Tallgrass Prairie
Saving the Tallgrass Prairie
... Conversely, the increase in restoration projects does not come without complications. Even amongst those in favor of environmentalism, there is a disagreement between those who advocate for the prairies and those who ...
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Avian Community Response to Construction of a Naturalistic Golf Course in Tallgrass Prairie in Kansas
... ABSTRACT -- We monitored the impacts on avian communities of constructing a naturalistic golf course in tallgrass prairie from summer 1997 to winter 2000-2001. Avian data were gathered during one year ...
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The Effects of Ant Mounds of Acanthomyops Claviger on Floral Diversity in a Restored Tallgrass Prairie
... Reconstructed tallgrass prairie sites show a greater difference in nitrogen dynamics of the mound than that found in natural prairie soils (Lane and BassiriRad ...the prairie restoration ...
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Wintering Grassland Bird Habitat Selection Following Summer Prescribed Fire in a Texas Gulf Coast Tallgrass Prairie
... many tallgrass landscapes developed under late summer fire regimes (see Higgins 1984, Howe 1994, Umbanowar 1996), prairie managers often emphasize winter or spring application of prescribed ...In ...
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Vegetation Responses to Season of Fire in Tallgrass Prairie: A 13-Year Case Study
... The results from our 13-year small plot study indicate that burning later in the year ap- pears to have positive effects on mitigating woody plant encroachment, increasing forb di- versity, reducing exotic grasses, and ...
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Effects of Nesting Acanthomyops claviger on Soil in Re-created Tallgrass Prairie
... Ecosystem restoration efforts can be hampered significantly due to the lack of keystone species which allow for progression of these systems towards a sustainable biogeographical unit (Woodcock et al. 2005, Ulanowicz ...
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Testing Health of Baptisia alba Growing in a Reconstructed Tallgrass Prairie to Investigate How Lawn Watering Affects Plants
... The tallgrass prairie has always been a central part of Illinois, which is known as the Prairie State, and Baptisa alba is native to tallgrass ...
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Effectivity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi collected from reclaimed mine soil and tallgrass prairie
... We examined suitability of arbuscular mycorrhi- zal fungi (AMF) associated with cool-season non- native forages on reclaimed surface-mined land in southeast Ohio for establishment of native warm-season grasses. The goal ...
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Biodiversity of the Macroinvertebrate Community in a Re-created Tallgrass Prairie as Affected by Exclusion of Mammalian Predators
... re-created tallgrass prairie of Northeastern ...original tallgrass prairie has been destroyed, endangering many species, the understanding of community dynamics gained in this study was ...
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The Effects of Lasius Alienus Nests on the Floral Richness of a Disturbed Path in a Re-created Tallgrass Prairie
... A regularly mowed trailed though the Russel Kirt Tallgrass Prairie was selected as the study site. The trail was about 1.5m wide and 200m long. The trail was measured off into 1m 2 quadrants at regular ...
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Fire affects root decomposition, soil food web structure, and carbon flow in tallgrass prairie
... Our results provide evidence that frequent fire affects decom- position processes and adds a temporal dynamic of C flow through the soil food web. We have shown that decomposing roots are an important C source for ...
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The Effect of Tallgrass Prairie Burning on Soil Chemistry and Raphanus sativus
... the tallgrass prairie used in this study―and germinate in a relatively short period of time, Raphanus sativus was chosen to simulate the germinating plants of the tallgrass prairie (George ...
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The Tallgrass Prairie Soundscape; Employing an Ecoacoustic Approach to Understand Grassland Response to Prescribed Burns and the Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Nechrophilous Invertebrate Communities
... empirically tested the relationship between soundscape composition and habitat characteristics such as vegetation structure (Boelman et al., 2007) and habitat fragmentation (Fuller et al., 2015; Burivalova et al., 2017). ...
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Increasing atmospheric nitrogen deposition: implications for tallgrass prairie restoration
... century, tallgrass prairies are now one of the most severely degraded ecosystems in North America (Stephen Packard & Mutel ...of tallgrass prairie in North America, since then there has been an ...
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Patterns of carbon dioxide and water vapor flux following harvest of tallgrass prairie at different times throughout the growing season
... Of some surprise was the similar soil water content among treatments both years of the study. Previous studies in the tallgrass prairie have indicated that clipping or grazing vegetation conserves soil ...
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Soil Homogenization: Plant Species Diversity, Ecosystem Properties and Soil Freezing Effects During Tallgrass Prairie Restoration
... planted per species was determined based on standard rates used in restoration (Smith et al. 2010). Seed of each species was counted out in early April 2015 and mixed with dry sand (grasses and forbs) and moist potting ...
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2013 Tallgrass Prairie & Oak Savanna Regional Fire Conference Dubuque, Iowa at the Grand River Center
... C) Panel Discussion: Fire as a tool for establishment and restoration of prairie - Greg Hoch, MN Department of Natural Resources.. D) Roundtable: Midwestern Prescribed Fire Councils – A [r] ...
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The effects of seeding method and early mowing management on plant diversity and community composition in new tallgrass prairie reconstructions
... forb stems Grass stems Desirable stems Undesirable stems Total cover Annual cover Biennial cover Perennial cover Farb cover Desir.. forb cover Grass cover Desir.[r] ...
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Seed Predation of Mammals Granivory in Different Microhabitats of Tallgrass Prairie
... Due to the fact that this experiment was conducted during the night, it is more likely that small mammals would be foraging for food. Experimenters and observers have identified various creatures occupying the tested ...
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Agaricomycetes of Ontario Tallgrass Prairies
... to tallgrass prairie (Germain et ...native prairie species (an abundance of goldenrod, big bluestem, and Indian grass, as well as a diversity of native broad-leaved ...
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