Publications:

2006-PRESENT (*=undergraduate student)

LeJeune, K. D., K. N. Suding, and T.R. Seastedt. 2006.  Nutrient availability does not
explain invasion and dominance of a mixed grass prairie by the exotic forb Centaurea 
diffusa Lam. Applied Soil Ecology. 32: 980110.

*Tiemann, L. and T.R. Seastedt.  2006.  Study shows introduced thistle may facilitate 
growth of some native grasses (Colorado).  Ecological Restoration 24: 58-59.

Seastedt, T. R. 2007. Resourceful invaders.  Nature 446: 985-986.

Breiter, N.C., and T. R. Seastedt. 2007.  Post-release evaluation of Mecinus janthinus 
host specificity, a biological control for invasive toadflax (Linaria spp.)  Weed 
Science55:164-168.

Seastedt, T.R., K.N. Suding, 2007. Biotic constraints on the the invasion of diffuse
knapweed (Centaurea diffusa)  in a Colorado grassland. Oecologia 151: 626-636.

Reed, S.C., T.R. Seastedt, *C.M. Mann, K.N. Suding, A.R. Townsend and K. Cherwin.
2007. Phosphorus fertilization stimulates nitrogen fixation and increases inorganic 
nitrogen concentrations in a restored grassland.  Applied Soil Ecology 36: 238-242.

*Bush, R.T., T. R. Seastedt, and D. Buckner. 2007. Plant Community Response to the 
Decline of a Dominant Invasive Plant, Centaurea diffusa, in a Colorado Grassland. 
Ecological Restoration  25: 169-174 . 

Seastedt, T.R., *M Garmoe, D Knochel, and *S. Shosky. 2007. Consequences of 
sequential release of biological control insects on diffuse and spotted knapweed 
along the Front Range of Colorado.  Biological Control 42: 345-354.

Robertson, G.P.,  Allen V.G.,  Boody, G., Boose, E.R.,  Creamer, N.G., Drinkwater, L.E.,
Gosz, J.R. Lynch, L., Havlin J.L.,  Jackson L.E., Pickett S.T.A., Pitelka, L., Randall A.,
Reed A.S., Seastedt, T.R., Waide R.B., and  Wall D.H.  2008.  Long-Term Agricultural
Research (LTAR): A Research, Education, and Extension Imperative.   Bioscience 58: 640-645.

Litaor, M.I., T.R. Seastedt, M. Williams  in press. Topographic Control on Snow
Distribution, Soil Moisture, and Species Diversity of Herbaceous Alpine Vegetation, 
Niwot Ridge, Colorado. Journal of Geophysical Research - Biogeosciences. 

Cherwin, K. L.  T. R. Seastedt, and K. N. Suding  in press. Effects of nutrient 
manipulations and grass removal on cover, species composition, and invasibility of a novel 
grassland in Colorado.   Restoration Ecology.

Inderjit, Seastedt, T.R., R.M. Callaway, and J. Kaur. In press.  Allelopathy and plant 
invasions: traditional, congeneric, and biogeographical approaches.  Biological Invasions.

Seastedt. T.R. and P. Murray.  In press.  Belowground herbivory in grasslands. In: Phil 
Murray, Scott Johnson & Greg Masters (eds) Root Feeders: an ecosystem perspective. CAB 
Science, UK.  

Seastedt. R.J. Hobbs and K.N. Suding. In press.  Management of novel ecosystems: are novel 
approaches required?  Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

2000-2005

Seastedt, T.R.  2000. Soil Fauna and controls of carbon dynamics: Comparisons of 
rangelands and forests across latitudinal gradients. Pages 293-312  In: D.C. 
Coleman and P. Hendrix (eds). Invertebrates as Webmasters of Ecosystems.  CABI 
Publ., Wallingford, UK.

Gonzalez, G. and T.R. Seastedt.  2000. Comparison of the abundance and 
composition of soil fauna in tropical and subalpine forests. Pedobiologia 44: 
545-555.

Conley, A.H., E.A. Holland, T.R. Seastedt and W.J. Parton. 2000. Simulation of 
carbon and nitrogen cycling in an alpine tundra. Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine 
Research. 32: 147-154

*Sinton, P., T.R. Seastedt, B. Bennett, C. Bock and J. Bock. 2000. C3 and C4 
Colorado grassland changes identified by delta-13 C values of soil organic 
matter. Western North American Naturalist 60: 445-450.

