Dr. Scott L. Collins

Name:

Dr. Scott L. Collins

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

Department of Biology, University of New Mexico

Albuquerque, NM 87131

United States

Email:

scollins@sevilleta.unm.edu

Phone:

ORCID:

0000-0002-0193-2892

Publication List:

Song L, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Muraina TO, Chen J, Te N, Shi Y, et al.. Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America. Ecology [Internet]. 2024;105(2):e4220. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4220

Smith MD, Wilkins KD, Holdrege MC, Wilfahrt P, Collins SL, Knapp AK, et al.. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2024;121(4):e230988112. https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309881120

Mount HE, Smith MD, Knapp AK, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Collins SL, Atkins DH, et al.. Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2024;112(2):416-426. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.14243

Keller AB, Walter CA, Blumenthal DM, Borer ET, Collins SL, DeLancey LC, et al.. Stronger fertilization effects on aboveground versus belowground plant properties across nine U.S. grasslands. Ecology [Internet]. 2023;104(2):e3891. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.3891

Wilcox KR, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Pockman W, Shi Z, Smith MD, et al.. Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2023;20(13):2707 - 2725. https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/20/2707/2023/

Wilcox KR, Chen A, Avolio ML, Butler EE, Collins SL, Fisher R, et al.. Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16950

J. Langley A, Grman E, Wilcox KR, Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Collins SL, et al.. Do trade‐offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments?. Ecology [Internet]. 2022;103(6):e3626. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3626

Ladouceur E, Blowes SA, Chase JM, Clark AT, Garbowski M, Alberti J, et al.. Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2022;25(12):2699-2712. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14126

Ratajczak Z, Collins SL, Blair JM, Koerner SE, Louthan AM, Smith MD, et al.. Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Internet]. 2022;119(36):e2210433119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210433119

Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Collins SL, Grman E, Koerner SE, Tredennick AT, et al.. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Anderson M. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2021;24(9):1892-1904. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13824

Collins SL, Nippert JB, Blair JM, Briggs JM, Blackmore P, Ratajczak Z. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2021;24(4):636-647. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13676

Seabloom EW, Adler PB, Alberti J, Biederman L, Buckley YM, Cadotte MW, et al.. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology [Internet]. 2021;102(2):e03218. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3218

Yahdjian L, Sala OE, PiÑEiro-Guerra JManuel, Knapp AK, Collins SL, Phillips RP, et al.. Why coordinated distributed experiments should go global. BioScience [Internet]. 2021;71(9):918 - 927. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/71/9/918/6259352

Baer SG, Adams T, Scott DA, Blair JM, Collins SL. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2020;30(1):e02014. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.2014

Griffin-Nolan RJ, Blumenthal DM, Collins SL, Farkas TE, Hoffman AM, Mueller KE, et al.. Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands. Jones H. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2019;107(5):2133 - 2148. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13252

Komatsu KJ, Avolio ML, Lemoine NP, Isbell F, Grman E, Houseman GR, et al.. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/14/1819027116

Ratajczak Z, Churchill AC, Ladwig LM, Taylor JH, Collins SL. The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2019;30(4):687 - 697. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12750

Risch AC, Zimmermann S, Ochoa-Hueso R, schütz M, Frey B, Firn JL, et al.. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications [Internet]. 2019;10(4981). http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12948-2

Avolio ML, Carroll I, Collins SL, Houseman GR, Hallett LM, Isbell FL, et al.. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2019;10(10):e02881. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.2881

Griffin-Nolan RJ, Carroll CJW, Denton EM, Johnston MK, Collins SL, Smith MD, et al.. Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2018;219(5):505 - 515. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11258-018-0813-7.pdf

Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Yao J, Blair JM, Burruss ND, Collins SL, et al.. Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2018;24(5):1935 - 1951. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29265568

Hodapp D, Borer ET, W. Harpole S, Lind EM, Seabloom EW, Adler P, et al.. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. Gurevitch J. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2018;21(9):1364 -1371. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ele.13102

Koerner SE, Smith MD, Burkepile DE, Hanan NP, Avolio ML, Collins SL, et al.. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution [Internet]. 2018;2:1925-1932. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0696-y#article-info

