Konza LTER Publications
] . Differential responses of plant and microbial functional groups to cessation of chronic fertilization. Ecology. 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.
Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?. Global Change Biology. In Press. doi:10.1111/gcb.15024.
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.
. 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.
. 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.
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.
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.
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.
. 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.
Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models. Nature Communications. 2020;11(522). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14411-z.
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.