Description: Temperate grasslands are one of the most threatened global ecotypes. Across North America, conversion of grasslands to intensive crop production or residential development is having ...

This study is led by Dr. Zhuwen Xu (School of Ecology and Environment, Inner Mongolia University). The effects of increased nitrogen input and mowing on the resistance and recovery of temperate ...

Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

Members of Loess Canyon Rangeland Alliance (LCRA) — a landowner-led prescribed burn association — work together to reverse eastern red cedar encroachment and restore native grasslands. Credit: Andria ...

As grasslands get abandoned, controlled burning is discussed as a labor-saving method of keeping forests at bay. A research team found that this method results in higher biodiversity and a higher ...

North Dakota’s landscape has been extensively altered by agriculture and urbanization. More than half of North Dakota’s native prairie and wetlands have been converted to cropland or development.