*Reever-Morghan, K.R., T.R. Seastedt and *P.J. Sinton. 2000. Frequent fire 
enables ungrazed tallgrass prairie to resist invasion by Cirsium arvense (Canada 
thistle) Restoration Ecology 18: 194-195

Seastedt, T.R. 2000. Ecosystem management: the new tool of land mangers?  In R. 
Nolan. Ecosystems.  Electric Biology CD ROM, (ISBN 1-929788-00-2) Aptos, CA.
 
Seastedt, T.R. and G. A. Adams. 2001.  Effects of mobile tree islands on alpine 
tundra soils. Ecology 82: 8-15

Gonzalez, G. and T.R. Seastedt. 2001. Soil fauna and plant litter 
decomposition in tropical and subalpine forests.  Ecology 82: 955-964
 
Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds). 2001.  Structure and Function of an 
Alpine Ecosystem: Niwot Ridge, Colorado.  Oxford Press.

Seastedt, T.R. 2001.  Soils. Chapter 8 in: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt 
(eds).  Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem:  Niwot Ridge, Colorado.  
Oxford Press.

Seastedt, T.R., M.D. Walker and D. Bryant. 2001. Controls on decomposition 
processes in alpine tundra. Chapter 11 in: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt (eds).  
Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem:  Niwot Ridge, Colorado.  Oxford 
Press.

Welker, J.M., W.D. Bowman, and T.R. Seastedt. 2001.  Response of alpine 
tundra to environmental change. Chapter 16 in: Bowman, W.D. and T.R. Seastedt 
(eds).  Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem:  Niwot Ridge, Colorado.  
Oxford Press.

Seastedt, T.R. and *Lynn Vaccaro. 2001. Plant species richness, productivity 
and nitrogen and phosphorus limitations across a snowpack gradient in alpine 
tundra.  Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research 33: 100-106.

Gonzalez, G., R.E. Ley, S.K. Schmidt, X. Zou, and T.R. Seastedt. 2001. Soil 
interactions between invertebrates and microbes: comparisons between tropical 
and subalpine forests.  Oecologia 128: 549-556. 

LeJeune, K.D. and T.R. Seastedt. 2001. Centaurea species: The Forb that Won 
the West. Conservation Biology 15: 1568-1574. 

Sherrod, S. K. and T.R. Seastedt. 2001.  Effects of the northern pocket 
gopher (Thomomys talpoides) on alpine soil characteristics, Niwot Ridge, CO.  
Biogeochemistry 55: 195-218.

Byers, J.E., S. Reichard, C.S. Smith, I.M. Parker, J.M. Randall, W.M. Lonsdale, 
I.A.E. Atkinson, T.R. Seastedt, E. Chornesky, D. Hayes, M. Williamson. In 
press. A call for research needed to reduce the impacts of nonindigenous 
invasive species. Conservation Biology. 

Litaor, M.I., T.R. Seastedt and D.A. Walker. 2002.  Spatial 
analysis of selected attributes of soil across an alpine topographic/snow 
gradient. Landscape Ecology 17: 71-85.

Seastedt, T.R. 2002.  Base camps of the Rockies: The Intermountain Grasslands.
In J. Baron (ed).  Rocky Mountain Futures.  Island Press.

Bowman, W.D., D.M. Cairns and T.R. Seastedt. 2002.  Islands in the Sky:
Alpine and treeline ecosystems of the Rockies.  In J. Baron (ed), Rocky
Mountain Futures.  Island Press.

Seastedt, T.R., Nathan Gregory and David Buckner. 2003.  Control of 
diffuse knapweed by biocontrol insects in a Colorado grassland. Weed Science 
51: 237-245.

Hudak, A.T., T.R. Seastedt, and C.A. Wessman. 2003.  Effects of bush 
encroachment on C and N pools in South African Savanna. Austral Ecology 
28: 173-181.

Porazinska, D.L., R.D. Bardgett, M.B. Blaauw, H.W. Hunt, A.N. Parsons, T.R. Seastedt, 
and D.H. Wall. 2003  Relationships at the aboveground-belowground interface: plants, 
soil microflora and microfauna, and soil processes.  Ecological Monographs 73: 377-395.

Grizelle Gonzalez, T. R. Seastedt and *Zugeily Donado. 2003. Earthworms, arthropods, 
and plant litter decomposition in subalpine stands of aspen (Populus tremuloides) and 
lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests.  Pedobiologia 47: 863-869

Seastedt, T.R., W.D. Bowman, N. Caine, D. McKnight, A. Townsend, and M. Williams. 2004
The landscape continuum: A Conceptual Model for High Elevation Ecosystems.  BioScience
54: 111-122.

