Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe
A Long-Term Perspective
Series: The ^ALong-Term Ecological Research Network Series;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 28 August 2008
- ISBN 9780195135824
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages536 pages
- Size 155x236x27 mm
- Weight 857 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 18 halftones, 175 line illustrations 0
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Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective summarizes and synthesizes more than 60 years of research that has been conducted throughout the shortgrass region. The shortgrass steppe was an important focus of the International Biological Programme's Grassland Biome project that ran from the late 1960s until the mid 1970s. The work conducted by the Grassland Biome project was preceded by almost 40 years of research by U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers - primarily from the Agricultural Research Service - and followed to the present by the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research project. Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe is an enormously rich source of data and insight into the structure and function of a semiarid grassland.
Much of what we know about grasslands stems from over 40 years of research at the Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research station, which is complied in this volume by 34 authors. Moving beyond important early chapters that provide descriptive context for the shortgrass steppe, several contributions provide a deep population-level understanding of how the dominant grass, Bouteloua gracilis responds to disturbance and environmental drivers.
Table of Contents:
The Shortgrass Steppe: The Region and Research Sites
Climate of the Shortgrass Steppe
Soil Development and Distribution in the Shortgrass Steppe Ecosystem
Land Use History on the Shortgrass Steppe
Vegetation of the Shortgrass Steppe
The role of disturbances in shortgrass steppe community and ecosystem dynamics
Simulation of Disturbances and Recovery in Shortgrass Steppe Plant Communities
Ecology of mammals of shortgrass steppe
Birds of the Shortgrass Steppe
Insect Populations, Community Interactions, and Ecosystem Processes in Shortgrass Steppe
Trophic Structure and Nutrient Dynamics of the Belowground Food Web within the Rhizosphere of the Shortgrass Steppe
Net Primary Production in the Shortgrass Steppe
Soil Organic Matter and Nutrient Dynamics of Shortgrass Steppe Ecosystems
Soil-Atmosphere Exchange of Trace Gases in the Colorado Shortgrass Steppe
The Shortgrass Steppe and Ecosystem Modeling
Effects of Grazing on Vegetation
Cattle Grazing on the Shortgrass Steppe
Effects of Grazing on Abundance and Distribution of Shortgrass Steppe Consumers
The Future of the Shortgrass Steppe
