Dr. John M. Blair

Name:

Dr. John M. Blair

Role:

Faculty Associate

Address:

116 Ackert Hall, Division of Biology, Kansas State University

Manhattan, KS 66506

United States

Email:

Phone:

Fax:

ORCID:

0000-0003-0072-0721

Interest:

Ecosystem ecology and terrestrial biogeochemistry, Grasslands and global change

Publication List:

Wojciechowski AA, Blair JM, Collins S, Baer SG. Heterogeneity promotes resilience in restored prairie: Implications for the environmental heterogeneity hypothesis. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2024;34(6):e3006. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.3006

Rocci KS, Bird M, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Liang C, M. Cotrufo F. Thirty years of increased precipitation modifies soil organic matter fractions but not bulk soil carbon and nitrogen in a mesic grassland. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2023;185:109145. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071723002079

Koerner SE, Avolio ML, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Multiple global change drivers show independent, not interactive effects: a long-term case study in tallgrass prairie. Oecologia [Internet]. 2023;201(1):143–154. https://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00442-022-05295-5

Vilonen LL, Blair JM, Trivedi P, Zeglin LH, Smith MD. Limited legacy effects of extreme multiyear drought on carbon and nitrogen cycling in a mesic grassland. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene [Internet]. 2022;10(1):000093. https://online.ucpress.edu/elementa/article/10/1/000093/122265/Limited-legacy-effects-of-extreme-multiyear

Dodds WK, Wichman G, Guinnip JP, Corman JR, Blair JM. Assessing transport and retention of nitrate and other materials through the riparian zone and stream channel with simulated precipitation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution [Internet]. 2022;13(3):757 - 766. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/2041210x/13/3

Hudson AR, Peters DPC, Blair JM, Childers DL, Doran PT, Geil K, et al.. Cross-site comparisons of climate change on drylands in the US Long-term Ecological Research network. BioScience [Internet]. 2022;72(9):889 - 907. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/72/9/889/6654840

Broderick CM, Wilkins K, Smith MD, Blair JM. Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2022;28(8):2639-2656. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16084

Broderick CM, Freeman KM, Zeglin LH, Blair JM. Climate legacy effects shape tallgrass prairie nitrogen cycling. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2022;127(10):e2022JG006972. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022JG006972?af=R

Ratajczak Z, Collins SL, Blair JM, Koerner SE, Louthan AM, Smith MD, et al.. Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity. PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [Internet]. 2022;119(36):e2210433119. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2210433119

Broderick CM. Climate legacies and restoration history as drivers of tallgrass prairie carbon and nitrogen cycling [Internet]. Department of Biology. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2022. https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/42101

Zinnert JC, Nippert JB, Rudgers JA, Pennings SC, González G, Alber M, et al.. State changes: insights from the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research Network. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2021;12(5):e03433. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecs2.3433

R. Connell K, Zeglin LH, Blair JM. Plant legacies and soil microbial community dynamics control soil respiration. Soil Biology and Biochemistry [Internet]. 2021;160:108350. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0038071721002236

Harms TK, Groffman PM, Aluwihare L, Craft C, Wieder WR, Hobbie SE, et al.. Patterns and trends of organic matter processing and transport: Insights from the US Long-Term Ecological Research network. Climate Change Ecology [Internet]. 2021;2:100025. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2666900521000253

Connell RK, O'Connor R, Nippert JB, Blair JM. Spatial variation in soil microbial processes as a result of woody encroachment depends on shrub size in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil [Internet]. 2021;460:359 - 373. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11104-020-04813-9

Jones JA, Groffman PM, Blair JM, Davis FW, Dugan H, Euskirchen EE, et al.. Synergies among environmental science research and monitoring networks: A research agenda. Earth's Future [Internet]. 2021;9(3):e2020EF001631. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020EF001631

Slette IJ, Blair JM, Fay PA, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Effects of compounded precipitation pattern intensification and drought occur belowground in a mesic grassland. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2021;. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10021-021-00714-9

Collins SL, Nippert JB, Blair JM, Briggs JM, Blackmore P, Ratajczak Z. Fire frequency, state change and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. Ecology Letters [Internet]. 2021;24(4):636-647. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ele.13676

Baer SG, Adams T, Scott DA, Blair JM, Collins SL. Soil heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2020;30(1):e02014. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.2014

