Dr. Melinda D. Smith

Name:

Dr. Melinda D. Smith

Role:

co-Principal Investigator

Address:

College of Natural Sciences Biology, Colorado State University

Fort Collins, CO 80523

United States

Email:

melinda.smith@colostate.edu

Phone:

Interest:

Community Ecology

Publication List:

Smith MD, Wilkins KD, Holdrege MC, Wilfahrt P, Collins SL, Knapp AK, et al.. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2024;121(4):e230988112. https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2309881120

Song L, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Muraina TO, Chen J, Te N, Shi Y, et al.. Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across East Asia and North America. Ecology [Internet]. 2024;105(2):e4220. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4220

Mount HE, Smith MD, Knapp AK, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Collins SL, Atkins DH, et al.. Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2024;112(2):416-426. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.14243

Knapp AK, Condon KV, Folks CC, Sturchio MA, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Kannenberg SA, et al.. Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2024;38(1):76-97. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2435.14460

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

Slette IJ, Hoover DL, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Repeated extreme droughts decrease root production, but not the potential for post‐drought recovery of root production, in a mesic grassland. Oikos [Internet]. 2023;1:e08899. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/oik.08899

Bakker JD, Price JN, Henning JA, Batzer EE, Ohlert TJ, Wainwright CE, et al.. Compositional variation in grassland plant communities. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2023;14(6):e4542. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.4542

Griffin-Nolan RJ, Felton AJ, Slette IJ, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Traits that distinguish dominant species across aridity gradients differ from those that respond to soil moisture. Oecologia [Internet]. 2023;201(2):311 - 322. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00442-023-05315-y

Koerner SE, Avolio ML, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Multiple global change drivers show independent, not interactive effects: a long-term case study in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia [Internet]. 2023;201(1):143–154. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00442-022-05295-5

Gray JE, Smith MD. Contrasting intra‐annual population dynamics of two codominant species are consistent across spatial and temporal scales. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2023;111(3):676-686. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.14055

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/

Ratajczak Z, Collins SL, Blair JM, Koerner SE, Louthan AM, Smith MD, et al.. Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Internet]. 2022;119(36):e2210433119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210433119

Vilonen LL, Blair JM, Trivedi P, Zeglin LH, Smith MD. Limited legacy effects of extreme multiyear drought on carbon and nitrogen cycling in a mesic grassland. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene [Internet]. 2022;10(1):000093. https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/10/1/000093/122265/Limited-legacy-effects-of-extreme-multiyear

Broderick CM, Wilkins K, Smith MD, Blair JM. Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2022;28(8):2639-2656. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16084

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

Gray JE. Defining, describing, and assessing growth determinacy as a mechanism of plant species codominance [Internet]. [Fort Collins, CO]: Colorado State University; 2022. https://api.mountainscholar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/e9229126-0255-4b7d-aa9b-e1b3bedfc593/content

Ross M. Response and recovery of grassland plant communities exposed to multiyear drought differs across a precipitation gradient [Internet]. [Fort Collins, CO]: Colorado State University; 2022. https://api.mountainscholar.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/d7eb2bdf-6570-4232-abc4-8229e1c8f835/content

Lagueux D, Jumpponen A, Porras-Alfaro A, Herrera J, Y. Chung A, Baur LE, et al.. Experimental drought re‐ordered assemblages of root‐associated fungi across North American grasslands. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2021;109(2):776 - 792. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13505

Slette IJ, Blair JM, Fay PA, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Effects of compounded precipitation pattern intensification and drought occur belowground in a mesic grassland. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2021;. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-021-00714-9

Chaves FA, Smith MD. Resources do not limit compensatory response of a tallgrass prairie plant community to the loss of a dominant species. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2021;109(10):3617-3633. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13741

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

Yahdjian L, Sala OE, PiÑEiro-Guerra JManuel, Knapp AK, Collins SL, Phillips RP, et al.. Why coordinated distributed experiments should go global. BioScience [Internet]. 2021;71(9):918 - 927. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/71/9/918/6259352

