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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2023 Grasslands are among the most impacted ecosystems globally. In the midcontinent of North America, a > 80% loss of grasslands has made their conservation a major priority for resource managers.
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Bird communities and biomass yields in potential bioenergy grasslands. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Demand for bioenergy is increasing, but the ecological consequences of bioenergy crop production on working lands remain unresolved. Corn is currently a dominant bioenergy crop, but perennial grasslands could produce renewable bioenergy resources and ...
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Journal of Field Ornithology, 2022 The decline and fragmentation of grasslands in recent years have stimulated efforts to preserve this ecosystem. However, even legally protected remnant grasslands are threatened by changes in the structure and composition of vegetation, which compromise ...
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Agricultural Set-aside Programs and Grassland Birds: Insights from Broad-scale Population Trend [PDF]
Landscape Online, 2008 The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a voluntary set-aside program in the United States designed to ameliorate soil erosion, control crop overproduction, enhance water quality, and provide wildlife habitat by replacing crops with other forms of land
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Impacts of tree rows on grassland birds and potential nest predators: a removal experiment. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Globally, grasslands and the wildlife that inhabit them are widely imperiled. Encroachment by shrubs and trees has widely impacted grasslands in the past 150 years. In North America, most grassland birds avoid nesting near woody vegetation. Because woody
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Long-term trends in grassland bird relative abundance on focal grassland landscapes in Missouri.
PLoS ONE, 2023 North American grassland birds have widely declined over the past 50 years, largely due to anthropogenic-driven loss of native prairie habitat. In response to these declines, many conservation programs have been implemented to help secure wildlife ...
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Animals, 2021 Among the most rapidly declining birds in continental North America, grassland birds evolved with American bison (Bison bison) until bison nearly became extinct due to overhunting.
Rachel H. Kaplan +6 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2022 Grassland bird communities are likely declining in all major grassland ecosystems globally due to habitat loss and modification, yet knowledge of the status of many tropical grassland bird communities is relatively poor.
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Broad-Scale Relations between Conservation Reserve Program and Grassland Birds: Do Cover Type, Configuration and Contract Age Matter? [PDF]
, 2010 The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is a voluntary cropland set-aside program where environmentally-sensitive cropland is retired to a conservation practice.
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Since in general the surrounding landscape influences the species diversity and abundance in fragments of native vegetation, an amount of native-vegetation cover nearby may also positively affect communities in restored areas, regardless of the sizes of ...
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