Risch AC, Zimmermann S, Moser B, Schütz M, Hagedorn F, Firn J, et al.. Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2020;26(12). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gcb.15308

Connell KR, Nippert J, Blair JM. Three decades of divergent land use and plant community change alters soil C and N content in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2020;125(8):e2020JG005723. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2020JG005723

Smith MD, Koerner SE, Knapp AK, Avolio ML, Chaves FA, Denton EM, et al.. Mass ratio effects underlie ecosystem responses to environmental change. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2020;108(3):855-864. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2745.13330

Connell RK. Effects of plant-soil interactions on grassland carbon dynamics in a changing world [Internet]. Department of Biology. [Manhattan, KS.]: Kansas State University; 2020. https://search.proquest.com/docview/2427237261?pq-origsite=summon

Carson CM, Jumpponen A, Blair JM, Zeglin LH. Soil fungal community changes in response to long-term fire cessation and N fertilization in tallgrass prairie. Fungal Ecology [Internet]. 2019;41:45 - 55. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1754504818302538?via%3Dihub

Scott DA, Rosenzweig ST, Baer SG, Blair JM. Changes in potential nitrous oxide efflux during grassland restoration. Journal of Environmental Quality [Internet]. 2019;48(6):1913-1917. https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.2134/jeq2019.05.0187

Caplan JS, Gimenez D, Hirmas DR, Brunsell N, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Decadal-scale shifts in soil hydraulic properties induced by altered precipitation. Science Advances [Internet]. 2019;5(9):eaau6635. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaau6635

Komatsu KJ, Avolio ML, Lemoine NP, Isbell F, Grman E, Houseman GR, et al.. Global change effects on plant communities are magnified by time and the number of global change factors imposed. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences [Internet]. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/14/1819027116

Welti EAR, Fan Q, Tetreault HM, Ungerer MC, Blair JM, Joern A. Fire, grazing and climate shape plant–grasshopper interactions in a tallgrass prairie. Functional Ecology [Internet]. 2019;33:735 - 745. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1365-2435.13272

Risch AC, Zimmermann S, Ochoa-Hueso R, schütz M, Frey B, Firn JL, et al.. Soil net nitrogen mineralisation across global grasslands. Nature Communications [Internet]. 2019;10(4981). http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-12948-2

Petrie MD, Peters DPC, Yao J, Blair JM, Burruss ND, Collins SL, et al.. Regional grassland productivity responses to precipitation during multiyear above- and below-average rainfall periods. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2018;24(5):1935 - 1951. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29265568

Scott DA, Baer SG, Blair JM. Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland. Soil Science Society of America Journal [Internet]. 2017;81(1):50-60. https://dl.sciencesocieties.org/publications/sssaj/abstracts/81/1/50

Manning GC, Baer SG, Blair JM. Effects of grazing and fire frequency on floristic quality and its relationship to indicators of soil quality in tallgrass prairie. Environmental Management [Internet]. 2017;60(6):1075. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28963572

Welti EAR. Ecological networks of grassland plants and arthropods [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2017. http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/35284

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL. Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Monographs [Internet]. 2016;86(1):94 - 106. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/15-0888.1

Briggs JM, Blair JM, Horne EA. Ecohydrological and climate change studies at the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science [Internet]. 2016;119(1):5 - 11. https://doi.org/10.1660/062.119.0103

Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology [Internet]. 2016;97:561-568. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/15-1437.1

Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Stability of grassland soil C and N pools despite 25 years of an extreme climatic and disturbance regime. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2016;121(7):1934 - 1945. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/2016JG003370

Jones SK, Collins SL, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Altered rainfall patterns increase forb abundance and richness in native tallgrass prairie. Scientific Reports [Internet]. 2016;(1). https://www.nature.com/articles/srep20120

Smith MD, Knapp AK, Collins SL, Burkepile DE, Kirkman KP, Koerner SE, et al.. Shared drivers but divergent ecological responses: Insights from long-term experiments in mesic savanna grasslands. BioScience [Internet]. 2016;66(8):666 - 682. https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/8/666/2464141

Rosenzweig ST, Carson MA, Baer SG, Blair JM. Changes in soil properties, microbial biomass, and fluxes of C and N in soil following post-agricultural grassland restoration. Applied Soil Ecology [Internet]. 2016;100:186 - 194. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139316300014?via%3Dihub

Crowther TW, Todd-Brown KEO, Rowe CW, Wieder WR, Carey JC, Machmuller MB, et al.. Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming. Nature [Internet]. 2016;540(7631):104 - 108. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature20150

Blair JM, Nippert JB, Briggs JM. Grassland Ecology. In: Monson R. Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2014. pp. 389-423.

