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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Illinois Prairie"”.
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Microclimate, Fire and Plant Production in an Illinois Prairie
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Population Genetics of Sabatia Campestris (Gentianaceae), a State-Endangered Plant of the Illinois Prairie
… of peripheral populations of S. campestris from Illinois was investigated both within Illinois and at a regional scale. The results identified isolation by distance patterns indicating that Illinois populations differed genetically from central populations that were collected from Texas. In …
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Evaluating the Impact of Rail-Trail Conversion Projects on Property Values: Empirical Evidence from the Illinois Prairie Path
… data (as opposed to opinion surveys) from the Illinois Prairie Path to test if these fears are justified. Assessed land values of properties 'close to' and 'away from' the trail are compared. The same is done for rental prices. In the first case, no significant difference is found for an …
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The Genetic Consequences of Fragmentation and Small Population Size in Two Grassland Bird Species: The Greater Rhea and the Greater Prairie Chicken
… of four extant populations of the greater prairie chicken and museum specimens from a prebottlenecked population along with ecological data on population fitness allowed me to directly assess the effects of a demographic bottleneck on the genetic diversity and fitness of a natural …
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Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) demography in northern Illinois
… (Terrapene ornata) is a threatened species in Illinois and lacks essential demographic data. Over the last two centuries, nearly all Illinois prairie has been converted to agriculture, and consequently, Ornate Box Turtles are now confined to small isolated habitat fragments. Despite their …
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Development of prairie cordgrass (spartina pectinata link) as a dedicated bioenergy crop
… of the dominant native grass species (Poaceae), prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata Link) showed potential as a dedicated bioenergy crop on marginal land. However, prairie cordgrass biomass-production research has been limited to several local varieties or cultivars. To further investigate its …
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The Postapocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century
… with a potentially disastrous future. The Illinois prairie of the 1840s thus appeared to Margaret Fuller as a country that has been carefully cultivated by a civilized people, who had been suddenly removed from the earth, with all the works of their hands, and the land given again into …
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Evaluation of Prairie Cordgrass (Spartina pectinat, link) for Biomass Production on Marginal Land
… use of bioenergy crops such as switchgrass and prairie cordgrass will help to meet future energy and biomass needs through the process of converting crop biomass into bioenergy sources with less environmental damage. Prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata Link.) is a high yielding warm season …
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A quantitative study of the vegetation of dry and dry-mesic sand prairies in Central and Northwestern Illinois
Dry and dry-mesic sand prairies in Illinois are mainly restricted to the glacial outwash and valley train deposits bordering major rivers in the northern half of the state, particularly the Illinois, Mississippi, and Rock Rivers. When compared to typical Illinois blacksoil prairies, these sand …