The 2015 Annual Konza Prairie LTER Workshop was held on May 29, 2015 at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in the Cortelyou Lecture Hall.

• Meeting Agenda
• List Presentations:

1. John Blair (KSU) - Welcome and introductions; overview of the Konza Prairie LTER program                    
2. Brett Sandercock (KSU) - Blazing and grazing for conservation: Resource selection and nest survival of Upland Sandpipers in an experimental landscape.
3. Lydia Zeglin (KSU) - Microbial mechanisms of drought tolerance and the implications for grassland soil carbon storage
4. Walter Dodds (KSU) - Extreme stream-ecosystem effects from riparian disturbance in an otherwise intact watershed
5. Allison Veach (KSU) - Woody plant encroachment, and its removal, impact bacterial and fungal communities across stream and terrestrial habitats in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem
6. Drew Scott (SIU) - Soil conditions alter plant-plant competition dynamics of Andropogon gerardii
7. Ellen Welti (KSU) - Environmental drivers of plant-pollinator community
8. Logan Shoup (KSU) - Variability in macroinvertebrate assemblages and tallgrass and mixed grass prairie headwater streams
9. E.J. Raynor (KSU) - Resource selection of a native grazer in nutritionally heterogeneous grassland
10. George Manning (SIU) - Processes influencing community assembly during grassland restoration
11. Kim O’Keefe (KSU) - Patterns of hydraulic lift in a Tallgrass Prairie
12. T.J. Adams - Effect of soil heterogeneity on plant recruitment and Orthoptera in restored Prairie
13. Melinda Smith (CSU) - ChANGE: Assessing thresholds of species responses to increased nitrogen availability
14. Andrea Brookfield (KU) - Groundwater / surface water interactions at Konza: Flow and thermal transport in N4D
15. Jennifer Smith (NEON) - National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): A new resource for continental-scale ecology

• List Posters:

1. Meghan Avolio - Chronic nitrogen and phosphorus additions alter the composition and productivity of tallgrass prairie communities
2. Elsie Denton - The Extreme Drought in Grasslands Experiment (EDGE)
3. Sally Koerner - Ghost Fire: Understanding the mechanisms behind fire effects on community and ecosystem function
4. Jennifer Smith – The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON)
5. TJ Adams - The role of soil heterogeneity in the recruitment of new species in restored prairie
6. Francis Chaves - Resource limitation in the compensatory response of a plant community to the loss of a dominant species
7. Andrew Felton (KSU) - Directionality, magnitude, and duration of precipitation extremes
8. Victoria Floyd - Long term burning and fertilization affects seasonal patterns of microbial activity in tallgrass prairie soils
9. Matt Galliart - Adaptive trait variation and genetic divergence of a widespread grass Andropogon gerardii across a Great Plains' climate gradient
10. Jesus Gomez - Responses of a grassland spider community to habitat structural heterogeneity driven by fire and bison grazing disturbances interactions
11. Kelly Logan - Diagnosing land-atmosphere coupling strength
12. Brock Norwood - Terrestrial LiDAR characterization of stream-bed roughness in support of understanding CO₂ efflux from an intermittent, headwater stream
13. Noortje Notenbaert - Greenhouse gas fluxes from beef cattle grazing systems in the tallgrass prairie
14. Michael Rawitch - Quantifying CO₂ efflux from headwater streams
15. Drew Ricketts - Resource utilization by a top predator in an experimental landscape
16. Logan Shoup - Variability in macroinvertebrate assemblages and tallgrass and mixed grass prairie headwater streams
17. Bram Verheijen - Does patch-burn grazing management increase nest survival of declining populations of grassland songbirds?