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S. LaDeau, S. Earl, S. Barrott, E. Borer and S. Pennings aided in identifying errors in Crossley et al.’s online data. K. Roeder provided comments on an early draft of this manuscript. J. Taylor aided in identifying changes in Konza watershed names. We thank all LTER information managers and principal investigators who help keep online metadata updated. We thank P. Montz, J. Haarstad, A. Kuhl, M. Ayres, R. Holmes and the numerous others who did the hard work to generate these long-term datasets. NSF DEB-1556280 to M.K. and Konza Prairie LTER NSF DEB-1440484 supported this work.


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