Journal Articles
In Press
Cox, C.M., W.W. Bockus, R.D. Holt, L. Fang, and K.A. Garrett (In Press). Spatial connectedness of plant species: potential links for apparent competition via plant diseases. Plant Pathology.
Koerner, S.E., S.L. Collins, J.M. Blair, A.K. Knapp, and M.D. Smith (In Press). Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science.
Reisinger, A.J., J.M. Blair, C.W. Rice, and W.K. Dodds (In Press). Woody vegetation removal stimulates riparian and benthic denitrification in tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems.
Zeglin, L.H., P.J. Bottomley, A. Jumpponen, C.W. Rice, M. Arango, A. Lindsley, A. McGowan, P. Mfombep, D.D. Myrold (In Press). Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales. Ecology.
2013
An, N., K.P. Price, and J.M. Blair. 2013. Estimating aboveground net primary productivity of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of the Central Great Plains using AVHRR NDVI. International Journal of Remote Sensing 34: 3717-3735.
Avolio, M., J. Beaulieu, and M.D. Smith. 2013. Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability. Oecologia 171: 571-581.
Cochran, F.V., N.A. Brunsell, and D.B. Mechem. 2013. Comparing surface and mid-tropospheric CO2 concentrations from central U.S. grasslands. entropy 15: 606-623.
Craine, J.M., E.G. Towne, D. Tolleson, and J.B. Nippert. 2013. Precipitation timing and grazer performance in a tallgrass prairie. Oikos 122: 191-198.
Craine, J.M., T.W. Ocheltree, J.B. Nippert, E.G. Towne, A.M. Skibbe, S.W. Kembel, and J.E. Fargione. 2013. Global diversity of drought tolerance and grassland climate-change resilience. Nature Climate Change 3: 63-67.
Joern, A. and A. Laws. 2013. Ecological mechanisms underlying arthropod species diversity in grasslands. Annual Review of Entomology 58: 19-36.
Larson, D.M., W.K. Dodds, K.E. Jackson, M.R. Whiles, and K.R. Winders. 2013. Ecosystem Characteristics of Remnant, Headwater Tallgrass Prairie Streams. Journal of Environmental Quality 42: 239-249.
McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, and B.K. Sandercock. 2013. Spatial heterogeneity in habitat selection: nest site selection by Greater Prairie-Chickens. Journal of Wildlife Management 77: 791-801.
Ungerer, M.C., C.A. Weitekamp, A. Joern, G. Towne, and J.M. Briggs. 2013. Genetic variation and mating success in managed American plains bison. Journal of Heredity 104: 182-191.
2012
Avolio, M.L., J. Beaulieu, E. Lo, and M.D. Smith. 2012. Measuring genetic diversity in ecological studies. Plant Ecology 213: 1105-1115.
Bach, E.M., S.G. Baer, and J. Six. 2012. Plant and soil responses to high and low diversity grassland restoration practices. Environmental Management 49: 412-424.
Carter, D., B. VanderWeide, and J.M. Blair. 2012. Drought-mediated stem and belowground bud dynamics in restored grasslands. Applied Vegetation Science 15: 470-478.
Carter, D.L. and J.M. Blair. 2012. Recovery of native plant community characteristics on a chronosequence of restored prairies seeded into pastures in West-Central Iowa. Restoration Ecology 20: 170-179.
Carter, D.L. and J.M. Blair. 2012. Seed source affects establishment and survival for three grassland species sown into reciprocal common gardens. Ecosphere 3: 102-.
Carter, D.L. and J.M. Blair. 2012. High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment, but have little effect on drought response. Ecological Applications 22: 1308-1319.
Chang, C.C. and M.D. Smith. 2012. Invasion of an intact plant community: the role of population vs. community level diversity. Oecologia 168: 1091-1102.
Collins, S.L. and L.B. Calabrese. 2012. Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science 23: 563-575.
