Alan Knapp Ecology Lab

Historical fire regimes affect soil CO2 flux and its response to fire. And it's more complicated than just burned vs. unburned: burning every year vs. every other year makes a big difference! Check out our new paper for more fiery fun... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Do grassland responses to drought vary by: number/size of rainfall events and length of dry intervals? number of consecutive drought yrs? MAP? dominant veg type? That is, "IS A DROUGHT A DROUGHT"? Check out our new paper lead by @CJWCarroll to find out... link.springer.com/article/10.100…

When is a rainstorm too big for a dryland system? Check out our new paper in @GlobalChangeBio! @CSU_Ecology @csubiology @Knapp_Lab

We are looking for graduate students and postdocs for Smithsonian #fellowships! If you are interested in community ecology, grassland or forest plant/bird/insect diversity, agro-ecoystems, or global change, please get in touch! Proposals are due Nov 1: serc.si.edu/fellowships

Our 4-year experimental drought reproduced the paradoxical responses that were observed during the 1930's Dust Bowl – warm-season C4 grasses replaced by cool-season C3 grasses – which we attribute to changes in precipitation seasonality during drought. pnas.org/content/early/…

I'm excited to announce that my 2nd first-author paper is now available in @JEcology. Sneak peak: The shortgrass steppe is sensitive to rainstorm timing! @CSU_Ecology @csubiology @Knapp_Lab besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Job! Searching for a two-year post doc with mad quantitative skills and a sunny disposition to improve grass-shrub dynamics within global process-based models at the University of Wyoming @UWyonews, @Uwyopie, @ENERGY. Please RT. Job announcement: community.esa.org/message.htm?mo…

I'm proud to announce that my first first-author paper has been published in #Oecologia! Curious about how the shortgrass steppe responds to late-season deluges? Check it out! @CSU_Ecology @csubiology @Knapp_Lab rdcu.be/bSDN0

Check out our new paper in this month's issue of @JEcology!! Link: rdcu.be/bO8VJ 4 years of experimental drought☔️ led to increased community functional diversity🌻🌵🌺 and a shift towards drought avoidance strategies in US grasslands, with consequences for NPP🌎

A must read for any ecologist studying "drought". Very proud of @ingrid_slette for leading this project. Go Ingrid! ⭐

PhD student, Alison Post, discussing the effect of #precipitation deluge size on NPP in the #shortgrass steppe. Nice work Alison! And look at those green plots! @CSU_FRSES

A high throughput method for assessing #drought tolerance of #herbaceous plants at the community scale. Very excited to see this part of my dissertation published in Oecologia! DM me if you can't download the pdf...🌱🤓 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New research by recent @CSU_Ecology graduate, @A_J_Felton! Find out how extreme precipitation affects soil #respiration and #ANPP in the #tallgrass prairie, @KonzaLTER

Excited to see our new paper out in Oecologia! @Knapp_Lab @Eco_Phys @CSU_Ecology @csubiology "Drought timing, not previous drought exposure, determines sensitivity of two shortgrass species to water stress" link.springer.com/article/10.100…

From #bison to box #turtles, tallgrass #prairies provide important habitat for a variety of #wildlife, yet North America has retained only 13% of this #grassland type. Places like the @KonzaLTER help #conserve these disappearing landscapes!

Beautiful views of the tallgrass prairie during a long weekend of fieldwork! @KonzaLTER @USLTER @Knapp_Lab @CSU_Ecology #grassland #ecology

Three sites down, one to go! @KonzaLTER we are coming for you!! ✂️🌱🌦️ @EDGE_science #drought #grasslands #globalchange

Labor Day on the shortgrass steppe - measuring production in our new @DroughtNet experiment! @Knapp_Lab @CSU_Ecology @csubiology #phdlife #drought #ecology #LaborOnLaborDay

Sampling recovery of primary production from a 4-year extreme #drought...one site down, three more to go! @EDGE_science

Very excited to share my research on root responses to extreme drought at #ESA2018! Come check it out TODAY at 4:20 in room 245! @DroughtNet @Knapp_Lab