Dr. Kimberly Komatsu

Name:

Dr. Kimberly Komatsu

Title:

Senior Scientist

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

United States

Email:

kjkomatsu@uncg.edu

ORCID:

0000-0001-7056-4547

Interest:

CO2, animal plant interactions, climate change, ecosystem function, ecosystems global change, human impacts, invasive plant species, invertebrates, nutrient pollution, plant ecology

Publication List:

Bunch Z. Impacts of patch burn grazing on the invertebrate communities of Kansas rangelands [Internet]. [Greensboro, NC]: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG ); 2024. http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/uncg/listing.aspx?styp=ti&id=47595

Muehleisen AJ, Watkins CRE, Altmire GR, E. Shaw A, Case MF, Aoyama L, et al.. Nutrient addition drives declines in grassland species richness primarily via enhanced species loss. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2023;111(3):552-563. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14038

Ebeling A, Strauss AT, Adler PB, Arnillas CA, Barrio C, Biederman LA, et al.. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2022;110(2):327 - 339. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.13801

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

Carroll O, Batzer E, Bharath S, Borer ET, Campana ía, Esch E, et al.. Nutrient identity modifies the destabilising effects of eutrophication in grasslands. Peñuelas J. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2022;259(4):754 - 765. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13946

Ladouceur E, Blowes SA, Chase JM, Clark AT, Garbowski M, Alberti J, et al.. Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2022;25(12):2699-2712. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.14126

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

Seabloom EW, Adler PB, Alberti J, Biederman L, Buckley YM, Cadotte MW, et al.. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology [Internet]. 2021;102(2):e03218. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.3218

Tognetti PM, Prober SM, Báez S, Chaneton EJ, Firn J, Risch AC, et al.. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2021;118(28):e2023718118. http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.2023718118

Avolio ML, Komatsu KJ, Collins SL, Grman E, Koerner SE, Tredennick AT, et al.. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Anderson M. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2021;24(9):1892-1904. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ele.13824

Gray JE, Komatsu KJ, Smith MD. Defining codominance in plant communities. New Phytologist [Internet]. 2021;230(5):1716-1730. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/nph.17253

Wilfahrt PA, Asmus AL, Seabloom EW, Henning JA, Adler P, Arnillas CA, et al.. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology [Internet]. 2021;102(11). https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecy.3504

Bloodworth KJ, Ritchie ME, Komatsu KJ. Effects of white‐tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2020;31(5):899-907. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12910

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

Borer ET, Harpole WS, Adler PB, Arnillas CA, Bugalho MN, Cadotte MW, et al.. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications [Internet]. 2020;11(1):6036. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19870-y

Seabloom EW, Condon B, Kinkel L, Komatsu KJ, Lumibao CY, May G, et al.. Effects of nutrient supply, herbivory, and host community on fungal endophyte diversity. Ecology [Internet]. 2019;100(9):e02758. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.2758

Avolio ML, Forrestel EJ, Chang CC, La Pierre KJ, Burghardt KT, Smith MD. Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist [Internet]. 2019;223(3):1106 - 1126. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nph.15789

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

Cleland EE, Lind EM, DeCrappeo NM, DeLorenze E, Wilkins RAbbott, Adler P, et al.. Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2019;22(7):1466–1477. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-019-00350-4

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

Hautier Y, Isbell F, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, W. Harpole S, Lind EM, et al.. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology & Evolution [Internet]. 2018;2:50-56. http://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0395-0

Hodapp D, Borer ET, W. Harpole S, Lind EM, Seabloom EW, Adler P, et al.. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation. Gurevitch J. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2018;21(9):1364 -1371. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ele.13102

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

Lind EM, La Pierre KJ, Seabloom EW, Alberti J, Iribarne O, Firn J, et al.. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: a test of mediation pathways. Ecology [Internet]. 2017;98(12):3022-3033. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/ecy.2029

Biederman LA, Mortensen B, Fay PA, Hagenah N, Knops J, La Pierre KJ, et al.. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains. PLOS ONE [Internet]. 2017;(5):e0178440. http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178440ttp

W. Harpole S, Sullivan LL, Lind EM, Firn J, Adler P, Borer ET, et al.. Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light and plant diversity. Thompson K. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2017;31(9):1839-1846. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2435.12967

