Breaking Prairie

Stability of Climax Prairie and Some Environmental Changes Resulting from Breaking

Vegetation of Prairie Dog Colonies and Non-Colonized Shortgrass Prairie

Black-tailed prairie dogs have declined by 98% in the past century. Due to continued declines, the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service designated the species as a candidate for listing in 2000. Prairie dogs foster both plant and animal diversity, and their continued presence is a concern in the Great Plains. We compared vegetation structure and composition of black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludov...

Breaking bonds in male prairie vole: long-term effects on emotional and social behavior, physiology, and neurochemistry.

Social relationships are essential for many fundamental aspects of life while bond disruption can be detrimental to mental and physical health. Male prairie voles form enduring social bonds with their female partners, allowing the evaluation of partner loss on behavior, physiology, and neurochemistry. Males were evaluated for partner preference formation induced by 24h of mating, and half were ...

Prairie Legacies - Mammals

Tenth Prairie Analysis Seminar

If we have a real vector field in the plane, the integral curves foliate the plane. Similarly, if we have a complex vector field in C then the complex integral curves foliate space by Riemann surfaces. An example of a question one might ask, is whether these Riemann surfaces are dense in space. In the case of vector fields in the plane, this is impossible, but if we do it on a torus instead, it...