Media Category: KNZ

“Bambi” the decommissioned military tanker truck and Konza Prairie’s hardest worker (artistic liberties taken).

A view from the Konza Prairie Biological Station at dusk.

Konza Prairie Biological Station.

Components of the N cycle investigated by using 15NH4+ dilution method and isotopic enrichment of other N pools.

An overhead view of recirculating chambers.

Kings Creek during normal flow.

Molly Fisher checking the dissolved oxygen level of a recirculating chamber during 2018 fieldwork.

The irrigation transect experiment used a sprinkler system to water the prairie for twenty-five years. Researchers manipulated the experiment to search for legacy effects on the grassland.

Rainfall exclusion shelters keep natural precipitation off of small prairie plots. Researchers use these to simulate drought.

The irrigation transect experiment at the Konza Prairie LTER runs aliong the entire reserve, from the lowlands to the highlands.