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2011
Hartman JC, Nippert JB, Orozco RA, Springer CJ. Potential ecological impacts of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) biofuel cultivation in the Central Great Plains, USA. Biomass and Bioenergy. 2011;35:3415 -3421. doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.04.055.
Adler P, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, et al. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science. 2011;333:1750 -1753. doi:10.1126/science.1204498.
Mora MA, Brattin B, Baxter C, Rivers JW. Regional and interspecific variation in Sr, Ca, and Sr/Ca ratios in avian eggshells from the USA. Ecotoxicology. 2011;20:1467 -1475. doi:10.1007/s10646-011-0703-4.
Fay PA, Blair JM, Smith MD, Nippert JB, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences. 2011;8:3053 -3068. doi:10.5194/bg-8-3053-2011.
McNew LB, Gregory AJ, Wisely SM, Sandercock BK. Reproductive biology of a southern population of Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology. 2011;39:209 -221. Available at: https://alaska.usgs.gov/science/biology/landbirds/pdfs/McNew_etal_2011_sab1.pdf.
Hartman JC. Responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) to precipitation amount and temperature. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/10720.
Hajny KM, Hartnett DC, Wilson GT. Rhus glabra response to season and intensity of fire in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 2011;20:709 -720. doi:10.1071/WF09127.
Klopf RP, Baer SG. Root dynamics of cultivar and non‐cultivar population sources of two dominant grasses during initial establishment of tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2011;19:112 -117. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00539.x.
Tiemann L. Soil microbial community carbon and nitrogen dynamics with altered precipitation regimes and substrate availability. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7689.
Craine JM, Gelderman TM. Soil moisture controls on temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition for a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2011;43:455 -457. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.011.
Bach EM, Baer SG, Meyer CK, Six J. Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2011;42:2182 -2191. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.08.014.
Klug PE, Fill J, With KA. Spatial ecology of eastern yellow-bellied Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) and Great Plains rat snake (Pantherophis emoryi) in a contiguous tallgrass-prairie landscape. Herpetologica. 2011;67:428 -439. doi:10.1655/HERPETOLOGICA-D-10-00076.1.
Unterseher M, Dorman CF, Jumpponen A, et al. Species abundance distributions and richness estimations in fungal metagenomics – lessons learned from community ecology. Molecular Ecology. 2011;20:275 -285. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04948.x.
Augustine JK, Millspaugh JJ, Sandercock BK. Testosterone mediates mating success in Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology. 2011;39:195 -208.
Helton AM, Poole GC, Meyer JL, et al. Thinking outside the channel: modeling nitrogen cycling in networked river ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2011;9:229 -238. doi:10.1890/080211.
Kaufman GA, Kaufman DM, Kaufman DW. Treated versus new traps: does chronic application of disinfectant to live traps reduce trappability of rodents?. Southwestern Naturalist. 2011;56:224 -230. doi:10.1894/F12-RTS-12.1.
Brunsell N, Ham JM, Arnold KA. Validating remotely sensed land surface fluxes in heterogeneous terrain with large aperture scintillometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing. 2011;32:6295 -6314. doi:10.1080/01431161.2010.508058.
McMillan BR, Pfeiffer KA, Kaufman DW. Vegetation responses to an animal-generated disturbance (bison wallows) in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2011;165:60 -73. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-165.1.60.
Barger NN, Archer SR, Campbell JL, Huang C, Morton JA, Knapp AK. Woody plant proliferation in North American drylands: A synthesis of impacts on ecosystem carbon balance. Journal of Geophysical Research. 2011;116. doi:10.1029/2010JG001506.
2010
McNew LB. An analysis of greater prairie-chicken demography in Kansas: the effects of human land use on the population ecology of an obligate grassland species. 2010;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/4316.
Rivers JW, Loughin TM, Rothstein SI. Brown-headed cowbird nestlings influence nestmate begging, but not parental feeding, in hosts of three distinct sizes. Animal Behaviour. 2010;79:107 -116. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.10.009.
Sprinkle JW. Bud bank density regulates invasion by exotic plants. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9198.
Commerford JL. Calibrating vegetation cover and pollen assemblages in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4170.
Craine JM, Elmore AJ, Olson KC, Tolleson D. Climate change and cattle nutritional stress. Global Change Biology. 2010;16:2901 -2911. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.02060.x.
Craine JM, Towne EG, Nippert JB. Climate controls on grass culm production over a quarter century in a tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2010;91:2132 -2140. doi:10.1890/09-1242.1.
