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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"sand prairie"”.
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Succession of an Iowa sand prairie into an adjoining old-field
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Ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) demography in northern Illinois
… 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 threatened status and patchy Illinois distribution, we understand little about the demography of …
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Community as assemblage in the Late Cahokian hinterlands
… Hook and Ladder offers a rarer glimpse into Sand Prairie phase (1300 – 1400 CE) community. Both located in the uplands, Rhea, followed by Hook and Ladder, show the decentralization and deterritorializing processes of Cahokian community, which intensify over time. Schoolhouse Branch, located …
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Is meadowlark habitat segregation within sympatry behaviorally mediated?
… use and distribution patterns at a large remnant sand prairie in northwestern Illinois. In the first study, I examined habitat use of both species occurring in the same area at the same time. Complementary to the habitat study, I examined the response of Eastern and Western Meadowlarks to …
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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 …
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Transforming material relationships: 13th century revitalization of Cahokian religious-politics
The rise and eventual decline of Cahokia, the largest pre-Columbian city north of Mexico, reverberated deeply within the historical trajectories of the North American mid-continent and southeast. The 11th century emergence of this multi-ethnic, multi-vocal metropolis appears to have been deeply …
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Enhancement of diversity via disturbance and seed addition in two sand prairies dominated by different grasses
… in these communities differ over time? In a sand prairie in northwestern Illinois, USA, baseline community structure was compared in two communities dominated by either Schizachyrium scoparium, a native warm-season (C4) grass, or Bromus inermis, a non-native cool-season (C3) grass. Five years …