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A Revision of Diarrhena (Poaceae) in the United States

scientific article

A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves

scientific article published in October 2019

A framework for assessing ecosystem dynamics in response to chronic resource alterations induced by global change

scientific article

A global meta-analysis on the effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on grasslands and croplands

scientific article published in 2024

A method to determine rates and patterns of variability in ecological communities

scientific article published in 2000

Above- and belowground responses to nitrogen addition in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland.

scientific article published on November 2011

Aboveground net primary production dynamics in a northern Chihuahuan Desert ecosystem

scientific article

Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities

scientific article published in February 2011

Altered Rainfall Patterns, Gas Exchange, and Growth in Grasses and Forbs

article

Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie.

scientific article

Altering Rainfall Timing and Quantity in a Mesic Grassland Ecosystem: Design and Performance of Rainfall Manipulation Shelters

article

An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social–ecological research

article

Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide

scientific article published in June 2015

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to precipitation extremes: A synthesis of grassland precipitation manipulation experiments.

scientific article

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

Author Correction: General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

correction of a scholarly article

BASSIA (CHENOPODIACEAE) IN NORTH AMERICA

scholarly article in Sida, vol. 8 no. 1, 1979

Belowground responses to altered precipitation regimes in two semi-arid grasslands

scientific article published in August 2022

Biotic mechanisms of community stability shift along a precipitation gradient

scientific article published in June 2014

Bottom-up regulation of plant community structure in an aridland ecosystem

scientific article published in November 2006

Can biological invasions induce desertification?

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Caterpillar Leaf Damage, and the Game of Hide-and-Seek with Birds

scientific article published in 1983

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity ⬇️

article

Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive above-ground productivity in a tallgrass prairie

article

Changes in spatial variance during a grassland to shrubland state transition

scientific article published in 2016

Chihuahuan Desert Grassland Responds Similarly to Fall, Spring, and Summer Fires During Prolonged Drought

article

Climate Change Impacts on Future Carbon Stores and Management of Warm Deserts of the United States

article

Climate mediates long‐term impacts of rodent exclusion on desert plant communities

scientific article published on 10 December 2021

Climate sensitivity functions and net primary production: A framework for incorporating climate mean and variability

scientific article published on 9 January 2018

Climatic controls of aboveground net primary production in semi-arid grasslands along a latitudinal gradient portend low sensitivity to warming.

scientific article published on 12 February 2015

Comment on "Worldwide evidence of a unimodal relationship between productivity and plant species richness"

scientific article published in Science

Complex seasonal cycle of ecohydrology in the Southwest United States

scholarly article

Conditional vulnerability of plant diversity to atmospheric nitrogen deposition across the United States

scientific article

Connecting plant-soil feedbacks to long-term stability in a desert grassland

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Contrasting responses of plant above and belowground biomass carbon pools to extreme drought in six grasslands spanning an aridity gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Controls of Aboveground Net Primary Production in Mesic Savanna Grasslands: An Inter-Hemispheric Comparison

article

Coordinated distributed experiments: an emerging tool for testing global hypotheses in ecology and environmental science

scientific article published in 2013

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Differential responses of grassland community nonstructural carbohydrate to experimental drought along a natural aridity gradient

scientific article published in 2022

Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central US grasslands.

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Direct and indirect effects of temperature and precipitation on alpine seed banks in the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published on 20 February 2020

Do individual plant species show predictable responses to nitrogen addition across multiple experiments?

article

Do trade‐offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments?

scientific article published on 30 December 2021

Drought Impacts on Soil Organic Carbon in Grasslands Depend on Climate, Drought Type, and Net Primary Productivity

scientific article published in 2022

Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Drought has inconsistent effects on seed trait composition despite their strong association with ecosystem drought sensitivity

scientific article published in 2022

Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition

scientific article published in 2023

Earth Stewardship: An Initiative by the Ecological Society of America to Foster Engagement to Sustain Planet Earth

scientific article published in 2015

Earth Stewardship: science for action to sustain the human-earth system

article

Ecological Science and Sustainability for the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2005

