Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands
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Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Agronomy, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Sociology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment, US Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA 50011; Northern Research Station, US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Grand Rapids, MN 55744; Department of Entomology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824; Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Prairie City, IA 50228; Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011; and Van Ryswyk Farms, Mitchellville, IA 50169
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Correction for Schulte et al., Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn-soybean croplands.
Loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystem services from agricultural lands remain important challenges in the United States despite decades of spending on natural resource management. To date, conservation investment has emphasized engineering practices or vegetative strategies centered on monocultural plantings of nonnative plants, largely excluding native species from cropland. In a c...
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