Wolf, J.J., S. W. Beatty, and T. R. Seastedt.  2004. Soil characteristics of Rocky 
Mountain National Park grasslands invaded by Melilotus officinalis and M. alba.  
Journal of Biogeography 31:1-10.

Luken, J.O. and T.R. Seastedt.2004 Plant invasions, management, and the conflict of 
perspective. Weed Technology 18: 1514-1517. 

Suding, K.N., K.D. LeJeune, and T.R. Seastedt. 2004 Competitive interactions and 
responses of an invasive weed: dependencies on nitrogen and phosphorus availability. 
Oecologia 141: 526-535.

Litaor, M.I., T.R. Seastedt, M.D. Walker, *M. Carbone, and A. Townsend. 2005.
The biogeochemistry of phosphorus across an alpine topographic/snow gradient.  
Geoderma 124: 49-61. 

LeJeune, K.D., K.N. Suding, * S. Sturgis, A. Scott, and T.R. Seastedt. 2005.  Biological
 control insect use of fertilized and unfertilized diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa
 Lamarck) in a Colorado grassland.  Environmental Entomology 34: 225-234.

Litaor, M.I., T.R. Seastedt, M.D. Walker, M. Carbone, and A. Townsend. 2005.  The 
biogeochemistry of phosphorus across an alpine topographic/snow gradient.  Geoderma 124: 
49-61.

Heather E. Reed, Timothy R. Seastedt, and John M. Blair. 2005. Ecological consequences
 of C4 grass invasion of a C4 grassland: A dilemma for management. Ecological 
Applications 15: 1560-1569.

Seastedt, T.R., K.N. Suding and K.D. LeJeune. 2005. Understanding Invasions: The rise 
and fall of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in North America. Pages 129-139 
In: Inderjit (Ed.) Invasive plants: ecological and agricultural aspects. Basal, 
Switzerland: Birkhauser-Verlag AG.

Seastedt, T.R. 2005.  Soil biology and the emergence of adventive grassland ecosystems.
 Pages 15-24 in:  S.C. Jarvis, P.J. Murray and J.A. Roker. Optimization of nutrient 
cycling and soil quality for sustainable grasslands. Wageningen Academic Publishers, 
The Netherlands.

Sherrod, S.K., T.R. Seastedt and M.D. Walker. 2005.  Northern pocket gopher (Thomomys
 talpoides) control of alpine plant community structure.  Arctic, Antarctic and Alpine
 Research 37: 585-590.


1996-1999


 O'Lear, H.A., T.R. Seastedt, J. Briggs, J.M. Blair and R.A. Ramundo. 1996. Fire 
and Topographic Effects on Decomposition Rates and Nitrogen Dynamics of Buried 
Wood in Tallgrass Prairie. Soil Biology and Biochemistry 28: 323-330.

Cortinas, M.R. and T.R. Seastedt. 1996. Short- and Long-term effects of gophers 
(Thomomys talpoides) on soil organic matter dynamics in alpine tundra.  
Pedobiologia 40: 162-170.

Seastedt, T.R. 1996.  Ecosystem science and society. BioScience 46: 370-372.

Chapin, F.S., S. Diaz, M. Howden, J. Puigdefabregas, M. Stafford, T. Benning, F. 
Bryant, B. Campbell, J. DuToit, K. Galvin, E. Holland, L. Joyce, A. Knapp, P. 
Matson, R. Miller, D. Ojima, W. Polley, T. Seastedt, A. Suarez, T. Svejcar and 
C. Wessman. 1996. Rangelands in a Changing Climate: Impacts, adaptations and 
mitigation. Pages 133-158 In: Climate Change 1995: Impacts, Adaptations and 
Mitigation of Climate Change: Scientific-Technical Analyses. Contribution of 
Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel 
on Climate Change [Watson, R.T., M.C. Zinyowera, and R.H. Moss (eds.)]. 
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York, 880 pp. 

Seastedt, T.R. 1996.  Soil Fauna and the Biogeochemistry of Tropical Ecosystems. 
pages 184-204 in: M.V. Reddy (ed) Soil Organisms and Litter Decomposition in the 
Tropics. Oxford & IBH Publ. Co.  