Ecological science and sustainability for the 21st century

article

Ecology. Biodiversity under global change

scientific article

Ecology. Ecology for a crowded planet

scientific article

Ecosystem response to nutrient enrichment across an urban airshed in the Sonoran Desert

scientific article published on April 2011

Effects of experimental rainfall manipulations on Chihuahuan Desert grassland and shrubland plant communities

scientific article published on 21 December 2012

Effects of fire on belowground biomass in Chihuahuan desert grassland

article published in 2012

Effects of fire, grazing and topographic variation on vegetation structure in tallgrass prairie

article published in 2011

Effects of monsoon precipitation variability on the physiological response of two dominant C₄ grasses across a semiarid ecotone

scientific article

Environmental and plant community determinants of species loss following nitrogen enrichment

scientific article

Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie

scientific article published in 2016

Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 February 2014

Experimental drought re-ordered assemblages of root-associated fungi across North American grasslands

scholarly article

Experimental drought reduces genetic diversity in the grassland foundation species Bouteloua eriopoda

scientific article published on 08 March 2019

Experimental manipulation of natural plant communities

article

Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people

scientific article published in 2022

Exposure to predicted precipitation patterns decreases population size and alters community structure of cyanobacteria in biological soil crusts from the Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Facilitation Rules:Positive Interactions and Interdependence in Plant Communities. Ragan M. Callaway . Springer, 2007. 415 pp., illus. $249.00 (ISBN 9781402062230 cloth)

article

Feedbacks between fires and wind erosion in heterogeneous arid lands

scholarly article

Fertilization effects on species density and primary productivity in herbaceous plant communities

article

Fire and grazing in a mesic tallgrass prairie: impacts on plant species and functional traits.

scientific article published in June 2010

Fire frequency drives habitat selection by a diverse herbivore guild impacting top-down control of plant communities in an African savanna

article

Foraging strategies of individual silky pocket mice over a boom-bust cycle in a stochastic dryland ecosystem

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Form and function of grass ring patterns in arid grasslands: the role of abiotic controls

scientific article

Functional- and abundance-based mechanisms explain diversity loss due to N fertilization

scientific article published on 8 March 2005

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales

scientific article published on 23 October 2020

Generality in Ecology: Testing North American Grassland Rules in South African Savannas

scholarly article by Alan K Knapp et al published November 2004 in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Geographic variation in habitat structure for the wood warblers in Maine and Minnesota.

scientific article published in September 1983

Getting Started With Sensor Networks in Experimental Ecology: Pitfalls and Pratfalls

scientific article published in 2018

Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: insights from long-term experiments

scientific article

Grassland productivity limited by multiple nutrients

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Grassland sensitivity to drought is related to functional composition across <scp>E</scp>ast <scp>A</scp>sia and <scp>N</scp>orth <scp>A</scp>merica

scientific article published in 2024

Grassland to shrubland state transitions enhance carbon sequestration in the northern Chihuahuan Desert

scientific article

Habitat Relationships of Wood Warblers (Parulidae) in Northern Central Minnesota

scientific article published in 1982

Henry Lewis Gholz, 1951-2017

scientific article published in 2018

Herbivore size matters for productivity-richness relationships in African savannas

scientific article published in 2017

High below‐ground bud abundance increases ecosystem recovery from drought across arid and semiarid grasslands

scientific article published in 2023

How Can Science Be General, Yet Specific? The Conundrum of Rangeland Science in the 21st Century

scientific article published in 2012

Incorporating clonal growth form clarifies the role of plant height in response to nitrogen addition

scientific article published in August 2012

Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time

scientific article published on 15 October 2020

Influence of grazing and fire frequency on small-scale plant community structure and resource variability in native tallgrass prairie

article

Integrating Species‐Specific Information in Models Improves Regional Projections Under Climate Change

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Interactions Between Soil Erosion Processes and Fires: Implications for the Dynamics of Fertility Islands

article

Interactive effects of grazing, drought, and fire on grassland plant communities in North America and South Africa

scientific article published on January 2014

Is a drought a drought in grasslands? Productivity responses to different types of drought

