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M. Ungerer, L. Johnson and M. Herman. 2008. Ecological genomics: finding gene functions in the natural environment. Special ecological genomics issue of Heredity. 100:178-183.

McKinley, D.C., M.D. Norris, L.C. Johnson, and J.M. Blair. 2008. Biogeochemical changes associated with Juniperus virginiana encroachment into grasslands. Pages170-187 In Ecological Studies Series 196 - Western North American Juniperus Communities: A Dynamic Vegetation Type (O.W. Van Auken ed.), Springer-Verlag, NY.

Johnson L, M. Herman, S. Welch. 2007. Ecological Genomics: Extending the genome revolution to the environment around us. Merrill Series on the Research Mission of the Public Universities. A compilation of papers originally presented at a conference sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center June 2007. MASC Rept. 111. University of Kansas.Merrill Advanced Studies Center (Not peer-reviewed)

J. Kammenga, M. Herman, J. Ouborg, L. Johnson, and R. Breitling. 2007.Microarray Challenges in Ecology Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 22: 273-279.

Norris, M.A., J.M. Blair and L.C. Johnson. 2007. Altered ecosystem nitrogen dynamics as a consequence of land cover change in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist 158:432-445. 

Craine, J., B. Lee, L. Johnson, W. Bond, W.D. Williams. 2005. Roots of the world.  Ecology. 86:12-19.

 Jumpponen, A. Trowbridge, J., Mandyam, K.G. and Johnson, L.C. 2005. Nitrogen deposition affects AM root colonization minimally but shifts community structure. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 41:217-224.

 Jumpponen, A. and Johnson, LC. 2005. Can rDNA analysis of diverse fungal communities in soil and roots detect effects of environmental manipulations-a case study from tallgrass prairie. Mycologia. 97(6):1177. 

Loya, W., L.C. Johnson, K. Nadelhoffer 2004.  Annual dynamics of leaf and root derived carbon in arctic tundra soils.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 36(4):655-666. 

Smith, D.L. and L.C. Johnson.  2004. Changes in soil carbon cycling as forests expand into grassland:  Vegetation-mediated changes in microclimate reduces soil respiration.  Ecology. 85 (12): 3348-3361. 

Wessman, C., S.A. Archer, L.C. Johnson and G. Asner. 2004 Woodland expansion in US Grassland:  Assessing land cover change and biogeochemical impacts.  Peer-reviewed Book Chapter.  Land Use and Land Cover Change.  Kluwer Publishing. 

Smith, D.L. and L.C. Johnson 2003.  Expansion of Juniperus virginiana in the Great Plains:  Changes in Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 17(2):1-12. 

McKane, R.,  L.C. Johnson, B. Fry, G. Shaver, K. Nadelhoffer, E. Rastetter, B. Fry, A. Giblin, K. Kielland, B. Kwaitkowski, J. Laundre, and G. Murray 2002. Resource-based niches provide a basis for species diversity and dominance in an arctic plant community. Nature 415:68-71. 

Norris, M., J. Blair, and L.C. Johnson 2002.  Changes in plant biomass, productivity, and nutrient stores following Juniperus expansion into grasslands.  Can. J. Forestry Research 31:1940-1946. 

Loya, W.,  L. C. Johnson, K. Nadelhoffer, G. Kling, J. King, W. Reeburgh 2002. Pulse-labeling studies of carbon cycling in Arctic tundra ecosystems: the contribution of photosynthate to soil organic matter. Global Biogeochemical Cycles. 16(4). 

K.J. Nadelhoffer, L.C. Johnson, J. Laundre, A. Giblin. and G. Shaver.  2002. Fine root production and nutrient use in wet and moist arctic tundras as influenced by chronic fertilization.  Plant and Soil. 242 (1): 107-113. 

King, J., W. Reeburgh, K. Nadelhoffer, G. Kling, W. Loya, and L.C. Johnson 2002.  Contribution of photosynthate of methane emission in tundra:  A 14C labeling approach.  Global Biogeochemical Cycles 4 (doi: 10.1029/2001GB001456). 

Hoch, G., J. Briggs, and L. Johnson 2002.  Assessing the rate, mechanisms, and consequences of conversion of tallgrass prairie to Juniperus virginaian forest.  Ecosystems 5:578-586. 

Johnson, L.C.  and J.R. Matchett 2001. Fire and grazing regulate belowground processes in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 82:3377-3388. 

Norris, M., J. Blair, and L.C. Johnson 2001. Land cover change in eastern Kansas:  litter dynamics of closed-canopy eastern red cedar forests in tallgrass prairie.  Can. J. Botany 79:214-222. 

Johnson, L.C., G. Shaver, D. Cades, A. Stanley, K. Nadelhoffer, A. Giblin. 2000. Plant carbon-nutrient interactions control CO2 exchange in Alaskan wet sedge tundra ecosystems.  Ecology 81:453-469.  

David U. Hooper and L.C. Johnson. 1999. Nitrogen limitation in arid and semi-arid ecosystems: Response to geographic and temporal variation in precipitation. Biogeochemistry 46:247-293. 

A.K. Knapp, J.M. Blair, J.M. Briggs, S.L. Collins, D.C. Hartnett, L.C. Johnson, and E.G.Towne. 1999. The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie. Bioscience 49: 39-50. 

Shaver, G. R., L.C. Johnson,  D.H. Cades, G. Murray, J.A. Laundre, E.B. Rastetter, K. J. Nadelhoffer, and A.E. Giblin. 1998. Biomass and CO2 flux in wet sedge tundras: Responses to nutrients,  temperature, and light. Ecological Monographs 68(1): 75-92.) 

Williams, M, E. B. Rastetter, D. N. Fernandez, M. Goulden, L. C. Johnson, G. R. Shaver.  1997. Predicting gross primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecological Applications 7(3): 882-894. 

Nadelhoffer, K., G. R. Shaver, B. Fry, A. Giblin, L. Johnson, and R. McKane.1996. Variation in 15N natural abundance in arctic tundra as an indicator of plant species N-use patterns Oecologia 107: 386-394.

Johnson, L.C., G.R. Shaver, K.J. Nadelhoffer, A. E.Giblin, E.B. Rastetter, J.A. Laundre, G.L. Murray. 1996. The effects of enhanced drainage and elevated temperature on carbon balance in tussock tundra microcosms. Oecologia 108: 737-748.

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