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69
Citations
20226
World Ranking
1428
National Ranking
524

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John M. Blair is affiliated with Kansas State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions across ecology, nature and landscape conservation, soil science, global and planetary change, and forestry.

The scientist's work spans multiple topics including ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, rangeland and wildlife management, pasture and agricultural systems, fire effects on ecosystems, soil and water nutrient dynamics, and rangeland management and livestock ecology.

Frequent coauthors include Melinda D. Smith, Scott L. Collins, Jesse B. Nippert, Lydia H. Zeglin, and Alan K. Knapp.

John M. Blair has published in various academic venues, with recurring publications in Global Change Biology, Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences, and Oecologia. Papers have also appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Selected recent papers include:

  • Reintroducing bison results in long-running and resilient increases in grassland diversity (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Global impacts of fertilization and herbivore removal on soil net nitrogen mineralization are modulated by local climate and soil properties (2020, Global Change Biology)
  • Climate legacies determine grassland responses to future rainfall regimes (2022, Global Change Biology)
  • Plant legacies and soil microbial community dynamics control soil respiration (2021, Soil Biology and Biochemistry)
  • Three Decades of Divergent Land Use and Plant Community Change Alters Soil C and N Content in Tallgrass Prairie (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences)

In 2012, John M. Blair was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Rainfall variability, carbon cycling, and plant species diversity in a mesic grassland

    Alan K. Knapp;Philip A. Fay;John M. Blair;Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins

  • Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

    Thomas W. Crowther;Katherine E.O. Todd-Brown;Clara W. Rowe;William R. Wieder

  • Modulation of Diversity by Grazing and Mowing in Native Tallgrass Prairie

    Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins;Scott L. Collins;Alan K. Knapp;Alan K. Knapp;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Briggs;John M. Briggs;John M. Briggs;John M. Blair;John M. Blair;John M. Blair

  • The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie

    Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair;John M. Briggs;Scott L. Collins

  • The Keystone Role of Bison in North American Tallgrass Prairie Bison increase habitat heterogeneity and alter a broad array of plant, community, and ecosystem processes

    A. K. Knapp;J. M. Blair;J. M. Briggs;S. L. Collins;S. L. Collins

  • An Ecosystem in Transition: Causes and Consequences of the Conversion of Mesic Grassland to Shrubland

    John M. Briggs;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair;Jana L. Heisler

  • Productivity responses to altered rainfall patterns in a C4-dominated grassland

    Philip A. Fay;Philip A. Fay;Jonathan D. Carlisle;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair

  • Increased rainfall variability and reduced rainfall amount decreases soil CO2 flux in a grassland ecosystem

    Christopher W. Harper;John M. Blair;Philip A. Fay;Alan K. Knapp

  • Soil carbon and nitrogen availability: Nitrogen mineralization, nitrification, and soil respiration potentials

    G. P. Robertson;D. Wedin;P. M. Groffmann;J. M. Blair

  • Decay Rates, Nitrogen Fluxes, and Decomposer Communiies of Single‐ and Mixed‐Species Foliar Litter

    John M. Blair;Robert W. Parmelee;Michael H. Beare

  • FIRE, N AVAILABILITY, AND PLANT RESPONSE IN GRASSLANDS: A TEST OF THE TRANSIENT MAXIMA HYPOTHESIS

    John M. Blair

  • Contingent productivity responses to more extreme rainfall regimes across a grassland biome.

    Jana L. Heisler-White;John M. Blair;Eugene F. Kelly;Keith Harmoney

  • CHANGES IN ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION ALONG A CHRONOSEQUENCE OF RESTORED GRASSLANDS

    S. G. Baer;D. J. Kitchen;J. M. Blair;C. W. Rice

  • Altering Rainfall Timing and Quantity in a Mesic Grassland Ecosystem: Design and Performance of Rainfall Manipulation Shelters

    Philip A. Fay;Jonathan D. Carlisle;Alan K. Knapp;John M. Blair

  • Nitrogen, sulfur and phosphorus dynamics in decomposing deciduous leaf litter in the southern appalachians

    John M. Blair

  • Measuring decomposition, nutrient turnover, and stores in plant litter.

    M. E. Harmon;K. J. Nadelhoffer;J. M. Blair;G. P. Robertson

  • SOIL RESOURCES REGULATE PRODUCTIVITY AND DIVERSITY IN NEWLY ESTABLISHED TALLGRASS PRAIRIE

    S. G. Baer;J. M. Blair;S. L. Collins;A. K. Knapp

  • Plant community responses to resource availability and heterogeneity during restoration

    S. G. Baer;J. M. Blair;S. L. Collins;S. L. Collins;A. K. Knapp;A. K. Knapp

  • DETERMINANTS OF SOIL CO2 FLUX FROM A SUB‐HUMID GRASSLAND: EFFECT OF FIRE AND FIRE HISTORY

    Alan K. Knapp;Shawn L. Conard;John M. Blair

  • SOIL N AND PLANT RESPONSES TO FIRE, TOPOGRAPHY, AND SUPPLEMENTAL N IN TALLGRASS PRAIRIE

    Clarence L. Turner;John M. Blair;Rita J. Schartz;Jeffery C. Neel

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan K. Knapp
Alan K. Knapp Colorado State University
Scott L. Collins
Scott L. Collins University of New Mexico
Melinda D. Smith
Melinda D. Smith Colorado State University
Sara G. Baer
Sara G. Baer University of Kansas
John M. Briggs
John M. Briggs Kansas State University
Philip A. Fay
Philip A. Fay Agricultural Research Service
Kevin P. Kirkman
Kevin P. Kirkman University of KwaZulu-Natal
Deron E. Burkepile
Deron E. Burkepile University of California, Santa Barbara
Jesse B. Nippert
Jesse B. Nippert Kansas State University
Kevin R. Wilcox
Kevin R. Wilcox University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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