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2011

Klug PE, Wisely SM, With KA. Population genetic structure and landscape connectivity of the Eastern Yellowbelly Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) in the contiguous tallgrass prairie of northeastern Kansas, USA. Landscape Ecology. 2011;26:281 -294. doi:10.1007/s10980-010-9554-2.

Ratajczak Z, Nippert JB, Hartman JC, Ocheltree TW. Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere. 2011;2:121 -. doi:10.1890/ES11-00212.1.

Hartman JC, Nippert JB, Orozco RA, Springer CJ. Potential ecological impacts of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) biofuel cultivation in the Central Great Plains, USA. Biomass and Bioenergy. 2011;35:3415 -3421. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.055.

Adler P, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, et al. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science. 2011;333:1750 -1753. doi:10.1126/science.1204498.

Mora MA, Brattin B, Baxter C, Rivers JW. Regional and interspecific variation in Sr, Ca, and Sr/Ca ratios in avian eggshells from the USA. Ecotoxicology. 2011;20:1467 -1475. doi:10.1007/s10646-011-0703-4.

Fay PA, Blair JM, Smith MD, Nippert JB, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences. 2011;8:3053 -3068. doi:10.5194/bg-8-3053-2011.

McNew LB, Gregory AJ, Wisely SM, Sandercock BK. Reproductive biology of a southern population of Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology. 2011;39:209 -221. Available at: https://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/landbirds/pdfs/McNew_etal_2011_sab1.pdf.

Hartman JC. Responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) to precipitation amount and temperature. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/10720.

Hajny KM, Hartnett DC, Wilson GT. Rhus glabra response to season and intensity of fire in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2011;20:709 -720. doi:10.1071/WF09127.

Klopf RP, Baer SG. Root dynamics of cultivar and non‐cultivar population sources of two dominant grasses during initial establishment of tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2011;19:112 -117. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00539.x.

Tiemann L. Soil microbial community carbon and nitrogen dynamics with altered precipitation regimes and substrate availability. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7689.

Craine JM, Gelderman TM. Soil moisture controls on temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition for a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2011;43:455 -457. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.011.

Bach EM, Baer SG, Meyer CK, Six J. Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2011;42:2182 -2191. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.014.

Klug PE, Fill J, With KA. Spatial ecology of eastern yellow-bellied Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) and Great Plains rat snake (Pantherophis emoryi) in a contiguous tallgrass-prairie landscape. Herpetologica. 2011;67:428 -439. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00076.1.

Unterseher M, Dorman CF, Jumpponen A, et al. Species abundance distributions and richness estimations in fungal metagenomics – lessons learned from community ecology. Molecular Ecology. 2011;20:275 -285. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04948.x.

Augustine JK, Millspaugh JJ, Sandercock BK. Testosterone mediates mating success in Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology. 2011;39:195 -208.

Helton AM, Poole GC, Meyer JL, et al. Thinking outside the channel: modeling nitrogen cycling in networked river ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2011;9:229 -238. doi:10.1890/080211.

Kaufman GA, Kaufman DM, Kaufman DW. Treated versus new traps: does chronic application of disinfectant to live traps reduce trappability of rodents?. Southwestern Naturalist. 2011;56:224 -230. doi:10.1894/F12-RTS-12.1.

Brunsell N, Ham JM, Arnold KA. Validating remotely sensed land surface fluxes in heterogeneous terrain with large aperture scintillometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2011;32:6295 -6314. doi:10.1080/01431161.2010.508058.

McMillan BR, Pfeiffer KA, Kaufman DW. Vegetation responses to an animal-generated disturbance (bison wallows) in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2011;165:60 -73. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-165.1.60.

Barger NN, Archer SR, Campbell JL, Huang C, Morton JA, Knapp AK. Woody plant proliferation in North American drylands: A synthesis of impacts on ecosystem carbon balance. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011;116. doi:10.1029/2010JG001506.

2010

McNew LB. An analysis of greater prairie-chicken demography in Kansas: the effects of human land use on the population ecology of an obligate grassland species. 2010;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/4316.

Rivers JW, Loughin TM, Rothstein SI. Brown-headed cowbird nestlings influence nestmate begging, but not parental feeding, in hosts of three distinct sizes. Animal Behaviour. 2010;79:107 -116. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.10.009.

Sprinkle JW. Bud bank density regulates invasion by exotic plants. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9198.

Commerford JL. Calibrating vegetation cover and pollen assemblages in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4170.

Craine JM, Elmore AJ, Olson KC, Tolleson D. Climate change and cattle nutritional stress. Global Change Biology. 2010;16:2901 -2911. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02060.x.

