Journal Articles
In Press
Carter, D.L. and J.M. Blair (In Press). High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment, but have little effect on drought response. Ecological Applications.
Collins, S.L. and L.B. Calabrese (In Press). Effects of fire, grazing and topography on vegetation dynamics in native tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science.
Collins, S.L., S.E. Koerner, J.A. Plaut, J.G. Okie, D. Brese, L.B. Calabrese, A. Carvajal, R.J. Evansen and E. Nonaka (In Press). Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation. Functional Ecology.
Craine, J.M., E.G. Towne, D. Tolleson, and J.B. Nippert (In Press). Precipitation timing and grazer performance in a tallgrass prairie. Oikos.
Craine, J.M., E.G. Towne, T.W. Ocheltree, and J.B. Nippert (In Press). Community traitscape of foliar carbon and nitrogen isotopes in a North American tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil.
Craine, J.M., E.M. Wolkovich, and E.G. Towne (In Press). Comparison of flowering phenology among three grasslands. Ecography.
Hamel, S., J.M. Craine, and E.G. Towne (In Press). Maternal allocation and offspring characteristics in Bison. Ecological Applications.
Kaufman, G.A., D.M. Kaufman, and D.W. Kaufman (In Press). Hispid pocket mice in tallgrass prairie: abundance, seasonal activity, habitat association, and individual attributes. Western North American Naturalist.
Nepal, M.P. and C.J. Ferguson (In Press). Phylogenetics of Morus (Moraceae) inferred from ITS and trnL-trnF sequence data. Systematic Botany.
Petrie, M.D. and N.A. Brunsell (In Press). The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology.
Ramirez, K., J. M. Craine, and N. Fierer (In Press). Consistent effects of nitrogen amendments on soil microbial communities and processes across biomes. Global Change Biology.
Ratajczak, Z. and J.B. Nippert (In Press). Comment on "Global Resilience of Tropical Forest and Savanna to Critical Transitions". Science.
Ratajczak, Z., J.B. Nippert, and S.L. Collins (In Press). Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas. Ecology.
2012
Moyano, F., N. Vasilyeva, L. Bouckaert, F. Cook, J. Craine, J. Curiel-Yuste, A. Don, D. Epron, P. Formanek, A. Franzluebbers, U. Ilstedt, T. Kätterer, V. Orchard, M. Reichstein, A. Rey, L. Ruamps, J.-A. Subke, I. Thomsen, and C. Chenu. 2012. The moisture response of soil heterotrophic respiration: interaction with soil properties. Biogeosciences 9: 1173-1182.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2011
Augustine, J.K., J.J. Millspaugh, and B.K. Sandercock. 2011. Testosterone mediates mating success in Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39: 195-208.
Adler, P.B., E.W. Seabloom, E.T. Borer, and others. 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science 333: 1750-1753.
Augustine, J.K. and B.K. Sandercock. 2011. Demography of female Greater Prairie-Chickens in unfragmented grasslands in Kansas. Avian Conservation and Ecology-Ecologie et Conservation des Oiseaux 6: -.
Avolio, M.L., C.C. Chang, and M.D. Smith. 2011. Assessing fine-scale genotypic structure of a dominant species in native grasslands. The American Midland Naturalist 165: 211-224.
Bach, E.M, S.G. Baer, C.K. Meyer, and J. Six. 2011. Soil texture affects microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 42: 2182-2191.
Barger, N.N., S.R. Archer, J.L. Campbell, C. Huang, J.A. Morton, and A.K. Knapp. 2011. Woody plant proliferation in North American drylands: A synthesis of impacts on ecosystem carbon balance. Journal of Geophysical Research 116: -.
Beaulieu, J.K., J.L. Tank, S.K. Hamilton, W.M. Wollheim, R.O. Hall Jr., P.J. Mulholland, B.J. Peterson, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, C.N. Dahm, W.K. Dodds, N.B. Grimm, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, G.C. Poole, H.M. Valett, C.P. Arango, M.J. Bernot, A.J. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, A.M. Helton, L. Johnson, J.M. O'Brien, J.D. Potter, R.W. Sheibley, D.J. Sobota, and S.M. Thomas. 2011. Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108: 214-219.
Blevins, E. and K.A. With. 2011. Landscape context matters: local vs. landscape effects on abundance and patch occupancy of collared lizards in managed grasslands. Landscape Ecology 26: 837-850.