Ochoa-Hueso R, Collins SL, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Hamonts K, Pockman WT, Sinsabaugh RL, et al.. Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2018;24(7):2818 - 2827. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14113

Knapp AK, Avolio ML, Beier C, Carroll CJW, Collins SL, Dukes JS, et al.. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13504

Wilcox KR, Shi Z, Gherardi LA, Lemoine NP, Koerner SE, Hoover DL, et al.. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2017;23(10). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13706

Ratajczak Z, D'Odorico P, Collins SL, Bestelmeyer BT, Isbell FL, Nippert JB. The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales. Ecological Monographs [Internet]. 2017;87(2):198-218. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecm.1249

Ratajczak Z, D’Odorico PD, Nippert JB, Collins SL, Brunsell N, Ravi S. Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology [Internet]. 2017;105(3):750-760. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.12696

Wilcox KR, Tredennick AT, Koerner SE, Grman E, Hallett LM, Avolio ML, et al.. Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. Gurevitch J. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2017;. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12861/epdf

Jones SK, Ripplinger J, Collins SL. Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. Coulson T. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2017;20(12):1565. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.12864

Jones SK, Collins SL, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports [Internet]. 2016;(1). https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20120

Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL, Burkepile DE, Kirkman KP, Koerner SE, et al.. Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/8/666/2464141

Hallett LM, Jones SK, MacDonald AAM, Jones MB, Flynn DFB, Ripplinger J, et al.. codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution [Internet]. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/2041-210X.12569

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL. Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Monographs [Internet]. 2016;86(1):94 - 106. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/15-0888.1

Koerner SE, Avolio ML, La Pierre KJ, Wilcox KR, Smith MD, Collins SL. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2016;104:1478-1487. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12610

Petrie MD, Brunsell N, Vargas R, Collins SL, Flanagan LB, Hanan NP, et al.. The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2016;121:280-294. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JG003205

Smith MD, La Pierre KJ, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Gross KL, Barrett JE, et al.. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia [Internet]. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-015-3230-9

Stevens CJ, Lind EM, Hautier Y, Harpole WS, Borer ET, Hobbie S, et al.. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide. Ecology [Internet]. 2015;96:1459 -1465. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/14-1902.1

Knapp AK, Carroll CJW, Denton EM, La Pierre KJ, Collins SL, Smith MD. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands. Oecologia [Internet]. 2015;177:949 -957. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-015-3233-6

Fay PA, Prober SM, Harpole WS, Knops JMH, Bakker JD, Borer ET, et al.. Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants [Internet]. 2015;1(7):15080. https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201580

Koerner SE, Collins SL. Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:98 -109. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/13-0526.1

Avolio ML, Koerner SE, La Pierre KJ, Wilcox KR, Wilson GT, Smith MD, et al.. Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2014;102:1649 -1660. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12312

Kirkman K, Collins SL, Smith MD, Knapp AK, Burkepile DE, Burns CE, et al.. Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:793 -804. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12130

Hautier Y, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Adler P, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, et al.. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature [Internet]. 2014;508:521 -525. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13014

Shi Z, Thomey ML, Mowll M, Litvak ME, Brunsell N, Collins SL, et al.. Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: Synthesis and modeling analysis. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2014;11:621 -633. https://www.biogeosciences.net/11/621/2014/

Hallett LM, Hsu JS, Cleland EE, Collins SL, Dickson TL, Farrer EC, et al.. Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:1693 -1700. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/13-0895.1

Koerner SE, Collins SL, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:36 -44. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12065

Eby S, Burkepile DE, Fynn RWS, Burns CE, Govender N, Hagenah N, et al.. Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia [Internet]. 2014;175:293 -303. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-014-2895-9

Koerner SE, Burkepile DE, Fynn RWS, Burns CE, Eby S, Govender N, et al.. Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:808 -816. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/13-1828.1

Dodds WK, Collins SL, Hamilton SK, Tank JL, Johnson S, Webster JR, et al.. You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:2757 -2767. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/13-2276.1

