Melinda D. Smith

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Generality in ecology: testing North American grassland rules in South African savannas

S. Andelman, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2004 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2015, Oecologia.

Consequences of More Extreme Precipitation Regimes for Terrestrial Ecosystems

Markus Reichstein, Jesse E. Bell, Benjamin Smith, 2008 .

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

J. Magnuson, S. Carpenter, W. McDowell, 2011 .

Gene expression profiling: opening the black box of plant ecosystem responses to global change

Erika A. Sudderth, D. Weston, S. Placella, 2009 .

Indicators of plant species richness in AVIRIS spectra of a mesic grassland

Alan K. Knapp, Gregory A. Carter, G. Carter, 2005 .

Convergence across biomes to a common rain-use efficiency

J. Zak, M. Shaw, J. Harte, 2004, Nature.

Coordinated approaches to quantify long‐term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

James S. Clark, E. Davidson, J. Six, 2011 .

Biodiversity and species interactions: extending Lotka-Volterra community theory

William T. Langford, W. Wilson, K. Gross, 2003 .

Integrative modelling reveals mechanisms linking productivity and plant species richness

Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, E. Borer, 2016, Nature.

The ecological role of climate extremes: current understanding and future prospects

Melinda D. Smith, 2011 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, 2011 .

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities

Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, Meghan L. Avolio, Jennie R. McLaren, 2017, Ecology letters.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, O. Sala, M. Loik, 2017, Global change biology.

Multiple facets of biodiversity drive the diversity–stability relationship

Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, P. Reich, D. Tilman, 2018, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Assessing the Response of Terrestrial Ecosystems to Potential Changes in Precipitation

J. Zak, M. Shaw, J. Harte, 2003 .

Underappreciated problems of low replication in ecological field studies.

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, 2016, Ecology.

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

J. Blair, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2002, Science.

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

Sydney K. Jones, J. Blair, S. Collins, 2016, Scientific Reports.

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

N. McDowell, S. Frey, P. Templer, 2018, Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Fire as a fundamental ecological process: Research advances and frontiers

Kevin G. Smith, Brian J. Harvey, L. Kobziar, 2020, Journal of Ecology.

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

Roy Turkington, Alan K. Knapp, Yiqi Luo, 2012 .

Does species diversity limit productivity in natural grassland communities?

James B Grace, Michael R Willig, Evan Weiher, 2007, Ecology letters.

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Brett A. Melbourne, Peter B. Adler, Janneke HilleRisLambers, 2014 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, K. L. La Pierre, Kimberly J. La Pierre, 2015, Plant Ecology.

Coordinated approaches to quantify long‐term ecosystem dynamics in response to global change

Christopher B. Field, Edward B. Rastetter, Mark G. Tjoelker, 2011 .

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

P. Ciais, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2017, The New phytologist.

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

Alan K. Knapp, Dave I. Thompson, Scott L. Collins, 2014 .

INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FIRE AND INVASIVE PLANTS IN TEMPERATE GRASSLANDS OF NORTH AMERICA

James B. Grace, Thomas J. Stohlgren, Scott L. Collins, 2001 .

Plant growth and mortality under climatic extremes: An overview

Dejun Li, Jianyang Xia, Yiqi Luo, 2014 .

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

Alan K. Knapp, Scott L. Collins, Navashni Govender, 2009, Ecosystems.

Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: synthesis and modeling analysis

Nathaniel A. Brunsell, Alan K. Knapp, Yiqi Luo, 2013 .

Variation in leaf anatomical traits from tropical to cold‐temperate forests and linkage to ecosystem functions

Dali Guo, Guirui Yu, Qiang Yu, 2018 .

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

Patrick S. Schnable, George A. Milliken, Alan K. Knapp, 2007 .

Frontiers of Ecosystem Modeling and Large-Scale Experiments

Yiqi Luo, S. Collins, W. Pockman, 2017 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, Guoan Wang, 2021 .

