Konza LTER Publications
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.
. Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(12). doi:10.1111/gcb.15308.
Harmony on the prairie? Grassland plant and animal community responses to variation in climate across land‐use gradients. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02986. doi:10.1002/ecy.2986.
Impacts of ammonia volatilization from broadcast urea on winter wheat production. Agronomy Journal. 2020;112(51):3758 - 3772. doi:10.1002/agj2.v112.510.1002/agj2.20371.
. Longevity records show that Upland Sandpipers are long-lived birds. Wader Study. 2020;127(1):60 -64. doi:10.18194/ws.00177.
. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(3):855-864. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13330.
Meta-analysis reveals declines in terrestrial but increases in freshwater insect abundances. Science. 2020;368(6489):417-420. doi:10.1126/science.aax9931.
. Microanatomical traits track climate gradients for a dominant C4 grass species across the Great Plains, USA. Annals of Botany. 2020;mcaa146. doi:10.1093/aob/mcaa146.
. 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.
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.
. Nowhere to swim: interspecific responses of prairie stream fishes in isolated pools during severe drought. Aquatic Sciences. 2020;82(42). doi:10.1007/s00027-020-0716-2.
Nutrient addition increases grassland sensitivity to droughts. Ecology. 2020;101(5):e02981. doi:10.1002/ecy.2981.
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.
. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications. 2020;11(1):6036. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y.
Plant phylogenetic history explains in‐stream decomposition at a global scale. . Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(1):17-35. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13262.
Plant–microbial interactions facilitate grassland species coexistence at the community level. Oikos. 2020;129(4):533-543. doi:10.1111/oik.06609.
Populations of small mammals, tallgrass prairie and prescribed fire: A fire-reversal experiment. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123(1-2):1. doi:10.1660/062.123.0101.
. Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(2):658-668. doi:10.1111/gcb.14789.
. Rainfall‐manipulation experiments as simulated by terrestrial biosphere models: where do we stand?. Global Change Biology. 2020;26:3336–3355. doi:10.1111/gcb.15024.
Repeated fire shifts carbon and nitrogen cycling by changing plant inputs and soil decomposition across ecosystems. Ecological Monographs. 2020;90(4):e01409. doi:10.1002/ecm.1409.
Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2020;117(36):22249-22255. doi:10.1073/pnas.1922030117.
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.
. Social interactions do not drive territory aggregation in a grassland songbird. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02927. doi:10.1002/ecy.2927.
. 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.
Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014.
. Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models. Nature Communications. 2020;11(522). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-14411-z.
Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Oecologia. 2020;194:735–744.
Terabase metagenome sequencing of grassland soil microbiomes. Microbiology Resource Announcements. 2020;9(32):00718-20. doi:10.1128/MRA.00718-20.
Three decades of divergent land use and plant community change alters soil C and N content in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020;125(8):e2020JG005723. doi:10.1029/2020JG005723.
. Towards a new conceptual model for groundwater flow in merokarst systems: Insights from multiple geophysical approaches. Hydrology and Earth System Science. 2020;34(24):4697-4711. doi:10.1002/hyp.13898.
. Using path analysis to determine interacting effects of biotic and abiotic factors on patch-scale biogeochemical rates in a prairie stream. Aquatic Sciences. 2020;82(21). doi:10.1007/s00027-020-0702-8.
. Assessing precipitation, evapotranspiration, and NDVI as controls of U.S. Great Plains plant production. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02889. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2889.
Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems. 2019;22(7):1466–1477. doi:10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4.
Bringing Bayesian Models to Life. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press; 2019.
. Building an integrated infrastructure for exploring biodiversity: field collections and archives of mammals and parasites. Journal of Mammalogy. 2019;100(2):382 - 393. doi:10.1093/jmammal/gyz048.
Causes and consequences of avian within-season dispersal decisions in a dynamic grassland environment. Animal Behaviour. 2019;155:77 - 87. doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.06.009.
. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2019;48(6):1913-1917.
. Characterizing grassland fire activity in the Flint Hills region and air quality using satellite and routine surface monitor data. Science of The Total Environment. 2019;659:1555 - 1566. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.427.
. Climate affects plant-soil feedback of native and invasive grasses: negative feedbacks in stable but not in variable environments. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2019;7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2019.00419.
. The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2019;30(4):687 - 697. doi:10.1111/jvs.12750.
. Community Physiological Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 2019;34(6):510 - 518. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2019.02.002.
. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 2019;10(10):e02881. doi:10.1002/ecs2.2881.
Decadal-scale shifts in soil hydraulic properties induced by altered precipitation. Science Advances. 2019;5(9):eaau6635. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau6635.
. Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist. 2019;223(3):1106 - 1126. doi:10.1111/nph.15789.
. A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitation in grassland food webs. Ecology. 2019;7113:e02600. doi:10.1002/ecy.2600.
. Diversity patterns from sequentially restored grasslands support the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’. Oikos. 2019;128(8):1116 - 1122. doi:10.1111/oik.05877.
. Drivers, mechanisms, and thresholds of wood encroachment in mesic grasslands. Department of Biology. 2019;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40021.
. Drought suppresses soil predators and promotes root herbivores in mesic, but not in xeric grasslands. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2019;116(26):12883 - 12888. doi:10.1073/pnas.1900572116.
Dust, impure calcite, and phytoliths: modeled alternative sources of chemical weathering solutes in shallow groundwater. Chemical Geology. 2019;527(20):118871. doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.08.007.
. The ecology and significance of below-ground bud banks in plants. Annals of Botany. 2019;123(7):1099 - 1118. doi:10.1093/aob/mcz051.
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