@inbook {KNZ00639, title = {The flora of Konza Prairie: A historical review and contemporary patterns}, booktitle = {Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie}, year = {1998}, pages = {69 -80}, publisher = {Oxford University Press}, organization = {Oxford University Press}, address = {New York}, keywords = {LTER-KNZ, tallgrass prairie}, author = {Freeman, C.C.}, editor = {Alan K. Knapp and J. M. Briggs and D.C. Hartnett and Scott. L. Collins} } @article {KNZ00277, title = {Effects of small mammal and invertebrate herbivory on plant species richness and abundance in tallgrass prairie}, journal = {Oecologia}, volume = {84}, year = {1990}, pages = {169 -175}, abstract = {

A factorial field experiment was designed to test the effects of small mammals and above-and below-ground invertebrates on plant species richness and composition in native tallgrass prairie at Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, northeast Kansas. Over a 4-year period, Microtus ochrogaster densities were maintained by live-trapping in fenced plots, and invertebrate levels were reduced using the pesticides carbaryl for aboveground invertebrates and an organophsphate (isofenphos) for below-ground invertebrates. ANOVA according to a split-plot design of plant species biomass data harvested in 1984 and 1986 revealed few significant effect of either small mammal densities or pesticide application. Of 54 species harvested from both sample dates, only 10 were significantly affected by either treatment. Analysis of species richness according to 8 life-form classes provided a clearer pattern of response than did biomass either by species or life-form class. For example, numbers of C4 grasses were reduced by increasing small mammal densities, whereas numbers of C4 annual forbs were lowest when above-ground herbivory was reduced. While consumers have been shown to have strong effects on successional communities, the few significant results observed in this study suggests that the manipulated levels of small mammals and insects had few effects on a mature tallgrass prairie. Key words: herbivory, tallgrass prairie, small mammals, invertebrates, plant communities

}, keywords = {LTER-KNZ, tallgrass prairie}, doi = {10.1007/BF00318268}, author = {D.J. Gibson and Freeman, C.C. and Hulbert, L.C.} } @article {KNZ00139, title = {Additions to the vascular flora of Konza Prairie Research Area, Kansas}, journal = {Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science}, volume = {90}, year = {1987}, pages = {81 -84}, abstract = {

Fieldwork conducted on the Konza Prairie Research Natural Area (KPRNA) over the past several years has yielded a number of vascular plants previously unreported from the research site. The following list is provided as an addendum to the annotated list of vascular plants of KPRNA. These additions bring the number of species, genera, and families known from KPRNA to 467, 289, and 93, respectively. Continued research on Konza may reveal additional new taxa, however, the number of new reports would undoubtedly be few. Most of the taxa reported herein are weedy species or rare natives

}, keywords = {LTER-KNZ}, doi = {10.2307/3628116}, author = {Freeman, C.C. and D.J. Gibson} } @article {KNZ0079, title = {An annotated list of the vascular flora of Konza Prairie Research Natural Area, Kansas}, journal = {Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science}, volume = {88}, year = {1985}, pages = {84 -115}, abstract = {

The Konza Prairie Research Natural Area is a 3487 hectare research area located in the northern Kansas Flint Hills. The vegetation of Konza Prairie is predominantly tallgrass prairie with limited gallery forests along major tributaries. The vascular flora of the research area includes 441 species in 90 families. This number represents approximately 44\% of the species known to occur in the Kansas Flint Hills

}, keywords = {LTER-KNZ, tallgrass prairie}, doi = {10.2307/3627880}, author = {Freeman, C.C. and Hulbert, L.C.} }