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Overview

Anthony Joern is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a substantial focus on ecological and environmental dynamics.

The main areas of study in their work include Species Distribution and Climate Change, Plant and Animal Studies, and Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics. Their research also addresses Fire Effects on Ecosystems, Plant Responses to Elevated CO2, Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies, as well as Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

Their published work appears across a variety of scientific journals, reflecting a broad engagement with ecology and environmental science topics. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • Ecology
  • Biology Letters
  • Remote Sensing

Selected recent papers by Anthony Joern demonstrate a focus on insect herbivores, grassland ecosystems, and plant-animal interactions. Key publications include:

  • "Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore" (2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Studies of insect temporal trends must account for the complex sampling histories inherent to many long-term monitoring efforts" (2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution)
  • "Harmony on the prairie? Grassland plant and animal community responses to variation in climate across land-use gradients" (2020, Ecology)
  • "How and why grasshopper community maturation rates are slowing on a North American tall grass prairie" (2022, Biology Letters)
  • "Dynamic Plant-Herbivore Interactions between Bison Space Use and Vegetation Heterogeneity in a Tallgrass Prairie" (2023, Remote Sensing)

Their research contributions associate with several subfields such as Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Global and Planetary Change.

Anthony Joern has collaborated with multiple researchers, notably including Ellen A. R. Welti, Michael Kaspari, Karl A. Roeder, Kirsten M. de Beurs, and Aaron M. Ellison.

Best Publications

  • Biology of Grasshoppers

    R. F. Chapman;A. Joern

  • Invertebrates, ecosystem services and climate change

    Chelse M. Prather;Chelse M. Prather;Shannon L. Pelini;Shannon L. Pelini;Angela Laws;Emily Rivest

  • Coexisting generalist herbivores occupy unique nutritional feeding niches

    Spencer T. Behmer;Anthony Joern

  • Grasshopper Food Web Analysis: Use of Carbon Isotope Ratios to Examine Feeding Relationships Among Terrestrial Herbivores

    Brian Fry;Anthony Joern;P. L. Parker

  • Feeding patterns in grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae): Factors influencing diet specialization

    Anthony Joern

  • DISTURBANCE BY FIRE FREQUENCY AND BISON GRAZING MODULATE GRASSHOPPER ASSEMBLAGES IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE

    Anthony Joern

  • Importance of dietary nitrogen and carbohydrates to survival, growth, and reproduction in adults of the grasshopper Ageneotettix deorum (Orthoptera: Acrididae).

    Anthony Joern;Spencer T. Behmer

  • Not just the usual suspects: Insect herbivore populations and communities are associated with multiple plant nutrients

    Anthony Joern;Tony Provin;Spencer T. Behmer

  • Ecological Mechanisms Underlying Arthropod Species Diversity in Grasslands

    Anthony Joern;Angela N Laws

  • Sustainable Management of Insect Herbivores in Grassland Ecosystems: New Perspectives in Grasshopper Control

    David H. Branson;Anthony Joern;Gregory A. Sword

  • Temperature-dependent phenology and predation in arthropod systems

    J.David Logan;William Wolesensky;Anthony Joern

  • Ten Suggestions to Strengthen the Science of Ecology

    Gary E. Belovsky;Daniel B. Botkin;Todd A. Crowl;Kenneth W. Cummins

  • Impact of diet quality on demographic attributes in adult grasshoppers and the nitrogen limitation hypothesis

    Anthony Joern;Spencer T. Behmer

  • LANDSCAPE VS. LOCAL HABITAT SCALE INFLUENCES TO INSECT COMMUNITIES FROM TALLGRASS PRAIRIE REMNANTS

    Kristal J. L. Stoner;Anthony Joern

  • Experimental study of avian predation on coexisting grasshopper populations (Orthoptera: Acrididae) in a sandhills grassland

    Anthony Joern

  • Grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) communities respond to fire, bison grazing and weather in North American tallgrass prairie: a long-term study

    Jayne L. Jonas;Anthony Joern

  • Gut size changes in relation to variable food quality and body size in grasshoppers

    Y. Yang;A. Joern

  • VEGETATION STRUCTURE AND MICROHABITAT SELECTION IN GRASSHOPPERS (ORTHOPTERA, ACRIDIDAE)

    Anthony Joern

  • Nutrient dilution and climate cycles underlie declines in a dominant insect herbivore

    Ellen A R Welti;Karl A Roeder;Kirsten M de Beurs;Anthony Joern

  • Prey choice by three insectivorous grassland birds: reevaluating opportunism

    Michael Kaspari;Anthony Joern

  • Plasticity and overcompensation in grass responses to herbivory.

    Richard D. Alward;Anthony Joern

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Briggs
John M. Briggs Kansas State University
Gary E. Belovsky
Gary E. Belovsky University of Notre Dame
Michael Kaspari
Michael Kaspari University of Oklahoma
Gregory A. Sword
Gregory A. Sword Texas A&M University
Samantha M. Wisely
Samantha M. Wisely University of Florida
John S. Kominoski
John S. Kominoski Florida International University
Kirk O. Winemiller
Kirk O. Winemiller Texas A&M University
Laurie J. Vitt
Laurie J. Vitt University of Oklahoma
Eric R. Pianka
Eric R. Pianka The University of Texas at Austin
Susan J. Brown
Susan J. Brown Kansas State University

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