Konza Prairie LTER VI
Planning Workshop – September 1, 2007
Morning Session (221 Ackert Hall)
8:00 - 8:20 Welcome;
Overview of the Konza LTER Program – J. Blair
8:20 - 8:45 Patterns
and Controls of Net Primary Productivity – A. Knapp
8:45 - 9:10 Grassland
Plant Population Ecology – D. Hartnett
9:10 - 9:35 Terrestrial
Consumers / Trophic Interactions – A. Joern
9:35 - 10:00 Nutrient
Cycling / Belowground Studies – J. Blair
10:00 - 10:25 ----Break---- (treats, coffee and juice
provided)
10:25 - 10:50 Grassland
Stream Ecology – W. Dodds
10:50 - 11:15 Plant
Community Dynamics – M. Smith
11:15 - 11:40 Land-Cover
Change / Woody Plant Studies – J. Briggs
11:40 - 12:00 LTER
Integration / Synthesis / Cross-site Research – A. Knapp
12:00 - 1:30 ----Lunch
and Poster Session (Chalmers Hall Atrium)----
Afternoon Session (221 Ackert
Hall)
1:30 - 1:50 Restoration
Ecology in Tallgrass Prairie – S. Baer
1:50 - 2:10 Ecological
Genetics / Genomics Studies – L. Johnson
2:10 - 2:30 Plant
Responses to Environmental Change – J. Nippert
2:30 - 2:50 Groundwater
Studies / Hydrogeology – G. Macpherson
2:50 - 3:10 ----Break----
3:10 - 3:30 Conservation
Biology – B. Sandercock
3:30 - 3:50 Remote
Sensing Studies – D. Goodin
3:50 - 4:10 Disease
Ecology – S. Wisely
4:10 - 4:30 Social
Science Initiatives – J. Harrington
4:30 - 5:00 general
group discussion and next steps
Poster presentations
1.
Ryan Campbell. The role of population source and dominance
on plant community diversity in a newly restored prairie.
2.
John Harrington. Ecosystem Services of the Northern Flint
Hills; Water Quality in the Tallgrass Prairie of Kansas; Linking the Konza
Prairie LTER Program to Coupled Human and Natural Systems Research in the Flint
Hills.
3.
Jana Heisler. Climate change in the Great Plains: more
extreme precipitation patterns impact ecosystem function differentially across
the Great Plains.
4.
Glennis Kaufman. Small mammal populations in tallgrass
prairie: effects of grazers and fire.
5.
Ryan Klopf. Root dynamics between native and cultivar
population sources of three dominant warm-season grasses during prairie
restoration.
6.
Kat Schmitt
McCain. Effect of dominant grass
removal on plant diversity in restored tallgrass prairie.
7.
Gwen Macpherson. Atmospheric CO2 and groundwater
CO2--is there a connection?
8.
Jackie Nooker. Breeding ecology and survival of female
greater prairie-chickens in unfragmented grasslands.
9.
Matt Whiles. Influence of flooding frequency and fish on
invertebrate communities in experimental stream mesocosms.
10.
Jayne Jonas and Anthony
Joern. Food selection is the primary
means of nutrient regulation in a mixed-feeding insect herbivore.
11.
Laura Calabrese and
Scott Collins. Effects of fire,
grazing, and topographic variation on vegetation dynamics in tallgrass prairie.
12.
Sally Koerner and Scott
Collins. Plant community responses to
fire and grazing in savanna grasslands: A cross continental comparison.
13.
Sara Bowe. Risk assessment of disease exposure in the
Flint Hills: Rabies, striped skunks and land-cover change.
14.
Page Klug. Interactions between grassland birds and
their snake predators: the potential for conservation benefits or conflicts in
the tallgrass prairie.
15.
Bridget Sousa. MHC and mate choice in Dickcissels: A work in progress.
16.
Rebecca Burns and James
Koelliker. Estimating net primary production as affected by amount of water on
tallgrass prairie at Konza Prairie.
17.
Cushing, J., J. Gao, N.
Kaplan (SES), K. Ramsey (JRN), and K. Vanderbilt (SEV). Integrating grassland
ANPP data - lessons learned.
18.
Jincheng Gao and
Douglas G. Goodin. Effects of landscape structure on image rescaling.