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

Nico Eisenhauer, Peter B. Adler, Eric Harvey, 2019, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function

Alan K. Knapp, Philip A. Fay, J. Blair, 2011 .

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

Jackson R. Webster, Timothy J. Fahey, Alan K. Knapp, 2012 .

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

David T. Tissue, Alan K. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2017 .

A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing

Alan K. Knapp, Scott L. Collins, Navashni Govender, 2012 .

Relationships between aboveground and belowground trait responses of a dominant plant species to alterations in watertable depth

Melinda D. Smith, Tonghui Zhang, Xueyong Zhao, 2018, Land Degradation & Development.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, S. Koerner, 2021, Functional Ecology.

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

Daniel M. Griffith, W. Bond, Melinda D. Smith, 2020, The New phytologist.

Lineage Functional Types (LFTs): Characterizing functional diversity to enhance the representation of ecological behavior in Earth System Models

Daniel M. Griffith, W. Bond, Melinda D. Smith, 2020, bioRxiv.

Sampling Date, Leaf Age and Root Size: Implications for the Study of Plant C:N:P Stoichiometry

J. Kattge, Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, 2013, PloS one.

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

J. Blair, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2015, Ecology.

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

A. Classen, G. Kröel-Dulay, I. Schmidt, 2018, The Science of the total environment.

Demystifying dominant species.

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, K. L. La Pierre, 2019, The New phytologist.

Changes in species abundances with short-term and long-term nitrogen addition are mediated by stoichiometric homeostasis

Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, N. He, 2021, Plant and Soil.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, D. Flynn, 2015, Scientific Reports.

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

Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, Cynthia S. Brown, 2015, Nature Communications.

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

Guofu Yuan, Melinda D. Smith, Guirui Yu, 2016 .

Resource availability modulates above‐ and below‐ground competitive interactions between genotypes of a dominant C4 grass

Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2014 .

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, K. L. La Pierre, 2011 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, N. Lemoine, M. Rode, 2017, PloS one.

A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves

Meghan L. Avolio, Ian T. Carroll, S. Collins, 2019, Ecosphere.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, J. Beaulieu, 2012, Oecologia.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Francis A. Chaves, 2020, Journal of Ecology.

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

K. Garrett, Melinda D. Smith, Xuemei Han, 2008, Plant Ecology.

Standardized metrics are key for assessing drought severity

S. Vicente‐Serrano, J. Camarero, A. Knapp, 2019, Global change biology.

Differential Responses of Community Nonstructural Carbohydrate to Drought Manipulation Along a Natural Aridity Gradient

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2021 .

Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing

J. Blair, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2014 .

Thinking inside the Box: Tissue Culture for Plant Propagation in a Key Ecological Species, Andropogon gerardii

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, 2018 .

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

Zuzana V. Harmáčková, Charlotte L. Outhwaite, Meghan L. Avolio, 2022, Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2020, Journal of Ecology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, D. L. Hoover, 2022, Oikos.

Variation in gene expression of Andropogon gerardii in response to altered environmental conditions associated with climate change

K. Garrett, P. Schnable, Doina Caragea, 2010 .

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

Ava M. Hoffman, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2018, Ecology.

Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data–model integration

S. Collins, W. Pockman, A. Knapp, 2023, Biogeosciences.

Tansley review Deﬁning codominance in plant communities

Melinda D. Smith, Jesse E. Gray, K. Komatsu, 2021 .

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, 2016, Scientific Reports.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, 2013 .

Gene expression differs in codominant prairie grasses under drought

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, 2018, Molecular ecology resources.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Jianshuang Wu, S. Collins, 2022, Oecologia.

Using local and regional trait hypervolumes to study the effects of environmental factors on community assembly

Anping Chen, Melinda D. Smith, R. Griffin‐Nolan, 2022, Ecosphere.

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

Allison M. Louthan, J. Blair, S. Collins, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

What happens after drought ends: synthesizing terms and definitions

Melinda D. Smith, Leena Vilonen, Maggie Ross, 2022, The New phytologist.