Ratajczak Z, Nippert JB, Briggs JM, Blair JM. Fire dynamics distinguish grasslands, shrublands, and woodlands as alternative attractors in the Central Great Plains of North America. Journal of Ecology [Internet]. 2014;102:1374 -1385. https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2745.12311

Koerner SE, Collins SL, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Smith MD. Rainfall variability has minimal effects on grassland recovery from repeated grazing. Journal of Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2014;25:36 -44. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jvs.12065

Stanton NL. How does your prairie (re)grow?: Interactions of seed additions with resource availability, heterogeneity, and disturbance on recruitment and diversity in a restored tallgrass prairie [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18205

Coolon JD, Jones KL, Todd TC, Blair JM, Herman MA. Long-term nitrogen amendment alters the diversity and assemblage of soil bacterial communities in tallgrass prairie. PLoS ONE [Internet]. 2013;8:67884 -. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067884

Carter DL, Blair JM. Seed source has variable effects on species, communities, and ecosystem properties in grassland restorations. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2013;4:93 -. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/ES13-00090.1

An N, Price KP, Blair JM. Estimating aboveground net primary productivity of the tallgrass prairie ecosystem of the Central Great Plains using AVHRR NDVI. International Journal of Remote Sensing [Internet]. 2013;34:3717 -3735. https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2012.757376

Reisinger AJ, Blair JM, Rice CW, Dodds WK. Woody vegetation removal stimulates riparian and benthic denitrification in tallgrass prairie. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2013;16:547 -560. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-012-9630-3

Carson M. Responses to long-term fertilization and burning: impacts on nutrient dynamics and microbial composition in a tallgrass prairie [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16029

Carter DL. Grassland restoration in a changing world: consequences of practices and variable environments [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS]: Kansas State University; 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15357

Carter DL, Blair JM. Seed source affects establishment and survival for three grassland species sown into reciprocal common gardens. Ecosphere [Internet]. 2012;3:102 -. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES12-00223.1

Carter DL, Blair JM. Recovery of native plant community characteristics on a chronosequence of restored prairies seeded into pastures in West-Central Iowa. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2012;20:170 -179. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00760.x

Carter DL, Vanderweide B, Blair JM. Drought-mediated stem and belowground bud dynamics in restored grasslands. Applied Vegetation Science [Internet]. 2012;15:470 -478. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01200.x

Brozostek ER, Blair JM, Dukes JS, Frey SD, Hobbie SE, Melillo JM, et al.. The effect of experimental warming and precipitation change on proteolytic enzyme activity: positive feedbacks to nitrogen availability are not universal. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2012;18:2617 -2625. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02685.x

Knapp AK, Hoover DL, Blair JM, Buis G, Burkepile DE, Chamberlain AJ, et al.. A test of two mechanisms proposed to optimize grassland aboveground primary productivity in response to grazing. Journal of Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2012;5:357 -365. https://academic.oup.com/jpe/article/5/4/357/908695

Carter DL, Blair JM. High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment, but have little effect on drought response. Ecological Applications [Internet]. 2012;22:1308 -1319. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/11-1970.1

McCain KNS, Wilson GT, Blair JM. Mycorrhizal suppression alters plant productivity and forb establishment in a grass-dominated prairie restoration. Plant Ecology [Internet]. 2011;212:1675 -1685. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11258-011-9940-0

Fay PA, Blair JM, Smith MD, Nippert JB, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK. Relative effects of precipitation variability and warming on tallgrass prairie ecosystem function. Biogeosciences [Internet]. 2011;8:3053 -3068. https://www.biogeosciences.net/8/3053/2011/

Rostkowski, Jr. SC. Long-term effects of climate change on grassland soil systems: A reciprocal transplant approach [Internet]. [Manhattan, KS. 80 pp]: Kansas State University; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7068

Ippolito JA, Blecker SW, Freeman CL, McCulley RL, Blair JM, Kelly EF. Phosphorus biogeochemistry across a precipitation gradient in grasslands of central North America. Journal of Arid Environments [Internet]. 2010;74:954 -961. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S014019631000011X?via%3Dihub

