Oil development in the Bakken shale region has increased rapidly as a result of new
technologies and strong demand for fossil fuel. This region also supports a particularly high …

The abundance and distribution of woody plants have increased in grassland ecosystems
worldwide. Robust generalizations about the consequences of this transformative process …

Eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana, redcedar) is a major woody species encroaching
upon the native grasslands and forests of the southern Great Plains (SGP), representing a …

Grasslands are among the most imperiled ecosystems in North America. Reasons that
grasslands are threatened include conversion to row-crop agriculture, fragmentation, and …

Recent work has suggested that a tradeoff exists between habitat area and habitat
heterogeneity, with a moderate amount of heterogeneity supporting greatest species …

With the loss of over 70% of North America's grasslands (Samson et al. 2004), grassland
birds increasingly rely on habitat that is privately owned and managed for livestock …

We investigated bird abundance in response to western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis)
removal using a short-term chronosequence approach and generated estimates of density …

Predation is the leading cause of nest failure for many passerines and considerable effort is
devoted to identifying the habitat characteristics and management practices that influence …

Understanding the mechanisms that explain why oil infrastructure has an effect on wildlife,
and comparing effects of different types of infrastructure, is necessary for determining how …

Asymmetric climate projections throughout the US Great Plains may intensify the existing
latitudinal temperature gradient and magnify the longitudinal precipitation gradient. These …