The 32nd Konza Prairie LTER Annual Meeting

The 32nd annual Konza Prairie LTER workshop was held on June 4 - 5, 2025 at Prairie Biological Station in the Cortelyou Lecture Hall. Over 60 participants attended the workshop.

  1. Welcome and meeting overview
  2. Assessing resilience to global change
  3. Restoration ecology research at KNZ: science to support ecological restoration
  4. Nutrient cycling at Konza Prairie: Long-term change affects belowground processes and feedbacks
  5. Consumers responses – trophic interactions
  6. Bison herd update, patch burn grazing
  7. Woody plant encroachment
  8. Climate change and water
  9. Water quality and quantity research

  10. Quantitative tools to enhance empirical understanding at KNZ

  • List Posters:annual meeting
  1. Logan Anderson (KSU) – A sticky situation: Identifying drivers of woody avoidance in Grasshopper Sparrows (Ammodramus savannarum)
  2. Rachael Brenneman (UNCG) – Communities in recovery? In my grassland? It’s more likely than you’d think
  3. Marcos Gimenez Diaz (KU) – Decadal changes in soil carbon accumulation rates in prairies restored under average precipitation and drought conditions
  4. Alec Glidden (KSU) – Long-term tallgrass prairie plant community responses to season of fire
  5. Elise Grabda (UNCG) – Differential soil resource use along grassy-woody transects
  6. Rain Grace (KSU) – Restoration gardening and the reconnection of people and land
  7. Lydia Regier (KU) – Planting-year climate predicts ecosystem functioning in restored prairie
  8. Klara Stevermer (KSU) – C4 grass lineages have varied responses to atmospheric drying
  9. Rose Terry (UNCG) – Rethinking grasslands: a synthesis of 252 grassland and savanna sites shows distinct graminoid and forb composition types and grazing responses
  10. Greg Tooley (CSU) – Revisiting patterns and controls of tallgrass prairie productivity 30 year later
  11. Elliot Turbeville (UNCG) – The role of nitrogen in prairie environments: Impacts of short-term elevated soil nitrogen on plant drought resistance
  12. Maija Weaver (KSU) – Drivers of winter survival and growth in prairie fish: the role of temperature and density
  13. Amy Winstead (KSU) – Effects of bison grazing on N cycling and retention in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem