H. Wayne Polley

Grassland, Soil and Water Research Laboratory — United States

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Plant responses to elevated CO2(76), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(72), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(58), Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics(36), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(31)

Publications192 total

Performance of Johnsongrass and switchgrass from seeds and rhizome fragments in a mature switchgrass stand
Plant Ecology·2025· 1 cited
Effects of plant diversity on productivity strengthen over time due to trait-dependent shifts in species overyielding
Nature Communications·2024· 61 citedOpen Access
Biodiversity: Net primary productivity relationships are eliminated by invasive species dominance
Ecology Letters·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Establishment from seed is more important for exotic than for native plant species
Plant-Environment Interactions·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Reduced precipitation lessens the scaling of growth to plant N in mesic grasslands
Plant Ecology·2022· 2 cited
Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon
Nature Communications·2022· 711 citedOpen Access
Community leaf dry matter content predicts plant production in simple and diverse grassland
Ecosphere·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Reduced precipitation limits growth return on plant N in mesic grassland
Research Square (Research Square)·2022Open Access
Grazing Treatment Influences Recovery of Mesic Grassland from Seasonal Drought: An Assessment Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle−Enabled Remote Sensing
Rangeland Ecology & Management·2022· 3 cited
Globally-gridded data for manuscript: Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon
Nature Communications·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Synthesis data for manuscript: Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Synthesis data for manuscript: Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Globally-gridded data for manuscript: Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)·2022Open Access
Cropping management in a livestock–pasture–crop integration modifies microbial communities, activity, and soil health score
Journal of Environmental Quality·2021· 10 cited
UAV−Enabled Quantification of Grazing-Induced Changes in Uniformity of Green Cover on Semiarid and Mesic Grasslands
Rangeland Ecology & Management·2021· 10 cited
Global Change and Vegetation Dynamics
2021· 10 cited
Biotic homogenization destabilizes ecosystem functioning by decreasing spatial asynchrony
Ecology·2021· 150 citedOpen Access
Multiple constraints cause positive and negative feedbacks limiting grassland soil CO<sub>2</sub>efflux under CO<sub>2</sub>enrichment
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2020· 6 citedOpen Access
Biomass production and temporal stability are similar in switchgrass monoculture and diverse grassland
Biomass and Bioenergy·2020· 11 cited
Temporal stability of grassland metacommunities is regulated more by community functional traits than species diversity
Ecosphere·2020· 25 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Brian J. Wilsey(16), Hyrum B. Johnson(12), Forest Isbell(9), Robert B. Jackson(8), Peter B. Reich(6), Jasper van Ruijven(6), Herman S. Mayeux(6), Michel Loreau(5), David Tilman(5), Nico Eisenhauer(5), Philip A. Fay(5), Justin Derner(5), Dylan Craven(4), Bernhard Schmid(4), Carl Beierkuhnlein(4), Enrica De Luca(4), Andy Hector(4), Anke Jentsch(4), Jüergen Kreyling(4), Vojtěch Lanta(4)