Dr. Charles W. Rice

Name:

Dr. Charles W. Rice

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

2004 Throckmorton Plant Science Center, Department of Agronomy, Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS 66506

United States

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

ORCID:

0000-0002-1782-0908

Interest:

Soil microbial ecology, C and N dynamics, nutrient cycling

Publication List:

Souza LFT, Hirmas DR, Sullivan PL, Reuman DC, Kirk MF, Li L, et al.. Root distributions, precipitation, and soil structure converge to govern soil organic carbon depth distributions. Geoderma [Internet]. 2023;437:116569. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S001670612300246X

Wanithunga I. Effect of land use and land use management on methane oxidation [Internet]. Department of Agronomy. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2020. https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/40327

Borer ET, Lind EM, Firn J, Seabloom EW, Anderson TM, Bakker ES, et al.. More salt, please: global patterns, responses and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2019;22(7):1136 - 1144. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13270

McGowan AR, Roozeboom KL, Rice CW. Nitrous oxide emissions from annual and perennial biofuel cropping systems. Agronomy Journal [Internet]. 2019;111(1):84 - 92. http://doi.wiley.com/10.2134/agronj2018.03.0187

McGowan AR, Nicoloso RS, Diop HE, Roozeboom KL, Rice CW. Soil organic carbon, aggregation, and microbial community Structure in annual and perennial biofuel crops. Agronomy Journal [Internet]. 2019;111(13):128 - 142. http://doi.wiley.com/10.2134/agronj2018.04.0284

Chowdhury TRoy, Lee J-Y, Bottos EM, Brislawn CJ, White RAllen, Bramer LM, et al.. Metaphenomic response of a native prairie soil microbiome to moisture perturbations. Hallam SJ. mSystems [Internet]. 2019;4:e00061-19. http://msystems.asm.org/lookup/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00061-19

Roozeboom KL, Wang D, McGowan AR, Propheter JL, Staggenborg SA, Rice CW. Long-term biomass and potential ethanol yields of annual and perennial biofuel crops. Agronomy Journal [Internet]. 2019;111(1):74 - 83. http://doi.wiley.com/10.2134/agronj2018.03.0172

Carter T. Soil and microbial response to manipulated precipitation and land management [Internet]. Department of Agronomy. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2019. https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/39682

Hristov AN, Johnson JMF, Rice CW, Brown ME, Conant RT, Del Grosso SJ, et al.. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. In: Cavallaro N, Shrestha G, Mayes MA, Najjar R, Reed S, Romero-Lankao P, et al. Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report [Internet]. U.S. Global Change Research Program; 2018. pp. 229 - 263. https://carbon2018.globalchange.gov/chapter/5/

Mackelprang R, Grube AM, Lamendella R, Jesus Eda C, Copeland A, Liang C, et al.. Microbial community structure and functional potential in cultivated and native tallgrass prairie soils of the midwestern united states. Frontiers in Microbiology [Internet]. 2018;9:1775. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2018.01775

McGowan AR, Min D-H, Williams JR, Rice CW. Impact of nitrogen application rate on switchgrass yield, production costs, and nitrous oxide emissions. Journal of Environmental Quality [Internet]. 2018;47(2):228 - 237. http://doi.wiley.com/10.2134/jeq2017.06.0226

Anandhi A, Hutchinson S, Harrington J, Rahmani V, Kirkham MB, Rice CW. Changes in spatial and temporal trends in wet, dry, warm and cold spell length or duration indices in Kansas, USA. International Journal of Climatology [Internet]. 2016;36(12):4085 - 4101. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/joc.4619

Karlen D, Rice CW. Soil Degradation: Will Humankind Ever Learn?. Sustainability [Internet]. 2015;7(9):12490 - 12501. http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/7/9/12490

Smith P, Bustamante M, Ahammad H, Clark H, Dong H, Elsiddig EA, et al.. Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU). In Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Internet]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA.; 2014. pp. 811-922. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg3/agriculture-forestry-and-other-land-use-afolu/

Steiner JL, Engle DM, Xiao X, Saleh A, Tomlinson P, Rice CW, et al.. Knowledge and tools to enhance resilience of beef grazing systems for sustainable animal protein production. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2014;1328(1):10 - 17. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25376887

Jumpponen A, Zeglin LH, David M, Prestat E, Brown S, Dvornik J, et al.. Fungal community responses to discrete precipitation pulses under altered rainfall intervals. 2013. p. 182 -.

Zeglin LH, Bottomley PJ, Jumpponen A, Rice CW, Arango M, Lindsley A, et al.. Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales. Ecology [Internet]. 2013;94:2334 -2345. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/12-2018.1

Reisinger AJ, Blair JM, Rice CW, Dodds WK. Woody vegetation removal stimulates riparian and benthic denitrification in tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2013;16:547 -560. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-012-9630-3

Wilson GT, Rice CW, Rillig MC, Springer A, Hartnett DC. Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2009;12:452 -461. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01303.x

McKinley DC, Rice CW, Blair JM. Conversion of grassland to coniferous woodland has limited effects on soil nitrogen cycle processes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry [Internet]. 2008;40:2627 -2633. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071708002320?via%3Dihub

Williams MA, Rice CW. Seven years of enhanced water availability influences the physiological, structural and functional attributes of a soil microbial community. Applied Soil Ecology. 2007;35:535 -545.

