A5050247331- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Plant and animal studies
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Soil Management and Crop Yield
- Rangeland and Wildlife Management
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
Kansas State University
2016-2021
University of Edinburgh
2021
University of Tennessee at Knoxville
2016
Human induced climate and land-use change are severely impacting global biodiversity, but how community composition richness of multiple taxonomic groups in response to local drivers whether these responses synchronous remains unclear. We used long-term community-level data from an experimentally manipulated grassland assess the relative influence land use as structure four groups: birds, mammals, grasshoppers, plants. also quantified synchrony among across gradients compared climatic...
Abstract Frequent fire and grazing by megafauna are important determinants of tallgrass prairie plant community structure. However, suppression removal native grazers have altered these natural disturbance regimes changed grassland communities with potential long‐term consequences for soil carbon (C) nitrogen (N) storage. We investigated multidecade changes in C N pools response to contrasting burning treatments. Fire or without exclusion annually burned increased content shifted the δ 13...
Abstract Plant, soil, and aquatic microbiomes interact, but scientists often study them independently. Integrating knowledge across these traditionally separate subdisciplines will generate better understanding of microbial ecological properties. Interactions among plant, microbiomes, as well anthropogenic factors, influence important ecosystem processes, including greenhouse gas fluxes, crop production, nonnative species control, nutrient flux from terrestrial to habitats. Terrestrial...
Abstract Studies addressing the benefits of “directed dispersal” in ant seed dispersal systems have highlighted beneficial soil properties nests ants that disperse their seeds. No studies, however, explored soils nearby exemplary seed‐dispersing nests, where recent work indicates seeds are quickly “redispersed” eastern North America. To address this, we focused on a forested ecosystem United States keystone ant, Aphaenogaster rudis , commonly disperses numerous understory herbs, including...
Cover crop mixtures of functionally distinct species may increase multiple ecosystem services, depending on their establishment and composition. We assessed how unique management legacies, resulting soil fertility properties, influenced the functions provided by a cover mixture. used Kellogg Biological Station’s long-term Main Cropping Systems Experiment to test legacy effects four systems (ranging from conventional organic) production function crimson clover cereal rye crops grown alone in...