Konza LTER Publications
Lead contamination and attenuation in a shallow monitoring well, Konza Prairie Long-Term Ecological Research Site, Riley and Geary Counties, KS. 2001;MS Thesis:1 -125.
. Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and new methods for causal inference. Nature Communications. 2023;14. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-37194-5.
Nitrogen cycling in tallgrass prairie soils. 1998;PhD Dissertation:1 -152.
. Partitioning of nitrogen over five growing seasons in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2005;86:1280 -1287. doi:10.1890/03-0790.
. Short-term competition for ammonium and nitrate in tallgrass prairie. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2005;69:371 -377. doi:10.2136/sssaj2005.0371.
. Effects of soil temperature on growth, biomass allocation and resource acquisition of Andropogon gerardii Vitman. New Phytologist. 1992;120:543 -549. doi:10.1111/j.1469-8137.1992.tb01804.x.
. 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.
The timing of growing season drought and its effects on above- and bekowground production in a mesic grassland. 2014;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://sites.biology.colostate.edu/knapplab/People/Profiles/technicians/ElsieDentonpub3.pdf.
. Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland. Plant Ecology. 2017;218(3):317 - 328. doi:10.1007/s11258-016-0690-x.
. Clonal biology of the caespitose grass Schizachyrium scoparium: mechanisms of intraclonal regulation and ecological success. 1996;PhD Dissertation:1 -108.
. Does a tradeoff exist between morphological and physiological root plasticity? A comparison of grass growth forms. Acta Oecologica. 1999;20:519 -526. doi:10.1016/S1146-609X(00)86619-9.
. Do caespitose and rhizomatous grass growth forms constitute unique functional groups?. . People and Rangelands: Building the Future. 1999:927 -928.
. Below-ground carbon and nitrogen accumulation in perennial grasses: A comparison of caespitose and rhizomatous growth forms. Plant and Soil. 2001;237:117 -127. doi:10.1023/A:1013316829961.
. The effect of timing of growing season drought on flowering of a dominant C4 grass. Oecologia. 2016;181(2):391 - 399. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3579-4.
. Dissolved black carbon in grassland streams: is there an effect of recent fire history?. Chemosphere. 2013;90:2557 -2562. doi:10.1016/j.chemosphere.2012.10.098.
. Comparing ecosystem goods and services provided by restored and native lands. BioScience. 2008;58:837 -845. doi:10.1641/B580909.
Quantification of the nitrogen cycle in a prairie stream. Ecosystems. 2000;3:574 -589. doi:10.1007/s100210000050.
Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact and our Global Environment. New York: Columbia University Press; 2008.
. Trophic state, eutrophication, and nutrient criteria in streams. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 2007;22:669 -676. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2007.07.010.
. Life on the edge: the ecology of Great Plains prairie streams. BioScience. 2004;54:207 -281. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0205:LOTETE]2.0.CO;2.
. N uptake as a function of concentration in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2002;21:206 -220. doi:10.2307/1468410.
Eutrophication and trophic state in rivers and streams. Limnology and Oceanography. 2006;51:671 -680.
. Nitrogen transport from tallgrass prairie watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1996;25:973 -981. doi:10.2134/jeq1996.00472425002500050007x.
. Scientific collaborative within-group conduct, data-sharing, and publication agreements. BioScience. 2024:biae073. doi:10.1093/biosci/biae073.
. The Stream Biome Gradient Concept: factors controlling lotic systems across broad biogeographic scales. Freshwater Science. 2015;34:1 -19. doi:10.1086/679756.
. Establishing nutrient criteria in streams. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2000;19:186 -196.
. Suggested classification for stream trophic state: Distributions of temperate stream types by chlorophyll, total nitrogen and phosphorus. Water Research. 1998;32:1455 -1462. doi:10.1016/S0043-1354(97)00370-9.
. Carbon and nitrogen stoichiometry and nitrogen cycling rates in streams. Oecologia. 2004;140:458 -467. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1599-y.
Assessing transport and retention of nitrate and other materials through the riparian zone and stream channel with simulated precipitation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 2022;13(3):757 - 766. doi:10.1111/mee3.v13.310.1111/2041-210X.13791.
. Water velocity attenuation by stream periphyton and macrophytes in relation to growth form and architecture. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2002;21:2 -15. doi:10.2307/1468295.
. Nutrients and the Dead Zone: Ecological stoichiometry and depressed dissolved oxygen in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2006;4:211 -217.
. Surprises and insights from long-term aquatic datasets and experiments. BioScience. 2012;62:709 -721. doi:10.1525/bio.2012.62.8.4.
Woody removal experiment on kings creek at konza prairie biological station. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 2023;104(3):1 - 4. doi:10.1002/bes2.2089.
. Freshwater ecology: concepts and environmental applications of limnology. 3rd ed. Elsevier; 2019:998. Available at: https://www.elsevier.com/books/freshwater-ecology/dodds/978-0-12-813255-5.
. Microcosms for aquifer research: Application to colonization of various sized particles by groundwater microorganisms. Groundwater. 1996;34:756 -759. doi:10.1111/j.1745-6584.1996.tb02065.x.
. Trajectories and state changes of a grassland stream and riparian zone after a decade of woody vegetation removal. Ecological Applications. 2023;33(4):e2830. doi:10.1002/eap.2830.
Determining ecoregional reference conditions for nutrients, secchi depth, and chlorophyll a in Kansas lakes and reservoirs. Lake and Reservoir Management. 2006;22:151 -159. doi:10.1080/07438140609353892.
. A portable chamber for in situ determination of benthic metabolism. Freshwater Biology. 1998;39:49 -59. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2427.1998.00256.x.
. Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2009.
. A technique for establishing reference nutrient concentrations across watersheds impacted by humans. Limnology and Oceanography Methods. 2004;2:333 -341. doi:10.4319/lom.2004.2.333.
. The role of periphyton in phosphorus retention in shallow freshwater aquatic systems. Journal of Phycology. 2003;39:830 -849. doi:10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.02081.x.
. The effect of density dependence on community structure. Ecological Modelling. 1996;93:33 -42. doi:10.1016/0304-3800(95)00209-X.
. Controls on nutrients across a prairie stream watershed: Land use and riparian cover effects. Environmental Management. 2006;37:636 -646. doi:10.1007/s00267-004-0072-3.
. You are not always what we think you eat: selective assimilation across multiple whole-stream isotopic tracer studies. Ecology. 2014;95:2757 -2767. doi:10.1890/13-2276.1.
Interspecific interactions: constructing a general, neutral model for interaction type. Oikos. 1997;78:377 -383. doi:10.2307/3546305.
. Misuse of inorganic N and soluble reactive P concentrations to indicate nutrient status of surface waters. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2003;22:171 -181. doi:10.2307/1467990.
. The relationship of floods, drying, flow and light to primary production and producer biomass in a prairie stream. Hydrobiologia. 1996;333:151 -159. doi:10.1007/BF00013429.
Headwater influences on downstream water quality. Environmental Management. 2008;41:367 -377. doi:10.1007/s00267-007-9033-y.
. The freshwater biome gradient framework: predicting macroscale properties based on latitude, altitude, and precipitation. Ecosphere. 2019;10(7):e02786. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2786.
Connections and feedback: Aquatic, plant, and soil microbiomes in heterogeneous and changing environments. BioScience. 2020;70(7):548 - 562. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa046.