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John M Blair

University Distinguished Professor of Biology and KPBS Director, Kansas State University
Verified email at ksu.edu
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Mechanisms of disease: roles of OPG, RANKL and RANK in the pathophysiology of skeletal metastasis

JM Blair, H Zhou, MJ Seibel, CR Dunstan - Nature Clinical Practice …, 2006 - nature.com
The discovery of osteoprotegerin, receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B (RANK) and
RANK ligand as critical molecular determinants of osteoclastogenesis and regulators of bone …

RANK ligand

JM Blair, Y Zheng, CR Dunstan - The international journal of biochemistry & …, 2007 - Elsevier
RANK ligand (RANKL), a key mediator of bone resorption in normal and pathological states,
is expressed as membrane-bound or soluble forms by tissues as diverse as lymph nodes, …

Modulation of diversity by grazing and mowing in native tallgrass prairie

SL Collins, AK Knapp, JM Briggs, JM Blair… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Species diversity has declined in ecosystems worldwide as a result of habitat fragmentation,
eutrophication, and land-use change. If such decline is to be halted ecological mechanisms …

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

…, BL Snoek, S Fang, G Zhou, SD Allison, JM Blair… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The majority of the Earth’s terrestrial carbon is stored in the soil. If anthropogenic warming
stimulates the loss of this carbon to the atmosphere, it could drive further planetary warming 1 , …

Soil invertebrates as indicators of soil quality

JM Blair, PJ Bohlen… - Methods for assessing soil …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews some of the fundamental ways in which invertebrates affect soil structure
and function, and contribute to the quality of soils. It suggests that the use of two major …

The keystone role of bison in North American tallgrass prairie: Bison increase habitat heterogeneity and alter a broad array of plant, community, and ecosystem …

AK Knapp, JM Blair, JM Briggs, SL Collins, DC Hartnett… - BioScience, 1999 - JSTOR
Blair JM. 1997. Fire, N availability and plant response in grasslands: A test of the transient …
Nellis MD, Bathgate J, Briggs JM. 1992. Geographic information systems for modeling bison …

An ecosystem in transition: causes and consequences of the conversion of mesic grassland to shrubland

JM Briggs, AK Knapp, JM Blair, JL Heisler… - …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Woody plant expansion is one of the greatest contemporary threats to mesic grasslands of
the central United States. In this article, we synthesize more than 20 years of research to …

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

AK Knapp, PA Fay, JM Blair, SL Collins, MD Smith… - Science, 2002 - science.org
Ecosystem responses to increased variability in rainfall, a prediction of general circulation
models, were assessed in native grassland by reducing storm frequency and increasing …

Control of oil

JM Blair - 1976 - osti.gov
Blair traces the history of these controls, shows how they have recently been strengthened,
reveals the … Blair points out there is indeed an ''energy crisis,'' and he emphasizes themore » …

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

PA Fay, JD Carlisle, AK Knapp, JM Blair, SL Collins - Oecologia, 2003 - Springer
Rainfall variability is a key driver of ecosystem structure and function in grasslands worldwide.
Changes in rainfall patterns predicted by global climate models for the central United …