Sentences with phrase «tallgrass prairie»

A "tallgrass prairie" refers to a type of grassland ecosystem where the grasses are typically tall. It describes an area covered by mainly tall grasses and a variety of other plants, but with few to no trees. Full definition
In contrast, the Regal Fritillary was once common in tallgrass prairies across the country but now is rarely seen east of the Mississippi River.
About 10 % of North America's original tallgrass prairie remains in scattered patches across the plains states.
The state song, «Home on the Range», is illustrated by the nation's largest remaining stand of tallgrass prairie, which is in Kansas, and by the native buffalo which still roam parts of the state.
Konza is an 8,600 - acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.
«In order for us to preserve tallgrass prairie, we need to look at woody encroachment because it has been an issue.
Two Kansas State University biologists are studying streams to prevent tallgrass prairies from turning into shrublands and forests.
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.
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.
These were the kinds of questions that started percolating for Marnie Rout (University of North Texas Health Science Center) after she drove by a remnant tallgrass prairie in North Central Texas as a beginning graduate student.
Today, fire is used as a tool to manage and conserve tallgrass prairies.
Home to the largest, most productive area of unplowed tallgrass prairie in North America, the site provides a benchmark for exploring the drivers and impacts of environmental change taking place throughout the grasslands of the eastern Central Plains.
Milkweed seed for the project has been donated by several amazing organizations, including the largest tallgrass prairie restoration project, Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie and Eastern Monarch Butterfly Farms.
In central Iowa, more than 99 % of the original tallgrass prairies have been converted to cornfields, paved, or put to other human use.
The research shows the importance of burning to maintain the tallgrass prairie, Dodds said.
«The tallgrass prairie is almost nonexistent on the globe,» Veach said.
«It was said in the past that the tallgrass prairies were so tall that a person riding a horse could literally get lost,» said Adam Smith, assistant scientist in global change at the Missouri Botanical Garden.
«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.
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.
«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.»
You can rein in the high Kansas insurance quotes, and you don't have to pick through the tallgrass prairie to find every little scenario that might create a hitch.
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