Andrew Kulmatiski

Publications | Book Chapters

• Kulmatiski, A., Hines, J., Eisenhauer, N., Soil organism effects on grassland production and diversity: Grasslands: habitat management, impacts of plant diversity and restoration strategies. Nova Publishers

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Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

• Ohlert, T., Smith, M.D, Wilkins, K.D, Holdrege, M.C, Wilfahrt, P., Collins, S.L, Knapp, A.K, Sala, O.E, Dukes, J.S, Phillips, R.P, Yahdjian, L., Gherardi, L.A, Beier, C., Fraser, L.H, Jentsch, A., Loik, M.E, Maestre, F.T, Power, S.A, Yu, Q., Felton, A.J, Munson, S.M, Luo, Y., Abdoli, H., Abedi, M., Alados, C.L, Alberti, J., Alon, M., An, H., Anacker, B., Anderson, M., Auge, H., Bachle, S., Bahalkeh, K., Bahn, M., Batbaatar, A., Bauerle, T., Beard, K.H, Behn, K., Beil, I., Biancari, L., Blindow, I., Bondaruk, V.F, Borer, E.T, Bork, E.W, Bruschetti, C.M, Byrne, K.M, Cahill, Jr., J.F, Calvo, D.A, Carbognani, M., Cardoni, A., Carlyle, C.N, Castillo-Garcia, M., Chang, S.X, Chieppa, J., Cianciaruso, M.V, Cohen, O., Cordeiro, A.L, Cusack, D.F, Dahlke, S., Daleo, P., D'Antonio, C.M, Dietterich, L.H, Doherty, T.S, Dubbert, M., Ebeling, A., Eisenhauer, N., Fischer, F.M, Forte, T.G, Gebauer, T., Gozalo, B., Greenville, A.C, Guidoni-Martins, K.G, Hannusch, H.J, Haugum, S.V, Hautier, Y., Hefting, M., Henry, H.A, Hoss, D., Ingrisch, J., Iribarne, O., Isbell, F., Johnson, Y., Jordan, S., Kelly, E.F, Kimmel, K., Kreyling, J., Kröel-Dulay, G., Kröpfl, A., Kübert, A., Kulmatiski, A., Lamb, E.G, Larsen, K.S, Larson, J., Lawson, J., Leder, C.V, Linstädter, A., Liu, J., Liu, S., Lodge, A.G, Longo, G., Loydi, A., Luan, J., Lubbe, F.C, Macfarlane, C., Mackie-Haas, K., Malyshev, A.V, Maturano-Ruiz, A., Merchant, T., Metcalfe, D.B, Mori, A.S, Mudongo, E., Newman, G.S, Nielsen, U.N, Nimmo, D., Niu, Y., Nobre, P., O'Connor, R.C, Ogaya, R., Oñatibia, G.R, Orbán, I., Osborne, B., Otfinowski, R., Pärtel, M., Penuelas, J., Peri, P.L, Peter, G., Petraglia, A., Picon-Cochard, C., Pillar, V.D, Piñeiro-Guerra, J.M, Ploughe, L.W, Plowes, R.M, Portales-Reyes, C., Prober, S.M, Pueyo, Y., Reed, S.C, Ritchie, E.G, Rodríguez, D.A, Rogers, W.E, Roscher, C., Sánchez, A.M, Santos, B.A, Scarfó, M.C, Seabloom, E.W, Shi, B., Souza, L., Stampfli, A., Standish, R.J, Sternberg, M., Sun, W., Sünnemann, M., Tedder, M., Thorvaldsen, P., Tian, D., Tielbörger, K., Valdecantos, A., Liesbeth van den Brink, , Vandvik, V., Vankoughnett, M.R, Velle, L.G, Wang, C., Wang, Y., Wardle, G.M, Werner, C., Wei, C., Wiehl, G., Williams, J.L, Wolf, A.A, Zeiter, M., Zhang, F., Zhu, J., Zong, N., Zuo, X., (2025). Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity. Science, 390:6770, 284-289.
• Shi, B., Delgado-Baquerizo, M., Knapp, A., Smith, M., Reed, S., Osborne, B., Yolima , C., Maestre, F.T, Zhu, Y., Chen, A., Wilkins, K., Holdrege, M., Kulmatiski, A., Picon-Cochard, C., Roscher, ., Power, S., Byrne, .M, Churchill, A.C, Jentsch, A., Henry, H.A, Beard, K.H, Schuchardt, M.A, Eisenhauer, ., Otfinowski, ., Hautier, ., Shen, H., Wang, Y., Wang, Z., Wang, C., Cusack, D.F, Petraglia, A., Carbognani, M., Forte, T.G, Flory, S.L, Hou, P., Zhang, T., Gao, W., Sun, W., (2024). Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands. Science Advances, 10:40, doi: doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adq2654
• Kulmatiski, A., (2024). Water matching: an explanation for plant growth and coexistence in water-limited systems. Discover Soil, 1, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44378-024-00002-7
• Forero, L.e, Kulmatiski, A., (2024). Vertical resource uptake patterns help explain prairie plant abundance. Plant and Soil, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-024-06897-z
• Kulmatiski, A., Holdrege, M.C, Chirvasa, C., Beard, K.H, (2024). Root distributions predict shrub-steppe responses to precipitation intensity. Biogeosciences, 21, 131–143. doi: 10.5194/bg-21-131-2024
• Holdrege, M.C, Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Palmquist, K., (2023). Precipitation Intensification Increases Shrub Dominance in Arid, Not Mesic, Ecosystems. Ecosystems, 26, 568–584. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-022-00778-1
• Aaronson, J.K, Kulmatiski, A., Forero, L.E, Grenzer, J., Norton, J.M, (2023). Are Plant–Soil Feedbacks Caused by Many Weak Microbial Interactions?. Biology MDPI, 12:11, 1-17. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/biology12111374