Wilson GT, Hartnett DC, Rice CW. Mycorrhizal-mediated phosphorus transfer between tallgrass prairie plants Sorghastrum nutans and Artemisia ludoviciana. Functional Ecology. 2006;20:427 -435.

Williams MA, Rice CW, Owensby CE. Natural 15N abundances in a tallgrass prairie exposed to 8 years of elevated atmospheric CO2. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2006;37:409 -412.

Dell CJ, Williams MA, Rice CW. Partitioning of nitrogen over five growing seasons in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2005;86:1280 -1287.

Dell CJ, Rice CW. Short-term competition for ammonium and nitrate in tallgrass prairie. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2005;69:371 -377.

Williams MA, Rice CW, Omay A, Owensby C. Carbon and nitrogen pools in a tallgrass prairie soil under elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2004;68:148 -153.

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.

Williams MA, Rice CW, Owensby CE. Nitrogen competition in a tallgrass prairie ecosystem exposed to elevated carbon dioxide. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 2001;65:340 -346.

Rice CW, Owensby CE. Effects of fire and grazing on soil carbon in rangelands. In: Follet R, Kimble JM, Lal R. The Potential of U.S. Grazing Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect. Boca Raton, FL: Lewis Publishers; 2000. pp. 323 -342.

Williams MA, Rice CW, Owensby CE. Carbon dynamics and microbial activity in tallgrass prairie exposed to elevated CO2 for 8 years. Plant and Soil. 2000;227:127 -137.

Smith MD, Hartnett DC, Rice CW. Effects of long-term fungicide application on microbial processes in tallgrass prairie soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2000;32:935 -946.

Baer SG, Rice CW, Blair JM. Assessment of soil quality in fields with short- and long-term enrollment in the CRP. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation [Internet]. 2000;55:142 -146. http://www.jswconline.org/content/55/2/142.abstract

Ajwa HA, Dell CJ, Rice CW. Changes in enzyme activities and microbial biomass of tallgrass prairie soil as related to burning and nitrogen fertilization. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 1999;31:769 -777.

Sotomayor D, Rice CW. Soil air carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide concentrations in profiles under tallgrass prairie and cultivation. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1999;28:784 -793.

Banks MK, Clennan C, Dodds WK, Rice CW. Variations in microbial activity due to fluctuations in soil water content at the water table interface. Journal of Environmental Science and Health. 1999;34:479 -505.

Ransom MD, Rice CW, Todd TC, Wehmueller WA. Soils and soil biota. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 48 -66.

Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Rice CW, Ramundo RA. Terrestrial nutrient cycling in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 222 -243.

Rice CW, Todd TC, Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Ramundo RA, Wilson GT. Belowground biology and processes. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 244 -264.

Ajwa HA, Rice CW, Sotomayor D. Carbon and nitrogen mineralization in tallgrass prairie and agricultural soil profiles. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1998;62:942 -951.

Rice CW, Moorman T, Beare M. Role of microbial biomass C and N in soil quality. In: Doran JW, Jones AJ. Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America Inc; 1996. pp. 203 -215.

Owensby CE, Ham JM, Knapp AK, Rice CW, Coyne PI, Auen LM. Ecosystem level responses of tallgrass prairie to elevated CO2. In: Koch GW, Mooney HA. Carbon Dioxide and Terrestrial Ecosystems. London: Academic Press; 1996. pp. 147 -162.

Drinkwater LE, Cambardella CA, Reeder JD, Rice CW. Potentially mineralizable N as an indicator of active soil nitrogen. In: Doran JW, Jones AJ. Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America Inc; 1996. pp. 217 -299.

Sotomayor D, Rice CW. Denitrification in soil profiles beneath grassland and cultivated soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1996;60:1822 -1828.

Dodds WK, Banks MK, Clenan CS, Rice CW, Sotomayor D, Strauss EA, et al.. Biological properties of soil and subsurface sediments under abandoned pasture and cropland. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 1996;28:837 -846.

Rice CW, Garcia FO. Biologically active pools of soil C and N in tallgrass prairie. In: Doran JW, Jones AJ. Defining Soil Quality for a Sustainable Environment. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America; 1994. pp. 201 -208.

Zak DR, Tilman D, Parameter RR, Fisher FM, Rice CW, Vose J, et al.. Plant production and the biomass of soil microorganisms in late-successional ecosystems: A continental-scale study. Ecology. 1994;75:2333 -2347.

Garcia FO, Rice CW. Microbial biomass dynamics in tallgrass prairie. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 1994;58:816 -823.

Groffman PM, Rice CW, Tiedje JM. Denitrification in a tallgrass prairie landscape. Ecology. 1993;74:855 -862.

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Charles W. Rice

OMB01 Microbial biomass in the Belowground Plot Experiment at Konza Prairie (1989-1999)

PBB02 Belowground Plot Experiment: Biomass and nutrient content of Rhizomes

PBB03 Belowground Plot Experiment: Belowground plot experiment: biomass and nutrient content of Roots