Konza LTER Publications
] Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. doi:10.1111/gcb.13504.
. Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation– productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytologist. 2017;214(1):41-47. doi:10.1111/nph.14381.
. Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2017;81(1):50-60. doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.05.0158.
. Restoration and management for plant diversity enhances the rate of belowground ecosystem recovery. Ecological Applications. 2017;27(2):355 - 362. doi:10.1002/eap.1503.
. Restored prairie response to reduction in ectophagous insects. 2017; MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2331/.
. The role of soil heterogeneity in the recruitment of new species and interactions with grasshoppers (Acrididae) and Katydids (Tettigoniidae) in restored prairie. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2080/.
. Role of spatial and temporal vegetation heterogeneity from fire-grazing interactions to the assembly of tallgrass prairie spider communities. Department of Biology. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34672.
. Small mammals in anthropogenic brome fields as compared to native tallgrass prairie in the northern flint hills of kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):157 - 169. doi:10.1660/062.120.0402.
. Small vegetation gaps increase reseeded yellow-flowered alfalfa performance and production in native grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology. 2017;24:41 - 52. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2017.08.002.
. Space use of female greater Prairie-Chickens in response to fire and grazing interactions. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2017;70(2):165–174. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.004.
. Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. . Ecology Letters. 2017;20(12):1565. doi:10.1111/ele.12864.
Temporal variability in large grazer space use in an experimental landscape. Ecosphere. 2017;8(1). doi:10.1002/ecs2.1674.
. Testing metabolic cold adaptation as a driver of warm-water fish species replacement along the river continuum. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 2017;100(3):265-279. doi:10.1007/s10641-017-0577-2.
. Use of vegetation sampling and analysis to detect a problem within a portion of a prairie restoration project. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 2017;19(1):65 - 72. doi:10.1080/15226514.2016.1216081.
. Validation of a field-ready handheld meter for plasma β-hydroxybutyrate analysis. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2017;88(4):399 - 404. doi:10.1111/jofo.2017.88.issue-410.1111/jofo.12233.
. Above- and below-ground responses of native and invasive prairie grasses to future climate scenarios. Botany. 2016;94(6):471 - 479. doi:10.1139/cjb-2015-0238.
Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature. 2016;537:93-96. doi:10.1038/nature19324.
. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports. 2016;(1). doi:10.1038/srep20120.
. Assessing the potential for transitions from tallgrass prairie to woodlands: are we operating beyond critical transitions?. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2016;69(4):280–287. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2016.03.004.
Baseflow physical characteristics differ at multiple spatial scales in stream networks across diverse biomes. Landscape Ecology. 2016;31(1):119-136. doi:10.1007/s10980-015-0289-y.
. A before-and-after assessment of patch-burn grazing and riparian fencing along headwater streams. Journal of Applied Ecology. 2016;53(5):1543–1553. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12692.
Belowground interactions with aboveground consequences: Invasive earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology. 2016;97(3):605 - 614. doi:10.1890/15-1085.
Beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems. Ecology. 2016;97(2):372 - 382. doi:10.1890/15-0153.1.
. Bison and cattle grazing management, bare ground coverage, and links to suspended sediment concentrations in grassland streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2016;52(1):16-30. doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12364.
. Changes in soil properties, microbial biomass, and fluxes of C and N in soil following post-agricultural grassland restoration. Applied Soil Ecology. 2016;100:186 - 194. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.01.001.
. Changes in spatial and temporal trends in wet, dry, warm and cold spell length or duration indices in Kansas, USA. International Journal of Climatology. 2016;36(12):4085 - 4101. doi:10.1002/joc.4619.
. Characterizing organic matter inputs to sediments of small, intermittent, prairie streams: a molecular marker and stable isotope approach. Aquatic Sciences. 2016;78(2):343 - 354. doi:10.1007/s00027-015-0435-2.
. Characterizing woody encroachment in the konza prairie using object-based analysis of aerial photographs. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24182.
Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2016;3719371(1694):20150273. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0273.
codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12569.
. Comparative ecohydrology between Cornus drummondii and Solidago canadensis in upland tallgrass prairie. Plant Ecology. 2016;217(2):267-276. doi:10.1007/s11258-016-0567-z.
. Co-variation in methanotroph community composition and activity in three temperate grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2016;95:78 - 86. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.12.014.
. Crab spiders (Thomisidae) attract insect flower-visitors without UV signaling. Ecological Entomology. 2016;41(5):611-617. doi:10.1111/een.12334.
. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology. 2016;97:561-568. doi:10.1890/15-1437.1.
. Drivers of variation in aboveground net primary productivity and plant community composition differ across a broad precipitation gradient. Ecosystems. 2016;19(3):521-533. doi:10.1007/s10021-015-9949-7.
. Ecohydrological and climate change studies at the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2016;119(1):5 - 11. doi:10.1660/062.119.0103.
. The effect of timing of growing season drought on flowering of a dominant C4 grass. Oecologia. 2016;181(2):391 - 399. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3579-4.
. The effects of P fertilizer addition on P transformations on high-P fixing and grassland soils. 2016;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34586.
. Environmental extremes drive plant and soil community dynamics of native and disturbed grasslands. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: https://shareok.org/handle/11244/49188.
. Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Monographs. 2016;86(1):94 - 106. doi:10.1890/15-0888.1.
Few multiyear precipitation–reduction experiments find a shift in the productivity–precipitation relationship. Global Change Biology. 2016;22(7):2570-2581. doi:10.1111/gcb.13269.
. The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonisation and extinction dynamics of common and rare fishes in intermittent prairie streams. Freshwater Biology. 2016;61(8):1321–1334. doi:10.1111/fwb.12668.
. Foraging decisions underlying restricted space use: effects of fire and forage maturation on large herbivore nutrient uptake. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(16):5843–5853 . doi:10.1002/ece3.2304.
. Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation. Scientific Reports. 2016;6:25522. doi:10.1038/srep25522.
. Grasshopper sparrows on the move: patterns and causes of within-season breeding dispersal in a declining grassland songbird. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/32705.
. High dissimilarity within a multiyear annual record of pollen assemblages from a North American tallgrass prairie. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(15):5273 - 5289. doi:10.1002/ece3.2259.
. The immediate and prolonged effects of climate extremes on soil respiration in a mesic grassland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121(4):1034 - 1044. doi:10.1002/2015JG003256.
. Importance of vegetation structure to the assembly of an aerial web-building spider community in North American open grassland. Journal of Arachnology. 2016;44(1):28 - 35. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/P14-58.1.
. Increasing fish taxonomic and functional richness affects ecosystem properties of small headwater prairie streams. Freshwater Biology. 2016;61(6):887–898. doi:10.1111/fwb.12752.