Konza LTER Publications
Experimental drought re‐ordered assemblages of root‐associated fungi across North American grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 2021;109(2):776 - 792. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13505.
Fate of CO2 in tallgrass prairie watershed underlain by merokarst bedrock, Konza Prairie, Kansas, USA. Department of Geology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41486.
. Fire and browsing interact to alter intra-clonal stem dynamics of an encroaching shrub in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2021;196(43):1039 - 1048. doi:10.1007/s00442-021-04980-1.
. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters. 2021;24(4):636-647. doi:10.1111/ele.13676.
. Fire history as a key determinant of grassland soil CO2 flux. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:579–592. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04781-0.
. How and why plant ionomes vary across North American grasslands and its implications for herbivore abundance. Ecology. 2021;102(10):e03459. doi:10.1002/ecy.3459.
. How long do population level field experiments need to be? Utilising data from the 40‐year‐old LTER network. . Ecology Letters. 2021;24(5):1103 - 1111. doi:10.1111/ele.v24.510.1111/ele.13710.
. Impacts of compound precipitation extremes on belowground dynamics in a mesic grassland. Colorado State University. 2021;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/234322.
. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology. 2021;102(2):e03218. doi:10.1002/ecy.3218.
Lateral bedrock erosion and valley formation in a heterogeneously layered landscape, Northeast Kansas. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms. 2021. doi:10.1002/esp.5172.
. Mechanisms influencing physically sequestered soil carbon in temperate restored grasslands in South Africa and North America. Biogeochemistry. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10533-021-00774-y.
. A multi-locus perspective reveals connections between island biogeography and evolutionary history of an endangered shrew (Sorex pribilofensis). Division of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41548.
. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2021;118(28):e2023718118. doi:10.1073/pnas.2023718118.
Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. Climate Change Ecology. 2021;2:100025. doi:10.1016/j.ecochg.2021.100025.
Plant diversity and litter accumulation mediate the loss of foliar endophyte fungal richness following nutrient addition. Ecology. 2021;102(1):e03210. doi:10.1002/ecy.3210.
. Plant legacies and soil microbial community dynamics control soil respiration. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2021;160:108350. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2021.108350.
. Precipitation manipulation and terrestrial carbon cycling: The roles of treatment magnitude, experimental duration and local climate. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2021;30(9):1909 - 1921. doi:10.1111/geb.13356.
Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change. Global Change Biology. 2021;27(6):1127 - 1140. doi:10.1111/gcb.15480.
. Is a prescribed fire sufficient to slow the spread of woody plants in an infrequently burned grassland? A case study in tallgrass prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2021;78:79 - 89. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2021.05.007.
. Regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia) sex ratio in tallgrass prairie: Effects of survey timing and management regime. The American Midland Naturalist. 2021;185(1):57 - 76. doi:10.1674/0003-0031-185.1.57.
. Resources do not limit compensatory response of a tallgrass prairie plant community to the loss of a dominant species. Journal of Ecology. 2021;109(10):3617-3633. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.13741.
. RivFishTIME: A global database of fish time‐series to study global change ecology in riverine systems. . Global Ecology and Biogeography. 2021;30(1):38 - 50. doi:10.1111/geb.13210.
Seasonal changes in GPP/SIF ratios and their climatic determinants across the Northern Hemisphere. Global Change Biology. 2021;27(20):5186 - 5197. doi:10.1111/gcb.15775.
SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data. 2021;13(5):1843 - 1854. doi:10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021.
Sodium addition increases leaf herbivory and fungal damage across four grasslands. Functional Ecology. 2021;35(6):1212-1221. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13796.
. Soil fungal communities are compositionally resistant to drought manipulations – Evidence from culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses. Fungal Ecology. 2021;51:101062. doi:10.1016/j.funeco.2021.101062.
. Spatial variation in soil microbial processes as a result of woody encroachment depends on shrub size in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:359 - 373. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04813-9.
. Spatio-temporal differences in leaf physiology are associated with fire, not drought, in a clonally integrated shrub. . AoB PLANTS. 2021;13(4):plab037. doi:10.1093/aobpla/plab037.
. Species loss due to nutrient addition increases with spatial scale in global grasslands. . Ecology Letters. 2021;24(10):2100 - 2112. doi:10.1111/ele.v24.1010.1111/ele.13838.
State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere. 2021;12(5):e03433. doi:10.1002/ecs2.v12.510.1002/ecs2.3433.
Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2021;5:589–591. doi:10.1038/s41559-021-01424-0.
A study of grass structure and function in response to drought and grazing. Department of Biology. 2021;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41514.
. Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda. Earth's Future. 2021;9(3):e2020EF001631. doi:10.1029/2020EF001631.
Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. 2021;102(11). doi:10.1002/ecy.3504.
Tracking nutrients in space and time: Interactions between grazing lawns and drought drive abundances of tallgrass prairie grasshoppers. Ecology and Evolution. 2021;11(10):5413-5423. doi:10.1002/ece3.7435.
. Watershed and fire severity are stronger determinants of soil chemistry and microbiomes than within-watershed woody encroachment in a tallgrass prairie system. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2021;97(12):fiab154. doi:10.1093/femsec/fiab154.
. Why coordinated distributed experiments should go global. BioScience. 2021;71(9):918 - 927. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab033.
Asymmetric responses of ecosystem productivity to rainfall anomalies vary inversely with mean annual rainfall over the conterminous U.S. Global Change Biology. 2020;26(12):6959-6973. doi:10.1111/gcb.15345.
Biomass loss and change in species dominance shift stream community excretion stoichiometry during severe drought. Freshwater Biology. 2020;65(3):403-416. doi:10.1111/fwb.13433.
Body size structure of soil fauna along geographic and temporal gradients of precipitation in grasslands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2020;140:107638. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.107638.
Bottom‐up when it is not top‐down: Predators and plants control biomass of grassland arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology. 2020;89(5). doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13191.
. Bridging the flux gap: Sap flow measurements reveal species‐specific patterns of water use in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 2020;125(2):e2019JG005446. doi:10.1029/2019JG005446.
. Browsing and fire decreases dominance of a resprouting shrub in woody encroached grassland. Ecology. 2020;101(2):e02935. doi:10.1002/ecy.2935.
. Communities of small mammals, tallgrass prairie, and prescribed fire: a fire-reversal experiment. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2020;123:31 - 49. Available at: https://bioone.org/journals/Transactions-of-the-Kansas-Academy-of-Science/volume-123/issue-1-2/062.123.0103/Communities-of-Small-Mammals-Tallgrass-Prairie-and-Prescribed-Fire/10.1660/062.123.0103.short.
. Connections and feedback: Aquatic, plant, and soil microbiomes in heterogeneous and changing environments. BioScience. 2020;70(7):548 - 562. doi:10.1093/biosci/biaa046.
Dispersal drives changes in fish community abundance in intermittent stream networks. River Research and Applications. 2020;36(5):797-806. doi:10.1002/rra.3599.
. Does riparian fencing protect stream water quality in cattle-grazed lands?. Environmental Management. 2020;66(1):121 - 135. doi:10.1007/s00267-020-01297-2.
. Ecto- and endoparasitic nematodes respond differently across sites to changes in precipitation. Oecologia. 2020;193(3Suppl 1):761 - 771. doi:10.1007/s00442-020-04708-7.
Effect of land use and land use management on methane oxidation. Department of Agronomy. 2020;MS Thesis. Available at: https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40327.
. Effects of plant-soil interactions on grassland carbon dynamics in a changing world. Department of Biology. 2020;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2427237261?pq-origsite=summon.
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