Mathew E. Dornbush
Ph.D. Iowa State University 2005

Peer Reviewed Publications


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Hahn, P., M. Draney, and M. Dornbush.  Exotic slugs pose a previously unrecognized threat to the herbaceous layer in a Midwestern woodland. Restoration Ecology. Accepted.

Dornbush, M.E., B.J. Wilsey. 2010. Experimental manipulation of soil depth alters species richness and co-occurrence in restored tallgrass prairie. Journal of Ecology 98: 117-125.

Kolb, S.E., K.J. Fermanich, M.E. Dornbush. 2009. Effect of charcoal quantity on microbial biomass and activity in temperate soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal 73: 1173-1181.

Dornbush, M.E., C.A. Cambardella, E.R. Ingham, and J.W. Raich. 2008. A comparison of soil food webs beneath C3- and C4-dominated grasslands. Biology and Fertility of Soils 45: 73-81. 

Dornbush, M.E. 2007.  Grasses, litter, and their interaction affect microbial biomass and soil enzyme activity. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 39: 2241-2249.

Dornbush, M.E., J.W. Raich. 2006. Soil temperature, not aboveground plant productivity, best predicts intra-annual variations of soil respiration in central Iowa grasslands. Ecosystems 9: 909-920.

Dornbush, M.E. 2004. Plant community change following fifty-years of management at Kalsow Prairie Preserve, Iowa, U.S.A. American Midland Naturalist 151: 241-250.

Dornbush, M.E., T.M. Isenhart and J.W. Raich. 2002. Quantifying fine root decomposition: an alternative to buried litterbags. Ecology 83: 2985-2990.