Thinking like a grassland: challenges and opportunities for biodiversity conservation in the Great Plains of North America

D Augustine, A Davidson, K Dickinson… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Fauna of North America's Great Plains evolved strategies to contend with the
region's extreme spatiotemporal variability in weather and low annual primary productivity …

Review of terrestrial temporarily conserved areas in Canada, the United States, and Mexico

X Wen, JR Bennett, T Rytwinski, S Karimi… - Conservation …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
The establishment of protected areas is a cornerstone of conservation, but permanent
protection could be inefficient or even impossible in some situations. We synthesized the …

Strategic conservation for lesser prairie-chickens among landscapes of varying anthropogenic influence

DS Sullins, DA Haukos, JM Lautenbach… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
For millennia grasslands have provided a myriad of ecosystem services and have been
coupled with human resource use. The loss of 46% of grasslands worldwide necessitates …

Factors influencing nesting ecology of lesser prairie‐chickens

JM Lautenbach, DA Haukos, DS Sullins… - The Journal of …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lesser prairie‐chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations have declined since the
1980s. Understanding factors influencing nest‐site selection and nest survival are important …

[HTML][HTML] Recovery of working grasslands following a megafire in the southern mixed-grass prairie

NJ Parker, DS Sullins, DA Haukos, KA Fricke… - Global Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
While fire is a necessary ecological driver for grassland systems, Great Plains grasslands
have undergone extensive land use change following European settlement (conversion …

Using grazing to manage herbaceous structure for a heterogeneity‐dependent bird

JD Kraft, DA Haukos, MR Bain, MB Rice… - The Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Grazing management recommendations often sacrifice the intrinsic heterogeneity of
grasslands by prescribing uniform grazing distributions through smaller pastures, increased …

Looking at the bigger picture: how abundance of nesting and brooding habitat influences lek-site selection by lesser prairie-chickens

JM Gehrt, DS Sullins, DA Haukos - The American Midland Naturalist, 2020‏ - BioOne
Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations have declined throughout
most of their distribution since the mid-1980s. These declines are largely attributed to loss of …

Increasing durability of voluntary conservation through strategic implementation of the Conservation Reserve Program

DS Sullins, M Bogaerts, BHF Verheijen, DE Naugle… - Biological …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Working lands are an attractive solution for conservation in the conterminous United States
where 76% of area is privately owned. Conservation of private lands often relies on …

Availability of lesser prairie‐chicken nesting habitat impairs restoration success

LA Berigan, CSH Aulicky, EC Teige… - Wildlife Society …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Regional populations of lesser prairie‐chickens (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) have been
declining irregularly since the early 1900s (Jensen et al. 2000). Populations in the Sand …

Broad-scale changes in lesser prairie-chicken habitat

MP Vhay, DA Haukos, DS Sullins, MB Rice - Plos one, 2024‏ - journals.plos.org
Lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) populations of in the Sand Sagebrush
Prairie Ecoregion of southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado, USA, have declined …