Tag: prairies

Large amounts of crawfish frogs seemed to be dying, and researchers weren’t sure why. Chelsea Kross, a quantitative ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Museum, and her colleagues had conducted...

Black-tailed prairie dogs seem to be only victims to sylvatic plague, rather than reservoirs for the disease in the grasslands environments where they live. Sylvatic plague is the wildlife version...

Conservationists have long called for restoring landscapes as much as possible to the way they were before humans altered them, but they’ve started embracing the idea that nonnative plants can...

Weather data sets and bird surveys from past years in the Badlands and prairie regions of the United States can give researchers clues about the future of songbird species. In...