Students

Current

Lilly Johnson – Influence of overseeding and cattle grazing on prairie plant diversity

Dylan Huggard – Restoring native legumes in prairie

Past

Alex Dudley – Drivers of vegetative structural heterogeneity on conservation reserve program grasslands (May 2026)

Gavin Page –  Grazing restructures vegetative heterogeneity through species-specific interactions (May 2026)

Caelan Schuman –  The challenge of restoring grassland legumes: testing the role of spatial patterns of seed arrival (May 2025)

Barrett Houchen –  The temporal response of a generalist soil-borne fungal plant pathogen in native grassland communities (July 2023)

Adrian Bethel –  Linking plant traits to species performance during early stages of community assembly in a tallgrass prairie (Dec 2023)

Kobe Luu – plant-soil feedbacks in a grassland ecosystem: effects of plant functional groups and soil fertility (May 2022)

Esben Kjaer – Relative experimental effects of exogenous and endogenous heterogeneity on plant community composition during community assembly (May 2021)

Abbe Urban –  Where have you bean? understanding the distribution and abundance of legumes in grasslands across a precipitation gradient in Kansas (Dec 2020)

Fraser Watson – plant community changes on restored grasslands across a largescale environmental gradient (Dec 2019)

Jenny Smith –  Population demographics of an invasive weed: responses to soil fertility and cattle management (July 2018)

Olivia Schouten – Plant spatial structure is more dependent on endogenous processes than soil heterogeneity in an assembling community (May 2017)

Molly Reichenborn – Recovery of a prairie plant community following sericea lespedeza (lespedeza cuneata) removal: testing for a soil legacy effect (Dec 2016)

Zach Quick – Coping with pests: variable responses of grassland species to a native soil pathogen (May 2015)

Brandon Williams –  The influence of soil heterogeneity on plant species richness (Dec 2013)

Katy Coykendall –  Invasive success of lespedeza cuneata: allelopathy and competition (Dec 2011)

Bryant Wong –  Reducing invasion by targeting vulnerable life stages: effects of fire on survivorship of lespedeza cuneata (Dec 2011)

Suvi Samant – Does productivity matter? an investigation of habitat use by insect and small mammal herbivores in a grassland system (May 2011)