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Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective (The Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series)

by W.K.Lauenroth (Author), I.C.Burke (Author)

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 536
 Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 28 Aug 2008
ISBN 10: 0195135822
ISBN 13: 9780195135824

Media Reviews
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. * The Quarterly Review of Biology *
Author Bio
William Lauenroth is Professor in the department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University. Ingrid Burke is Professor in the department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University, as well as the Co-Director of the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. She received her BS at Middlebury College in 1980, and her PhD in Botany at the University of Wyoming in 1987.