Konza LTER Publications
] Biomass loss and species turnover during severe drought shift stream community excretion stoichiometry. Freshwater Biology. In Press.
. Dispersal drives temporal changes in fish community abundance in intermittent stream networks. River Research and Applications. In Press.
. Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
. Exploring methods of measuring CO2 degassing in headwater streams. Sustainable Water Resources Management. In Press. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40899-019-00332-3.
. Fire, grazing and climate interactions shape the network structure of plant-grasshopper trophic interactions in a mesic grassland. Functional Ecology. In Press.
. Historical drought affects microbial population dynamics and activity during soil drying and re-wet. Microbial Ecology. In Press. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-019-01432-5.
Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13330.
Metrics for analyzing community changes based on changes in rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 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.
. 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.
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.
. 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.
. Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02927. doi:10.1002/ecy.2927.
. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014.
Assessing precipitation, evapotranspiration, and NDVI as controls of U.S. Great Plains plant production. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02889. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2889.
Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems. 2019;22(7):1466–1477. doi:10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4.
. Bringing Bayesian Models to Life. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press; 2019.
Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites. Journal of Mammalogy. 2019;100(2):382 - 393. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz048.
. 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.
. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2019;48(6):1913-1917.
. Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data. Science of The Total Environment. 2019;659:1555 - 1566. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.427.
. Climate affects plant-soil feedback of native and invasive grasses: negative feedbacks in stable but not in variable environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2019;7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00419.
. The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2019;30(4):687 - 697. doi:10.1111/jvs.12750.
. Community Physiological Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2019;34(6):510 - 518. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.02.002.
A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02881. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2881.
. Decadal-scale shifts in soil hydraulic properties induced by altered precipitation. Science Advances. 2019;5(9):eaau6635. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau6635.
. Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist. 2019;223(3):1106 - 1126. doi:10.1111/nph.15789.
. A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitation in grassland food webs. Ecology. 2019;7113:e02600. doi:10.1002/ecy.2600.
. Diversity patterns from sequentially restored grasslands support the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’. Oikos. 2019;128(8):1116 - 1122. doi:10.1111/oik.05877.
. Drivers, mechanisms, and thresholds of wood encroachment in mesic grasslands. Department of Biology. 2019;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40021.
. Dust, impure calcite, and phytoliths: modeled alternative sources of chemical weathering solutes in shallow groundwater. Chemical Geology. 2019;527(20):118871. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.007.
. The ecology and significance of below-ground bud banks in plants. Annals of Botany. 2019;123(7):1099 - 1118. doi:10.1093/aob/mcz051.
. The ecology of grazing lawns on the tallgrass prairie. Department of Biology. 2019;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/39462.
. Effects of fire and large herbivores on canopy nitrogen in a tallgrass prairie. Remote Sensing. 2019;11(11). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/11/1364?fbclid=IwAR3lLrrJFA3JBzN5IcRlRx-Gn7S_f-9nclPRB4H7IdDHxYQe34Ric_mraDs.
Effects of nutrient supply, herbivory, and host community on fungal endophyte diversity. Ecology. 2019;100(9):e02758. doi:10.1002/ecy.2758.
. Effects of patch-burn grazing on breeding density and territory size of Dickcissels. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 2019;14(1):7. doi:10.5751/ACE-01343-140107.
. Environmental heterogeneity effects on diversity and nitrous oxide emissions from soil in restored prairie. Department of Plant Biology. 2019;PhD Dissertation.
. Evaluation of numerical integration methods for kernel averaged predictors. Department of Statistics. 2019;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/40024/CongxingZhu2019.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y.
. Evolution of carbonate and karst critical zones. Chemical Geology. 2019;527(20):119223. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.06.023.
The freshwater biome gradient framework: predicting macroscale properties based on latitude, altitude, and precipitation. Ecosphere. 2019;10(7):e02786. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2786.
. Freshwater Ecology: Concepts and Environmental Applications of Limnology. 3rd ed. Elsevier; 2019:998. Available at: https://www.elsevier.com/books/freshwater-ecology/dodds/978-0-12-813255-5.
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. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1819027116.
Global patterns and drivers of ecosystem functioning in rivers and riparian zones. Science Advances. 2019;5(1):eaav0486. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aav0486.
. Grassland sensitivity to extreme drought: Assessing the role of dominant species physiology and community functional composition. 2019;PhD Dissertation.
. Growing up prairie: Ecological drivers of grassland songbird nestling development. Department of Biology. 2019;MS Thesis.