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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"restored prairie"”.
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A comparison of soil characteristics in relation to success of a restored prairie
… acres that provided an opportunity to restore a prairie, named Howell Prairie. The 150 acre prairie was established in June, 2002, including the planting of 89 native prairie species. In 2008, a study began to quantify the success of the prairie establishment. Success monitoring shows strong …
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EFFECTS OF TIME, SEED SOURCE, AND PLANT COMPOSITION ON MACROINVERTEBRATES IN RESTORED PRAIRIE
… macroinvertebrates community structure in restored prairie. A chronosequence design (space for time substitution) was used to determine the role of restoration age, plant community, and soil structure on the recovery of two belowground macroinvertebrate ecosystem engineers (Chapter 2). Ants …
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Effects of neonicotinoids and fungicides on soil invertebrate communities and litter decomposition within restored prairie
… diversity, and litter decomposition across restored prairie plots treated with a neonicotinoid (clothianidin) and a fungicide (Captan). Soil invertebrate communities in plots treated with a combination of neonicotinoids and fungicides were nearly half as dense as they were in plots without …
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Soil and compost tea: A new restoration technique?
<p>Historically, prairie restorations have lacked the plant diversity seen in remnant prairies. Most restoration practices focus on reestablishing the plant community but overlook the soil microbial community even though microbes are critical to habitat functioning. Developing techniques that …
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Evaluation of native bee nesting rates and beetle community assemblages in the presence of clothianidin in the soil of natural areas
… communities and neonicotinoid contamination in restored prairie habitats. This study was aimed towards better understanding the impact of the common neonicotinoid clothianidin, on native bee and beetle communities in restored prairie settings. For native bees, we found that nesting probability …
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Chemical Characterization of the Degradation of Necromass from Four Ascomycete Fungi: Implications for Soil Organic Carbon Turnover and Storage
… saprotrophic Ascomyota species in temperate restored prairie soils. Fungal tissue was buried in a temperate soil and harvested at intervals from 1 day to one month. After harvest, chemical analysis of the dried tissue by thermochemolysis pyrolysis-GCMS was used for relative quantitation of …
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Restoration implications of land management on aboveground vegetation and seed bank composition of grassland communities in Illinois
A variety of non-prairie landscapes are restored to prairie on a yearly basis including pastures, croplands, and old fields. Most of these restoration efforts do not take into account the seed bank associated with these non-prairie lands as a potential source of plant diversity or weedy …
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Plant root contributions to the carbon balance of a changing agricultural Midwest
… partitioning of vertical niche space in a restored prairie. To determine the effect of climate change on soil C in conventional row crop agriculture, I measured root and soil respiration under soybeans and maize grown under elevated temperature (ambient + ~2 °C) and elevated CO2 (+200 ppm) …
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Nesting Success of Dickcissel (Spiza americana) and Non-breeding Grassland Bird Use of Northwest Arkansas’ Remnant and Restored Tallgrass Prairies
… birds are linked to habitat loss. Tallgrass prairie only covers 3% of its pre-settlement-era range. Small-scale restoration projects attempt to increase acreage for prairie avifauna, and while some breeding grassland species are present at these sites, nesting success and non-breeding use are …
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Suspended sediment supply dominated by channel processes in a low-gradient agricultural watershed, Wildcat Slough, Fisher, IL, USA
… agriculture, but forests, floodplains, banks, a restored prairie and grasslands, and a pasture are also present in the watershed. The majority of the river is retained within a deep, channelized ditch with a network of drainage tiles emptying into it as it flows through the farm fields. In the …