Konza LTER Publications
] . Habitat guild drives variation in apparent survival of landbirds in the Great Plains. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 2017;129:259-270. doi:10.1676/16-017.1.
How do extra nutrients affect the timing of flowering in prairies. Environmental Science Journal for Teens. 2017;(September, 2017). Available at: http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/flowers_article.pdf.
. Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture. Ecosphere. 2017;8(10):e01983. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1983.
Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 2017;98(12):3022-3033. doi:10.1002/ecy.2029.
. Influence of fishes on stream invertebrate community structure and insect emergence from permanent pools in a prairie stream network. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2348/.
. The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales. Ecological Monographs. 2017;87(2):198-218. doi:10.1002/ecm.1249.
. Juniper invasions in grasslands: research needs and intervention strategies. Rangelands. 2017;39(2):64 - 72. doi:10.1016/j.rala.2017.03.002.
A long‐term study of burning effects on a plant pathogen in tallgrass prairie. Plant Pathology. 2017;66(8):1308–1317. doi:10.1111/ppa.12678.
. Low biodiversity of small mammals in soybean fields in the northern Flint Hills, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):175 - 182. doi:10.1660/062.120.0404.
. Nonreproductive ecology of a nearctic-neotropical migratory bird in the managed rangelands of northern Uruguay. 2017;PhD Dissertation.
. Novel observations of larval fire survival, feeding behavior, and host plant use in the regal fritillary, speyeria idalia (Drury) (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 2017;71(3):146 - 152. doi:10.18473/lepi.71i3.a4.
Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains. PLOS ONE. 2017;(5):e0178440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178440.
Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity. . Functional Ecology. 2017;31(9):1839-1846. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12967.
. Partitioning the CO2 net flux into assimilation and respiration components, and estimating water use efficiency in a grassland ecosystem. 2017;MS Thesis.
. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. doi:10.1111/gcb.13666.
. Photosynthetic responses of a dominant C4 grass to an experimental heat wave are mediated by soil moisture. Oecologia. 2017;183(1):303-313. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3755-6.
. Physiological and morphological responses of grass species to drought. Department of Biology. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36188.
. Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species. Functional Ecology. 2017. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12904.
. Probing whole-stream metabolism: influence of spatial heterogeneity on rate estimates. Freshwater Biology. 2017;62(4):711 - 723. doi:10.1111/fwb.12896.
. 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.
Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. doi:10.1111/gcb.13504.
. Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation– productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytologist. 2017;214(1):41-47. doi:10.1111/nph.14381.
. Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2017;81(1):50-60. doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.05.0158.
. Restoration and management for plant diversity enhances the rate of belowground ecosystem recovery. Ecological Applications. 2017;27(2):355 - 362. doi:10.1002/eap.1503.
. Restored prairie response to reduction in ectophagous insects. 2017; MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2331/.
. The role of soil heterogeneity in the recruitment of new species and interactions with grasshoppers (Acrididae) and Katydids (Tettigoniidae) in restored prairie. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2080/.
. Role of spatial and temporal vegetation heterogeneity from fire-grazing interactions to the assembly of tallgrass prairie spider communities. Department of Biology. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34672.
. Small mammals in anthropogenic brome fields as compared to native tallgrass prairie in the northern flint hills of kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):157 - 169. doi:10.1660/062.120.0402.
. Small vegetation gaps increase reseeded yellow-flowered alfalfa performance and production in native grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology. 2017;24:41 - 52. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2017.08.002.
. Space use of female greater Prairie-Chickens in response to fire and grazing interactions. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2017;70(2):165–174. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.004.
. Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. . Ecology Letters. 2017;20(12):1565. doi:10.1111/ele.12864.
Temporal variability in large grazer space use in an experimental landscape. Ecosphere. 2017;8(1). doi:10.1002/ecs2.1674.
. Testing metabolic cold adaptation as a driver of warm-water fish species replacement along the river continuum. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 2017;100(3):265-279. doi:10.1007/s10641-017-0577-2.
. Use of vegetation sampling and analysis to detect a problem within a portion of a prairie restoration project. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 2017;19(1):65 - 72. doi:10.1080/15226514.2016.1216081.
. Validation of a field-ready handheld meter for plasma β-hydroxybutyrate analysis. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2017;88(4):399 - 404. doi:10.1111/jofo.2017.88.issue-410.1111/jofo.12233.
. Above- and below-ground responses of native and invasive prairie grasses to future climate scenarios. Botany. 2016;94(6):471 - 479. doi:10.1139/cjb-2015-0238.
Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature. 2016;537:93-96. doi:10.1038/nature19324.
. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports. 2016;(1). doi:10.1038/srep20120.
. Assessing the potential for transitions from tallgrass prairie to woodlands: are we operating beyond critical transitions?. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2016;69(4):280–287. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rama.2016.03.004.
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.
. A before-and-after assessment of patch-burn grazing and riparian fencing along headwater streams. Journal of Applied Ecology. 2016;53(5):1543–1553. doi:10.1111/1365-2664.12692.
Belowground interactions with aboveground consequences: Invasive earthworms and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Ecology. 2016;97(3):605 - 614. doi:10.1890/15-1085.
Beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems. Ecology. 2016;97(2):372 - 382. doi:10.1890/15-0153.1.
. Bison and cattle grazing management, bare ground coverage, and links to suspended sediment concentrations in grassland streams. Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 2016;52(1):16-30. doi:10.1111/1752-1688.12364.
. 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.
. Changes in spatial and temporal trends in wet, dry, warm and cold spell length or duration indices in Kansas, USA. International Journal of Climatology. 2016;36(12):4085 - 4101. doi:10.1002/joc.4619.
. 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.
. 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.
Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2016;3719371(1694):20150273. doi:10.1098/rstb.2015.0273.
codyn: An R package of community dynamics metrics. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2016;7(10):1146–1151. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12569.