Collins, S.L., S.E. Koerner, J.A. Plaut, J.G. Okie, D. Brese, L.B. Calabrese, A. Carvajal, R.J. Evanse, and E. Nonaka. 2012. Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional Ecology 26: 1450-1459.
Craine, J.M., E.G. Towne, T.W. Ocheltree, and J.B. Nippert. 2012. Community traitscape of foliar nitrogen isotopes reveals N availabiity patterns in a tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil 356: 395-403.
Craine, J.M., E.M. Wolkovich, and E.G. Towne. 2012. The roles of shifting and filtering in generating community-level flowering phenology. Ecography 35: 1033-1038.
Craine, J.M., E.M. Wolkovich, E.G. Towne, and S.W. Kembel. 2012. Flowering phenology as a functional trait in a tallgrass prairie. New Phytologist 193: 673-682.
Craine, J.M., J.B. Nippert, A.J. Elmore, A.M. Skibbe, S.L. Hutchinson, and N.A. Brunsell. 2012. The timing of climate variability and grassland productivity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109: 3401-3405.
Dodds, W.K., C.T. Robinson, E.E. Gaiser, G.J.A. Hansen, H. Powell, J.M. Smith, N.B. Morse, S.L. Johnson, S.V. Gregory, T. Bell, T.K. Kratz, and W.H. McDowell. 2012. Surprises and insights from long-term aquatic datasets and experiments. BioScience 62: 709-721.
Gibson, D.J., A.J. Alstadt, S.G. Baer, and M. Geisler. 2012. Effects of foundation species genotypic diversity on subordinate species richness in an assembling community. Oikos 121: 496-507.
Gough, L., K.L. Gross, E.E. Cleland, C.M. Clark, S.L. Collins, J.E. Fargione, S.C. Pennings, and K.N. Suding. 2012. Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition. Oecologia 169: 1053-1062.
Hamel, S., J.M. Craine, and E.G. Towne. 2012. Maternal allocation and offspring characteristics in Bison. Ecological Applications 22: 1628-1639.
Hartman J.C. and J.B. Nippert. 2012. Physiological and growth responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) in native stands under passive air temperature manipulation. Global Change Biology-Bioenergy : -.
Hartman, J.C., J.B. Nippert, and C.J. Springer. 2012. Ecotypic responses of switchgrass to altered precipitation. Functional Plant Biology 39: 126-136.
Hsu, J.S., J. Powell, and P.B. Adler. 2012. Sensitivity of mean annual primary production to precipitation. Global Change Biology 18: 2246-2255.
Jaeckle, W.B., M. Kiefer, B. Childs, R.G. Harper, J.W. Rivers, and B.D. Peer. 2012. Comparison of eggshell porosity and estimated gas flux between the brown-headed cowbird and two common hosts. Journal of Avian Biology 43: 486-490.
Jaffé, R., Y. Yamashita, N. Maie, W.T. Cooper, T. Dittmar, W.K. Dodds, J.B. Jones, T. Myoshi, J.R. Ortiz-Zayas, D.C. Podgorski, and A. Watanabe. 2012. Dissolved organic matter in headwater streams: compositional variability across climatic regions of North America. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 94: 95-108.
Kaufman, G.A., D.M. Kaufman, and D.W. Kaufman. 2012. Hispid pocket mice in tallgrass prairie: abundance, seasonal activity, habitat association, and individual attributes. Western North American Naturalist 72: 377-392.
Kaufman, G.A., R.S. Matlack, D.W. Kaufman, and J.J. Higgins. 2012. Multiple factors limit use of local sites by Elliot's short-tailed shrews (Blarina hylophaga) in tallgrass prairie. Canadian Journal of Zoology 90: 210-221.
Knapp, A.K., D.L. Hoover, J.M. Blair, G. Buis, D.E. Burkepile, A. Chamberlain , S.L. Collins, R.W.S. Fynn, K.P. Kirkman, M.D. Smith, D. Blake, N. Govender , P. O’Neal, T. Schreck, and A. Zinn. 2012. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology 5: 357-365.
