Konza LTER Publications
Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024;121(4):e230988112. doi:10.1073/pnas.2309881120.
Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America. Ecology. 2024;105(2):e4220. doi:10.1002/ecy.4220.
Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. doi:10.1111/gcb.v29.2310.1111/gcb.16950.
Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration. Biogeosciences. 2023;20(13):2707 - 2725. doi:10.5194/bg-20-2707-2023.
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.
Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. . Ecology Letters. 2021;24(9):1892-1904. doi:10.1111/ele.13824.
Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology. 2021;102(2):e03218. doi:10.1002/ecy.3218.
Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014. doi:10.1002/eap.2014.
. The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2019;30(4):687 - 697. doi:10.1111/jvs.12750.
. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02881. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2881.
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.
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.
Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications. 2019;10(4981). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2.
Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2018;2:1925-1932. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0696-y.
Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents. Global Change Biology. 2018;24(7):2818 - 2827. doi:10.1111/gcb.14113.
Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands. Plant Ecology. 2018;219(5):505 - 515. doi:10.1007/s11258-018-0813-7.
Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology. 2018;24(5):1935 - 1951. doi:10.1111/gcb.2018.24.issue-510.1111/gcb.14024.
Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. . Ecology Letters. 2018;21(9):1364 -1371. doi:10.1111/ele.13102.
Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10). doi:10.1111/gcb.13706.
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. . Ecology Letters. 2017. doi:10.1111/ele.12861.
Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology. 2017;105(3):750-760. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12696.
. The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales. Ecological Monographs. 2017;87(2):198-218. doi:10.1002/ecm.1249.
. 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.
Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. . Ecology Letters. 2017;20(12):1565. doi:10.1111/ele.12864.
. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports. 2016;(1). doi:10.1038/srep20120.
. codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12569.
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.
. 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.
. The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121:280-294. doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.
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.
Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide. Ecology. 2015;96:1459 -1465. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1902.1.
Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands. Oecologia. 2015;177:949 -957. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3233-6.
. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9.
Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants. 2015;1(7):15080. doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.80.
Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient. Ecology. 2014;95:1693 -1700. doi:10.1890/13-0895.1.
Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology. 2014;102:1649 -1660. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12312.
Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: Synthesis and modeling analysis. Biogeosciences. 2014;11:621 -633. doi:10.5194/bg-11-621-2014.
Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 2014;508:521 -525. doi:10.1038/nature13014.
Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa. Ecology. 2014;95:98 -109. doi:10.1890/13-0526.1.
. 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.
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.
Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:36 -44. doi:10.1111/jvs.12065.
. 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.
You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology. 2014;95:2757 -2767. doi:10.1890/13-2276.1.
Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2013;11:147 -155. doi:10.1890/110279.
Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation. Ecology. 2013;94:1687 -1696. doi:10.1890/12-1006.1.
Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to grazing and fire. Landscape Ecology. 2013;28:1293 -1306. doi:10.1007/s10980-013-9866-0.
. Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2012;23:563 -575. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01369.x.
. Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition. Oecologia. 2012;169:1053 -1062. doi:10.1007/s00442-012-2264-5.
Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world. BioScience. 2012;62:342 -353. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6.