Not exact matches
The research shows the importance
of burning to maintain the
tallgrass prairie, Dodds said.
About 10 %
of North America's original
tallgrass prairie remains in scattered patches across the plains states.
Findings reported in today's Science linking bison grazing to plant diversity in a Kansas
tallgrass prairie offer hope to land managers trying to preserve the last remnants
of native U.S. grasslands.
«Our results predict that climate change could greatly impact the
tallgrass prairie as we currently know it, reducing forage for cattle in the drier parts
of grasslands, in places like Kansas,» Johnson said.
In central Iowa, more than 99 %
of the original
tallgrass prairies have been converted to cornfields, paved, or put to other human use.
A spidery sculpture called Broken Symmetry straddles the main entrance, power pylons shaped like the Greek letter pi march to the east, and a thousand acres
of the surrounding campus is restored
tallgrass prairie.
Indeed, the alarming rate — almost 0.5 meters a year — at which the invasive grass Sorghum halepense has invaded the
tallgrass prairie, formerly dominated by the native little bluestem (Schizachyrium scoparium), over the last 25 years, and the complete dominance
of that invasive was the ideal situation in which Rout could test her ideas.
Noah Fierer
of the University
of Colorado at Boulder and his colleagues decided to get an idea
of how such a community might look for the Midwest
tallgrass prairies — once a highly productive, lush landscape now degraded thanks to intense farming.
«We have the largest remaining tract
of one
of the world's most endangered ecosystems, the
tallgrass prairie, and we have a diversity
of other grasslands that support many wildlife species.»
Preferred habitat:
tallgrass prairies, coastal woods, river bottoms, hardwood slopes, lake shores + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: deciduous, leaves periodically turn yellow in fall + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay loam, clay, well drained + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 20 to 25 feet + + + + Wildlife value: birds and mammals enjoy the fruit; birds attracted include Eastern Bluebird, Mockingbird, Red - headed Woodpecker; Henry's Elfin Butterfly larvae eat leaves; Viceroy Butterfly larvae eat plum + + + + Note: this tree is remarkably versatile in terms
of handling various light conditions and soil conditions as long as it is not sited in a low - lying area.