Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Komatsu, KJ, Esch, NL*, Bloodworth, KJ*, Burghardt, KT, McGurrin, K, Pullen, JD, Parker, JD. 2023. Rhizobial diversity impacts soybean resistance, but not tolerance, to herbivory during drought. Basic and Applied Ecology. 66: 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.12.004
Muehleisen, AJ and 31 others (including KJ Komatsu). in press. Nutrient addition drives declines in grassland species richness primarily via enhanced species loss. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14038
Halpern, BS, Boettiger, C, Dietze, MC, Gephart, JA, Gonzalez, P, Grimm, NB, Groffman, PM, Gurevitch, J, Hobbie, SE, Komatsu, KJ, Kroeker, KJ, Lahr, HJ, Lodge, DM, Lortie, CJ, Lowndes, JSS, Michelli, F, Possingham, HP, Ruckelshaus, MH, Scarborough, C, Wu, GC, Lancaster, L. 2023. Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science. Ecosphere. 14 (1): e4342. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14038
Isbell, F and 65 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536
Ladouceur, E and 42 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters. 25 (12): 2699-2712. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14126
Reinhart, KO, Komatsu, KJ, Vermeire, LT. 2022. Effects of mowing, spring precipitation, soil nutrients, and enzymes on grassland productivity. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment. 5 (4): e20320. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20320
Smith, MD, Koerner, SE, Avolio, ML, Komatsu, KJ, Eby, S, Forrestel, E, Collins, SL, Wilcox, KR, Ahumada, R, Morgan, JW, Olivia, G, Onatibia, GR, Overbeck, GE, Peter, G, Quiroga, E, Sankaran, M, Wu, J, Yahdjian, L, Yu, Q. 2022. Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents. Oecologia. 199: 649-659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05208-6
Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ, Koerner, SE, Grman, E, Isbell, F, Johnson, DS, Wilcox, KR, Alatalo, JM, Baldwin, AH, Beierkihnlein, C, Britton, AJ, Foster, BL, Harmens, H, Kern, CC, Li, W, McLaren, JR, Reich, PB, Souza, L, Yu, Q, Zhang, Y. 2022. Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere. 13 (10): e4249 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4249
Langley, JA, Grman, E, Wilcox, KW, Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ, Collins, SL, Koerner, SE, Smith, MD, Baldwin, AH, Bowman, W, Chiariello, N, Eskelinen, A, Harmens, H, Hovenden, M, Klanderud, K, McCulley, RL, Onipchenko, VG, Robinson, CH, Suding, KN. in press. Do trade-offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments? Ecology. e3626. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3626
Hruska, A°, Cawood, A, Pagenkopp Lohan, KM, Ogburn, MB, Komatsu, KJ. 2022. Going remote: Recommendations for normalizing virtual internships to promote diversity and inclusivity. Ecosphere. 13 (3): e3961. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3961
Carroll, O and 29 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Nutrient identity modifies the destabilizing effects of eutrophication in grasslands. Ecology Letters. 25 (4): 754-765. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13946
Shamon, H and 31 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. The potential of bison restoration as an ecological approach to future tribal food sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 826282. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.826282
Canty, SWJ, Nowakowski, AJ, Connette, GM, Deichmann, JL, Songer, M, Chiaravalloti, R, Dodge, M, Feistner, ATC, Fergus, C, Hall, JS, Komatsu, KJ, Linares-Palomino, R, McField, M, Ogburn, MB, Velez-Zuazo, X, Akre, TS. 2022. Mapping a conservation research network to the Sustainable Development Goals. Conservation Science and Practice. e12731. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12731
Ebling, A and 27 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 110 (2): 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13801
Arnillas, CA and 21 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2021. Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and non-dominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally. Ecology and Evolution. 11 (24): 17744-17761. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8266
Wilfahrt, PA and 34 others including (KJ Komatsu). 2021. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. e03504. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3504
O’Connor, MI, Mori, AK, Gonzalez, A, Dee, LE, Loreau, M, Avolio, M, Byrnes, JEK, Cheung, W, Cowles, J, Clark, AT, Hautier, Y, Hector, A, Komatsu, KJ, Newbold, T, Outhwaite, CL, Reich, PB, Seabloom, E, Williams, L, Wright, A, Isbell, F. 2021. Grand challenges in biodiversity-ecosystem function research in the era of science-policy platforms require explicit considerations of feedbacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288 (1960): e20210783. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0783
Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ and 26 others. 2021. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters. 24 (9): 1892-1904. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13824
