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List of works by Herbert Polley

A CO2 Concentration Gradient Facility for Testing CO2 Enrichment and Soil Effects on Grassland Ecosystem Function

scientific article

A Controlled Environment Chamber for Growing Plants Across a Subambient CO 2 Gradient

article

Aboveground productivity and root-shoot allocation differ between native and introduced grass species

scientific article published on 23 August 2006

Accelerated development in Johnsongrass seedlings (Sorghum halepense) suppresses the growth of native grasses through size-asymmetric competition

scientific article

Acclimation of whole-plant Acacia farnesiana transpiration to carbon dioxide concentration

article

Atmospheric CO2and soil extracellular enzyme activity: a meta-analysis and CO2gradient experiment

article

Author Correction: Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

correction of a scholarly article

Benefits of increasing plant diversity in sustainable agroecosystems

article

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Biodiversity maintenance mechanisms differ between native and novel exotic-dominated communities

scientific article

Biodiversity, phenology and temporal niche differences between native- and novel exotic-dominated grasslands

scientific article published in 2011

Biodiversity, photosynthetic mode, and ecosystem services differ between native and novel ecosystems

scientific article

Biodiversity, productivity and the temporal stability of productivity: patterns and processes

scientific article

Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance

scientific article published on 14 December 2023

Biomass production and temporal stability are similar in switchgrass monoculture and diverse grassland

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Biotic Regulation of CO2 Uptake–Climate Responses: Links to Vegetation Properties

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony

scientific article

CO enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity

scientific article published in 2018

CO2 and soil water potential as regulators of the growth and N fraction derived from fixation of a legume in tallgrass prairie communities

CO2 enrichment and soil type additively regulate grassland productivity

scientific article published in 2018

CO2 enrichment increases element concentrations in grass mixtures by changing species abundances

article

CO2-caused change in plant species composition rivals the shift in vegetation between mid-grass and tallgrass prairies

article

Canopy foliation and area as predictors of mortality risk from episodic drought for individual trees of Ashe juniper

article

Carbon dioxide enrichment improves growth, water relations and survival of droughted honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa) seedlings

scientific article

Climate Change and North American Rangelands: Assessment of Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies

scientific article published on 23 September 2013

Climate Change and North American Rangelands: Trends, Projections, and Implications

article

Climate Impacts on Agriculture: Implications for Forage and Rangeland Production

article

Climate-change adaptation on rangelands: linking regional exposure with diverse adaptive capacity

scientific article published on 01 June 2015

Co-occurring woody species have diverse hydraulic strategies and mortality rates during an extreme drought

scientific article published on 4 January 2018

Community leaf dry matter content predicts plant production in simple and diverse grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Comparing Biomass Yields of Low-Input High-Diversity Communities with Managed Monocultures Across the Central United States

scholarly article by Mari-Vaughn V. Johnson et al published 24 April 2010 in Bioenergy research

Decreasing Precipitation Variability Does Not Elicit Major Aboveground Biomass or Plant Diversity Responses in a Mesic Rangeland

scientific article published in 2011

Defoliation, Nitrofen, and Competition: Effects on Plant Growth and Nitrogen Nutrition

scientific article published in 1989

Determination of root biomasses of three species grown in a mixture using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen

Do species evenness and plant density influence the magnitude of selection and complementarity effects in annual plant species mixtures?

article

Dominant plant taxa predict plant productivity responses to CO2 enrichment across precipitation and soil gradients

scientific article

Dominant species constrain effects of species diversity on temporal variability in biomass production of tallgrass prairie

article

EFFECTS OF SEED ADDITIONS AND GRAZING HISTORY ON DIVERSITY AND PRODUCTIVITY OF SUBHUMID GRASSLANDS

article

Early-successional plants regulate grassland productivity and species composition: a removal experiment

article

Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding

scientific article published on 7 March 2024

Elevated Atmospheric CO2 Magnifies Intra-specific Variation in Seedling Growth of Honey Mesquite: An Assessment of Relative Growth Rates

scientific article published in 2006

Environment and Seedling Age Influence Mesquite Response to Epicotyl Removal

Establishment from seed is more important for exotic than for native plant species

scientific article published in 2023

Feedback from plant species change amplifies CO2enhancement of grassland productivity

article

Flowering in grassland predicted by CO2 and resource effects on species aboveground biomass

scientific article

Fungal Community Responses to Past and Future Atmospheric CO2 Differ by Soil Type

scientific article

Gas exchange and photosynthetic acclimation over subambient to elevated CO2 in a C3-C4 grassland

scholarly article by Laurel J. Anderson et al published August 2001 in Global Change Biology

