Changing ecological and agricultural expectations for US Coastal Plain managed grasslands

Across the US Coastal Plain, native grasses and legumes may provide viable alternatives to monoculture pastures of introduced sod‐forming grasses, which require recurring costly inputs. Some available cultivars mostly from neighboring regions, have potential combine forage production for grazing livestock with enhanced habitat, especially grassland birds. A few legume species enhance ecosystem service provisioning existing grass pastures. Such could complement restoration plantings increase connectivity scale function; however, coordination pasture would be needed optimize benefits.