Konza LTER Publications
Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments. Ecology Letters. 2009;12:452 -461. doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01303.x.
. Centimeter-scale stream substratum heterogeneity and metabolic rates. Hydrobiologia. 2009;623:53 -62. doi:10.1007/s10750-008-9647-y.
. Interspecific variation in plant responses to mycorrhizal colonization in prairie grasses and forbs. American Journal of Botany. 1998;85:1732 -1738.
. Effects of mycorrhizae on plant productivity and species abundances in tallgrass prairie microcosms. American Journal of Botany. 1997;84:478 -482. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21708601.
. Effects of mycorrhizas on growth and demography of tallgrass prairie forbs. American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:1452 -1457. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21669678.
. Invasive warm-season grasses reduce mycorrhizal root colonization and biomass production of native prairie grasses. Mycorrhiza. 2012;22:327 -336. doi:10.1007/s00572-011-0407-x.
. Topsin-M: the new benomyl for mycorrhizal-suppression experiments. Mycologia. 2008;100:548 -554. doi:10.3852/08-024R.
. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in C3 and C4 tallgrass prairie grasses: the role of light and nitrogen. Botany. 2012;90:1221 -1228. doi:10.1139/b2012-091.
. Lakes and streams as sentinels of environmental change in terrestrial and atmospheric processes. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2008;6:247 -254. doi:10.1890/070140.
. 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.
. Natural 15N abundances in a tallgrass prairie exposed to 8 years of elevated atmospheric CO2. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2006;37:409 -412. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2005.06.009.
. Characterization of the water soluble soil organic pool following the rewetting of dry soil in a drought-prone tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2009;41:21 -28. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.08.013.
. Nitrogen competition in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem exposed to elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2001;65:340 -346. doi:10.2136/sssaj2001.652340x.
. Carbon dynamics and microbial activity in tallgrass prairie exposed to elevated CO2 for 8 years. Plant and Soil. 2000;227:127 -137. doi:10.1023/A:1026590001307.
. Patterns and correlates of within-season breeding dispersal: a common strategy in a declining grassland songbird. The Auk: Ornithological Advances. 2018;135(1):1-14. doi:10.1642/AUK-17-69.1.
. Response of microbial communities to water stress in irrigated anddrought-prone tallgrass prairie soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2007;39:2750 -2757. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.025.
. Seven years of enhanced water availability influences the physiological, structural and functional attributes of a soil microbial community. Applied Soil Ecology. 2007;35:535 -545. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2006.09.014.
. Carbon and nitrogen pools in a tallgrass prairie soil under elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2004;68:148 -153. doi:10.2136/sssaj2004.1480.
. Temporal dynamics of plant community regeneration sources during tallgrass prairie restoration. Plant Ecology. 2013;214:1169 -1180. doi:10.1007/s11258-013-0241-7.
. Effects of burn regimes ontallgrass prairie herpetofaunal species diversity and communitycomposition in the Flint Hills, Kansas. Journal of Herpetology. 2006;40:49 -60. doi:10.1670/162-05A.1.
. Discrimination of chemical stimuli in conspecific fecal pellets by a visually adept iguanid lizard, Crotaphytus collaris. Journal of Ethology. 2009;27:157 -163. doi:10.1007/s10164-008-0100-5.
. Effects of rangeland management on community dynamics of the herpetofauna of the tallgrass prairie. Herpetologica. 2006;62:378 -388. doi:10.1655/0018-0831(2006)62[378:EORMOC]2.0.CO;2.
. Spatial variation in predation attempts on artificial snakes in a fire-disturbed tallgrass prairie. Southwestern Naturalist. 2007;52:263 -270. doi:10.1894/0038-4909(2007)52[263:SVIPAO]2.0.CO;2.
. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. 2021;102(11). doi:10.1002/ecy.3504.
Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 2023;111(11):2472-2482. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14198.
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.
Stability of grassland soil C and N pools despite 25 years of an extreme climatic and disturbance regime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121(7):1934 - 1945. doi:10.1002/2016JG003370.
. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology. 2016;97:561-568. doi:10.1890/15-1437.1.
. 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.
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.
. Pollinator importance andtemporal variation in a population of Phlox divaricata L. (Polemoniaceae). American Midland Naturalist. 2005;154:42 -54. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2005)154[0042:PIATVI]2.0.CO;2.
. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data. 2021;13(5):1843 - 1854. doi:10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021.
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data Discussion. 2020. doi:10.5194/essd-2020-195.
Density dependent phytotoxicity: distinguishing resource competition and allelopathic interference in plants. Journal of Applied Ecology. 1989;26:613 -624. doi:10.2307/2404086.
. The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonisation and extinction dynamics of common and rare fishes in intermittent prairie streams. Freshwater Biology. 2016;61(8):1321–1334. doi:10.1111/fwb.12668.
. Patterns of macroinvertebrate production, trophic structure, and energy flow along a tallgrass prairie stream continuum. Limnology and Oceanography. 2011;56:887 -898. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0887.
. Analytical survey of the braconid wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on six Midwestern U.S. tallgrass prairies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 2001;94:230 -238. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0230:ASOTBW]2.0.CO;2.
. A comparison of the species-timerelationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos. 2006;112:185 -195. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14223.x.
The ecological significance of tallgrass prairie arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology. 2006;51:387 -412. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151136.
. Relationships between stream size, suspended particles, and filter-feeding macroinvertebrates in a Great Plains drainage network. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2002;31:1589 -1600. doi:10.2134/jeq2002.1589.
. Emergence of periodical cicadas (Magicicada cassini ) from a Kansas riparian forest: densities, biomass and nitrogen flux. American Midland Naturalist. 2001;145:176 -187. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2001)145[0176:EOPCMC]2.0.CO;2.
. Periodical cicada emergence resource pulse tracks forest expansion in a tallgrass prairie landscape. Ecosphere. 2019;10(7):e02779. 10.1002/ecs2.2779. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2019.10.issue-710.1002/ecs2.2779.
Several grassland soil nematodes species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology. 2012;44:92 -101. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593264/.
. Detecting fire and grazing patterns in tallgrass prairie using spectral mixture analysis. Ecological Applications. 1997;7:493 -511. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0493:DFAGPI]2.0.CO;2.
. Simple statistical models can be sufficient for testing hypotheses with population time‐series data. Ecology and Evolution. 2022;12(9):e9339. doi:10.1002/ece3.v12.910.1002/ece3.9339.
Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
. Deepening roots can enhance carbonate weathering by amplifying CO2-rich recharge. Biogeosciences. 2021;18:55-75. doi:10.5194/bg-18-55-2021.
. Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation. BioScience. 2003;53:941 -952. doi:doi: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0941:ATROTE]2.0.CO;2.