Konza LTER Publications
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.
. Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology. 2012;93:697 -703. doi:10.1890/11-1199.1.
. Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition. Journal Ecology. 2017;105(3):750-760. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12696.
. 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.
. Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America. Journal of Ecology. 2014;102:1374 -1385. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12311.
. N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry. Ecological Applications. 2022;32(8):e2684. doi:10.1002/eap.2684.
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.
Soils and soil biota. In: Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998:48 -66.
. Site-specific underestimation of wetfall NH+4 using NADP data. Atmospheric Environment. 1990;24A:3093 -3095. doi:10.1016/0960-1686(90)90489-A.
. . . The influence of disturbance from military training activities on terrestrial-aquatic linkages in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Ecological Applications. 2003;13:432 -442. doi:10.1899/08-170.1.
. 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.
Needed: A unified infrastructure to support long-term scientific research on public lands. Ecological Applications. 2004;14:18 -21. doi:10.1890/03-5106.
. Biogeochemical and community ecology responses to the wetting of non-perennial streams. Nature Water. 2024;2(9):815 - 826. doi:10.1038/s44221-024-00298-3.
FOAM: Functional Ontology Assignments for Metagenomes: a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) database with environmental focus. Nucleic Acids Research. 2014;42: e145. doi:10.1093/nar/gku702.
Mineralogy and morphological properties of buried polygenetic paleosols formed in late quaternary sediments on upland landscapes of the central plains, USA. Geoderma. 2010;154:508 -517. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.03.015.
. Genesis and spatial distribution of uplandsoils in east central Kansas. 2007;PhD Dissertation:1 -704. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/288 .
. Effects of frequency of protein supplementation on performance by beef calves grazing dormant native range. Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports. 2018;4(2). doi:10.4148/2378-5977.7555.
. Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta‐analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2020;29(12):2273-2288. doi:10.1111/geb.13196.
Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change. Biological Reviews. 2013;88:327 -348. doi:10.1111/brv.12002.
Soil structure as influenced by simulated tillage. Journal of Soil Science. 1984;48:879 -884.
. Effects of prescribed burns and bison (Bos bison)grazing on breeding bird abundances in tallgrass prairie. Auk. 2006;123:183 -197. doi:10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[0183:EOPBAB]2.0.CO;2.
. Effects of prescribed burning and grazingon breeding bird abundances in tallgrass prairie. 2004;MS Thesis:1 -34. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/The-Auk/volume-123/issue-1/0004-8038(2006)123[0183:EOPBAB]2.0.CO;2/EFFECTS-OF-PRESCRIBED-BURNS-AND-BISON-BOS-BISON-GRAZING-ON/10.1642/0004-8038(2006)123[0183:EOPBAB]2.0.CO;2.full.
. Responses of breeding birds in tallgrass prairie to fire and cattle grazing. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2008;79:41 -52. doi:10.1111/j.1557-9263.2008.00144.x.
. Characteristics and significance of the caches of eastern woodrats (Neotoma floridana ). Journal of Mammalogy. 1993;74:688 -692. doi:10.2307/1382290.
. Influence of maternal diet and perishability on caching and consumption behavior of juvenile eastern woodrats. Journal of Mammalogy. 1998;79:156 -162. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1382850 .
. Effects of food perishability, distance, and competitors on caching behavior of eastern woodrats. Journal of Mammalogy. 1991;72:513 -517. doi:10.2307/1382134.
. An analysis of factors affecting the caching behavior of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana). 1991;PhD Dissertation:1 -91.
. Changes in microbial populations from eastern woodrat caches. Southwestern Naturalist. 1993;38:30 -35. doi:10.2307/3671641.
. Antimicrobial activity of dogwood fruits (Cornus drummondii) from winter food caches of the eastern woodrat (Neotoma floridana ). Journal of Chemical Ecology. 1995;21:419 -425. doi:10.1007/BF02036739.
. Detection of differences in nutrient concentrations by eastern woodrats (Neotoma floridana ). Journal of Mammalogy. 1993;74:493 -497. doi:10.2307/1382409.
. Sexual segregation results in differences in content and quality of bison (Bos bison) diets. Journal of Mammalogy. 2001;82:407 -413. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1644/1545-1542(2001)082<0407:SSRIDI>2.0.CO;2 .
. Change in nutrient content of foods stored by eastern woodrats (Neotoma florida). Journal of Mammalogy. 1992;73:835 -839. doi:10.2307/1382204.
. Superstatistics of hydro-climatic fluctuations and interannual ecosystem productivity. Geophysical Research Letters. 2006;33:15402 -. doi:10.1029/2006GL026412.
. Relationships at the aboveground-belowground interface: Plants, soil biota, and soil processes. Ecological Monographs. 2003;73:377 -395. doi:10.1890/0012-9615(2003)073[0377:RATAIP]2.0.CO;2.
A study of the aquatic humic substances and hydrogeology in a prairie watershed: use of humic material as a tracer of recharge through soils. 1995;PhD Dissertation:1 -296.
. No difference in herbivory preferences among ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123(1-2):151. doi:10.1660/062.123.0112.
. 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.
. Pleoardoris graminearum gen. et sp. nov., a new member of Pleosporales from the North American Plains, biogeography and effects on B. gracilis growth. Mycologia. In Press.
The effects of P fertilizer addition on P transformations on high-P fixing and grassland soils. 2016;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34586.
. Persistence of denitrifying enzyme activity and denitrification dynamics in soil. 1993;MS Thesis:1 -109.
. Bison selectivity and grazing responses of little bluestem in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Range Management. 1995;48:26 -31. doi:10.2307/4002500.
. Bison selectivity and grazing response of little bluestem and big bluestem in burned and unburned tallgrass prairie. 1993;MS Thesis:1 -38.
. Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics in mesic grasslands. Theoretical and Applied Climatology. 2012;107:427 -440. doi:10.1007/s00704-011-0484-y.
. Climate forcings and the nonlinear dynamics of grassland ecosystems. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/6633.
. The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology. 2012;5:337 -345. doi:10.1002/eco.224.
. Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology. 2018;24(5):1935 - 1951. doi:10.1111/gcb.2018.24.issue-510.1111/gcb.14024.
The sensitivity of carbon exchanges in Great Plains grasslands to precipitation variability. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2016;121:280-294. doi:10.1002/2015JG003205.
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