Tognetti, PM and 28 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2021. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (28): e2023718118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023718118
Gray, J, Komatsu, KJ, Smith, MD. 2021. Defining codominance in plant communities. New Phytologist. 230 (5): 1716-1730. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17253
Seabloom, E and 28 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2021. Increasing effects of chronic nutrient enrichment on plant diversity loss and ecosystem productivity over time. Ecology. 102 (2): e03218. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3218
Wilcox, KR, Komatsu, KJ, Avolio ML, and the C2E Consortium. 2020. Improving collaborations between empiricists and modelers to advance grassland community dynamics in ecosystem models. New Phytologist. 228 (5): 1467-1471. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16900
Avolio, MA, Wilcox, KR, Komatsu, KJ, Lemoine, N, Bowman, WD, Collins, SL, Knapp, A, Koerner, SE, Smith, MD, Baer, S, Gross, KL, Isbell, F, McLaren, J, Reich, P, Suding, KN, Suttle, KB, Tilman, D, Xu, Z, Yu, Q. 2020. Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Oecologia. 194 (4): 735-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04787-6
Komatsu, KJ, Simms, EL. 2020. Invasive legume management strategies differentially impact mutualist abundance and benefit to native and invasive hosts. Restoration Ecology. 28 (2): 378-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13081
Bloodworth, KJ*, Ritchie, ME, Komatsu, KJ. 2020. Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31 (5): 899-907. https://doi-org/10.1111/jvs.12910
Taylor, BN°, Simms, EL, Komatsu, KJ. 2020. More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function. Diversity. 12 (2): 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020050 (in Special Issue: Symbioses and the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Relationship)
Borer, E and 34 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications. 11 (6036). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y
Hautier, Y and 51 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales. Nature Communications. 11 (5375). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4
Smith, MD, Koerner, SE, Knapp, AK, Avolio, MA, Chaves, FA, Denton, EM, Dietrich, J, Gibson, DJ, Gray, J, Hoffman, AM, Hoover, DL, Komatsu, KJ, Silletti, A, Wilcox, KR, Yu, Q, Blair, M. 2020. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 108 (3): 855-864. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13330
Broadbent, AAD and 23 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. Dominant native and non-native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29 (7): 1126-1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13092
Kattge, J and 728 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology. 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
Avolio, ML, Carroll, IT, Collins, SL, Houseman, GR, Hallett, LM, Isbell, F, Koerner, SE, Komatsu, KJ, Smith, MD, Wilcox, KR. 2019. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 10 (10): e02881. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2881
Komatsu, KJ and 75 others. 2019. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (36): 17867-17873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819027116
Seabloom, EW, Condon, B, Kinkel, L, Komatsu, KJ, Lumibao, CY, May, G, McCulley, RL, Borer, ET. 2019. Effects of nutrient supply, herbivory, and host community on fungal endophyte diversity. Ecology. 100 (9): e02758. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2758
Borer, E, Lind, E, Firn, J, Seabloom, E, Anderson, TM, Bakker, E, Biederman, L, La Pierre, KJ, MacDougall, A, Moore, J, Risch, A, Schuetz, M, Stevens, C. 2019. More salt, please: global patterns, responses, and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands. Ecology Letters. 22 (7): 1136-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13270
Avolio, ML, Forrestel, EJ, Chang, CC, La Pierre, KJ, Burghardt, KT, Smith, MD. 2019. Tansley review: Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist. 223 (3): 1106-1126. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15789
Cleland, EE and 34 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2019. Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems. 22 (7): 1466-1477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4
Firn, J and 42 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2019. Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3: 400-406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0790-1
Langley, JA, Chapman, SK, La Pierre, KJ, Avolio, ML, Bowman, WD, Johnson, DS, Isbell, F, Wilcox, KR, Foster, BL, Hovenden, MJ, Knapp, AK, Koerner, SE, Lortie, CJ, Megonigal, JP, Newton, PCD, Reich, PB, Smith, MD, Suttle, KB, Tilman, D. 2018. Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 24 (12): 5668-5679. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14442
Hodapp, D and 30 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2018. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilization. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13102
