Konza LTER Publications
The invasive Lespedeza cuneata attracts more insect pollinators than native congeners in tallgrass prairie with variable impacts. Biological Invasions. 2012;14:1045 -1059. doi:10.1007/s10530-011-0138-0.
. 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.
. An iPhone application of Konza Prairie LTER. 2012;MS Thesis:1 -47. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/13960.
. Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world. BioScience. 2012;62:342 -353. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6.
Maternal allocation and offspring characteristics in Bison. Ecological Applications. 2012;22:1628 -1639. doi:10.1890/11-2181.1.
. Measuring genetic diversity in ecological studies. Plant Ecology. 2012;213:1105 -1115. doi:10.1007/s11258-012-0069-6.
. Mechanisms driving woody encroachment in the tallgrass prairie: an analysis of fire behavior and physiological integration. 2012;MS Thesis:1 -72. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14197.
. Multiple factors limit use of local sites by Elliot's short-tailed shrews (Blarina hylophaga) in tallgrass prairie. Canadian Journal of Zoology. 2012;90:210 -221. doi:10.1139/z11-128.
. A mycorrhizal community is unresponsive to simulated future precipitation variability. 2012;MS Thesis.
. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience. 2012;62:377 -389. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.9.
Phylogenetics of Morus (Moraceae) inferred from ITS and trnL-trnF sequence data. Systematic Botany. 2012;37:442 -450. doi:https://doi.org/10.1600/036364412X635485.
. Plant and soil responses to high and low diversity grassland restoration practices. Environmental Management. 2012;49:412 -424. doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9787-0.
. Predator-prey interactions in a grassland food chain vary with temperature and food quality. Oikos. 2012;122:977 -986. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20419.x.
. Predicting plant responses to mycorrhizae: integrating evolutionary history and plant traits. Ecology Letters. 2012;15:689 -695. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01786.x.
. Recovery of native plant community characteristics on a chronosequence of restored prairies seeded into pastures in West-Central Iowa. Restoration Ecology. 2012;20:170 -179. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00760.x.
. Response of regional sources of tallgrass prairie species to variation in climate and soil microbial communities. 2012;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/922/.
. The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology. 2012;5:337 -345. doi:10.1002/eco.224.
. The roles of shifting and filtering in generating community-level flowering phenology. Ecography. 2012;35:1033 -1038. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07625.x.
. Root characteristics of C-4 grasses limit reliance on deep soil water in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2012;355:385 -394. doi:10.1007/s11104-011-1112-4.
. Seed source affects establishment and survival for three grassland species sown into reciprocal common gardens. Ecosphere. 2012;3:102 -. doi:10.1890/ES12-00223.1.
. Sensitivity of mean annual primary production to precipitation. Global Change Biology. 2012;18:2246 -2255. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02687.x.
. Septate endophyte colonization and host responses of grasses and forbs native to a tallgrass prairie. Mycorrhiza. 2012;22:109 -119. doi:10.1007/s00572-011-0386-y.
. Several grassland soil nematodes species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology. 2012;44:92 -101. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593264/.
. Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional Ecology. 2012;26(6):1450 - 1459. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01995.x.
Surprises and insights from long-term aquatic datasets and experiments. BioScience. 2012;62:709 -721. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.4.
Temporal scales of tropospheric CO2, precipitation, and ecosystem responses in the central Great Plains. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2012;127:316 - 328. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2012.09.012.
. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2012;5:357 -365. doi:10.1093/jpe/rts020.
The timing of climate variability and grassland productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2012;109:3401 -3405. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20400.x.
. Tracking C and N flows through microbial biomass with increased soil moisture variability. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2012;49:11 -22. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.01.030.
. Variable effects of dipteran parasitoids and management treatment on grasshopper fecundity in a tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2012;102:123 -130. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485311000472.
. Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology. 2012;93:697 -703. doi:10.1890/11-1199.1.
. Zen of the Plains: discovering space, place, and self. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -276. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13520.
. Abundance and spatiotemporal distribution of the non-native house mouse in native tallgrass prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2011;114:217 -230. doi:10.1660/062.114.0303.
. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters. 2011;14:274 -281. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01584.x.
Analysis of ribosomal RNA indicates seasonal fungal community dynamics in Andropogon gerardii roots. Mycorrhiza. 2011;21:453 -464. doi:10.1007/s00572-010-0358-7.
. Assessing fine-scale genotypic structure of a dominant species in native grasslands. The American Midland Naturalist. 2011;165:211 -224. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-165.2.211.
. Bud production and dynamics of flowering and vegetative tillers of the perennial grass Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae): the role of developmental constraints. American Journal of Botany. 2011;98:1293 -1298. doi:10.3732/ajb.1000264.
. Changes in variability of soil moisture alter microbial community C and N resource use. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2011;43(9):1837 - 1847. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2011.04.020.
. Complexity in climate change impacts: An analytical framework for effects mediated by plant disease. Plant Pathology. 2011;60:15 -30. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3059.2010.02409.x.
Cross-stream comparison of substrate-specific denitrification potential. Biogeochemistry. 2011;104:381 -392. doi:10.1007/s10533-010-9512-8.
Demography of female Greater Prairie-Chickens in unfragmented grasslands in Kansas. Avian Conservation and Ecology-Ecologie et Conservation des Oiseaux. 2011;6. doi:10.5751/ACE-00429-060102.
. Design and effectiveness of a novel trap for capturing nesting songbirds. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2011;82:425 -429. doi:10.1111/j.1557-9263.2011.00346.x.
. Differential responses to defoliation frequency in Little Bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium) in tallgrass prairie: Implications for herbivory tolerance and avoidance. Plant Ecology. 2011;212:1275 -1285. doi:10.1007/s11258-011-9904-4.
. Direct and indirect effects of central stoneroller (Campostoma anomalum) on mesocosm recovery following a flood: can macroconsumers affect denitrification?. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2011;30:840 -852. doi:10.1899/10-169.1.
. Dissolved inorganic carbon in soil and shallow groundwater, Konza Prairie LTER Site, NE Kansas, USA. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10386.
. Dynamic influences of nutrients and grazing fish on periphyton during recovery from flood. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2011;30:331 -345. doi:10.1899/10-039.1.
. The effect of environmental harshness on neurogenesis: a large-scale comparison. Developmental Neurobiology. 2011;71:246 -252. doi:10.1002/dneu.20847.
. Effects of riparian woody vegetation encroachment on prairie stream structure and function with emphasis on whole-stream metabolism. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8545.
. Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering. Journal of Ecology. 2011;99:1250 -1262. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01844.x.