Konza LTER Publications
Resource-use strategies of woody plants in grassy ecosystems. Department of Biology. 2023;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/items/4a62e6f9-df74-4f77-a9ea-c5a90861690a.
. Genesis and morphology of soils on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Riley and Geary Counties, KS. 1996;MS Thesis:1 -166. Available at: http://www.agronomy.k-state.edu/events/national_collegiate_soils_contest/Wehmueller%20MS%20Thesis%201996%20Selected%20Pages.pdf.
. Micromorphology of polygenetic soils in a small watershed, north central Kansas, U.S.A. . Developments in Soil Science. 1993;22:247 -255. doi:10.1016/S0166-2481(08)70413-6.
. Are we there yet: Assessing trajectories of two restored prairies to target native prairies over a decadal time frame. Department of Biology. 2023;MS Thesis.
. Assessing grassland biophysical characteristics from spectral measurements. Remote Sensing of the Environment. 1986;20:141 -152. doi:10.1016/0034-4257(86)90019-2.
. A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitation in grassland food webs. Ecology. 2019;7113:e02600. doi:10.1002/ecy.2600.
. Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture. Ecosphere. 2017;8(10):e01983. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1983.
. Crab spiders (Thomisidae) attract insect flower-visitors without UV signaling. Ecological Entomology. 2016;41(5):611-617. doi:10.1111/een.12334.
. Ecological networks of grassland plants and arthropods. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/35284.
. Fire, grazing and climate shape plant–grasshopper interactions in a tallgrass prairie. Functional Ecology. 2019;33:735 - 745. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13272.
. Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020;117(13):7271-7275. doi:10.1073/pnas.1920012117.
. Bottom‐up when it is not top‐down: Predators and plants control biomass of grassland arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2020;89(5). doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13191.
. Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021;5:589–591. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01424-0.
Salty, mild, and low plant biomass grasslands increase top‐heaviness of invertebrate trophic pyramids. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2020;2958(9):1474 - 1485. doi:10.1111/geb.13119.
. Fire and grazing modulate the structure and resistance of plant–floral visitor networks in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2018;186(2):517-528. doi:10.1007/s00442-017-4019-9.
. Structure of trophic and mutualistic networks across broad environmental gradients. Ecology and Evolution. 2015;5:326 -334. doi:10.1002/ece3.1371.
. Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands. Functional Ecology. 2021;35(6):1212-1221. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13796.
. Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation. BioScience. 2003;53:941 -952. doi:doi: 10.1641/0006-3568(2003)053[0941:ATROTE]2.0.CO;2.
Deepening roots can enhance carbonate weathering by amplifying CO2-rich recharge. Biogeosciences. 2021;18:55-75. doi:10.5194/bg-18-55-2021.
. Effects of vegetation rooting characteristics on carbonate weathering and critical zone evolution. Earth and Planetary Science Letters. In Press.
. Simple statistical models can be sufficient for testing hypotheses with population time‐series data. Ecology and Evolution. 2022;12(9):e9339. doi:10.1002/ece3.v12.910.1002/ece3.9339.
Detecting fire and grazing patterns in tallgrass prairie using spectral mixture analysis. Ecological Applications. 1997;7:493 -511. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1997)007[0493:DFAGPI]2.0.CO;2.
. New technologies for remote sensing of ecosystem change in rangelands. Rangelands in A Sustainable Biosphere. 1996:139 -142.
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.
. Several grassland soil nematodes species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology. 2012;44:92 -101. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593264/.
. The ecological significance of tallgrass prairie arthropods. Annual Review of Entomology. 2006;51:387 -412. doi:10.1146/annurev.ento.51.110104.151136.
. Emergence of periodical cicadas (Magicicada cassini ) from a Kansas riparian forest: densities, biomass and nitrogen flux. American Midland Naturalist. 2001;145:176 -187. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2001)145[0176:EOPCMC]2.0.CO;2.
. Relationships between stream size, suspended particles, and filter-feeding macroinvertebrates in a Great Plains drainage network. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2002;31:1589 -1600. doi:10.2134/jeq2002.1589.
. Periodical cicada emergence resource pulse tracks forest expansion in a tallgrass prairie landscape. Ecosphere. 2019;10(7):e02779. 10.1002/ecs2.2779. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2019.10.issue-710.1002/ecs2.2779.
North american forests and grasslands: biotic conservation. In: Nature Conservation: The Role of Remnants of Native Vegetation. Nature Conservation: The Role of Remnants of Native Vegetation. Surrey Beatty and Sons Pry Limited in association with CSIRO and CALM; 1987:163 -176.
. A comparison of the species-timerelationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups. Oikos. 2006;112:185 -195. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2006.14223.x.
Analytical survey of the braconid wasp fauna (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) on six Midwestern U.S. tallgrass prairies. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 2001;94:230 -238. doi:10.1603/0013-8746(2001)094[0230:ASOTBW]2.0.CO;2.
. 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/.
. Patterns of macroinvertebrate production, trophic structure, and energy flow along a tallgrass prairie stream continuum. Limnology and Oceanography. 2011;56:887 -898. doi:10.4319/lo.2011.56.3.0887.
. The first to arrive and the last to leave: colonisation and extinction dynamics of common and rare fishes in intermittent prairie streams. Freshwater Biology. 2016;61(8):1321–1334. doi:10.1111/fwb.12668.
. Density dependent phytotoxicity: distinguishing resource competition and allelopathic interference in plants. Journal of Applied Ecology. 1989;26:613 -624. doi:10.2307/2404086.
. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data Discussion. 2020. doi:10.5194/essd-2020-195.
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data. 2021;13(5):1843 - 1854. doi:10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021.
A multi-locus perspective reveals connections between island biogeography and evolutionary history of an endangered shrew (Sorex pribilofensis). Division of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41548.
. Pollinator importance andtemporal variation in a population of Phlox divaricata L. (Polemoniaceae). American Midland Naturalist. 2005;154:42 -54. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2005)154[0042:PIATVI]2.0.CO;2.
. Stability of grassland soil C and N pools despite 25 years of an extreme climatic and disturbance regime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121(7):1934 - 1945. doi:10.1002/2016JG003370.
. Assessing grassland sensitivity to global change. 2015;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/167147.
. Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. . Ecology Letters. 2017. doi:10.1111/ele.12861.
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.
. Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration. Biogeosciences. 2023;20(13):2707 - 2725. doi:10.5194/bg-20-2707-2023.
Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology. 2016;97:561-568. doi:10.1890/15-1437.1.
. Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. doi:10.1111/gcb.v29.2310.1111/gcb.16950.
Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10). doi:10.1111/gcb.13706.
Nothing lasts forever: Dominant species decline under rapid environmental change in global grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 2023;111(11):2472-2482. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.14198.
Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. 2021;102(11). doi:10.1002/ecy.3504.