Konza LTER Publications
Trichoderma biofertilizer links to altered soil chemistry, altered microbial communities, and improved grassland biomass. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2018;9:848. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2018.00848.
Analysis and estimation of tallgrass prairie evapotranspiration in the central United States. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2017;232:35-47. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.08.005.
Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2017;28(2):235 - 237. doi:10.1111/jvs.12524.
. Assessing the roles of fire frequency and precipitation in determining woody plant expansion in central U.S. grasslands. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 2017;122(10):2683–2698. doi:10.1002/2017JG004046.
. An assessment of diurnal water uptake in a mesic prairie: evidence for hydraulic lift?. Oecologia. 2017;183(4):963–975. doi:10.1007/s00442-017-3827-2.
. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10). doi:10.1111/gcb.13706.
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. . Ecology Letters. 2017. doi:10.1111/ele.12861.
Below‐ground biological responses to pyrogenic organic matter and litter inputs in grasslands. . Functional Ecology. 2017;31(1):260 - 269. doi:10.1111/fec.2017.31.issue-110.1111/1365-2435.12693.
. Biogeography of root-associated endophytes. In: Biogeography of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2017:195-222. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-56363-3.
. The biota of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: prokaryotes, fungi, and protozoans. Elsevier; 2017:161 - 188. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803835-2.00009-7.
Bison increase the growth and reproduction of forbs in Tallgrass Prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2017;178(2):259. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-178.2.245.
. Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology. 2017;105(3):750-760. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12696.
. Climate change impacts on population dynamics in tallgrass prairie: implications for species codominance. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/181431.
. Complex variation in habitat selection strategies among individuals driven by extrinsic factors. Ecology and Evolution. 2017;7(6):1802-1822. doi:10.1002/ece3.2764.
. Demographic responses of grassland songbirds to rangeland management in the tallgrass prairie. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35800 .
. Density dependence of herbivorous central stoneroller Campostoma anomalum in stream mesocosms. Ecology of Freshwater Fishes. 2017;26(2):313-321. doi:10.1111/eff.12277.
. Density mediates grasshopper performance in response to temperature manipulation and spider predation in tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2017;107(2):261 - 267. doi:10.1017/S0007485316000894.
. Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017;114(4):705 - 710. doi:10.1073/pnas.1612909114.
. Drivers of nitrogen transfer in stream food webs across continents. Ecology. 2017;98(12):3055. doi:10.1002/ecy.2009.
Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland. Plant Ecology. 2017;218(3):317 - 328. doi:10.1007/s11258-016-0690-x.
. Ecological networks of grassland plants and arthropods. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/35284.
. Effects of changing meteoric precipitation patterns on groundwater temperature in karst environments. Groundwater. 2017;55(2):227-236. doi:10.1111/gwat.12456.
. Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and its relationship to indicators of soil quality in tallgrass prairie. Environmental Management. 2017;60(6):1075. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0942-0.
. Effects of rangeland management on survival of female greater prairie‐chickens. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 2017. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21331.
. Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(8):3064-3075. doi:10.1111/gcb.13609.
. Grassland soil microbial responses to long-term management of N availability. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36228.
. Grazing by bison is a stronger driver of plant ecohydrology in tallgrass prairie than fire history. Plant and Soil. 2017;411(1):423-436. doi:10.1007/s11104-016-3048-1.
. Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017;114(28):7373 - 7378. doi:10.1073/pnas.1618936114.
Habitat guild drives variation in apparent survival of landbirds in the Great Plains. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 2017;129:259-270. doi:10.1676/16-017.1.
. How do extra nutrients affect the timing of flowering in prairies. Environmental Science Journal for Teens. 2017;(September, 2017). Available at: http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/flowers_article.pdf.
Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture. Ecosphere. 2017;8(10):e01983. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1983.
. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 2017;98(12):3022-3033. doi:10.1002/ecy.2029.
Influence of fishes on stream invertebrate community structure and insect emergence from permanent pools in a prairie stream network. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2348/.
. The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales. Ecological Monographs. 2017;87(2):198-218. doi:10.1002/ecm.1249.
. Juniper invasions in grasslands: research needs and intervention strategies. Rangelands. 2017;39(2):64 - 72. doi:10.1016/j.rala.2017.03.002.
. A long‐term study of burning effects on a plant pathogen in tallgrass prairie. Plant Pathology. 2017;66(8):1308–1317. doi:10.1111/ppa.12678.
Low biodiversity of small mammals in soybean fields in the northern Flint Hills, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):175 - 182. doi:10.1660/062.120.0404.
. Nonreproductive ecology of a nearctic-neotropical migratory bird in the managed rangelands of northern Uruguay. 2017;PhD Dissertation.
. Novel observations of larval fire survival, feeding behavior, and host plant use in the regal fritillary, speyeria idalia (Drury) (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 2017;71(3):146 - 152. doi:10.18473/lepi.71i3.a4.
. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains. PLOS ONE. 2017;(5):e0178440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178440.
Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity. . Functional Ecology. 2017;31(9):1839-1846. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12967.
Partitioning the CO2 net flux into assimilation and respiration components, and estimating water use efficiency in a grassland ecosystem. 2017;MS Thesis.
. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. doi:10.1111/gcb.13666.
. Photosynthetic responses of a dominant C4 grass to an experimental heat wave are mediated by soil moisture. Oecologia. 2017;183(1):303-313. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3755-6.
. Physiological and morphological responses of grass species to drought. Department of Biology. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36188.
. Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species. Functional Ecology. 2017. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12904.
. Probing whole-stream metabolism: influence of spatial heterogeneity on rate estimates. Freshwater Biology. 2017;62(4):711 - 723. doi:10.1111/fwb.12896.
. Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie. PLoS One. 2017;12(5):e0177754. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177754.
. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. doi:10.1111/gcb.13504.