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2019
Welti EAR, Sanders NJ, Beurs KM, Kaspari M. A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitation in grassland food webs. Ecology. 2019;7113:e02600. doi:10.1002/ecy.2600.
2020
Welti EAR, Prather RM, Sanders NJ, deBeurs KM, Kaspari M. 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.
Welti EAR, Roeder KA, de Beurs KM, Joern A, Kaspari M. 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.
Welti EAR, Kuczynski L, Marske KA, Sanders NJ, Beurs KM, Kaspari M. Salty, mild, and low plant biomass grasslands increase top‐heaviness of invertebrate trophic pyramids. Madin E. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2020;2958(9):1474 - 1485. doi:10.1111/geb.13119.
2021
Kaspari M, Beurs KM, Welti EAR. How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance. Ecology. 2021;102(10):e03459. doi:10.1002/ecy.3459.
Welti EAR, Kaspari M. Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands. Functional Ecology. 2021;35(6):1212-1221. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13796.
Welti EAR, Joern A, Ellison AM, et al. Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021;5:589–591. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01424-0.
Ozment KA, Welti EAR, Shaffer M, Kaspari M. Tracking nutrients in space and time: Interactions between grazing lawns and drought drive abundances of tallgrass prairie grasshoppers. Ecology and Evolution. 2021;11(10):5413-5423. doi:10.1002/ece3.7435.
2022
Kaspari M, Joern A, Welti EAR. How and why grasshopper community maturation rates are slowing on a North American tall grass prairie. Biology Letters. 2022;18(1). doi:10.1098/rsbl.2021.0510.
2023
Kaspari M, Welti EAR. Electrolytes on the prairie: How urine‐like additions of Na and K shape the dynamics of a grassland food web. Ecology. 2023;104(1):e3856. doi:10.1002/ecy.3856.
In Press
Kaspari M, Welti EAR. Nutrient dilution and the future of herbivore populations. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. In Press. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.001.