William K. Lauenroth

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. The Influence of Climate, Soils, Weather, and Land Use on Primary Production and Biomass Seasonality in the US Great Plains
    Ecosystems, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 934–950, 2006
  2. Uncertainty in Calculations of Net Primary Production for Grasslands
    Ecosystems, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 843–851, 2006
  3. Ecohydrology and the Partitioning AET Between Transpiration and Evaporation in a Semiarid Steppe
    Ecosystems, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 756–767, 2006
  4. Do abiotic differences explain contrasting graminoid functional traits in sagebrush steppe, USA and Patagonian steppe, Argentina?
    Journal of Arid Environments, vol. 65, no. 1, pp. 62–82, 2006
  5. Erratum
    Oikos, vol. 113, no. 2, pp. 383–383, 2006
  6. A comparison of the species-time relationship across ecosystems and taxonomic groups
    Oikos, vol. 112, no. 1, pp. 185–195, 2006
  7. Controls over invasion of Bromus tectorum: The importance of climate, soil, disturbance and seed availability
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 17, no. 6, p. 693, 2006
  8. THE IMPACT OF CROPPING ON PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS
    Ecology, vol. 86, no. 7, p. 1863, 2005
  9. PLANT TRAITS AND ECOSYSTEM GRAZING EFFECTS: COMPARISON OF U.S. SAGEBRUSH STEPPE AND PATAGONIAN STEPPE
    Ecological Applications, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 774, 2005
  10. EVIDENCE FOR A GENERAL SPECIES–TIME–AREA RELATIONSHIP
    Ecology, vol. 86, no. 8, p. 2032, 2005
  11. The relative importance of light-use efficiency modifications from environmental conditions and cultivation for estimation of large-scale net primary productivity
    Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 96, no. 2, pp. 246–255, 2005
  12. Regional Patterns in Carbon Cycling Across the Great Plains of North America
    Ecosystems, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 106–121, 2005
  13. A multi-scale perspective of water pulses in dryland ecosystems: climatology and ecohydrology of the western USA
    Oecologia, vol. 141, no. 2, 2004
  14. Indications of Deep Soil Water Usage by Limber Pine (Pinus flexilis) and Skunkbush Sumac (Rhus aromatica) in Northeastern Colorado: An Oxygen Isotope Study
    The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 152, no. 1, p. 178, 2004
  15. Functional traits of graminoids in semi-arid steppes: a test of grazing histories
    Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 653–663, 2004
  16. Ecological Variability in Space and Time: Insights Gained from the US LTER Program
    BioScience, vol. 53, no. 1, p. 57, 2003
  17. Plant Ecology, vol. 167, no. 2, pp. 247–254, 2003
  18. The power of time: spatiotemporal scaling of species diversity
    Ecology Letters, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 749–756, 2003
  19. Influence of climate variability on plant production and N-mineralization in Central US grasslands
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 383, 2002
  20. Regional analysis of litter quality in the central grassland region of North America
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 13, no. 3, p. 395, 2002
  21. Plant Ecology, vol. 158, no. 2, pp. 127–137, 2002
  22. Nitrogen in the Central Grasslands Region of the United States
    BioScience, vol. 52, no. 9, p. 813, 2002
  23. Regional Patterns of Decomposition and Primary Production Rates in the U.S. Great Plains
    Ecology, vol. 83, no. 2, p. 320, 2002
  24. Plant Ecology, vol. 159, no. 2, pp. 241–251, 2002
  25. Ecosystem Ecology at Regional Scales
    Ecology, vol. 83, no. 2, p. 305, 2002
  26. The relative abundance of three plant functional types in temperate grasslands and shrublands of North and South America: effects of projected climate change
    Journal of Biogeography, vol. 29, no. 7, pp. 875–888, 2002
  27. Response of Individual Bouteloua gracilis (Gramineae) Plants and Tillers to Small Disturbances
    The American Midland Naturalist, vol. 145, no. 1, p. 147, 2001
  28. Land-use impact on ecosystem functioning in eastern Colorado, USA
    Global Change Biology, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 631–639, 2001
  29. Plant Ecology, vol. 156, no. 2, pp. 161–171, 2001
  30. Intensity of intra- and interspecific competition in coexisting shortgrass species
    Journal of Ecology, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 40–47, 2001
  31. Belowground Primary Production by Carbon Isotope Decay and Long-term Root Biomass Dynamics
    Ecosystems, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 139–150, 2001
