A black-eyed Susan flower grows among a variety of plants in an open grassland area at the May Prairie State Natural Area on Aug. 20, 2020, in Manchester, Tennessee. Across much of the South, at ...

From the savannas of Sub-Saharan Africa to the prairies of the Northern Great Plains and cool temperate steppes, about 40 percent of the Earth’s landmass is covered with grasses. These grasslands host ...

science environment How Invasive Plants Threaten Rare Northwest Flowers And Grasslands By Courtney Flatt (OPB) Asotin, Washington June 11, 2015 3:30 p.m. 00:00 ...

Light competition drives herbivore and nutrient effects on plant diversity. Nature, 2022; DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05383-9 ...

For instance, around 85 percent of Iowa’s landscape once consisted of prairie, Wilsey said. Those ecosystems included plants like big bluestem, switchgrass, wildflowers and prairie clover. As the ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the ...

On site, they set up 100 one-square-meter plots across the grasslands on four different soil types and in each identified all plants as well as measured a range of physical and chemical factors.