Konza LTER Publications
Feedback loops in ecological hierarchies following urine deposition in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2001;82:1319 -1329. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2001)082[1319:FLIEHF]2.0.CO;2.
. Prairie ecology-the tallgrass prairie. In: Prairie Conservation-Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem. Prairie Conservation-Preserving North America's Most Endangered Ecosystem. Washington, DC: Island Press; 1996:39 -52. Available at: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ZlHRjU2EDLQC&oi=fnd&pg=PA39&dq=%22Prairie%2Becology-the%2Btallgrass%2Bprairie%22+Steinauer&ots=7TE04D0yxT&sig=B4UaGusICyHJqjiwWNTFkCdrE_0#v=onepage&q=%22Prairie%2Becology-the%2Btallgrass%2Bprairie%22%20Steinauer.
. Weather effects on winter birds: the response of a Kansas winter bird community to weather, photoperiod, and year. Wilson Bulletin. 1999;111:550 -558.
. How fox squirrels influence the invasion of prairies by nut-bearing trees. Journal of Mammalogy. 1986;67:326 -332. doi:10.2307/1380886 .
. 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.
. Macroinvertebrate production and trophic structure in a tallgrass prairie headwater stream. Journal of the North American Benthological Society. 2002;21:97 -113. doi:10.2307/1468303.
. Life history and production of the riffle beetle, Stenelmis crenata (Say) (Elmidae), in a tallgrass prairie stream. Aquatic Insects. 2008;30:197 -204. doi:10.1080/01650420802331141.
. Aquatic invertebrate and fish communities of tallgrass prairie headwater streams: Bioindicators, secondary production and bioenergetics. 2001;MS Thesis:1 -114.
. Bud bank density regulates invasion by exotic plants. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/11244/9198.
. Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits. Ecology. 2010;91:1651 -1659. doi:10.1890/09-0431.1.
Root distributions, precipitation, and soil structure converge to govern soil organic carbon depth distributions. Geoderma. 2023;437:116569. doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2023.116569.
Ecology of mating patterns and sexual selection in dickcissels breeding in managed prairie. 2012;PhD Dissertation:1 -166. Available at: http://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_etds/17/.
. Design and effectiveness of a novel trap for capturing nesting songbirds. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2011;82:425 -429. doi:10.1111/j.1557-9263.2011.00346.x.
. Positive association between social and extra-pair mating in a polygynous songbird, the dickcissel (Spiza americana). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. 2013;67(2):243 - 255. doi:10.1007/s00265-012-1444-y.
. Variance in mating success does not produce strong sexual selection in a polygynous songbird. Behavioral Ecology. 2013;24(6):1381 - 1389. doi:10.1093/beheco/art077.
. Microbial ecology and denitrification in tallgrass prairie and cultivated soils. 1996;PhD Dissertation:1 -310.
. Denitrification in soil profiles beneath grassland and cultivated soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1996;60:1822 -1828. doi:10.2136/sssaj1996.03615995006000060030x.
. Soil air carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide concentrations in profiles under tallgrass prairie and cultivation. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1999;28:784 -793. doi:10.2134/jeq1999.00472425002800030008x.
. 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.
. Annual burning of a tallgrass prairie inhibits C and N cycling in soil, increasing recalcitrant pyrogenic organic matter storage while reducing N availability. Global Change Biology. 2015;21:2321 -2333. doi:10.1111/gcb.12832.
. Continental-scale decrease in net primary productivity in streams due to climate warming. Nature Geoscience. 2018;11(6):415 - 420. doi:10.1038/s41561-018-0125-5.
Simulating the surface energy budget over the Konza Prairie with a mesoscale model. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 1997;87:105 -118. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(97)00023-3.
. Methods of approximation influence aquatic ecosystem metabolism estimates. Limnology and Oceanography: Methods. 2016;14(9):557 - 569. doi:10.1002/lom3.10112.
. Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America. Ecology. 2024;105(2):e4220. doi:10.1002/ecy.4220.
Phenological influences on the albedo of prairie grassland and crop fields. International Journal of Biometeorology. 1999;42:153 -157. doi:10.1007/s004840050099.
. Validation of a field-ready handheld meter for plasma β-hydroxybutyrate analysis. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2017;88(4):399 - 404. doi:10.1111/jofo.2017.88.issue-410.1111/jofo.12233.
. Expansion of Juniperus in the Great Plains: Changes in soil organic carbon dynamics. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 2003;17:1062 -. doi:10.1029/2002GB001990.
. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 2020;108(3):855-864. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13330.
Physiological and morphological traits of exotic, invasive exotic, and native plant species in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2001;162:785 -792. doi:10.1086/320774.
. Winter population dynamics of three species of mast-eating birds in the eastern United States. The Wilson Bulletin. 1986;98:407 -418. doi:http://www.jstor.org/stable/4162267.
. Interacting influence of mycorrhizal symbiosis and competition on plant diversity in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 1999;121:574 -582. doi:10.1007/s004420050964.
. Changes in soil carbon dynamics during juniper expansion into tallgrass prairie. 2001;PhD Dissertation:1 -137.
. Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2017;28(2):235 - 237. doi:10.1111/jvs.12524.
. Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). In: Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.; 2014:811-922. Available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/agriculture-forestry-and-other-land-use-afolu/.
Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation. Scientific Reports. 2016;6:25522. doi:10.1038/srep25522.
. Species, season, and density of buried seeds surviving fox squirrel depredation. Prairie Naturalist. 2001;33:197 -208.
. Leaf litter processing and the associated invertebrate fauna in a tallgrass prairie stream. The American Midland Naturalist. 1986;116:78 -86. doi:10.2307/2425939.
. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2024;121(4):e230988112. doi:10.1073/pnas.2309881120.
Exotic plant species in a C4-dominated grassland: Invasibility, disturbance and community structure. Oecologia. 1999;120:605 -612. doi:10.1007/s004420050896.
. Direct and indirect drivers of grassland bird population declines and settlement decisions over broad spatial and temporal scales. Department of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41480.
. Dominance not diversity determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2004;106:253 -262. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.13057.x.
. A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change. Ecology. 2009;90:3279 -3289. doi:10.1890/08-1815.1.
. Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw077.
Geomorphology and geomorphic history of the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Riley and Geary Counties, Kansas. 1991;MS Thesis:1 -121.
. The evolution of reproduction in trees: Its effect on squirrel ecology and behavior. In: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Tree Squirrels. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology of Tree Squirrels. Virginia Museum of Natural History; 1998:203 -210.
. Causes and consequences of species invasion and loss: the role of dominant species and diversity in maintaining ecosystem function. 2002;PhD Dissertation:1 -148.
. Vegetation-mediated changes in microclimate reduce soil respiration as woodlands expand into grasslands. Ecology. 2004;85:3348 -3361. doi:10.1890/03-0576.
. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. doi:10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9.
Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non-random species loss. Ecology Letters. 2003;6:509 -517. doi:10.1046/j.1461-0248.2003.00454.x.
. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. doi:10.1111/gcb.13666.
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