Genetic variation for carbon isotope composition in honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa).

scientific article published on July 1999

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

scientific article published in July 2022

Grazing Treatment Influences Recovery of Mesic Grassland from Seasonal Drought: An Assessment Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle−Enabled Remote Sensing

scientific article published in 2022

Growth and Gas Exchange of Oats (Avena sativa) and Wild Mustard (Brassica kaber) at Subambient CO 2 Concentrations

article published in 1992

Growth rate and survivorship of drought: CO2 effects on the presumed tradeoff in seedlings of five woody legumes.

scientific article

Growth, water relations, and survival of drought-exposed seedlings from six maternal families of honey mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa): responses to CO(2) enrichment

scientific article

Herbivory tolerance of Agropyron smithii populations with different grazing histories

scientific article published on 01 November 1988

Impacts of climate change drivers on C4 grassland productivity: scaling driver effects through the plant community

scientific article

Implications of Atmospheric and Climatic Change for Crop Yield and Water Use Efficiency

scientific article published on 01 January 2002

Increasing CO2 from subambient to superambient concentrations alters species composition and increases above-ground biomass in a C3/C4 grassland

article

Increasing CO2: Comparative Responses of the C4 Grass Schizachyrium and Grassland Invader Prosopis

article

Initial response of evapotranspiration from tallgrass prairie vegetation to CO2at subambient to elevated concentrations

scientific article published in 2007

Inter-Annual Precipitation Variability Decreases Switchgrass Productivity from Arid to Mesic Environments

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Intergenerational above- and belowground responses of spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to elevated CO2

article

Invaded grassland communities have altered stability-maintenance mechanisms but equal stability compared to native communities

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Leaf and Plant Water use Efficiency of C4Species Grown at Glacial to Elevated CO2Concentrations

article

Leaf isoprene emission rate as a function of atmospheric CO2concentration

article

Leaf physiology, production, water use, and nitrogen dynamics of the grassland invader Acacia smallii at elevated CO2 concentrations

scientific article published on 01 February 1997

Links between Transpiration and Plant Nitrogen: Variation with Atmospheric CO2 Concentration and Nitrogen Availability

article

Lower soil carbon stocks in exotic vs. native grasslands are driven by carbonate losses

scientific article published on 05 March 2020

Microbial community structure and functions differ between native and novel (exotic-dominated) grassland ecosystems in an 8-year experiment

scientific article published on 10 September 2018

Modeling the vegetation–atmosphere carbon dioxide and water vapor interactions along a controlled CO2 gradient

scientific article published in 2011

Multiple constraints cause positive and negative feedbacks limiting grassland soil CO2 efflux under CO2 enrichment

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Mycorrhizal colonization and its relationship with plant performance differs between exotic and native grassland plant species

scientific article

Net grassland carbon flux over a subambient to superambient CO2 gradient

Nitrogen and Carbon Cycling in a Grassland Community Ecosystem as Affected by Elevated Atmospheric CO2

Nitrogen and Water Requirements of C 3 Plants Grown at Glacial to Present Carbon Dioxide Concentrations

article

Nitrogen and phosphorus constrain the CO2 fertilization of global plant biomass

scientific article

Nonlinear grassland responses to past and future atmospheric CO(2).

scientific article published on May 2002

Patterns of Plant Species Diversity in Remnant and Restored Tallgrass Prairies

article

Physiology and Growth of Wheat Across a Subambient Carbon Dioxide Gradient

scholarly article by H Polley published April 1993 in Annals of Botany

Plant community change mediates the response of foliar δ(15)N to CO 2 enrichment in mesic grasslands

scientific article published on 22 January 2015

Plant diversity effects on grassland productivity are robust to both nutrient enrichment and drought

scientific article

Plant functional traits improve diversity-based predictions of temporal stability of grassland productivity