Seastedt, T.R., P. Duffy and J. Knight. 1996.  Reverse fertilization experiment 
produces mixed results.  Restoration and Management Notes 14:64.
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Ojima, D.S., W.J. Parton, M.B. Coughenour, J.M.O. Scurlock, T.B. Kirchener, 
T.G.F. Kittel, D.O. Hall, D.S. Schimel, E. Garcia Moya, T.G. Gilmanov, T.R. 
Seastedt, A Kamnalrut, J.I. Kinyamario, S.P. Long, J.C. Menaut, O.E. Sala, R.J. 
Scholes and J.A. van Veen. 1996. Impact of climate and atmospheric carbon 
dioxide changes on grasslands of the world. pages 271-312 in:  Breymeyer, A.I., 
D.O. Hall, J.M. Melillo and G.I Agren (eds). Global Change: Effects on 
coniferous forests and grasslands.  Scope 56. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Pauker, S.J. and T.R. Seastedt. 1996.  The effects of mobile tree islands on 
soil carbon storage in alpine tundra. Ecology 77:2563-2567.

Parton, W.J., M.B. Coughenour, J.M.O. Scurlock, D.S. Ojima, T.G. Gilmanov, R.J. 
Scholes, D.S. Schimel, T.B. Kirchner, J.C. Menaut, T.R. Seastedt, E. Garcia 
Moya, A. Kamnalrut, J.I. Kinyamario and D.O. Hall. 1996. Global grasland 
ecosystem modelling: development and test of ecosystem models for grassland 
systems. Pages 229- 270 in: Breymeyer, A.I., D.O. Hall, J.M. Melillo and G.I 
Agren (eds). Global Change: Effects on coniferous forests and grasslands.  Scope 
56. Wiley & Sons, Chichester.

Asner, G. P., T. R. Seastedt and A. R. Townsend. 1997.  Regional carbon-nitrogen 
cycle decoupling: implications for global terrestrial carbon storage. BioScience 
47: 226-234.

Ingersoll, R.C., T.R. Seastedt and M. Hartman. 1997. A model information 
management system for ecological research. BioScience 47:310-316.

Benning, T.L. and T.R. Seastedt. 1997.  Effects of fire, mowing and nitrogen 
additions on root characteristics in tallgrass prairie. Int. Journal of 
Vegetation Science 8: 541-546. 

Williams, M.W., P.D. Brooks, and T.R. Seastedt. 1998. Nitrogen and carbon soil 
dynamics in response to climate change in a high-elevation ecosystem in the 
Rocky Mountains, USA. Arctic and Alpine Research 30: 26-30.

Knapp, A.K., and T. R. Seastedt. 1998.  Grasslands, Konza Prairie, and long-term 
ecological research.  Pages 3-15 in: A.K. Knapp, J.M. Briggs, D.C. Hartnett and 
S.C. Collins, eds. Grassland dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in 
Tallgrass Prairie. Oxford Univ. Press< New York.

Seastedt, T.R., B.P. Hayden, C.E. Owensby and A.K. Knapp. 1998. Climate change, 
elevated CO2 and predictive modeling: Past and future climate change scenarios 
for the tallgrass Prairie. Pages 283-300 in: Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term 
Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie  (A.K. Knapp, J.M. Briggs, D.C. 
Hartnett and S.C. Collins, eds.), Oxford Press, New York

Blair, J.M., T.R. Seastedt, C.W. Rice and R.A. Ramundo. 1998.  Terrestrial 
nutrient cycling in tallgrass prairie. Pages 222-243 in: Grassland Dynamics: 
Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie  (A.K. Knapp, J.M. Briggs, 
D.C. Hartnett and S.C. Collins, eds.), Oxford Press, New York.

Dyer, M.I., C.L. Turner and T.R. Seastedt. 1998. Biotic interactivity between 
grazers and plants: Relationships contributing to atmospheric boundary layer 
dynamics. Journal of Atmospheric Sciences 55: 1247-1259.

Rice, C.W., T.C. Todd, J.M. Blair, T.R. Seastedt, R.A. Ramundo and G.T. Wilson. 
1998. Belowground Biology and Processes. 1998. Pages 244-264 in: A.K. Knapp, 
J.M. Briggs, D.C. Hartnett and S.C. Collins, eds. Grassland dynamics: Long-Term 
Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. Oxford Univ. Press.

Fisk, M.C., S.K. Schmidt and T.R. Seastedt. 1998. Landscape patterns of above- 
and belowground production and nitrogen cycling in alpine tundra. Ecology 79: 
2253-2266.