Assessing Fine-Scale Genotypic Structure of a Dominant Species in Native Grasslands

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2011 .

Precipitation and environmental constraints on three aspects of flowering in three dominant tallgrass species

Melinda D. Smith, N. Lemoine, J. Dietrich, 2017 .

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, A. Felton, 2018, Oecologia.

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

F. Dijkstra, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2018, Oecologia.

Do tradeoffs govern plant species responses to different global change treatments?

Meghan L. Avolio, W. Bowman, K. Klanderud, 2021, Ecology.

Multiple global change drivers show independent, not interactive effects: a long-term case study in tallgrass prairie

Meghan L. Avolio, J. Blair, A. Knapp, 2022, Oecologia.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2001, International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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

K., S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2020 .

Herbivore size matters for productivity–richness relationships in African savannas

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2017 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2014, Oecologia.

Response of plant functional traits of Leymus chinensis to extreme drought in Inner Mongolia grasslands

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, X. Zuo, 2018, Plant Ecology.

Resistance and resilience of a grassland ecosystem to climate extremes

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, D. L. Hoover, 2014 .

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

Ava M. Hoffman, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2021, Oecologia.

Biodiversity increases the resistance of ecosystem productivity to climate extremes

T. M. Bezemer, P. Reich, D. Tilman, 2015, Nature.

General destabilizing effects of eutrophication on grassland productivity at multiple 1 spatial scales 2

Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Eisenhauer, E. Borer, 2020 .

Determinants of community compositional change are equally affected by global change.

Meghan L. Avolio, Jennie R. McLaren, P. Reich, 2021, Ecology letters.

Finding generality in ecology: a model for globally distributed experiments

Peter B. Adler, John L. Orrock, Elizabeth T. Borer, 2014 .

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

Kerry M. Byrne, J. Peñuelas, E. Bork, 2017, Global change biology.

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

S. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, 2006, Ecology.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2012, Oecologia.

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

Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia, R. T. Belote, Meghan L. Avolio, 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, S. Koerner, 2015 .

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

Meghan L. Avolio, S. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, 2014 .

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

Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, Cynthia S. Brown, 2013, Global change biology.

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

S. Andelman, J. Drake, Christy Bowles, 2004 .

Dominance not richness determines invasibility of tallgrass prairie.

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, T. Kelly, 2004 .

Nonlinear drought plasticity reveals intraspecific diversity in a dominant grass species

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, 2020 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2009, Ecology.

Producer Nutritional Quality Controls Ecosystem Trophic Structure

E. Borer, B. Cardinale, Melinda D. Smith, 2009, PloS one.

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

R. Waide, P. Adler, Melinda D. Smith, 2006 .

Melinda D. Smith, Xueyong Zhao, A. Felton, 2018, Environmental and Experimental Botany.

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2014, Ecology.

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

S. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, C. Burns, 2009, Biodiversity and Conservation.

How ecologists define drought, and why we should do better

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Alison K. Post, 2019, Global change biology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 1999, Oecologia.

Habitat selection by large herbivores in a southern African savanna : the relative roles of bottom-up and top-down forces

Craig J. Tambling, Melinda D. Smith, D. I. Thompson, 2013 .

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

S. Collins, W. Pockman, A. Knapp, 2018, Global change biology.

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

Timothy E. Farkas, Ava M. Hoffman, S. Collins, 2019, Journal of Ecology.

Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes

J. Blair, Melinda D. Smith, Kate Wilkins, 2022, Global change biology.

Long term experimental drought alters community plant trait variation, not trait means, across three semiarid grasslands

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, 2019, Plant and Soil.

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

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, T. Ocheltree, 2020, The New phytologist.

Measuring genetic diversity in ecological studies

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, J. Beaulieu, 2012, Plant Ecology.

Dominant species maintain ecosystem function with non‐random species loss

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2003 .

Growth Responses of Two Dominant C4 Grass Species to Altered Water Availability

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, A. Swemmer, 2006, International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Ava M. Hoffman, A. Knapp, 2018, PeerJ.