Melzer SE, Knapp AK, Fynn RWS, Kirkman KP, Smith MD, Blair JM, et al.. Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems. Biogeochemistry [Internet]. 2010;97:263 -278. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10533-009-9371-3

McCain KNS, Baer SG, Blair JM, Wilson GT. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology [Internet]. 2010;18:40 -49. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x

Jumpponen A, Jones KL, Blair JM. Vertical distribution of fungal communities in tallgrass prairie soil. Mycologia [Internet]. 2010;102:1027 -1041. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3852/09-316?journalCode=umyc20

Jangid K, Williams MA, Franzluebbers AJ, Blair JM, Coleman DC, Whitman WB. Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry [Internet]. 2010;42:302 -312. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071709004222?via%3Dihub

Heisler-White JL, Blair JM, Kelly EF, Harmoney K, Knapp AK. Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome. Global Change Biology [Internet]. 2009;15:2894 -2904. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2009.01961.x

Buis GM, Blair JM, Burkepile DE, Burns CE, Chamberlain AJ, Chapman P, et al.. Controls of aboveground net primary production in mesic savanna grasslands: An inter-hemispheric comparison. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2009;12:982 -995. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-009-9273-1

Reed HE, Blair JM, Wall D, Seastedt TR. Impacts of management legacies on litter decomposition in response to reduced precipitation in a tallgrass prairie. Applied Soil Ecology [Internet]. 2009;42:79 -85. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929139309000274?via%3Dihub

Kitchen DJ, Blair JM, Callaham MA. Annual fire and mowing alter biomass, depth distribution, and C and N content of roots and soil in tallgrass prairie. Plant and Soil [Internet]. 2009;323:235 -247. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11104-009-9931-2

McKinley DC, Norris MD, Johnson LC, Blair JM. Biogeochemical changes associated with Juniperus virginia encroachment into grasslands. In: Van Auken OW. Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2008. pp. 170 -187.

Knapp AK, McCarron JK, Silletti AM, Hoch GA, Heisler JL, Lett MS, et al.. Ecological consequences of the replacement of native grassland by Juniperus virginiana and other woody plants. In: Van Auken OW. Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type [Internet]. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2008. pp. 156 -169. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-0-387-34003-6_8

Marshall JD, Blair JM, Peters DPC, Okin G, Rango A, Williams M. Predicting and understanding ecosystem responses to climate change at continental scales. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment [Internet]. 2008;6:273 -280. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/070165

Macpherson GL, Roberts JA, Blair JM, Townsend MA, Fowle DA, Beisner KR. Increasing shallow groundwater CO2 and limestone weathering, Konza Prairie, USA. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta [Internet]. 2008;72:5581 -5599. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001670370800536X?via%3Dihub

Baer SG, Blair JM. Grassland establishment under varying resource availability: A test of positive and negative feedback. Ecology [Internet]. 2008;89:1859 -1871. https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1890/07-0417.1

Veen GF, Blair JM, Smith MD, Collins SL. Influence of grazing and fire frequency on small-scale plant community structure and resource variability in native tallgrass prairie. Oikos [Internet]. 2008;117:859 -866. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16515.x

McKinley DC, Rice CW, Blair JM. Conversion of grassland to coniferous woodland has limited effects on soil nitrogen cycle processes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry [Internet]. 2008;40:2627 -2633. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071708002320?via%3Dihub

McKinley DC, Blair JM. Woody plant encroachment by Juniperus virginiana in a mesic native grassland promotes rapid carbon and nitrogen accrual. Ecosystems [Internet]. 2008;11:454 -468. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10021-008-9133-4

Norris MD, Blair JM, Johnson LC. Altered ecosystem nitrogen dynamics as a consequence of land cover change in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2007;158:432 -445.

Jones KL, Todd TC, Wall-Beam JL, Coolon JD, Blair JM, Herman MA. Molecular approach for assessing responses of microbial-feeding nematodes to burning and chronic nitrogen enrichment in a native grassland. Molecular Ecology. 2006;15:2601 -2609.

Nippert JB, Blair JM. Comparing the influence of precipitation, fire, and topography on plant productivity in the tallgrass prairie [Internet]. 2005. http://tiee.ecoed.net/vol/v3/issues/data_sets/konza/abstract.html

Reed H, Seastedt TR, Blair JM. Ecological consequences of C4 grass invasion of a C4 grassland: A dilemma for management. Ecological Applications. 2005;15:1560 -1569.

