Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains

Lori Biederman; Brent Mortensen; Philip Fay; Nicole Hagenah; Johannes Knops; Kimberly La Pierre; Ramesh Laungani; Eric Lind; Rebecca McCulley; Sally Power; Eric Seabloom; Pedro Tognetti

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178440

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Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains

Lori Biederman ,

* E-mail: lbied@iastate.edu

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2171-7898

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Brent Mortensen,

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
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Philip Fay,

Affiliation USDA-ARS Grassland Soil and Water Research Lab, United States Department of Agriculture–Agricultural Research Service, Temple, Texas, United States of America
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Nicole Hagenah,

Current address: SAEON Grasslands, Forest, Wetlands Node, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa South Africa

Affiliation School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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Johannes Knops,

Affiliation School of Biological Science, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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Kimberly La Pierre,

Current address: Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
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Ramesh Laungani,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Doane University, Crete, Nebraska, United States of America
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Eric Lind,

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Rebecca McCulley,

Affiliation Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, United States of America
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Sally Power,

Affiliation Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia
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Eric Seabloom,

Affiliation Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America
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Pedro Tognetti

Affiliation IFEVA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, CONICET, Facultad de Agronomía, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Nutrient addition shifts plant community composition towards earlier flowering species in some prairie ecoregions in the U.S. Central Plains

Lori Biederman,
Brent Mortensen,
Philip Fay,
Nicole Hagenah,
Johannes Knops,
Kimberly La Pierre,
Ramesh Laungani,
Eric Lind,
Rebecca McCulley,
Sally Power

Published: May 26, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178440

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