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

Elin M. Jacobs, Melinda D. Smith, Laura W. Ploughe, 2019, The New phytologist.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, I. Slette, 2019, Global change biology.

Drought timing differentially affects above- and belowground productivity in a mesic grassland

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Elsie M Denton, 2017, Plant Ecology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, D. L. Hoover, 2022, Global change biology.

Resistance and resilience of a semi-arid grassland to multi-year extreme drought

Wei Zhou, Melinda D. Smith, W. Fu, 2021 .

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

Ava M. Hoffman, Yiqi Luo, S. Collins, 2021, Oecologia.

Response of plant functional traits of Leymus chinensis to extreme drought in Inner Mongolia grasslands

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, 2018, Plant Ecology.

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2018, Plant Ecology.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, O. Sala, M. Loik, 2015, Global change biology.

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

A. Symstad, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2015, Oecologia.

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

S. Frey, L. Rustad, K. Gross, 2015, Oecologia.

Defining codominance in plant communities.

Melinda D. Smith, Jesse E. Gray, K. Komatsu, 2021, The New phytologist.

Contrasting intra‐annual population dynamics of two codominant species are consistent across spatial and temporal scales

Melinda D. Smith, Jesse E. Gray, 2022, Journal of Ecology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, D. L. Hoover, 2016 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, A. Joern, K. J. L. Pierre, 2015 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2016 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2014, Oecologia.

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

P. Reich, Jiquan Chen, A. Knapp, 2016, Ecology.

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

Melinda D. Smith, K. L. La Pierre, 2016, Oecologia.

Productivity Is a Poor Predictor of Plant Species Richness

Peter B Adler, Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, 2011, Science.

Surrogates Underpin Ecological Understanding and Practice

Martin J. Westgate, M. Willig, A. Hastings, 2018, BioScience.

A TEST FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE USING A NULL MODEL APPROACH

Melinda D. Smith, K. Gido, J. Schaefer, 2005 .

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

E. Borer, J. Elser, S. Sandin, 2009, Ecology letters.

Effects of Compounded Precipitation Pattern Intensification and Drought Occur Belowground in a Mesic Grassland

J. Blair, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2021, Ecosystems.

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

J. Blair, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2016 .

Soil fungal communities are compositionally resistant to drought manipulations – Evidence from culture-dependent and culture-independent analyses

Melinda D. Smith, A. Jumpponen, A. Narayanan, 2021 .

Direct and indirect relationships between genetic diversity of a dominant grass, community diversity and above‐ground productivity in tallgrass prairie

Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2014 .

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

M. Donoghue, Melinda D. Smith, E. Forrestel, 2014, The New phytologist.

Limited legacy effects of extreme multiyear drought on carbon and nitrogen cycling in a mesic grassland

J. Blair, Melinda D. Smith, P. Trivedi, 2022, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene.

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

P. Ciais, A. Classen, P. Templer, 2019, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, 2015, Ecology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2001 .

Species asynchrony stabilises productivity under extreme drought across Northern China grasslands

Yiqi Luo, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2021, Journal of Ecology.

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

J. Blair, S. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, 2008 .

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

Meghan L. Avolio, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, T. M. Anderson, 2018, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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

J. Sheffield, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2016 .

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

Meghan L. Avolio, P. Reich, D. Tilman, 2020, Oecologia.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, Yingzhi Gao, 2019, Global change biology.

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

Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, E. Borer, P. Reich, 2023, Nature communications.

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

Melinda D. Smith, A. Felton, Sam Zavislan-Pullaro, 2019, Ecology.

Functional diversification enabled grassy biomes to fill global climate space

Daniel M. Griffith, Kimberley J. Simpson, T. M. Anderson, 2019, bioRxiv.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, S. Collins, Melinda D. Smith, 2016 .

Intra-specific responses of a dominant C4 grass to altered precipitation patterns

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, 2013, Plant Ecology.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, J. Nippert, 2009 .