Fraser LH, Henry HA, Carlyle CN, White SR, Beierkuhnlein C, Cahill JF, et al.. Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Internet]. 2013;11:147 -155. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/110279

Cleland EE, Collins SL, Dickson TL, Farrer EC, Gross KL, Gherardi LA, et al.. Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation. Ecology [Internet]. 2013;94:1687 -1696. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/12-1006.1

Koerner SE, Collins SL. Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to grazing and fire. Landscape Ecology [Internet]. 2013;28:1293 -1306. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10980-013-9866-0

Knapp AK, Hoover DL, Blair JM, Buis G, Burkepile DE, Chamberlain AJ, et al.. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2012;5:357 -365. https://academic.oup.com/jpe/article/5/4/357/908695

Gough L, Gross KL, Cleland EE, Clark CM, Collins SL, Fargione JE, et al.. Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition. Oecologia [Internet]. 2012;169:1053 -1062. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-012-2264-5

Collins SL, Koerner SE, Plaut JA, Okie JG, Brese D, Calabrese LB, et al.. Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2012;26(6):1450 - 1459. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01995.x

Robertson GP, Collins SL, Foster DR, Brokaw N, Ducklow HW, Gragson TL, et al.. Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world. BioScience [Internet]. 2012;62:342 -353. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/4/342/243601

Collins SL, Calabrese LB. Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2012;23:563 -575. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01369.x

Ratajczak Z, Nippert JB, Collins SL. Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology [Internet]. 2012;93:697 -703. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/11-1199.1

Knapp AK, Smith MD, Hobbie SE, Collins SL, Fahey TJ, Hansen GJA, et al.. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience [Internet]. 2012;62:377 -389. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/4/377/243762

Peters DPC, Laney CM, Lugo AE, Collins SL, Driscoll CT, Groffman PM, et al.. Long-term trends in ecological systems: a basis for understanding responses to global change. USDA Agriculture Research Service Publication, Technical Bulletin 1931. Washington, D.C. 2012.

Collins SL, Carpenter SR, Swinton SM, Orenstein DE, Childers DL, Gragson TL, et al.. An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Internet]. 2011;9:351 -357. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/100068

Cleland EE, Clark CM, Collins SL, Fargione JE, Gough L, Gross KL, et al.. Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2011;99:1327 -1338. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41333056?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

Adler P, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Hillebrand H, Hautier Y, Hector A, et al.. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science [Internet]. 2011;333:1750 -1753. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6050/1750

Firn J, Moore JL, MacDougall AS, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, HilleRisLambers J, et al.. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2011;14:274 -281. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01584.x

Spasojevic MJ, Aicher RJ, Koch GR, Marquardt ES, Mirotchnick N, Troxler TG, et al.. Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits. Ecology [Internet]. 2010;91:1651 -1659. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/09-0431.1

Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL. A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change. Ecology [Internet]. 2009;90:3279 -3289. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/08-1815.1

Buis GM, Blair JM, Burkepile DE, Burns CE, Chamberlain AJ, Chapman P, et al.. Controls of aboveground net primary production in mesic savanna grasslands: An inter-hemispheric comparison. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2009;12:982 -995. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-009-9273-1

Cleland EE, Clark CM, Collins SL, Fargione JE, Gough L, Gross KL, et al.. Species responses to nitrogen fertilization in herbaceous plant communities, and associated species traits. Ecology [Internet]. 2008;89:1175 -. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/07-1104.1

Veen GF, Blair JM, Smith MD, Collins SL. Influence of grazing and fire frequency on small-scale plant community structure and resource variability in native tallgrass prairie. Oikos [Internet]. 2008;117:859 -866. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16515.x

Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Collins SL, Archer SR, Bret-Harte MS, Ewers BE, et al.. Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: Shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2008;14:615 -623. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01512.x

Collins SL, Suding KN, Cleland EE, Batty M, Pennings SC, Gross KL, et al.. Rank clocks and plant community dynamics. Ecology. 2008;89:3534 -3541.

