Unpublished Paper
Blurring the lines between working and conservation lands: Bird use of prairie strips in row-cropped watersheds
Leopold Center Completed Grant Reports
Project ID
E2011-20
Abstract
Information collected for this project, along with additional research conducted on the STRIPS project, showed that prairie strips can be a valuable tool for improving ecosystem health in agricultural lands, especially in terms of improving water quality and increasing biodiversity and landscape heterogeneity.
Key Question
Can row-cropped agricultural catchments with small amounts of reconstructed prairie support greater native bird biodiversity than row-cropped catchments without prairie?
Findings
At the scale and location of the STRIPS experiment, the answer was yes; however, it may not be possible for all grassland bird species to be conserved through prairie strips.
Principal Investigator(s)
Lisa A. Schulte Moore
Co-Investigator(s)
Anna L. MacDonald
Year of Grant Completion
2014
Disciplines
Citation Information
Lisa A. Schulte Moore and Anna Lynn MacDonald. "Blurring the lines between working and conservation lands: Bird use of prairie strips in row-cropped watersheds" (2014) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lisa_schulte/48/