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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

Avolio, M.L., Beaulieu, J. and M.D. Smith. Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability. In Press. Oecologia.

Brzostek, E. R., Blair, J. M., Dukes, J. S., Frey, S.D., Hobbie, S.E., Melillo, J. M., Mitchell, R.J., Pendall, E., Reich, P.B., Shaver, G.R., Stefanski, A., Tjoelker, M.G. and A.C. Finzi. 2012. The effect of experimental warming and precipitation change on proteolytic enzyme activity: positive feedbacks to nitrogen availability are not universal. Global Change Biology 18: 2617-2625. PDF

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

Evans, S. and M.D. Wallenstein. 2011. Soil microbial community response to drying and rewetting stress: does historical precipitation regime matter? Biogeochemistry, DOI 10.1007/s10533-011-9638-3. PDF

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. PDF

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

Gerten, D, Y. Luo, G. Le Maire, W.J. Parton, C. Keough, E. Weng, C. Beier, P. Ciais, W. Cramer, J.S. Dukes, B. Emmett, P. J. Hanson, A. Knapp, S. Linder, D. Nepstad, and L. Rustad. 2008. Modelled effects of precipitation on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones. Global Change Biology 14:1-15. 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

Heisler-White, J.L., J.M. Blair, E.F. Kelly, K. Harmony and A.K. Knapp. 2009. Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome. Global Change Biology 15:2894-2904. PDF

Hoover, D. 2008. Altered rainfall due to climate change: Modeling the ecological effects on grasslands. MS Thesis, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. 63 pp

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

Jumpponen, A., K.L. Jones, and J.M. Blair. 2010. Vertical distribution of fungal communities in tallgrass prairie soil. Mycologia 102: 1027-1041. PDF

Katul, G. and Porporato, A. and Oren, R. 2007. Stochastic dynamics of plant-water interactions. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics 38: 767-791. PDF

Knapp, A.K., C. Beier, D.D. Briske, A.T. Classen, Y. Luo, M. Reichstein, M.D. Smith, S.D. Smith, J.E. Bell, P.A. Fay, J.L. Heisler, S.W Leavitt, R. Sherry, B. Smith and E. Weng. 2008. Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems. BioScience 58:811-821. 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

Luo, Y., D. Gerten, G. le Maire, W.J. Parton, E. Weng, X. Zhou, C. Keough, C. Beier, P. Ciais, W. Cramer, J.S. Dukes, B. Emmett, P.J. Hanson, A. Knapp, S. Linder, D. Nepstad and L. Rustad. 2008. Modelled effects of multiple global change factors on ecosystem carbon and water dynamics in different climatic zones. Part II: Interactive effects of precipitation, temperature, and CO₂. Global Change Biology 14:1986-1999. PDF

Marshall, J.D., J.M. Blair, D. Peters, G. Okin, A. Rango and M. Williams. 2008. Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 6:273-280. 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

Nippert, J.B., P.A. Fay, J.D. Carlisle, A.K. Knapp, and M.D. Smith. 2009. Ecophysiological responses of two dominant grasses to altered temperature and precipitation regimes. Acta Oecologia 35: 400-408. 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. PDF

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. 2007. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 5:19-24. PDF

Travers, S.E., Z. Tang, D. Caragea, K.A. Garrett, S.H. Hulbert, J.E. Leach, J. Bai, A. Saleh, A.K. Knapp, P.A. Fay, J. Nippert, P.S. Schnable, and M.D. Smith. 2010. Variation in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii in response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change. Journal of Ecology 98: 374-383. PDFo:p>

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

 Wu, Z., P. Dijkstra, G. W. Koch, J. Peñuelas, and B. A. Hungate. 2011. Responses of terrestrial ecosystems to temperature and precipitation change: A meta-analysis of experimental manipulation. Global Change Biology 17: 927-942. PDF