Fertilizer is commonly used to help boost crop production, but a new study indicates that its use could actually reduce ...

In the global effort to combat climate change, large-scale, plant-based strategies such as planting forests and cultivating biofuels are an increasingly important part of countries' plans to reduce ...

Implementing prescribed burns in a livestock operation and how burning can improve a plant community are a few of the topics that will be discussed at a prescribed burn workshop hosted by NDSU’s ...

New research reveals that drought and increased temperatures in a CO2-rich climate can dramatically alter how grasslands use and move water. The study provides the first experimental demonstration of ...

Sometimes, these two types of studies lead to different conclusions, but in this case both pointed toward the same thing — cooler weather plants in California’s grasslands are dying out and ...

Nevertheless, whether and how the urbanized lands impact the surrounding grassland ecosystem remains unclear. We assessed the impacts of urbanized lands on the plant and soil interactions within the ...

Discussion: Our results suggest that the N addition and drought may significantly exert promotional and inhibitory effects, respectively, on belowground bud banks, critically altering plant regrowth, ...

When Mike Moddrell bought 320 acres of land in southwest Douglas County in 2002, it looked very different from the tallgrass prairie it is today. “When I bought it, it had been neglected for a long, ...

According to sources, since March, over 250 hectares of invasive plants have been cleared in the forest division and by March 2025, another 75 hectares would be cleared. Speaking to TNIE ...

Due to lack of good grasslands, the pastoralists and local livestock keepers also reduced their livestock.\ For the restoration, the team started controlling grazing, removing invasive plant ...