Konza LTER Publications
] Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(12). doi:10.1111/gcb.15308.
Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications. 2019;10(4981). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12948-2.
. Long-term community dynamics of small landbirds with and without exposure to extensive disturbance from military training activities. Environmental Management. 2010;45:203 -216. doi:10.1007/s00267-009-9421-6.
. Predation by gray catbird on brown thrasher eggs. Southwestern Naturalist. 2004;49:101 -103. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1894/0038-4909(2004)049<0101:PBGCOB>2.0.CO;2.
. High levels of relatedness between Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) nestmates in a heavily parasitized host community. The Auk. 2012;129:623 -631. doi:10.1525/auk.2012.11236.
. Relatedness constrains virulence in an obligate avian brood parasite. Ornithological Science. 2016;15(2):191 - 201. doi:10.2326/osj.15.191.
. 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.
. The exaggerated begging behaviour of an obligate avian brood parasite is shared with a nonparasitic close relative. Animal Behaviour. 2013;86:529 -536. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.06.004.
. 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.
. Mismatched begging displays between foreign and host offspring reduce brood parasite fitness. Behavioral Ecology. 2014;25(4):785 - 793. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru055.
. 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.
. Nest mate size, but not short-term need, influences begging behavior of a generalist brood parasite. Behavioral Ecology. 2007;18:222 -230. doi:10.1093/beheco/arl068.
. Nutrient and energetic characteristics of grasshoppers of different life stages. The Prairie Naturalist. 1998;30:37 -48. Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1354&context=tpn#page=40.
. Feeding by bobwhites on sprouting corn reduced by bendiocarb. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 1987;90:35 -40. doi:10.2307/3628109.
. Chronic effects of a prescribed field application of a carbamate insecticide on bobwhites. The World Pheasant Association. 1985;10:47 -64.
Soil Carbon and nitrogen availability: Nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, soil respiration potentials. In: Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1999:258 -271.
Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world. BioScience. 2012;62:342 -353. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.6.
. Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2023;185:109145. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.109145.
. Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie. PLoS One. 2017;12(5):e0177754. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177754.
. Grazing intensity and fire frequency effects on plant species and community characteristics in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Ecosystem Science and Managemen. 2023;MS Thesis. Available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/27a46cdb27cab47bd99a5c7996b4e6c3/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.
. Effects of plains pocket gopher (Geomys bursarius) disturbances on tallgrass-prairie community structure. American Midland Naturalist. 2001;145:344 -357. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2001)145[0344:EOPPGG]2.0.CO;2.
. Vegetation responses to different spatial patterns of soil disturbances in burned and unburned tallgrass prairie. Plant Ecology. 2001;155:99 -109. doi:10.1023/A:1013264308786.
. The effects of soil disturbances on tallgrass prairie. 1998;PhD Dissertation:1 -220.
. Temporal vegetation dynamics and recolonization mechanisms on different-sized soil disturbances in tallgrass prairie. American Journal of Botany. 2001;88:1634 -1642. Available at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21669697.
. Dictyostelid cellular slime molds associated with grasslands of the central and western United States. Mycologia. 2010;102:996 -1003. doi:10.3852/09-099.
Scaling biodiversity responses to hydrological regimes. Biological Reviews. 2018;93(2):971 - 995. doi:10.1111/brv.12381.
. Grass fires - an unlikely process to explain the magnetic properties of prairie soils. Geophysical Journal International. 2013;195:1566 -1575. doi:10.1093/gji/ggt349.
The biota of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams: prokaryotes, fungi, and protozoans. Elsevier; 2017:161 - 188. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803835-2.00009-7.
Darksidea phi, sp. nov., a dark septate root-associated fungus in foundation grasses in North American Great Plains. Mycologia. 2022;11420164110338(2):254-269. doi:10.1080/00275514.2022.2031780.
. Long-term biomass and potential ethanol yields of annual and perennial biofuel crops. Agronomy Journal. 2019;111(1):74 - 83. doi:0.2134/agronj2018.03.0172.
. Changes in soil properties, microbial biomass, and fluxes of C and N in soil following post-agricultural grassland restoration. Applied Soil Ecology. 2016;100:186 - 194. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2016.01.001.
. Geomorphology of the N4D watershed, Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Riley and Geary Counties, Kansas. 1995;MS Thesis:1 -60.
. Response and recovery of grassland plant communities exposed to multiyear drought differs across a precipitation gradient. 2022;MS Thesis. Available at: https://api.mountainscholar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/d7eb2bdf-6570-4232-abc4-8229e1c8f835/content.
. Effects of prairie vole runways on tallgrass prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2007;110:100 -106. doi:10.1660/0022-8443(2007)110[100:EOPVRO]2.0.CO;2.
. Long-term effects of climate change on grassland soil systems: A reciprocal transplant approach. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7068.
. Tough times call for bigger brains. Communicative and Integrative Biology. 2009;2:1 -3. doi:10.4161/cib.2.3.8099.
. Learning capabilities enhanced in harsh environments: a common garden approach. Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences. 2010;277:3187 -3193. doi:10.1098/rspb.2010.0630.
. 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.
Genomic and resistance gene homolog diversity of the dominant tallgrass prairie species across the U.S. Great Plains precipitation gradient. PLoS ONE. 2011;6:e17641. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0017641.
. Diversity of a disease resistance gene homolog in Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae) is correlated with precipitation. 2007;MS Thesis:1 -53. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/517.
Biogeography of root-associated fungi in foundation grasses of North American plains. Biogeography. 2022;49(1):22-37. doi:10.1111/jbi.14260.
Baseflow physical characteristics differ at multiple spatial scales in stream networks across diverse biomes. Landscape Ecology. 2016;31(1):119-136. doi:10.1007/s10980-015-0289-y.
. Dissolved organic carbon concentration and flux in a grassland stream: spatial and temporal patterns and processes from long-term data. Biogeochemistry. 2015;125(3):393 - 408. doi:10.1007/s10533-015-0134-z.
. Prairie stream metabolism recovery varies based on antecedent hydrology across a stream network after a bank‐full flood. Limnology and Oceanography. 2022;67(9):1986-1999. doi:10.1002/lno.12182.
. Relating biophysical processes to spatial patterns of spectral reflectance: A multiple-scale analysis of prairie vegetation canopies. 2000;23:190 -198.
. The influence of canopy green vegetation fraction on spectral measurements over native tallgrass prairie. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 2002;81:129 -135. doi:10.1016/S0034-4257(01)00339-X.
. Fine-scale spatial and temporal variation in the relationship between spectral reflectance and a prairie vegetation canopy. 2000;PhD Dissertation:1 -209. Available at: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000PhDT....97R.
. Experimental analyses of the effects of prairie ash and sodium on food choices by prairie rodents. 1993;MS Thesis:1 -43.
. Effect of sodium on seed choice by deer mice, white-footed mice, and hispid cotton rats. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 1994;97:143 -148. doi:10.2307/3627783.
. Effect of prairie-fire ash on food choice by deer mice and hispid cotton rats. The Prairie Naturalist. 1993;25:305 -308.