john 1xbet online games login Blair, University Distinguished Professor
Edwin G. Brychta Professor of Biology
Director, Konza 1xbet online games login Biological Station
Contact information
201 Bushnell Hall
(785)532-7065
jblair@ksu.edu
Education
Ph.D. 1987, University of Georgia, Entomology (1xbet online games login emphasis).
Area(s) of Specialization
Ecosystem ecology and terrestrial biogeochemistry; Grasslands and global change; 1xbet online games login ecology, including decomposition, 1xbet online games login nutrient cycling, litter/1xbet online games login /plant nutrient dynamics; Effects of climate change and other disturbances on ecosystem processes; Restoration ecology; Ecology of 1xbet online games login invertebrates.
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I am a terrestrial ecosystem ecologist with broad interests in 1xbet online games login . I am the Director of the Konza 1xbet online games login Biological Station and an investigator on the National Science Foundation-funded Long-Term Ecological 1xbet online games login (LTER) program at Konza Prairie. The Konza 1xbet online games login LTER program supports short- and long-term research aimed at understanding the biological and physical factors that affect populations, communities and ecosystem processes in grasslands. Because human activities are altering the key drivers of ecological processes in grasslands directly -- by managing fire and grazers -- and indirectly -- by changing atmospheric chemistry and climate – our research also focuses on issues related to grassland management and responses to global change. My students and I conduct research on the ecological consequences of a broad range of global changes, including climate change, land-use/land-cover change and elevated nutrient deposition, with an emphasis on how these changes affect ecosystem processes, such as plant productivity, 1xbet online games login organic matter dynamics and nutrient cycling in native and restored grasslands.
Selected Publications
Broderick, C.A., K. Wilkins, M.D. Smith, and J.M. Blair. 2022. Climate legacies determine 1xbet online games login responses to future rainfall regimes. Global 1xbet online games login Biology 28:2639-2656. doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16084.
Collins, S.L., J.B. Nippert, J.M. Blair, J.M. Briggs, P. Blackmore, and Z. Ratajczak. 2021. Fire frequency, state 1xbet online games login and hysteresis in tallgrass prairie. 1xbet online games login Letters 24:636-647. doi: 10.1111/ele.13676.
Slette, I.J., J.M. Blair, P.A. Fay, M.D. Smith, and A.K. Knapp. 2021. Effects of compounded precipitation pattern intensification and drought occur belowground in a mesic 1xbet online games login . Ecosystems doi: 10.1007/s10021-021-00714-9.
Connell RK, Nippert JB, Blair JM. 2020. Three decades of divergent land use and plant community change alters 1xbet online games login C and N content in tallgrass prairie. Journal of Geophysical 1xbet online games login : Biogeosciences doi:10.1029/2020JG005723.
Baer SG, Adams T, Scott DA, Blair JM, Collins SL. 2020. 1xbet online games login heterogeneity increases plant diversity after twenty years of manipulation during grassland restoration. 1xbet online games login Applications 30:e02014. doi.org/10.1002/eap.2014.
Rosenzweig ST, Carson MA, Baer SG, Blair JM. 2016. Changes in 1xbet online games login properties, microbial biomass, and fluxes of C and N in 1xbet online games login following post-agricultural grassland restoration. Applied 1xbet online games login Ecology 100:186-194.
Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. 2016. Does 1xbet online games login sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions? 1xbet online games login 97:561-568.
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