Blevins, E., S.M. Wisely, and K.A. With. 2011. Historical processes and landscape context influence genetic structure in peripheral populations of the collared lizard (Crotaphytus collaris). Landscape Ecology 26: 1125-1136.
Brunsell, N.A., J.M. Ham, and K.A. Arnold. 2011. Validating remotely sensed land surface fluxes in heterogeneous terrain with large aperture scintillometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing 32: 6295-6314.
Casey, A.E., B.K. Sandercock, and S.M. Wisely. 2011. Genetic parentage and local population structure in the socially monogamous Upland Sandpiper. Condor 113: 119-128.
Chancellor, L.V., T.C. Roth, L.D. LaDage, and V.V. Pravosudov. 2011. The effect of environmental harshness on neurogenesis: a large-scale comparison. Developmental Neurobiology 71: 246-252.
Cleland, E.E., C.M. Clark, S.L. Collins, J.E. Fargione, L. Gough, K.L. Gross, S.C. Pennings, and K.N. Suding. 2011. Native and exotic species have different suites of traits: Evidence from a synthesis of nitrogen fertilization experiments. Journal of Ecology 99: 1327-1338.
Collins, S.L., S.R. Carpenter, S.M. Swinton, D.E. Orenstein, D.L. Childers, T.L. Gragson, N.B. Grimm, J.M. Grove, S.L. Harlan, J.P. Kaye, A.K. Knapp, G.P. Kofinas, J.J. Magnuson, W.H. McDowell, J.M. Melack, L.A. Ogden, G.R. Robertson, M.D. Smith, A.C. Whitmer. 2011. An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 351-357.
Cordova, C.E., W.C. Johnson, R.D. Mandel, and M.W. Palmer. 2011. Late Quaternary environmental change inferred from phytoliths and other soil-related proxies: case studies from the central and southern Great Plains. Catena 85: 87-108.
Craine, J.M. and T.M. Gelderman. 2011. Soil moisture controls on temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 43: 455-457.
Craine, J.M., J.B. Nippert, E.G. Towne, S. Tucker, S.W. Kembel, A. Skibbe, and K.K. McLauchlan. 2011. Functional consequences of climate-change induced plant species loss in a tallgrass prairie. Oecologia 165: 1109-1117.
Fay, P.A., J.M. Blair, M.D. Smith, J.B. Nippert, J.D. Carlisle, and A.K. Knapp. 2011. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences 8: 3053-3068.
Findlay, S., P. Mulholland, S. Hamilton, J. Tank, M. Bernot, A. Burgin, C. Crenshaw, W. Dodds, N. Grimm, W. McDowell, J. Potter, and D. Sobota. 2011. Cross-stream comparison of substrate-specific denitrification potential. Biogeochemistry 104: 381-392.
Firn, J., J.L. Moore, A.S. MacDougall, E.T. Borer, E.W. Seabloom, J. HilleRisLambers, W.S. Harpole, E.E. Cleland, C.S. Brown, J.M.H. Knops, S.M. Prober, D.A. Pyke, K.A. Farrell, J.D. Bakker, L.R. O’Halloran, P.B. Adler, S.L. Collins, C.M. D’Antonio, M.J. Crawley, E.M. Wolkovich, K.J. La Pierre, B.A. Melbourne, Y. Hautier, J.W. Morgan, A.D.B. Leakey, A. Kay, R. McCulley, K. Davies, C.J. Stevens, C.-J. Chu, K.D. Holl, J.A. Klein, P.A. Fay, N. Hagenah, K. P. Kirkman and Y.M. Buckley. 2011. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in temperate grasslands. Ecology Letters 14: 274-281.
Garrett, K.A., G.A. Forbes, S. Savary, P. Skelsey, A.H. Sparks, C. Valdivia, A.H.C. van Bruggen, L. Willocquet, A. Djurle, E. Duveiller, H. Eckersten, S. Pande, C. Vera Cruz, and J. Yuen. 2011. Complexity in climate change impacts: An analytical framework for effects mediated by plant disease. Plant Pathology 60: 15-30.
Gregory, A.J., L.B. McNew, T.J. Prebyl, B.K. Sandercock, and S.M. Wisely. 2011. Hierarchical modeling of lek habitats of Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39: 21-32.
Hajny, K.M., D.C. Hartnett, and G.W.T. Wilson. 2011. Rhus glabra response to season and intensity of fire in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Wildland Fire 20: 709-720.