Collins, SL, Avolio, ML, Gries, C, Hallett, LM, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Rypel, AL, Sokol, ER, Fey, SB, Flynn, DFB, Jones, SK, Ladwig, LM, Ripplinger, J, Jones, MB. 2018. Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities. Ecology. 99 (4): 858-865. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2154
Hautier, Y and 37 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2018. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2: 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0395-0
La Pierre, KJ, Simms, EL, Tariq, M, Zafar, M, Porter, SS. 2018. Invasive legumes can associate with many mutualists of native legumes, but usually do not. Ecology and Evolution. 7 (20): 8599-8611. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3310
Wilcox, KR and 44 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2017. Asynchrony among local communities stabilizes ecosystem function of metacommunities. Ecology Letters. 20 (12): 1534-1545. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12861
Lind, EL, La Pierre, KJ, Seabloom, EW, Alberti, J, Iribarne, O, Firn, J, Gruner, DS, Kay, AD, Pascal, J, Wright, JP, Yang, L, Borer, ET. 2017. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: A test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 98 (12): 3022-3033. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2029
Harpole, WS and 25 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2017. Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light, and plant diversity. Functional Ecology. 31: 1839-1846. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12967
Biederman, L, Mortensen, B, Fay, P, Hagenah, N, Knops, J, La Pierre, KJ, Laungani, R, Lind, E, McCulley, R, Power, S, Seabloom, EW, Tognetti, P. 2017. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the US Central Plains. PloS One. 12 (5): e0178440. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178440
La Pierre, KJ, Blumenthal, DM, Brown, CS, Klein, JA, Smith, MD. 2016. Drivers of variation in ANPP and plant community composition differ across a broad precipitation gradient. Ecosystems. 19 (3): 521-533. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-015-9949-7
La Pierre, KJ, Smith, MD. 2016. Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory across three grassland systems. Oecologia. 180 (2): 485-497. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3471-7
Harpole, WS and 32 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2016. Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature. 537 (7618): 93-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19324
Zhu, C, Ma, Y, Wu, H, Sun, T, La Pierre, KJ, Sun, Z, Yu, Q. 2016. Divergent effects of nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a semiarid grassland. Scientific Reports. 6: 33541. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep33541
Long, M, Wu, H, Smith, MD, La Pierre, KJ, Lu, X, Zhang, H, Han, X, Yu, Q. 2016. Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland. Plant and Soil. 408: 475-484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3022-y
Koerner, SK, Avolio, ML, La Pierre, KJ, Wilcox, KR, Smith, MD, Collins, SL. 2016. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology. 104: 1478-1487. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12610
Flores-Moreno, H and 28 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2016. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 371: 20150273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0273
Avolio, ML, La Pierre, KJ, Houseman, GR, Koerner, SE, Grman, E, Isbell, F, Johnson, DS, Wilcox, KR. 2015. A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers. Ecosphere. 6 (12): 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES15-00317.1
La Pierre, KJ, Smith, MD. 2015. Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions. Plant Ecology. 216 (2): 307-318. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-0438-4
La Pierre, KJ, Joern, A, Smith, MD. 2015. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass. Oikos. 124 (7): 842-850. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01869
Yu, Q, Wilcox, KR, La Pierre, KJ, Knapp, AK, Han, X, Smith, MD. 2015. Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change. Ecology. 96 (9): 2328-2335. https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1897.1
Leff, JW and 19 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (35): 10967-10972. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508382112
Seabloom, EW and 64 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications. 6: 7710. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8710
Stevens, CJ and 23 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide. Ecology. 96: 1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1902.1
Knapp, AK, Hoover, DL, Wilcox, KR, Avolio, ML, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Loik, ME, Luo, Y, Sala, OE, Smith, MD. 2015. Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: Implications for climate change experiments. Global Change Biology. 21 (7): 2624-2633. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12888
Smith, MD, La Pierre, KJ, Collins, SL, Knapp, AK, Gross, KL, Barrett, JE, Frey, SD, Gough, L, Miller, RJ, Morris, JT, Rustad, LE, Yarie, J. 2015. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: Insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 177 (4): 935-947. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9
