The DOI matches its Crossref record; 15 of the 15 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND SOIL TEXTURE ON ANPP IN THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS
Abstract
Aboveground net primary production (ANPP) in grassland ecosystems is positively related to mean annual precipitation (MAP). However, at any given level of precipitation, other factors may effect ANPP. Our objective was to determine the importance of temperature and soil texture in explaining ANPP in the Great Plains of the United States. We constructed a spatial database of ANPP, climate, and soil texture for the region using a geographic information system. Holding MAP constant at 5-cm intervals, we related ANPP to mean annual temperature (MAT), and soil sand and clay contents. Our findings indicate that MAT and soil texture are important variables for explaining patterns of ANPP, after accounting for the variability explained by MAP. There is a negative relationship between temperature and ANPP when MAP is held constant; this has important climate-change implications. Results revealed an MAP crossover point for the inverse texture effect at ∼80 cm of rainfall, much higher than previously reported. The consequences of this are substantial for grasslands throughout the globe, where precipitation ranges between 25 and 100 cm.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“Soil type affects both the input of C to the soil by affecting plant productivity (Epstein et al., 1997) and the decomposition of organic matter (Sorensen, 1981;Paul, 1984;Jobba ´gy & Jackson, 2000).”
From Changes in soil organic carbon under biofuel crops (2009) · cites this paper as Epstein et al., 1997
Citations
Cites
Desert Ecosystems: Environment and Producers
Noy‐Meir, I. (1973) · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev.es.04.110173.000325 · Cited by 3,500
Dynamics of C, N, P and S in grassland soils: a model
Parton, W. J., Stewart, J. W., & Cole, C. V. (1988) · Biogeochemistry · doi:10.1007/bf02180320 · Cited by 1,483
Primary Production of the Central Grassland Region of the United States
Sala, O. E., Parton, W. J., Joyce, L. A., & Lauenroth, W. K. (1988) · Ecology · doi:10.2307/1943158 · Cited by 1,300
Self-citationANPP ESTIMATES FROM NDVI FOR THE CENTRAL GRASSLAND REGION OF THE UNITED STATES
Paruelo, J. M., Epstein, H. E., Lauenroth, W. K., & Burke, I. C. (1997) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[0953:aefnft]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 550
Self-citationBriggs, J. M., & Knapp, A. K. (1995) · American Journal of Botany · doi:10.1002/j.1537-2197.1995.tb11567.x · Cited by 531
van Veen, J. A., Ladd, J. N., & Amato, M. (1985) · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · doi:10.1016/0038-0717(85)90128-2 · Cited by 446
Houérou, H. N. L., Bingham, R. L., & Skerbek, W. (1988) · Journal of Arid Environments · doi:10.1016/s0140-1963(18)31001-2 · Cited by 443
REGIONAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION IN NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION AND NITROGEN MINERALIZATION IN GRASSLANDS
Burke, I. C., Lauenroth, W. K., & Parton, W. J. (1997) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1330:ratvin]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 292
Self-citationGrassland Primary Production: North American Grasslands in Perspective
Lauenroth, W. K. (1979) · Ecological studies · doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-6182-7_2 · Cited by 254
Self-citationRegional Analysis of the Central Great Plains
Burke, I. C., Kittel, T. G. F., Lauenroth, W. K., Snook, P., Yonker, C. M., & Parton, W. J. (1991) · BioScience · doi:10.2307/1311763 · Cited by 231
Self-citation
Research works printed but not linked: 1
- I. C. Burke, W. K. Lauenroth, and W. J. Parton .1997 .Regional and temporal variability in aboveground net primary productivity and net N mineralization in grasslands., Ecology,78:in press.. · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Changes in soil organic carbon under biofuel crops
ANDERSON‐TEIXEIRA, K. J., DAVIS, S. C., MASTERS, M. D., & DELUCIA, E. H. (2009) · GCB Bioenergy · doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2008.01001.x · Cited by 391
Hooper, D. U., & Johnson, L. C. (1999) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4645-6_12 · Cited by 374
Large‐scale pattern of biomass partitioning across China's grasslands
Yang, Y., Fang, J., Ma, W., Guo, D., & Mohammat, A. (2009) · Global Ecology and Biogeography · doi:10.1111/j.1466-8238.2009.00502.x · Cited by 280
Aboveground biomass in Tibetan grasslands
Yang, Y., Fang, J. Y., Pan, Y., & Ji, C. (2008) · Journal of Arid Environments · doi:10.1016/j.jaridenv.2008.09.027 · Cited by 245
PATTERNS AND CONTROLS OF PRIMARY PRODUCTION IN THE PATAGONIAN STEPPE: A REMOTE SENSING APPROACH*
Jobbagy, E. G., Sala, O. E., & Paruelo, J. M. (2002) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[0307:pacopp]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 229
Metadata
- Authors
- Epstein, H. E., Lauenroth, W. K., & Burke, I. C.
- Affiliations
- Colorado State University (US)
- Venue
- Ecology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1997-12
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 2628-2631
- ISSN
- 0012-9658 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2062637792
- Cited by
- 142
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 7 · 2022: 6 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 15 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 8 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 8
- FWCI
- 1.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Ecology (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- U.S. Department of Agriculture
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Plant Ecology and Soil Science
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Keywords
- aboveground net primary productivity, grassland, mean annual temperature, soil texture, sand and clay content, mean annual precipitation, climate change, Great Plains
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND SOIL TEXTURE ON ANPP IN THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078%5B2628:eotast%5D2.0.co;2
- The paper
- Epstein, H. E., Lauenroth, W. K., & Burke, I. C. (1997). EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE AND SOIL TEXTURE ON ANPP IN THE U.S. GREAT PLAINS. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078%5B2628%3Aeotast%5D2.0.co%3B2