Helton, A.M., G.C. Poole, J.L. Meyer, W.M. Wollheim, B.J. Peterson, P.J. Mulholland, E.S. Bernhardt, J.A. Stanford, C. Arango, L.R. Ashkenas, L.W. Cooper, W.K. Dodds, S.V. Gregory, R. O’Hall, S.K. Hamilton, S.L. Johnson, W.H. McDowell, J.D. Potter, J.L. Tank, S.M. Thomas, H.M. Valett, J.R. Webster, and L. Zeglin. 2011. Thinking outside the channel: modeling nitrogen cycling in networked river ecosystems. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 9: 229-238.
Jumpponen, A.. 2011. Analysis of ribosomal RNA indicates seasonal fungal community dynamics in Andropogon gerardii roots. Mycorrhiza 21: 453-464.
Kaufman, D.W. and G.A. Kaufman. 2011. Observation of porcupine in Geary County, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114: 142-143.
Kaufman, D.W., D.M. Kaufman, and G.A. Kaufman. 2011. Abundance and spatiotemporal distribution of the non-native house mouse in native tallgrass prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114: 217-230.
Kaufman, G.A. and D.W. Kaufman. 2011. The least shrew on Konza Prairie Biological Station, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 114: 47-58.
Kaufman, G.A., D.M. Kaufman, and D.W. Kaufman. 2011. Treated versus new traps: does chronic applications of disinfectant to live traps reduce trappability of rodents?. Southwestern Naturalist 56: 224-230.
Klopf, R.P. and S.G. Baer. 2011. Root dynamics of cultivar and non-cultivar population sources of three dominant grasses during initial establishment of tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology 19: 112-117.
Klug, P.E., S.M. Wisely, and K.A. With. 2011. Population genetic structure and landscape connectivity of the Eastern Yellowbelly Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) in the tallgrass prairie of northeastern Kansas, USA. Landscape Ecology 26: 281-294.
Kohler, T.J., J.N. Justin, N. Murdock, K.B. Gido, and W.K. Dodds. 2011. Nutrient loading and grazing by the minnow Phoxinus erythrogaster shift periphyton abundance and stoichiometry in experimental streams. Freshwater Biology 56: 1133-1146.
Lambert, A.M., S.G. Baer, and D.J. Gibson. 2011. Intraspecific variation in ecophysiology of three dominant prairie grasses used in restoration: cultivar vs. non-cultivar population sources. Restoration Ecology 19: 43-52.
LaPierre, K.J., S.H. Yuan, C.C. Chang, M.L. Avolio, L.M. Hallett, T. Schreck, and M.D. Smith. 2011. Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering. Journal of Ecology 99: 1250-1262.
Laws, A. and A. Joern. 2011. Grasshopper fecundity responses to grazing and fire in a tallgrass prairie. Environmental Entomology 40: 979-988.
McCain, K.N.S., G.W.T. Wilson, and J.M. Blair. 2011. Mycorrhizal suppression alters plant productivity and forb establishment in a grass-dominated prairie restoration. Plant Ecology 212: 1675-1685.
McLauchlan, K.K., C.S. Barnes, and J.M. Craine. 2011. Interannual variability of pollen productivity and transport in mid-North America from 1997-2009. Aerobiologia 27: 181-189.
McMillan, B.R., K.A. Pfeiffer, and D.W. Kaufman. 2011. Vegetation responses to an animal-generated disturbance (bison wallows) in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist 165: 60-73.
McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock. 2011. Reproductive biology of a southern population of Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39: 209-221.
McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock. 2011. Human-mediated selection on life-history traits of Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology 39: 255-266.
McNew, L.B., T.J. Prebyl, and B.K. Sandercock. 2011. Effects of rangeland management on the site occupancy dynamics of prairie-chickens in a protected prairie preserve. Journal of Wildlife Management 9999: 1-10.
Mora, M.A., B. Brattin, C. Baxter, and J.W. Rivers. 2011. Regional and interspecific variation in Sr, Ca, and Sr/Ca ratios in avian eggshells from the USA. Ecotoxicology 20: 1467-1475.
Murdock, J.N., W.K. Dodds, K.B. Gido, and M.R. Whiles. 2011. Dynamic influences of nutrients and grazing fish on periphyton during recovery from flood. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30: 331-345.