Felton AJ, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2021;27(6):1127 - 1140. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.15480

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

Felton AJ, Slette IJ, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2020;26(2):658-668. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14789

Knapp AK, Chen A, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Baur LE, Carroll CJW, Gray JE, et al.. Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2020;117(36):22249-22255. http://www.pnas.org/lookup/doi/10.1073/pnas.1922030117

Griffin-Nolan RJ, Blumenthal DM, Collins SL, Farkas TE, Hoffman AM, Mueller KE, et al.. Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands. Jones H. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2019;107(5):2133 - 2148. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13252

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

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

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

Slette IJ, Post AK, Awad M, Even T, Punzalan A, Williams S, et al.. How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2019;25(10):3193 - 3200. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14747

Griffin-Nolan RJ, Carroll CJW, Denton EM, Johnston MK, Collins SL, Smith MD, et al.. Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2018;219(5):505 - 515. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11258-018-0813-7.pdf

Avolio ML, Hoffman AM, Smith MD. Linking gene regulation, physiology, and plant biomass allocation in Andropogon gerardii in response to drought. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2018;219(1):1 - 15. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11258-017-0773-3

Hoffman AM, Avolio ML, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Codominant grasses differ in gene expression under experimental climate extremes in native tallgrass prairie. PeerJ [Internet]. 2018;:e4394. https://peerj.com/articles/4394/

Koerner SE, Smith MD, Burkepile DE, Hanan NP, Avolio ML, Collins SL, et al.. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution [Internet]. 2018;2:1925-1932. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0696-y#article-info

Hoffman AM, Smith MD. Gene expression differs in codominant prairie grasses under drought. Molecular Ecology Resources [Internet]. 2018;18(2):334-346. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1755-0998.12733

Knapp AK, Carroll CJW, Griffin-Nolan RJ, Slette IJ, Chavez FA, Baur L, et al.. A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?. Ecology [Internet]. 2018;99(10):2145-2151. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecy.2474

Felton AJ, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Carbon exchange responses of a mesic grassland to an extreme gradient of precipitation. Oecologia [Internet]. 2018;:1 -12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-018-4284-2

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/

Haëntjens E, De Boeck HJ, Lemoine NP, Mänd P, Dulay KG, Schmidt IK, et al.. Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought. Science of The Total Environment [Internet]. 2018;636:360 - 366. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969718314670

Ochoa-Hueso R, Collins SL, Delgado-Baquerizo M, Hamonts K, Pockman WT, Sinsabaugh RL, et al.. Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2018;24(7):2818 - 2827. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.14113

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

Denton EM, Dietrich JD, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2017;218(3):317 - 328. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-016-0690-x

Lemoine NP, Dietrich JD, Smith MD. Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2017;. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2435.12904

Hoover DL, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Photosynthetic responses of a dominant C4 grass to an experimental heat wave are mediated by soil moisture. Oecologia [Internet]. 2017;183(1):303-313. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-016-3755-6

Rode M, Lemoine NP, Smith MD. Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie. PLoS One [Internet]. 2017;12(5):e0177754. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0177754

Forrestel EJ, Donoghue MJ, Edwards EJ, Jetz W, Toit JCO du, Smith MD. Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2017;114(4):705 - 710. https://www.pnas.org/content/114/4/705

Knapp AK, Avolio ML, Beier C, Carroll CJW, Collins SL, Dukes JS, et al.. Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2017;23(5):1774-1782. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13504

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

Knapp AK, Ciais P, Smith MD. Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation– productivity relationships: implications for climate change. New Phytologist [Internet]. 2017;214(1):41-47. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.14381

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

Gray JE. Climate change impacts on population dynamics in tallgrass prairie: implications for species codominance [Internet]. [Fort Collins, CO]: Colorado State University; 2017. https://mountainscholar.org/handle/10217/181431

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

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

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

Grace JB, Anderson TM, Seabloom EW, Borer ET, Adler P, Harpole WS, et al.. Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness. Nature [Internet]. 2016;529(7586):390 - 393. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature16524

