Dr. Sara G. Baer

Name:

Dr. Sara G. Baer

Role:

co-Principal Investigator

Address:

Kansas Biological Survey, The University of Kansas

Higuchi Hall, 2101 Constant Ave

Lawrence, KS 66047

United States

Email:

Phone:

ORCID:

0000-0001-6135-9760

URL:

https://baerecologylab.ku.edu/

Publication List:

Wojciechowski AA, Blair JM, Collins S, Baer SG. Heterogeneity promotes resilience in restored prairie: Implications for the environmental heterogeneity hypothesis. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2024;34(6):e3006. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.3006

Eckhoff KD, Scott DA, Manning G, Baer SG. Persistent decadal differences in plant communities assembled under contrasting climate conditions. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2023;33(2):e2823. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.2823

Weickert N. Are we there yet: Assessing trajectories of two restored prairies to target native prairies over a decadal time frame. Department of Biology. [Lawrence, KS]: University of Kansas; 2023.

Johnson LC, Galliart MB, Alsdurf JD, Maricle BR, Baer SG, Bello NM, et al.. Reciprocal transplant gardens as gold standard to detect local adaptation in grassland species: New opportunities moving into the 21st century. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2022;110(5):1054-1071. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.13695

Eckhoff KD. The effects of drought on plant and soil microbial communities and functioning during tallgrass prairie restoration [Internet]. [Lawrence, KS]: University of Kansas; 2022. https://www.proquest.com/openview/460feed5a57d701510c1f008d74e87bf/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y

Zinnert JC, Nippert JB, Rudgers JA, Pennings SC, González G, Alber M, et al.. State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2021;12(5):e03433. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3433

Harms TK, Groffman PM, Aluwihare L, Craft C, Wieder WR, Hobbie SE, et al.. Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. Climate Change Ecology [Internet]. 2021;2:100025. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666900521000253

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

Wieder WR, Pierson D, Earl S, Lajtha K, Baer SG, Ballantyne F, et al.. SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0. Earth System Science Data [Internet]. 2021;13(5):1843 - 1854. https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/13/1843/2021/essd-13-1843-2021.pdf

Scott DA, Bach EM, Preez CCDu, Six J, Baer SG. Mechanisms influencing physically sequestered soil carbon in temperate restored grasslands in South Africa and North America. Biogeochemistry [Internet]. 2021;. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-021-00774-y

Avolio ML, Wilcox KR, La Pierre KJ, Lemoine N, Bowman WD, Collins SL, et al.. Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Oecologia. 2020;194:735–744.

Pittenger MS, Maricle KL, Baer SG, Johnson LC, Maricle BR. No difference in herbivory preferences among ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science [Internet]. 2020;123(1-2):151. https://bioone.org/journals/transactions-of-the-kansas-academy-of-science/volume-123/issue-1-2/062.123.0112/No-Difference-in-Herbivory-Preferences-Among-Ecotypes-of-Big-Bluestem/10.1660/062.123.0112.full

Baer SG, Adams T, Scott DA, Blair JM, Collins SL. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications. 2020;30(1):e02014.

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

Galliart M, Bello N, Knapp M, Poland J, St Amand P, Baer SG, et al.. Local adaptation, genetic divergence, and experimental selection in a foundation grass across the US Great Plains’ climate gradient. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2019;25(3):850 - 868. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/gcb.14534

Scott DA, Baer SG. Diversity patterns from sequentially restored grasslands support the ‘environmental heterogeneity hypothesis’. Oikos [Internet]. 2019;128(8):1116 - 1122. http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/oik.05877

Warne RW, Baer SG, Boyles JG. Community Physiological Ecology. Trends in Ecology & Evolution [Internet]. 2019;34(6):510 - 518. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0169534719300497

Baer SG, Gibson DJ, Johnson LC. Restoring grassland in the context of climate change. Gibson DJ, Newman JA. Grasslands and Climate Change [Internet]. 2019;:310 -322. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108163941.020

Scott DA, Rosenzweig ST, Baer SG, Blair JM. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality. 2019;48(6):1913-1917.

Scott D. Environmental heterogeneity effects on diversity and nitrous oxide emissions from soil in restored prairie [Internet]. Department of Plant Biology. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University Carbondale ; 2019. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/1683/

Baer SG, Birge H. Soil ecosystem services: an overview. In: Reicosky D. Managing Soil Health for Sustainable Agriculture. Cambridge: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited; 2018. pp. 17-38.

