Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective

Ecology of the Shortgrass Steppe: A Long-Term Perspective summarizes and synthesizes more than sixty years of research that has been conducted throughout the shortgrass region in North America. The shortgrass steppe was an important focus of the International Biological Program's Grassland Biome project, which ran from the late 1960s until the mid-1970s. The work conducted by the Grassland Biome project was preceded by almost forty years of research by U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers-primarily from the Agricultural Research Service-and was followed by the Shortgrass Steppe Long-Term Ecological Research project. This volume is an enormously rich source of data and insight into the structure and function of a semiarid grassland.


Author: W. K. Lauenroth, I. C. Burke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/28/2008
Pages: 536
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.89lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780195135824

About the Author

William Lauenroth is Professor in the department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University.

Ingrid Burke is Professor in the department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship at Colorado State University, as well as the Co-Director of the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology. She received her BS at Middlebury College in 1980, and her PhD in Botany at the University of Wyoming in 1987.

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