  32. Patterns of Production and Precipitation-Use Efficiency of Winter Wheat and Native Grasslands in the Central Great Plains of the United States
    Ecosystems, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 344–351, 2000
  33. Livestock Exclusion Increases the Spatial Heterogeneity of Vegetation in Colorado Shortgrass Steppe
    Applied Vegetation Science, vol. 3, no. 2, p. 213, 2000
  34. Changes in Grassland Canopy Structure across a Precipitation Gradient
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 11, no. 3, p. 359, 2000
  35. Demography of Bouteloua gracilis in a mixed prairie: analysis of genets and individuals
    Journal of Ecology, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 233–243, 1999
  36. Grassland Precipitation-Use Efficiency Varies Across a Resource Gradient
    Ecosystems, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 64–68, 1999
  37. Response of the Shortgrass Steppe to Changes in Rainfall Seasonality
    Ecosystems, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 139–150, 1999
  38. Original Articles: Relationship Between Root Biomass and Soil Organic Matter Pools in the Shortgrass Steppe of Eastern Colorado
    Ecosystems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 226–236, 1999
  39. Spatial Variability of Soil Properties in the Shortgrass Steppe: The Relative Importance of Topography, Grazing, Microsite, and Plant Species in Controlling Spatial Patterns
    Ecosystems, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 422–438, 1999
  40. Plant Ecology, vol. 134, no. 2, pp. 173–195, 1998
  41. Biogeochemistry, vol. 42, no. 1/2, pp. 121–143, 1998
  42. Differential use of large summer rainfall events by shrubs and grasses: a manipulative experiment in the Patagonian steppe
    Oecologia, vol. 115, no. 1-2, pp. 17–25, 1998
  43. Differential water resource use by herbaceous and woody plant life-forms in a shortgrass steppe community
    Oecologia, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 504–512, 1998
  44. Plant Ecology, vol. 139, no. 2, pp. 221–233, 1998
  45. Plant Ecology, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 77–89, 1998
  46. Ecosystem Consequences of Changing Biodiversity
    BioScience, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 45, 1998
  47. Livestock Grazing: Animal and Plant Biodiversity of Shortgrass Steppe and the Relationship to Ecosystem Function
    Oikos, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 65, 1998
  48. Functional and Structural Convergence of Temperate Grassland and Shrubland Ecosystems
    Ecological Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 194, 1998
  49. Effects of Soil Texture and Precipitation on Above-Ground Net Primary Productivity and Vegetation Structure across the Central Grassland Region of the United States
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 239, 1998
  50. Comparison of Root Distributions of Species in North American Grasslands Using GIS
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 8, no. 4, p. 587, 1997
  51. Effects of Temperature and Soil Texture on ANPP in the U.S. Great Plains
    Ecology, vol. 78, no. 8, p. 2628, 1997
  52. Regional and Temporal Variation in Net Primary Production and Nitrogen Mineralization in Grasslands
    Ecology, vol. 78, no. 5, p. 1330, 1997
  53. Productivity Patterns of C 3 and C 4 Functional Types in the U.S. Great Plains
    Ecology, vol. 78, no. 3, p. 722, 1997
  54. ANPP Estimates from NDVI for the Central Grassland Region of the United States
    Ecology, vol. 78, no. 3, p. 953, 1997
  55. Plant Ecology, vol. 133, no. 1, pp. 13–28, 1997
  56. An individual-based model of alpine plant distributions
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 84, no. 1-3, pp. 99–126, 1996
  57. Soil Organic Matter and Nutrient Availability Responses to Reduced Plant Inputs in Shortgrass Steppe
    Ecology, vol. 77, no. 8, p. 2516, 1996
  58. Response of a Grassland Cactus to Frequency and Size of Rainfall Events in a North American Shortgrass Steppe
    The Journal of Ecology, vol. 84, no. 2, p. 177, 1996
  59. Recovery of Vegetation in a Semiarid Grassland 53 Years after Disturbance
    Ecological Applications, vol. 6, no. 2, p. 538, 1996
  60. Ecological Responses of Dominant Grasses along Two Climatic Gradients in the Great Plains of the United States
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 7, no. 6, p. 777, 1996
  61. Relative Abundance of Plant Functional Types in Grasslands and Shrublands of North America
    Ecological Applications, vol. 6, no. 4, p. 1212, 1996
  62. Ecosystem Responses to Changes in Plant Functional Type Composition: An Example from the Patagonian Steppe