Knapp, AK, Carroll, CJW, Denton, EM, La Pierre, KJ, Collins, SL, Smith, MD. 2015. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central U.S. grasslands. Oecologia. 177 (4): 949-957. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3233-6
Prober, SM and 26 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters. 18 (1): 85-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12381
Avolio, ML, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Wilcox, KR, Wilson, GWT, Smith, MD, Collins, SL. 2014. Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive aboveground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology. 102 (6): 1649-1660. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12312
Walsh, MR, La Pierre, KJ, Post, DM. 2014. Interactions between predation and resource quality drive life history evolution in natural populations of Daphnia. Evolutionary Ecology. 28 (2): 397-411. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-013-9666-7
Hautier and 32 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 508: 521-525. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13014
Borer, ET and 54 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature. 508: 517-520. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13144
MacDougall, AS and 21 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands on two continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23 (7): 802-810. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12157
Seabloom, ES and 72 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology. 19 (12): 3677-3687. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12370
Robinson, TMP, La Pierre, KJ, Vadeboncoeur, MA, Byrne, KM, Thomey, ML, Colby, SE. 2012. Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems. Oikos. 122:727-738. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20655.x
Knapp, AK, Smith, MD, Hobbie, SE, Collins, SL, Fahey, TJ, Hansen, GJA, Landis, DA, La Pierre, KJ, Melillo, JM, Seastedt, TR, Shaver, GR, Webster, JR. 2012. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER network. Bioscience. 62 (4): 377-389. https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.9
Grace, JB and 36 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2012. Response to comments on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness”. Science. 335 (6075): 1441-1441. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214939
La Pierre, KJ, Yuan, S, Chang, CC, Avolio, MA, Hallett, LM, Schreck, T, Smith, MD. 2011. Explaining temporal variation in aboveground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering. Journal of Ecology. 99 (5): 1250-1262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01844.x
Adler, PB and 54 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science. 333 (6050): 1750-1753. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204498
Firn, J and 36 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2011. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters. 14:274-281. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01584.x
La Pierre, KJ, Harpole, WS, Suding, KN. 2010. Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism. Biological Invasions. 12 (9): 3025-3031. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9693-z
Komatsu, KJ, Esch, NL*, Bloodworth, KJ*, Burghardt, KT, McGurrin, K, Pullen, JD, Parker, JD. 2023. Rhizobial diversity impacts soybean resistance, but not tolerance, to herbivory during drought. Basic and Applied Ecology. 66: 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.baae.2022.12.004
Muehleisen, AJ and 31 others (including KJ Komatsu). in press. Nutrient addition drives declines in grassland species richness primarily via enhanced species loss. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14038
Halpern, BS, Boettiger, C, Dietze, MC, Gephart, JA, Gonzalez, P, Grimm, NB, Groffman, PM, Gurevitch, J, Hobbie, SE, Komatsu, KJ, Kroeker, KJ, Lahr, HJ, Lodge, DM, Lortie, CJ, Lowndes, JSS, Michelli, F, Possingham, HP, Ruckelshaus, MH, Scarborough, C, Wu, GC, Lancaster, L. 2023. Priorities for synthesis in ecology and environmental science. Ecosphere. 14 (1): e4342. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14038
Isbell, F and 65 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Expert perspectives on global biodiversity loss and its drivers and impacts on people. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2536
Ladouceur, E and 42 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Linking changes in species composition and biomass in a globally distributed grassland experiment. Ecology Letters. 25 (12): 2699-2712. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14126
Reinhart, KO, Komatsu, KJ, Vermeire, LT. 2022. Effects of mowing, spring precipitation, soil nutrients, and enzymes on grassland productivity. Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment. 5 (4): e20320. https://doi.org/10.1002/agg2.20320
