Sentence examples for mixed prairie from inspiring English sources

The two most southerly vegetation bands are composed of mixed prairie and dry mixed prairie, dominated by mid-height and short grasses.

Two perennial systems, switchgrass and a mixed prairie grasses and forbs, were harvested in the fall for biomass.

Three cropping systems including corn/soybean in a corn-soybean rotation, and reconstructed mixed prairie were studied in central Iowa.

Classifications were performed for both a) general vegetation classes limited to three major formations of deciduous forest, shrubland and grassland, and b) eight detailed vegetation classes including upland mixed prairie and fescue grasslands, closed and semi-open aspen forests, western snowberry and silverberry shrublands, and fresh and saline riparian (lowland) meadows.

To improve our knowledge about the structure of soil microbial community and the factors that influence it, we analyzed microbial lipids and various soil physicochemical factors under model biofuel cropping systems of corn, switchgrass and mixed prairie in southern Wisconsin, USA.

The Goose Lake Plain landscape area of the Moist Mixed Prairie ecoregion is the main feature between Rosetown and Saskatoon.

We found that switchgrass supported a reduced diversity and richness of terrestrial arthropods relative to mixed-prairie patches, a pattern which also occurs in this system during the breeding season [3], [7], but found no evidence that the composition of migratory bird communities was linked to arthropod biomass in crop patches.

We include a case study involving restoration of mixed grass prairie on mineland in the west-central United States.

The careful long-term study of these processes is much welcomed, as in the case presented by Rod Chimner and Jeff Welker in their paper, "Influence of grazing and precipitation on ecosystem carbon cycling in a mixed grass prairie".

In the mixed grass prairie, recent technological innovations in oil production (fracking) has increased oil production but has also resulted in degradation of the grassland environment in multiple ways including habitat fragmentation.

We collected vegetation water content and spectral radiometer data over plots of comparable ground resolution (0.5 m) at seven field sites in the Canadian mixed grass prairie in June 2004.