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2022). A modern two-layer hypothesis helps resolve the 'savanna problem'. Ecology Letters, 25:9, 1952-1960. doi: doi: 10.1111/ele.14067
• Holdrege, M., Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Palmquist, K., (2022). Precipitation intensification increases shrub growth in arid, not mesic, systems. Ecosystems, doi: doi: 10.1007/s10021-022-00778-1
• Holdrege, M., Beard, K.H, Kulmatiski, A., (2021). Winter wheat growth resistant to increases in rain and snow intensity. Agronomy, 11:4, 751. doi: 10.3390/agronomy11040751
• Holdrege, M.C, Beard, K.H, Kulmatiski, A., (2021). Woody plant growth increases with precipitation intensity in a cold semi-arid system. Ecology, 102:1, e03212 . doi: doi: 10.1002/ecy.3212
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Holdrege, M.C, February, E., (2020). Small differences in root distributions allow resource niche partitioning. Ecology and Evolution, 10:18, 9776-9787. doi: 10.22541/au.159056294.45813944
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2019). Chronosequence and direct observation approaches reveal complementary community dynamics in a novel ecosystem. Plos One, 14:3, e0207047. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207047
• Henry, H., Abedi, M., Alados, C., Beard, K.H, Fraser, L., Jentsch, , Kreyling, , Kulmatiski, A., Lamb, J., Sun, W., Vankoughnett, M., Venn, S., Werner, C., Beil, I., Blindow, I., Dahlke, S., Dubbert, M., Effinger, A., Garris, H., Gartzia, M., Gebauer, T., Arfin Khan, M., Malyshev, A., Paulson, J., Pueyo, Y., Stover , ., Yang, X., (2018). Increased soil frost versus summer drought as drivers of plant biomass responses to reduced precipitation: results from a globally-coordinated field experiment. Ecosystems, 21:7, 1432-1444. doi: 10.1007/s10021-018-0231-7
• Koerner, S., Smith, ., Burkepile, D., Hanan, N., Avolio, M., Collins, S., Knapp, A., Lemoine, N., Beard, K.H, Kulmatiski, A., Veblen, K.E, (2018). Change in dominance determines herbivore effects on plant biodiversity. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2:12, 1925-1932.
• Adler, P., Smull, D., Beard, K.H, Choi, R.T, Furniss, T., Kulmatiski, A., Meiners, J., Tredennick, A.T, Veblen, K.E, (2018). Competition and coexistence in plant communities: intraspecific competition is stronger than interspecific competition. Ecology Letters, 21:9, 1319–1329. doi: 10.1111/ele.13098
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Norton, J.M, Heavilin, J.E, Forero, L., Grezer, J., (2017). Live long and prosper: plant-soil feedback, lifespan and landscape abundance covary. Ecology, 98:12, 3063-3073. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2011
• Kulmatiski, A., Adler, P., Stark, J.M, Tredennik, A.T, (2017). Water and nitrogen uptake are better associated with resource availability than root biomass. Ecosphere, 8, e01738.
• Kulmatiski, A., Sprouse, S., Beard, K.H, (2017). Soil type more than precipitation determines fine-root abundance in savannas of Kruger National Park, South Africa. Plant and Soil, 417:1-2, 523-333. doi: 10.1007/s11104-017-3277-y
• Kulmatiski, A., (2016). Factorial and 'self vs. other' plant soil feedback experiments produce similar predictions of plant growth in communities. Plant and Soil, 408, 485-492. doi: doi:10.1007/s11104-016-2946-6
• Monz, C., Kulmatiski, A., (2016). The emergence of "fat bikes' in the USA: Trends, potential consequences and management. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 15, 20–25.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Grezer, J., Forero, L., Heavilin, J.E, (2016). Using plant-soil feedbacks to predict plant biomass in diverse communities. Ecology, 97:8, 2064-2073. doi: 10.1890/15-2037.1
• Warren, C., Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2015). A combined tracer/evapotranspiration model approach estimates plant water uptake in native and non-native shrub-steppe communities. Journal of Arid Environments, 121:2015, 67–78.
• Nolan, N.E, Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Norton, J.M, (2015). Activated carbon decreases invasive plant growth by mediating plant-microbe. AoB Plants, 7, plu072. doi: doi: 10.1093/aobpla/plu072
• Kulmatiski, A., Anderson-Smith, A., Beard, K.H, Doucette-Riis, S., Mazzacavallo, M., Nolan, N.E, Ramirez, R., Stevens, J.R, (2014). Most soil trophic guilds increase plant growth: a meta-analytical review. Oikos, 123:2, 1409-1419. doi: 10.1111/oik.01767