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Legacy effects of a regional drought on aboveground net primary production in six central US grasslands

scholarly article published on 5 March 2018

Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

Living in an increasingly connected world: a framework for continental-scale environmental science

article

Long-Term Ecological Research in a Human-Dominated World

scientific article published in April 2012

Long-term dynamics and hotspots of change in a desert grassland plant community

scientific article published on 22 December 2014

Looking deeper into the soil: biophysical controls and seasonal lags of soil CO2 production and efflux

scientific article

Loss of a large grazer impacts savanna grassland plant communities similarly in North America and South Africa

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Mechanisms of shrub encroachment into Northern Chihuahuan Desert grasslands and impacts of climate change investigated using a cellular automata model

scholarly article by Domenico Caracciolo et al published May 2016 in Advances in Water Resources

Microbial processing of plant remains is co-limited by multiple nutrients in global grasslands

scientific article published on 10 June 2020

Microbial responses to nitrogen addition in three contrasting grassland ecosystems.

scientific article

Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie ⬇️

scientific article published on May 1, 1998

Nitrogen addition amplifies the nonlinear drought response of grassland productivity to extended growing‐season droughts

scientific article published in 2021

Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability

article

Opening access to ESA journals

scientific article published in 2013

Past, Present, and Future Roles of Long-Term Experiments in the LTER Network

Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US long-term ecological research network

scientific article published in 2021

Patterns of trait convergence and divergence among native and exotic species in herbaceous plant communities are not modified by nitrogen enrichment

article

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores differs between North American and South African savanna grasslands

scientific article published in April 2014

Plant community response to loss of large herbivores: comparing consequences in a South African and a North American grassland

article

Positive feedback between microclimate and shrub encroachment in the northern Chihuahuan desert

article

Post-Fire Resource Redistribution in Desert Grasslands: A Possible Negative Feedback on Land Degradation

article by Sujith Ravi et al published 18 February 2009 in Ecosystems

Potential Tree Species Dynamics in the Arbor Vitae Association of Cedar Bog, a West-Central Ohio Fen

scientific article published in 1979

Potential vulnerability of 348 herbaceous species to atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur in the United States

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Precipitation increases the abundance of some groups of root-associated fungal endophytes in a semiarid grassland

scientific article published in 2011

Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland

article

Press-pulse interactions: effects of warming, N deposition, altered winter precipitation, and fire on desert grassland community structure and dynamics

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland

scientific article

Pushing precipitation to the extremes in distributed experiments: recommendations for simulating wet and dry years

scientific article

Rainfall Variability, Carbon Cycling, and Plant Species Diversity in a Mesic Grassland

scientific article published in Science

Rainfall pulse regime drives biomass and community composition in biological soil crusts

scientific article published in 2022

Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing

article

Rank clocks and plant community dynamics

scientific article

Rapid plant community responses during the summer monsoon to nighttime warming in a northern Chihuahuan Desert grassland

article

Rapid recovery of ecosystem function following extreme drought in a South African savanna grassland

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multi-year above- and below-average rainfall periods: consequences for responses under climate change.

scientific article published on 19 December 2017

Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity

scientific article published on 29 August 2022

Relative contributions of neutral and niche-based processes to the structure of a desert grassland grasshopper community

scientific article published on 23 July 2009

Reply from S.L. Collins ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 July 1995

Resilience and recovery potential of duneland vegetation in the southern Kalahari

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Responses to chronic N fertilization of ectomycorrhizal piñon but not arbuscular mycorrhizal juniper in a piñon-juniper woodland

article

Responses to fire differ between South African and North American grassland communities

article

Revisiting the bucket model: Long‐term effects of rainfall variability and nitrogen enrichment on net primary production in a desert grassland

scientific article published in 2024

Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents

scientific article published in July 2022

SPECIES RESPONSES TO NITROGEN FERTILIZATION IN HERBACEOUS PLANT COMMUNITIES, AND ASSOCIATED SPECIES TRAITSEcological ArchivesE089-070

