Abstract Fauna of North America's Great Plains evolved strategies to contend with the
region's extreme spatiotemporal variability in weather and low annual primary productivity …

For millennia grasslands have provided a myriad of ecosystem services and have been
coupled with human resource use. The loss of 46% of grasslands worldwide necessitates …

Across portions of the western Great Plains in North America, natural fire has been removed
from grassland ecosystems, decreasing vegetation heterogeneity and allowing woody …

Grazing management recommendations often sacrifice the intrinsic heterogeneity of
grasslands by prescribing uniform grazing distributions through smaller pastures, increased …

Regional populations of lesser prairie‐chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) have been
declining irregularly since the early 1900s (Jensen et al. 2000). Populations in the Sand …

Recent studies have documented benefits of small, prescribed fire and wildfire for grassland‐
dependent wildlife, such as lesser prairie‐chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicintus), but wildlife …

Anthropogenic features increasingly affect ecological processes with increasing human
demand for natural resources. Such effects also have the potential to vary depending on the …

Translocation is a management tool used to restore or augment wildlife populations, but
outcomes of translocations are often poorly documented and can have varying levels of …

Loss and degradation of grasslands in the Great Plains region have resulted in major
declines in abundance of grassland bird species. To ensure future viability of grassland bird …

Incubation breaks are necessary for any nesting bird but can increase the mortality risk of
the nest or attending parent. How intrinsic and extrinsic variables affect nest attentiveness …