The shortgrass prairie is an ecosystem located in the Great Plains of North America. The two most dominant grasses in the shortgrass prairie are blue grama...

the drier expanse of shortgrass prairie gives way to mixed grass prairie and ultimately the richer soils of the tallgrass prairie. In the U.S., the area...

The Northern Shortgrass Prairie includes parts of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, and the American Great Plains states of Montana,...

A mixed-grass prairie is an ecotone located between the tallgrass prairies and shortgrass prairies. The mixed-grass prairie is richer in botanical diversity...

prairie dogs spend more time in torpor. Black-tailed prairie dogs are native to grassland habitats in North America. They inhabit shortgrass prairie,...

drastically altered the structure, composition, and diversity of the shortgrass prairie ecosystem on the Great Plains, allowing woody species to dominate...

source of disturbance, beech-maple forests dominated. In contrast, shortgrass prairie was typical in the western Great Plains, where rainfall is less frequent...

and is co-dominant with blue grama (B. gracilis) over most of the shortgrass prairie. Buffalo grass in North America is not the same species of grass commonly...

prairie dog, coyotes, black-tailed jackrabbit, and numerous rodents. Nesting birds include the golden eagle and prairie falcons. Short grass prairies...

ecoregions in the United States (WWF) High Plains (United States) Shortgrass prairie Dust Bowl Great American Desert Hoekstra, J. M.; Molnar, J. L.; Jennings...