Dietrich JD, Smith MD. The effect of timing of growing season drought on flowering of a dominant C4 grass. Oecologia [Internet]. 2016;181(2):391 - 399. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-016-3579-4

Smith MD, Hoffman AM, Avolio ML. Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation. Scientific Reports [Internet]. 2016;6:25522. https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25522

Jones SK, Collins SL, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports [Internet]. 2016;(1). https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20120

Breshears DD, Knapp AK, Law DJ, Smith MD, Twidwell D, Wonkka CL. Rangeland responses to predicted increases in drought extremity. Rangelands [Internet]. 2016;38:191-196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rala.2016.06.009

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

Hoover DL, Knapp AK, Smith MD. The immediate and prolonged effects of climate extremes on soil respiration in a mesic grassland. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2016;121(4):1034 - 1044. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2015JG003256

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

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

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

Koerner SE, Avolio ML, Chang CC, Grey J, Hoover DL, Smith MD. Invasibility of a mesic grassland depends on the time-scale of fluctuating resources. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2015;103(6):1538 - 1546. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12479

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

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

Forrestel EJ, Donoghue MJ, Smith MD. Functional differences between dominant grasses drive divergent responses to large herbivore loss in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2015;103:714 -724. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12376

Avolio ML, Chang CC, Weis JJ, Smith MD. The effects of genotype richness and genomic dissimilarity of Andropogon gerardii on invasion resistance and productivity. Plant Ecology and Diversity [Internet]. 2015;8:61 -71. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17550874.2013.866990

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

Forrestel EJ, Donoghue MJ, Smith MD. Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa. New Phytologist [Internet]. 2014;203:1000 -1011. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.12846

Koerner SE, Collins SL, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:36 -44. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12065

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

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

Chang CC, Smith MD. Resource availability modulates above and belowground competitive interactions between genotypes of a dominant C4 grass. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2014;28:1041 -1051. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12227

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

Chang CC, Smith MD. Direct and indirect relationships between genetic diversity of a dominant grass, community diversity and above-ground productivity in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:470 -480. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12108

Hoover DL, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes. Ecology [Internet]. 2014;95:2646 -2656. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/13-2186.1

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

Hoover DL, Smith MD. Contrasting sensitivities of two dominant C4 grasses to heat waves and drought. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2014;215:721 -731. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-014-0345-8

Shi Z, Thomey ML, Mowll M, Litvak ME, Brunsell N, Collins SL, et al.. Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: Synthesis and modeling analysis. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2014;11:621 -633. https://www.biogeosciences.net/11/621/2014/

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

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

Avolio ML, Smith MD. Intra-specific responses of a dominant C4 grass to altered precipitation patterns. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2013;214:1377 - 1389. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11258-013-0258-y

Chang CC, Smith MD. Genotypic diversity of a dominant C4 grass across a long-term fire frequency gradient. Journal of Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2013;6:448 -458. https://academic.oup.com/jpe/article/6/6/448/980977

Avolio ML, Smith MD. Mechanisms of selection: Phenotypic differences among genotypes explain patterns of selection in a dominant species. Ecology [Internet]. 2013;94:953 -965. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/12-1119.1

Avolio ML, Smith MD. Correlations between genetic and species diversity: effects of resource quantity and heterogeneity. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2013;24:1185 -1194. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12042

Avolio ML, Beaulieu J, Smith MD. Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability. Oecologia [Internet]. 2013;171:571 -581. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-012-2427-4

Fraser LH, Henry HA, Carlyle CN, White SR, Beierkuhnlein C, Cahill JF, et al.. Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Internet]. 2013;11:147 -155. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/110279

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

Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Smith MD. Community stability does not preclude ecosystem sensitivity to chronic resource alteration. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2012;26:1231 -1233. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2012.02053.x

Knapp AK, Hoover DL, Blair JM, Buis G, Burkepile DE, Chamberlain AJ, et al.. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2012;5:357 -365. https://academic.oup.com/jpe/article/5/4/357/908695

