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A method to determine rate and pattern of variability in ecological communities. Oikos. 2001;91:285 -293. doi:10.1034/j.1600-0706.2000.910209.x.
. Microbial responses to nitrogen addition in three contrasting grassland ecosystems. Oecologia. 2007;154:349 -359. doi:10.1007/s00442-007-0836-6.
. Modulation of diversity by grazing and mowing in native tallgrass prairie. Science. 1998;280:745 -747. doi:10.1126/science.280.5364.745.
. Needed: A unified infrastructure to support long-term scientific research on public lands. Ecological Applications. 2004;14:18 -21. doi:10.1890/03-5106.
. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology. 2016;104:1478-1487. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12610.
. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience. 2012;62:377 -389. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.9.
Patch structure in tallgrass prairies: dynamics of satellite species. Oikos. 1990;57:229 -236. doi:10.2307/3565944.
. Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment. Journal of Ecology. 2011;99:1327 -1338. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01860.x.
Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology. 2014;95:808 -816. doi:10.1890/13-1828.1.
Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1541-3.
. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science. 2011;333:1750 -1753. doi:10.1126/science.1204498.
Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland. Oecologia. 2003;137:245 -251. doi:10.1007/s00442-003-1331-3.
. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. doi:10.1111/gcb.13504.
Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science. 2002;298:2202 -2205. doi:10.1126/science.1076347.
Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:36 -44. doi:10.1111/jvs.12065.
. Rank clocks and plant community dynamics. Ecology. 2008;89:3534 -3541. doi:10.1890/07-1646.1.
Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology. 2018;24(5):1935 - 1951. doi:10.1111/gcb.2018.24.issue-510.1111/gcb.14024.
Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:793 -804. doi:10.1111/jvs.12130.
Scale-dependent interaction of fire andgrazing on community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2006;87:2058 -2067. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2006)87[2058:SIOFAG]2.0.CO;2.
. The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121:280-294. doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.
Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation. Ecology. 2013;94:1687 -1696. doi:10.1890/12-1006.1.
Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw077.
Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands. . Journal of Ecology. 2019;107(5):2133 - 2148. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13252.
Shrub encroachment in North American grasslands: Shifts in growth form dominance rapidly alters control of ecosystem carbon inputs. Global Change Biology. 2008;14:615 -623. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2007.01512.x.
Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to grazing and fire. Landscape Ecology. 2013;28:1293 -1306. doi:10.1007/s10980-013-9866-0.
. Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: anapplication of ecological theory to restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 2005;13:413 -424. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00051.x.
. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014. doi:10.1002/eap.2014.
. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications. 2019;10(4981). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2.
Soil resources regulate productivity and diversity in newly established tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2003;84:724 -735. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0724:SRRPAD]2.0.CO;2.
. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. . Ecology Letters. 2018;21(9):1364 -1371. doi:10.1111/ele.13102.
Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. . Ecology Letters. 2017;20(12):1565. doi:10.1111/ele.12864.
. Species responses to nitrogen fertilization in herbaceous plant communities, and associated species traits. Ecology. 2008;89:1175 -. doi:10.1890/07-1104.1.
Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional Ecology. 2012;26(6):1450 - 1459. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.01995.x.
Stream insect occupancy-frequency patterns and metapopulation structure. Oecologia. 2007;151:313 -321. doi:10.1007/s00442-006-0596-8.
A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2012;5:357 -365. doi:10.1093/jpe/rts020.
Trophic interactions and plant species richness along a productivity gradient. Oikos. 1996;76:603 -607. doi:10.2307/3546357.
. Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology. 2012;93:697 -703. doi:10.1890/11-1199.1.
. You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology. 2014;95:2757 -2767. doi:10.1890/13-2276.1.