Konza LTER Publications
] . Decadal persistence of grassland soil organic matter derived from litter and pyrogenic inputs. Nature Geoscience. 2025;18:226–231. doi:10.1038/s41561-025-01638-y.
Estimation of flint hills tallgrass prairie productivity and fuel loads: a model-based synthesis and extrapolation of experimental data. Landscape Ecology. 2025;40(24). doi:10.1007/s10980-024-02034-4.
Experimental drought consistently underestimates productivity responses to natural drought in four Central US grasslands. Oecologia. 2025;207(104). doi:10.1007/s00442-025-05746-9.
. Fire frequency and bison presence have direct and indirect effects on below- and above- ground nesting bee communities in tallgrass prairies. Biodiversity and Conservation. 2025;(10). doi:10.1007/s10531-025-03086-x.
Grassland woody encroachment alters subsurface mineral weathering and groundwater composition in a carbonate system. Chemical Geology. 2025;673. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2024.122522.
. Nematode communities respond more to N enrichment than to plant community changes over decades in tallgrass prairie. Applied Soil Ecology. 2025;210(6):106096. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2025.106096.
. Assessing drought sensitivity across the shortgrass steppe biome. 2024;MS Thesis. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/items/b679d2ab-f89d-4c15-8894-69f4d5e6a826.
Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams. Nature Water. 2024;2(9):815 - 826. doi:10.1038/s44221-024-00298-3.
. Biological and physical controls of methane uptake in grassland soils across the US Great Plains. Ecosphere. 2024;15(9):e4955. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v15.910.1002/ecs2.4955.
Changes in water age during dry‐down of a non‐perennial stream. Water Resources Research. 2024;60(1):e2023WR034623. doi:10.1029/2023WR034623.
. Combined effects of fire and drought are not sufficient to slow shrub encroachment in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2024;204:727 - 742. doi:10.1007/s00442-024-05526-x.
. Contrasting shrub and grass hydraulic responses to experimental drought. Oecologia. 2024;204:931 - 941. doi:10.1007/s00442-024-05543-w.
Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition. Journal of Ecology. 2024;112(2):416-426. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14243.
. Evaluating methods for measuring the leaf area index of encroaching shrubs in grasslands: From leaves to optical methods, 3-D scanning, and airborne observation. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2024;349. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2024.109964.
. Experimental evidence that nest orientation influences microclimate in a temperate grassland. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2024;95(1). doi:10.5751/JFO-00387-950102.
Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024;121(4):e230988112. doi:10.1073/pnas.2309881120.
Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?. Functional Ecology. 2024;38(1):76-97. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.14460.
Grass evolutionary lineages can be identified using hyperspectral leaf reflectance. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2024;129(2):e2023JG007852. doi:10.1029/2023JG007852.
. Grass leaf structural and stomatal trait responses to climate gradients assessed over the 20th century and across the Great Plains, USA. AoB PLANTS. 2024;16(5):plae055. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plae055.
Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America. Ecology. 2024;105(2):e4220. doi:10.1002/ecy.4220.
. Heterogeneity promotes resilience in restored prairie: Implications for the environmental heterogeneity hypothesis. Ecological Applications. 2024;34(6):e3006. doi:10.1002/eap.3006.
. High among‐species variability in the context dependence of herbivory across disturbance, weather and topoedaphic gradients. Journal of Ecology. 2024;112(10):2237-2248. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14390.
. Hillslope evolution of heterolithic landscapes: investigating processes and controls on geomorphic development of staircase landscapes. Department of Geography. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/items/ce598de6-d389-4e99-8520-1cbcb240cbb9.
. Impacts of patch burn grazing on the invertebrate communities of Kansas rangelands. 2024;MS Thesis. Available at: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=47595.
. The long shadow of woody encroachment: An integrated approach to modeling grassland songbird habitatAbstract. Ecological Applications. 2024;34(3):e2954. doi:10.1002/eap.v34.310.1002/eap.2954.
. Mycorrhizal‐herbivore interactions and the competitive release of subdominant tallgrass prairie species. Journal of Ecology. 2024. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14351.
. North American megafauna, friend or foe to woody encroachment across the Great Plains? Further exploring the American bison’s ecological role on plant communities. Department of Biology. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/items/2d3c8fa7-ad50-475d-a753-216ebeef5b0b.
. Nutrient dilution and the future of herbivore populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2024;39(9):809-820. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.001.
. Phenotypic plasticity and ecological memory in Andropogon gerardii: responses to simulated grazing pressure. Department of Biology. 2024;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/items/bd2c8631-5a03-409c-ab70-9a791d2850d1.
. Plant and microbial feedbacks maintain soil nitrogen legacies in burned and unburned grasslandsAbstract. Journal of Ecology. 2024. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14386.
Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and intensity. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2024;5:276–294. Available at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-024-00534-0.
Plant responses to changing rainfall frequency and magnitude. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. 2024;5(4):276 - 294. doi:10.1038/s43017-024-00534-0.
. Product-inhibition feedbacks, not microbial population level tradeoffs or soil pH, regulate decomposition potential under nutrient eutrophication. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2024;189:109247. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109247.
. The role of disturbance in Great Plains grassland community dynamics. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=47590.
. Save or spend? Diverging water‐use strategies of grasses and encroaching clonal shrubs. Journal of Ecology. 2024;112(4):870-885. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14276.
. Scientific collaborative within-group conduct, data-sharing, and publication agreements. BioScience. 2024:biae073. doi:10.1093/biosci/biae073.
. Spatial and physical characteristics of bison wallows in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Ecosphere. 2024;15(5):e4861. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v15.510.1002/ecs2.4861.
. Uncovering patterns and processes regulating stream water chemistry from catchment to continental scale. Environmental Engineering. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/20832kps5778.
Unexpected hydrologic response to ecosystem state change in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Hydrology. 2024;643:131937. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.131937.
Woody encroachment modifies subsurface structure and hydrological function. ECOHYDROLOGY. 2024:e2731. doi:10.1002/eco.2731.
Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. doi:10.1111/gcb.v29.2310.1111/gcb.16950.
. Amorpha canescens and Andropogon gerardii recruit comparable foliar fungal communities across the steep precipitation gradient in Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2023;126(1-2):31-50. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/transactions-of-the-kansas-academy-of-science/volume-126/issue-1-2/062.126.0107/Amorpha-canescens-and-Andropogon-gerardii-Recruit-Comparable-Foliar-Fungal-Communities/10.1660/062.126.0107.short.
. Are we there yet: Assessing trajectories of two restored prairies to target native prairies over a decadal time frame. Department of Biology. 2023;MS Thesis.
Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration. Biogeosciences. 2023;20(13):2707 - 2725. doi:10.5194/bg-20-2707-2023.
. Bison and cattle grazing influences on soil microbial N cycling and ecosystem N pools in annually burned tallgrass prairies. Department of Biology. 2023;MS Thesis. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2097/43647.
Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and new methods for causal inference. Nature Communications. 2023;14. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37194-5.
Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere. 2023;14(6):e4542. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v14.610.1002/ecs2.4542.
. Contrasting intra‐annual population dynamics of two codominant species are consistent across spatial and temporal scales. Journal of Ecology. 2023;111(3):676-686. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14055.
. Data fusion of distance sampling and capture-recapture data. Journal of Spatial Statistics. 2023;55:100756. doi:10.1016/j.spasta.2023.100756.
Diversity–stability relationships across organism groups and ecosystem types become decoupled across spatial scales. Ecology. 2023;104(9):e4136. doi:10.1002/ecy.v104.910.1002/ecy.4136.