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Influence of grazing and fire frequency on small-scale plant community structure and resource variability in native tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2008;117:859 -866. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16515.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.
Importance of spatial and temporal dynamics in species regional abundance and distribution. Ecology. 1991;72:654 -664. doi:10.2307/2937205.
. The hierarchical continuum concept. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:149 -156. doi:10.2307/3236099.
. A hierarchical analysis of species abundance patterns in grassland vegetation. The American Midland Naturalist. 1990;135:633 -648. doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2462027.
. Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants. 2015;1(7):15080. doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.80.
Gradient models, gradient analysis and hierarchical structure in plant communities. Oikos. 1997;78:23 -30. doi:10.2307/3545796.
. 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.
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.
Generality in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South African savannas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2004;9:483 -491. doi:10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0483:GIETNA]2.0.CO;2.
Functional and abundance based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to nitrogen fertilization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005;102:4387 -4392. doi:10.1073/pnas.0408648102.
A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change. Ecology. 2009;90:3279 -3289. doi:10.1890/08-1815.1.
. Fire frequency and community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie vegetation. Ecology. 1992;73:2001 -2006. doi:10.2307/1941450.
. Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits. Ecology. 2010;91:1651 -1659. doi:10.1890/09-0431.1.
Fine-scale spatial organization of tallgrass prairie vegetation along a topographic gradient. Folia Geobot.Phytotax, Praha. 1995;30:169 -184. doi:10.1007/BF02812096.
. Fertilization effects of species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities. Oikos. 2000;89:428 -439. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.890302.x.
. Feedback loops in ecological hierarchies following urine deposition in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2001;82:1319 -1329. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1319:FLIEHF]2.0.CO;2.
. Experimental manipulation of natural plant communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 1994;9:94 -98. doi:10.1016/0169-5347(94)90203-8.
. Experimental analysis of patch dynamics in tallgrass prairie plant communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:157 -162. doi:10.2307/3236100.
. Experimental analysis of intermediate disturbance and initial floristic composition: decoupling cause and effect. Ecology. 1995;76:486 -492. doi:10.2307/1941207.
. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 2014;508:521 -525. doi:10.1038/nature13014.
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.
. Environmental and plant community determinants ofspecies loss following nitrogen enrichment. Ecology Letters. 2007;10:596 -607. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2007.01053.x.
Effects of urine deposition on small\-scale patch structure in prairie vegetation. Ecology. 1995;76:1195 -1205. doi:10.2307/1940926.
. Effects of scale and disturbance on rates of immigration and extinction of species in prairies. Oikos. 1992;63:273 -280. doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/3545388.
. Effects of organismal and distance scaling on analysis of species distribution and abundance. Ecological Applications. 1997;7:543 -551. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0543:EOOADS]2.0.CO;2.
. 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.
. Effect of local and regional processes on plant species richness in tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2002;99:571 -579. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.12112.x.
. Ecosystems as functional units in nature. Natural Resources and Environment. 2000;14:150 -155.
. Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. Science. 2001;293:657 -660. doi:10.1126/science.293.5530.657.
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.
Do individual plant speciesshow predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multipleexperiments?. Oikos. 2005;110:547 -555. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2005.13792.x.
Disturbances in tallgrass prairie: local versus regional effects on community heterogeneity. Landscape Ecology. 1992;7:243 -252. doi:10.1007/BF00131255.
. Disturbance frequency and community stability in native tallgrass prairie. The American Naturalist. 2000;155:311 -325. doi:10.1086/303326.
. Disturbance dynamics and ecological response: the contribution of long-term ecological research. BioScience. 2003;53:46 -56. doi: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0046:DDAERT]2.0.CO;2.
. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands. Oecologia. 2015;177:949 -957. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3233-6.
. 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.
The core-satellite species hypothesis provides a theoretical basis for Grimes classification of dominant subordinate, and transient species. Journal of Ecology. 1999;87:1064 -1067. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2745.1999.00424.x.
. 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.
Controls of aboveground net primary production in mesic savanna grasslands: An inter-hemispheric comparison. Ecosystems. 2009;12:982 -995. doi:10.1007/s10021-009-9273-1.
A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02881. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2881.
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.
. codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12569.
Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology. 2017;105(3):750-760. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12696.
. 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.
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.
Carbon and water relations of juvenile Quercus species in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2001;12:807 -816. doi:10.2307/3236868.
Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient. Ecology. 2014;95:1693 -1700. doi:10.1890/13-0895.1.
Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. . Ecology Letters. 2017. doi:10.1111/ele.12861.
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.