Eating While the Eating’s Good: How Fire Creates a Magnet for Grazing Animals

Tallgrass prairie is disappearing because farming and development have replaced it. This ecosystem home to a unique group of plants, animals, microbial life. The processes fire, grazing by drought are important the tallgrass prairie. They can influence each other For example, pyric-herbivory interaction fire on landscape. Burned areas attract herbivores (plant eaters) like magnet. After fires, plant growth nutritious easy find. Herbivores prefer recently burned areas, creating patches different habitats that support many wildlife species, too. You see in action at Prairie National Preserve, where cattle, bison part preserve’s management team! Healthy needs both grazing.