Konza LTER Publications
Cessation of burning dries soils long-term in a tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems. 2014;17:54 -65. doi:10.1007/s10021-013-9706-8.
. Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie. New Phytologist. 2012;193:673 -682. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03953.x.
. Environmental constraints on a global relationship among leaf and root traits of grasses. Ecology. 2005;86:12 -19. doi:10.1890/04-1075.
. 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.
. Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience. Nature Climate Change. 2013;3:63 -67. doi:10.1038/nclimate1634.
The roles of shifting and filtering in generating community-level flowering phenology. Ecography. 2012;35:1033 -1038. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0587.2012.07625.x.
. Widespread coupling between the rate and temperature sensitivity of organic matter decay. Nature Geoscience. 2010;3:854 -857. doi:10.1038/ngeo1009.
. Functional consequences of climate-change induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2011;165:1109 -1117. doi:10.1007/s00442-011-1938-8.
Precipitation timing and grazer performance in a tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2013;122:191 -198. doi:10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20400.x.
. Community traitscape of foliar nitrogen isotopes reveals N availabiity patterns in a tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2012;356:395 -403. doi:10.1007/s11104-012-1141-7.
. 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.
. 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.
. 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.
. The importance of timing of precipitation for grassland productivity. Plant Ecology. 2013;213:1085 -1089. doi:10.1007/s11258-013-0236-4.
. Spatial connectedness of plant species: potential links for apparent competition via plant diseases. Plant Pathology. 2013;62:1195 -1428. doi:10.1111/ppa.12045.
. Cytogenetic characterization and disease resistance of perennial grasses and disease response to host diversity. 2004;PhD Dissertation.
. Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss. Nature Geoscience. 2015;8(10):776 - 779. doi:10.1038/ngeo2520.
Naphthalene addition to soil surfaces: A feasible method to reduce soil micro-arthropods with negligible direct effects on soil C dynamics. Applied Soil Ecology. 2014;74:21 -29. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.09.008.
Fundamental spatial and temporal disconnections in the hydrology of an intermittent prairie headwater network. Journal of Hydrology. 2015;522:305 - 316. doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2014.12.031.
. Experimental evidence that nest orientation influences microclimate in a temperate grassland. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2024;95(1). doi:10.5751/JFO-00387-950102.
. Late Quaternary environmental change inferred from phytoliths and other soil-related proxies: case studies from the central and southern Great Plains. Catena. 2011;85:87 -108. doi:10.1016/j.catena.2010.08.015.
. Ecological genomics of nematode responses to different bacterial environments. 2008;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/2750.
. Long-term nitrogen amendment alters the diversity and assemblage of soil bacterial communities in tallgrass prairie. PLoS ONE. 2013;8:67884 -. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067884.
. Fire frequency and mosaic burning effects on atallgrass prairie ground beetle assemblage. Biodiversity and Conservation. 2006;15:2301 -2323. doi:10.1007/s10531-004-8227-3.
. Spatial variation in soil microbial processes as a result of woody encroachment depends on shrub size in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:359 - 373. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04813-9.
. Plant legacies and soil microbial community dynamics control soil respiration. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2021;160:108350. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108350.
. Three decades of divergent land use and plant community change alters soil C and N content in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020;125(8):e2020JG005723. doi:10.1029/2020JG005723.
. Effects of plant-soil interactions on grassland carbon dynamics in a changing world. Department of Biology. 2020;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2427237261?pq-origsite=summon.
. RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2021;30(1):38 - 50. doi:10.1111/geb.13210.
Investigating North American grassland biogeography throughout the Holocene. 2016;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/32798.
. Calibrating vegetation cover and pollen assemblages in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4170.
. High dissimilarity within a multiyear annual record of pollen assemblages from a North American tallgrass prairie. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(15):5273 - 5289. doi:10.1002/ece3.2259.
. 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.
Fire frequency and community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie vegetation. Ecology. 1992;73:2001 -2006. doi:10.2307/1941450.
. Effects of fire on plant community structure in tallgrass prairie. In: Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990:81 -98.
. A hierarchical analysis of species abundance patterns in grassland vegetation. The American Midland Naturalist. 1990;135:633 -648. doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/2462027.
. Spatial and temporal patterns in functional diversity. In: Biodiversity: A Biology Of Numbers and Difference. Biodiversity: A Biology Of Numbers and Difference. Blackwell Science London; 1996:253 -280.
. The hierarchical continuum concept. Journal of Vegetation Science. 1993;4:149 -156. doi:10.2307/3236099.
. Disturbance, diversity and species interactions in tallgrass prairie. In: Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998:140 -156.
. Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2012;23:563 -575. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01369.x.
. Importance of spatial and temporal dynamics in species regional abundance and distribution. Ecology. 1991;72:654 -664. doi:10.2307/2937205.
. Introduction: Fire as a natural distubance in tallgrass prairie ecosystems. In: Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Fire in North America Tallgrass Prairies. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press; 1990:3 -7.
. Grassland ecosystem and landscape dynamics. In: The Changing Prairie. The Changing Prairie. Oxford University Press; 1995:128 -156.
. An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2011;9:351 -357. doi:10.1890/100068.
Experimental analysis of intermediate disturbance and initial floristic composition: decoupling cause and effect. Ecology. 1995;76:486 -492. doi:10.2307/1941207.
. Intermediate disturbance and its relationship to within-and between-patch structure. New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 1997;21:103 -110. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/24054530.
. 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.
. 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.
. The measurement of stability in grasslands. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 1995;10:95 -96.
. Effects of organismal and distance scaling on analysis of species distribution and abundance. Ecological Applications. 1997;7:543 -551. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0543:EOOADS]2.0.CO;2.
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