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Plant species’ influence on rhizosphere microbial communities depends on N availability by Potter, Teal S., Anacker, Brian L., Churchill, Amber C., Bowman, William D.

“…Purpose Plants and soil microbes both influence how ecosystems respond to environmental change. Yet, we lack the ability to generalize how plants and soil…”
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Pastures and Climate Extremes: Impacts of Cool Season Warming and Drought on the Productivity of Key Pasture Species in a Field Experiment by Churchill, Amber C, Zhang, Haiyang, Fuller, Kathryn J, Amiji, Burhan, Anderson, Ian C, Barton, Craig V M, Carrillo, Yolima, Catunda, Karen L M, Chandregowda, Manjunatha H, Igwenagu, Chioma, Jacob, Vinod, Kim, Gil Won, Macdonald, Catriona A, Medlyn, Belinda E, Moore, Ben D, Pendall, Elise, Plett, Jonathan M, Post, Alison K, Powell, Jeff R, Tissue, David T, Tjoelker, Mark G, Power, Sally A

“…Shifts in the timing, intensity and/or frequency of climate extremes, such as severe drought and heatwaves, can generate sustained shifts in ecosystem function…”
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Warming Reduces Net Carbon Gain and Productivity in Medicago sativa L. and Festuca arundinacea by Jacob, Vinod, Zhang, Haiyang, Churchill, Amber C., Yang, Jinyan, Choat, Brendan, Medlyn, Belinda E., Power, Sally A., Tissue, David T.

“…High temperature stress imposes constraints on the productivity of agricultural systems, such as pastures, and predicted increases in global temperatures are…”
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Belowground carbon allocation, root trait plasticity, and productivity during drought and warming in a pasture grass by Chandregowda, Manjunatha H, Tjoelker, Mark G, Pendall, Elise, Zhang, Haiyang, Churchill, Amber C, Power, Sally A

“…Abstract Sustaining grassland production in a changing climate requires an understanding of plant adaptation strategies, including trait plasticity under…”
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Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C3 and C4 pasture grasses under drought by Chandregowda, Manjunatha H., Tjoelker, Mark G., Pendall, Elise, Zhang, Haiyang, Churchill, Amber C., Power, Sally A.

“…Plant species show a broad spectrum of plasticity in their covarying root traits in response to soil water limitation ranging from no change to shifts towards…”
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The combined effects of an extreme heatwave and wildfire on tallgrass prairie vegetation by Ratajczak, Zak, Churchill, Amber C., Ladwig, Laura M., Taylor, Jeff H., Collins, Scott L., Morgan, John

“…Questions Climate extremes are predicted to become more common in many ecosystems. Climate extremes can promote and interact with disturbances, but the…”
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Rapid quantification of biological nitrogen fixation using optical spectroscopy by Zhang, Haiyang, Plett, Jonathan M, Catunda, Karen L M, Churchill, Amber C, Moore, Ben D, Powell, Jeff R, Power, Sally A, Yang, Jinyan, Anderson, Ian C

“…Abstract Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) provides a globally important input of nitrogen (N); its quantification is critical but technically challenging…”
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High safety margins to drought‐induced hydraulic failure found in five pasture grasses by Jacob, Vinod, Choat, Brendan, Churchill, Amber C., Zhang, Haiyang, Barton, Craig V. M., Krishnananthaselvan, Arjunan, Post, Alison K., Power, Sally A., Medlyn, Belinda E., Tissue, David T.

“…Determining the relationship between reductions in stomatal conductance (gs) and leaf water transport during dehydration is key to understanding plant drought…”
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Nitrogen niche partitioning between tropical legumes and grasses conditionally weakens under elevated CO2 by Churchill, Amber C., Zhang, Haiyang, Kim, Gil Won, Catunda, Karen L. M., Anderson, Ian C., Isbell, Forest, Moore, Ben, Pendall, Elise, Plett, Jonathan M., Powell, Jeff R., Power, Sally A.

“…Plant community biodiversity can be maintained, at least partially, by shifts in species interactions between facilitation and competition for resources as…”
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Ecological stoichiometry and fungal community turnover reveal variation among mycorrhizal partners in their responses to warming and drought by Zhang, Haiyang, Churchill, Amber C., Anderson, Ian C., Igwenagu, Chioma, Power, Sally A., Plett, Jonathan M., Macdonald, Catriona A., Pendall, Elise, Carrillo, Yolima, Powell, Jeff R.

“…Symbiotic fungi mediate important energy and nutrient transfers in terrestrial ecosystems. Environmental change can lead to shifts in communities of symbiotic…”
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Short‐term drought is a stronger driver of plant morphology and nutritional composition than warming in two common pasture species by Catunda, Karen L. M., Churchill, Amber C., Zhang, Haiyang, Power, Sally A., Moore, Ben D.

