Konza Prairie News
Kim La Pierre interviewed in Shorelines |
Kim La Pierre, a Konza LTER reseacher, was interviewed in a recent edition of Shorelines, Life and science at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. |
Dodds receives Society for Freshwater Science Award of Excellence |
Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor in the Division of Biology, is the 2017 recipient of the Society for Freshwater Science Award of Excellence. |
LTER sites featured in Discover Magazine |
Numerous LTER sites, including Konza LTER, were featured recently in Discover Magazine in an article entitled, Diary of a Changing Planet. The article chronicles a plant in flux. Konza LTER is featured on slide 7. |
Recent publication featured in LTER in the News |
Global synthesis of the temperature sensitivity of leaf litter breakdown in streams and rivers, a recent Global Change Biology article by Konza LTER investigators, Walter Dodds and Lydia Zeglin, and others, has been featured in the May/June 2017 edition of LTER in the News. |
The 26th Annual Konza Prairie LTER Workshop |
The 26th annual Konza Prairie LTER workshop was held on May, 31, 2017 at Prairie Biological Station in the Cortelyou Lecture Hall. Over 65 participants attended the workshop. The day was filled with informative talks and a poster session consisting of 19 posters. |
Recent publication featured in April's LTER Science Update |
Grazing by bison is stronger driver of plant ecohydrology in tallgrass prairie than fire history, a recent Plant and Soil article by Kimberly O'Keefe and Jesse Nippert, has been featured in the April 2017 edition of the LTER Science Update. |
Konza Prairie featured in recent edition of Seek magazine |
Home of the Range: Konza Prairie Biological Station works to conserve one of the most diminished ecosystems in North America is the title of an article in the latest edition of Seek, Kansas State University's research magazine. The article covers the research occurring at Konza and its importance. |
O’Connor wins SRM student award |
Congratulation to KNZ LTER PhD student, Rory O’Connor! Rory was awarded first place in the PhD oral paper presentation category of the 2017 Society for Range Management Graduate Student Paper Competition. His presentation was entitled “Browsing Impacts Resprouting Shrub Physiology in a Woody Encroached Grassland.” Rory's adviser is Dr. Jesse Nippert. |
A story about some KNZ/LTER research that was featured in the most recent LTER network news |
What (and When) is the Point of No Return? | Ecological Monographs How—and when—do ecosystems change character? Are those shifts reversible? And what signs might precede them? Such questions are hard enough to answer in a single place. One might think that incorporating different kinds of ecosystems would only complicate the problem. But a group of scientists in the... |
K-State educator’s children’s book tells story of bison calf born at Konza Prairie |
MANHATTAN — A children’s book written by a Kansas State University environmental educator aims to teach children about the tallgrass prairie ecosystem. “The Autumn Calf” by Jill Haukos, director of education for the Konza Environmental Education Program, tells a true story of a newborn bison calf born at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in fall 2012, according to a news release. A herd of... |