projects

Ongoing Research Projects Associated with Konza Prairie LTER

Ecosystem Responses to More Extreme Precipitation Patterns and Warming (Click here for description). (PIs: A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, P.A. Fay, S. L. Collins and M.D. Smith)
Rainfall Mesocosm Experiment (Click here for description). (PIs: P.A. Fay, J.M. Blair,and D. M. Kaufman)
Evaluating the Role of Resource Heterogeneity in Restoring Grasslands (Click here for description). (PIs: A. K. Knapp and J. M. Blair)
Lotic Intersite Nitrogen eXperiment (LINX) (Click here for description). (local PI: Walter Dodds)
A Stable Isotope Approach for Evaluating the Influence of Native Ungulate Grazers on Soil N Cycling in Tallgrass Prairie (Click here for description). (PIs: J. M. Blair, L. C. Johnson, C. W. Rice and A. K. Knapp)
Land-Cover Change in the Great Plains: Predicting the Impacts of Regional Forest Expansion on Biogeochemical Processes (Click here for description). (PIs: L. C. Johnson, J. M. Briggs, C. W. Rice, J. Ham, C. Owensby and R. B. McKane)
Collaborative Research: Identifying Ecosystem Controls on Soil Biodiversity: A US-UK Project Click here for description (PIs: Diana H. Wall et al.). Click here for Nematodes of Konza Prairie
Processes affecting Carbon Fluxes of Grassland Ecosystems under Elevated CO₂(Link to project ). (PIs: C. Owensby et al.)
Test Sites for the ERS/JERS Classification Project (Click here for link to project). (PI: Josef Kellndorfer)
BigFoot - Characterizing Land Cover, LAI and NPP at the Landscape Scale for EOS/MODIS Validation (Click here for link to project).
Carbon, Water, and Energy Fluxes from a Tallgrass Prairie: The Effect of Land Management and Environmental Factors on Surface-Atmosphere Exchange - project description. (Click here for link to project)
Ecosystems in Transition: Causes and Consequences of Dramatic Shifts in Growth Form Dominance (PIs: J. M. Briggs and A. K. Knapp). (Click here for link to project)
Scaling Up the Ecosystem Consequences of Forest Expansion in the Great Plains Region (Click here for abstract). (PIs: L. C. Johnson, Kevin Price, John Blair, and Robert McKane)
Interactive Effects of Disturbance Frequency and Species Composition on Ecosystem Functioning of Intermittent Streams: a Test of Future Climate Change Scenarios (Click here for description). (PIs: K. Gido, W. Dodds and M. Whiles)
Bridging the Divide: Linking Genomics to Ecosystem Responses to Climate Change (Click here for description) (Click here for description). (PIs: M.D. Smith, J. Bai, J.M. Blair, P.A. Fay, K.A. Garrett, S.H. Hulbert, A.K. Knapp, J.E. Leach and S.E. Travers)