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. Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services. In: Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2012:377 -393. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575923.003.0032.
. Are we there yet: Assessing trajectories of two restored prairies to target native prairies over a decadal time frame. Department of Biology. 2023;MS Thesis.
. Assessment of soil quality in fields with short- and long-term enrollment in the CRP. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 2000;55:142 -146. Available at: http://www.jswconline.org/content/55/2/142.abstract.
. Changes in ecosystem function and effects of environmental complexity on foristic diversity during tallgrass prairie restoration. 2001;PhD Dissertation:1 -204.
. Changes in ecosystem structure and function along a chronosequence of restored grasslands. Ecological Applications. 2002;12:1688 -1701. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1688:CIESAF]2.0.CO;2.
. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2019;48(6):1913-1917.
. 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.
. Colonization and recovery of invertebrate ecosystem engineers during prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2014;22:456 -464. doi:10.1111/rec.12084.
. Community and ecosystem changes in tallgrass prairie restorations: the effects of population source and diversity. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/684/.
. Community Physiological Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2019;34(6):510 - 518. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.02.002.
. Comparing nondestructive and destructive methods of measuring leaf chlorophyll content: tracking changes in foliar chlorophyll of five Andropogon gerardii ecotypes (Poaceae). Photosynthetica. 2014;52:511-518.
. Contrasting ecosystem recovery on two soil textures: implications for carbon mitigation and grassland conservation. Ecosphere. 2010;1:5 -. doi:10.1890/ES10-00004.1 .
. Convergent and contingent community responses to grass source and dominance during prairie restoration across a longitudinal gradient. Environmental Management. 2014;53:252 -265. doi:10.1007/s00267-013-0209-3.
. Degraded soil increases the performance of a dominant grass, Andropogon gerardii (Big bluestem). Plant Ecology. 2018;219(10):901 - 911. doi:10.1007/s11258-018-0844-0.
. Demographic responses of grassland songbirds to rangeland management in the tallgrass prairie. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35800 .
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. . Ecology Letters. 2021;24(9):1892-1904. doi:10.1111/ele.13824.
. Diversity patterns from sequentially restored grasslands support the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’. Oikos. 2019;128(8):1116 - 1122. doi:10.1111/oik.05877.
. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2010;18:40 -49. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x.
Drought tolerance in ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) relates to above-ground surface area: Results from a common garden experiment. Flora. 2018;246-247:52 - 60. doi:10.1016/j.flora.2018.07.005.
. The effects of drought on plant and soil microbial communities and functioning during tallgrass prairie restoration. 2022;PhD Dissertation.
. Effects of foundation species genotypic diversity on subordinate species richness in an assembling community. Oikos. 2012;121:496 -507. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19447.x.
. Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and its relationship to indicators of soil quality in tallgrass prairie. Environmental Management. 2017;60(6):1075. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0942-0.
. Environmental and biotic processes influencing floristic composition, quality, integrity, and function in tallgrass prairie assemblages. 2018;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2597&context=dissertations.
. Environmental and genetic variation in leaf anatomy among populations of Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae) along a precipitation gradient. American Journal of Botany. 2013;100:1957 -1968. doi:10.3732/ajb.1200628.
. Environmental heterogeneity effects on diversity and nitrous oxide emissions from soil in restored prairie. Department of Plant Biology. 2019;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1683/.
. 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.
. Fitness among population sources of a dominant species (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) used in prairie restoration. Torrey Botanical Society. 2014;140:269 -279. doi:10.3159/TORREY-D-12-00063.1.
. Genetic and environmental influences on stomates of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Environmental and Experimental Botany. 2018;155:477 - 487. doi:10.1016/j.envexpbot.2018.07.018.
Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1819027116.
. Grassland establishment under varying resource availability: A test of positive and negative feedback. Ecology. 2008;89:1859 -1871. doi:10.1890/07-0417.1.
Integrating soil ecological knowledge into restoration management. Restoration Ecology. 2008;16:608 -617. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00477.x.
. Interannual variability in climate effects on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in restored prairie. Ecosphere. 2018;9(6):e02327. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2327.
. Intraspecific Variation in Ecophysiology of Three Dominant Prairie Grasses Used in Restoration: Cultivar Versus Non‐Cultivar Population Sources. Restoration Ecology. 2011;19:43 -52. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00673.x.
. Limited effects of dominant species population source on community composition during community assembly. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2013;24:429 -440. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01475.x.
Local adaptation, genetic divergence, and experimental selection in a foundation grass across the US Great Plains’ climate gradient. Global Change Biology. 2019;25(3):850 - 868. doi:10.1111/gcb.14534.
. Manipulation of soil resource heterogeneity in a tallgrass prairie restoration. . 1999:78 -87. Available at: http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC16/reference/econatres.napc16.sbaer.pdf.
. 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.
. No difference in herbivory preferences among ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123(1-2):151. doi:10.1660/062.123.0112.
No effect of seed source on multiple aspects of ecosystem functioning during ecological restoration: cultivars compared to local ecotypes of dominant grasses. Evolutionary Applications. 2014;7:323 -335. doi:10.1111/eva.12124.
Non-target and invasive species in rehabilitated production systems: Ecological impacts, management and future use. Environmental Management. 2009;43:189 -196.
Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. Climate Change Ecology. 2021;2:100025. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025.
. Persistent decadal differences in plant communities assembled under contrasting climate conditions. Ecological Applications. 2023;33(2):e2823. doi:10.1002/eap.2823.
. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. doi:10.1111/gcb.13666.
. Plant and soil responses to high and low diversity grassland restoration practices. Environmental Management. 2012;49:412 -424. doi:10.1007/s00267-011-9787-0.
. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1541-3.
Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century. Journal of Ecology. 2022;110(5):1054-1071. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13695.
. 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.
. Recovery of whole soil conditions through restoration from agriculture and its role in mediating plant-plant competition. 2015;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1826/.
. Regional-climate and local-microbial controls on ecosystem processes during grassland restoration. 2013;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1338/.