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 7, no. 3, p. 381, 1996
  63. Plant Species Richness and Species-Area Relations in a Shortgrass Steppe in Colorado
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 7, no. 5, p. 645, 1996
  64. Production and Rain Use Efficiency in Short-Grass Steppe: Grazing History, Defoliation and Water Resource
    Journal of Vegetation Science, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 787, 1995
  65. Influence of Gap Disturbances and Type of Microsites on Seedling Establishment in Bouteloua Gracilis
    The Journal of Ecology, vol. 83, no. 1, p. 87, 1995
  66. Regional Climatic Similarities in the Temperate Zones of North and South America
    Journal of Biogeography, vol. 22, no. 4/5, p. 915, 1995
  67. Regional Patterns of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index in North American Shrublands and Grasslands
    Ecology, vol. 76, no. 6, p. 1888, 1995
  68. Inertia in Plant Community Structure: State Changes After Cessation of Nutrient-Enrichment Stress
    Ecological Applications, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 452, 1995
  69. Soil Organic Matter Recovery in Semiarid Grasslands: Implications for the Conservation Reserve Program
    Ecological Applications, vol. 5, no. 3, p. 793, 1995
  70. Forage quality in relation to long-term grazing history, current-year defoliation, and water resource
    Oecologia, vol. 101, no. 3, pp. 366–374, 1995
  71. The advantage of long-distance clonal spreading in highly disturbed habitats
    Evolutionary Ecology, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 172–187, 1994
  72. Spatial Patterns of Roots in a Semiarid Grassland: Abundance of Canopy Openings and Regeneration Gaps
    The Journal of Ecology, vol. 82, no. 3, p. 485, 1994
  73. The Importance of Soil Water in the Recruitment of Bouteloua Gracilis in the Shortgrass Steppe
    Ecological Applications, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 741, 1994
  74. Root System Response of a Perennial Bunchgrass to Neighbourhood-Scale Soil Water Heterogeneity
    Functional Ecology, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 738, 1994
  75. Spatial Distributions of Grass and Shrub Root Systems in the Shortgrass Steppe
    American Midland Naturalist, vol. 132, no. 1, p. 117, 1994
  76. Quantitative Effects of Grazing on Vegetation and Soils Over a Global Range of Environments
    Ecological Monographs, vol. 63, no. 4, p. 327, 1993
  77. Seedling Establishment in Adult Neighbourhoods--Intraspecific Constraints in the Regeneration of the Bunchgrass Bouteloua Gracilis
    The Journal of Ecology, vol. 81, no. 2, p. 253, 1993
  78. Neighborhood interactions in a natural population of the perennial bunchgrassBouteloua gracilis
    Oecologia, vol. 94, no. 4, pp. 595–602, 1993
  79. What do LTER results mean? Extrapolating from site to region and decade to century
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 19–35, 1993
  80. Modeling vegetation structure-ecosystem process interactions across sites and ecosystems
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 67, no. 1, pp. 49–80, 1993
  81. Long-Term Soil Water Dynamics in the Shortgrass Steppe
    Ecology, vol. 73, no. 4, p. 1175, 1992
  82. Long-Term Forage Production of North American Shortgrass Steppe
    Ecological Applications, vol. 2, no. 4, p. 397, 1992
  83. Carbon Dynamics and Estimates of Primary Production by Harvest, ^(14)C Dilution, and ^(14)C Turnover
    Ecology, vol. 73, no. 2, p. 593, 1992
  84. Plant competition, abiotic, and long- and short-term effects of large herbivores on demography of opportunistic species in a semiarid grassland
    Oecologia, vol. 92, no. 4, pp. 520–531, 1992
  85. A comparison of 14C, 86Rb, and total excavation for determination of root distributions of individual plants
    Plant and Soil, vol. 144, no. 1, pp. 125–132, 1992
  86. Spatial Variability in Seed Production of the Perennial Bunchgrass Bouteloua gracilis (Gramineae)
    American Journal of Botany, vol. 79, no. 3, p. 347, 1992
  87. Heterogeneity of soil and plant N and C associated with individual plants and openings in North American shortgrass steppe
    Plant and Soil, vol. 138, no. 2, pp. 247–256, 1991
  88. Regional modeling of grassland biogeochemistry using GIS
    Landscape Ecology, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 45–54, 1990
  89. Vegetation Associated with Nest Sites of Western Harvester Ants (Pogonomyrex occidentalis Cresson) in a Semiarid Grassland
    American Midland Naturalist, vol. 123, no. 2, p. 226, 1990
  90. A gap dynamics simulation model of succession in a semiarid grassland
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 49, no. 3-4, pp. 229–266, 1990