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

H. Tian, A. Arneth, P. Ciais, 2018, Biogeosciences.

Long-term effects of fire frequency and season on herbaceous vegetation in savannas of the Kruger National Park, South Africa

S. Andelman, B. W. Wilgen, Melinda D. Smith, 2013 .

Precipitation–productivity relationships and the duration of precipitation anomalies: An underappreciated dimension of climate change

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, A. Felton, 2020, Global change biology.

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

Melinda D. Smith, A. Felton, 2017, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Resolving the Dust Bowl paradox of grassland responses to extreme drought

Ava M. Hoffman, Anping Chen, Yiqi Luo, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Drought and small-bodied herbivores modify nutrient cycling in the semi-arid shortgrass steppe

Melinda D. Smith, N. Lemoine, 2019, Plant Ecology.

Drought and small-bodied herbivores modify nutrient cycling in the semi-arid shortgrass steppe

Melinda D. Smith, N. Lemoine, 2019, Plant Ecology.

Mechanisms of selection: Phenotypic differences among genotypes explain patterns of selection in a dominant species

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, 2013 .

Different clades and traits yield similar grassland functional responses

Walter Jetz, M. Donoghue, W. Jetz, 2017, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Traits that distinguish dominant species across aridity gradients differ from those that respond to soil moisture

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, R. Griffin‐Nolan, 2023, Oecologia.

Water limitation reveals local adaptation and plasticity in the drought tolerance strategies of Bouteloua gracilis

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, S. Gleason, 2023, Ecosphere.

Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

Meghan L. Avolio, Ava M. Hoffman, J. Blair, 2020, Journal of Ecology.

Scale dependence in the species-richness-productivity relationship: The role of species turnover

M. Willig, John W. Williams, Melinda D. Smith, 2004 .

Genotypic diversity of a dominant C4 grass across a long-term fire frequency gradient

Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2013 .

c 4 grass across a long-term fire frequency gradient

Melinda D. Smith, Cynthia C. Chang, 2013 .

Ecological Consequences of the Replacement of Native Grassland by Juniperus virginiana and Other Woody Plants

J. Blair, J. Briggs, A. Knapp, 2008 .

Plant traits and soil fertility mediate productivity losses under extreme drought in C3 grasslands.

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2021, Ecology.

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

Ava M. Hoffman, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2020, Ecology.

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

J. Blair, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2010 .

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

Melinda D. Smith, S. Pennings, Jennifer A. Rudgers, 2020, Ecology and evolution.

Rangeland Responses to Predicted Increases in Drought Extremity

D. Breshears, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2016, Rangelands.

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

Cynthia S. Brown, J. Klein, Melinda D. Smith, 2016, Ecosystems.

Autotrophic respiration is more sensitive to nitrogen addition and grazing than heterotrophic respiration in a meadow steppe

Anping Chen, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2022, CATENA.

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

F. Dijkstra, J. Peñuelas, A. Knapp, 2018, Oecologia.

Functional differences between dominant grasses drive divergent responses to large herbivore loss in mesic savanna grasslands of North America and South Africa

M. Donoghue, Melinda D. Smith, E. Forrestel, 2015 .

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

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, J. Beaulieu, 2013, Oecologia.

The effect of genotype richness and genomic dissimilarity of Andropogon gerardii on invasion resistance and productivity

Meghan L. Avolio, Melinda D. Smith, J. J. Weis, 2015 .

Linking gene regulation, physiology, and plant biomass allocation in Andropogon gerardii in response to drought

Meghan L. Avolio, Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, 2017, Plant Ecology.

Tansley insight Reconciling inconsistencies in precipitation – productivity relationships : implications for climate change

P. Ciais, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2017 .

Blue grama grass genotype affects palatability and preference by semi-arid steppe grasshoppers

Ava M. Hoffman, Melinda D. Smith, N. Lemoine, 2019, Acta Oecologica.

Sediment addition and legume cultivation result in sustainable, long‐term increases in ecosystem functions of sandy grasslands

Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, Weiqi Wang, 2019, Land Degradation & Development.

