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Book Chapter
Hoch G, Brock B, Briggs JM. Applications of advanced technologies in studying and managing grassland landscape integrity. In: Liu J, Taylor WW Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Integrating Landscape Ecology into Natural Resource Management. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press; 2002:390 -411.
Journal Article
Kitchen DJ, Blair JM, Callaham MA. Annual fire and mowing alter biomass, depth distribution, and C and N content of roots and soil in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil. 2009;323:235 -247. doi:10.1007/s11104-009-9931-2.
Baer SG, Kitchen DJ, Blair JM, Rice CW. Changes in ecosystem structure and function along a chronosequence of restored grasslands. Ecological Applications. 2002;12:1688 -1701. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(2002)012[1688:CIESAF]2.0.CO;2.
Han X, Dend SP, Garrett KA, Fang L, Smith MD. Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies. Plant Ecology. 2008;198:197 -210. doi:10.1007/s11258-008-9395-0.
Jonas JL, Wilson GT, White PM, Joern A. Consumptionof mycorrhizal and saprophytic fungi by Collembola in grassland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2007;39:2594 -2602. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2007.05.004.
Vinton MA, Burke IC. Contingent effects of plant species on soils along a regional moisture gradient in the Great Plains. Oecologia. 1997;110:393 -402. doi:10.1007/s004420050174.
Klopf RP, Baer SG, Gibson DJ. Convergent and contingent community responses to grass source and dominance during prairie restoration across a longitudinal gradient. Environmental Management. 2014;53:252 -265. doi:10.1007/s00267-013-0209-3.
McKinley DC, Rice CW, Blair JM. Conversion of grassland to coniferous woodland has limited effects on soil nitrogen cycle processes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2008;40:2627 -2633. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.005.
Avolio ML, Smith MD. Correlations between genetic and species diversity: effects of resource quantity and heterogeneity. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2013;24:1185 -1194. doi:10.1111/jvs.12042.
Callaham, Jr. MA, Blair JM, Hendrix PF. Different behavioral patterns of the earthworms Octolasion tyrtaeum and Diplocardia spp . in tallgrass prairie soils: potential influences on plant growth. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 2001;34:49 -56. doi:10.1007/s003740100370.
Volk MD, Kaufman DW, Kaufman GA. Diurnal activity and habitat associations of white-tailed deer in tallgrass prairie of eastern Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2007;110:145 -154. doi:10.1660/0022-8443(2007)110[145:DAAHAO]2.0.CO;2.
Bremer D, Ham JM. Effect of spring burning on the surface energy balance in a tallgrass prairie. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 1999;97:43 -54. doi:10.1016/S0168-1923(99)00034-9.
Collins SL, Calabrese LB. Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2012;23:563 -575. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2011.01369.x.
Callaham, Jr. MA, Blair JM, Todd TC, Kitchen DJ, Whiles MR. Effects of fire, mowing and fertilization effects on density and biomass of macroinvertebrates in North American tallgrass prairie soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2003;35:1079 -1093. doi:10.1016/S0038-0717(03)00153-6.
Manning GC, Baer SG, Blair JM. Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and its relationship to indicators of soil quality in tallgrass prairie. Environmental Management. 2017;60(6):1075. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0942-0.
Sandercock BK, Alfaro-Barrios M, Casey AE, et al. Effects of grazing and prescribed fire on resource selection and nest survival of upland sandpipers in an experimental landscape. Landscape Ecology. 2015;30:325 -337. doi:10.1007/s10980-014-0133-9.
Verheijen BHF, Clipp HL, Bartolo AJ, Jensen WE, Sandercock BK. Effects of patch-burn grazing on breeding density and territory size of Dickcissels. Avian Conservation and Ecology. 2019;14(1):7. doi:10.5751/ACE-01343-140107.
Knapp AK, Bargman N, Maragni LA, et al. Elevated CO2 and leaf longevity in the C4 grassland dominant Andropogon gerardii. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 1999;160:1057 -1061. doi:10.1086/314202.
Smith MD, Knapp AK. Exotic plant species in a C4-dominated grassland: Invasibility, disturbance and community structure. Oecologia. 1999;120:605 -612. doi:10.1007/s004420050896.
Callaham, Jr. MA, Whiles MR, Meyer CK, Brock B, Charlton RE. Feeding ecology and emergence production of annual cicadas (Homoptera: Cicadidae) in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 2000;123:535 -542. doi:10.1007/s004420000335.
Slette IJ, Liebert A, Knapp AK. Fire history as a key determinant of grassland soil CO2 flux. Plant and Soil. 2021;460:579–592. doi:10.1007/s11104-020-04781-0.
Gibson DJ, Sendor G, Donatelli J, Baer SG, Johnson L. Fitness among population sources of a dominant species (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) used in prairie restoration. Torrey Botanical Society. 2014;140:269 -279. doi:10.3159/TORREY-D-12-00063.1.
Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Koelliker JK. Frequency and extent of water limitation to primary production in a mesic temperate grassland. Ecosystems. 2001;4:19 -28. doi:10.1007/s100210000057.
