Konza LTER Publications
] . Deconstructing precipitation variability: rainfall event size and timing uniquely alter ecosystem dynamics. Journal of Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13724.
. Defining codominance in plant communities. New Phytologist. In Press. doi:10.1111/nph.17253.
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. . Ecology Letters. In Press. doi:10.1111/ele.13824.
. 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.
. Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
Future trajectories for ecosystems of the Long-Term Ecological Research Network: The importance of state changes. Ecosphere. In Press.
Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. Climate Change Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025.
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century. Journal of Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13695.
. Resources do not limit compensatory response of a tallgrass prairie plant community to the loss of a dominant species. Journal of Ecology. In Press. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13741.
. 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.
. 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.
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.
. Deepening roots can enhance carbonate weathering by amplifying CO2-rich recharge. Biogeosciences. 2021;18:55-75. doi:10.5194/bg-18-55-2021.
Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought. Oecologia. 2021.
. Fire and browsing interact to alter intra-clonal stem dynamics of an encroaching shrub in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2021;196(43):1039 - 1048. doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04980-1.
. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters. 2021;24(4):636-647. doi:10.1111/ele.13676.
. Fire history as a key determinant of grassland soil CO2 flux. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:579–592. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04781-0.
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology. 2021;102(2):e03218. doi:10.1002/ecy.3218.
. Lateral bedrock erosion and valley formation in a heterogeneously layered landscape, Northeast Kansas. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2021. doi:10.1002/esp.5172.
. Mechanisms influencing physically sequestered soil carbon in temperate restored grasslands in South Africa and North America. Biogeochemistry. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00774-y.
Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021;1184(28):e2023718118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2023718118.
. Is a prescribed fire sufficient to slow the spread of woody plants in an infrequently burned grassland? A case study in tallgrass prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2021;78:79 - 89. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2021.05.007.
. 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.
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data. 2021;13(5):1843 - 1854. doi:10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021.
. Soil fungal communities are compositionally resistant to drought manipulations – Evidence from culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses. Fungal Ecology. 2021;51:101062. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101062.
. Spatial variation in soil microbial processes as a result of woody encroachment depends on shrub size in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:359 - 373. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04813-9.
Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda. Earth's Future. 2021;9(3):e2020EF001631. doi:10.1029/2020EF001631.
Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous U.S. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(12):6959-6973.
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. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/Transactions-of-the-Kansas-Academy-of-Science/volume-123/issue-1-2/062.123.0103/Communities-of-Small-Mammals-Tallgrass-Prairie-and-Prescribed-Fire/10.1660/062.123.0103.short.
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.
. Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2020;31(5):899-907. doi:10.1111/jvs.12910.
Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(12). doi:10.1111/gcb.15308.
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.