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Plant invasions differentially affected by diversity and dominant species in native- and exotic-dominated grasslands

scientific article

Potential nitrogen constraints on soil carbon sequestration under low and elevated atmospheric CO2.

scientific article published in January 2006

Precipitation Regulates the Response of Net Ecosystem CO2 Exchange to Environmental Variation on United States Rangelands

article

Predicting ecosystem stability from community composition and biodiversity

article

Primary Productivity and Water Balance of Grassland Vegetation on Three Soils in a Continuous CO2 Gradient: Initial Results from the Lysimeter CO2 Gradient Experiment

article

Productivity of well-watered Panicum virgatum does not increase with CO2 enrichment

scientific article published in 2012

Projected drought effects on the demography of Ashe juniper populations inferred from remote measurements of tree canopies

scholarly article by H. Wayne Polley et al published 24 August 2018 in Plant Ecology

REALISTICALLY LOW SPECIES EVENNESS DOES NOT ALTER GRASSLAND SPECIES-RICHNESS–PRODUCTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS

scientific article published on 04 June 2007

Reductions in grassland species evenness increase dicot seedling invasion and spittle bug infestation

article

Relationships of Vegetation and Environment in Buffalo Wallows

Rising atmospheric CO2 is reducing the protein concentration of a floral pollen source essential for North American bees.

scientific article published in April 2016

Seedling Response to Elevated CO2 in Five Epigeal Species

scientific article published in 2000

Simple plant traits explain functional group diversity decline in novel grassland communities of Texas

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Soil carbon responses to past and future CO 2 in three Texas prairie soils

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Soil depth and grassland origin cooperatively shape microbial community co‐occurrence and function

scientific article published on 02 January 2020

Soil type and moisture regime control microbial C and N mineralization in grassland soils more than atmospheric CO2-induced changes in litter quality

Soil-mediated effects of subambient to increased carbon dioxide on grassland productivity

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Species abundances influence the net biodiversity effect in mixtures of two plant species

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Species composition but not diversity explains recovery from the 2011 drought in Texas grasslands

article

Species interaction mechanisms maintain grassland plant species diversity

scientific article

Species richness and the temporal stability of biomass production: a new analysis of recent biodiversity experiments

scientific article

Spectrally derived values of community leaf dry matter content link shifts in grassland composition with change in biomass production

scientific article published on 14 January 2020

Stomatal acclimation over a subambient to elevated CO2 gradient in a C3/C4 grassland

scientific article published in 2002

Stomatal density and aperture length in four plant species grown across a subambient CO2gradient

scientific article published in 1993

Structural Attributes of Schizachyrium scoparium in Restored Texas Blackland Prairies

article published in 2004

Temporal stability of grassland metacommunities is regulated more by community functional traits than species diversity

scientific article published in 2020

The Relationship of Plant Species Heterogeneity to Soil Variation in Buffalo Wallows

The Savory Method Can Not Green Deserts or Reverse Climate Change

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

The effect of subambient to elevated atmospheric CO₂ concentration on vascular function in Helianthus annuus: implications for plant response to climate change.

scientific article

Tiller organization within the tussock grass Schizachyrium scoparium: a field assessment of competition–cooperation tradeoffs

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Traits of an invasive grass conferring an early growth advantage over native grasses

scientific article published in 2016

UAV−Enabled Quantification of Grazing-Induced Changes in Uniformity of Green Cover on Semiarid and Mesic Grasslands

scientific article published in 2022

USDA-ARS Global Change Research on Rangelands and Pasturelands

Variability in Light-Use Efficiency for Gross Primary Productivity on Great Plains Grasslands

Variability in community productivity-mediating effects of vegetation attributes

scientific article published in 2018

Viewpoint: Atmospheric CO 2 , Soil Water, and Shrub/Grass Ratios on Rangelands