Konza LTER Publications

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2009
Dalgleish HJ, Hartnett DC. The effects of fire frequency and grazing on tallgrass prairie productivity and plant composition are mediated through bud bank demography. Plant Ecology. 2009;201:411 -420. doi:10.1007/s11258-008-9562-3.
An N. Estimating annual net primary productivity of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of the Central Great Plains using AVHRR NDVI. 2009;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5393.
McNew LB, Gregory AJ, Wisely SM, Sandercock BK. Estimating the stage of incubation for nests of Greater Prairie-chickens using egg flotation: a float curve for grousers. Grouse News. 2009;38:12 -14. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228517269_Estimating_the_stage_of_incubation_for_nests_of_Greater_Prairie-Chickens_using_egg_flotation_a_float_curve_for_grousers.
Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL. 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.
Gibson DJ. Grasses and Grassland Ecology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2009:320 -.
Macpherson GL. Groundwater CO2: Is it responding to atmospheric CO2?. 2009;II:995 -998.
Casey AE, Jones KL, Sandercock BK, Wisely SM. Heteroduplex molecules cause sexing errors in a standard molecular protocol for avian sexing. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2009;9:61 -65. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02307.x.
Woods TM, Hartnett DC, Ferguson CJ. High propagule production and reproductive fitness homeostasis contribute to the invasiveness of Lespedeza cuneata (Fabaceae). Biological Invasions. 2009;11:1913 -1927. doi:10.1007/s10530-008-9369-0.
Grace T, Joern A, Brown SJ, Apple JL, Wisely SM. Highly polymorphic microsatellites in the North American snakeweed grasshopper, Hesperotettix viridis. Journal of Orthoptera Research. 2009;18:19 -21. doi:10.1665/034.018.0111.
Roth TC, Pravosudov VV. Hippocampal volumes and neuron numbers increase along a gradient of environmental harshness: a large-scale comparison. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 2009;276:401 -405. doi:10.1098/rspb.2008.1184.
Grace T. Host associated genetic divergence and sexual isolation in the grasshopper Hesperotettix viridis (Orthoptera: Acrididae). 2009;PhD Dissertation:1 -127. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1541.
Reed HE, Blair JM, Wall D, Seastedt TR. Impacts of management legacies on litter decomposition in response to reduced precipitation in a tallgrass prairie. Applied Soil Ecology. 2009;42:79 -85. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2009.01.009.
Bowe SE. The influence of host ecology and land cover change on rabies virus epidemiology in the Flint Hills. 2009;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1819.
Johnson LT, Tank JL, Dodds WK. The influence of land use on stream biofilm nutrient limitation across eight North American ecoregions. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 2009;66:1081 -1094. doi:10.1139/F09-065.
Klug PE. Interactions between grassland birds and their snake predators: the potential for conservation conflicts in the tallgrass prairie. 2009;PhD dissertation:1 -126. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2184 .
Craine JM, Spurr R, McLauchlan KK, Fierer N. Landscape-level variation in temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2009;42:373 -375. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.10.024.
Dodds WK. Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2009.
Worapong J, Dendy SP, Tang Z, Awl DJ, Garrett KA. Limiting temperatures for urediniospore germination are low in a systemic rust fungus of tallgrass prairie. Mycologia. 2009;101:390 -394. doi:10.3852/08-102.
Harmon ME, Silver WL, Fasth B, et al. Long-term patterns of mass loss during the decomposition of leaf and fine root litter: an intersite comparison. Global Change Biology. 2009;15:1320 -1338. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01837.x.
Jumpponen A, Jones KL. Massively parallel 454-sequencing of Quercus macrocarpa phyllosphere fungal communities indicates reduced richness and diversity in urban environments. New Phytologist. 2009;184:438 -448. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02990.x.
Johnson NC, Chaudhary VB, Hoeksema JD, et al. Mysterious mycorrhizae? A field trip and classroom experiment to demystify the symbioses formed between plants and fungi. American Biology Teacher. 2009;71:424 -429. Available at: https://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1002&context=ies_facpubs.
Mulholland PJ, Hall RO, Sobota DJ, et al. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Denitrification. Limnology and Oceanography. 2009;54:666 -680. doi:10.4319/lo.2009.54.3.0666.
Hall, Jr. RO, Tank JL, Sobota DJ, et al. Nitrate removal in stream ecosystems measured by 15N addition experiments: Total uptake. Limnology and Oceanography. 2009;54:653 -665. doi:10.4319/lo.2009.54.3.0653.
Baer SG, Engle D, Knops JMH, et al. Non-target and invasive species in rehabilitated production systems: Ecological impacts, management and future use. Environmental Management. 2009;43:189 -196.
Rivers JW. Parent-absent begging in the Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater): the role of short-term need and nestmate size. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2009;63:707 -717. doi:10.1007/s00265-008-0704-3.
Garrett KA, Nita M, De Wolf ED, Gomez L, Sparks AH. Plant pathogens as indicators of climate change. In: Letcher T Climate and Global Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. Climate and Global Change: Observed Impacts on Planet Earth. Elsevier; 2009:425 -437. Available at: http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADU515.pdf.
