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Showing 1 to 20 of 141 for “"prairies"”.
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Microlepidoptera of Illinois hill prairies
… type (biofuel feedstock). In two Illinois hill prairies differing in size, latitude, and plant composition, alpha diversity of Pyraloidea and Tortricidae was similar, but the prairies were found to support different sets of species of these moth groups. It is concluded that the similarity in …
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Picturesque prairies : productive preservation on a petroleum planet
Fires burn bright atop the flare stacks in the distance as bison watch from behind the two-meter high fence of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In this modern scene, complex geographic formations in North Dakota's badlands have established a unique shared topography between an assemblage of …
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The Social Impacts of Flood on the Canadian Prairies
Climate extremes are costly environmental hazards, which create social stressors due to impacts on all human uses of land and water resources. Humans are adaptable, but their capacity for adaptation is constrained by various social factors, including social inequality. This research project asked: …
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Stochastic Modelling of Heavy-Tailed Precipitations in Canadian Prairies
… data set from twelve stations in Canadian prairies where precipitation is a crucial factor in agriculture. In this thesis, the three main important characteristic of a precipitation based data set, as mentioned above, have been described through a dynamic mixture model. Firstly, in order to …
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Restoring Abandoned Agricultural Lands in Puget Lowland Prairies: A New Approach
Puget Lowland Prairies are one of the most endangered ecosystems in the United States. Restoration has been occurring for more than thirty years and has focused on extant sites with some native species present. Generally, actions first began with invasive species control, followed by reintroduction …
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Investigating changes in Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptera) communities in Illinois prairies over 25 years
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Mapping elk distribution on the Canadian prairies: Applying local knowledge to support conservation
Once abundant across the Great Plains of North America, prairie-parkland elk (Cervus canadensis manitobensis) underwent a catastrophic population collapse and dramatic contraction of their overall range through the late 1800’s and the early 1900’s due to habitat loss (primarily from agricultural …
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Earthworm dynamics in tallgrass prairies in the Ozark Highlands region of northwest Arkansas
… in the mid-southern United States. Tallgrass prairies have been disturbed for agricultural production and/or urban expansion; thus, as a result, efforts have been undertaken to reclaim areas previously used for agricultural production to mitigate the loss of tallgrass prairies. Limited …
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Establishment, Forage Production and Drought Resistance of Native Perennial Legumes of the Canadian Prairies
… Brown and Dark Brown soil zones of the Canadian Prairies near Swift Current and Saskatoon, SK. The experimental design was a Randomized Complete Block Design with four replicates with treatments being species mixtures/monocultures and harvest dates (July and August). The native legume-grass …
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Model Estimation of Depression-focused Groundwater Recharge and its Variability in the Canadian Prairies
The Canadian Prairies is characterized by a cold, semiarid climate with topographical variations containing numerous depressions. These depressions play an important role in the hydrology of the prairie region by storing runoff water and replenishing groundwater through focused infiltration termed …
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Transnational Migration: A Study of Ghanaian Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Socio-economic Activities in the Canadian Prairies
In recent years, advanced technologies in information, communication, and transportation have changed the contours of international migration and created a situation that enables immigrants to live in more than one country simultaneously. The simultaneous living of immigrants in more than one …
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Assessing factors mediating restoration outcomes of herbicide followed by native seeding in invaded tallgrass prairies
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-04-12 without embargo terms
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