Konza LTER Publications
Bison foraging responds to fire frequency in nutritionally heterogeneous grassland. Ecology. 2015;96:1586 -1597. doi:10.1890/14-2027.1.
. Blazing and grazing: influences of fire and bison on tallgrass prairie stream water quality. Freshwater Science. 2013;32:779 -791. doi:10.1899/12-118.1.
. Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008;105:1977 -1982. doi:10.1073/pnas.0711870105.
. 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.
. Complex variation in habitat selection strategies among individuals driven by extrinsic factors. Ecology and Evolution. 2017;7(6):1802-1822. doi:10.1002/ece3.2764.
. Consequences of climate variability for the performance of bison in tallgrass prairie. Global Change Biology. 2009;15:772 -779. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01769.x.
. Consumptionof mycorrhizal and saprophytic fungi by Collembola in grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2007;39:2594 -2602. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.004.
. Crab spiders (Thomisidae) attract insect flower-visitors without UV signaling. Ecological Entomology. 2016;41(5):611-617. doi:10.1111/een.12334.
. Density mediates grasshopper performance in response to temperature manipulation and spider predation in tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2017;107(2):261 - 267. doi:10.1017/S0007485316000894.
. Dietary selection and nutritional regulation in a common mixed-feeding insect herbivore. Experimentalis et Applicata Entomologia. 2013;148:20 -26. doi:10.1111/eea.12065.
. 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.
. Does dietary-P affect feeding and performance in the mixed-feeding grasshopper (Acrididae) Melanoplus bivitattus?. Environmental Entomology. 2008;37:333 -339. doi:10.1093/ee/37.2.333.
. Ecological hierarchy of foraging in a large herbivore: the plains bison perspective in tallgrass prairie. 2015;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/20348/EdwardRaynor2015.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y.
. Ecological mechanisms underlying arthropod species diversity in grasslands. Annual Review of Entomology. 2013;58:19 -36. doi:10.1146/annurev-ento-120811-153540.
. Ecological networks of grassland plants and arthropods. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/35284.
. Effects of fire and large herbivores on canopy nitrogen in a tallgrass prairie. Remote Sensing. 2019;11(11). Available at: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/11/1364?fbclid=IwAR3lLrrJFA3JBzN5IcRlRx-Gn7S_f-9nclPRB4H7IdDHxYQe34Ric_mraDs.
. Estimating canopy nitrogen content in a heterogeneous grassland with varying fire and grazing treatments: Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA. Remote Sensing. 2014;6:4430 -4453. doi:10.3390/rs6054430.
. Fire and grazing modulate the structure and resistance of plant–floral visitor networks in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2018;186(2):517-528. doi:10.1007/s00442-017-4019-9.
. Fire, grazing and climate shape plant–grasshopper interactions in a tallgrass prairie. Functional Ecology. 2019;33:735 - 745. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13272.
. 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.
. A generalist grasshopper species (Melanoplus femurrubrum) is adapted to variable environments along a latitudinal gradient. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13093.
. Genetic variation and mating success in managed American plains bison. Journal of Heredity. 2013;104:182 -191. doi:10.1093/jhered/ess095.
. Grasshopper fecundity responses to grazing and fire in a tallgrass prairie. Environmental Entomology. 2011;40:979 -988. doi:10.1603/EN10146.
. Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) communities respond to fire, bison grazing and weather in North Americantallgrass prairie: A long-term study. Oecologia. 2007;153:699 -711. doi:10.1007/s00442-007-0761-8.
. 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.
. Grassland ecosystem and landscape dynamics. In: The Changing Prairie. The Changing Prairie. Oxford University Press; 1995:128 -156.
. Harmony on the prairie? Grassland plant and animal community responses to variation in climate across land‐use gradients. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02986. doi:10.1002/ecy.2986.
Highly polymorphic microsatellites in the North American snakeweed grasshopper, Hesperotettix viridis. Journal of Orthoptera Research. 2009;18:19 -21. doi:10.1665/034.018.0111.
. Host-plant quality alters grass/forb consumption by a mixed-feeding insect herbivore, Melanoplus bivittauts (Orthoptera: Acrididae). Ecological Entomology. 2008;33:546 -554. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.01004.x.
. Hyperspectral analysis of leaf pigments and nutritional elements in tallgrass prairie vegetation. Frontiers in Plant Science. 2019;10. doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.00142.
. Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture. Ecosphere. 2017;8(10):e01983. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1983.
. 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.
. Insect development under predation risk, variable temperature, and variable food quality. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering. 2007;4:47 -65. doi:10.3934/mbe.2007.4.47.
. Insect herbivore outbreaks views through a physiological framework: insights from Orthoptera. In: Insect Outbreaks Revisited. Insect Outbreaks Revisited. Academic Press, San Diego; 2012. Available at: http://behmerlab.tamu.edu/Resources/Behmer%20%26%20Joern%20(IOR-2012).pdf.
. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass. Oikos. 2015;124:842 -850. doi:10.1111/oik.01869.
. Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change. Biological Reviews. 2013;88:327 -348. doi:10.1111/brv.12002.
Life history traits associated with body size covary along a latitudinal gradient in a generalist grasshopper. Oecologia. 2013;174:379 -391. doi:10.1007/s00442-013-2785-6.
. Long-term disturbance from fire and bison grazing modulates grasshopper species assemblages (Orthoptera) in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2005;86:861 -873. doi:10.1890/04-0135.
. 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.
. Population Processes. In: The Changing Prairie. The Changing Prairie. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1995:82 -99.
. Predator-prey interactions in a grassland food chain vary with temperature and food quality. Oikos. 2012;122:977 -986. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20419.x.
. 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.
. Soil systems and nutrient cycles of the North American Prairie. In: The Changing Prairie. The Changing Prairie. Oxford University Press; 1995:157 -174.
. Structure of trophic and mutualistic networks across broad environmental gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 2015;5:326 -334. doi:10.1002/ece3.1371.
. Sustainable management of insect herbivores in grassland ecosystems: new perspectives in grasshopper control. BioScience. 2006;56:743 -755. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[743:SMOIHI]2.0.CO;2.
. Temperature- dependent phenology and predation in arthropod systems. Ecological Modelling. 2006;196:471 -482. doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2006.02.034.
. Temporal variability in large grazer space use in an experimental landscape. Ecosphere. 2017;8(1). doi:10.1002/ecs2.1674.
Variability in grasshopper densities in response to fire frequency and bison grazing from tallgrass prairie. Environmental Entomology. 2004;33:1617 -1625. doi:10.1603/0046-225X-33.6.1617.
. Variable effects of dipteran parasitoids and management treatment on grasshopper fecundity in a tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2012;102:123 -130. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485311000472.
. Weather affects grasshopper population dynamics in continental grassland over annual and decadal periods. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 2015;68:29 -39. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2014.12.011.
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