Scott DA, Baer SG. Degraded soil increases the performance of a dominant grass, Andropogon gerardii (Big bluestem). Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2018;219(10):901 - 911. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11258-018-0844-0

Kramer DL, Maricle KL, Hilt CJ, Martin NM, Urban AD, Smart CM, et al.. Drought tolerance in ecotypes of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii) relates to above-ground surface area: Results from a common garden experiment. Flora [Internet]. 2018;246-247:52 - 60. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0367253018302469

Varvel NA, Hilt CJ, Johnson LC, Galliart M, Baer SG, Maricle BR. Genetic and environmental influences on stomates of big bluestem (Andropogon gerardii). Environmental and Experimental Botany [Internet]. 2018;155:477 - 487. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0098847218300807

Kominoski JS, Gaiser EE, Baer SG. Advancing theories of ecosystem development through Long-Term Ecological Research. BioScience [Internet]. 2018;68(8):554–562. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/biosci/biy070/5051780?redirectedFrom=fulltext

Manning GC, Baer SG. Interannual variability in climate effects on community assembly and ecosystem functioning in restored prairie. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2018;9(6):e02327. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ecs2.2327

Manning G. Environmental and biotic processes influencing floristic composition, quality, integrity, and function in tallgrass prairie assemblages [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2018. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2597&context=dissertations

Klopf RP, Baer SG, Bach EM, Six J. Restoration and management for plant diversity enhances the rate of belowground ecosystem recovery. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2017;27(2):355 - 362. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1503

Scott DA, Baer SG, Blair JM. Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal [Internet]. 2017;81(1):50-60. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/81/1/50

Manning GC, Baer SG, Blair JM. Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and its relationship to indicators of soil quality in tallgrass prairie. Environmental Management [Internet]. 2017;60(6):1075. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28963572

Smith AB, Alsdurf J, Knapp M, Baer SG, Johnson LC. Phenotypic distribution models corroborate species distribution models: A shift in the role and prevalence of a dominant prairie grass in response to climate change. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2017;23(10):4365–4375. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/gcb.13666

Black SM. Restored prairie response to reduction in ectophagous insects [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2331/

Verheijen BHF. Demographic responses of grassland songbirds to rangeland management in the tallgrass prairie [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS.]: Kansas State University; 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/35800

Adams T. The role of soil heterogeneity in the recruitment of new species and interactions with grasshoppers (Acrididae) and Katydids (Tettigoniidae) in restored prairie [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2017. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/2080/

Rosenzweig ST, Carson MA, Baer SG, Blair JM. Changes in soil properties, microbial biomass, and fluxes of C and N in soil following post-agricultural grassland restoration. Applied Soil Ecology [Internet]. 2016;100:186 - 194. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139316300014?via%3Dihub

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL. Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Monographs [Internet]. 2016;86(1):94 - 106. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/15-0888.1

Scott DA. Recovery of whole soil conditions through restoration from agriculture and its role in mediating plant-plant competition [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University Carbondale; 2015. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1826/

Baer SG, Gibson DJ, Benscoter AM, Reed LK, Campbell RE, Klopf RP, et al.. No effect of seed source on multiple aspects of ecosystem functioning during ecological restoration: cultivars compared to local ecotypes of dominant grasses. Evolutionary Applications [Internet]. 2014;7:323 -335. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eva.12124

Caudle KL, Johnson LC, Baer SG, Maricle BR. Comparing nondestructive and destructive methods of measuring leaf chlorophyll content: tracking changes in foliar chlorophyll of five Andropogon gerardii ecotypes (Poaceae). Photosynthetica. 2014;52:511-518.

Wodika BR, Baer SG, Klopf RP. Colonization and recovery of invertebrate ecosystem engineers during prairie restoration. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2014;22:456 -464. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/rec.12084

Klopf RP, Baer SG, Gibson DJ. Convergent and contingent community responses to grass source and dominance during prairie restoration across a longitudinal gradient. Environmental Management [Internet]. 2014;53:252 -265. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00267-013-0209-3

Gibson DJ, Sendor G, Donatelli J, Baer SG, Johnson L. Fitness among population sources of a dominant species (Andropogon gerardii Vitman) used in prairie restoration. Torrey Botanical Society [Internet]. 2014;140:269 -279. https://doi.org/10.3159/TORREY-D-12-00063.1

Harris PT. The role of deer browsing on plant community development and ecosystem functioning during tallgrass prairie restoration [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1515/