  91. Three-Dimensional Distribution of Plant Biomass in Relation to Grazing and Topography in the Shortgrass Steppe
    Oikos, vol. 55, no. 1, p. 82, 1989
  92. Spatial and Temporal Variation in the Seed Bank of a Semiarid Grassland
    American Journal of Botany, vol. 76, no. 1, p. 53, 1989
  93. Resource partitioning between shrubs and grasses in the Patagonian steppe
    Oecologia, vol. 81, no. 4, pp. 501–505, 1989
  94. Effects of grazing, topography, and precipitation on the structure of a semiarid grassland
    Vegetatio, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 11–23, 1989
  95. Disturbances and gap dynamics in a semiarid grassland: A landscape-level approach
    Landscape Ecology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 19–27, 1989
  96. The Effects of Disturbance Size and Frequency on a Shortgrass Plant Community
    Ecology, vol. 69, no. 5, p. 1609, 1988
  97. A Generalized Model of the Effects of Grazing by Large Herbivores on Grassland Community Structure
    American Naturalist, vol. 132, no. 1, p. 87, 1988
  98. Bias in estimates of primary production: An analytical solution
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 44, no. 1-2, pp. 43–55, 1988
  99. Primary Production of the Central Grassland Region of the United States
    Ecology, vol. 69, no. 1, p. 40, 1988
  100. Root Dynamics of Bouteloua gracilis During Short-Term Recovery from Drought
    Functional Ecology, vol. 1, no. 2, p. 117, 1987
  101. Estimating aboveground net primary production in grasslands: A simulation approach
    Ecological Modelling, vol. 33, no. 2-4, pp. 297–314, 1986
  102. Root Profiles and the Ecological Effect of Light Rainshowers in Arid and Semiarid Regions
    American Midland Naturalist, vol. 114, no. 2, p. 406, 1985
  103. Root turnover and production by14C dilution: implications of carbon partitioning in plants
    Plant and Soil, vol. 88, no. 3, pp. 353–365, 1985
  104. Bias and Random Errors in Estimators of Net Root Production: A Simulation Approach
    Ecology, vol. 65, no. 6, p. 1760, 1984
  105. Primary Production and Abiotic Controls in Forests, Grasslands, and Desert Ecosystems in the United States
    Ecology, vol. 64, no. 1, p. 134, 1983
  106. The interaction of atmospheric and soil sulfur on the sulfur and selenium concentration of range plants
    Plant and Soil, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 117–125, 1983
  107. Effects of low-level sulfur dioxide exposure on decomposition ofAgropyron smithii litter under laboratory conditions
    Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 247–250, 1983
  108. Response of a grassland to sulfur and nitrogen additions under controlled SO2 exposure
    Environmental and Experimental Botany, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 339–346, 1983
  109. Response of soil nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades to three levels of season-long sulfur dioxide exposures
    Water, Air, and Soil Pollution, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 343–356, 1982
  110. Small rainfall events: An ecological role in semiarid regions
    Oecologia, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 301–304, 1982
  111. The effect of SO2 on 14C translocation in Agropyron smithii RYDB
    Environmental and Experimental Botany, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 81–91, 1982
  112. Water Relations: A New Dimension for Niche Separation Between Bouteloua gracilis and Agropyron smithii in North American Semi-Arid Grasslands
    The Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 19, no. 2, p. 647, 1982
  113. Water status of soil and vegetation in a shortgrass steppe
    Oecologia, vol. 48, no. 3, pp. 327–331, 1981
  114. Sulfur accumulation in western wheatgrass exposed to three controlled SO2 concentrations
    Plant and Soil, vol. 53, no. 1-2, pp. 131–136, 1979
  115. Partitioning of carbon an SO2-sulfur in a native grassland
    Oecologia, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 229–240, 1979
  116. The effects of water- and nitrogen-induced stresses on plant community structure in a semiarid grassland
    Oecologia, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 211–222, 1978
  117. Effects of Controlled Levels of Sulphur Dioxide on Western Wheatgrass in a South-Eastern Montana Grassland
    The Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 859, 1978
  118. Effects of Controlled Levels of Sulphur Dioxide on the Nutrient Quality of Western Wheatgrass
    The Journal of Applied Ecology, vol. 15, no. 3, p. 869, 1978
  119. Dynamics of dry matter production in a mixed-grass prairie in western North Dakota
    Oecologia, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 339–351, 1977