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Kurt Reinhart

Ecologist (Ecology)

Montana, USA

Dr. Kurt Reinhart is broadly interested in studying the factors affecting grassland ecosystems. He uses experimental and descriptive approaches to address questions relevant to biogeochemistry (mostly phosphorus cycling), drought, grassland ecology, grazing effects on soil organic carbon, microbial ecology, mycorrhizal fungi, and soil ecology.

Publications

  • Ruminating on the science of carbon ranching
  • Early Calving Benefits Livestock Production Under Winter and Spring Warming
  • Lessons from a next generation carbon ranching experiment in US Northern Great Plains
  • Plant functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness explain variation in associations with root fungal endophytes in an extreme arid environment
  • Red queen communities
  • Canopy gaps decrease microbial densities and disease risk for a shade-intolerant tree species
  • Variation in specificity of soil-borne pathogens from a plant's native range versus its nonnative range
  • The role of facilitative interactions in tree invasions
  • Effect of native and exotic leaf litter on macroinvertebrate communities and decomposition in a western Montana stream
  • Spatial variation in soil-borne disease dynamics of a temperate tree, Prunus serotina
  • Virulence of soil-borne pathogens and invasion by Prunus serotina
  • Effects of soil biota from different ranges on Robinia invasion: acquiring mutualists and escaping pathogens
  • Effects of mowing, spring precipitation, soil nutrients, and enzymes on grassland productivity
  • Toward more robust plant-soil feedback research
  • Soil aggregate stability was an uncertain predictor of ecosystem functioning in a temperate and semiarid grassland
  • Canopy gaps decrease microbial densities and disease risk for a shade-intolerant tree species
  • Soil aggregate stability and grassland productivity associations in a northern mixed-grass prairie
  • Plant, insect, and soil microbial communities vary across brome invasion gradients in northern mixed‐grass prairies
  • Roots of invasive woody plants produce more diverse flavonoids than non-invasive taxa, a global analysis
  • Consequences of Rainfall Manipulations for Invasive Annual Grasses Vary Across Grazed Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie Sites
  • Precipitation Manipulation Experiments May Be Confounded by Water Source
  • Globally, plant‐soil feedbacks are weak predictors of plant abundance
  • Toward more robust plant–soil feedback research: reply
  • Testing rangeland health theory in the Northern Great Plains
  • The effect of fire intensity, nutrients, soil microbes, and spatial distance on grassland productivity
  • Power and limitation of soil properties as predictors of variation in peak plant biomass in a northern mixed-grass prairie
  • Effects of trees on their recruits in the southern Appalachians, USA
  • Red Queen communities
  • Conspecific plant-soil feedbacks of temperate tree species in the southern Appalachians, USA
  • Factors affecting host range in a generalist seed pathogen of semi-arid shrublands
  • Spatial variation in soil-borne disease dynamics of a temperate tree, Prunus serotina
  • Effect of native and exotic leaf litter on macroinvertebrate communities and decomposition in a western Montana stream
  • Predicting plant responses to mycorrhizae: Integrating evolutionary history and plant traits
  • The importance of factors controlling species abundance and distribution varies in native and non-native ranges
  • Effects of soil biota from different ranges on Robinia invasion: Acquiring mutualists and escaping pathogens
  • Phylogenetic conservatism in plant-soil feedback and its implications for plant abundance
  • Virulence of soil-borne pathogens and invasion by Prunus serotina
  • Comparing susceptibility of eastern and western US grasslands to competition and allelopathy from spotted knapweed [Centaurea stoebe L. subsp. micranthos (Gugler) Hayek]
  • More closely related plants have more distinct mycorrhizal communities
  • Plant functional traits and phylogenetic relatedness explain variation in associations with root fungal endophytes in an extreme arid environment
  • The role of facilitative interactions in tree invasions
  • Plant-soil feedbacks and mycorrhizal type influence temperate forest population dynamics
  • The organization of plant communities: Negative plant-soil feedbacks and semiarid grasslands
  • Mixing soil samples across experimental units ignores uncertainty and generates incorrect estimates of soil biota effects on plants: Response to Cahill et al. (2016) 'No silver bullet: Different soil handling techniques are useful for different research questions, exhibit differential type I and II error rates, and are sensitive to sampling intensity' Mixing soil samples across experimental units ignores uncertainty and generates incorrect estimates of soil biota effects on plants
  • Variation in specificity of soil-borne pathogens from a plant's native range versus its nonnative range
  • A common soil handling technique can generate incorrect estimates of soil biota effects on plants
  • Does responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi depend on plant invasive status?
  • Effects of soil biota from different ranges on Robinia invasion: acquiring mutualists and escaping pathogens
  • Consistent predictors of microbial community composition across scales in grasslands reveal low context-dependency
  • Above-ground plant properties are not leading indicators of grazing-induced soil carbon accrual in the Northern Great Plains
  • Mechanisms for invasion by non-native trees: Facilitation ecosytem engineering and escape from belowground enemies.
  • RANGELAND COMMUNITIES: STRUCTURE, FUNCTION, AND CLASSIFICATION
  • Effects of re-introducing fire to a central Florida sandhill community
  • Specific leaf area along a nitrogen fertilization gradient
  • Invasive Plants
  • Plant--soil biota interactions and spatial distribution of black cherry in its native and invasive ranges
  • Facilitation and inhibition of seedlings of an invasive tree (Acer platanoides) by different tree species in a mountain ecosystem
  • Epiphyte host preferences and host traits: mechanisms for species-specific interactions
  • Soil feedback and pathogen activity in Prunus serotina throughout its native range
  • Soil biota facilitate exotic Acer invasions in Europe and North America
  • Effects of Acer platanoides invasion on understory plant communities and tree regeneration in the northern Rocky Mountains
  • Invasion through quantitative effects: intense shade drives native decline and invasive success
  • Soil biota and invasive plants
  • Soil biota and invasive plants
  • Why do female Belding's ground squirrels disperse away from food resources?
  • Invasive plants [1]
  • Soil biota facilitate exotic Acer invasions in Europe and North America
  • Effects of epiphytic lichens on host preference of the vascular epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides
  • Effects of re-introducing fire to a central Florida sandhill community
  • Facilitation and inhibition of seedlings of an invasive tree (Acer platanoides) by different tree species in a mountain ecosystem
  • Epiphyte host preferences and host traits: Mechanisms for species-specific interactions
  • Effects of Acer platanoides invasion on understory plant communities and tree regeneration in the northern Rocky Mountains
  • Plant-soil biota interactions and spatial distribution of black cherry in its native and invasive ranges
  • Soil feedback and pathogen activity in Prunus serotina throughout its native range
  • Invasion through quantitative effects: Intense shade drives native decline and invasive success
  • Effects of epiphytic lichens on host preference of the vascular epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides
  • Soil biota facilitate exotic Acer invasions in Europe and North America

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