19 datasets found
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Soil erosion and organic matter for central Great Plains cropping systems under residue removal
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This study examined average annual changes in soil erosion from rainfall and wind forces, and trends in soil organic carbon (SOC). The diversity of geo-climatic land... -
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Data from: Thinking Like a Grassland: Challenges and Opportunities for Biodiversity Conservation in the Great Plains of North America
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Conservation planning in the Great Plains often depends on understanding the degree of fragmentation of the various types of grasslands and savannas that historically... -
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Data from: Can measurements of foraging behaviour predict variation in weight gains of free-ranging cattle?
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Technologies are now available to continuously monitor livestock foraging behaviours, but it remains unclear whether such measurements can meaningfully inform... -
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Foraging behavior and spatial grazing distribution of free-ranging cattle 2014-2018 on the Central Plains Experimental Range
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Data were collected on the Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) from 2014-2018, near Nunn, Colorado as part of the common experiments in grazinglands for the... -
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Data from: Assessment of Oklahoma phlox in the Gypsum Hills of northwestern Oklahoma and southern Kansas
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These data describe aspects of the abiotic environment for 1000 randomly selected points and 529 points where Oklahoma phlox was observed along the 2020 and 2021... -
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Data from: Soil resistance under grazed intermediate wheatgrass
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Intermediate wheatgrass [Thinopyrum intermedium (Host) Barkw. & D.R. Dewey subsp. intermedium] is a high-yielding cool-season grass with adaptable uses for... -
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Data from: Evaluating plant biodiversity measurements and exotic species detection in National Resources Inventory Sampling protocols using examples from the Northern Great Plains of the USA
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Plant biodiversity data and associated soils, ecological site, and livestock management data that were collected at the USDA-ARS Northern Great Plains Research... -
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Data from: Ploidy determination of buffel grass accessions in the USDA National Plant Germplasm System collection by flow cytometry
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Buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris L. syn. Pennisetum ciliare (L.) Link) is an economically important warm-season perennial used primarily as a forage and range grass in... -
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Data from: Compound hydroclimatic extremes in a semi-arid grassland: Drought, deluge and the carbon cycle
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These data were generated to evaluate the effects of compound hydroclimatic extremes – a deluge during drought – on production and carbon cycling in a semi-arid... -
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Data from USDA ARS High Plains Grasslands Research Station (East Unit) near Cheyenne, WY: Yearling cattle weight gains managed in light, moderate and heavily stocked pastures (1982-2022)
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The USDA-Agricultural Research Service High Plains Grasslands Research Station (HPGRS) is located in Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA. In 1982, a long-term stocking rate study... -
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Assessing the rate and reversibility of large herbivore effects on community composition in a semi-arid grassland ecosystem with GZTX data on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado, USA 1992-2017
Department of Agriculture —
This data package was produced initially by researchers working on the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Project, administered at Colorado... -
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Effect of burn season and grazing deferment on mountain big sagebrush plant communities
Department of Agriculture —
Relative species and cover group data from a four-year long replicated experiment comparing the effects of season of fire (spring or fall) and sheep grazing deferment... -
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Data from USDA ARS Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) near Nunn, CO: Cattle weight gains managed with light, moderate and heavy grazing intensities
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The USDA-Agricultural Research Service Central Plains Experimental Range (CPER) is a Long-Term Agroecosystem Research (LTAR) network site located ~20 km northeast of... -
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Semiarid grasslands and extreme precipitation events: Do experimental results scale to the landscape?
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This dataset contains growing season precipitation data collected from an extensive rain gauge network with thirty catch cans distributed on the USDA-Central Plains... -
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Data from: Range size, local abundance and effect inform species descriptions at scales relevant for local conservation practice
Department of Agriculture —
Understanding species abundances and distributions, especially at local to landscape scales, is critical for land managers and conservationists to prioritize... -
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Data from: Precipitation manipulation experiments may be confounded by water source
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This is digital research data corresponding to the manuscript, Reinhart, K.O., Vermeire, L.T. Precipitation Manipulation Experiments May Be Confounded by Water... -
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Data from: Monitoring standing herbaceous biomass and thresholds in semiarid rangelands from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery to support within-season adaptive management
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Tabular data from the manuscript "Monitoring standing herbaceous biomass and thresholds in semiarid rangelands from harmonized Landsat 8 and Sentinel-2 imagery to... -
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Patterns of precipitation and productivity on various topographic positions on the Central Plains Experimental Range, Nunn, Colorado
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Thirty-six years of aboveground net primary productivity (ANPP) data collected across a topographic sequence in the semiarid shortgrass steppe of North America to...
19 datasets found