Bryant, D.M., E.A. Holland, T.R. Seastedt and M.D. Walker. 1998. Analysis of 
litter decomposition in alpine tundra. Canadian J. Botany 76: 1295-1304.

*Reever-Morghan, K.J. and T.R. Seastedt. 1999. Effects of soil nitrogen 
reduction on non-native plants in disturbed grasslands.  Restoration Ecology 7: 
51-55.

*Addington, R.N. and T.R. Seastedt. 1999.  Activity of soil microarthropods 
beneath snowpack in alpine tundra and subalpine forest. Pedobiologia 43: 47-53.

*Simons, S.B. and T.R. Seastedt. 1999. Decomposition and nitrogen release from 
cottonwood and Russian olive foliage in a riparian ecosystem. Southwestern 
Naturalist 44: 256-260.

Walker, M.D., D.A. Walker, J.M. Welker, A.M. Arft, T. Bardsley, P.D. Brooks, 
J.T. Fahnestock, M.H. Jones, M. Losleben, A.N. Parsons, T.R. Seastedt, and P.L. 
Turner.  1999. Long-term experimental manipulation of winter snow regime and 
summer temperature in arctic and alpine tundra.  Hydrological Processes 13: 
2315-2330.
1990-1995:

Schaeffer D.J., T. R. Seastedt, D. J. Gibson, D. C. Hartnett, B. A. D. Hetrick, 
S. W. James, D. W. Kaufman, A. P. Schwab, E. E. Herricks and E. W. Novak.  1990.  
Field Bioassessments for Selecting Test Systems to Evaluate Military Training 
Lands in Tallgrass Prairie.  Environmental Management 14:81-93.

Seastedt, T. R. and R. A. Ramundo.  1990.  The influence of fire on belowground 
processes of tallgrass prairie. Pages 99-117 In S. L. Collins and L. L. Wallace.  
Fire and the Tallgrass Prairie.  University OK Press.

Ramundo, R. A. and T. R. Seastedt.  1990.  Site-specific seasonal bias in NADP 
wetfall ammonium ion estimates.  Atmospheric Environment 24a: 3093-3095.

Schimel, D. S., T. G. F. Kittel, A. K. Knapp, T. R. Seastedt, W. J. Parton and 
V. B. Brown.  l991.  Physiological interactions along resource gradients in a 
tallgrass prairie.  Ecology 72: 672-684.

Dyer, M. I., C. L. Turner and T. R. Seastedt. 1991.  Remote sensing measurements 
of production processes in grasslands:  The need for new methodologies.  Agric. 
Ecosyst. Environ. 34: 495-505.

Seastedt, T. R., J. M. Briggs and D. J. Gibson. 1991.  Controls of nitrogen 
limitation in tallgrass prairie.  Oecologia 87: 72-79.

Seastedt, T. R. and J. M. Briggs.  1991. Long-term ecological questions and 
considerations for taking long-term measurements:  Lessons from the LTER and 
FIFE programs on tallgrass prairie. pages 152-172 In:  P. G. Risser (ed). Long-
Term Ecological Research: An International Perspective.  John Wiley and Sons, 
Chichester.

Dyer, M. I., C. L. Turner and T. R. Seastedt. 1991.  Mowing and fertilization 
effects on productivity and and spectral reflectance in Bromis inermus plots.  
Ecological Applications 1: 443-452. 

Seastedt, T. R. and M. V. Reddy. 1991.  Factors influencing soil Sternorrhycha 
(Homoptera) Densities in tallgrass prairie.  Journal Kansas Entomological 
Society 64: 238-242.

Seastedt, T.R., W.J. Parton and D.S. Ojima. 1992.  Mass loss and nitrogen 
dynamics of decaying litter of grasslands:  The apparent low nitrogen 
immobilization potential of root detritus.  Canadian Journal of Botany 70: 384-
391.

Ramundo, R. A., C. M. Tate and T.R. Seastedt.  1992.  Effects of tallgrass 
prairie vegetation on the concentration and seasonality of nitrate- nitrogen in 
soil water and streams. Pages 9-12 in: D.D. Smith and C.A. Jacobs (eds).  
Proceedings of the Twelfth North American Prairie Conference.  Ames, Iowa.

Todd, T.C., S.W. James and T.R. Seastedt. 1992.  Soil invertebrate and plant 
responses to mowing and carbofuran application in a North American tallgrass 
prairie.  Plant and Soil 144: 117-124.