Heatherly T, Whiles MR, Gibson DJ, Collins SL, Huryn AD, Jackson JK, et al.. Stream insect occupancy-frequency patterns and metapopulation structure. Oecologia. 2007;151:313 -321.

Clark CM, Cleland EE, Collins SL, Fargione JE, Gough L, Pennings SC, et al.. Environmental and plant community determinants ofspecies loss following nitrogen enrichment. Ecology Letters. 2007;10:596 -607.

Zeglin LH, Stursova M, Sinsabaugh RL, Collins SL. Microbial responses to nitrogen addition in three contrasting grassland ecosystems. Oecologia. 2007;154:349 -359.

Collins SL, Smith MD. Scale-dependent interaction of fire andgrazing on community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2006;87:2058 -2067.

Suding KN, Collins SL, Gough L, Clark CM, Cleland EE, Gross KL, et al.. Functional and abundance based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to nitrogen fertilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005;102:4387 -4392.

Pennings SC, Clark CM, Cleland EE, Collins SL, Gough L, Gross KL, et al.. Do individual plant speciesshow predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multipleexperiments?. Oikos. 2005;110:547 -555.

Baer SG, Collins SL, Blair JM, Fiedler A, Knapp AK. Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: anapplication of ecological theory to restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 2005;13:413 -424.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629.

Pringle CM, Collins SL. Needed: A unified infrastructure to support long-term scientific research on public lands. Ecological Applications. 2004;14:18 -21.

Knapp AK, Smith MD, Collins SL, Zambatis N, Peel M, Emery SM, et al.. Generality in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South African savannas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2004;9:483 -491.

Turner MG, Collins SL, Lugo AL, Magnuson JJ, Rupp TS, Swanson FJ. Disturbance dynamics and ecological response: the contribution of long-term ecological research. BioScience. 2003;53:46 -56.

Fay P, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Collins SL. Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland. Oecologia. 2003;137:245 -251.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Collins SL. Soil resources regulate productivity and diversity in newly established tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2003;84:724 -735.

Knapp AK, Fay PA, Blair JM, Collins SL, Smith MD, Carlisle JD, et al.. Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science [Internet]. 2002;298:2202 -2205. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/298/5601/2202

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Danner BT, Lett MS, McCarron JK, Stewart C, et al.. Altered rainfall patterns, gas exchange and growth in C3 and C4 grassland species. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2002;163:549 -557.

Collins SL, Glenn SM, Briggs JM. Effect of local and regional processes on plant species richness in tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2002;99:571 -579.

Grace JB, Smith MD, Grace SL, Collins SL, Stohlgren TJ. Interactions between fire and invasive plants in temperate grasslands of North America. Galley K, Wilson T. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station; 2001. pp. 40 -65.

Collins SL. Long-term research and the dynamics of bird populations and communities: an overview. Auk. 2001;118:583 -588.

Clark JS, Carpenter SR, Barber M, Collins SL, Dobson A, Foley JA, et al.. Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. Science. 2001;293:657 -660.

Steinauer M, Collins SL. Feedback loops in ecological hierarchies following urine deposition in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2001;82:1319 -1329.

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Danner BT, Lett MS, McCarron JK, Stewart C, et al.. Carbon and water relations of juvenile Quercus species in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2001;12:807 -816.

Collins SL, Michelli F, Hartt L. A method to determine rate and pattern of variability in ecological communities. Oikos. 2001;91:285 -293.

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Collins SL. Altering rainfall timing and quantity in a mesic grassland ecosystem: Design and performance of rainfall manipulation shelters. Ecosystems. 2000;3:308 -319.

Collins SL. Disturbance frequency and community stability in native tallgrass prairie. The American Naturalist. 2000;155:311 -325.

Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Ecosystems as functional units in nature. Natural Resources and Environment. 2000;14:150 -155.

Gough L, Osenberg CW, Gross KL, Collins SL. Fertilization effects of species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities. Oikos. 2000;89:428 -439.

