Konza LTER Publications
Ecological consequences of shifting the timing of burning tallgrass prairie. PLOS One. 2014;9: e103423. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0103423.
. Ecological implications of grass bud bank and tiller dynamics in mixed-grass prairie. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17277.
. Ecological thresholds and abrupt transitions of tallgrass prairie to shrublands and woodlands. 2014; PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17661.
. Estimating canopy nitrogen content in a heterogeneous grassland with varying fire and grazing treatments: Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA. Remote Sensing. 2014;6:4430 -4453. doi:10.3390/rs6054430.
. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 2014;508:521 -525. doi:10.1038/nature13014.
Experimental evidence that invasive grasses use allelopathic biochemicals as a potential mechanism for invasion: Chemical warfare in nature. Plant and Soil. 2014;385:165 -179. doi:10.1007/s11104-014-2209-3.
. Fire and grazing influences on rates of riparian woody plant expansion along grassland streams. PLOS ONE. 2014;9:e106922. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0106922.
. 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.
. Fitness among population sources of a dominant species (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) used in prairie restoration. Torrey Botanical Society. 2014;140:269 -279. doi:10.3159/TORREY-D-12-00063.1.
. 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.
Geographic variation in growth and phenology of two dominant Central US grasses: Consequences for climate change. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2014;7:211 -221. doi:10.1093/jpe/rtt036.
. Grassland Ecology. In: Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment.Vol 8. Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2014:389-423.
. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature. 2014;508(7497):517 - 520. doi:10.1038/nature13144.
How does your prairie (re)grow?: Interactions of seed additions with resource availability, heterogeneity, and disturbance on recruitment and diversity in a restored tallgrass prairie. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18205.
. Impacts of seasonality and surface heterogeneity on water-use efficiency in mesic grasslands. Ecohydrology. 2014;7:1223 -1233. doi:10.1002/eco.1455.
. The influence of fire and grazing on tallgrass prairie streams and herpetofauna. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/17560/DanelleLarson2014.pdf?sequence=7&isAllowed=y.
. Influence of watershed grazing management on stream geomorphology in grassland headwater streams. 2014;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/18688.
. Inorganic and organic carbon variations in surface water, Konza Prairie LTER Site, USA, and Maolan Karst Experimental Site, China. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14546.
. Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa. Ecology. 2014;95:98 -109. doi:10.1890/13-0526.1.
. Knowledge and tools to enhance resilience of beef grazing systems for sustainable animal protein production. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2014;1328(1):10 - 17. doi:10.1111/nyas.12572.
Lack of eutrophication in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem over 27 years. Ecology. 2014;95:1225 -1235. doi:10.1890/13-1068.1.
. Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia. 2014;175:293 -303. doi:10.1007/s00442-014-2895-9.
A mechanistic framework for understanding prairie stream fish distributions. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17285.
. Mismatched begging displays between foreign and host offspring reduce brood parasite fitness. Behavioral Ecology. 2014;25(4):785 - 793. doi:10.1093/beheco/aru055.
. Moving beyond mass loss: advancing understanding about the fate of decomposing leaf litter and pyrogenic organic matter in the mineral soil. 2014;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/83819.
. Naphthalene addition to soil surfaces: A feasible method to reduce soil micro-arthropods with negligible direct effects on soil C dynamics. Applied Soil Ecology. 2014;74:21 -29. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2013.09.008.
No effect of seed source on multiple aspects of ecosystem functioning during ecological restoration: cultivars compared to local ecotypes of dominant grasses. Evolutionary Applications. 2014;7:323 -335. doi:10.1111/eva.12124.
Ontogenetic shifts, habitat USE and community structure: how fishes use and influence protected tallgrass prairie streams. 2014;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18736.
. Plains harvest mice in tallgrass prairie: abundance, habitat association and individual attributes. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2014;117:167 -180. doi:10.1660/062.117.0302.
. Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology. 2014;95:808 -816. doi:10.1890/13-1828.1.
Plant-virus interactions and the agro-ecological interface. European Journal of Plant Pathology. 2014;138:529 -537. doi:10.1007/s10658-013-0317-1.
. Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:36 -44. doi:10.1111/jvs.12065.
. Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes. Ecology. 2014;95:2646 -2656. doi:10.1890/13-2186.1.
. Resource availability modulates above and belowground competitive interactions between genotypes of a dominant C4 grass. Functional Ecology. 2014;28:1041 -1051. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12227.
. Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2014;25:793 -804. doi:10.1111/jvs.12130.
Restoration ecology: introduction in a “timely” manner. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America. 2014;95:274 -280. doi:10.1890/0012-9623-95.3.274.
. The role of deer browsing on plant community development and ecosystem functioning during tallgrass prairie restoration. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1515/.
. Soil animal responses to moisture availability are largely scale, not ecosystem dependent: Insight from a cross-site study. Global Change Biology. 2014;20:2631 -2643. doi:10.1111/gcb.12522.
. Stomatal responses to changes in vapor pressure deficit reflect tissue-specific differences in hydraulic conductance. Plant, Cell and Environment. 2014;37:132 -139. doi:10.1111/pce.12137.
. Tallgrass prairie soil fungal communities are resilient to climate change. Fungal Ecology. 2014;10:44 -57. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2013.11.003.
. 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.
. Towards a mechanistic understanding of fish species niche divergence along a river continuum. Ecosphere. 2014;5:art41. doi:10.1890/ES13-00399.1.
. Unraveling the dark septate endophyte functions: insights from the Arabidopsis model. In: Advances in Endophytic Research. Advances in Endophytic Research. Springer-Verlag, Berlin; 2014:115 -141. doi:10.1007/978-81-322-1575-2_6.
. Visual display in Blanchard's cricket frogs (Acris blanchardi). The Southwestern Naturalist. 2014;59:409 -413. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1894/JMM-02.1.
. Woodland voles captured among sparse shrubs in native tallgrass prairie on Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas. Transactions of Kansas Academy of Science. 2014;117:76 -78. doi:https://doi.org/10.1660/062.117.0110.
. 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.
Adoption and utility of an Arabidopsis model to dissect endophyte symbioses. In: Endophytes in plant protection: the state of the art. Endophytes in plant protection: the state of the art. Braunschweig: Deutsche Phytomedizinische Gesellschaft; 2013:244 -247.
. Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales. Ecology. 2013;94:2334 -2345. doi:10.1890/12-2018.1.
Arabidopsis thaliana model system reveals a continuum of responses to root endophyte colonization. Fungal Biology. 2013;117:250 -260. doi:10.1016/j.funbio.2013.02.001.
. Blazing and grazing: influences of fire and bison on tallgrass prairie stream water quality. Freshwater Science. 2013;32:779 -791. doi:10.1899/12-118.1.
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