Turner, C.L., T.R. Seastedt, M.I. Dyer, T.G.F. Kittel, and D.S. Schimel. 1992.  
Effects of management activities on the radiometric response of a tallgrass 
prairie.  Journal Geophysical Research 97: 18855-18866.       

Seastedt, T.R. and A.K. Knapp.  1993.  Consequences of non-equilibrium resource 
availability across multiple time scales:  The transient maxima hypothesis.  
American Naturalist 141: 621-633.

Turner, C.L. M.I. Dyer and T.R. Seastedt. 1993.  Maximization of foliage 
production in grasslands:  The role of grazing frequency and intensity.  
Ecological Applications 3: 175-186.
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Knapp, A.K., J.T. Fahnestock, S.J. Hamburg, L.J. Statland, T.R. Seastedt and 
D.S. Schimel. 1993.  Landscape patterns in soil-plant water relations, net 
photosynthesis, and primary production in tallgrass prairie.  Ecology 74: 549-
560.

Dyer, M.I., C.L. Turner and T.R. Seastedt. 1993.  Herbivory and its 
consequences.  Ecological Applications 3: 10-16.

Gibson, D. J., T. R. Seastedt and J. M. Briggs. 1993.  Management practices in 
tallgrass prairie:  Landscape and experimental effects on species composition.  
Journal of Applied Ecology 30: 247-256. (reprinted in: F.B. Sampson and F. 
Knopf. (eds). 1996. Readings in Ecosystem Management. Springer-Verlag, NY.)

Reichman, O.J., J.H. Benedix, Jr. and T.R. Seastedt. 1993.  Animal generated 
disturbances and size hierarchies in a tallgrass prairie plant community.  
Ecology 74: 1281-1285.

Parton, W.J., J.M.O. Scurlock, D.S. Ojima, T.G. Gilmanov, R.J. Scholes, D.S. 
Schimel, T. Kirchner, J.C. Menaut, T.R. Seastedt, E. Garcia Moya, A. Kamnalrut 
and J.I. Kinyamario. 1993.  Observations and modeling of biomass and soil 
organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide.  Global 
Biogeochemical Cycles 7: 785-809.

Taylor, R.V. and T.R. Seastedt. 1994.  Short- and long-term patterns of soil 
moisture in alpine tundra.  Arctic and Alpine Research 26: 14-20.

Seastedt, T.R., C.C. Coxwell, D.S. Ojima and W.J. Parton. 1994.  Controls of 
plant and soil carbon in a semihumid temperate grassland. Ecological 
Applications 4: 344-353.

Hargrave, B.S. and T.R. Seastedt. 1994. Nitrogen concentrations of senescent 
foliage in a relict tallgrass prairie.  Prairie Naturalist 26:61-65.

O'Lear, H.A. and T.R. Seastedt. 1994. Landscape patterns of litter decomposition 
in alpine tundra.  Oecologia 99: 95-101.

Crossley, D.A., Jr., E.R. Blood, P.F. Hendrix and T.R. Seastedt. 1995.  Turnover 
of cobalt-60 by earthworms (Eisenia fetida) (Lumbricidae, Oligochaeta).  Journal 
of Applied Soil Ecology 2: 71-75.
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Evans, E. W. and T. R. Seastedt. 1995. The relations of phytophagous 
invertebrates and range plants. Pages 580-634 In: D. S. Bedunah (ed). Rangeland 
Plant Morphology and Physiology.  Society for Range Management.

Seastedt, T. R. 1995.  Soil systems and nutrient cycles of the North American 
Prairie.  Pages 157-174 In:  A. Joern and K.K. Keeler, (eds).  The Changing 
Prairie.  Oxford Univ. Press.

Benning, T.L. and T.R. Seastedt. 1995.  Landscape-level interactions between 
topedaphic features and nitrogen limitation in tallgrass prairie.  Landscape 
Ecology 10: 337-348.

Bock, C.E., J.H. Bock, M.C. Grant and T.R. Seastedt. 1995.  Effects of fire on 
abundance of plains lovegrass (Eragrostis intermedia) in a semiarid grassland in 
southeastern Arizona. J. Veg. Sci. 6: 325-328.

1980-1989

Seastedt, T. R., Aruna Kothari and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1980.  A simplified 
gelatin embedding technique for sectioning litter and soil samples.  
Pedobiologia 20:55-59

Seastedt, T. R. and S. F. MacLean, Jr.  1980.  Polygyny and nest spacing in 
Lapland longspurs: a hypothesis. Animal Behavior 28:313-314.


Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1980.  Effects of microarthropods on 
the nutrient dynamics of forest litter.  Soil Biology and Biochemistry 12:337-
342.

Seastedt, T. R.  1980.  Comparison of diets of young Lapland longspurs in arctic 
and subarctic Alaska.  Condor 82:232-233.

Abbott, D. T., T. R. Seastedt and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1980.  The abundance,
distribution and effects of clear-cutting on  Cryptostigmata in the southern 
Appalachians.  Environmental Entomology 9:618-623.

Seastedt, T. R., L. Mameli and K.  Gridley.  1981.  Arthropod use of 
invertebrate carrion.  American Midland Naturalist 105:124-129.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, J. R.  1981.  Microarthropod response to 
cable logging and clear-cutting in the southern Appalachians.  Ecology 62:126-
135.

Seastedt, T. R. and C. M. Tate.  1981.  Decomposition rates and nutrient content 
of arthropod remains in forest litter.  Ecology 62:13-19.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1981.  Sodium dynamics of forest 
ecosystems and the animal starvation hypothesis.  American Naturalist 117-1029-
1034.

Whitford, W. G., V. Meentemeyer, T. R. Seastedt, K. Cromack, Jr., D. A. 
Crossley, Jr., P. Santos, R. L. Todd and J. B. Waide.  1981.  Tests of the AET 
model of litter decomposition in deserts and a clear-cut forest.  Ecology 
62:275-277.

Seastedt, T. R., D. A. Crossley, Jr., V. Meentemeyer and J. B. Waide.  1983.  A 
two-year study of leaf litter decomposition in relation to macro-climatic 
Factors and microarthropod abundance.  Holarctic Ecology 6:11-16.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1983.  Naphthalene and artificial 
throughfall effects on forest floor nutrient dynamics:  a field microcosm study.  
Soil Biology & Biochemistry 15:159-165.

Seastedt, T. R., D. A. Crossley, Jr. and W. W. Hargrove.  1983.  Effects of low-
level consumption by canopy arthropods on the growth and nutrient dynamics of 
black locust and red maple trees in the southern Appalachians.  Ecology 64:1040-
1048.

Seastedt, T. R.  1983.  The rhinoceros beetle, Xyloryctes jamaicensis Drury, 
Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), a locally abundant detritivore of a Kansas riparian 
forest.  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 56:543-546.

Seastedt, T. R.  1984.  The role of microarthropods in decomposition and 
mineralization processes.  Annual Review of Entomology 29:25-46

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1984.  The influence arthropods on 
ecosystems.  BioScience 34:157-161.

Seastedt, T. R. 1984.  Belowground macroarthropods of annually burned and 
unburned tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist 111:405-408.

Seastedt, T. R.  1984.  Microarthropods of burned and unburned tallgrass 
prairie.  Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 57:468-476.

Hargrove, W. W., D. A. Crossley, Jr. and T. R. Seastedt.  1984.  Shifts in 
insect herbivory in the canopy of black locust, Robinia pseudoacacia L. 
following fertilization.  Oikos 43:322-328.

Seastedt, T. R.  1985.  Canopy interception of nitrogen in bulk precipitation by 
annually burned and unburned tallgrass prairie.  Oecologia 66:88-92.

Seastedt, T. R.  1985.  Maximization of Primary and Secondary Productivity by 
Grazers.  American Naturalist 126:559-564.

Seastedt, T. R., 0. J. Reichman and T. C. Todd.  1986.  Microarthropods and 
nematodes in kangaroo rat burrows. Southwestern Nat. 31:114-116.

James, S. W. and T. R. Seastedt.  1986.  Nitrogen mineralization by native and 
introduced earthworms:  Effects on big bluestem growth.  Ecology 67:1094-1097.

Seastedt, T. R., D. C. Hayes and N. J. Petersen.  1986.  Effects of vegetation, 
burning and mowing on soil arthropods of tallgrass prairie.  Pages 99-103 in 
Proc. Ninth North Amer.  Prairie Conf.  Tri-College Press, Fargo, ND.  G. K. 
Clambey and R. H. Pemble (eds.).

Knapp, A. K. and T. R. Seastedt.  1986.  Detritus accumulation limits 
productivity of tallgrass prairie. BioScience 36:662-668.

Seastedt, T. R., T. C. Todd and S. W. James.  1987.  Experimental manipulations 
of arthropod, nematode and earthworm communities in a North American tallgrass 
prairie.  Pedobiologia 30:9-18.

