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Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and new methods for causal inference. Nature Communications. In Press.
Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere. 2023;14(6):e4542. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v14.610.1002/ecs2.4542.
Contrasting intra‐annual population dynamics of two codominant species are consistent across spatial and temporal scales. Journal of Ecology. 2023;111(3):676-686. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14055.
. Climate change in grassland ecosystems: current impacts and potential actions for a sustainable future. In: CLIMATE ACTIONS - LOCAL APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. 1st ed. CLIMATE ACTIONS - LOCAL APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS. CRC; 2022:36.
. Climate legacies and restoration history as drivers of tallgrass prairie carbon and nitrogen cycling. Department of Biology. 2022;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/42101.
. Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology. 2022;28(8):2639-2656. doi:10.1111/gcb.16084.
. Climate Legacy Effects Shape Tallgrass Prairie Nitrogen Cycling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2022;127(10):e2022JG006972. doi:10.1029/2022JG006972.
. Climate variability supersedes grazing to determine the anatomy and physiology of a dominant grassland species. Oecologia. 2022;198:345–355. doi:10.1007/s00442-022-05106-x.
. Comparative phylogeography of small mammals across the Great Plains Suture Zone highlights repeated processes of speciation and community assembly coincident with the 100th meridian. Department of Biology. 2022;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/42395.
. Cross-site comparisons of climate change on drylands in the US Long-term Ecological Research network. BioScience. 2022;72(9):889 - 907. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab134.
A conservation and taxonomic assessment of the least shrew (Cryptotis parvus) complex through rangewide phylogeographic analyses and population genomics. Division of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41785.
. Consumer roles of small mammals within fragmented native tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere. 2021;12(3):e03441. doi:10.1002/ecs2.3441.
. Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity. Ornithology. 2021;139(1):1-17. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukab061.
Communities of small mammals, tallgrass prairie, and prescribed fire: a fire-reversal experiment. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123:31 - 49. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/Transactions-of-the-Kansas-Academy-of-Science/volume-123/issue-1-2/062.123.0103/Communities-of-Small-Mammals-Tallgrass-Prairie-and-Prescribed-Fire/10.1660/062.123.0103.short.
. Connections and feedback: Aquatic, plant, and soil microbiomes in heterogeneous and changing environments. BioScience. 2020;70(7):548 - 562. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa046.
Causes and consequences of avian within-season dispersal decisions in a dynamic grassland environment. Animal Behaviour. 2019;155:77 - 87. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.009.
. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2019;48(6):1913-1917.
. Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data. Science of The Total Environment. 2019;659:1555 - 1566. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.427.
. Climate affects plant-soil feedback of native and invasive grasses: negative feedbacks in stable but not in variable environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2019;7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00419.
. 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.
. Community Physiological Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2019;34(6):510 - 518. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.02.002.
. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02881. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2881.
Carbon exchange responses of a mesic grassland to an extreme gradient of precipitation. Oecologia. 2018:1 -12. doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4284-2.
. 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.
Chapter 5: Agriculture. In: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. U.S. Global Change Research Program; 2018:229 - 263. doi:10.7930/SOCCR2.2018.Ch5.
Characterizing groundwater flow through merokarst, northeast Kansas. 2018;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/bitstream/handle/1808/28017/Barry_ku_0099M_16194_DATA_1.pdf?sequence=1.
. Codominant grasses differ in gene expression under experimental climate extremes in native tallgrass prairie. PeerJ. 2018:e4394. doi:https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4394.
. Continental-scale decrease in net primary productivity in streams due to climate warming. Nature Geoscience. 2018;11(6):415 - 420. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0125-5.
Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology. 2017;105(3):750-760. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12696.
. Climate change impacts on population dynamics in tallgrass prairie: implications for species codominance. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/181431.
. 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.
. 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.
. Changes in spatial and temporal trends in wet, dry, warm and cold spell length or duration indices in Kansas, USA. International Journal of Climatology. 2016;36(12):4085 - 4101. doi:10.1002/joc.4619.
. Characterizing organic matter inputs to sediments of small, intermittent, prairie streams: a molecular marker and stable isotope approach. Aquatic Sciences. 2016;78(2):343 - 354. doi:10.1007/s00027-015-0435-2.
. Characterizing woody encroachment in the konza prairie using object-based analysis of aerial photographs. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24182.
. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2016;3719371(1694):20150273. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0273.
codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12569.
Comparative ecohydrology between Cornus drummondii and Solidago canadensis in upland tallgrass prairie. Plant Ecology. 2016;217(2):267-276. doi:10.1007/s11258-016-0567-z.
. Co-variation in methanotroph community composition and activity in three temperate grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2016;95:78 - 86. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2015.12.014.
. Crab spiders (Thomisidae) attract insect flower-visitors without UV signaling. Ecological Entomology. 2016;41(5):611-617. doi:10.1111/een.12334.
. Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas. . Functional Ecology. 2015;29(6):739 - 745. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12390.
. Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: Implications for climate change experiments. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:2624 -2633. doi:10.1111/gcb.12888.
Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015;112(35):10967 - 10972. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508382112.
Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:335 -344. doi:10.1111/gcb.12673.
. Cessation of burning dries soils long-term in a tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems. 2014;17:54 -65. doi:10.1007/s10021-013-9706-8.
. 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.
Colonization and recovery of invertebrate ecosystem engineers during prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2014;22:456 -464. doi:10.1111/rec.12084.
. 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 sensitivities of two dominant C4 grasses to heat waves and drought. Plant Ecology. 2014;215:721 -731. doi:10.1007/s11258-014-0345-8.
. 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.
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