Ecology of Iowa Drosophila II. Lowland Forest and Sand Prairie

Ecology of Iowa Drosophila I. Lowland Forest

Prairie strips improve biodiversity and the delivery of multiple ecosystem services from corn–soybean croplands

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 Laborato...

When Is a Restoration Successful? Results from a 45-Year-Old Tallgrass Prairie Restoration

Restoration ecology had its genesis in the 1930s as Midwestern ecologists came to the realization that nearly all the tallgrass prairie in Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin had been converted to agricultural or urban land uses (Curtis and Greene 1949, Critical Trends Assessment Project 1994, Smith 1998). While calls for preservation of remaining prairie in Iowa began by 1919 (Smith 1998), the pione...

Flood Plain Vegetation of the Central Missouri Valley and Contacts of Woodland with Prairie

So profoundly has this river modified the effects of the general grassland climate that in many places prairie has given way to woodland and forest. Several distinct forest communities along the river in southeastern Nebraska and adjacent parts of Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa extend for short distances over the uplands, but farther along the major streams. Most of the trees and shrubs of this for...

On the occurrence of bryophytes and macrolichens in different lowland rain forest types at Mabura Hill, Guyana

A floristic and ecological study of bryophytes and macrolichens in different lowland rain forest types around Mabura Hill, Guyana, South America, yielded 170 species: 52 mosses, 82 liverworts and 36 macrolichens. Lejeuneaceae account for about 30% of the species and are the dominant cryptogamic family of the lowland rain forest. Special attention was paid to the flora of the forest canopy, by u...