Biodiversity and grassland changes in Great Plains
In North America grasslands provide vital services on which human depend. The loss of grassland biodiversity has caused significant impacts on ecosystem productivity, resulting in loss of food production, fresh water supply and provision of organisms. It remains difficult to develop predictions and ecological forecast in responses to environmental and climate changes. Our long-term research goal is to develop data integration and modeling approaches for synthetic research on ecological changes from local to continental scales. Our rationale for this project is that the integration of ground observation system and airborne/satellite observation platform across environmental gradients will provide a necessary framework to identify trans-scaling properties from local to continental extrapolation.
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Identifying and Prioritizing Habitat for Pheasant Conservation and Management in Agriculturally Dominated Landscapes
The aims of this project are:
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