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9. Prather, R. M.=, Dalton, R.M.=, barr, b., Blumstein, D. T., Boggs, C. L., Inouye, D. W., Irwin, R. E., Martin, J. G., Smith, R. J., Van Vuren, D. H., Wells, C. P., Whiteman, H. H., Inouye, B. D., Underwood, N. 2023. Current and lagged climate affects phenology across diverse taxonomic groups. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. [PDF] 10.1098/rspb.2022.2181
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8. Prather, R. M.=, E.A.R. Welti=, and M. Kaspari. 2021. Trophic differences regulate grassland food webs: herbivores track food quality and predators select for habitat volume. Ecology. [PDF] https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3453
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7. Prather, R.M.=, K. Castillioni=, M. Kaspari, L. Souza, C.M. Prather, R.W. Reihart, and E.A.R. Welti. 2020. Micronutrients enhance macronutrient effects in a meta-analysis of grassland arthropod abundance. Global Ecology and Biogeography 29:2273-2288. [PDF]
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6. Prather, R.M., K. Castillioni, E.A.R. Welti, M. Kaspari, and L. Souza. 2020. Abiotic factors and plant biomass, not plant diversity, strongly shape grassland arthropods under drought conditions. Ecology 101(6):e03033. [PDF]
5. Roeder, K.A., R.M. Prather, A.W. Paraskevopoulos, and D.V. Roeder. 2020. The economics of optimal foraging by the red imported fire ant. Environmental Entomology 49(2): 304-311. [PDF]
4. Welti, E.A.R., R.M. Prather, N.J. Sanders, K.M. de Beurs, and M Kaspari. 2020. Bottom-up when it is not top-down: Predators and plants control biomass of grassland arthropods. Journal of Animal Ecology 89(5). [PDF]
3. Prather, R.M., and M. Kaspari. 2019. Plants regulate grassland arthropod communities through biomass, quality, and habitat heterogeneity. Ecosphere 10(10):e02909. [PDF]
2. Prather, R.M., K. Kozmary, and S. Powell. 2018. Combat, co-existence, and resource partitioning in acorn-dwelling Temnothorax ants. Insectes Sociaux 65(3): 455-463. [PDF]
1. Prather, R.M., K.A. Roeder, N.J. Sanders, and M. Kaspari. 2018. Using metabolic logic to predict temperature dependent ecosystem activity: a test with prairie ants. Ecology 99(9): 2113:2121. [PDF]
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