All Stories

  1. Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity

    Article • Science, October 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  2. Environmental Heterogeneity Imposed by Photovoltaic Array Alters Grassland Soil Microbial Communities

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2025, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  3. Experimental drought consistently underestimates productivity responses to natural drought in four Central US grasslands

    Article • Oecologia, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Melinda Smith

  4. Aridity modulates grassland biomass responses to combined drought and nutrient addition

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  5. Environmental heterogeneity imposed by photovoltaic array alters grassland soil processes

    Article • May 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  6. Drought severity interacts with duration to erode resistance of terrestrial ecosystem productivity

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  7. Evidence for a threshold in ecosystem functioning during an extreme drought in a semi-arid grassland

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  8. Long-term drought alters pore structure and biochemical characteristics in soils of short-grass steppe

    Article • March 2025, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  9. Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands

    Article • Science Advances, October 2024, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Melinda Smith

  10. Interaction of extreme drought and insect herbivores on grassland community is affected by drought pattern

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, May 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Melinda Smith

  11. The responses of photosynthetic rate of dominant species to extreme drought in Inner Mongolia grasslands

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, April 2024, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Melinda Smith

  12. Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Melinda Smith, Dr Michelle Tedder

  13. Drought‐tolerant grassland species are generally more resistant to competition

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2023, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  14. Field experiments have enhanced our understanding of drought impacts on terrestrial ecosystems—But where do we go from here?

    Article • Functional Ecology, October 2023, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Biogeosciences, July 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  16. High below‐ground bud abundance increases ecosystem recovery from drought across arid and semiarid grasslands

    Article • Journal of Ecology, July 2023, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, December 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  18. Interspecific and intraspecific trait variability differentially affect community‐weighted trait responses to and recovery from long‐term drought

    Article • Functional Ecology, December 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  19. Drought‐driven shifts in relationships between plant biodiversity and productivity in temperate steppes

    Article • Functional Ecology, November 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Zak Ratajczak, Melinda Smith

  21. Assessing carbon storage capacity and saturation across six central US grasslands using data-model integration

    Article • August 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Oecologia, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Oikos, May 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  24. What happens after drought ends: synthesizing terms and definitions

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2022, Wiley

    Leena Vilonne, Melinda Smith

  25. Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Global Change Biology, January 2022, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2021, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • CATENA, August 2021, Elsevier

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Functional Ecology, July 2021, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  30. Herbivores alleviate the negative effects of extreme drought on plant community by enhancing dominant species

    Article • Journal of Plant Ecology, June 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Melinda Smith

  31. Defining codominance in plant communities

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2021, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Global Change Biology, December 2020, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  33. Nonlinear drought plasticity reveals intraspecific diversity in a dominant grass species

    Article • Functional Ecology, December 2020, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, November 2020, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Ecology and Evolution, May 2020, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • New Phytologist, April 2020, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  37. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change

    Article • Journal of Ecology, January 2020, Wiley

    David Gibson, Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Journal of Ecology, August 2019, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  39. Demystifying dominant species

    Article • New Phytologist, May 2019, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • New Phytologist, January 2019, Wiley

    Melinda Smith

  41. Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, October 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Dr. Jianshuang Wu, Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Biogeosciences, June 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  43. Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites

    Article • January 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  44. Supplementary material to "Asymmetric Responses of Primary Productivity to Altered Precipitation Simulated by Ecosystem Models across Three Longterm Grassland Sites"

    Article • January 2018, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, May 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • Biogeosciences, February 2014, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

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

    Article • October 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith

  48. Supplementary material to "Differential effects of extreme drought on production and respiration: synthesis and modeling analysis"

    Article • October 2013, Copernicus GmbH

    Melinda Smith