Smith, MD, Koerner, SE, Avolio, ML, Komatsu, KJ, Eby, S, Forrestel, E, Collins, SL, Wilcox, KR, Ahumada, R, Morgan, JW, Olivia, G, Onatibia, GR, Overbeck, GE, Peter, G, Quiroga, E, Sankaran, M, Wu, J, Yahdjian, L, Yu, Q. 2022. Richness, not evenness, varies across water availability gradients in grassy biomes on five continents. Oecologia. 199: 649-659. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-022-05208-6
Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ, Koerner, SE, Grman, E, Isbell, F, Johnson, DS, Wilcox, KR, Alatalo, JM, Baldwin, AH, Beierkihnlein, C, Britton, AJ, Foster, BL, Harmens, H, Kern, CC, Li, W, McLaren, JR, Reich, PB, Souza, L, Yu, Q, Zhang, Y. 2022. Making sense of multivariate community responses in global change experiments. Ecosphere. 13 (10): e4249 https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4249
Langley, JA, Grman, E, Wilcox, KW, Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ, Collins, SL, Koerner, SE, Smith, MD, Baldwin, AH, Bowman, W, Chiariello, N, Eskelinen, A, Harmens, H, Hovenden, M, Klanderud, K, McCulley, RL, Onipchenko, VG, Robinson, CH, Suding, KN. in press. Do trade-offs govern plant species’ responses to different global change treatments? Ecology. e3626. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3626
Hruska, A°, Cawood, A, Pagenkopp Lohan, KM, Ogburn, MB, Komatsu, KJ. 2022. Going remote: Recommendations for normalizing virtual internships to promote diversity and inclusivity. Ecosphere. 13 (3): e3961. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3961
Carroll, O and 29 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Nutrient identity modifies the destabilizing effects of eutrophication in grasslands. Ecology Letters. 25 (4): 754-765. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13946
Shamon, H and 31 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. The potential of bison restoration as an ecological approach to future tribal food sovereignty on the Northern Great Plains. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 10: 826282. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.826282
Canty, SWJ, Nowakowski, AJ, Connette, GM, Deichmann, JL, Songer, M, Chiaravalloti, R, Dodge, M, Feistner, ATC, Fergus, C, Hall, JS, Komatsu, KJ, Linares-Palomino, R, McField, M, Ogburn, MB, Velez-Zuazo, X, Akre, TS. 2022. Mapping a conservation research network to the Sustainable Development Goals. Conservation Science and Practice. e12731. https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.12731
Ebling, A and 27 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2022. Nutrient enrichment increases invertebrate herbivory and pathogen damage in grasslands. Journal of Ecology. 110 (2): 327-339. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13801
Arnillas, CA and 21 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2021. Opposing community assembly patterns for dominant and non-dominant plant species in herbaceous ecosystems globally. Ecology and Evolution. 11 (24): 17744-17761. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8266
Wilfahrt, PA and 34 others including (KJ Komatsu). 2021. Temporal rarity is a better predictor of local extinction risk than spatial rarity. Ecology. e03504. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3504
O’Connor, MI, Mori, AK, Gonzalez, A, Dee, LE, Loreau, M, Avolio, M, Byrnes, JEK, Cheung, W, Cowles, J, Clark, AT, Hautier, Y, Hector, A, Komatsu, KJ, Newbold, T, Outhwaite, CL, Reich, PB, Seabloom, E, Williams, L, Wright, A, Isbell, F. 2021. Grand challenges in biodiversity-ecosystem function research in the era of science-policy platforms require explicit considerations of feedbacks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 288 (1960): e20210783. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0783
Avolio, MA, Komatsu, KJ and 26 others. 2021. Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change. Ecology Letters. 24 (9): 1892-1904. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13824
Tognetti, PM and 28 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2021. Negative effects of nitrogen override positive effects of phosphorus on grassland legumes worldwide. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118 (28): e2023718118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2023718118
Gray, J, Komatsu, KJ, Smith, MD. 2021. Defining codominance in plant communities. New Phytologist. 230 (5): 1716-1730. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17253
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Wilcox, KR, Komatsu, KJ, Avolio ML, and the C2E Consortium. 2020. Improving collaborations between empiricists and modelers to advance grassland community dynamics in ecosystem models. New Phytologist. 228 (5): 1467-1471. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16900
Avolio, MA, Wilcox, KR, Komatsu, KJ, Lemoine, N, Bowman, WD, Collins, SL, Knapp, A, Koerner, SE, Smith, MD, Baer, S, Gross, KL, Isbell, F, McLaren, J, Reich, P, Suding, KN, Suttle, KB, Tilman, D, Xu, Z, Yu, Q. 2020. Temporal variability in production is not consistently affected by global change drivers across herbaceous-dominated ecosystems. Oecologia. 194 (4): 735-744. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04787-6
Komatsu, KJ, Simms, EL. 2020. Invasive legume management strategies differentially impact mutualist abundance and benefit to native and invasive hosts. Restoration Ecology. 28 (2): 378-386. https://doi.org/10.1111/rec.13081
