Konza LTER Publications
Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems. In Press. doi:10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4.
Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community excretion stoichiometry during severe drought. Freshwater Biology. In Press;(110). doi:10.1111/fwb.13433.
Browsing and fire decreases dominance of a resprouting shrub in woody encroached grassland. Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1002/ecy.2935.
. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. In Press.
. Dust, impure calcite, and phytoliths: modeled alternative sources of chemical weathering solutes in shallow groundwater. Chemical Geology. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.007.
. Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
. Evolution of carbonate and karst critical zones. Chemical Geology. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.06.023.
. 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.
. How landscape heterogeneity governs stream water concentration-discharge behavior in carbonate terrains (Konza Prairie, USA). Chemical Geology. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.12.002.
. Intraspecific trait variability in Andropogon gerardii, a dominant grass species in the US Great Plains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. In Press. doi:10.3389/fevo.2018.00217.
. . 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.
Nutrients, eutrophication and harmful algal blooms along the freshwater to marine continuum. WIRES Water. In Press. Available at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/wat2.1373.
. Plant phylogenetic history explains in‐stream decomposition at a global scale. . Journal of Ecology. In Press. 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. In Press. doi:10.1111/gcb.14789.
. Shifts in plant functional composition following long‐term drought in grasslands. Journal of Ecology. In Press. Available at: https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.13252.
Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird. Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1002/ecy.2927.
. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 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.
. Watershed-scale chemical weathering in a merokarst terrain, northeastern Kansas, USA. Chemical Geology. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.12.001.
. What drives grassland ecosystem multifunctionality: Grazing pressure or plant community parameters?. Functional Ecology. In Press.
Assessing precipitation, evapotranspiration, and NDVI as controls of U.S. Great Plains plant production. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02889. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2889.
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.
. 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.
. 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.
. 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.
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