Knapp, A.K., J.M. Briggs, and M.D. Smith. 2012. Community stability does not preclude ecosystem sensitivity to chronic resource alteration. Functional Ecology 26: 1231-1233.
Knapp, A.K., M.D. Smith, S.E. Hobbie, S.L. Collins, T.J. Fahey, G.J.A. Hansen, D.A. Landis, K.J. La Pierre, J.M. Melillo, T.R. Seastedt, G.R. Shaver, and J.R. Webster. 2012. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience 62: 377-389.
Laws, A. and A. Joern. 2012. Variable effects of dipteran parasitoids and management treatment on grasshopper fecundity in a tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research 102: 123-130.
Mandyam, K., C. Fox, and A. Jumpponen. 2012. Septate endophyte colonization and host responses of grasses and forbs native to a tallgrass prairie. Mycorrhiza 22: 109-119.
McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock. 2012. Demography of Greater Prairie-Chickens: regional variation in vital rates, sensitivity values, and population dynamics. Journal of Wildlife Management 76: 987-1000.
McNew, L.B., T.J. Prebyl, and B.K. Sandercock. 2012. Effects of rangeland management on the site occupancy dynamics of prairie-chickens in a protected prairie preserve. Journal of Wildlife Management 76: 38-47.
Nepal, M.P. and C.J. Ferguson. 2012. Phylogenetics of Morus (Moraceae) inferred from ITS and trnL-trnF sequence data. Systematic Botany 37: 442-450.
Nippert, J.B., R.A. Wieme, T.W. Ocheltree, and J.M Craine. 2012. Root characteristics of C-4 grasses limit reliance on deep soil water in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil 355: 385-394.
Ocheltree, T.W., J.B. Nippert, and P.V.V. Prasad. 2012. Changes in stomatal conductance along grass blades reflect changes in leaf structure. Plant Cell and Environment 35: 1040-1049.
Ott, J.P. and D.C. Hartnett. 2012. Contrasting bud bank dynamics of two co-occurring grasses in tallgrass prairie: implications for grassland dynamics. Plant Ecology 213: 1437-1448.
Ott, J.P. and D.C. Hartnett. 2012. Higher-order bud production increases tillering capacity in the perennial caespitose grass Scribner's Panicum (Dichanthelium oligosanthes). Botany 90: 884-890.
Petrie, M.D. and N.A. Brunsell. 2012. The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology 5: 337-345.
Petrie, M.D., N.A. Brunsell, and J.B. Nippert. 2012. Climate change alters growing season flux dynamics in mesic grasslands. Theoretical and Applied Climatology 107: 427-440.
Ratajczak, Z. and J.B. Nippert. 2012. Comment on "Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions". Science 336: 541-.
Ratajczak, Z., J.B. Nippert, and S.L. Collins. 2012. Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology 93: 697-703.
Reinhart, K.O., G.W.T. Wilson, and M.J. Rinella. 2012. Predicting plant responses to mycorrhizae: integrating evolutionary history and plant traits. Ecology Letters 15: 689-695.
Riley, A.J. and W.K. Dodds. 2012. The expansion of woody riparian vegetation, and subsequent stream restoration, influences the metabolism of prairie streams. Freshwater Biology 57: 1138-1150.
Rivers, J.W., S. Young, E.G. Gonzalez, B. Horton, J. Lock, and R.C. Fleischer. 2012. High levels of relatedness between Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater) nestmates in a heavily parasitized host community. The Auk 129: 623-631.
Robertson, G.P., S.L. Collins, D.R. Foster, N. Brokaw, H.W. Ducklow, T.L. Gragson, C. Gries, S.K. Hamilton, A.D. McGuire, J.C. Moore, E.H. Stanley, R.B. Waide, and M.W. Williams. 2012. Long-term ecological research in a human-dominated world. BioScience 62: 342-353.