Harper CW, Blair JM, Fay PA, Knapp AK, Carlisle JD. Increased rainfall variability and reduced rainfall amount decreases soil CO2 flux in a grassland ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 2005;11:322 -344.

Briggs JM, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Heisler JL, Hoch GA, Lett MS, et al.. An ecosystem in transition: causes and consequences of the conversion of mesic grassland to shrubland. BioScience. 2005;55:243 -254.

Baer SG, Collins SL, Blair JM, Fiedler A, Knapp AK. Soil heterogeneity effects on tallgrass prairie community heterogeneity: anapplication of ecological theory to restoration ecology. Restoration Ecology. 2005;13:413 -424.

Heisler JL, Briggs JM, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Seery A. Direct and indirect effects of fire on shrub density and aboveground productivity in a mesic grassland. Ecology. 2004;85:2245 -2257.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration. Oecologia. 2004;139:617 -629.

Silletti AM, Knapp AK, Blair JM. Competition and coexistence in grassland co-dominants: responses to neighbor removal and resource availability. Canadian Journal of Botany. 2004;82:450 -460.

Lett MS, Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Blair JM. Influence of shrub encroachment on aboveground net primary productivity and carbon and nitrogen pools in a mesic grassland. Canadian Journal of Botany. 2004;82:1363 -1370.

Fay P, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Carlisle JD, Danner BT, McCarron JK. Rainfall timing, soil moisture dynamics, and plant responses in a mesic tallgrass prairie ecosystem. In: Weltzin JF, McPherson GR. Precipitation Regimes and Terrestrial Ecosystems. A North American Perspective. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press; 2003. pp. 147 -163.

Callaham, Jr. MA, Blair JM, Todd TC, Kitchen DJ, Whiles MR. Effects of fire, mowing and fertilization effects on density and biomass of macroinvertebrates in North American tallgrass prairie soils. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2003;35:1079 -1093.

Bakker C, Blair JM, Knapp AK. A comparative assessment of potential mechanisms influencing plant species richness in grazed grasslands. Oecologia. 2003;137:385 -391.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Knapp AK, Collins SL. Soil resources regulate productivity and diversity in newly established tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 2003;84:724 -735.

McCarron JK, Knapp AK, Blair JM. Soil C and N responses to woody plant expansion in a mesic grassland. Plant and Soil. 2003;257:183 -192.

Fay P, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Collins SL. Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland. Oecologia. 2003;137:245 -251.

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Danner BT, Lett MS, McCarron JK, Stewart C, et al.. Altered rainfall patterns, gas exchange and growth in C3 and C4 grassland species. International Journal of Plant Sciences. 2002;163:549 -557.

Callaham MA, Whiles MR, Blair JM. Annual fire, mowing and fertilization effects on two cicadas (Homoptera:Cicadidae) in tallgrass prairie. American Midland Naturalist. 2002;148:90 -101.

Baer SG, Kitchen DJ, Blair JM, Rice CW. Changes in ecosystem structure and function along a chronosequence of restored grasslands. Ecological Applications. 2002;12:1688 -1701.

Knapp AK, Fay PA, Blair JM, Collins SL, Smith MD, Carlisle JD, et al.. Rainfall variability, carbon cycling and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland. Science [Internet]. 2002;298:2202 -2205. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/298/5601/2202

Norris MD, Blair JM, Johnson LC, McKane RB. Assessing changes in biomass, productivity, and C and N stores following Juniperus virginiana forest expansion into tallgrass prairie. Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 2001;31:1940 -1946.

Norris MD, Blair JM, Johnson LC. Land cover change in eastern Kansas: litter dynamics of closed-canopy eastern redcedar forests in tallgrass prairie. Canadian Journal of Botany. 2001;79:214 -222.

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Danner BT, Lett MS, McCarron JK, Stewart C, et al.. Carbon and water relations of juvenile Quercus species in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Vegetation Science. 2001;12:807 -816.

Callaham, Jr. MA, Blair JM, Hendrix PF. Different behavioral patterns of the earthworms Octolasion tyrtaeum and Diplocardia spp . in tallgrass prairie soils: potential influences on plant growth. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 2001;34:49 -56.