Bloodworth, KJ*, Ritchie, ME, Komatsu, KJ. 2020. Effects of white-tailed deer exclusion on the plant community composition of an upland tallgrass prairie ecosystem. Journal of Vegetation Science. 31 (5): 899-907. https://doi-org/10.1111/jvs.12910
Taylor, BN°, Simms, EL, Komatsu, KJ. 2020. More Than a Functional Group: Diversity within the Legume–Rhizobia Mutualism and Its Relationship with Ecosystem Function. Diversity. 12 (2): 50. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12020050 (in Special Issue: Symbioses and the Biodiversity-Ecosystem Function Relationship)
Borer, E and 34 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. Nutrients cause grassland biomass to outpace herbivory. Nature Communications. 11 (6036). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19870-y
Hautier, Y and 51 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple spatial scales. Nature Communications. 11 (5375). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19252-4
Smith, MD, Koerner, SE, Knapp, AK, Avolio, MA, Chaves, FA, Denton, EM, Dietrich, J, Gibson, DJ, Gray, J, Hoffman, AM, Hoover, DL, Komatsu, KJ, Silletti, A, Wilcox, KR, Yu, Q, Blair, M. 2020. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology. 108 (3): 855-864. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13330
Broadbent, AAD and 23 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. Dominant native and non-native graminoids differ in key leaf traits irrespective of nutrient availability. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 29 (7): 1126-1138. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13092
Kattge, J and 728 others (including KJ Komatsu). 2020. TRY plant trait database – enhanced coverage and open access. Global Change Biology. 26: 119-188. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14904
Avolio, ML, Carroll, IT, Collins, SL, Houseman, GR, Hallett, LM, Isbell, F, Koerner, SE, Komatsu, KJ, Smith, MD, Wilcox, KR. 2019. A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves. Ecosphere. 10 (10): e02881. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2881
Komatsu, KJ and 75 others. 2019. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences. 116 (36): 17867-17873. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1819027116
Seabloom, EW, Condon, B, Kinkel, L, Komatsu, KJ, Lumibao, CY, May, G, McCulley, RL, Borer, ET. 2019. Effects of nutrient supply, herbivory, and host community on fungal endophyte diversity. Ecology. 100 (9): e02758. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2758
Borer, E, Lind, E, Firn, J, Seabloom, E, Anderson, TM, Bakker, E, Biederman, L, La Pierre, KJ, MacDougall, A, Moore, J, Risch, A, Schuetz, M, Stevens, C. 2019. More salt, please: global patterns, responses, and impacts of foliar sodium in grasslands. Ecology Letters. 22 (7): 1136-1144. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13270
Avolio, ML, Forrestel, EJ, Chang, CC, La Pierre, KJ, Burghardt, KT, Smith, MD. 2019. Tansley review: Demystifying dominant species. New Phytologist. 223 (3): 1106-1126. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15789
Cleland, EE and 34 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2019. Belowground biomass response to nutrient enrichment depends on light limitation across globally distributed grasslands. Ecosystems. 22 (7): 1466-1477. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-019-00350-4
Firn, J and 42 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2019. Leaf nutrients, not specific leaf area, are consistent indicators of elevated nutrient inputs. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 3: 400-406. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0790-1
Langley, JA, Chapman, SK, La Pierre, KJ, Avolio, ML, Bowman, WD, Johnson, DS, Isbell, F, Wilcox, KR, Foster, BL, Hovenden, MJ, Knapp, AK, Koerner, SE, Lortie, CJ, Megonigal, JP, Newton, PCD, Reich, PB, Smith, MD, Suttle, KB, Tilman, D. 2018. Ambient changes exceed treatment effects on plant species abundance in global change experiments. Global Change Biology. 24 (12): 5668-5679. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.14442
Hodapp, D and 30 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2018. Spatial heterogeneity in species composition constrains plant community responses to herbivory and fertilization. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13102
Collins, SL, Avolio, ML, Gries, C, Hallett, LM, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Rypel, AL, Sokol, ER, Fey, SB, Flynn, DFB, Jones, SK, Ladwig, LM, Ripplinger, J, Jones, MB. 2018. Temporal heterogeneity increases with spatial heterogeneity in ecological communities. Ecology. 99 (4): 858-865. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2154
Hautier, Y and 37 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2018. Local loss and spatial homogenization of plant diversity reduce ecosystem multifunctionality. Nature Ecology and Evolution. 2: 50-56. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0395-0
La Pierre, KJ, Simms, EL, Tariq, M, Zafar, M, Porter, SS. 2018. Invasive legumes can associate with many mutualists of native legumes, but usually do not. Ecology and Evolution. 7 (20): 8599-8611. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3310
