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The diversity-biomass-productivity relationships in grassland management and restoration

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Wetland ecosystem health and biodiversity

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Mapping Grassland Bird Community Distribution under a Changing Landscape

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An early warning signal for grassland degradation on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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Exotic plant invasion alters nitrogen dynamics in an arid grassland

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Interactions of microhabitat and time control grassland bacterial and fungal composition

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PRAIRIEMAP: A GIS database for prairie grassland management in western North America

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Eyes on Earth Episode 23 – Ecosystem Monitoring
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Herbivory and eutrophication mediate grassland plant nutrient responses across a global climatic gradient

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Convergent responses of nitrogen and phosphorus resorption to nitrogen inputs in a semiarid grassland

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Projecting future grassland productivity to assess thesustainability of potential biofuel feedstock areas in theGreater Platte River Basin

Data Release
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Plant community composition, abundance, phenology, and soil data from a four-year seasonal drought experiment followed by four years of recovery in a mixed grassland on the Colorado Plateau

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The loss of the North American grassland biome.

Uncertainties: global change - The loss of the North American grassland biome
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Woody plant encroachment of grassland and the reversibility of shrub dominance: Erosion, fire, and feedback processes

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Soil-occupancy effects of invasive and native grassland plant species on composition and diversity of mycorrhizal associations

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FORT scientists present at the 2024 FREES (Free-Roaming Equids and Ecosystem Sustainability) Summit

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Evaluation of grassland dynamics in the northern-tibet plateau of china using remote sensing and climate data

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Evidence of qualitative differences between soil-occupancy effects of invasive vs. native grassland plant species

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Divergent climate impacts on C3 versus C4 grasses imply widespread 21st century shifts in grassland functional composition

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Net ecosystem productivity of temperate grasslands in northern China: An upscaling study

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Effects of Bromus tectorum invasion on microbial carbon and nitrogen cycling in two adjacent undisturbed arid grassland communities

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Responses of soil extracellular enzyme activities and bacterial community composition to seasonal stages of drought in a semiarid grassland

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Ecosystem engineering varies spatially: a test of the vegetation modification paradigm for prairie dogs

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Quantifying the effects of land-use change and bioenergy crop production on ecosystem services in the Northern Great Plains

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Developing a 30-m grassland productivity estimation map for central Nebraska using 250-m MODIS and 30-m Landsat-8 observations

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Climate-driven interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange in the Northern Great Plains grasslands

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Multi-year tracing of spatial and temporal dynamics of post-fire aeolian sediment transport using rare earth elements provide insights into grassland management

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Bacterial, fungal, and plant communities exhibit no biomass or compositional response to two years of simulated nitrogen deposition in a semiarid grassland

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USDA conservation program and practice effects on wetland ecosystem services in the Prairie Pothole Region

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Modeling effects of crop production, energy development and conservation-grassland loss on avian habitat: dataset of BBS data, ND, with habitat rankings

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