Konza LTER Publications
] Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous U.S. Global Change Biology. In Press.
. Dispersal drives temporal changes in fish community abundance in intermittent stream networks. River Research and Applications. In Press.
Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought. Oecologia. In Press.
. Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
. Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. In Press. doi:10.1111/jvs.12910.
. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters. In Press. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13676.
Future trajectories for ecosystems of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of state changes. Ecosphere. In Press.
Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology. In Press. doi:10.1111/gcb.15308.
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1002/ecy.3218.
Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. In Press. doi:10.1111/geb.13196.
Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. In Press. doi:10.1002/ecm.1409.
Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Oecologia. In Press.
Terabase metagenome sequencing of grassland soil microbiomes. Microbiology Resource Announcements. In Press.
. Towards a new conceptual model for groundwater flow in merokarst systems: Insights from multiple geophysical approaches. Hydrology and Earth System Science. In Press.
. Using path analyses to determine interacting effects of biotic and abiotic factors on patch-scale biogeochemical rates in a prairie stream. Aquatic Ecology. In Press.
What drives grassland ecosystem multifunctionality: Grazing pressure or plant community parameters?. Functional Ecology. In Press.
Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community excretion stoichiometry during severe drought. Freshwater Biology. 2020;65(3):403-416. doi:10.1111/fwb.13433.
Body size structure of soil fauna along geographic and temporal gradients of precipitation in grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2020;140:107638. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107638.
. Bottom‐up when it is not top‐down: Predators and plants control biomass of grassland arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2020;89(5). doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13191.
. Bridging the flux gap: Sap flow measurements reveal species‐specific patterns of water use in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020;125(2):e2019JG005446. doi:10.1029/2019JG005446.
. Browsing and fire decreases dominance of a resprouting shrub in woody encroached grassland. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02935. doi:10.1002/ecy.2935.
. Communities of small mammals, tallgrass prairie, and prescribed fire: a fire-reversal experiment. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123:31 - 49.
Connections and Feedback: Aquatic, Plant, and Soil Microbiomes in Heterogeneous and Changing Environments. BioScience. 2020;70(7):548 - 562. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa046.
. Does Riparian Fencing Protect Stream Water Quality in Cattle-Grazed Lands?. Environmental Management. 2020;66(1):121 - 135. doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01297-2.
Ecto- and endoparasitic nematodes respond differently across sites to changes in precipitation. Oecologia. 2020;193(3Suppl 1):761 - 771. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04708-7.
. Effect of land use and land use management on methane oxidation. Department of Agronomy. 2020;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40327.
. Effects of Plant-soil Interactions on Grassland Carbon Dynamics in a Changing World. Department of Biology. 2020;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2427237261?pq-origsite=summon.
Harmony on the prairie? Grassland plant and animal community responses to variation in climate across land‐use gradients. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02986. doi:10.1002/ecy.2986.
. Longevity records show that Upland Sandpipers are long-lived birds. Wader Study. 2020;127(1):60 -64. doi:10.18194/ws.00177.
Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(3):855-864. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13330.
. Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances. Science. 2020;368(6489):417-420. doi:10.1126/science.aax9931.
. Microanatomical traits track climate gradients for a dominant C4 grass species across the Great Plains, USA. Annals of Botany. 2020;mcaa146. doi:10.1093/aob/mcaa146.
Nowhere to swim: interspecific responses of prairie stream fishes in isolated pools during severe drought. Aquatic Sciences. 2020;82(42). doi:10.1007/s00027-020-0716-2.
Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02981. doi:10.1002/ecy.2981.
. Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020;117(13):7271-7275. doi:10.1073/pnas.1920012117.
Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivoryAbstract. Nature Communications. 2020;11(1):6036. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y.
Plant phylogenetic history explains in‐stream decomposition at a global scale. . Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(1):17-35. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13262.
Plant–microbial interactions facilitate grassland species coexistence at the community level. Oikos. 2020;129(4):533-543. doi:10.1111/oik.06609.
. Populations of Small Mammals, Tallgrass Prairie and Prescribed Fire: A Fire-Reversal Experiment. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123(1-2):1. doi:10.1660/062.123.0101.
. Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(2):658-668. doi:10.1111/gcb.14789.
Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?. Global Change Biology. 2020;26:3336–3355. doi:10.1111/gcb.15024.
Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020;117(36):22249-22255. doi:10.1073/pnas.1922030117.
. Salty, mild, and low plant biomass grasslands increase top‐heaviness of invertebrate trophic pyramids. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2020;2958(9):1474 - 1485. doi:10.1111/geb.13119.
. Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02927. doi:10.1002/ecy.2927.
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data Discussion. 2020. doi:10.5194/essd-2020-195.
. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014.
Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models. Nature Communications. 2020;11(522). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14411-z.
. Three decades of divergent land use and plant community change alters soil C and N content in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020;125(8):e2020JG005723. doi:10.1029/2020JG005723.
. Using path analysis to determine interacting effects of biotic and abiotic factors on patch-scale biogeochemical rates in a prairie stream. Aquatic Sciences. 2020;82(21). doi:10.1007/s00027-020-0702-8.
Assessing precipitation, evapotranspiration, and NDVI as controls of U.S. Great Plains plant production. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02889. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2889.