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.
Defining codominance in plant communities. New Phytologist. In Press. doi:10.1111/nph.17253.
. Differential resilience of soil microbes and ecosystem functions following cessation of long-term fertilization. Ecosystems. In Press. doi:10.1007/s10021-021-00633-9.
. 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.
. Fire history as a key determinant of grassland soil CO2 flux. Plant and Soil. In Press. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04781-0.
. 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.
Mechanisms influencing physically sequestered soil carbon in temperate restored grasslands in South Africa and North America. Biogeochemistry. In Press. doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00774-y.
. 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.
Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands. Functional Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13796.
. Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. In Press. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01424-0.
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.
. Tracking nutrients in space and time: Interactions between grazing lawns and drought drive abundances of tallgrass prairie grasshoppers. Ecology and Evolution. In Press. doi:10.1002/ece3.7435.
. 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.
Consumer roles of small mammals within fragmented native tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere. 2021;12(3):e03441. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3441.
. Regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) sex ratio in tallgrass prairie: Effects of survey timing and management regime. The American Midland Naturalist. 2021;185(1):57 - 76. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/the-american-midland-naturalist/volume-185/issue-1/0003-0031-185.1.57/Regal-Fritillary-Speyeria-idalia-Sex-Ratio-in-Tallgrass-Prairie/10.1637/0003-0031-185.1.57.short.
. Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda. Earth's Future. 2021;9(3):e2020EF001631. doi:10.1029/2020EF001631.
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.
. Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2020;29(12):2273-2288. doi:10.1111/geb.13196.
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.
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