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Scale-dependent interaction of fire and grazing on community heterogeneity in tallgrass prairie

scientific article published in August 2006

Seasonal Rainfall, Shrub Cover and Soil Properties Drive Production of Winter Annuals in the Northern Sonoran Desert

scientific article published in 2023

Sensitivity of grassland plant community composition to spatial vs. temporal variation in precipitation

scientific article

Sensitivity of primary production to precipitation across the United States

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Sensitivity of soil organic matter to climate and fire in a desert grassland

scientific article published in 2020

Shared Drivers but Divergent Ecological Responses: Insights from Long-Term Experiments in Mesic Savanna Grasslands

article

Shifting species interactions in terrestrial dryland ecosystems under altered water availability and climate change

scientific article

Shifts in plant functional composition following long-term drought in grasslands

scholarly article

Shrub invasion decreases diversity and alters community stability in northern Chihuahuan Desert plant communities ⬇️

scientific article

Skills and Knowledge for Data-Intensive Environmental Research

scientific article

Small-scale patch structure in North American and South African grasslands responds differently to fire and grazing

scholarly article by Sally E Koerner & Scott L Collins published 16 March 2013 in Landscape Ecology

Soil Heterogeneity Effects on Tallgrass Prairie Community Heterogeneity: An Application of Ecological Theory to Restoration Ecology

article

Soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands differ strongly across sites but are insensitive to decade‐long fertilization

scientific article published in 2021

Soil enzyme responses to varying rainfall regimes in Chihuahuan Desert soils

article

Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after 20 years of manipulation during grassland restoration

scientific article published on 04 November 2019

Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilisation

article

Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Species diversity enhances ecosystem functioning through interspecific facilitation

scientific article

Species losses, gains, and changes in persistent species are associated with distinct effects on ecosystem functioning in global grasslands

Species reordering, not changes in richness, drives long-term dynamics in grassland communities.

scientific article

Stability of tallgrass prairie during a 19-year increase in growing season precipitation

article by Scott L Collins et al published 25 April 2012 in Functional Ecology

State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network

scientific article

Temperature response of soil respiration largely unaltered with experimental warming

scientific article

Temporal Effects of Monsoon Rainfall Pulses on Plant Available Nitrogen in a Chihuahuan Desert Grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities

scientific article published on 20 January 2018

Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie

article

The effect of nitrogen availability and water conditions on competition between a facultative CAM plant and an invasive grass ⬇️

scientific article published on 23 August 2017

The interactive effects of press/pulse intensity and duration on regime shifts at multiple scales

article published in 2017

The measurement of stability in grasslands

scientific article published on 01 March 1995

The positive effect of plant diversity on soil carbon depends on climate

scientific article published on 19 October 2023

Top-down vs. bottom-up regulation of herbaceous primary production and composition in an arid, urbanizing ecosystem

article

Tree dispersion in oak-dominated forests along an environmental gradient

scientific article published on 01 May 1991

Variation in monsoon precipitation drives spatial and temporal patterns of Larrea tridentata growth in the Sonoran Desert

scientific article published in 2012

Vegetation change: a reunifying concept in plant ecology

article

Vegetation science in the age of big data

Vegetation-microclimate feedbacks in woodland-grassland ecotones

scientific article published in 2012

Warming reduced flowering synchrony and extended community flowering season in an alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau

scientific article published in 2022

Water and nitrogen shape winter annual plant diversity and community composition in near‐urban Sonoran Desert preserves

scientific article

When the economic engine stalls − A multi-scale comparison of vegetation dynamics in pre- and post-recession Phoenix, Arizona, USA

article

Woody Vegetation and Microtopography in the Bog Meadow Association of Cedar Bog, a West-central Ohio Fen

Woody encroachment decreases diversity across North American grasslands and savannas

scientific article (publication date: April 2012)

codyn: Anrpackage of community dynamics metrics

article

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