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

Biederman LA, Mortensen B, Fay PA, Hagenah N, Knops J, La Pierre KJ, et al.. How do extra nutrients affect the timing of flowering in prairies. Environmental Science Journal for Teens [Internet]. 2017;(September, 2017). http://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/uploads/5/4/2/8/54289603/flowers_article.pdf

La Pierre KJ, Blumenthal DM, Brown CS, Klein JA, Smith MD. Drivers of variation in aboveground net primary productivity and plant community composition differ across a broad precipitation gradient. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2016;19(3):521-533. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-015-9949-7

Harpole WS, Sullivan LL, Lind EM, Firn J, Adler P, Borer ET, et al.. Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature [Internet]. 2016;537:93-96. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature19324

Flores-Moreno H, Reich PB, Lind EM, Sullivan LL, Seabloom EW, Yahdjian L, et al.. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences [Internet]. 2016;3719371(1694):20150273. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2015.0273

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

La Pierre KJ, Smith MD. Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems. Oecologia [Internet]. 2016;180(2):485 -497. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-015-3471-7

La Pierre KJ, Joern A, Smith MD. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass. Oikos [Internet]. 2015;124:842 -850. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/oik.01869

Leff JW, Jones SE, Prober SM, Barberán A, Borer ET, Firn JL, et al.. Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2015;112(35):10967 - 10972. https://www.pnas.org/content/112/35/10967

Smith MD, La Pierre KJ, Collins SL, Knapp AK, Gross KL, Barrett JE, et al.. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia [Internet]. 2015;177(4):935 - 947. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-015-3230-9

La Pierre KJ, Smith MD. Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2015;216:307 -318. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-014-0438-4

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

Stevens CJ, Lind EM, Hautier Y, Harpole WS, Borer ET, Hobbie S, et al.. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide. Ecology [Internet]. 2015;96:1459 -1465. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/14-1902.1

Knapp AK, Carroll CJW, Denton EM, La Pierre KJ, Collins SL, Smith MD. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands. Oecologia [Internet]. 2015;177:949 -957. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-015-3233-6

Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Buckley Y, Cleland EE, Davies KF, Firn J, et al.. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications [Internet]. 2015;6:7710 -. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8710

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

Prober SM, Leff JW, Bates ST, Borer ET, Firn J, Harpole WS, et al.. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2015;18:85 -95. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.12381

Hautier Y, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Adler P, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, et al.. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature [Internet]. 2014;508:521 -525. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13014

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

Borer ET, Seabloom EW, Gruner DS, Harpole WS, Hillebrand H, Lind EM, et al.. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature [Internet]. 2014;508(7497):517 - 520. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13144

MacDougall AS, Bennett JR, Firn J, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Lind EM, et al.. Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands. Global Ecology and Biogeography [Internet]. 2014;23(7):802 - 810. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/geb.12157

Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Buckley Y, Cleland EE, Davies K, Firn J, et al.. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2013;19(12):3677 - 3687. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.12370

La Pierre KJ. Drivers of grassland community structure and ecosystem function: the role of biotic factors in determining the ecosystem response to alterations in resource availability [Internet]. [New Haven, CT]: Yale University; 2013. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1495948277?pq-origsite=gscholar

Knapp AK, Smith MD, Hobbie SE, Collins SL, Fahey TJ, Hansen GJA, et al.. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER Network. Bioscience [Internet]. 2012;62:377 -389. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/62/4/377/243762

La Pierre KJ, Yuan SH, Chang CC, Avolio ML, Hallett LM, Schreck T, et al.. Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2011;99:1250 -1262. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01844.x

Firn J, Moore JL, MacDougall AS, Borer ET, Seabloom EW, HilleRisLambers J, et al.. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2011;14:274 -281. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01584.x

Adler P, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Hillebrand H, Hautier Y, Hector A, et al.. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science [Internet]. 2011;333:1750 -1753. http://science.sciencemag.org/content/333/6050/1750

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Kimberly Komatsu

VIR01 Effects of invertebate and vertebrate herbivory on tallgrass prairie plant community composition and biomass, Konza Prairie LTER

PPL01 Konza prairie long-term phosphorus plots experiment

NUT01 Nutrient Network: Investigating the roles of nutrient availability and vertebrate herbivory on grassland structure and function at Konza Prairie

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