Hayes, D. C. and T. R. Seastedt.  1987.  Root dynamics of tallgrass prairie in 
wet and dry years.  Canadian J. Botany 65:787-791.

Gilliam, F. S., T. R. Seastedt and A. K. Knapp. 1987.  Seasonality of grass 
canopy interception of precipitation in burned and unburned prairie.  Southwest.  
Nat. 267-271.

Crossley, D. A., Jr., C. S. Gist, W. W. Hargrove, L. S. Risley, T. S. 
Schowalter, and T. R. Seastedt.  1988.  Foliage consumption and arthropod 
nutrient dynamics.  Pages 193-205, In W. T. Swank and D. A. Crossley, Jr. (eds.) 
Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta. Springer-Verlag.

Seastedt, T. R.  1988.  Mass, nitrogen and phosphorus dynamics in foliage and 
root detritus of tallgrass prairie.  Ecology 69:59-65.

Seastedt, T. R., R. A. Ramundo, and D. C. Hayes.  1988.  Maximization of 
densities of soil animals by foliage herbivory:  Empirical evidence, graphical 
and conceptual models.  Oikos 51:243-248.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1988.  Soil arthropods of Coweeta and 
their role in decomposition and mineralization processes.  Pages 233-243, In W. 
T. Swank and D. A. Crossley, Jr. (eds.) Forest Hydrology and Ecology at Coweeta.  
Springer-Verlag.

Seastedt, T. R., S. W. James and T. C. Todd.  1988.  Interactions among soil 
invertebrates, microbes and plant growth in tallgrass prairie. Agriculture, 
Ecosystems and Environment 24:219-228.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. C. Hayes.  1988.  Factors influencing nitrogen 
concentrations in soil water in a North American tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology 
and Biochemistry 20:725-729.

Seastedt, T. R., M. V. Reddy and S. P. Cline.  1989.  Microarthropods in 
decaying wood from temperate coniferous and deciduous forests. Pedobiologia 
33:69-77.

Briggs, J. M., T. R. Seastedt and D. J. Gibson.  1989.  Comparative analysis of 
temporal and spatial variability in above-ground production in a deciduous 
forest and prairie.  Holarctic Ecology 12:130-136.

Evans, E. W., J. M. Briggs, E. J. Finck, D. J. Gibson, S. W. James, D. W. 
Kaufman and T. R. Seastedt.  1989.  Is fire a disturbance in grasslands? Pages 
159-161.  In:  Proc. 11th North American Prairie Conference, University of 
Nebraska Press.
 
Ramundo, R.A.,  Shapley, T.D., C.L. Turner, M.I. Dyer and T.R. Seastedt. 1989. 
Effects of burning, mowing and nitrogen fertilizer on chlorophyll, nitrogen, 
phosphorus and spectral reflectance characteristics of tallgrass prairie. Pages 
205-209.  In: Proc. 11th North American Prairie Conf., University of Nebraska 
Press.

Seastedt, T. R., R. A. Ramundo and D. C. Hayes.  1989.  Silica, nitrogen and 
phosphorus dynamics of tallgrass prairie. Pages 205-210 In:  Proc. 11th North 
American Prairie Conf., Univ. of Nebraska press.

Hayes, D. C. and T. R. Seastedt.  1989.  Nitrogen dynamics of soil water of 
burned and unburned tallgrass prairie.  Soil Biol. Biochemistry 21:1003-1007.



PRE 1980:

Seastedt, T. R. and J. F. Tibbs.  1974.  Land use and water quality in the
Flathead drainage, Montana Govt. Printing Office (EPA) Denver, Colorado.  155 p.

Seastedt, T. R. and F. S. MacLean, Jr.  1977.  Calcium supplements in the diets
of nesting Lapland longspurs near Barrow,  Alaska.  Ibis 119:533.

Seastedt, T. R. and D. A. Crossley, Jr.  1978. Further investigations of 
microarthropod populations using the Merchant-Crossley high-gradient extractor.  
Journal of the Georgia Entomological Society 13:338-344.

Seastedt, T. R. and S. F. MacLean, Jr.  1979. Territory size and composition in 
relation to resource abundance of Lapland longspurs breeding in arctic Alaska.  
Auk 96:131-142.

MacLean, S. F., Jr. and T. R. Seastedt.  1979.  Avian territoriality:  
sufficient resources or interference competition.  American Naturalist 114:308-
312.