Chang CC, Smith MD. Invasion of an intact plant community: the role of population vs. community level diversity. Oecologia [Internet]. 2012;168:1091 -1102. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00442-011-2157-z

Avolio ML, Beaulieu J, Lo E, Smith MD. Measuring genetic diversity in ecological studies. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2012;213:1105 -1115. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-012-0069-6

Chang CC. Dimensions of diversity and their direct and indirect effects on tallgrass prairie ecosystem functioning [Internet]. [New Haven, CT]: Yale University; 2012. pp. 1 -165. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1039554547

Avolio ML. Genetic diversity of Andropogon gerardii: Impacts of altered precipitation patterns on a dominant species [Internet]. [New Haven, CT]: Yale University; 2012. pp. 1 -258. http://search.proquest.com/docview/1272028956

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

Fay PA, Blair JM, Smith MD, Nippert JB, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2011;8:3053 -3068. https://www.biogeosciences.net/8/3053/2011/

Collins SL, Carpenter SR, Swinton SM, Orenstein DE, Childers DL, Gragson TL, et al.. An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social-ecological research. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Internet]. 2011;9:351 -357. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/100068

Avolio ML, Chang CC, Smith MD. Assessing fine-scale genotypic structure of a dominant species in native grasslands. The American Midland Naturalist [Internet]. 2011;165:211 -224. https://doi.org/10.1674/0003-0031-165.2.211

Melzer SE, Knapp AK, Fynn RWS, Kirkman KP, Smith MD, Blair JM, et al.. Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems. Biogeochemistry [Internet]. 2010;97:263 -278. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10533-009-9371-3

Travers SE, Tang Z, Caragea D, Garrett KA, Hulbert SH, Leach JE, et al.. Variation in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii in response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2010;98:374 -383. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2009.01618.x

Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL. A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change. Ecology [Internet]. 2009;90:3279 -3289. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/08-1815.1

Nippert JB, Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Ecophysiological responses of two dominant grasses to altered temperature and precipitation regimes. Acta Oecologia [Internet]. 2009;35:400 -408. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1146609X09000204?via%3Dihub

Buis GM, Blair JM, Burkepile DE, Burns CE, Chamberlain AJ, Chapman P, et al.. Controls of aboveground net primary production in mesic savanna grasslands: An inter-hemispheric comparison. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2009;12:982 -995. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-009-9273-1

Knapp AK, McCarron JK, Silletti AM, Hoch GA, Heisler JL, Lett MS, et al.. Ecological consequences of the replacement of native grassland by Juniperus virginiana and other woody plants. In: Van Auken OW. Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type [Internet]. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2008. pp. 156 -169. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-34003-6_8

Han X, Dend SP, Garrett KA, Fang L, Smith MD. Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2008;198:197 -210. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-008-9395-0

Veen GF, Blair JM, Smith MD, Collins SL. Influence of grazing and fire frequency on small-scale plant community structure and resource variability in native tallgrass prairie. Oikos [Internet]. 2008;117:859 -866. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16515.x

Knapp AK, Beier C, Briske DD, Classen AT, Luo Y, Reichstein M, et al.. Consequences of more extreme precipitation regimes for terrestrial ecosystems. BioScience [Internet]. 2008;58:811 -821. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/58/9/811/250853

Travers SE, Smith MD, Bai J, Hulbert SH, Leach JE, Schnable PS, et al.. Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2007;5:19 -24.

Grace JB, Anderson TM, Smith MD, Seabloom E, Andelman SJ, Meche G, et al.. Does species diversity limitproductivity in natural grassland communities?. Ecology Letters. 2007;10:680 -689.

Knapp AK, Burns CE, Fynn RWS, Kirkman KP, Morris CD, Smith MD. Convergence and contingency in production-precipitation relationships in North American and South African C4 grasslands. Oecologia. 2006;149:456 -464.

Collins SL, Smith MD. Scale-dependent interaction of fire andgrazing on community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2006;87:2058 -2067.