Wilcox, KR and 44 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2017. Asynchrony among local communities stabilizes ecosystem function of metacommunities. Ecology Letters. 20 (12): 1534-1545. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12861
Lind, EL, La Pierre, KJ, Seabloom, EW, Alberti, J, Iribarne, O, Firn, J, Gruner, DS, Kay, AD, Pascal, J, Wright, JP, Yang, L, Borer, ET. 2017. Increased grassland arthropod production with mammalian herbivory and eutrophication: A test of mediation pathways. Ecology. 98 (12): 3022-3033. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.2029
Harpole, WS and 25 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2017. Out of the shadows: multiple nutrient limitations drive relationships among biomass, light, and plant diversity. Functional Ecology. 31: 1839-1846. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12967
Biederman, L, Mortensen, B, Fay, P, Hagenah, N, Knops, J, La Pierre, KJ, Laungani, R, Lind, E, McCulley, R, Power, S, Seabloom, EW, Tognetti, P. 2017. Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the US Central Plains. PloS One. 12 (5): e0178440. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178440
La Pierre, KJ, Blumenthal, DM, Brown, CS, Klein, JA, Smith, MD. 2016. Drivers of variation in ANPP and plant community composition differ across a broad precipitation gradient. Ecosystems. 19 (3): 521-533. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10021-015-9949-7
La Pierre, KJ, Smith, MD. 2016. Soil nutrient additions increase invertebrate herbivore abundances, but not herbivory across three grassland systems. Oecologia. 180 (2): 485-497. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3471-7
Harpole, WS and 32 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2016. Addition of multiple limiting resources reduces grassland diversity. Nature. 537 (7618): 93-96. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature19324
Zhu, C, Ma, Y, Wu, H, Sun, T, La Pierre, KJ, Sun, Z, Yu, Q. 2016. Divergent effects of nitrogen addition on soil respiration in a semiarid grassland. Scientific Reports. 6: 33541. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep33541
Long, M, Wu, H, Smith, MD, La Pierre, KJ, Lu, X, Zhang, H, Han, X, Yu, Q. 2016. Nitrogen deposition promotes phosphorus uptake of plants in a semi-arid temperate grassland. Plant and Soil. 408: 475-484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3022-y
Koerner, SK, Avolio, ML, La Pierre, KJ, Wilcox, KR, Smith, MD, Collins, SL. 2016. Nutrient additions cause divergence of tallgrass prairie plant communities resulting in loss of ecosystem stability. Journal of Ecology. 104: 1478-1487. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12610
Flores-Moreno, H and 28 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2016. Climate modifies response of non-native and native species richness to nutrient enrichment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 371: 20150273. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0273
Avolio, ML, La Pierre, KJ, Houseman, GR, Koerner, SE, Grman, E, Isbell, F, Johnson, DS, Wilcox, KR. 2015. A framework for quantifying the magnitude and variability of community responses to global change drivers. Ecosphere. 6 (12): 1-14. https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/ES15-00317.1
La Pierre, KJ, Smith, MD. 2015. Functional trait expression of grassland species shift with short- and long-term nutrient additions. Plant Ecology. 216 (2): 307-318. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-014-0438-4
La Pierre, KJ, Joern, A, Smith, MD. 2015. Invertebrate, not small vertebrate, herbivory interacts with nutrient availability to impact tallgrass prairie community composition and forb biomass. Oikos. 124 (7): 842-850. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.01869
Yu, Q, Wilcox, KR, La Pierre, KJ, Knapp, AK, Han, X, Smith, MD. 2015. Stoichiometric homeostasis predicts plant species dominance, temporal stability and responses to global change. Ecology. 96 (9): 2328-2335. https://dx.doi.org/10.1890/14-1897.1
Leff, JW and 19 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Consistent responses of soil microbial communities to elevated nutrient inputs in grasslands across the globe. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (35): 10967-10972. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1508382112
Seabloom, EW and 64 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Plant species’ origin predicts dominance and response to nutrient enrichment and herbivores in global grasslands. Nature Communications. 6: 7710. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8710
Stevens, CJ and 23 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Anthropogenic nitrogen deposition predicts local grassland primary production worldwide. Ecology. 96: 1459-1465. https://doi.org/10.1890/14-1902.1
Knapp, AK, Hoover, DL, Wilcox, KR, Avolio, ML, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Loik, ME, Luo, Y, Sala, OE, Smith, MD. 2015. Characterizing differences in precipitation regimes of extreme wet and dry years: Implications for climate change experiments. Global Change Biology. 21 (7): 2624-2633. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12888