N’Guessan, M. and D.C. Hartnett. 2011. Differential responses to defoliation frequency in Little Bluestem (Shizachyrium scoparium) in tallgrass prairie: Implications for herbivory tolerance and avoidance. Plant Ecology 212: 1275-1285.
Nippert, J.B., T.W. Ocheltree, A.M.Skibbe, L.C. Kangas, J.M. Ham, K.B. Shonkwiler Arnold, and N.A. Brunsell. 2011. Linking plant growth responses across topographic gradients in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia 166: 1131-1142.
Ott, J.P. and D.C. Hartnett. 2011. Bud production and dynamics of flowering and vegetative tillers of the perennial grass Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae): the role of developmental constraints. American Journal of Botany 98: 1293-1298.
Ratajczak, Z., J.B. Nippert, J.C. Hartman, and T.W. Ocheltree. 2011. Positive feedbacks amplify rates of woody encroachment in mesic tallgrass prairie. Ecosphere 2: -.
Reisinger, A.J., D.L. Presuma, K.B. Gido, and W.K. Dodds. 2011. Direct and indirect effects of central stoneroller (Campostomaanomalum) on mesocosm recovery following a flood: can macroconsumers affect denitrification?. Journal of the North American Benthological Society 30: 840-852.
Rouse, M.N., A.A. Saleh, A. Seck, K.H. Keeler, S.E. Travers, S.H. Hulbert, and K.A. Garrett. 2011. Genomic and resistance gene homolog diversity of the dominant tallgrass prairie species across the U.S. Great Plains precipitation gradient. PLoS ONE 6:e17641: -.
Sousa, B.F. and S.L.M. Stewart. 2011. Design and effectiveness of a novel trap for capturing nesting songbirds. Journal of Field Ornithology 82: 425-429.
Steward, D.R., X. Yang, S.Y. Lauwo, S.A. Staggenborg, G.L. Macpherson, and S.M. Welch. 2011. From precipitation to groundwater baseflow in a native prairie ecosystem: a regional study of the Konza LTER in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences 15: 3181-3194.
Tucker, S.S., J.M. Craine, and J.B. Nippert. 2011. Physiological drought tolerance and the structuring of tallgrass assemblages. Ecosphere 2: 48-.
Unterseher, M., C.F. Dorman, A. Jumpponen, M. Moora, M. Öpik, L. Tedersoo, and M. Schnittler. 2011. Species abundance distributions in fungal metagenomics – lessons learned from community ecology. Molecular Ecology 20: 275-285.
Vander Weide, B. and D.C. Hartnett. 2011. Fire resistance of tree species explains gallery forest community composition. Forest Ecology and Management 261: 1530-1538.
Whiting, D.P., M.R. Whiles, and M.L. Stone. 2011. Patterns of macroinvertebrate production, trophic structure, and energy flow along a tallgrass prairie stream continuum. Limnology and Oceanography 56: 887-898.
York, A.M., M. Shrestha, C.G. Boone, S. Zhang, J.A. Harrington Jr., T.J. Prebyl, A. Swann, M. Agar, M.F. Antolin, B. Nolen, J.B. Wright, and R. Skaggs. 2011. Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of Southwestern cities. Urban Ecosystems 14: 429-455.
Book Sections
In Press
Baer, S.G., L. Heneghan, and V. Eviner In Press. Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services. Page -. In D. Wall (eds.) Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services.
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.
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
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
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
2011
Gregory, A.J. 2011. The influence of behavioral and landscape ecology on Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) genetic structure and evolution. PhD, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 129 pp
Hartman, J. 2011. Responses of switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) to precipitation amount and temperature. MS Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.
Mohler, R. 2011. Multi-scale burned area mapping in tallgrass prairie using in situ spectrometry and satellite imagery. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.
Parsons, S. 2011. A generalist grasshopper species (Melanoplus femurrubrum) is adapted to variable environments along a latitudinal gradient . MS Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.
Riley, A.J. 2011. Effects of riparian woody vegetation encroachment on prairie stream structure and function with emphasis on whole-stream metabolism. PhD Dissertation, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS.
Rostkowski, S.C., Jr. 2011. Long-term effects of climate change on grassland soil systems: A reciprocal transplant approach. MS Thesis, Kansas State University. Manhattan, KS. 80 pp.
Tiemann, L. 2011. Soil microbial community carbon and nitrogen dynamics with altered precipitation regimes and substrate availability. PhD Dissertation, University of Kansas. Lawrence, KS.
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