Nippert, J.B.and A.K. Knapp. 2007. Soil water partitioning as a mechanism for species coexistence in tallgrass prairie. Oikos 116: 1017-1029.
Nippert, J.B.and A.K. Knapp. 2007. Linking water uptake with rooting patterns in grassland species. Oecologia (in press).
Nippert, J.B., P.A. Fay, and A.K. Knapp. 2007. Photosynthetic traits in C3 and C4 grassland species in mesocosm and field environments. Environmental and Experimental Botany 60: 412-420.
Nippert, J.B., A.K. Knapp, and J.M. Briggs. 2006. Intra-annual rainfall variability and grassland productivity: can the past predict the future? Plant Ecology 184: 65-74.
Duursma R.A., J.D. Marshall, J.B. Nippert, C.C. Chambers, and A.P. Robinson. 2005. Estimating leaf-level parameters for ecosystem process models: a study in mixed conifer canopies on complex terrain. Tree Physiology 25: 1347-1359.
Nippert, Jesse and John Blair. March 2005, posting date. Comparing the Influence of Precipitation, Fire, and Topography on Plant Productivity in the Tallgrass Prairie, Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology , Vol. 3: Issues: Data Set #1 [online]. http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v3/issues/data_sets/konza/abstract.html
Nippert, J.B., R.A. Duursma, and J.D. Marshall. 2004. Seasonal variation in the photosynthetic potential of montane conifers. Functional Ecology 18: 876-886.
Morgan, J. et al . 2004. Water relations in grassland and desert ecosystem exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2. Oecologia 140: 11-25.
Nippert, J.B. and J.D. Marshall. 2003. Sources of variation in ecophysiological parameters in Douglas- fir and grand fir canopies. Tree Physiology 23: 591-601.