Sentences with phrase «tallgrass prairies»

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.

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.

In central Iowa, more than 99 % of the original tallgrass prairies have been converted to cornfields, paved, or put to other human use.

«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.

Two Kansas State University biologists are studying streams to prevent tallgrass prairies from turning into shrublands and forests.

Konza is an 8,600 - acre tallgrass prairie ecological research site jointly owned by the university and The Nature Conservancy.

The research shows the importance of burning to maintain the tallgrass prairie, Dodds said.

«In order for us to preserve tallgrass prairie, we need to look at woody encroachment because it has been an issue.

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.

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.

«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.»

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.

Sivicek, V. A., and J. B. Taft, 2011: Functional Group Density as an index for assessing habitat quality in tallgrass prairie.