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Below are recent publications from the previous two years. Use the search form to list or find other Konza Prairie publications.

 
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Journal Articles



In Press

Augustine, J.K., J.J. Millspaugh, and B.K. Sandercock (In Press). Testosterone: a proximate factor mediating mating success in male Greater Prairie-Chickens?. Studies in Avian Biology.

Augustine, J.K. and B.K. Sandercock (In Press). Demography of female Greater Prairie-Chickens in unfragmented grasslands in Kansas. Avian Conservation and Ecology.

Bach, E.M, S.G. Baer, C.K. Meyer, and J. Six (In Press). Soil texture affects microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry.

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 (In Press). Nitrous oxide emission from denitrification in stream and river networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Brunsell, N.A., J.M. Ham, and K.A. Arnold (In Press). Validating remotely sensed land surface fluxes in heterogeneous terrain with large aperture scintillometry. International Journal of Remote Sensing.

Casey, A.E., B.K. Sandercock, and S.M. Wisely (In Press). Genetic parentage and local population structure in the socially monogamous Upland Sandpiper. Condor.

Gregory, A.J., L.B. McNew, T.J. Prebyl, B.K. Sandercock, and S.M. Wisely (In Press). A multiscale hierarchical modeling approach to mapping lekking habitats of Greater Prairie-Chickens in eastern Kansas. Studies in Avian Biology.

Hajny, K.M., D.C. Hartnett, and G. W.T. Wilson (In Press). Season and intensity of fire influence the expansion of a woody invader (Rhus glabra) in grassland. International Journal of Wildland Fire.

Jumpponen, A. (In Press). Analysis of ribosomal RNA indicates seasonal fungal community dynamics in Andropogon gerardii rhizosphere. Mycorrhiza.

Klopf, R.P. and S.G. Baer (In Press). Root dynamics of cultivar and non-cultivar population sources of three dominant grasses during initial establishment of tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology.

Kohler, T.J., J.N. Justin, N. Murdock, K.B. Gido, and W.K. Dodds (In Press). Nutrient loading and grazing by the minnow Phoxinus erythrogaster shift periphyton abundance and stoichiometry in experimental streams. Freshwater Biology.

Lambert, A.M., S.G. Baer, and D.J. Gibson (In Press). Intraspecific variation in ecophysiology of three dominant prairie grasses used in restoration: cultivar vs. non-cultivar population sources. Restoration Ecology.

Laws, A. and A. Joern (In Press). Grasshopper fecundity responses to grazing and fire in a tallgrass prairie. Environmental Entomology.

Loaiza, V., J.L. Jonas, and A. Joern (In Press). Local distributions of grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) respond to foliar nitrogen but not phosphorus in native grassland. Insect Science.

McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock (In Press). Reproductive chronology of Greater Prairie-Chickens in Kansas. Studies in Avian Biology.

McNew, L.B., A.J. Gregory, S.M. Wisely, and B.K. Sandercock (In Press). Evidence of human-mediated life-history evolution in Greater Prairie-Chickens. Studies in Avian Biology.

N’Guessan, M. and D.C. Hartnett (In Press). Differential responses to defoliation frequency in Little Bluestem (Shizachyrium scoparium) in Tallgrass Prairie: Implications for herbivory tolerance and avoidance. Plant Ecology.

Nippert, J.B., T.W. Ocheltree, A.M.Skibbe, L.C. Kangas, J.M. Ham, K.B. Shonkwiler Arnold, and N.A. Brunsell (In Press). Linking plant growth responses across topographic gradients in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia.

Petrie, M.D. and N.A. Brunsell (In Press). The role of precipitation variability on the ecohydrology of grasslands. Ecohydrology.

Tucker, S.S., J.M. Craine, and J.B. Nippert (In Press). Physiological drought tolerance and the structuring of tallgrass assemblages. Ecosphere.

Whiting, D.P., M.R. Whiles, and M.L. Stone (In Press). Patterns of macroinvertebrate production, trophic structure, and energy flow along a tallgrass prairie stream continuum. Limnology and Oceanography.

2011

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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: -.

Unterseher, M., Dorman, C.F., Jumpponen, A., Moora, M., Öpik, M., Tedersoo., L. and Schnittler, M. 2011. Species abundance distributions in fungal metagenomics – lessons learned from community ecology. Molecular Ecology 20: 275-285.


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.


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



2011

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.

Copyright 2004. Konza Prairie Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program. All rights reserved.

 This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Long Term Ecological Research Program at Konza Prairie Biological Station. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in the material are those of the author(s) and do not necesarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.