Craine JM, Towne EG, Nippert JB. Climate controls on grass culm production over a quarter century in a tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2010;91:2132 -2140. doi:10.1890/09-1242.1.

Petrie M. Climate forcings and the nonlinear dynamics of grassland ecosystems. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6633.

Rivers JW, Jensen WE, Kosciuch KL, Rothstein SI. Community-level patterns of host use by the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), a generalist brood parasite. Auk. 2010;127:263 -273. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.09053.

Apple JL, Grace T, Joern A, Amand P, Wisely SM. Comparative genome scan detects host-related divergent selection in the grasshopper Hesperotettix viridis. Molecular Ecology. 2010;19:4012 -4028. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04792.x.

Murdock JM, Gido KB, Dodds WK, Bertrand KN, Whiles MR. Consumer return chronology alters recovery trajectory of stream ecosystem structure and function following drought. Ecology. 2010;91:1048 -1062. doi:10.1890/08-2168.1.

Baer SG, Meyer CK, Bach EM, Klopf RP, Six J. Contrasting ecosystem recovery on two soil textures: implications for carbon mitigation and grassland conservation. Ecosphere. 2010;1:5 -. doi:10.1890/ES10-00004.1 .

Sandel B, Goldstein LJ, Kraft NJ, et al. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist. 2010;188:565 -575. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03382.x.

Williamson MM. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in tallgrass prairie: The effect of light and nitrogen. 2010;MS Thesis:1 -52. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9577.

Yang X, Steward DR, de Langeb WJ, Lauwoa SY, Chubb RM, Bernard EA. Data model for system conceptualization in groundwater studies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2010;24:677 -694. doi:10.1080/13658810902967389.

Jangid K, Williams MA, Franzluebbers AJ, Blair JM, Coleman DC, Whitman WB. Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2010;42:302 -312. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.11.008.

Rollins AW, Landolt JC, Stephenson SL. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds associated with grasslands of the central and western United States. Mycologia. 2010;102:996 -1003. doi:10.3852/09-099.

Gido KB, Bertrand KN, Murdock JN, Dodds WK, Whiles MR. Disturbance mediated effects of stream fishes on ecosystem processes: concepts and results from highly variable prairie streams. Advances in Stream Fish Community Ecology: Concepts, Approaches and Techniques. 2010:593 -617. Available at: https://www.k-state.edu/fishecology/msreprints/Gido%20et%20al.2010%20AFSbook%20chapter.pdf.

Grace T, Dowell F, Joern A, Wisely SM, Brown SJ, Maghirang E. Divergent host plant adaptation drives the evolution of reproductive isolation in the grasshopper Hesperotettix viridis (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society. 2010;100:866 -878. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01458.x.

McCain KNS, Baer SG, Blair JM, Wilson GT. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2010;18:40 -49. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x.

Winders K. Ecosystem Processes of Prairie Streams and the Impact of Anthropogenic Alteration on Stream Ecological Integrity. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6849.

Strum KM, Hooper MJ, Johnson KA, Lanctot RB, Zaccagnini ME, Sandercock BK. Exposure of nonbreeding migratory shorebirds to cholinesterase inhibiting contaminants in the Western Hemisphere. The Condor. 2010;112:15 -28. doi:10.1525/cond.2010.090026.

Reisinger AJ. Factors affecting denitrification in headwater prairie streams. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4273.

Melzer SE, Knapp AK, Fynn RWS, et al. Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems. Biogeochemistry. 2010;97:263 -278. doi:10.1007/s10533-009-9371-3.

Spasojevic MJ, Aicher RJ, Koch GR, et al. Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits. Ecology. 2010;91:1651 -1659. doi:10.1890/09-0431.1.

Loaiza V, Jonas JL, Joern A. Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) select vegetation patches in local-scale responses to foliar nitrogen but not phosphorus in native grassland. Insect Science. 2010;18:533 -540. doi:10.1111/j.1744-7917.2010.01376.x.

Craine JM, Towne EG. High leaf tissue density grassland species consistently more abundant across topographic and disturbance contrasts in a North American tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2010;337:193 -203. doi:10.1007/s11104-010-0515-y.

Buck T. The impact of land cover change on water and carbon cycling in the US central plains grasslands. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/6992.

Blevins E. Influence of landscape context on patterns of occupancy, abundance, and gene flow among collared lizards in the Flint Hills of Kansas. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3911.

Bernot MJ, Sobota DJ, Hall RO, et al. Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology. 2010;55:1874 -1890. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02422.x.

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