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

Meghan L. Avolio, P. Newton, P. Reich, 2018, Global change biology.

Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on grassland ecosystem function

J. Blair, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2011 .

Compositional variation in grassland plant communities

Rachel M. Mitchell, E. Borer, S. Prober, 2023, Ecosphere.

Community stability does not preclude ecosystem sensitivity to chronic resource alteration

J. Briggs, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2012 .

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

S. Collins, A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, 2022, The Science of the total environment.

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

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, K. Kirkman, 2006, Oecologia.

Climate-biosphere interactions in a more extreme world.

N. McDowell, M. Reichstein, M. Bahn, 2014, The New phytologist.

Legacy effects of intensified drought on the soil microbiome in a mesic grassland

Melinda D. Smith, P. Trivedi, Shabana Hoosein, 2023, Ecosphere.

Variation among biomes in temporal dynamics of aboveground primary production.

A. Knapp, Melinda D. Smith, M. D. Smith, 2001, Science.

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

J. Magnuson, S. Carpenter, W. McDowell, 2011 .

Effects of mycorrhizae on growth and demography of tallgrass prairie forbs.

Melinda D. Smith, D. Hartnett, G. Wilson, 2001, American journal of botany.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Xueyong Zhao, Zhibin Sun, 2019, The Science of the total environment.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Qiang Yu, K. L. La Pierre, 2016, Plant and Soil.

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

Melinda D. Smith, K. L. La Pierre, Honghui Wu, 2016, Plant and Soil.

The invasion paradox: reconciling pattern and process in species invasions.

T J Stohlgren, D. Tilman, J. Stachowicz, 2007, Ecology.

A Shift From Competition To Facilitation With Abiotic Stress is Limited For Two Codominant Grass Species

Melinda D. Smith, Jesse E. Gray, 2021 .

Asynchrony among local communities stabilises ecosystem function of metacommunities KR

Meghan, E. Bork, K. Klanderud, 2018 .

Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Publications Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Herbivores and Nutrients Control Grassland Plant Diversity via Light Limitation

Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, Cynthia S. Brown, 2022 .

Interacting influence of mycorrhizal symbiosis and competition on plant diversity in tallgrass prairie

Melinda D. Smith, D. Hartnett, G. Wilson, 1999, Oecologia.

Herbivores and nutrients control grassland plant diversity via light limitation

Ellen I. Damschen, Cynthia S. Brown, Louie H. Yang, 2014, Nature.

Why Coordinated Distributed Experiments Should Go Global

O. Sala, S. Collins, A. Knapp, 2021, BioScience.

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

Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, Eisenhauer, E. Borer, 2020, Nature Communications.

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

P. Reich, Yiqi Luo, S. Collins, 2012 .

Gene expression profiling: opening the black box of plant ecosystem responses to global change

Erika A. Sudderth, D. Weston, S. Placella, 2009 .

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

S. Frey, L. Rustad, K. Gross, 2015, Oecologia.

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

Melinda D. Smith, Kimberly J. La Pierre, 2015, Oecologia.

Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

Meghan L. Avolio, Kathryn A. Schoenecker, T. M. Anderson, 2018, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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

Jarrett E. K. Byrnes, E. Borer, M. Loreau, 2023, Nature communications.

Frontiers inEcology and the Environment An integrated conceptual framework for long-term social – ecological research

Daniel E. Orenstein, J. Magnuson, S. Carpenter, 2010 .

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

Cynthia S. Brown, Rachel M. Mitchell, E. Borer, 2019, Nature Ecology & Evolution.

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

D. Pyke, Melinda D. Smith, B. Melbourne, 2017 .

Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Publications Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology Predicting Invasion in Grassland Ecosystems: Is Exotic Dominance the Real Embarrassment of Richness? Predicting Invasion in Grassland Ecosystems: Is Exotic Dominance the Real Embarrassment of Richness? S

Ellen I. Damschen, John L. Orrock, Cynthia S. Brown, 2022 .