Sentences with phrase «by prairie lands»

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By comparing soil taken from 31 uncultivated prairie sites, such as cemeteries and national parks, with soil from agricultural land, Fierer's team identified microbes that probably inhabited the untouched prairies but were later lost.

Large - scale landscape change — loss of wildflower - rich prairies to crop monoculture or conversion of open lands to suburban development, for instance — is a threat to pollinators and may play a major role in declines by making it harder for bees and other pollinators to find a meal.

The land is newly divided by iron rail lines, the prairie dotted with sod huts, and it is into this country that a man goes off alone, in pursuit of a need he can barely admit even to himself.

Located two hours outside of Chicago, the land that became Nachusa was once pristine prairie remnants broken up by miles of corn and soybean fields.