• Buitendorf, R., Kulmatiski, A., Higgins, S.I, (2014). Soil water retention curves for the major soil types of the Kruger National Park. Koedoe, 56:1, doi: /10.4102/ koedoe.v56i1.1228
• Smith, N.G, Rogers, V.L, Brzostek, E.R, Kulmatiski, A., Avolio, M.L, Koerner, S.E, Hoover, D.L, Grant, K., Anke, J., Niyogi, D., (2014). Towards a better integration of biogeochemical and ecological data from precipitation manipulation experiments into land surface models. Reviews of Geophysics, 52:3, doi: 10.1002/2014RG000458
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2013). Increasing precipitation intensity linked to woody plant encroachment. Nature Climate Change, 3, 833-837.
• Suding, K., Harpole, W., Kulmatiski, A., MacDougall, A., Fukami, T., van der Putten, W., van de Voorde, T., (2013). Plant-soil feedback, invasion, and consequences for community dynamics. Journal of Ecology, 101:2, 298-308. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12057
• van der Putten, W., Bever, J., Schweitzer, J., Wardle, D., Casper, B.B, Kulmatiski, A., Suding, K., Klironomos, J., Kardol, P., Bezemer, M., Fukami, T., Bardgett, R., Van de Voorde, T., (2013). Plant-soil feedback: the past, the present and future challenges. Journal of Ecology, 101:2, 265-276. doi: 10.1111/1365-2745.12054
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2013). Root niche partitioning among grasses, saplings, and trees measured using a tracer technique. Oecologia, 171:1, 25-37. doi: 10.1007/s00442-012-2390-0
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Heavilin, J.E, (2012). Plant-soil feedbacks provide an alternative explanation for diversity-productivity relationships. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279:1740, 3020–3026. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2012.0285
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2011). Changing soils to manage plant communities: Activated carbon as a restoration tool in ex-arable fields. Restoration Ecology, 19:101, 102-110.
• Kulmatiski, A., Heavilin, J.E, Beard, K.H, (2011). Testing predictions of a three-species plant-soil feedback model. Journal of Ecology, 99:2, 542-550. doi: doi:10.1111/j.1365- 2745.2010.01784.x
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Meyerson, L.A, Gibson, J.C, Mock, K.E, (2010). Nonnative Phragmites australis invasion into Utah wetlands. Western North American Naturalist, 70, 541-552.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Verweij, R.J, February, E.C, (2010). A depth-controlled tracer technique quantifies the location, extent, and timing of water uptake in a sub-tropical savanna. New Phytologist, 188:1, 199-209.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stevens, J.R, Cobbold, S.M, (2008). Plant-soil feedbacks: A meta-analytical review. Ecology Letters, 11:9, 980-992.
• Kyle, G.P, Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2008). Pocket gophers change plant species composition in a shrub steppe ecosystem. Western North American Naturalist, 68:3, 374-381.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2008). Decoupling plant-growth from land-use legacies in soil microbial communities.. Soil Biology and Biogeochemistry, 40(5), 1059-1068.
• Kyle, G.P, Beard, K.H, Kulmatiski, A., (2007). Reduced soil compaction enhances establishment of non-native plant species. Plant Ecology, 193(2), 223-232.
• Rexroad, E.A, Beard, K.H, Kulmatiski, A., (2007). Vegetation responses to 35 and 55 years of native ungulate grazing in shrub steppe communities. Western North American Naturalist, 67(1), 16-25.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stark, J.M, (2006). Exotic communities shift water-use timing. Plant and Soil, 288:1-2, 271-284.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2006). Activated Carbon as a Restoration Tool. Restoration Ecology, 14:2, 251-257.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, Stark, J.M, (2004). Finding endemic soil-based controls on weed growth. Weed Technology, 18, 115-120.
• Kulmatiski, A., Beard, K.H, (2004). Reducing sampler error in soil research. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 36 (2), 383-385.
• Beard, K.H, Vogt, K.A, Kulmatiski, A., (2002). Top-down effects of a terrestrial frog on nutrient concentrations in a subtropical forest. Oecologia, 133, 583-593.
• Berry, R., Kulmatiski, A., A savanna response to precipitation intensity. PLOS ONE

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