.1111/gcb.16950.
Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:335 -344. doi:10.1111/gcb.12673.
. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology. 2016;97:561-568. doi:10.1890/15-1437.1.
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