Konza LTER Publications
Impact of El Nino on Konza Prairie Research Natural Area. In: El Nino & Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites. El Nino & Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Sites.; 1994:46 -47.
. Interannual variability in primary production in tallgrass prairie: climate, soil moisture, topographic position and fire as determinants of aboveground biomass. American Journal of Botany. 1995;82:1024 -1030. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2446232.
. Aboveground biomass in tallgrass prairie: effect of time since last fire. . 1994:165 -170. Available at: http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC13/reference/econatres.napc13.jbriggs.pdf.
. Expansion of woody plants in tallgrass prairie: a 15 year study of fire and fire-grazing interactions. The American Midland Naturalist. 2002;147:287 -294. doi:10.1674/0003-0031(2002)147[0287:EOWPIT]2.0.CO;2.
. Seasonal variation of heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie: a quantitative measure using remote sensing. Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing. 1991;57:407 -411.
. Spatial and temporal patterns of vegetation in the Flint Hills. Transactions Kansas Academy of Science. 1997;100:10 -20. doi:10.2307/3628435.
. A landscape perspective of patterns and processes in tallgrass prairie. In: Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998:265 -279.
. Effects of fire on tree spatial patterns in a tallgrass prairie landscape. Bulletin of Torrey Botanical Club. 1992;119:300 -307. doi:10.2307/2996761.
. . Rangeland responses to predicted increases in drought extremity. Rangelands . 2016;38:191-196. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.06.009.
. Effect of spring burning on the surface energy balance in a tallgrass prairie. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 1999;97:43 -54. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00034-9.
. Responses of soil respiration to clipping and grazing in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1998;27:1539 -1548. doi:10.2134/jeq1998.00472425002700060034x.
. Effect of burning and grazing on carbon and energy fluxes in a tallgrass prairie. 1998;PhD Dissertation:1 -129.
. Net carbon fluxes over burned and unburned native tallgrass prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2010;63:72 -81. doi:10.2111/REM-D-09-00010.1.
. Measurement and modeling of soil CO2 flux in a temperate grassland under mowed and burned regimes. Ecological Applications. 2002;12:1318 -1328. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1318:MAMOSC]2.0.CO;2.
. Decomposition of litter in Kansas bluestem prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 1980;83:33 -35. doi:10.2307/3627269.
. Sustainable management of insect herbivores in grassland ecosystems: new perspectives in grasshopper control. BioScience. 2006;56:743 -755. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2006)56[743:SMOIHI]2.0.CO;2.
. Comparative water relations of seedling and adult Quercus species during gallery forest expansion in tallgrass prairie. Forest Ecology and Management. 1993;56:29 -41. doi:10.1016/0378-1127(93)90101-R.
. The influence of host ecology and land cover change on rabies virus epidemiology in the Flint Hills. 2009;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1819.
. Road crossing designs and their impact on fish assemblages of Great Plains streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 2010;139:214 -222. doi:10.1577/T09-040.1.
. Taxon-dependent scaling: beetles, birds, and vegetation at four North American grassland sites. Landscape Ecology. 2005;20:675 -688. doi:10.1007/s10980-004-5651-4.
. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature. 2014;508(7497):517 - 520. doi:10.1038/nature13144.
Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications. 2020;11(1):6036. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y.
More salt, please: global patterns, responses and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands. Ecology Letters. 2019;22(7):1136 - 1144. doi:10.1111/ele.13270.
Influence of fishes on stream invertebrate community structure and insect emergence from permanent pools in a prairie stream network. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2348/.
. Bobolinks (Dolichonyx oryzivorus) nesting at Konza Prairie Biological Station, Riley County, Kansas. Bulletin of the Kansas Ornithological Society. 2008;59:21 -23.
. Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2020;31(5):899-907. doi:10.1111/jvs.12910.
. The role of disturbance in Great Plains grassland community dynamics. 2024;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=47590.
. Rhizosphere nitrogen fixation (C2H2 reduction) associated with the major species of the tallgrass prairie. 1984;MS Thesis:1 -58.
. Historical processes and landscape context influence genetic structure in peripheral populations of the collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris). Landscape Ecology. 2011;26:1125 -1136. doi:10.1007/s10980-011-9631-1.
. Influence of landscape context on patterns of occupancy, abundance, and gene flow among collared lizards in the Flint Hills of Kansas. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/3911.
. Landscape context matters: local habitat and landscape effects on the abundance and patch occupancy of collared lizards in managed grasslands. Landscape Ecology. 2011;26:837 -850. doi:10.1007/s10980-011-9612-4.
. Silica biogeochemistry across a grassland climosequence. 2005;PhD Dissertation:1 -142. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/305013436/?pq-origsite=primo.
. Biologic cycling of silica across a grassland bioclimosequence. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 2006;20. doi:10.1029/2006GB002690.
. Effects of sexual dimorphism and landscape composition on the trophic behavior of Greater Prairie-Chickens. PLoS ONE. 2013;8:79986 -. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0079986.
. Fire, N availability and plant response in grasslands: A test of the transient maxima hypothesis. Ecology. 1997;78:2559 - 2368. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2359:FNAAPR]2.0.CO;2.
. Influences of earthworms on biogeochemistry. In: Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America. Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America. CRC Press Inc. Lewis Publishers; 1995:125 -156.
. Ecosystems as functional units in nature. Natural Resources and Environment. 2000;14:150 -155.
. Grassland Ecology. In: Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment.Vol 8. Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2014:389-423.
. Responses of grassland soil invertebrates to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In: Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems. Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems. New York, NY: CAB International Press; 2000:43 -71. doi:10.1079/9780851993942.0043.
. Terrestrial nutrient cycling in tallgrass prairie. In: Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research. Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998:222 -243.
. Soil invertebrates as indicators of soil quality. In: Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. SSSA Special Publication. Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. SSSA Special Publication. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America Inc; 1996:283 -301.
. Restored prairie response to reduction in ectophagous insects. 2017; MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2331/.
. Studies of the prairie vole (Micotus ochrogaster) in ungrazed tallgrass prairie of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area. 1990;MS Thesis:1 -60.
. Prairie voles occur at low density in ungrazed tallgrass prairie in eastern Kansas. The Prairie Naturalist. 1995;27:33 -40.
. Local distribution of prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) on Konza Prairie: effect of topographic position. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 1995;98:61 -67. doi:10.2307/3628079.
. Lands for long-term research in conservation biology. Conservation Biology. 1990;4:301 -308. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1990.tb00292.x.
. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains. PLOS ONE. 2017;(5):e0178440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178440.
How do extra nutrients affect the timing of flowering in prairies. Environmental Science Journal for Teens. 2017;(September, 2017). Available at: http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/flowers_article.pdf.
Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02981. doi:10.1002/ecy.2981.