Quantifying specialist avifaunal decline in grassland birds of the Northern Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.2523
Abstract: Habitat specialists are declining worldwide, often paralleling rapid loss of habitat. Grassland habitats across North America are declining precipitously, due in part to intense conversion of grasslands to agriculture and rangelands, and specialist communities reliant… read more here.
Keywords: northern great; specialism; habitat; great plains ... See more keywords
Elucidating the causes of errors in 2.2 km Met Office Unified Model simulations of a convective case over the US Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1002/qj.4049
Abstract: Convective‐scale ensemble simulations with perturbed initial and lateral boundary conditions have been performed to investigate the role of compensating errors in the model representation of a US Great Plains severe convective event. The convective‐scale ensembles… read more here.
Keywords: causes errors; met office; elucidating causes; model ... See more keywords
Characteristics and variations of low-level jets in the contrasting warm season precipitation extremes of 2006 and 2007 over the Southern Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1007/s00704-018-2492-7
Abstract: This study investigates structural variations in the low-level jets (LLJs) over the Southern Great Plains (SGP) in the USA during the warm season (WS) and their association with precipitation extremes, with a subset of the… read more here.
Keywords: level jets; southern great; precipitation; great plains ... See more keywords
Habitat selection of white-tailed deer fawns and their dams in the Northern Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1007/s13364-020-00519-6
Abstract: Habitat availability can affect important life-history traits such as survival; however, little information exists on how microhabitat characteristics found at parturition sites selected by dams and bed sites selected by their offspring differ from the… read more here.
Keywords: white tailed; tailed deer; great plains; selection white ... See more keywords
Carbon and evapotranspiration dynamics of a non-native perennial grass with biofuel potential in the southern U.S. Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2019.01.037
Abstract: Abstract Old world bluestem cultivar WW-B Dahl [Bothriochloa bladhii (Retz.), S. T. Blake] is a non-native perennial C4 bunch grass with biofuel production potential grown predominantly in the Southern U.S. Great Plains. Although this is… read more here.
Keywords: grass; great plains; biomass; southern great ... See more keywords
Land cover dynamics influence distribution of breeding birds in the Great Plains, USA
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DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2017.02.028
Abstract: Abstract Grasslands are one of the most endangered ecosystems globally. Large tracts of grassland in the Great Plains, USA have been converted to cropland since the early 1900s, and woodlands are rapidly encroaching into many… read more here.
Keywords: cropland; plains usa; great plains; cover ... See more keywords
Quantifying the effects of projected urban growth on connectivity among wetlands in the Great Plains (USA)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.02.007
Abstract: Abstract Urban wetlands often have prolonged hydroperiods relative to non-urban ones, so they may play an outsized, positive role for wildlife. Ecological studies of urban wetlands have typically focused on large metropolitan areas, but non-traditional… read more here.
Keywords: impervious surface; connectivity among; land use; great plains ... See more keywords
Provenance of loess in the central Great Plains, U.S.A. based on Nd-Sr isotopic composition, and paleoenvironmental implications
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.08.009
Abstract: Abstract Loess of the central Great Plains, U.S.A., records intervals of Quaternary aeolian dust accumulation at rates among the highest known worldwide. This study used Nd-Sr isotopic analysis to investigate the provenance of Middle Pleistocene… read more here.
Keywords: loess central; great plains; central great; plains based ... See more keywords
Latest Pleistocene to Holocene loess in the central Great Plains: Optically stimulated luminescence dating and multi-proxy analysis of the enders loess section (Nebraska, USA)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2019.106130
Abstract: Abstract Loess deposits of the central Great Plains, USA, and their intercalated soils provide a detailed record of climatically driven changes within the aeolian system during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition and the Holocene. Here we present… read more here.
Keywords: holocene; great plains; loess; central great ... See more keywords
Forum: Integration of Crop-Livestock Systems: An Opportunity to Protect Grasslands from Conversion to Cropland in the US Great Plains
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2019.12.007
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Great Plains is a mixture of cropland and grassland mainly used for agricultural purposes, with grasslands under continual threat of conversion to cropland. Agriculturists are advocating for the integration of crop-livestock systems (ICLS)… read more here.
Keywords: crop; integration; crop livestock; great plains ... See more keywords
Managing Invasive Plants on Great Plains Grasslands: A Discussion of Current Challenges
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rama.2020.04.003
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Great Plains of North America encompass approximately 1,300,000 km2 of land from Texas to Saskatchewan. The integrity of these lands is under continual assault by long-established and newly-arrived invasive plant species, which can… read more here.
Keywords: plants great; current challenges; managing invasive; invasive plants ... See more keywords