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 ...

(1) Differences in plant species' abundances in response to cattle grazing and protection were measured across fences at fifteen sites in productive semi-natural mediterranean grasslands. The results ...

Less intensively managed grasslands have higher plant diversity and better soil health Date: November 25, 2022 Source: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Summary: Researchers have shown -- for 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.

Researchers have shown - for the first time - that less intensively managed British grazed grasslands have on average 50% more plant species and better soil health than intensively managed ...