Konza LTER Publications
] . Bud bank dynamics and clonal growth strategy in the rhizomatous grass Pascopyrum smithii. Plant Ecology. 2015;216:395 -405. doi:10.1007/s11258-014-0444-6.
. Challenging the maximum rooting depth paradigm in grasslands and savannas. . Functional Ecology. 2015;29(6):739 - 745. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12390.
Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: Implications for climate change experiments. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:2624 -2633. doi:10.1111/gcb.12888.
Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015;112(35):10967 - 10972. doi:10.1073/pnas.1508382112.
. Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:335 -344. doi:10.1111/gcb.12673.
. The diet of upland sandpipers (Bartramia longicauda) in managed farmland in their neotropical non-breeding grounds. Ornitología Neotropical. 2015;26(4):337-347.
. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands. Oecologia. 2015;177:949 -957. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3233-6.
. 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.
. Effects of experimental forest removal on macroinvertebrate production and functional structure in tallgrass prairie streams. Freshwater Science. 2015;34(2). doi:10.1086/680442.
. The effects of genotype richness and genomic dissimilarity of Andropogon gerardii on invasion resistance and productivity. Plant Ecology and Diversity. 2015;8:61 -71. doi:10.1080/17550874.2013.866990.
Effects of grazing and prescribed fire on resource selection and nest survival of upland sandpipers in an experimental landscape. Landscape Ecology. 2015;30:325 -337. doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0133-9.
. Effects of mycorrhizal symbiosis on aboveground arthropod herbivory in tallgrass prairie: an in situ experiment. Plant Ecology. 2015;216:589 -597. doi:10.1007/s11258-015-0461-0.
Factors affecting female space use in ten populations of prairie chickens. Ecosphere. 2015;6(9):art166. doi:10.1890/ES14-00536.1.
. Fire history reconstruction in grassland ecosystems: amount of charcoal reflects local area burned. Environmental Research Letters. 2015;10(11):114009. doi:10.1088/1748-9326/10/11/114009.
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.
. Functional differences between dominant grasses drive divergent responses to large herbivore loss in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa. Journal of Ecology. 2015;103:714 -724. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12376.
. Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions. Plant Ecology. 2015;216:307 -318. doi:10.1007/s11258-014-0438-4.
. 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.
Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9.
Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients. Nature Plants. 2015;1(7):15080. doi:10.1038/nplants.2015.80.
. Influence of drought on growing season carbon and water cycling with changing land cover. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 2015;213:217 - 225. doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2015.07.002.
. Invasibility of a mesic grassland depends on the time-scale of fluctuating resources. Journal of Ecology. 2015;103(6):1538 - 1546. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12479.
. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass. Oikos. 2015;124:842 -850. doi:10.1111/oik.01869.
Long-term changes in structure and function of a tropical headwater stream following a disease-driven amphibian decline. Freshwater Biology. 2015;60(3):575 - 589. doi:10.1111/fwb.12505.
. Mutualism-parasitism paradigm synthesized from results of root-endophyte models. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2015;5: e776. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2014.00776.
. Mycorrhizal phenotypes and the law of the minimum. New Phytologist. 2015;205:1473 -1484. doi:10.1111/nph.13172.
. Patch-burn grazing effects on the ecological integrity of tallgrass prairie streams. Journal of Environment Quality. 2015;44(4):1148. doi:10.2134/jeq2014.10.0437.
Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters. 2015;18:85 -95. doi:10.1111/ele.12381.
Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications. 2015;6:7710 -. doi:10.1038/ncomms8710.
Quantifying ambient nitrogen uptake and functional relationships of uptake versus concentration in streams: a comparison of stable isotope, pulse, and plateau approaches. Biogeochemistry. 2015;125(1):65 - 79. doi:10.1007/s10533-015-0112-5.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel: are rare high throughput sequences artifacts?. Fungal Ecology. 2015;13:221 -225. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2014.08.006.
. Soil Degradation: Will Humankind Ever Learn?. Sustainability. 2015;7(9):12490 - 12501. doi:10.3390/su70912490.
. Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change. Ecology. 2015;96(9):2335. doi:10.1890/14-1897.1.
. The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: factors controlling lotic systems across broad biogeographic scales. Freshwater Science. 2015;34:1 -19. doi:10.1086/679756.
. Stream microbial diversity in response to environmental changes: review and synthesis of existing research. Frontiers in Microbiology. 2015;6. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2015.00454.
. Structure of trophic and mutualistic networks across broad environmental gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 2015;5:326 -334. doi:10.1002/ece3.1371.
. Thermal performance of larval longfin dace (Agosia chrysogaster), with implications for climate change. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 2015;98:395 -404. doi:10.1007/s10641-014-0270-7.
. Timing is everything: temporal variation in floral scent, and its connections to pollinator behavior and female reproductive success in Phlox divaricata. American Midland Naturalist. 2015;173:191 -207. doi:10.1674/amid-173-02-191-207.1.
. Vegetative reproduction and bud Bank dynamics of the perennial grass andropogon gerardii in mixed-grass and tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2015;174:14 -34. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-174.1.14.
. Weather affects grasshopper population dynamics in continental grassland over annual and decadal periods. Rangeland Ecology and Management. 2015;68:29 -39. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2014.12.011.
. Woody plant encroachment, and its removal, impact bacterial and fungal communities across stream and terrestrial habitats in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2015;91(10):fiv109. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiv109.
. Abrupt transition of mesic grassland to shrubland: evidence for thresholds, alternative attractors, and regime shifts. Ecology. 2014;95:2633 -2645. doi:10.1890/13-1369.1.
. Alternative spawning strategy and temperature for larval emergence of longfin dace (Agosia chrysogaster) in stream mesocosms. The Southwestern Naturalist. 2014;59:277-280. doi:10.1894/N03-MP-09.1.
Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2014;23(7):802 - 810. doi:10.1111/geb.12157.
. Belowground bud banks of tallgrass prairie are insensitive to multi-year, growing-season drought. Ecosphere. 2014;5: art103. doi:10.1890/ES14-00058.1.
Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient. Ecology. 2014;95:1693 -1700. doi:10.1890/13-0895.1.
. Cessation of burning dries soils long-term in a tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems. 2014;17:54 -65. doi:10.1007/s10021-013-9706-8.
Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology. 2014;102:1649 -1660. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12312.
. Colonization and recovery of invertebrate ecosystem engineers during prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology. 2014;22:456 -464. doi:10.1111/rec.12084.