Blair JM, Todd TC, Callaham MA. Responses of grassland soil invertebrates to natural and anthropogenic disturbances. In: Coleman DC, Hendrix PF. Invertebrates as Webmasters in Ecosystems. New York, NY: CAB International Press; 2000. pp. 43 -71.

Baer SG, Rice CW, Blair JM. Assessment of soil quality in fields with short- and long-term enrollment in the CRP. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation [Internet]. 2000;55:142 -146. http://www.jswconline.org/content/55/2/142.abstract

Fay PA, Carlisle JD, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Collins SL. Altering rainfall timing and quantity in a mesic grassland ecosystem: Design and performance of rainfall manipulation shelters. Ecosystems. 2000;3:308 -319.

Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Ecosystems as functional units in nature. Natural Resources and Environment. 2000;14:150 -155.

Robertson GP, Wedin D, Groffman PM, Blair JM, Holland E, Nadelhoffer KJ, et al.. Soil Carbon and nitrogen availability: Nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, soil respiration potentials. In: Robertson GP, Bledsoe CS, Coleman DC, Sollins PS. Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1999. pp. 258 -271.

Harmon ME, Naddlehoffer KJ, Blair JM. Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover and stores in plant litter. In: Robertson GP, Bledsoe CS, Coleman DC, Sollins PS. Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1999. pp. 202 -240.

Coleman DC, Blair JM, Elliott ET, Wall DH. Soil invertebrates. In: Robertson GP, Bledsoe CS, Coleman DC, Sollins PS. Standard Soil Methods for Long Term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1999. pp. 349 -377.

Baer SG, Blair JM, Knapp AK. Manipulation of soil resource heterogeneity in a tallgrass prairie restoration [Internet]. Springer JT. Kearney, NE: University of Nebraska at Kearney; 1999. pp. 78 -87. http://images.library.wisc.edu/EcoNatRes/EFacs/NAPC/NAPC16/reference/econatres.napc16.sbaer.pdf

O'Lear HE, Blair JM. Responses of soil microarthropods to changes in soil water availability in tallgrass prairie. Biology and Fertility of Soils. 1999;29:207 -217.

Knapp AK, Blair JM, Briggs JM, Collins SL, Hartnett DC, Johnson LC, et al.. The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie. BioScience [Internet]. 1999;49:39 -50. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bisi.1999.49.1.39

Callaham, Jr. MA, Blair JM. Influence of differing land management on the invasion of North American tallgrass prairie soils by European earthworms. Pedobiologia. 1999;43:507 -512.

Todd TC, Blair JM, Milliken GA. Effects of altered soil water availability on a tallgrass prairie nematode community. Applied Soil Ecology. 1999;13:45 -55.

Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Rice CW, Ramundo RA. Terrestrial nutrient cycling in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-term Ecological Research. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 222 -243.

Rice CW, Todd TC, Blair JM, Seastedt TR, Ramundo RA, Wilson GT. Belowground biology and processes. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 244 -264.

Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Blair JM, Turner CL. Patterns and controls of aboveground net primary production in tallgrass prairie. In: Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Hartnett DC, Collins SL. Grassland Dynamics: Long-Term Ecological Research in Tallgrass Prairie. New York: Oxford University Press; 1998. pp. 193 -221.

Knapp AK, Blair JM, Briggs JM. Long-term ecological consequences of varying fire frequency in a humid grassland. In: Pruden TL, Brennan LA. Fire in Ecosystem Management: Shifting The Paradigm From Suppression to Prescription. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station; 1998. pp. 173 -178.

Knapp AK, Conard SL, Blair JM. Determinants of soil CO2 flux from a sub-humid grassland: Effect of fire and fire history. Ecological Applications. 1998;8:760 -770.

Collins SL, Knapp AK, Briggs JM, Blair JM, Steinauer EM. Modulation of diversity by grazing and mowing in native tallgrass prairie. Science. 1998;280:745 -747.

Turner CL, Blair JM, Schartz RJ, Neel JC. Soil N and plant responses to fire, topography and supplemental N in tallgrass prairie. Ecology. 1997;78:1832 -1843.

Blair JM. Fire, N availability and plant response in grasslands: A test of the transient maxima hypothesis. Ecology. 1997;78:2559 - 2368.

