Sentences with word «grassland»

They live in grasslands of alfalfa, abandoned cropland, forest land, and apple orchards.

Every car park and spot of open grassland in Reifnitz becomes its own localised car show, almost inevitably to the tune of pumping techno or pop music from the 1980s that Austria seems to have only recently discovered.

Zelikova et al. studied the effects of elevated CO2 on grassland in in Wyoming over 8 years and found that the plant productivity stabilized over time.

Ancient groups of hunter - gatherers followed these grazing animals from North Africa into Arabia as climate fluctuations periodically turned deserts into grasslands with lakes and rivers, Petraglia proposes.

The Virgin Lands Project between 1954 and 1960 centered on plowing an area of grassland for wheat that was larger than the wheatland in Canada and Australia combined.

Wildfire has been natural in Africa for eons of time, not breaking into tropical rain forests but certainly into the forests of the plateaus and changing these secondary successional forests into grassland savannas.

In a 10 - year study, a team of researchers from Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands headed by Schmid examined the yields from grassland plants which they had cultivated in monocultures or mixed plant communities.

Specifically, these results predict a loss of 15 to 30 per cent of temperate grasslands by the end of the century with a substantial increase in deep soil drought conditions.

His work has included focusing on rare and endangered bird species, and as a Bird Conservation Fellow he concentrated on grassland bird species, one of the most - rapidly declining groups in the state.

Other farmers are turning to native grasslands for economic alternatives.

For the last 35 years, Hoogland has studied four species of prairie dogs living in grassland ecosystems within national parks or wildlife refuges in the western U.S..

My field crew and I were putting transects into an expansive rolling grassland dotted with aspen stands.

Ed Barbier, the John S. Bugas Professor of Economics and Finance in the UW College of Business, was a co-author of «The economic value of grassland species for carbon storage,» along with researchers from Northern Arizona University, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, Australia's Western Sydney University, the University of Nebraska, Western Washington University and the University of Michigan.

Geladas live in an open grassland habitat and typically produce loud vocal calls during mating, so the dominant male should be able to easily detect any infidelity and stop it from happening.

Mission blue butterflies live in open grassland areas, and lupines are their preferred host plant.

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Our cattle graze on lush grasslands in Brazil and are not given hormones, steroids, or antibiotics.

Shrub encroachment is associated with changes in soil bacterial community composition in a temperate grassland ecosystem — Xingjia Xiang — Plant and Soil

The work complements other recent studies showing that greenhouse gas warming will shift plant ecosystems toward weedy plants, says Robert Jackson of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who has done similar work with natural grasslands.

The Cerrado is an area of dry grassland where you can find many different animals.

Semi dry grasslands like this one are nutrient poor and home to a high diversity of many plants, animals and microrganisms.

Rancho Corral de Tierra: Habitat Restoration More Help Needed Here Help restore grassland habitat for the endangered Hickman's potentilla by planting native grasses and flowering plants.

The degree to which grassland management, for example, can sequester the amount of carbon McKinsey suggests still requires significant scientific analysis to confirm.

The presentation explores the role of grasslands restoration as a key component for climate change mitigation.

Using data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity, an international team of researchers has shown that high biodiversity increases the resistance of such ecosystems to a wide range of climate events (drought, heatwaves, extreme rainfall).

The cause of «fairy circles,» the name given to bare patches of soil that seem to form randomly across African grasslands, continues to baffle scientists.

Join us here in Marfa as our high desert grasslands serve as a waypoint on the road to — and escape from!

Pasture - based cattle operations also decrease soil erosion and improve soil fertility and water quality by maintaining grasslands which protect soils from water and wind erosion.

This practice restores degraded grasslands by using livestock as a proxy for the wild herds that the great plains and savannas of the world evolved with.

The grazing and browsing of elephants, who act as forest engineers, pushing over trees and keeping vast grasslands like the Serengeti open, makes them keystones.

The legal Amazon, an region consisting of rainforests and a biologically - rich grassland known as cerrado, is now home to more than 80 million head of cattle.

Architecturally inspired by the traditional Zulu beehive shape, the beehive suites offer panoramic views of the game reserve and its diverse habitats ranging from montane grassland to riverine forests.

We traveled through grasslands surrounding Ngorongoro Crater and along the southern rim of the Serengeti.

Still, there's much more to understand about how the process actually works and whether it works in wet as well as dry places like grasslands and heathlands.

«While retreating rainforests and spreading grasslands did provide a backdrop for ecosystem change 5 - 10 million years ago.

But the land is under pressure, with crops, especially soybean, replacing native grassland at an increasing rate, and livestock production becoming more intensive.

Scientists have long suspected that horses» single, hoofed toes helped them run farther and faster over grasslands, letting them flee predators and find fresh forage.

They have taken a pragmatic but earnest look at protecting grasslands and birds; at the best recommendations for handling fluids and protecting water; and verified for themselves the characteristics of the most secure wellpads.

Their conclusions challenge a classic theory, which links the evolutionary success of horses to several novel adaptations in response to the spread of grasslands around 18 million years ago.

I saw patches of grassland turned sandy and beachlike, and huge curtains of dust raised by strong winds.

«Ireland's rich soils and lush grasslands provide favorable conditions for its traditional, low - intensity pasture - based dairy production system.

Savory — a biologist, farmer and environmentalist and more — claimed that certain approaches to managing grazed grasslands could more than absorb all of the carbon dioxide we're adding to the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels.

Some restoration ecologists consider tropical grassland habitats off limits for tree - planting projects.

Long - term growth In a 13 - year field experiment on 296 open - air plots, the researchers grew perennial grassland species under ambient and elevated concentrations of both atmospheric CO2 and soil nitrogen.

There just may not be anywhere left for the Dunlin's preferred habitat of wet coastal grasslands along the shores of the Arctic Ocean.