Konza LTER Publications
The effects of soil disturbances on tallgrass prairie. 1998;PhD Dissertation:1 -220.
. 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.
. 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.
. 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.
. 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.
. . Uncovering patterns and processes regulating stream water chemistry from catchment to continental scale. Environmental Engineering. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/20832kps5778.
. The vegetation cover, seed bank, seed rain, and seed reproduction of the relictual tallgrass prairie of Boulder county, Colorado. 1992;PhD Dissertation:1 -191.
. Limitations to plant diversity and productivity in tallgrass prairie. 2008;PhD Dissertation:1 -137. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/726.
. A study of the process to adapt a Kansas ranch house site for use as a biological educational research center. 1987;MS Thesis:1 -270. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/22314.
. Environmental heterogeneity effects on diversity and nitrous oxide emissions from soil in restored prairie. Department of Plant Biology. 2019;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1683/.
. Recovery of whole soil conditions through restoration from agriculture and its role in mediating plant-plant competition. 2015;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1826/.
. The ecology of grazing lawns on the tallgrass prairie. Department of Biology. 2019;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/39462.
. Characterizing woody encroachment in the konza prairie using object-based analysis of aerial photographs. 2016;MS Thesis. Available at: https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/handle/1808/24182.
. Energetic responses of avain granivores to winter in northeast Kansas. 1984;MS Thesis:1 -129. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/27351.
. Under the weather: mechanisms underlying avian responses to precipitation. Department of Biology. 2023;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/handle/2097/43041.
. Comparative ecology of the C4 grassland co-dominants Andropogon gerardii and Sorghastrum nutans. 2000;MS Thesis:1 -85.
. Impacts of compound precipitation extremes on belowground dynamics in a mesic grassland. Colorado State University. 2021;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/234322.
. Geomorphology and geomorphic history of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Riley and Geary Counties, Kansas. 1991;MS Thesis:1 -121.
. Causes and consequences of species invasion and loss: the role of dominant species and diversity in maintaining ecosystem function. 2002;PhD Dissertation:1 -148.
. The role of mycorrhizae and dominant competitors in tallgrass prairie plant community structure and belowground processes. 1998;MS Thesis:1 -139.
. Macroinvertebrates and leaf litter decomposition in a tallgrass prairie stream. 1982;PhD Dissertation:1 -60.
. Changes in soil carbon dynamics during juniper expansion into tallgrass prairie. 2001;PhD Dissertation:1 -137.
. Effects of simulated foliage and root herbivory on growth reproduction, and insect damage of three annual plant species. 1987;MS Thesis:1 -87. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/22345.
. Direct and indirect drivers of grassland bird population declines and settlement decisions over broad spatial and temporal scales. Department of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41480.
. 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.
. Microbial ecology and denitrification in tallgrass prairie and cultivated soils. 1996;PhD Dissertation:1 -310.
. 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/.
. Bud bank density regulates invasion by exotic plants. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9198.
. Aquatic invertebrate and fish communities of tallgrass prairie headwater streams: Bioindicators, secondary production and bioenergetics. 2001;MS Thesis:1 -114.
. 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.
. Effects of urine deposition on small-scale patch structure and vegetative patterns in prairie vegetation. 1994;PhD Dissertation:1 -107.
. Protozoa-bacteria interactions in subsurface sediments and the subsequent effects on nitrification. 1995;MS Thesis:1 -74.
. Exposure of migratory shorebirds to organophosphorus and carbamate pesticides at migratory stopover and non-breeding sites in the western hemisphere. 2008;MS Thesis:1 -76. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/807.
. Detecting soil information on the Konza Prairie using high resolution satellite data. 1988;MS Thesis:1 -109.
. The effect of intra-seasonal variation in precipitation on the productivity of grasses and grasslands. 2007;PhD Dissertation:1 -173. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/304859815/?pq-origsite=primo.
. . A study of temporal and spatial variations in nitrogen concentrations in a tallgrass prairie stream. 1985;PhD Dissertation:1 -93.
. Characterizing herbivore resistance traits in eight tallgrass prairie grasses. 1994;MS Thesis:1 -63.
. 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.
. A mycorrhizal community is unresponsive to simulated future precipitation variability. 2012;MS Thesis.
. The unique canopy structure, leaf morphology, and physiology of Cornus drummondii. Department of Biology. 2022;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/42162.
. Autogamy as a fertility assurance strategy for forbs in the tallgrass prairie. 1984;MS Thesis:1 -73. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/27366.
. A mechanistic framework for understanding prairie stream fish distributions. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17285.
. 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.
. 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.
. Effects of grazing on primary production and surface climatological variables in tallgrass prairie. 1990;PhD Dissertation:1 -105.
. Patterns of plant diversity and their management across South African rangelands. 2006;PhD Dissertation :1 -245. Available at: https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/6200.
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