Future climate projections of warming, drying, and increased weather variability indicate that
conventional agricultural and production practices within the Northern Great Plains (NGP) …

Restoring vegetation in degraded ecosystems is an increasingly common practice for
promoting biodiversity and ecological function, but successful implementation is hampered …

Global biodiversity decline is best understood as too many people consuming and
producing too much and displacing other species. Wild landscapes and seascapes are …

Grassland ecosystems are under threat globally, primarily due to land-use and land-cover
changes that have adversely affected their biodiversity. Given the negative ecological …

The American bison (Bison bison) is iconic of the Great Plains of North America, yet the
genus has had to overcome near extinction in the recent past prior to being re-established …

Invasive species are suspected to be major contributors to biodiversity declines worldwide.
Counterintuitively, however, invasive species effects are likely scale dependent and are …

Invasive species management is promoted as a general practice to maintain rangeland
biodiversity and mitigate livestock performance losses (eg, weight gain) stemming from …

Abstract The American plains bison (Bison bison) is an iconic herbivore on North American
grasslands, yet many questions surrounding their basic biology remain unanswered. We …

Animal movement patterns are affected by complex interactions between biotic and abiotic
landscape conditions, and these patterns are being altered by weather variability associated …

In grassland ecosystems, grazing by large herbivores is a highly influential process that
affects biodiversity by modifying the vegetative environment through selective consumption …