Roughly 40 percent of Earth’s land surface is covered by grasslands. Grasslands store about one-third of Earth’s terrestrial carbon and act as important carbon sinks. More than one million people take ...

1. A coordinated continental-scale field experiment across 31 sites was used to compare the biomass yield of monocultures and four species mixtures associated with intensively managed agricultural ...

Ecosystems around the world are undergoing dramatic changes. Some of these changes are familiar stories. The collapse of fisheries, algal blooms in lakes and the loss of coral reefs are well-known ...

Differences in litter decomposition patterns among mesic, semiarid, and arid grassland ecosystems cannot be accurately explained by variation in temperature, moisture, and litter chemistry alone. We ...

A male bobolink stands on top of a shrub near its nest, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, in Denton, Neb. North America's grassland birds are deeply in trouble 50 years after adoption of the Endangered Species ...

John Steinbeck once described the corridor between Monterey and Salinas as the “pastures of heaven” for the grasslands flowering with blazing orange California poppies and other local species. But his ...

A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands, temperate ...

POTTER, Neb. (AP) — When Reed Cammack hears the first meadowlark of spring, he knows his family has made it through another cold, snowy winter on the western South Dakota prairie. Nothing’s better, he ...