Knapp AK, Blair JM, Briggs JM, Collins SL, Hartnett DC, Johnson LC, et al.. The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie. BioScience [Internet]. 1999;49:39 -50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bisi.1999.49.1.39

Gibson DJ, Ely JS, Collins SL. The core-satellite species hypothesis provides a theoretical basis for Grimes classification of dominant subordinate, and transient species. Journal of Ecology. 1999;87:1064 -1067.

Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 364 -364.

Gray LJ, Macpherson GL, Koelliker JK, Dodds WK. Hydrology and aquatic chemistry. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 159 -176.

Knapp AK, Seastedt TR. Grasslands, Konza Prairie and long-term ecological Research. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 3 -15.

Collins SL, Steinauer EM. Disturbance, diversity and species interactions in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 140 -156.

Seastedt TR, Hayden BP, Owensby CE, Knapp AK. Climate change, elevated CO2 and predictive modeling: Past and future climate change scenarios for the tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie [Internet]. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 283 -300. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/GDPE/Distinguished_Ecologists/2005/Hayden/grassland%20dynamics%20ch16.pdf

Gray LJ, Dodds WK. Structure and dynamics of aquatic communities. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 177 -189.

Kaufman DW, Fay PA, Kaufman GA, Zimmerman JL. Diversity of terrestrial macrofauna. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 101 -112.

Briggs JM, Nellis MD, Turner CL, Henebry GM, Su H. A landscape perspective of patterns and processes in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 265 -279.

Rice CW, Todd TC, Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Ramundo RA, Wilson GT. Belowground biology and processes. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 244 -264.

Freeman CC. The flora of Konza Prairie: A historical review and contemporary patterns. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 69 -80.

Kaufman DW, Kaufman GA, Fay PA, Zimmerman JL, Evans EW. Animal populations and communities. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 113 -139.

Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Rice CW, Ramundo RA. Terrestrial nutrient cycling in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 222 -243.

Ransom MD, Rice CW, Todd TC, Wehmueller WA. Soils and soil biota. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 48 -66.

Collins SL, Knapp AK, Hartnett DC, Briggs JM. The dynamic tallgrass prairie: Synthesis and research opportunities. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 301 -315.

Hayden BP. Regional climate and the distribution of tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie [Internet]. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 19 -34. http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/GDPE/Distinguished_Ecologists/2005/Hayden/grassland%20dynamics%20ch2.pdf

Oviatt CG. Geomorphology of the Konza Prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 35 -47.

Collins SL, Knapp AK, Hartnett DC, Briggs JM. The dynamic tallgrass prairie: Synthesis and research opportunities. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 301 -315.

Hartnett DC, Fay PA. Plant populations: Patterns and processes. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 81 -100.

Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Blair JM, Turner CL. Patterns and controls of aboveground net primary production in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 193 -221.

Collins SL, Steinauer EM. Disturbance, diversity and species interactions in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 140 -156.

Collins SL, Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Blair JM, Steinauer EM. Modulation of diversity by grazing and mowing in native tallgrass prairie. Science. 1998;280:745 -747.

Vinton MA, Collins SL. Landscape gradients and habitat structure in native grasslands of the central great plains. In: Knopf FL, Samson FB. Ecology and Conservation of Great Plains Vertebrates. New York: Springer-Verlag; 1997. pp. 3 -19.

Collins SL, Glenn SM. Effects of organismal and distance scaling on analysis of species distribution and abundance. Ecological Applications. 1997;7:543 -551.

Hoagland BW, Collins SL. Gradient models, gradient analysis and hierarchical structure in plant communities. Oikos. 1997;78:23 -30.

Collins SL, Glenn SM. Intermediate disturbance and its relationship to within-and between-patch structure. New Zealand Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 1997;21:103 -110. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24054530

Steinauer EM, Collins SL. Prairie ecology-the tallgrass prairie. In: Knopf FL, Samson FB. Prairie Conservation-Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem [Internet]. Washington, DC: Island Press; 1996. pp. 39 -52. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZlHRjU2EDLQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA39&dq=%22Prairie%2Becology-the%2Btallgrass%2Bprairie%22+Steinauer&ots=7TE04D0yxT&sig=B4UaGusICyHJqjiwWNTFkCdrE_0#v=onepage&q=%22Prairie%2Becology-the%2Btallgrass%2Bprairie%22%20Steinauer

Collins SL, Benning TL. Spatial and temporal patterns in functional diversity. In: Gaston K. Biodiversity: A Biology Of Numbers and Difference. Blackwell Science London; 1996. pp. 253 -280.