Swemmer AM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Growth responses of twodominant C4 grass species to altered water availability. InternationalJournal of Plant Sciences. 2006;167:1001 -1010.

Schaefer J, Gido KB, Smith MD. A test for community change using a null model approach. Ecological Applications. 2005;15:1761 -1771.

Carter GA, Knapp AK, Anderson JE, Hoch GA, Smith MD. Indicators of plant species richness in AVIRIS spectra of a mesic grassland. Remote Sensing of Environment. 2005;98:304 -316.

Cleland EE, Smith MD, Andelman SJ, Bowles C, Carney KM, Horner-Devine MC, et al.. Invasion in space and time: non-native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity. Ecology Letters. 2004;7:947 -957.

Chalcraft DR, Williams JW, Smith MD, Whiles MR. Scale dependence in the relationship between species richness and productivity: the role of spatial and temporal turnover. Ecology. 2004;85:2701 -2708.

Smith MD, Wilcox J, Kelly T, Knapp AK. Dominance not diversity determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie. Oikos. 2004;106:253 -262.

Knapp AK, Smith MD, Collins SL, Zambatis N, Peel M, Emery SM, et al.. Generality in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South African savannas. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 2004;9:483 -491.

Huxman TE, Smith MD, Fay PA, Knapp AK, Shaw MR, Loik ME, et al.. Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency. Nature. 2004;429:651 -654.

Weltzin JF, Loik ME, Schwinning S, Williams DG, Fay PA, Haddad B, et al.. Assessing the response of terrestrial ecosystems to potential changes in precipitation. BioScience. 2003;53:941 -952.

Smith MD, Knapp AK. Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non-random species loss. Ecology Letters. 2003;6:509 -517.

Knapp AK, Fay PA, Blair JM, Collins SL, Smith MD, Carlisle JD, et al.. Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science [Internet]. 2002;298:2202 -2205. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/298/5601/2202

Smith MD. Causes and consequences of species invasion and loss: the role of dominant species and diversity in maintaining ecosystem function. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2002. pp. 1 -148.

Grace JB, Smith MD, Grace SL, Collins SL, Stohlgren TJ. Interactions between fire and invasive plants in temperate grasslands of North America. Galley K, Wilson T. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station; 2001. pp. 40 -65.

Wilson GT, Hartnett DC, Smith MD, Kobbeman K. Effects of mycorrhizas on growth and demography of tallgrass prairie forbs. American Journal of Botany [Internet]. 2001;88:1452 -1457. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21669678

Smith MD, Knapp AK. Size of the local species pool determines invasibility of a C4-dominated grassland. Oikos. 2001;92:55 -61.

Smith MD, Knapp AK. Physiological and morphological traits of exotic, invasive exotic, and native plant species in tallgrass prairie. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2001;162:785 -792.

Knapp AK, Smith MD. Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production. Science. 2001;291:481 -484.

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.

Smith MD, Hartnett DC, Wilson GT. Interacting influence of mycorrhizal symbiosis and competition on plant diversity in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia. 1999;121:574 -582.

Smith MD, Knapp AK. Exotic plant species in a C4-dominated grassland: Invasibility, disturbance and community structure. Oecologia. 1999;120:605 -612.

Smith MD. The role of mycorrhizae and dominant competitors in tallgrass prairie plant community structure and belowground processes. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 1998. pp. 1 -139.

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Melinda D. Smith

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

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

RMP01 Rainfall manipulation plot study at Konza Prairie

CEE01 The Climate Extremes Experiment (CEE): Assessing ecosystem resistance and resilience to repeated climate extremes at Konza Prairie

NGE01 Chronic Addition of Nitrogen Gradient Experiment (ChANGE): Assessing threshold responses of plant community composition and ecosystem processes at Konza Prairie

KKE01 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: A cross-continental fire and grazing experiment at Konza Prairie

KKE02 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Net primary production data (2010-2011)

KKE03 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Kruger species composition (2006-2010)

WAT02 Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes