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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. 2013;8:67884 -. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0067884.
Rostkowski, Jr. SC. Long-term effects of climate change on grassland soil systems: A reciprocal transplant approach. 2011;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/7068.
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. Fire in Ecosystem Management: Shifting The Paradigm From Suppression to Prescription. Tallahassee, FL: Tall Timbers Research Station; 1998:173 -178.
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. doi:10.1139/b00-159.
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Knapp AK, Blair JM, Briggs JM, et al. The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie. BioScience. 1999;49:39 -50. Available at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/bisi.1999.49.1.39.
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Blair JM, Parmelee RW, Lavelle P. Influences of earthworms on biogeochemistry. In: Hendrix PF Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America. Earthworm Ecology and Biogeography in North America. CRC Press Inc. Lewis Publishers; 1995:125 -156.
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. doi:10.1139/b04-088.
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. 2008;117:859 -866. doi:10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16515.x.
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.
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. 2008;72:5581 -5599. doi:10.1016/j.gca.2008.09.004.
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. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2005.00899.x.
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. 2009;42:79 -85. doi:10.1016/j.apsoil.2009.01.009.
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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. 2014;MS Thesis. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18205.
Carter DL, Blair JM. High richness and dense seeding enhance grassland restoration establishment, but have little effect on drought response. Ecological Applications. 2012;22:1308 -1319. doi:10.1890/11-1970.1.
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Carter DL. Grassland restoration in a changing world: consequences of practices and variable environments. 2013;PhD. Dissertation. Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2097/15357.
Baer SG, Blair JM. Grassland establishment under varying resource availability: A test of positive and negative feedback. Ecology. 2008;89:1859 -1871. doi:10.1890/07-0417.1.
Blair JM, Nippert JB, Briggs JM. Grassland Ecology. In: Monson R Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment.Vol 8. Plant Sciences - Ecology and the Environment. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg; 2014:389-423.
Risch AC, Zimmermann S, Moser B, 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. 2020;26(12). doi:10.1111/gcb.15308.
Komatsu KJ, Avolio ML, Lemoine NP, 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. 2019;116(36):17867-17873. doi:10.1073/pnas.1819027116.
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Blair JM. Fire, N availability and plant response in grasslands: A test of the transient maxima hypothesis. Ecology. 1997;78:2559 - 2368. doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[2359:FNAAPR]2.0.CO;2.
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. 2019;33:735 - 745. doi:10.1111/1365-2435.13272.
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. 2014;102:1374 -1385. doi:10.1111/1365-2745.12311.
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. doi:10.1016/0038-0717(95)00138-7.
Melzer SE, Knapp AK, Fynn RWS, et al. Fire and grazing impacts on silica production and storage in grass dominated ecosystems. Biogeochemistry. 2010;97:263 -278. doi:10.1007/s10533-009-9371-3.
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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. 2013;34:3717 -3735. doi:10.1080/01431161.2012.757376.
Baer SG, Blair JM, Collins SL. Environmental heterogeneity has a weak effect on diversity during community assembly in tallgrass prairie. Ecological Monographs. 2016;86(1):94 - 106. doi:10.1890/15-0888.1.
Connell RK. Effects of plant-soil interactions on grassland carbon dynamics in a changing world. Department of Biology. 2020;PhD Dissertation. Available at: https://search.proquest.com/docview/2427237261?pq-origsite=summon.
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. 2017;60(6):1075. doi:10.1007/s00267-017-0942-0.
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. doi:10.1016/S0038-0717(03)00153-6.
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. 2021. doi:10.1007/s10021-021-00714-9.
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. doi:10.1016/S0929-1393(99)00022-0.
Brozostek ER, Blair JM, Dukes JS, 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. 2012;18:2617 -2625. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2486.2012.02685.x.
Blair JM, Collins SL, Knapp AK. Ecosystems as functional units in nature. Natural Resources and Environment. 2000;14:150 -155.
Briggs JM, Knapp AK, Blair JM, et al. An ecosystem in transition: causes and consequences of the conversion of mesic grassland to shrubland. BioScience. 2005;55:243 -254. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2005)055[0243:AEITCA]2.0.CO;2.
Welti EAR. Ecological networks of grassland plants and arthropods. 2017;PhD Dissertation. Available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/35284.
Knapp AK, McCarron JK, Silletti AM, 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. Ecological Studies Vol. 196, Western North American Juniperus communities: A dynamic vegetation type. Springer-Verlag, NY; 2008:156 -169. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-34003-6_8.
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. doi:10.1890/04-0407.
Briggs JM, Blair JM, Horne EA. Ecohydrological and climate change studies at the Konza Prairie Biological Station. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 2016;119(1):5 - 11. doi:10.1660/062.119.0103.
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Carter DL, Vanderweide B, Blair JM. Drought-mediated stem and belowground bud dynamics in restored grasslands. Applied Vegetation Science. 2012;15:470 -478. doi:10.1111/j.1654-109X.2012.01200.x.
McCain KNS, Baer SG, Blair JM, Wilson GT. Dominant grasses suppress local diversity in restored tallgrass prairie. Restoration Ecology. 2010;18:40 -49. doi:10.1111/j.1526-100X.2010.00669.x.
Wilcox KR, Blair JM, Smith MD, Knapp AK. Does ecosystem sensitivity to precipitation at the site-level conform to regional-scale predictions?. Ecology. 2016;97:561-568. doi:10.1890/15-1437.1.
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. doi:10.1890/03-0574.
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. doi:10.1007/s003740100370.
Jangid K, Williams MA, Franzluebbers AJ, Blair JM, Coleman DC, Whitman WB. Development of soil microbial communities during tallgrass prairie restoration. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2010;42:302 -312. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.11.008.
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. doi:10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0760:DOSCFF]2.0.CO;2.
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. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.1996.516987.
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. 2019;5(9):eaau6635. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aau6635.
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Hudson AR, Peters DPC, Blair JM, et al. Cross-site comparisons of climate change on drylands in the US Long-term Ecological Research network. BioScience. 2022;72(9):889 - 907. doi:10.1093/biosci/biab134.
McKinley DC, Rice CW, Blair JM. Conversion of grassland to coniferous woodland has limited effects on soil nitrogen cycle processes. Soil Biology & Biochemistry. 2008;40:2627 -2633. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2008.07.005.
Buis GM, Blair JM, Burkepile DE, et al. Controls of aboveground net primary production in mesic savanna grasslands: An inter-hemispheric comparison. Ecosystems. 2009;12:982 -995. doi:10.1007/s10021-009-9273-1.

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