Petrie M. Climate forcings and the nonlinear dynamics of grassland ecosystems. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6633.
Rivers JW, Jensen WE, Kosciuch KL, Rothstein SI. Community-level patterns of host use by the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), a generalist brood parasite. Auk. 2010;127:263 -273. doi:10.1525/auk.2009.09053.
Apple JL, Grace T, Joern A, Amand P, Wisely SM. 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.
Murdock JM, Gido KB, Dodds WK, Bertrand KN, Whiles MR. Consumer return chronology alters recovery trajectory of stream ecosystem structure and function following drought. Ecology. 2010;91:1048 -1062. doi:10.1890/08-2168.1.
Baer SG, Meyer CK, Bach EM, Klopf RP, Six J. Contrasting ecosystem recovery on two soil textures: implications for carbon mitigation and grassland conservation. Ecosphere. 2010;1:5 -. doi:10.1890/ES10-00004.1 .
Sandel B, Goldstein LJ, Kraft NJ, et al. Contrasting trait responses in plant communities to experimental and geographic variation in precipitation. New Phytologist. 2010;188:565 -575. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03382.x.
Williamson MM. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in tallgrass prairie: The effect of light and nitrogen. 2010;MS Thesis:1 -52. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9577.
Yang X, Steward DR, de Langeb WJ, Lauwoa SY, Chubb RM, Bernard EA. Data model for system conceptualization in groundwater studies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science. 2010;24:677 -694. doi:10.1080/13658810902967389.
Jangid K, Williams MA, Franzluebbers AJ, Blair JM, Coleman DC, Whitman WB. Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2010;42:302 -312. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.11.008.
Rollins AW, Landolt JC, Stephenson SL. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds associated with grasslands of the central and western United States. Mycologia. 2010;102:996 -1003. doi:10.3852/09-099.
Gido KB, Bertrand KN, Murdock JN, Dodds WK, Whiles MR. Disturbance mediated effects of stream fishes on ecosystem processes: concepts and results from highly variable prairie streams. Advances in Stream Fish Community Ecology: Concepts, Approaches and Techniques. 2010:593 -617. Available at: https://www.k-state.edu/fishecology/msreprints/Gido%20et%20al.2010%20AFSbook%20chapter.pdf.
Grace T, Dowell F, Joern A, Wisely SM, Brown SJ, Maghirang E. 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.
McCain KNS, Baer SG, Blair JM, Wilson GT. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2010;18:40 -49. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x.
Winders K. Ecosystem Processes of Prairie Streams and the Impact of Anthropogenic Alteration on Stream Ecological Integrity. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6849.
Strum KM, Hooper MJ, Johnson KA, Lanctot RB, Zaccagnini ME, Sandercock BK. Exposure of nonbreeding migratory shorebirds to cholinesterase inhibiting contaminants in the Western Hemisphere. The Condor. 2010;112:15 -28. doi:10.1525/cond.2010.090026.
Reisinger AJ. Factors affecting denitrification in headwater prairie streams. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4273.
Melzer SE, Knapp AK, Fynn RWS, et al. Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems. Biogeochemistry. 2010;97:263 -278. doi:10.1007/s10533-009-9371-3.
Spasojevic MJ, Aicher RJ, Koch GR, et al. 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.
Loaiza V, Jonas JL, Joern A. 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.
Craine JM, Towne EG. High leaf tissue density grassland species consistently more abundant across topographic and disturbance contrasts in a North American tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2010;337:193 -203. doi:10.1007/s11104-010-0515-y.
Buck T. The impact of land cover change on water and carbon cycling in the US central plains grasslands. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/6992.
Blevins E. Influence of landscape context on patterns of occupancy, abundance, and gene flow among collared lizards in the Flint Hills of Kansas. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3911.
Bernot MJ, Sobota DJ, Hall RO, et al. Inter-regional comparison of land-use effects on stream metabolism. Freshwater Biology. 2010;55:1874 -1890. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2010.02422.x.
Hartnett DC. Into Africa: Promoting international ecological research and training in the developing world. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 2010;91:202 -206. doi:10.1890/0012-9623-91.2.202.
Mandyam KG, Loughlin T, Jumpponen A. Isolation and morphological and metabolic characterization of common endophytes in annually burned tallgrass prairie. Mycologia. 2010;102:813 -821. doi:10.3852/09-212.

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