Smith, MD, La Pierre, KJ, Collins, SL, Knapp, AK, Gross, KL, Barrett, JE, Frey, SD, Gough, L, Miller, RJ, Morris, JT, Rustad, LE, Yarie, J. 2015. Global environmental change and the nature of aboveground net primary productivity responses: Insights from long-term experiments. Oecologia. 177 (4): 935-947. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3230-9
Knapp, AK, Carroll, CJW, Denton, EM, La Pierre, KJ, Collins, SL, Smith, MD. 2015. Differential sensitivity to regional-scale drought in six central U.S. grasslands. Oecologia. 177 (4): 949-957. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3233-6
Prober, SM and 26 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2015. Plant diversity predicts beta but not alpha diversity of soil microbes across grasslands worldwide. Ecology Letters. 18 (1): 85-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.12381
Avolio, ML, Koerner, SE, La Pierre, KJ, Wilcox, KR, Wilson, GWT, Smith, MD, Collins, SL. 2014. Changes in plant community composition, not diversity, during a decade of nitrogen and phosphorus additions drive aboveground productivity in a tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology. 102 (6): 1649-1660. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.12312
Walsh, MR, La Pierre, KJ, Post, DM. 2014. Interactions between predation and resource quality drive life history evolution in natural populations of Daphnia. Evolutionary Ecology. 28 (2): 397-411. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10682-013-9666-7
Hautier and 32 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Eutrophication weakens stabilizing effects of diversity in natural grasslands. Nature. 508: 521-525. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13014
Borer, ET and 54 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation. Nature. 508: 517-520. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13144
MacDougall, AS and 21 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2014. Anthropogenic-based regional-scale factors most consistently explain plot-level exotic diversity in grasslands on two continents. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 23 (7): 802-810. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/geb.12157
Seabloom, ES and 72 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2013. Predicting invasion in grassland ecosystems: is exotic dominance the real embarrassment of richness? Global Change Biology. 19 (12): 3677-3687. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12370
Robinson, TMP, La Pierre, KJ, Vadeboncoeur, MA, Byrne, KM, Thomey, ML, Colby, SE. 2012. Seasonal, not annual precipitation drives community productivity across ecosystems. Oikos. 122:727-738. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20655.x
Knapp, AK, Smith, MD, Hobbie, SE, Collins, SL, Fahey, TJ, Hansen, GJA, Landis, DA, La Pierre, KJ, Melillo, JM, Seastedt, TR, Shaver, GR, Webster, JR. 2012. Past, present, and future roles of long-term experiments in the LTER network. Bioscience. 62 (4): 377-389. https://dx.doi.org/10.1525/bio.2012.62.4.9
Grace, JB and 36 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2012. Response to comments on “Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness”. Science. 335 (6075): 1441-1441. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1214939
La Pierre, KJ, Yuan, S, Chang, CC, Avolio, MA, Hallett, LM, Schreck, T, Smith, MD. 2011. Explaining temporal variation in aboveground productivity in a mesic grassland: the role of climate and flowering. Journal of Ecology. 99 (5): 1250-1262. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2745.2011.01844.x
Adler, PB and 54 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2011. Productivity is a poor predictor of plant species richness. Science. 333 (6050): 1750-1753. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1204498
Firn, J and 36 others (including KJ La Pierre). 2011. Abundance of introduced species at home predicts abundance away in herbaceous communities. Ecology Letters. 14:274-281. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01584.x
La Pierre, KJ, Harpole, WS, Suding, KN. 2010. Strong feeding preference of an exotic generalist herbivore for an exotic forb: a case of invasional antagonism. Biological Invasions. 12 (9): 3025-3031. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9693-z
Edited Books and chapters
Hanley, TC, La Pierre, KJ, eds. Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions Across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. 2015. Cambridge University Press.
La Pierre, KJ, Hanley, TC. 2015. Bottom-up and top-down interactions across ecosystems in an era of global change. in TC Hanley and KJ La Pierre (eds): Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions Across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press.
La Pierre, KJ, Hanley, TC. 2015. Bottom-up and top-down interactions across ecosystems in an era of global change. in TC Hanley and KJ La Pierre (eds): Trophic Ecology: Bottom-Up and Top-Down Interactions Across Aquatic and Terrestrial Systems. Cambridge University Press.
