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Daly, A and E. Porporato. 2006. Impact of hydroclimatic fluctuations on the soil water balance. Water Resources Research 42, W06401, doi:10.1029/2005WR004606.

Fay, P.A., J.D. Carlisle, B.T. Danner, M.S. Lett, J.K. McCarron, C. Stewart, A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins. 2002. Altered rainfall patterns, gas exchange, and growth in grasses and forbs. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163: 549-557. PDF

Fay, P.A., J.D. Carlisle, A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins. 2000. Altering rainfall timing and quantity in a mesic grassland ecosystem: Design and performance of rainfall manipulation shelters. Ecosystems 3: 308-319. PDF

Fay, P.A., J.D. Carlisle, A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins. 2003. Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in C₄ dominated grasslands. Oecologia. 137:245-251. PDF

Fay, P.A., A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, J.D. Carlisle, B.T. Danner, J.K. McCarron. 2003. Precipitation and terrestrial ecosystems: mesic grassland case study. Pp 147-163 In: Precipitation Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems, J. Weltzin and G. McPherson, editors. University of Arizona Press.  PDF

Goodin, D.G., P.A. Fay, M.M. McHugh. 2003. Climate variability at a tallgrass prairie site at multiple time scales: Konza Prairie Biological Station. In: D. Greenland et al., eds, Climatic Variability and Ecosystem Response. New York, Oxford University Press.

Harper, C.W., 2002. Altered rainfall patterns affect belowground ecosystem processes in a tallgrass prairie, M.S. Thesis, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 82 p.

Harper, C.W., J.M. Blair, P.A. Fay, A.K. Knapp and J.D. Carlisle. 2005. Increased rainfall variability and reduced rainfall amount decreases soil CO₂ flux in a grassland ecosystem. Global Change Biology 11: 322-334. PDF

Huxman, T.E., M.D. Smith, P.A. Fay, A.K. Knapp, M.R. Shaw, M.E. Loik, S.D. Smith, D.T. Tissue, J.C. Zak, J.F. Weltzin, W.T. Pockman, O.E. Sala, B.M. Haddad, J. Harte, G.W. Koch, S. Schwinning, E.E. Small and D.G. Williams. 2004. Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. Nature 429:651-654. PDF

Knapp, A.K., P.A. Fay, J.M. Blair, S.L. Collins, M.D. Smith, J.D. Carlisle, C.W. Harper, B.T. Danner, M.S. Lett, and J.K. McCarron. 2002. Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science 298: 2202-2205.  PDF

Knapp, A.K., J.M. Briggs and J.K. Koelliker. 2001. Frequency and extent of water limitation to primary production in a mesic temperate grassland. Ecosystems 4:19-28. PDF

Knapp, A.K. and M.D. Smith. 2001. Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production, Science 291:481-484. PDF

Nippert, J.B., A. K. Knapp and J.M. Briggs. 2006. Intra-annual rainfall variability and grassland productivity: can the past predict the future? Plant Ecology 184: 65-74. PDF

Porporato, A., G. Vico, and P.A. Fay. 2006. Superstatistics of hydro-climatic fluctuations and interannual ecosystem productivity. Geophysical Research Letters 33, L15402, doi:10.1029/2006GL026412.

Porporato, A., E. Daly and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe. 2004. Soil water balance and ecosystem response to climate change. The American Naturalist 164 625-632. PDF

Swemmer, A.M., A.K. Knapp and M.D. Smith. 2006. Growth responses of two dominant C₄ grass species to altered water availability. International Journal of Plant Science 167: 1001-1010.

Travers, S.E., M.D. Smith, J. Bai, S.H. Hulbert, J.E. Leach, P.S. Schnable, A.K. Knapp, G.A. Milliken, P.A. Fay, A. Saleh and K.A. Garrett.  In press. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Weltzin, J.F., M.E. Loik, S. Schwinning, D.G. Williams, P.A. Fay, B. Haddad, J. Harte, T.E. Huxman, A.K. Knapp, G. Lin, W.T. Pockman, M.R. Shaw, E.E. Small, M.D. Smith, S.D. Smith, D.T. Tissue, J.C. Zak. Prov. 2003 Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation. Bioscience 53:941-952. PDF