Dragoo JW, Coan KE, Moore KA, Henke SE, Fleisher RC, Wisely SM. Polymorphic microsatellite markers for the striped skunk, Mephitis mephitis, and other mephitids. Molecular Ecology Resources. 2009;9:383 -385. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2008.02463.x.
Wilson GT, Rice CW, Rillig MC, Springer A, Hartnett DC. 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.
Knapp CW, Dodds WK, Wilson KC, O’Brien JM, Graham DW. Spatial heterogeneity of denitrification genes in a highly homogenous urban stream. Environmental Science & Technology. 2009;43:4273 -4279. doi:10.1021/es9001407.
Banner EBK, Stahl AJ, Dodds WK. Stream discharge and riparian land use influence in-stream concentrations and loads of phosphorus from Central Plains watersheds. Environmental Management. 2009;44:552 -565. doi:10.1007/s00267-009-9332-6.
Evans-White MA, Dodds WK, Huggins DG, Baker DS. Thresholds in macroinvertebrate biodiversity and stoichiometry across water-quality gradients in Central Plains (USA) streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2009;28:855 -868. doi:10.1899/08-113.1.
Roth TC, Pravosudov VV. Tough times call for bigger brains. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2009;2:1 -3. doi:10.4161/cib.2.3.8099.
Morisette JT, Richardson AD, Knapp AK, et al. Tracking the rhythm of the seasons in the face of global change: phenological research in the 21st century. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2009;7:253 -260. doi:10.1890/070217.
Middendorf G, Becerra TA, Cline D. Transition and resilience in the Kansas Flint Hills. Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy. 2009;4.3:1 -28. doi:10.4148/ojrrp.v4i3.109.
Campbell RE. Variation in benefit from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonization within cultivars and non-cultivars of Andropogon gerardii and Sorghastrum nutans. 2009;MS Thesis:1 -97. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/509/.
Wilson IE, Harrington JJ, McLauchlan KK, Martinson EJ, Hutchinson SL. The water budget, climate variability, and climate impacts assessment in Northeast Kansas. 2009;32:189 -196.
Kaufman DW, Kaufman GA. The woodland vole on Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2009;112:229 -230. doi:10.1660/062.112.0413.
2008
Middendorf G, Cline D, Bloomquist L. Agrarian Landscape Transition in the Flint Hills of Kansas:Legacies and Resilience. In: Redman C, Foster DR Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: Comparisons of Long TermEcological&Cultural Change. Agrarian Landscapes in Transition: Comparisons of Long TermEcological&Cultural Change. New York: Oxford University Press; 2008:206 -237.
Hoover DL. Altered rainfall due to climate change: Modeling the ecological effects on grasslands. 2008;MS Thesis:1 -63. Available at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2008AGUFM.B21C0377H.
O'Brien JM, Dodds WK. Ammonium uptake and mineralization in prairie streams: chamber incubation and short-term nutrient addition experiments. Freshwater Biology. 2008;53:102 -112. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01870.x.
Anderson JF, Parrish TD, Akhtar M, Zurek L, Hirt H. Antibiotic resistance of Enterococci in American bison (Bison bison) from a nature preserve compared to that of Enterococci in pastured cattle. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 2008;74:1726 -1730. doi:10.1128/AEM.02164-07.
Garrett KA, Cox CM. Applied biodiversity science: Managing emerging diseases in agriculture and linked natural systems. In: Ostfeld R, Keesing F, Eviner V Infectious DiseaseEcology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Infectious DiseaseEcology: Effects of Ecosystems on Disease and of Disease on Ecosystems. Princeton University Press; 2008:368 -386.
Brunsell N, Ham JM, Owensby CE. Assessing the multi-resolution information content of remotely sensed variables and elevation for evapotranspiration in a tall-grass prairie environment. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2008;112:2977 -2987. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2008.02.002.
McKinley DC, Norris MD, Johnson LC, Blair JM. Biogeochemical changes associated with Juniperus virginia encroachment into grasslands. In: Van Auken OW Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type. Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2008:170 -187.
Blundell MA, Von Korff B. Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) nesting at Konza Prairie Biological Station, Riley County, Kansas. Bulletin of the Kansas Ornithological Society. 2008;59:21 -23.
Fay PA, Kaufman DM, Nippert JB, Carlisle JD, Harper CW. Changes in grassland ecosystem function due to extreme rainfall events: implications for responses to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2008;14:1600 -1608. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01605.x.
Garrett KA. Climate change and plant disease risk. In: Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence. Global Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events: Understanding the Contributions to Infectious Disease Emergence. National Academies Press; 2008:143 -155. Available at: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/handle/10919/68091.
Behmer ST, Joern A. Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008;105:1977 -1982. doi:10.1073/pnas.0711870105.
Dodds WK, Wilson KC, Rehmeier RL, et al. Comparing ecosystem goods and services provided by restored and native lands. BioScience. 2008;58:837 -845. doi:10.1641/B580909.
Han X, Dend SP, Garrett KA, Fang L, Smith MD. Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies. Plant Ecology. 2008;198:197 -210. doi:10.1007/s11258-008-9395-0.

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