List of works - Melinda D. Smith

A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups

article

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

scientific article

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

scientific article published on 19 August 2019

A novel soil manganese mechanism drives plant species loss with increased nitrogen deposition in a temperate steppe

scientific article

A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?

scientific article published on 04 September 2018

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

scientific article

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

article by J Adam Langley et al published 18 October 2018 in Global Change Biology

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

scientific article published in 2011

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

article

Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands

scientific article published in 2024

Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

article

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

article

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

scientific article

Asymmetry in above- and belowground productivity responses to N addition in a semi-arid temperate steppe

scientific article published on 24 June 2019

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

Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

scientific article published on 15 May 2020

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

scientific article

Carbon exchange responses of a mesic grassland to an extreme gradient of precipitation

article

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

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

scientific article

Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

scientific article published in 2023

Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes

scientific article published in 2022

Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world

scientific article published on 3 January 2014

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

Codominant grasses differ in gene expression under experimental climate extremes in native tallgrass prairie

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Community Response to Extreme Drought (CRED): a framework for drought-induced shifts in plant-plant interactions

scientific article published on 10 January 2019

Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies

article

Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle

scientific article published in 2022

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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

article

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

scientific article published on June 2004

Convergence and contingency in production-precipitation relationships in North American and South African C4 grasslands

scientific article published on 4 July 2006

Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

scientific article

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

scientific article published in 2013

Correlations between genetic and species diversity: effects of resource quantity and heterogeneity

scientific article published on 12 February 2013

Defining codominance in plant communities

scholarly article

Demystifying dominant species

scientific article published on 04 May 2019

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

scientific article published on 25 June 2021

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

scientific article published on 10 January 2017

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

scientific article published on 5 February 2015

Divergent interactive impacts on productivity and functional diversity from fluctuated snowfall and continuous nitrogen pollution within Inner Mongolian

scientific article published on 23 November 2019

Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?

scientific article published in 2015

Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?.

scientific article

Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities?

scientific article published in August 2007

Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie

scientific article published in 2004

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

article

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

scientific article published on 5 March 2018

Drought‐driven shifts in relationships between plant biodiversity and productivity in temperate steppes

scientific article published in 2022

Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition

scientific article published in 2023

Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field

article

Ecophysiological responses of two dominant grasses to altered temperature and precipitation regimes

article

Effects of extreme drought on plant nutrient uptake and resorption in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands

scientific article published on 24 July 2018

Exotic plant species in a C4-dominated grassland: invasibility, disturbance, and community structure

scientific article published in September 1999

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

scholarly article

Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering

scientific article published in 2011

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

scientific article published on 8 January 2024

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

article

Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

scientific article

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

article

Functional diversity response to geographic and experimental precipitation gradients varies with plant community type

scholarly article

Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions

article

Gene expression differs in codominant prairie grasses under drought.

scientific article

Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation

scientific article

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

Genetic and functional variation across regional and local scales is associated with climate in a foundational prairie grass

scientific article published on 16 March 2020

Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability

scientific article

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

Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems

scientific article published in 2018

Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems

scientific article published on 22 April 2009

Herbivore size matters for productivity-richness relationships in African savannas

scientific article published in 2017

Herbivores alleviate the negative effects of extreme drought on plant community by enhancing dominant species

scholarly article

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

scientific article published on 9 March 2014

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

scientific article published in 2023

How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Imbalanced atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus depositions in China: Implications for nutrient limitation

scientific article

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

article

Integrating plant ecological responses to climate extremes from individual to ecosystem levels

scientific article

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Interaction of extreme drought and insect herbivores on grassland community is affected by drought pattern

scientific article published in 2024

Invasibility of a mesic grassland depends on the time-scale of fluctuating resources

scientific article published in 2015

Invasion in space and time: non-native species richness and relative abundance respond to interannual variation in productivity and diversity

article

Invasion of an intact plant community: the role of population versus community level diversity ⬇️

scientific article published on October 21, 2011

Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass

article

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

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Lineage‐based functional types: characterising functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behaviour in Land Surface Models

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

Long term prevention of disturbance induces the collapse of a dominant species without altering ecosystem function.

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

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

scientific article published on 20 February 2014

Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

scholarly article

Mean annual precipitation predicts primary production resistance and resilience to extreme drought

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland

article

Nonlinear drought plasticity reveals intraspecific diversity in a dominant grass species

scholarly article

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

article

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

Physiological and Morphological Traits of Exotic, Invasive Exotic, and Native Plant Species in Tallgrass Prairie

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

Plant species' origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands ⬇️

scientific article published on 15 July 2015

Precipitation amount and event size interact to reduce ecosystem functioning during dry years in a mesic grassland

scientific article published on 31 August 2019

Precipitation-productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: an underappreciated dimension of climate change

scientific article published on 09 December 2020

Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness?

