@article {6294,
	title = {Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally},
	journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences},
	volume = {121},
	year = {2024},
	pages = {e230988112},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1073/pnas.2309881120},
	url = {https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309881120},
	author = {M. D. Smith and Wilkins, Kate D. and Holdrege, Martin C. and Wilfahrt, Peter and S.L Collins and Knapp, Alan K. and Sala, Osvaldo E. and Dukes, Jeffrey S. and Phillips, Richard P. and Yahdjian, Laura and Gherardi, Laureano A. and Ohlert, Timothy and Beier, Claus and Fraser, Lauchlan H. and Jentsch, Anke and Loik, Michael E. and Maestre, Fernando T. and Power, Sally A. and Yu, Qiang and Felton, Andrew J. and Munson, Seth M. and Luo, Yiqi and Abdoli, Hamed and Abedi, Mehdi and Alados, Concepci{\'o}n L. and Alberti, Juan and Alon, Moshe and An, Hui and Anacker, Brian and Anderson, Maggie and Auge, Harald and Bachle, Seton and Bahalkeh, Khadijeh and Bahn, Michael and Batbaatar, Amgaa and Bauerle, Taryn and Beard, Karen H. and Behn, Kai and Beil, Ilka and Biancari, Lucio and Blindow, Irmgard and Bondaruk, Viviana Florencia and Borer, Elizabeth T. and Bork, Edward W. and Bruschetti, Carlos Martin and Byrne, Kerry M. and Cahill Jr., James F. and Calvo, Dianela A. and Carbognani, Michele and Cardoni, Augusto and Carlyle, Cameron N. and Castillo-Garcia, Miguel and Chang, Scott X. and Chieppa, Jeff and Cianciaruso, Marcus V. and Cohen, Ofer and Cordeiro, Amanda L. and Cusack, Daniela F. and Dahlke, Sven and Daleo, Pedro and D{\textquoteright}Antonio, Carla M. and Dietterich, Lee H. and S. Doherty, Tim and Dubbert, Maren and Ebeling, Anne and Eisenhauer, Nico and Fischer, Fel{\'\i}cia M. and Forte, T{\textquoteright}ai G. W. and Gebauer, Tobias and Gozalo, Beatriz and Greenville, Aaron C. and Guidoni-Martins, Karlo G. and Hannusch, Heather J. and Vats{\o} Haugum, Siri and Hautier, Yann and Hefting, Mariet and Henry, Hugh A. L. and Hoss, Daniela and Ingrisch, Johannes and Iribarne, Oscar and Isbell, Forest and Johnson, Yari and Jordan, Samuel and Kelly, Eugene F. and Kimmel, Kaitlin and Kreyling, Juergen and Kr{\"o}el-Dulay, Gy{\"o}rgy and Kr{\"o}pfl, Alicia and K{\"u}bert, Angelika and Kulmatiski, Andrew and Lamb, Eric G. and Larsen, Klaus Steenberg and Larson, Julie and Lawson, Jason and Leder, Cintia V. and Linst{\"a}dter, Anja and Liu, Jielin and Liu, Shirong and Lodge, Alexandra G. and Longo, Grisel and Loydi, Alejandro and Luan, Junwei and Curtis Lubbe, Frederick and Macfarlane, Craig and Mackie-Haas, Kathleen and Malyshev, Andrey V. and Maturano-Ruiz, {\'a}n and Merchant, Thomas and Metcalfe, Daniel B. and Mori, Akira S. and Mudongo, Edwin and Newman, Gregory S. and Nielsen, Uffe N. and Nimmo, Dale and Niu, Yujie and Nobre, Paola and O{\textquoteright}Connor, Rory C. and Ogaya, Rom{\`a} and O{\~n}atibia, Gast{\'o}n R. and Orb{\'a}n, Ildik{\'o} and Osborne, Brooke and Otfinowski, Rafael and P{\"a}rtel, Meelis and Pe{\~n}uelas, Josep and Peri, Pablo L. and Peter, Guadalupe and Petraglia, Alessandro and Picon-Cochard, Catherine and Pillar, Val{\'e}rio D. and Pi{\~N}Eiro-Guerra, Juan Manuel and Ploughe, Laura W. and Plowes, Robert M. and Portales-Reyes, Cristy and Prober, Suzanne M. and Pueyo, Yolanda and Reed, Sasha C. and Ritchie, Euan G. and Rodr{\'\i}guez, Ayl{\'e}n and Rogers, William E. and Roscher, Christiane and S{\'a}nchez, Ana M. and Santos, Br{\'a}ulio A. and Scarf{\'o}, Mar{\'\i}a and Seabloom, Eric W. and Shi, Baoku and Souza, Lara and Stampfli, Andreas and Standish, Rachel J. and Sternberg, Marcelo and Sun, Wei and S{\"u}nnemann, Marie and Tedder, Michelle and Thorvaldsen, {\r a}l and Tian, Dashuan and Tielb{\"o}rger, Katja and Valdecantos, Alejandro and van den Brink, Liesbeth and Vandvik, Vigdis and Vankoughnett, Mathew R. and Guri Velle, Liv and Wang, Changhui and Wang, Yi and Wardle, Glenda M. and Werner, Christiane and Wei, Cunzheng and Wiehl, Georg and Williams, Jennifer L. and Wolf, Amelia A. and Zeiter, Michaela and Zhang, Fawei and Zhu, Juntao and Zong, Ning and Zuo, Xiaoan}
}
@inbook {6053,
	title = {Climate change in grassland ecosystems: current impacts and potential actions for a sustainable future},
	booktitle = {CLIMATE ACTIONS - LOCAL APPLICATIONS AND PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {36},
	publisher = {CRC},
	organization = {CRC},
	edition = {1},
	abstract = {<p>Grasslands are a widespread and globally important biome providing key ecosystem services, including carbon storage, regulation of the water cycle and diverse assemblages of plant and animal species. Grasslands also provide many important benefits to humans, such as food and forage for livestock. Climate changes manifest as temperature fluctuations, increased intensity of drought and flood cycles and increased atmospheric CO2 concentrations. These changes are impacting species growth responses, plant composition and other key grassland processes. In addition to the direct consequences of climate change, secondary (or indirect) impacts of climate change threaten grassland ecosystems. These include changes in land-use and land-cover, agricultural conversion, woody encroachment, invasive species and atmospheric nitrogen deposition. In this chapter, we discuss the direct and indirect impacts of climate change on grasslands generally, while using case studies from specific global grassland types to illustrate key threats and climate change impacts. We specifically provide examples of how direct and indirect climate changes interact, increasing the vulnerability of grasslands. In the final section of this chapter, we outline a climate action plan for grassland ecosystems that includes efforts focused at multiple scales, including the individual, community and global levels. These climate actions can be used to influence policy, reduce the rate of climate change, conserve and restore grasslands and, most importantly, need to begin immediately. Collectively, we explain the general ecological processes in grasslands, illustrate the consequences of climate change on this ecosystem and identify potential solutions to maintain the viability and persistence of grassland ecosystems for the foreseeable future.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	isbn = {9780367478339},