Blair JM, Bohlen PJ, Freckman DW. Soil invertebrates as indicators of soil quality. In: Doran JW, Jones AJ. Methods for Assessing Soil Quality. SSSA Special Publication. Madison, WI: Soil Science Society of America Inc; 1996. pp. 283 -301.

Su H, Briggs JM, Knapp AK, Blair JM, Krummel JR. Detecting spatial and temporal patterns of aboveground production in a tallgrass prairie using remotely-sensed data. 1996;:2361 -2365.

O'Lear HA, Seastedt TR, Briggs JM, Blair JM, Ramundo RA. Fire and topographic effects on decomposition rates and nitrogen dynamics of buried wood in tallgrass prairie. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 1996;28:323 -329.

Dodds WK, Blair JM, Henebry GM, Koelliker JK, Ramundo RA, Tate CM. Nitrogen transport from tallgrass prairie watersheds. Journal of Environmental Quality. 1996;25:973 -981.

Blair JM, Parmelee RW, Lavelle P. Influences of earthworms on biogeochemistry. In: Hendrix PF. Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America. CRC Press Inc. Lewis Publishers; 1995. pp. 125 -156.

Subler S, Blair JM, Edwards CA. Using anion exchange membranes to measure soil nitrate availability and net nitrification. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 1995;27:911 -917.

Datasets

Datasets for Dr. John M. Blair

ANA01 Weekly, seasonal and annual measurement of precipitation volume and chemistry collected as part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program at Konza Prairie

AST01 Soil temperature measured in burned, burned-clipped, and unburned plots at Konza Prairie

BGPVC Plant species composition in the Belowground Plot Experiment at Konza Prairie

CBH01 Konza Prairie bison herd information

CSA02 Soil Macroarthropod densities and biomass on annually burned and unburned watersheds

NBC01 Konza Prairie Belowground Plot Experiment: Soil chemistry responses to experimental manipulations of fire, nutrients and mowing

NBP01 Nitrogen and phosphorus in bulk precipitation at Konza Prairie

NBS01 Belowground Plot Experiment: Soil water chemistry from Lysimeters

NPL01 Litterfall inputs to soil surface in watersheds with different fire treatments

NSC01 Chemistry and physical characteristics of soils from Konza LTER watersheds with different fire and grazing treatments

NSW01 Soil water chemistry from porous cup lysimeters on watersheds with different fire treatment

NTF01 Volume and chemistry of throughfall in tallgrass prairie

KFH01 Konza prairie fire history

OPD01 Konza Prairie standing dead and litter decomposition (1981-1983)

WAT01 Konza Prairie long-term irrigation transect study

PAB01 Aboveground net primary productivity of tallgrass prairie based on accumulated plant biomass on core LTER watersheds (001d, 004b, 020b)

PAB03 Aboveground primary productivity of tallgrass prairie based on accumulated plant biomass on LTER watersheds burned at different seasons

PBB01 Belowground Plot Experiment: Aboveground net primary productivity of tallgrass prairie based on accumulated plant biomass

PBG01 Plant species composition in the Patch Burning-grazing Experiment at Konza Prairie

PRW01 Fine root density and turnover based on root window observations

PTN01 Aboveground net primary productivity along transects spanning topographic gradients on an annually burned and unburned watershed at Konza Prairie

PRP01 Konza prairie long term restoration study of aboveground annual net primary productivity (ANPP)

PBG10 Soil physical and chemical characteristics in the Patch-Burn Grazing experiment at Konza Prairie

RMP01 Rainfall manipulation plot study at Konza Prairie

RCS01 Recovery and relative influence of root, microbial, and structural properties of soil on physically sequestered carbon stocks in restored grassland at Konza Prairie

PPS01 Konza prairie plant species list

KKE02 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Net primary production data (2010-2011)

KKE03 The Konza-Kruger Experiment: Kruger species composition (2006-2010)

SIC01 Isotopic composition of select archived soil cores from Konza Prairie

SMP01 Spatial variation of soil microbial processes under Cornus drummondii shrubs of varying size at Konza Prairie, 2017

SMB01 Variation in soil respiration and bacterial community due to species-specific plant-soil history at konza prairie

WAT02 Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes

WAT03 Climate legacy effects shape tallgrass prairie nitrogen cycling

WAT04 Root decomposition and nutrient dynamics are resistant to rainfall legacies in tallgrass prairie

WAT05 Soil organic matter response to thirty years of increased precipitation at Konza Prairie