“…Under warmer and drier future conditions, global livestock and dairy production are threatened by impacts on the productivity and nutritional quality of…”
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Near infrared spectroscopy calibration strategies to predict multiple nutritional parameters of pasture species from different functional groups by Catunda, Karen LM, Churchill, Amber C, Power, Sally A, Moore, Ben D

“…Near infrared reflectance (NIR) spectroscopy has been used by the agricultural industry as a rapid and inexpensive technique to quantify nutritional chemistry…”
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Transforming mentorship in STEM by training scientists to be better leaders by Hund, Amanda K., Churchill, Amber C., Faist, Akasha M., Havrilla, Caroline A., Love Stowell, Sierra M., McCreery, Helen F., Ng, Julienne, Pinzone, Cheryl A., Scordato, Elizabeth S. C.

“…Effective mentoring is a key component of academic and career success that contributes to overall measures of productivity. Mentoring relationships also play…”
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A site for sori: Ecophysiology of fertile-sterile leaf dimorphy in ferns by Watkins, James E., Churchill, Amber C., Holbrook, N. Michele

“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Reproduction often requires significant investment and can move resources away from growth and maintenance; maintaining a balance between…”
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Consequences of above-ground invasion by non-native plants into restored vernal pools do not prompt same changes in below-ground processes by Churchill, Amber C, Faist, Akasha M

“…Given the frequent overlap between biological plant invasion and ecological restoration efforts it is important to investigate their interactions to sustain…”
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Beyond arctic and alpine: the influence of winter climate on temperate ecosystems by Ladwig, Laura M., Ratajczak, Zak R., Ocheltree, Troy W., Hafich, Katya A., Churchill, Amber C., Frey, Sarah J. K., Fuss, Colin B., Kazanski, Clare E., Muñoz, Juan D., Petrie, Matthew D., Reinmann, Andrew B., Smith, Jane G.

“…Winter climate is expected to change under future climate scenarios, yet the majority of winter ecology research is focused in cold-climate ecosystems. In many…”
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Mosaic fungal individuals have the potential to evolve within a single generation by Tyrrell, Maura G., Peabody, Diane C., Peabody, Robert B., James-Pederson, Magdalena, Hirst, Rachel G., Allan-Perkins, Elisha, Bickford, Heather, Shafrir, Amy, Doiron, Robert J., Churchill, Amber C., Ramirez-Tapia, Juan Carlos, Seidel, Benjamin, Torres, Lynes, Fallavollita, Kathryn, Hernon, Thomas, Wiswell, Lindsay, Wilson, Sarah, Mondo, Erica, Salisbury, Kathleen, Peabody, Carrie, Cabral, Patrick, Presti, Lauren, McKenna-Hoffman, Kelsey, Flannery, Michele, Daly, Kaitlin, Haghighat, Darius, Lukason, Daniel

“…Although cells of mushroom-producing fungi typically contain paired haploid nuclei (n + n), most Armillaria gallica vegetative cells are uninucleate. As…”
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Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands by Shi, Baoku, Delgado-Baquerizo, Manuel, Knapp, Alan K, Smith, Melinda D, Reed, Sasha, Osborne, Brooke, Carrillo, Yolima, Maestre, Fernando T, Zhu, Yu, Chen, Anping, Wilkins, Kate, Holdrege, Martin C, Kulmatiski, Andrew, Picon-Cochard, Catherine, Roscher, Christiane, Power, Sally, Byrne, Kerry M, Churchill, Amber C, Jentsch, Anke, Henry, Hugh A L, Beard, Karen H, Schuchardt, Max A, Eisenhauer, Nico, Otfinowski, Rafael, Hautier, Yann, Shen, Huitao, Wang, Yonghui, Wang, Zhongwu, Wang, Chengliang, Cusack, Daniela Francis, Petraglia, Alessandro, Carbognani, Michele, Forte, T'ai G W, Flory, S, Hou, Pengli, Zhang, Tao, Gao, Weifeng, Sun, Wei

“…The increasing prevalence of drought events in grasslands and shrublands worldwide potentially has impacts on soil organic carbon (SOC). We leveraged the…”
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Advocating for Science Writing Cooperatives in Graduate Programs by Beers, Aidan T, Potter, Teal S, Churchill, Amber C, Faist, Akasha M, Golden, Elizabeth S, Filkins, Hannah R, Hicks, Julia J, Barger, Nichole N

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Root trait shifts towards an avoidance strategy promote productivity and recovery in C 3 and C 4 pasture grasses under drought by Chandregowda, Manjunatha H., Tjoelker, Mark G., Pendall, Elise, Zhang, Haiyang, Churchill, Amber C., Power, Sally A.

“…Abstract Plant species show a broad spectrum of plasticity in their covarying root traits in response to soil water limitation ranging from no change to shifts…”
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