from Chile. As I stepped off the plane, I could see extinct volcanoes and grassland. Within minutes, a necklace of flowers ...

Findings of an ecologically realistic 24-year field study involving 108 experimental grassland plots in Minnesota provide an answer that doesn't bode well for biodiversity conservation efforts ...

Grasslands, on the other hand, are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research by the University of Michigan. Put another way, forests accumulate climate debt while ...

Bison lived for the past 10,000 years on the rich grasslands of the Great Plains of North America from what is now Canada to Mexico. On the northern Great Plains where my ancestors lived bison ...

More than 40 per cent of China is grasslands and savannahs and much of it is in dry areas with low productivity. However, the Songnen Plain and Hulunbuir Plateau in the northeast are two of the ...

One can reflect on the hard life of homesteaders who settled here and elsewhere in the sprawling Pawnee National Grassland during the 19th century, only to pack up and leave during the Dust Bowl ...

A national bird conservation organization says grassland habitat loss on the Prairies has created a “conservation crisis” for dozens of species of birds. The crisis is illustrated in a new ...

Grasslands are responding to climate change almost in real time, according to new research. Although all ecosystems are affected by a changing climate, the impacts can take a while to appear ...

Grassland ecology is the study of all aspects of the ecology of grasslands, which are regions dominated by grass species but containing other non-woody plants and, in the case of savannahs, some ...

Ontario’s Ministry of Agriculture says $4.8 million of the total allotted has been allocated for new grasslands under the Resilient Agricultural Landscape Program that started in June.

Grassland ecosystems, like that of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in California, are seeing their biodiversity shift rapidly with changing climate. Although all ecosystems are affected by a ...