Moen J, Collins SL. Trophic interactions and plant species richness along a productivity gradient. Oikos. 1996;76:603 -607.

Collins SL, Glenn SM. Grassland ecosystem and landscape dynamics. In: Joern A, Keeler KK. The Changing Prairie. Oxford University Press; 1995. pp. 128 -156.

Collins SL. The measurement of stability in grasslands. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 1995;10:95 -96.

Bartha S, Collins SL, Glenn SM, Kertesz M. Fine-scale spatial organization of tallgrass prairie vegetation along a topographic gradient. Folia Geobot.Phytotax, Praha. 1995;30:169 -184.

Steinauer EM, Collins SL. Effects of urine deposition on small\-scale patch structure in prairie vegetation. Ecology. 1995;76:1195 -1205.

Collins SL, Glenn SM, Gibson DJ. Experimental analysis of intermediate disturbance and initial floristic composition: decoupling cause and effect. Ecology. 1995;76:486 -492.

Briggs JM, Collins SL. Using remote sensing to determine heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie. 1994. pp. 113 -119.

Gurevitch J, Collins SL. Experimental manipulation of natural plant communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 1994;9:94 -98.

Glenn SM, Collins SL. Experimental analysis of patch dynamics in tallgrass prairie plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:157 -162.

Collins SL, Glenn SM, Roberts DW. The hierarchical continuum concept. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:149 -156.

Agnew ADQ, Collins SL, Maarel E. Mechanisms and processes in vegetation dynamics: Introduction. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:146 -148.

Glenn SM, Collins SL, Gibson DJ. Disturbances in tallgrass prairie: local versus regional effects on community heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology. 1992;7:243 -252.

Glenn SM, Collins SL. Effects of scale and disturbance on rates of immigration and extinction of species in prairies. Oikos. 1992;63:273 -280.

Collins SL. Fire frequency and community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie vegetation. Ecology. 1992;73:2001 -2006.

Collins SL, Glenn SM. Importance of spatial and temporal dynamics in species regional abundance and distribution. Ecology. 1991;72:654 -664.

Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American tallgrass prairie. Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American tallgrass prairie. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. p. 175 -.

Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American tallgrass prairie. Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American tallgrass prairie. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. p. 175 -.

Collins SL. Introduction: Fire as a natural distubance in tallgrass prairie ecosystems. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. pp. 3 -7.

Collins SL. Introduction: Fire as a natural distubance in tallgrass prairie ecosystems. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. pp. 3 -7.

Seastedt TR, Ramundo RA. The influence of fire on belowground processes of tallgrass prairies. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairie. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. pp. 99 -117.

Kaufman DW, Finck EJ, Kaufman GA. Small mammals and grassland fires. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North American Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Okalahoma Press; 1990. pp. 46 -80.

Collins SL, Gibson DJ. Effects of fire on plant community structure in tallgrass prairie. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. pp. 81 -98.

Collins SL, Gibson DJ. Effects of fire on plant community structure in tallgrass prairie. In: Collins SL, Wallace LL. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990. pp. 81 -98.

Collins SL, Glenn SM. A hierarchical analysis of species abundance patterns in grassland vegetation. The American Midland Naturalist. 1990;135:633 -648.

Glenn SM, Collins SL. Patch structure in tallgrass prairies: dynamics of satellite species. Oikos. 1990;57:229 -236.

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Scott L. Collins

PVC02 Plant species composition on selected watersheds at Konza Prairie

PRP01 Konza prairie long term restoration study of aboveground annual net primary productivity (ANPP)

RMP01 Rainfall manipulation plot study at Konza Prairie

KKE02 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Net primary production data (2010-2011)

KKE03 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Kruger species composition (2006-2010)