grasslands are likely to lose some capacity to sustain recreational services. Source note: Data are from the companion book, World Resources 2000-2001: Ecosystems and People: The Fraying Web of ...

Stability can be defined at the ecosystem level — for example, a rancher might be interested in the ability of a grassland ecosystem to maintain primary production for cattle forage across ...

Results from a long-term field experiment shed new light on how grasslands can be restored for nature, the environment, and ...

A new study has investigated how the relationship between mean annual precipitation (MAP) and grassland biomass changes when one or more nutrients are added. The authors show that precipitation and ...

Grasslands span from the Great Plains to the foothills, and fires are a natural part of the ecosystem. But as more people ...

To fully understand how grassland ecosystems respond to global changes in precipitation and nutrient enrichment, both nutrient interactions and changes in plant communities should be considered.

With the arrival of European settlers, that all changed. As the grassland ecosystem was plowed and agricultural crops were planted, the bears were pushed from the open plains of the prairies to ...

Investigating the plants and animals of temperate grasslands. The temperate grasslands biome is located on a world map and the climate of the biome described. Presenter Ferne Corrigan then ...

It’s little wonder that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature declared temperate grasslands to be the least protected and most endangered ecosystems on the planet. If we fail to ...