Konza LTER Publications
] . The role of mycorrhizae and dominant competitors in tallgrass prairie plant community structure and belowground processes. 1998;MS Thesis:1 -139.
. Response and recovery of grassland plant communities exposed to multiyear drought differs across a precipitation gradient. 2022;MS Thesis. Available at: https://api.mountainscholar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/d7eb2bdf-6570-4232-abc4-8229e1c8f835/content.
. Genetic diversity of Andropogon gerardii: Impacts of altered precipitation patterns on a dominant species. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -258. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1272028956.
. Drivers of grassland community structure and ecosystem function: the role of biotic factors in determining the ecosystem response to alterations in resource availability. 2013;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1495948277?pq-origsite=gscholar.
. Dimensions of diversity and their direct and indirect effects on tallgrass prairie ecosystem functioning. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -165. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1039554547.
. Defining, describing, and assessing growth determinacy as a mechanism of plant species codominance. 2022;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://api.mountainscholar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9229126-0255-4b7d-aa9b-e1b3bedfc593/content.
. Climate change impacts on population dynamics in tallgrass prairie: implications for species codominance. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/181431.
. Causes and consequences of species invasion and loss: the role of dominant species and diversity in maintaining ecosystem function. 2002;PhD Dissertation:1 -148.
Why coordinated distributed experiments should go global. BioScience. 2021;71(9):918 - 927. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab033.
Variation in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii in response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change. Journal of Ecology. 2010;98:374 -383. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01618.x.
. Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production. Science. 2001;291:481 -484. doi:10.1126/science.291.5503.481.
. Traits that distinguish dominant species across aridity gradients differ from those that respond to soil moisture. Oecologia. 2023;201(2):311 - 322. doi:10.1007/s00442-023-05315-y.
A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2012;5:357 -365. doi:10.1093/jpe/rts020.
. A test for community change using a null model approach. Ecological Applications. 2005;15:1761 -1771. doi:10.1890/04-1490.
. Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change. Ecology. 2015;96(9):2335. doi:10.1890/14-1897.1.
. Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems. Oecologia. 2016;180(2):485 -497. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3471-7.
. Size of the local species pool determines invasibility of a C4-dominated grassland. Oikos. 2001;92:55 -61. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2001.920107.x.
Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands. . Journal of Ecology. 2019;107(5):2133 - 2148. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13252.
Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw077.
. Scale-dependent interaction of fire andgrazing on community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2006;87:2058 -2067. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2058:SIOFAG]2.0.CO;2.
. Scale dependence in the relationship between species richness and productivity: the role of spatial and temporal turnover. Ecology. 2004;85:2701 -2708. doi:10.1890/03-0561.
Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:793 -804. doi:10.1111/jvs.12130.
. Resources do not limit compensatory response of a tallgrass prairie plant community to the loss of a dominant species. Journal of Ecology. 2021;109(10):3617-3633. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13741.
. Resource availability modulates above and belowground competitive interactions between genotypes of a dominant C4 grass. Functional Ecology. 2014;28:1041 -1051. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12227.
. Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes. Ecology. 2014;95:2646 -2656. doi:10.1890/13-2186.1.
. Repeated extreme droughts decrease root production, but not the potential for post‐drought recovery of root production, in a mesic grassland. Oikos. 2023;1:e08899. doi:10.1111/oik.08899.
. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences. 2011;8:3053 -3068. doi:10.5194/bg-8-3053-2011.
Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 2022;119(36):e2210433119. doi:10.1073/pnas.2210433119.
. Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation– productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytologist. 2017;214(1):41-47. doi:10.1111/nph.14381.
A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?. Ecology. 2018;99(10):2145-2151. doi:10.1002/ecy.2474.
. Rangeland responses to predicted increases in drought extremity. Rangelands . 2016;38:191-196. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.06.009.
. Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:36 -44. doi:10.1111/jvs.12065.
Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science. 2002;298:2202 -2205. doi:10.1126/science.1076347.
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.
. Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie. PLoS One. 2017;12(5):e0177754. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177754.
Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?. Global Change Biology. 2013;19(12):3677 - 3687. doi:10.1111/gcb.12370.
. Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change. Global Change Biology. 2021;27(6):1127 - 1140. doi:10.1111/gcb.15480.
. Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species. Functional Ecology. 2017. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12904.
. Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(2):658-668. doi:10.1111/gcb.14789.
Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology. 2014;95:808 -816. doi:10.1890/13-1828.1.
. Physiological and morphological traits of exotic, invasive exotic, and native plant species in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2001;162:785 -792. doi:10.1086/320774.
. Photosynthetic responses of a dominant C4 grass to an experimental heat wave are mediated by soil moisture. Oecologia. 2017;183(1):303-313. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3755-6.
Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience. 2012;62:377 -389. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.9.
. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology. 2016;104:1478-1487. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12610.
. Multiple global change drivers show independent, not interactive effects: a long-term case study in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2023;201(1):143–154. doi:10.1007/s00442-022-05295-5.
. Mechanisms of selection: Phenotypic differences among genotypes explain patterns of selection in a dominant species. Ecology. 2013;94:953 -965. doi:10.1890/12-1119.1.
. Measuring genetic diversity in ecological studies. Plant Ecology. 2012;213:1105 -1115. doi:10.1007/s11258-012-0069-6.
Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought. Science of The Total Environment. 2018;636:360 - 366. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.04.290.
Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(3):855-864. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13330.
Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia. 2014;175:293 -303. doi:10.1007/s00442-014-2895-9.