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Producer nutritional quality controls ecosystem trophic structure

scientific article

Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness

scientific article

Prospective evidence for independent nitrogen and phosphorus limitation of grasshopper (Chorthippus curtipennis) growth in a tallgrass prairie

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 variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing

article

Rangeland Responses to Predicted Increases in Drought Extremity

article

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

scientific article published on 18 February 2020

Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation-productivity relationships: implications for climate change

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 29 August 2022

Repeated extreme droughts decrease root production, but not the potential for post‐drought recovery of root production, in a mesic grassland

scientific article published in 2022

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

scientific article published on 12 March 2014

Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought

scientific article published on 24 August 2020

Resources do not limit compensatory response of a tallgrass prairie plant community to the loss of a dominant species

scholarly article

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

article

Sampling date, leaf age and root size: implications for the study of plant C:N:p stoichiometry

scientific article

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

scientific article published in August 2006

Semiarid ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation extremes: weak evidence for vegetation constraints

scientific article published on 04 January 2019

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

article

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

scholarly article

Size of the local species pool determines invasibility of a C4-dominated grassland

article

Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory, across three grassland systems

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Standardized metrics are key for assessing drought severity

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability, and responses to global change

scientific article

Temperature patterns of soil carbon: nitrogen: phosphorus stoichiometry along the 400 mm isohyet in China

scholarly article

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Terrestrial Precipitation Analysis (TPA): A resource for characterizing long-term precipitation regimes and extremes

scientific article published in 2016

The effect of genotype richness and genomic dissimilarity ofAndropogon gerardiion invasion resistance and productivity

scientific article published on 14 March 2014

The effect of timing of growing season drought on flowering of a dominant C4 grass

scientific article

The immediate and prolonged effects of climate extremes on soil respiration in a mesic grassland

scientific article

The responses of photosynthetic rate of dominant species to extreme drought in Inner Mongolia grasslands

scholarly article

Underappreciated problems of low replication in ecological field studies.

scientific article

Understanding ecosystems of the future will require more than realistic climate change experiments - A response to Korell et al

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production

scientific article

Variation in gene expression ofAndropogon gerardiiin response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change

article

Weak latitudinal gradients in insect herbivory for dominant rangeland grasses of North America

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

List of works by Melinda D. Smith

A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups

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

A meta-analysis of 1,119 manipulative experiments on terrestrial carbon-cycling responses to global change

A novel soil manganese mechanism drives plant species loss with increased nitrogen deposition in a temperate steppe

A reality check for climate change experiments: Do they reflect the real world?

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

Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments

An ecological perspective on extreme climatic events: a synthetic definition and framework to guide future research

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

Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands

Assessing community and ecosystem sensitivity to climate change - toward a more comparative approach

Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

Asymmetric responses of primary productivity to altered precipitation simulated by ecosystem models across three long-term grassland sites

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

Asymmetry in above- and belowground productivity responses to N addition in a semi-arid temperate steppe

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities.

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

Author Correction: Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

Carbon exchange responses of a mesic grassland to an extreme gradient of precipitation

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity ⬇️

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

Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: implications for climate change experiments

Clarifying the effect of biodiversity on productivity in natural ecosystems with longitudinal data and methods for causal inference

Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes

Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world

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

Codominant grasses differ in gene expression under experimental climate extremes in native tallgrass prairie

Community Response to Extreme Drought (CRED): a framework for drought-induced shifts in plant-plant interactions

Comparison of damage to native and exotic tallgrass prairie plants by natural enemies

Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi‐arid grassland: Drought, deluge, and the carbon cycle

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

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

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

Convergence and contingency in production-precipitation relationships in North American and South African C4 grasslands

Convergent phylogenetic and functional responses to altered fire regimes in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

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

Correlations between genetic and species diversity: effects of resource quantity and heterogeneity

Defining codominance in plant communities

Demystifying dominant species

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

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

Divergent interactive impacts on productivity and functional diversity from fluctuated snowfall and continuous nitrogen pollution within Inner Mongolian

Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?

Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?.

Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities?

Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie

Drivers of Variation in Aboveground Net Primary Productivity and Plant Community Composition Differ Across a Broad Precipitation Gradient

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

Drought‐driven shifts in relationships between plant biodiversity and productivity in temperate steppes

Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition

Ecological genomics: making the leap from model systems in the lab to native populations in the field

Ecophysiological responses of two dominant grasses to altered temperature and precipitation regimes

Effects of extreme drought on plant nutrient uptake and resorption in rhizomatous vs bunchgrass-dominated grasslands

Exotic plant species in a C4-dominated grassland: invasibility, disturbance, and community structure

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

Explaining temporal variation in above-ground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

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

Functional diversity response to geographic and experimental precipitation gradients varies with plant community type

Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions

Gene expression differs in codominant prairie grasses under drought.

Gene expression patterns of two dominant tallgrass prairie species differ in response to warming and altered precipitation

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

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

Genetic and functional variation across regional and local scales is associated with climate in a foundational prairie grass

Genetic diversity of a dominant C4 grass is altered with increased precipitation variability

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

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

Guidelines and considerations for designing field experiments simulating precipitation extremes in forest ecosystems

Herbivore metabolism and stoichiometry each constrain herbivory at different organizational scales across ecosystems

Herbivore size matters for productivity-richness relationships in African savannas

Herbivores alleviate the negative effects of extreme drought on plant community by enhancing dominant species

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

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