	author = {Jesse B. Nippert and Keen, R.M. and Bachle, Seton and Wedel, E.R. and B. Groskinsky}
}
@article {6052,
	title = {Poor relationships between NEON Airborne Observation Platform data and field-based vegetation traits at a mesic grassland},
	journal = {Ecology},
	volume = {103},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {e03590},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1002/ecy.v103.210.1002/ecy.3590},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/19399170/103/2},
	author = {Pau, Stephanie and Jesse B. Nippert and Slapikas, Ryan and Griffith, D. and Bachle, Seton and Helliker, Brent R. and O{\textquoteright}Connor, R.C. and Riley, William J. and Still, Christopher J. and Zaricor, Marissa}
}
@article {6051,
	title = {Root traits reveal safety and efficiency differences in grasses and shrubs exposed to different fire regimes},
	journal = {Functional Ecology},
	volume = {36},
	year = {2022},
	pages = {368 - 379},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1111/fec.v36.210.1111/1365-2435.13972},
	url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/13652435/36/2},
	author = {O{\textquoteright}Keefe, Kimberly and Bachle, Seton and Keen, Rachel and Tooley, E. Greg and Jesse B. Nippert}
}
@phdthesis {5999,
	title = {Anatomical constraints on grass physiological responses depend on water availability},
	volume = {PhD Dissertation},
	year = {2021},
	school = {Kansas State University},
	type = {Ph.D. Thesis},
	address = {Manhattan, KS},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	url = {https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/41354},
	author = {Bachle, Seton}
}
@article {KNZ002038,
	title = {Microanatomical traits track climate gradients for a dominant C4 grass species across the Great Plains, USA},
	journal = {Annals of Botany},
	volume = {mcaa146},
	year = {2020},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ},
	doi = {10.1093/aob/mcaa146},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcaa146},
	author = {Bachle, Seton and Nippert, J.B.}
}
@mastersthesis {KNZ001871,
	title = {Physiological and morphological responses of grass species to drought},
	volume = {MS Thesis},
	year = {2017},
	school = {Kansas State University},
	type = {M.S. Thesis},
	address = {Manhattan, KS},
	abstract = {<p>The impacts of climate change over the next 100 years on North American grasslands are unknown. Climate change is projected to increase rainfall and seasonal temperature variability, leading to increased frequency of drought and decreased rainfall amounts for many grassland locations in the central Great Plains of North America. To increase our ability to predict the effects of a changing climate, I measured multiple morphological and physiological responses from a diverse suite of C3 and C4 grasses. Due to varying characteristics associated with the different photosynthetic pathways, these grass species respond differently to altered temperature and precipitation. I monitored grass physiology and microanatomy in conjunction with varying watered availability to replicate drought. In the second chapter, I observed leaf-level physiology and root level morphology of C3 and C4 grasses when exposed to 100\% water reduction. Results indicated that response to water reduction are not always dependent on the photosynthetic pathway. Root-level morphological measurements were found to vary significantly between species in the same genus; F. ovina had the highest specific root length (SRL), which is an indicator of tolerance to environmental variability. Results also indicated that grasses of interest have thresholds that when passed result in a photosynthetically inactive plant; however it was shown that they are able to recover to near pre-drought gas exchange rates when water is re-applied. The third chapter investigated both leaf-level physiology and morphology in dominant C4\&not; grasses across Kansas\&rsquo; rainfall gradient over the growing season. I hypothesized that variation within a species\&rsquo; physiology would be greater than its\&rsquo; morphology. I also hypothesized that morphology would predict variability in a species physiological response to changes in climate. This research discovered within a location and species, leaf morphology is fixed across the growing season. Strong correlations between leaf physiology and morphology were observed, however, the strength and relationship changed among the species compared. A. gerardii and P. virgatum exhibited opposing relationships when comparing their photosynthetic rates to the amount of bundle sheath cells. This result highlights strong species-specific relationship between physiology and morphology. My results illustrate the importance of utilizing plant physiology and morphology to understand how grasses may respond to future climate change scenarios.</p>},
	keywords = {LTER-KNZ, Climate change, Drought; Great Plains, Ecophysiology, Grasslands, tallgrass prairie},
	url = {http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36188},
	author = {Bachle, Seton}
}
