The 31st Annual Konza Prairie LTER Workshop

The 31st Annual Konza Prairie LTER Workshop will be held on May 28, 2024, at Prairie Biological Station in the Cortelyou Lecture Hall.

  1. Jesse Nippert (KSU, Konza LTER Principal Investigator) – Welcome
  2. Jesse Nippert (KSU) – Woody encroachment accelerates the local hydrological cycle
  3. Meghan Avolio (Johns Hopkins) – Woody and shrub removal in K20A
  4. Abu Raihan (KSU) – Effects of grazing and burning on stream water chemistry for tallgrass prairie watersheds
  5. Zak Ratajczak (KSU) – Can grazed tallgrass prairie still be resilient to shrub encroachment?
  6. Keith Gido (KSU) – Cascading effect of woody encroachment on prairie stream fish assemblages
  7. Greg Houseman (Wichita State University) – Using cattle grazing as a conservation tool on restored grasslands
  8. Andrew Hope (KSU) – New study on prairie edge effects for small mammals and update on Konza-based specimen resources
  9. Bess Bookout (KSU) – Bison wallows bolster diversity in tallgrass prairie
  10. Ari Jumpponen (KSU) – You build it, will they come? Microbiome restoration of agricultural land use legacy
  11. Francis Chaves Rodriguez (CSU) – Codominant species drives plant compensation response to the loss of the dominant species
  12. Zach Storc (KU) – Planting year climate influences plant community dissimilarity in restored tallgrass prairie
  13. Max Zaret (KSU) – From megaherbivores to microscopic: how the American Buffalo impacts microbial metacommunity dynamics
  14. Alan Knapp (CSU) – Solar arrays and grasslands: Are they compatible?
  15. Lauren Porensky (USDA-ARS) – Effects of fire, grazing, and altered precipitation on shrubs and invasive annual grasses in a grassland-shrubland ecotone?
  • List Posters:
  1. Rachael Brenneman (UNCG) – How do tallgrass prairie plant communities recovery after nitrogen cessation: following Nutrient Network, ChANGE, and PPlots
  2. Elsa Broemmelsiek (KSU) – Fire and Grazing Management Effects on Soil Nutrient Cycling
  3. Moupyali Chakravarty (KSU) – Illuminating the past: OSL dating unveils Kings Creek’s dynamic evolution and human impact
  4. Hannah Dea (KSU) – Precipitation, not land-use history, determines the composition of plantand soil-associated fungal communities along a steep precipitation gradient
  5. Carina Donne (CSU) – Assessing seed cultivar performance to inform restoration after extreme drought
  6. Tania Kim (KSU) – Grazing disturbance alters bee abundance but not alpha or beta diversity in tallgrass prairie
  7. Mary Colette Linabury (CSU) – ChANGE: Community and production after ten years of nitrogen addition
  8. Becky Miller (NEON) – Expanding community science by leveraging NEON research support
  9. Kalea Nippert (KSU) – Is extreme fire the key to reversing grassland loss due to woody encroachment? A test in the tallgrass prairie
  10. Patrick O’Neil (KSU) – KPBS invasive species management
  11. Millie Ortiz (UNCG) – Addressing the direct and indirect effects of fire on tallgrass prairie insect communities
  12. Levi Pruitt (KSU) – Understanding the impacts of woody encroachment on streamflow chemistry and quality
  13. Elijah Resuello (UNCG) – Investigating the effects of novel patch-burn method on invertebrate biodiversity in the Kansas grassland ecosystem
  14. Klara Stevermer (KSU) – Aquatic dynamics in bison wallows and ephemeral streams
  15. Rosalie Terry (UNCG) – What makes a grassland? A synthesis of 252 grassland sites determining grass and forb contribution to biomass and biodiversity in ungrazed and grazed grassland
  16. Ashley Wojciechowski (KU) – Environmental heterogeneity maintains plant diversity and community heterogeneity across experimental restoration prairie spatial scales
  17. Lydia Zeglin (KSU) – Soil type constrains grazing effects on microbial diversity and carbon and nitrogen cycling processes across the Great Plains