Konza LTER Publications
Effects of changing meteoric precipitation patterns on groundwater temperature in karst environments. Groundwater. 2017;55(2):227-236. doi:10.1111/gwat.12456.
. 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.
. Effects of rangeland management on survival of female greater prairie‐chickens. The Journal of Wildlife Management. 2017. doi:10.1002/jwmg.21331.
. Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(8):3064-3075. doi:10.1111/gcb.13609.
. Grassland soil microbial responses to long-term management of N availability. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36228.
. Grazing by bison is a stronger driver of plant ecohydrology in tallgrass prairie than fire history. Plant and Soil. 2017;411(1):423-436. doi:10.1007/s11104-016-3048-1.
. Groundwater declines are linked to changes in Great Plains stream fish assemblages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2017;114(28):7373 - 7378. doi:10.1073/pnas.1618936114.
Habitat guild drives variation in apparent survival of landbirds in the Great Plains. Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 2017;129:259-270. doi:10.1676/16-017.1.
. How do extra nutrients affect the timing of flowering in prairies. Environmental Science Journal for Teens. 2017;(September, 2017). Available at: http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/flowers_article.pdf.
Impacts of plant diversity on arthropod communities and plant-herbivore network architecture. Ecosphere. 2017;8(10):e01983. doi:10.1002/ecs2.1983.
. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 2017;98(12):3022-3033. doi:10.1002/ecy.2029.
Influence of fishes on stream invertebrate community structure and insect emergence from permanent pools in a prairie stream network. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2348/.
. The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales. Ecological Monographs. 2017;87(2):198-218. doi:10.1002/ecm.1249.
. Juniper invasions in grasslands: research needs and intervention strategies. Rangelands. 2017;39(2):64 - 72. doi:10.1016/j.rala.2017.03.002.
. A long‐term study of burning effects on a plant pathogen in tallgrass prairie. Plant Pathology. 2017;66(8):1308–1317. doi:10.1111/ppa.12678.
Low biodiversity of small mammals in soybean fields in the northern Flint Hills, Kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):175 - 182. doi:10.1660/062.120.0404.
. Nonreproductive ecology of a nearctic-neotropical migratory bird in the managed rangelands of northern Uruguay. 2017;PhD Dissertation.
. Novel observations of larval fire survival, feeding behavior, and host plant use in the regal fritillary, speyeria idalia (Drury) (Nymphalidae). Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 2017;71(3):146 - 152. doi:10.18473/lepi.71i3.a4.
. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains. PLOS ONE. 2017;(5):e0178440. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178440.
Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity. . Functional Ecology. 2017;31(9):1839-1846. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12967.
Partitioning the CO2 net flux into assimilation and respiration components, and estimating water use efficiency in a grassland ecosystem. 2017;MS Thesis.
. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. doi:10.1111/gcb.13666.
. Photosynthetic responses of a dominant C4 grass to an experimental heat wave are mediated by soil moisture. Oecologia. 2017;183(1):303-313. doi:10.1007/s00442-016-3755-6.
. Physiological and morphological responses of grass species to drought. Department of Biology. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/36188.
. Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species. Functional Ecology. 2017. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12904.
. Probing whole-stream metabolism: influence of spatial heterogeneity on rate estimates. Freshwater Biology. 2017;62(4):711 - 723. doi:10.1111/fwb.12896.
. Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie. PLoS One. 2017;12(5):e0177754. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0177754.
. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. doi:10.1111/gcb.13504.
Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation– productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytologist. 2017;214(1):41-47. doi:10.1111/nph.14381.
. Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2017;81(1):50-60. doi:10.2136/sssaj2016.05.0158.
. Restoration and management for plant diversity enhances the rate of belowground ecosystem recovery. Ecological Applications. 2017;27(2):355 - 362. doi:10.1002/eap.1503.
. Restored prairie response to reduction in ectophagous insects. 2017; MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2331/.
. The role of soil heterogeneity in the recruitment of new species and interactions with grasshoppers (Acrididae) and Katydids (Tettigoniidae) in restored prairie. 2017;MS Thesis. Available at: https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2080/.
. Role of spatial and temporal vegetation heterogeneity from fire-grazing interactions to the assembly of tallgrass prairie spider communities. Department of Biology. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/34672.
. Small mammals in anthropogenic brome fields as compared to native tallgrass prairie in the northern flint hills of kansas. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2017;120(3-4):157 - 169. doi:10.1660/062.120.0402.
. Small vegetation gaps increase reseeded yellow-flowered alfalfa performance and production in native grasslands. Basic and Applied Ecology. 2017;24:41 - 52. doi:10.1016/j.baae.2017.08.002.
. Space use of female greater Prairie-Chickens in response to fire and grazing interactions. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 2017;70(2):165–174. doi:10.1016/j.rama.2016.08.004.
. Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities. . Ecology Letters. 2017;20(12):1565. doi:10.1111/ele.12864.
. Temporal variability in large grazer space use in an experimental landscape. Ecosphere. 2017;8(1). doi:10.1002/ecs2.1674.
Testing metabolic cold adaptation as a driver of warm-water fish species replacement along the river continuum. Environmental Biology of Fishes. 2017;100(3):265-279. doi:10.1007/s10641-017-0577-2.
. Use of vegetation sampling and analysis to detect a problem within a portion of a prairie restoration project. International Journal of Phytoremediation. 2017;19(1):65 - 72. doi:10.1080/15226514.2016.1216081.
. Validation of a field-ready handheld meter for plasma β-hydroxybutyrate analysis. Journal of Field Ornithology. 2017;88(4):399 - 404. doi:10.1111/jofo.2017.88.issue-410.1111/jofo.12233.
. Advancing theories of ecosystem development through Long-Term Ecological Research. BioScience. 2018;68(8):554–562. doi:10.1093/biosci/biy070.
. Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in long-term global change experiments. Glob Chang Biol. 2018;24(12):5668 - 5679. doi:10.1111/gcb.14442.
Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites. Biogeosciences. 2018;15(11):3421 - 3437. doi:10.5194/bg-15-3421-2018.
Body condition and feather molt of a migratory shorebird during the non-breeding season. Journal of Avian Biology. 2018;49(4):jav-01480. doi:10.1111/jav.01480.
. Carbon exchange responses of a mesic grassland to an extreme gradient of precipitation. Oecologia. 2018:1 -12. doi:10.1007/s00442-018-4284-2.
. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2018;2:1925-1932. doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0696-y.
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