Giuliani AL, Kelly EF, Knapp AK. Geographic variation in growth and phenology of two dominant Central US grasses: Consequences for climate change. Journal of Plant Ecology. 2014;7:211 -221. doi:10.1093/jpe/rtt036.
Commerford JL, McLauchlan KK, Minckley TA. High dissimilarity within a multiyear annual record of pollen assemblages from a North American tallgrass prairie. Ecology and Evolution. 2016;6(15):5273 - 5289. doi:10.1002/ece3.2259.
Gough L, Gross KL, Cleland EE, et al. Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition. Oecologia. 2012;169:1053 -1062. doi:10.1007/s00442-012-2264-5.
Carter GA, Knapp AK, Anderson JE, Hoch GA, Smith MD. Indicators of plant species richness in AVIRIS spectra of a mesic grassland. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005;98:304 -316. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2005.08.001.
Nippert JB, Knapp AK, Briggs JM. Intra-annual rainfallvariability and grassland productivity: can the past predictthe future. Plant Ecology. 2006;184:65 -74. doi:10.1007/s11258-005-9052-9.
Chang CC, Smith MD. Invasion of an intact plant community: the role of population vs. community level diversity. Oecologia. 2012;168:1091 -1102. doi:10.1007/s00442-011-2157-z.
Craine JM, Spurr R, McLauchlan KK, Fierer N. Landscape-level variation in temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2009;42:373 -375. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.10.024.
McAllister CA, Knapp AK, Maragni LA. Is leaf-level photosynthesis related to plant success in a highly productive grassland?. Oecologia. 1998;117:40 -46. doi:10.1007/s004420050629.
Gibson DJ, Baer SG, Klopf RP, Reed LK, Wodika BR, Willand JE. Limited effects of dominant species population source on community composition during community assembly. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2013;24:429 -440. doi:10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01475.x.
Bremer D, Ham JM. Net carbon fluxes over burned and unburned native tallgrass prairie. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2010;63:72 -81. doi:10.2111/REM-D-09-00010.1.
Baer SG, Gibson DJ, Benscoter AM, et al. No effect of seed source on multiple aspects of ecosystem functioning during ecological restoration: cultivars compared to local ecotypes of dominant grasses. Evolutionary Applications. 2014;7:323 -335. doi:10.1111/eva.12124.
Smith MD, Knapp AK. Physiological and morphological traits of exotic, invasive exotic, and native plant species in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2001;162:785 -792. doi:10.1086/320774.
Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629. doi:10.1007/s00442-004-1541-3.
Klug PE, Wisely SM, With KA. Population genetic structure and landscape connectivity of the Eastern Yellowbelly Racer (Coluber constrictor flaviventris) in the contiguous tallgrass prairie of northeastern Kansas, USA. Landscape Ecology. 2011;26:281 -294. doi:10.1007/s10980-010-9554-2.
Kaste JM, Heimsatha AM, Hohmann M. Quantifying sediment transport across an undisturbed prairie landscape using cesium-137 and high resolution topography. Geomorphology. 2005;76:430 -440. doi:10.1016/j.geomorph.2005.12.007.
Breshears DD, Knapp AK, Law DJ, Smith MD, Twidwell D, Wonkka CL. Rangeland responses to predicted increases in drought extremity. Rangelands . 2016;38:191-196. Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.06.009.
Carter DL, Blair JM. Recovery of native plant community characteristics on a chronosequence of restored prairies seeded into pastures in West-Central Iowa. Restoration Ecology. 2012;20:170 -179. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00760.x.
McCulley RL, Burke IC, Nelson JA, Lauenroth WK, Knapp AK, Kelly EF. Regional patterns in carbon cycling across the Great Plains of North America. Ecosystems. 2005;8:106 -121. doi:10.1007/s10021-004-0117-8.
Benson E, Hartnett DC. The role of seed and vegetative reproduction in plant recruitment and demography in tallgrass prairie. Plant Ecology. 2006;187:163 -177. doi:10.1007/s11258-005-0975-y.
Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL, et al. Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. doi:10.1093/biosci/biw077.
Baer SG, Collins SL, Blair JM, Fiedler A, Knapp AK. Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: anapplication of ecological theory to restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 2005;13:413 -424. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2005.00051.x.
Craine JM, Gelderman TM. Soil moisture controls on temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition for a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 2011;43:455 -457. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2010.10.011.
Klodd AE, Nippert JB, Ratajczak Z, Waring H, Phoenix GK. Tight coupling of leaf area index to canopy nitrogen and phosphorus across heterogeneous tallgrass prairie communities. Oecologia. 2016;182(3):889 - 898. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3713-3.
Tiemann LK, Billings SA. Tracking C and N flows through microbial biomass with increased soil moisture variability. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2012;49:11 -22. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.01.030.
Laws A, Joern A. Variable effects of dipteran parasitoids and management treatment on grasshopper fecundity in a tallgrass prairie. Bulletin of Entomological Research. 2012;102:123 -130. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0007485311000472.
Thesis
Dalgleish HJ. Belowground bud banks as regulators of grassland dynamics. 2007;PhD Dissertation:1 -93. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/312.
Commerford JL. Calibrating vegetation cover and pollen assemblages in the Flint Hills of Kansas, USA. 2010;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4170.

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