Baer SG. Restoration Ecology. In: Gibson DJ. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology [Internet]. New York: Oxford University Press; 2013. http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com

Olsen JT, Caudle KL, Johnson LC, Baer SG, Maricle B. Environmental and genetic variation in leaf anatomy among populations of Andropogon gerardii (Poaceae) along a precipitation gradient. American Journal of Botany [Internet]. 2013;100:1957 -1968. https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb.1200628

Gibson DJ, Baer SG, Klopf RP, Reed LK, Wodika BR, Willand JE. Limited effects of dominant species population source on community composition during community assembly. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2013;24:429 -440. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01475.x

Willand JE, Baer SG, Gibson DJ, Klopf RP. Temporal dynamics of plant community regeneration sources during tallgrass prairie restoration. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2013;214:1169 -1180. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-013-0241-7

Mendola MM. Regional-climate and local-microbial controls on ecosystem processes during grassland restoration [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2013. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1338/

Klopf RP. Community and ecosystem changes in tallgrass prairie restorations: the effects of population source and diversity [Internet]. [Carbondale, IL]: Southern Illinois University; 2013. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/684/

Baer SG, Heneghan L, Eviner V. Applying soil ecological knowledge to restore ecosystem services. In: Wall D. Soil Ecology and Ecosystem Services [Internet]. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 2012. pp. 377 -393. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575923.003.0032

Gibson DJ, Alstadt AJ, Baer SG, Geisler M. Effects of foundation species genotypic diversity on subordinate species richness in an assembling community. Oikos [Internet]. 2012;121:496 -507. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19447.x

Bach EM, Baer SG, Six J. Plant and soil responses to high and low diversity grassland restoration practices. Environmental Management [Internet]. 2012;49:412 -424. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00267-011-9787-0

Goad RK. Response of regional sources of tallgrass prairie species to variation in climate and soil microbial communities [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2012. http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/922/

Lambert AM, Baer SG, Gibson DJ. Intraspecific Variation in Ecophysiology of Three Dominant Prairie Grasses Used in Restoration: Cultivar Versus Non‐Cultivar Population Sources. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2011;19:43 -52. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00673.x

Klopf RP, Baer SG. Root dynamics of cultivar and non‐cultivar population sources of two dominant grasses during initial establishment of tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2011;19:112 -117. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2009.00539.x

Bach EM, Baer SG, Meyer CK, Six J. Soil texture affects soil microbial and structural recovery during grassland restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry [Internet]. 2011;42:2182 -2191. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071710003020?via%3Dihub

McCain KNS, Baer SG, Blair JM, Wilson GT. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2010;18:40 -49. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x

Baer SG, Meyer CK, Bach EM, Klopf RP, Six J. Contrasting ecosystem recovery on two soil textures: implications for carbon mitigation and grassland conservation. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2010;1:5 -. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES10-00004.1

Baer SG, Engle D, Knops JMH, Langeland KA, Maxwell BD, Menalled FD, et al.. Non-target and invasive species in rehabilitated production systems: Ecological impacts, management and future use. Environmental Management. 2009;43:189 -196.

Heneghan L, Miller S, Baer SG, Callaham MA, Montgomery J, Rhoades CC, et al.. Integrating soil ecological knowledge into restoration management. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2008;16:608 -617. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2008.00477.x

Baer SG, Blair JM. Grassland establishment under varying resource availability: A test of positive and negative feedback. Ecology [Internet]. 2008;89:1859 -1871. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/07-0417.1

Baer SG, Collins SL, Blair JM, Fiedler A, Knapp AK. Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: anapplication of ecological theory to restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 2005;13:413 -424.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Collins SL. Soil resources regulate productivity and diversity in newly established tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2003;84:724 -735.

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.

Baer SG. Changes in ecosystem function and effects of environmental complexity on foristic diversity during tallgrass prairie restoration. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2001. pp. 1 -204.

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

Baer SG, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Manipulation of soil resource heterogeneity in a tallgrass prairie restoration [Internet]. Springer JT. Kearney, NE: University of Nebraska at Kearney; 1999. pp. 78 -87. http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC16/reference/econatres.napc16.sbaer.pdf

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. Sara G. Baer

PRP01 Konza prairie long term restoration study of aboveground annual net primary productivity (ANPP)

SRP01 Sequential prairie restoration experiment at Konza Prairie

HRE01 Environmental heterogeneity restoration experiment at Konza Prairie

RCS01 Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland at Konza Prairie