Dr. Kevin Wilcox

Name:

Dr. Kevin Wilcox

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

University of Wyoming

1000 E University Ave

Laramie, WY 82071

United States

Email:

k_wilcox@uncg.edu

Interest:

Ecology, Climate Change, Plant Communities, Ecosystems

Publication List:

Wilcox KR, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Pockman W, Shi Z, Smith MD, et al.. Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2023;20(13):2707 - 2725. https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/20/2707/2023/

Wilcox KR, Chen A, Avolio ML, Butler EE, Collins SL, Fisher R, et al.. Accounting for herbaceous communities in process‐based models will advance our understanding of “grassy” ecosystems. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2023;29(23):6453 - 6477. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16950

Nippert JB, McCulloh K, Wilcox K, O'Keefe K, Keen R, Chen A. Using root and soil traits to forecast woody encroachment dynamics in mesic grassland [Internet]. 2023 . https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2248061

J. Langley A, Grman E, Wilcox KR, Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Collins SL, et al.. Do trade‐offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments?. Ecology [Internet]. 2022;103(6):e3626. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3626

Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Koerner SE, Grman E, Isbell F, Johnson DS, et al.. Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2022;13(10):e4249. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4249

Rastetter EB, Kwiakowski BL, Kicklighter DW, A. Plotkin B, Genet H, Nippert JB, et al.. N and P constrain C in ecosystems under climate change: role of nutrient redistribution, accumulation, and stoichiometry. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2022;32(8):e2684. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.2684

Smith MD, Koerner SE, Knapp AK, Avolio ML, Chaves FA, Denton EM, et al.. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2020;108(3):855-864. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.13330

Avolio ML, Carroll I, Collins SL, Houseman GR, Hallett LM, Isbell FL, et al.. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2019;10(10):e02881. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.2881

Komatsu KJ, Avolio ML, Lemoine NP, Isbell F, Grman E, Houseman GR, et al.. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/14/1819027116

Langley A, Chapman SK, La Pierre KJ, Avolio ML, Bowman WD, Johnson D, et al.. Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in long-term global change experiments. Glob Chang Biol [Internet]. 2018;24(12):5668 - 5679. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14442

Wu D, Ciais P, Viovy N, Knapp AK, Wilcox KR, Bahn M, et al.. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2018;15(11):3421 - 3437. https://www.biogeosciences.net/15/3421/2018/

Smith MD, Wilcox KR, Power SA, Tissue DT, Knapp AK. Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2017;28(2):235 - 237. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jvs.12524

Wilcox KR, Shi Z, Gherardi LA, Lemoine NP, Koerner SE, Hoover DL, et al.. Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2017;23(10). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13706

Wilcox KR, Tredennick AT, Koerner SE, Grman E, Hallett LM, Avolio ML, et al.. Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities. Gurevitch J. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2017;. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.12861/epdf

Koerner SE, Avolio ML, La Pierre KJ, Wilcox KR, Smith MD, Collins SL. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2016;104:1478-1487. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12610

Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology [Internet]. 2016;97:561-568. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/15-1437.1

Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Stability of grassland soil C and N pools despite 25 years of an extreme climatic and disturbance regime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2016;121(7):1934 - 1945. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JG003370

Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL, Burkepile DE, Kirkman KP, Koerner SE, et al.. Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/8/666/2464141

Wilcox KR, Von Fischer JC, Muscha JM, Petersen MK, Knapp AK. Contrasting above- and belowground sensitivity of three Great Plains grasslands to altered rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2015;21:335 -344. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.12673

Knapp AK, Hoover DL, Wilcox KR, Avolio ML, Koerner SE, La Pierre KJ, et al.. Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: Implications for climate change experiments. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2015;21:2624 -2633. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.12888

Yu Q, Wilcox KR, La Pierre KJ, Knapp AK, Han X, Smith MD. Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change. Ecology [Internet]. 2015;96(9):2335. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/14-1897.1

Wilcox KR. Assessing grassland sensitivity to global change [Internet]. [Fort Collins, CO]: Colorado State University; 2015. https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/167147

Avolio ML, Koerner SE, La Pierre KJ, Wilcox KR, Wilson GT, Smith MD, et al.. Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2014;102:1649 -1660. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12312

Koerner SE, Burkepile DE, Fynn RWS, Burns CE, Eby S, Govender N, et al.. Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:808 -816. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/13-1828.1

Kirkman K, Collins SL, Smith MD, Knapp AK, Burkepile DE, Burns CE, et al.. Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:793 -804. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12130

Eby S, Burkepile DE, Fynn RWS, Burns CE, Govender N, Hagenah N, et al.. Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa. Oecologia [Internet]. 2014;175:293 -303. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-014-2895-9

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Kevin Wilcox

PPL01 Konza prairie long-term phosphorus plots experiment

GFE01 Ghost Fire: an experimental manipulation of fire effects on multi-trophic community dynamics in the ungrazed uplands of unburned and annually burned watersheds of Konza Prairie

CME01 The Consumer Size Manipulation Experiment (ConSME) at Konza Prairie