Konza LTER Publications
An assessment of diurnal water uptake in a mesic prairie: evidence for hydraulic lift?. Oecologia. 2017;183(4):963–975. doi:10.1007/s00442-017-3827-2.
. Population origin and genome size do not impact Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) responses to variable precipitation. Ecosphere. 2013;4:37 -. doi:10.1890/ES12-00339.1.
. Contrasting shrub and grass hydraulic responses to experimental drought. Oecologia. 2024;204:931 - 941. doi:10.1007/s00442-024-05543-w.
. Fruiting strategies of the woody vine Parthenocissus quinquefolia. 1985;MS Thesis:1 -22. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/27516.
. Responses of Bell's vireos to brood parasitism by the brown-headed cowbird in Kansas. Wilson Bulletin. 1999;111:499 -504. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4164135.
. Cultural conformity and persistence in Dickcissel song are higher in locations in which males show high site fidelity. Ornithology. 2021;139(1):1-17. doi:10.1093/ornithology/ukab061.
Nest predation and its relationship to nest placement in tallgrass prairie shrub patches. 1997;MS Thesis:1 -25.
. Biogeographic variation in nest placement: a case study with conservation implications. Diversity and Distributions. 2002;8:11 -20. doi:10.1046/j.1366-9516.2001.00126.x.
. Life history traits associated with body size covary along a latitudinal gradient in a generalist grasshopper. Oecologia. 2013;174:379 -391. doi:10.1007/s00442-013-2785-6.
. A generalist grasshopper species (Melanoplus femurrubrum) is adapted to variable environments along a latitudinal gradient. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13093.
. Global grassland ecosystem modelling: development and test of ecosystem models for grassland systems. In: Global Change: Effects on Coniferous Forests and Grasslands. Global Change: Effects on Coniferous Forests and Grasslands. Chichester: Wiley and Sons; 1996:229 -270.
Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 1993;7:785 -809. doi:10.1029/93GB02042.
Global-scale similarities in nitrogen release patterns during long-term decomposition. Science. 2007;315:361 -364. doi:10.1126/science.1134853.
Regional climatic similarities in the temperate zones of North and South America. Journal of Biogeography. 1995;22:915 -925. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2845992.
. Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?. Global Change Biology. 2020;26:3336–3355. doi:10.1111/gcb.15024.
Poor relationships between NEON Airborne Observation Platform data and field‐based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland. Ecology. 2022;103(2):e03590. doi:10.1002/ecy.v103.210.1002/ecy.3590.
Belowground interactions with aboveground consequences: Invasive earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology. 2016;97(3):605 - 614. doi:10.1890/15-1085.
Estimation of stream nutrient uptake from nutrient addition experiments. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 2005;3:174 -182. doi:10.4319/lom.2005.3.174.
. Effects of food supplementation on female nest attentiveness and incubation Mate-feeding in two sympatric wren species. Wilson Bulletin. 2004;116:23 -30. doi:10.1676/0043-5643(2004)116[0023:EOFSOF]2.0.CO;2.
. Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. 2020;90(4):e01409. doi:10.1002/ecm.1409.
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.
Fine-scale movement and habitat use of a prairie stream fish assemblage. Oecologia. 2018;186(3):831–842. doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4073-y.
. Density dependence of herbivorous central stoneroller Campostoma anomalum in stream mesocosms. Ecology of Freshwater Fishes. 2017;26(2):313-321. doi:10.1111/eff.12277.
. Simulated carbon sink response of shortgrass steppe, tallgrass prairie and forest ecosystems to rising [CO2], temperature and nitrogen input. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 2005;19:1 -. doi:10.1029/2004GB002226.
. Impacts of ammonia volatilization from broadcast urea on winter wheat production. Agronomy Journal. 2020;112(51):3758 - 3772. doi:10.1002/agj2.v112.510.1002/agj2.20371.
. Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017;114(28):7373 - 7378. doi:10.1073/pnas.1618936114.
Approaches to predicting broad-scale regime shifts using changing pattern-process relationships across scales. In: Real World Ecology: Design and Analyses of Large-Scale and Long-Term Research. Real World Ecology: Design and Analyses of Large-Scale and Long-Term Research. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2009. Available at: http://www.springer.com/us/book/9780387779416.
. Control of nitrogen export from watersheds by headwater streams. Science. 2001;292:86 -90. doi:10.1126/science.1056874.
Habitat selection by small mammals of the tallgrass prairie: experimental patch choice. The Prairie Naturalist. 1985;17:65 -70.
. . Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics in mesic grasslands. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 2012;107:427 -440. doi:10.1007/s00704-011-0484-y.
. The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology. 2012;5:337 -345. doi:10.1002/eco.224.
. Climate forcings and the nonlinear dynamics of grassland ecosystems. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6633.
. 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.
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.
Bison selectivity and grazing responses of little bluestem in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Range Management. 1995;48:26 -31. doi:10.2307/4002500.
. Bison selectivity and grazing response of little bluestem and big bluestem in burned and unburned tallgrass prairie. 1993;MS Thesis:1 -38.
. Persistence of denitrifying enzyme activity and denitrification dynamics in soil. 1993;MS Thesis:1 -109.
. The effects of P fertilizer addition on P transformations on high-P fixing and grassland soils. 2016;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34586.
. Pleoardoris graminearum gen. et sp. nov., a new member of Pleosporales from the North American Plains, biogeography and effects on B. gracilis growth. Mycologia. In Press.
Characterizing organic matter inputs to sediments of small, intermittent, prairie streams: a molecular marker and stable isotope approach. Aquatic Sciences. 2016;78(2):343 - 354. doi:10.1007/s00027-015-0435-2.
. No difference in herbivory preferences among ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123(1-2):151. doi:10.1660/062.123.0112.
. A study of the aquatic humic substances and hydrogeology in a prairie watershed: use of humic material as a tracer of recharge through soils. 1995;PhD Dissertation:1 -296.
. Relationships at the aboveground-belowground interface: Plants, soil biota, and soil processes. Ecological Monographs. 2003;73:377 -395. doi:10.1890/0012-9615(2003)073[0377:RATAIP]2.0.CO;2.
Superstatistics of hydro-climatic fluctuations and interannual ecosystem productivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 2006;33:15402 -. doi:10.1029/2006GL026412.
. Antimicrobial activity of dogwood fruits (Cornus drummondii) from winter food caches of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana ). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 1995;21:419 -425. doi:10.1007/BF02036739.
. Changes in microbial populations from eastern woodrat caches. Southwestern Naturalist. 1993;38:30 -35. doi:10.2307/3671641.
. An analysis of factors affecting the caching behavior of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana). 1991;PhD Dissertation:1 -91.
. Detection of differences in nutrient concentrations by eastern woodrats (Neotoma floridana ). Journal of Mammalogy. 1993;74:493 -497. doi:10.2307/1382409.
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