Alan K. Knapp

Colorado State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

99h-index42.0kcitations441works22.22yr avg
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Research Topics

Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics(189), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(168), Rangeland and Wildlife Management(63), Fire effects on ecosystems(46), Climate variability and models(45)

Publications441 total

The role of bison ( <i>Bison bison</i> ) herbivory in the function of semi‐arid grasslands of Arizona
Ecological Applications·2025Open Access
Drought intensity and duration interact to magnify losses in primary productivity
Science·2025· 15 cited
Divergent Shifts in the Climatic Controls of Phenology Across Great Plains Grasslands
Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences·2025
Does within-biome drought sensitivity reflect patterns across biomes?
Oecologia·2025Open Access
Revisiting Patterns and Controls of Productivity in a Mesic Grassland 30 Years Later: Do We Know Now What We Knew Then?
Ecosystems·2025
Environmental Heterogeneity Imposed by Photovoltaic Array Alters Grassland Soil Microbial Communities
Global Change Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Experimental drought consistently underestimates productivity responses to natural drought in four Central US grasslands
Oecologia·2025Open Access
Towards unifying precipitation-vegetation productivity relationships in terrestrial ecosystems
Fundamental Research·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Extreme Drought Decreases the Stability of Above‐ but Not Below‐Ground Productivity Across Eurasian Steppes
Global Change Biology·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Evidence of photovoltaic aridity mitigation in semi-arid grasslands
Environmental Research Letters·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses
Ecology Letters·2025· 9 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses"
2025
<scp>C<sub>4</sub></scp> photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype
New Phytologist·2025· 11 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses"
2025
Evidence for a threshold in ecosystem functioning during an extreme drought in a semi-arid grassland
2025Open Access
Author response for "Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses"
2025
Contrasting drought sensitivity of Eurasian and North American grasslands
Nature·2025· 34 cited
Author response for "Extreme Drought Increases the Temporal Variability of Grassland Productivity by Suppressing Dominant Grasses"
2025
Aridity drives the response of soil total and particulate organic carbon to drought in temperate grasslands and shrublands
Science Advances·2024· 39 citedOpen Access
Ecovoltaics in an increasingly water-limited world: An ecological perspective
One Earth·2024· 20 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Melinda D. Smith(21), Scott L. Collins(14), John M. Blair(9), John M. Briggs(9), Yiqi Luo(7), Philip A. Fay(7), William T. Pockman(4), Osvaldo E. Sala(4), Jonathan D. Carlisle(4), Sally E. Koerner(4), Claus Beier(3), Stanley D. Smith(3), Michael E. Loik(3), David L. Hoover(3), Philippe Ciais(3), Jeffrey S. Dukes(3), Jesse B. Nippert(3), William J. Parton(3), Kevin R. Wilcox(3), Nathan P. Lemoine(3)