Konza LTER Publications

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2010
Williamson MM. Controls on bud activation and tiller initiation in tallgrass prairie: The effect of light and nitrogen. 2010;MS Thesis:1 -52. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9577.
Winders K. Ecosystem Processes of Prairie Streams and the Impact of Anthropogenic Alteration on Stream Ecological Integrity. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/6849.
Reisinger AJ. Factors affecting denitrification in headwater prairie streams. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4273.
Buck T. The impact of land cover change on water and carbon cycling in the US central plains grasslands. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/6992.
Blevins E. Influence of landscape context on patterns of occupancy, abundance, and gene flow among collared lizards in the Flint Hills of Kansas. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3911.
Whiting DP. Macroinvertebrate production, trophic structure, and energy flow along a tallgrass prairie stream continuum. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/120/.
Tucker S. Morphological and physiological traits as indicators of drought tolerance in tallgrass prairie plants. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/4628.
Lohnes RG. Nest site selection and nest thermal properties of common nighthawks on the tallgrass prairie of Kansas. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/17160.
Orozco RA. Quantifying phenotypic variation between populations of Panicum virgatum along a latitudinal gradient within the Great Plains. 2010;MS Thesis.
2011
Tsypin M. Dissolved inorganic carbon in soil and shallow groundwater, Konza Prairie LTER Site, NE Kansas, USA. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/10386.
Riley AJ. Effects of riparian woody vegetation encroachment on prairie stream structure and function with emphasis on whole-stream metabolism. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/8545.
Parsons S. 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.
Auvenshine SD. Infiltration controls in a tallgrass prairie at a hillslope scale. 2011;MS Thesis:1 -126. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13183.
Gregory AJ. The influence of behavioral and landscape ecology on Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) genetic structure and evolution. 2011;PhD Dissertation:1 -129. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/8530.
Rostkowski, Jr. SC. 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.
Mohler R. Multi-scale burned area mapping in tallgrass prairie using in situ spectrometry and satellite imagery. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/11986.
Hartman JC. Responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) to precipitation amount and temperature. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/10720.
Tiemann L. Soil microbial community carbon and nitrogen dynamics with altered precipitation regimes and substrate availability. 2011;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/7689.
2012
West R. Bud bank demography: Density of native grass meristems as a predictor of rangeland invasibility. 2012;PhD Dissertations. Available at: https://shareok.org/handle/11244/6850.
Chang CC. Dimensions of diversity and their direct and indirect effects on tallgrass prairie ecosystem functioning. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -165. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1039554547.
Sousa BF. Ecology of mating patterns and sexual selection in dickcissels breeding in managed prairie. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -166. Available at: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/17/.
Avolio ML. Genetic diversity of Andropogon gerardii: Impacts of altered precipitation patterns on a dominant species. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -258. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1272028956.
Ocheltree TW. Growth and survival during drought: The link between hydraulic architecture and drought tolerance in grasses. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -1117. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13803.
O'Keefe K. Influences of local adaptation and genome size on Panicum virgatum (switchgrass) responses to variable precipitation timing. 2012;MS Thesis.
Nukala LA. An iPhone application of Konza Prairie LTER. 2012;MS Thesis:1 -47. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/13960.
Killian PD. Mechanisms driving woody encroachment in the tallgrass prairie: an analysis of fire behavior and physiological integration. 2012;MS Thesis:1 -72. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/14197.
Tomeo NJ. A mycorrhizal community is unresponsive to simulated future precipitation variability. 2012;MS Thesis.
Goad RK. Response of regional sources of tallgrass prairie species to variation in climate and soil microbial communities. 2012;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/922/.
Olstad TA. Zen of the Plains: discovering space, place, and self. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -276. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/13520.
2013
Klopf RP. Community and ecosystem changes in tallgrass prairie restorations: the effects of population source and diversity. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/684/.
La Pierre KJ. Drivers of grassland community structure and ecosystem function: the role of biotic factors in determining the ecosystem response to alterations in resource availability. 2013;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://search.proquest.com/docview/1495948277?pq-origsite=gscholar.
Hoover DL. Ecological responses to climate extremes in a mesic grassland. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82474.
Greer MJ. Grassland invasion by non-native grass species: ecological issues of multiple species at multiple trophic levels. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: https://shareok.org/handle/11244/14859.
Carter DL. Grassland restoration in a changing world: consequences of practices and variable environments. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15357.
VanderWeide BL. Grazing and drought in tallgrass prairie: the role of belowground bud banks in vegetation dynamics. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16622.
Sylvain ZL. The influence of moisture availability on terrestrial ecosystems: Effects on soil animal communities along a regional/global-scale climate gradient. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/80184.
Jackson KE. Influences of patch-burn grazing and riparian protection on the ecological integrity of tallgrass prairie headwater streams. 2013;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1345/.
Vandermyde JM. Macroinvertebrate responses to removal of riparian woody vegetation along tallgrass prairie streams. 2013;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1068/.
Mendola MM. Regional-climate and local-microbial controls on ecosystem processes during grassland restoration. 2013;MS Thesis. Available at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1338/.
Carson M. Responses to long-term fertilization and burning: impacts on nutrient dynamics and microbial composition in a tallgrass prairie. 2013;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16029.
2014
Grischkowsky SA. Did selective breeding of a non-native grass promote invasiveness?. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: https://shareok.org/handle/11244/25654.
Ott JP. Ecological implications of grass bud bank and tiller dynamics in mixed-grass prairie. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17277.
Ratajczak Z. Ecological thresholds and abrupt transitions of tallgrass prairie to shrublands and woodlands. 2014; PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17661.
Stanton NL. How does your prairie (re)grow?: Interactions of seed additions with resource availability, heterogeneity, and disturbance on recruitment and diversity in a restored tallgrass prairie. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18205.
Larson DM. The influence of fire and grazing on tallgrass prairie streams and herpetofauna. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/17560/DanelleLarson2014.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y.
Grudzinski BPiotr. Influence of watershed grazing management on stream geomorphology in grassland headwater streams. 2014;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/18688.
Liu H. Inorganic and organic carbon variations in surface water, Konza Prairie LTER Site, USA, and Maolan Karst Experimental Site, China. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14546.
Troia MJ. A mechanistic framework for understanding prairie stream fish distributions. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17285.
Soong J. Moving beyond mass loss: advancing understanding about the fate of decomposing leaf litter and pyrogenic organic matter in the mineral soil. 2014;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83819.
Martin EC. Ontogenetic shifts, habitat USE and community structure: how fishes use and influence protected tallgrass prairie streams. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18736.

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