Singer, C.L., N.M. Bello, and B.A. Snyder. 2012. Characterizing prevalence and ecological impact of non-native terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) in tallgrass prairie. Crustaceana 85: 1499-1511.
Tiemann, L.K. and S.A. Billings. 2012. Tracking C and N flows through microbial biomass with increased soil moisture variability. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 49: 11-22.
Tsypin, M. and G.L. Macpherson. 2012. The effect of precipitation events on inorganic carbon in soil and shallow groundwater, Konza Prairie LTER Site, NE Kansas, USA. Applied Geochemistry 27: 2356-2369.
Wheeler, D., B.J. Darby, T.C. Todd, and M.A. Herman. 2012. Several grassland soil nematodes species are insensitive to RNA-mediated interference. Journal of Nematology 44: 92-101.
Wilson, G.W.T., K.R. Hickman, and M.M. Williamson. 2012. Invasive warm-season grasses reduce mycorrhizal root colonization and biomass production of native prairie grasses. Mycorrhiza 22: 327-336.
Woods, T.M., J.L. Jonas, and C.J. Ferguson. 2012. The invasive Lespedeza cuneata attracts more insect pollinators than native congeners in tallgrass prairie with variable impacts. Biological Invasions 14: 1045-1059.
Book Sections
In Press
Peters D.P.C., B.T. Bestelmeyer, A.K. Knapp, J.E. Herrick, H.C. Monger, and K.M. Havstad. In Press. Approaches to predicting broad-scale regime shifts using changing pattern-process relationships across scales. Page -. In S. Miao, S. Carstenn, and M. Nungesser (eds.) Real World Ecology: Design and Analyses of Large-Scale and Long-Term Research. Springer-Verlag, NY.
2012
Baer, S.G., L. Heneghan, and V. Eviner. 2012. Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services. Page -. In D. Wall (eds.) Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services. Oxford University Press.
Behmer, S.T. and A. Joern. 2012. Insect herbivore outbreaks views through a physiological framework: insights from Orthoptera. Page -. In P. Barbosa, D. Letourneau, and A. Agrawaal (eds.) Insect Outbreaks Revisited. Academic Press, San Diego.
Miller, R.M., G.W.T. Wilson, and N.C. Johnson. 2012. Arbuscular Mycorrhizas and Grassland Ecosystems . Page 59-85. In D. Southwood (eds.) Biocomplexity of Plant-Fungal Interactions. Wiley-Blackwell. Oxford, UK.
Reports
2006
Hartnett, D.C. and F.H.M. Semazzi 2006. Enhancing collaborative research on the environment in sub-Saharan Africa. OISE National Science Foundation Report. 99 pp
Theses/Dissertations
2012
Avolio, M.L. 2012. Genetic diversity of Andropogon gerardii: Impacts of altered precipitation patterns on a dominant species. PhD Dissertation, Yale University. New Haven, CT. 258 pp.
Chang, C.C. 2012. Dimensions of diversity and their direct and indirect effects on tallgrass prairie ecosystem functioning. PhD Dissertation, Yale University. New Haven, CT. 165 pp.
Goad, R.K. 2012. Response of regional sources of tallgrass prairie species to variation in climate and soil microbial communities. MS Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.
Killian, P.D. 2012. Mechanisms driving woody encroachment in the tallgrass prairie: an analysis of fire behavior and physiological integration. MS Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 72 pp.
Nukala, L.A. 2012. An iPhone application of Konza Prairie LTER. MS Report, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 47 pp.
Ocheltree, T.W. 2012. Growth and survival during drought: The link between hydraulic architecture and drought tolerance in grasses. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 1117 pp.
Olstad, T.A. 2012. Zen of the Plains: discovering space, place, and self. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 276 pp.
Sousa, B.F. 2012. Ecology of mating patterns and sexual selection in dickcissels breeding in managed prairie. PhD Dissertation, University of Kentucky. Lexington, KY. 166 pp.
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