Broadly defined, grasslands are "areas dominated by grassy vegetation and maintained by fire, grazing, and drought or freezing temperatures." If it weren't for these maintenance factors ...

New research appearing in the journal Ecology Letters asks how local and regional factors determine the makeup of plant species in grasslands. Michigan State University researchers from the Brudvig ...

Restoring abandoned grasslands by removing woody vegetation and resuming traditional land management practices has positive ...

A new study combining satellite imagery with genetic analysis reveals that climate and land use changes are driving increased ...

Indigenous women played an important role as knowledge keepers of domesticated and undomesticated plant life, including grassland ecology and anthropogenic fire. The northern Great Plains was a ...

Results from a long-term field experiment shed new light on how grasslands can be restored for nature, the environment, and ...

April is National Native Plant Month, an observance at the core of South Dakota's identity. People wanting to protect the state's beloved grasslands encourage landowners in urban and rural areas ...

But that also destroyed habitats for many wild creatures and native plants. Now, the 960-acre Orland Grassland Land and Water Reserve near Orland Park offers a glimpse of that ancient landscape ...